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Tim Riley @timrileyauthor.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

“We live in a country with an unpredictable past,” M Gessen, echoing Paul Westerberg from 1989, “You be me for a while/And I’ll be you…” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/o...

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Opinion | Trump's Smithsonian Attacks Are Attacks on America’s Future

This is how we decide who we are and who we want to be.

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Tim Riley @timrileyauthor.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Howard Zinn remains too popular among people who’ve only read one history book, and not nearly respected enough by plenty of academics who know better. He deserves a second sympathetic biography if only to remind us about his Civil Rights activism… rileyrockreport.substack.com/p/howard-zinn

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Bending History's Arc

Historian Howard Zinn: Still Gaining Acceptance

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Tristan Ettleman @ettletodd.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Here’s an excerpt from my conversation with @timrileyauthor.bsky.social about TRUE BLUE for The Complete Catalog: Madonna. Links in quoted post!

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Phillip Ayoub @payoub.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Absolutely incredible turnout for Budapest Pride! So proud of all the organizers, including some old friends, who estimate hundreds of thousands— major embarrassment to Orban

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Even in the darkest times I appreciate wit

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

This is how you write a headline involving Confederate Lost Cause bullshit.

Hegseth says renaming military bases after Civil War soldiers who fought for slavery is 'important for morale'
By Alex Woodward, 22 hrs ago
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Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Slightly ruin a song title. Thus: "There Is a Light That Sometimes Goes Out."

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Tim Riley @timrileyauthor.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

"Because it treats grim situations with whimsy, you take the stakes a lot more seriously, and the characters live with you offscreen—you’d kill for this kind of bracing sanity in the face of death, and the characters seem to live outside the script..." rileyrockreport.substack.com/p/taboo-sex-...

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Tim Riley @timrileyauthor.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Trump accepts luxury jet from Muslim culture he bans at Columbia

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lindsay berger sacks @lindsaybergersacks.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Pres, Gagliardi, of the 🇺🇸 Federation of Musicians: “We will not remain silent as 2 of our members Bruce Springsteen & Taylor Swift r singled out & personally attacked by the POTUS. S&S r not just brilliant musicians, they r role models & inspirations 2 millions of ppl in the US & across the🌍” 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

I just never stop thinking about what Jim DeRogatis said about his struggle to get people, including "good" white liberals, to care about R. Kelly's crimes. He said he learned the hard way how little people care about Black women, who were the victims. And it guts me how right he is.

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Ha they changed it but it's still totally inadequate: "But Trump claimed Monday that a genocide was taking place in South Africa, an allegation government officials there say lacks any evidence."

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

To be dissed by one pope, Mr Vance, may be regarded as a misfortune; to be dissed by two popes looks like carelessness.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Trying to imagine if Trump told America, "Maybe you don't need 30 guns, maybe 2 guns."

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Pediatricians say that childhood vaccines are safe. A heroin-addled nepo baby with a brain worm says they may not be. For busy voters, it can be hard to know who to believe.

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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

The administration that insists it’s fighting antisemitism on college campuses (spoiler: it’s not) continues to promote the Nazi-aligned party in Germany.

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CerberusXt @cerberusxt.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Amazing how so on point Andor is.

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Tim Riley @timrileyauthor.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

napping has a new nickname: Pope's funeral

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Tim Riley @timrileyauthor.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

I picked the wrong administration to lose weight

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Substack is hosting a party at the exact same time as the Correspondents’ Dinner. post.substack.com/p/a-new-medi... "The people who will join us on Saturday night are the pioneers of [a] new order, refusing to bow to the cynicism of the current media moment and showing the way to something better."

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A new media order is emerging

Journalism isn’t dead. It’s on Substack.

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Sitting down for an interview with someone who lies all the time — and not addressing that credibility problem, front and center — is enabling, no more and no less. presswatchers.org/2025/04/the-...

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

the pope’s much anticipated death is a major event in the world, but it's not a crisis & should not be a week-long gift to Trump by pushing from the top of the news (print and broadcast) his much more major, relentless attacks on every institution of domestic and international governance and finance

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Tim Riley @timrileyauthor.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

"Those kids will... never pay taxes."

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Tim Riley @timrileyauthor.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Dept of WGAF: did anybody miss Chris M*tthews? I'm happy to say it out loud: WE HAVE HAD ENUF OF WHITE DUDES

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Tim Riley @timrileyauthor.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

250 years later and we still need to parse the verities of fighting tyranny and committing atrocities...

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Tim Riley @timrileyauthor.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

After listening to Mitsuko Uchida perform Beethoven 4th Piano Concerto, I learned she attended rehearsals with a score for the Shostakovich 15th Symphony, and sat in the audience with that score after the intermission. My kind of musician. Her Beethoven soared. rileyrockreport.substack.com

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Tim Riley @timrileyauthor.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

tomorrow in the riley rock report:

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.

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Tim Riley @timrileyauthor.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

getting Garcia back does not count as a win. Bringing accountability to WH and returning ALL those prisoners counts as the win

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

We've reached the point in our descent into fascism where the Jewish governor's house getting firebombed on Passover by a guy trying to bash his head in with a sledgehammer is overshadowed by the story of the President saying he wants to build foreign gulags for US citizens.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

5:04 pm ET and it appears that the government has not yet filed its daily status update in the Abrego Garcia case. Deadline was 5 pm.

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

I keep thinking about how women are most at risk of being murdered by abusive men after they've decided to leave the relationship and it's not exactly a subtle comparison to what's being done to the USA at the moment

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