Listen to Robert Cording & Marjorie Maddox discuss their new books of poetry, their long writing careers, and the connections between their faith and writing on the Englewood Review of Books Podcast here: englewoodreview.org/podcast-epis... @blueskypoetry.bsky.social
Julie L. Moore ❌👑
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Author of 𝑫𝒆𝒗𝒊𝒍'𝒔 𝑩𝒂𝒄𝒌𝒃𝒐𝒏𝒆, forthcoming from Wildhouse Publishers linktr.ee/julielmoorepoet | julielmoore.com "Love is the motive, but justice is the instrument." --Reinhold Niebuhr
Dr. Anita Patel speaks about the conditions she witnessed at the Dilley detention facility: “I am not here as a politician or an activist. I am here as a doctor… We are not just harming the children inside detention. We are traumatizing an entire generation of children.” #SheShed
"Musk’s virulent racism & vicious, disturbing views are no secret....Why do politicians, journalists and commentators treat his far-right racist radicalism as a sideshow rather than the core of his political, ideological and industrial project...?" Why, indeed. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/o...
Opinion | Why Do We Tolerate Elon Musk’s Racist Commentary? (Gift Article)
Why does the owner of X get a pass for what he says and does there?
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@jamellebouie.net calls out Elon Musk's racism, and I am here for it. "Musk spends a large part of his free time fomenting violence and spreading the same hateful ideology that motivated some of the deadliest shootings and attacks ever to happen on American soil. ...
A mother gave the government her fingerprints, tax records, and DNA to get her 6-year-old daughter back. She did everything officials asked. ICE used that information to find and arrest her. A child welfare system became a deportation tool. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
ICE Turned Family Reunification Into A Deportation List
A program created to place migrant children with relatives has become a pipeline for deportation arrests.
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The only political ideology at work here is fascism. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/a...
Trump Orders Warnings Placed at ‘Inaccurate’ Smithsonian History Museum
President Trump said the signage at the National Museum of American History would correct what a disputed White House report described as “extreme political activism.”
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"[T]he administration’s lies were the through line for the entire tragic saga. 'I think when a government abandons its commitment to the truth...that breeds lawlessness and lawlessness necessarily leads to chaos.'” www.cnn.com/2026/07/22/p...
18 Days in Minnesota: The false claims, chaos and coverups behind the Trump administration’s killing of two American citizens | CNN Politics
This is the story of the 18 days between the killing of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, the highly questionable ways the Trump administration handled immigration enforcement and the shootings, and the agg...
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Urge the Senate Judiciary Committee to Vote NO on Todd Blanche Confirmation ujoin.co/campaigns/45...
Urge the Senate Judiciary Committee to Vote NO on Todd Blanche Confirmation
<p>Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche treated the Epstein files like a PR problem instead of the largest sex trafficking investigation in American history. Under his watch, the Department of Justice...
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Trump’s ICE Death Squads don’t just kill — they CREATE the kill shots. Masked agents ambush cars, spook drivers, then gun them down when they flee. Speeded-up videos, racial profiling, families forced to watch executions. Maine. Houston. Minnesota & more... while Trump golfs. This is state terror.
In 2018 we had to flip 24 seats. We flipped 40. This November we need 6. Read that again. —-> SIX ‼️
A theologically sound & rational argument for the Senate to vote to extend TPS for Haitian immigrants! #TPS tiffinohio.net/posts/trump-...
Trump’s attack on TPS for Haitians is an attack on Springfield, Ohio’s entire community
A Springfield pastor urges the Senate to pass a bipartisan bill extending TPS three years, warning Trump's rollback would repeat 2024's bomb threats and school disruptions.
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youtu.be/3VJT2JeDCyw?... @elonmusk has to be brought to justice. He lies. He cheats. He uses corruption to get what he wants.
We Went to the Town Elon Musk Is Poisoning
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
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Just another reason to believe that the most powerful man in the world is bonkers.
Extraordinary detail in the new book on Trump's second term administration
Every day, a new horror. The Roberts court is the Dred Scott 2.0 SCOTUS. www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
Supreme Court allows Trump to remove protections from thousands of Haitian and Syrian immigrants
The Trump administration has sought to terminate temporary protected status for immigrants fleeing war, natural disasters or other catastrophes. Some may now be deported.
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My book of poetry, Devil’s Backbone, is now available for purchase at wildhousepublishing.com/devils-backb.... I'm grateful to all the folks @wildhousepubs.bsky.social for publishing this collection, which contends with the U.S.'s legacy of white supremacy. @blueskypoetry.bsky.social
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Got behind on @boa-editions.bsky.social’s releases, so I ordered their last year of books and they came with a lovely card and such delightful packaging! Can’t wait to read and share some of the poems here.
OK we can add "ripping out a state of the art filtration system for the reflecting pool because Obama installed it" to the list of things Trump has done out of absolute bitter jealousy of the first Black president.
“Wharton School researchers have dubbed this phenomenon ‘cognitive surrender,’ in which users shift from treating AI as a tool to treating it as an authority, accepting its answers rather than actively evaluating them.”
The hidden cost of letting AI choose your lunch
Relying on AI for decision-making could lead to "cognitive surrender," a weakening of critical thinking that makes people distrust their own judgment.
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You paid for a plane with "a level of luxury that nobody has never seen before". And he's apparently taking it with him once he leaves the White House. The plane. The ballroom. The corruption. This guy thinks taxpayers are dopes. Your money is just his to live a life of luxury.
Trump on the new plane he's been gifted from Qatar: "This plane was transformed into a White House at a level of luxury that nobody has ever seen before"
Book Trailer for my new book of poetry, Devil's Backbone, available for pre-order through @wildhousepubs.bsky.social at wildhousepublishing.com/devils-backb... @blueskypoetry.bsky.social
“Iran’s nuclear ambitions were not curbed, & they have learned that threatening the Strait of Hormuz works....This is the worst foreign policy blunder in decades....It’s like the last 40 years of the Republican Party’s foreign policy didn’t happen.” heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-17-2026
June 17, 2026
A senior U.S.
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The Obama Presidential Center is more than a museum; it's a space for those on the South Side and for all visitors from near and far to enjoy. Here's your sneak preview of the new Chicago Public Library branch inside — and a few books I would check out if I were you!
The first observation to be made is this: the Iranian claims about the MoU were quite accurate throughout the last two weeks, whereas the claims made by Trump and JD Vance were wildly inaccurate and misleading. Analysts around the world pay attention to such things. bsky.app/profile/pear...
Iran's President Ahmad Masoud Pezeshkian has posted the full MOU text on Twitter.
👉🏼 Optically, Trump just surrendered the United States to Iran at the Palace of Versailles. 👉🏼 Trump may have stopped bombing Iran but he hasn’t stopped squeezing Americans. 👉🏼register to vote 👉🏼subscribe: Letters from an American 🇺🇸 by @hcrichardson.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
June 17, 2026
A senior U.S.
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