Barbara Buswell
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"In response to Trump's order, attorneys general in 21 states sued the administration.
Now, after a judge's ruling that Trump's actions were unlawful, libraries and museums across the country will have access to money that had been stuck in a months-long limbo..."
www.npr.org/2025/12/04/n...
Now, after a judge's ruling that Trump's actions were unlawful, libraries and museums across the country will have access to money that had been stuck in a months-long limbo..."
www.npr.org/2025/12/04/n...
Libraries and museums get federal funding back after Trump cuts
Earlier this year, the Trump administration gutted the Institute of Museum and Library Services, leading to canceled federal grants. Now, after a court order, those grants are being reinstated.
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December 7, 2025 at 7:04 PM
"In response to Trump's order, attorneys general in 21 states sued the administration.
Now, after a judge's ruling that Trump's actions were unlawful, libraries and museums across the country will have access to money that had been stuck in a months-long limbo..."
www.npr.org/2025/12/04/n...
Now, after a judge's ruling that Trump's actions were unlawful, libraries and museums across the country will have access to money that had been stuck in a months-long limbo..."
www.npr.org/2025/12/04/n...
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My exact thoughts hearing this.
December 6, 2025 at 12:30 AM
My exact thoughts hearing this.
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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“The American Revolution,” Ken Burns’s new docuseries, “is intelligently self-critical history of a kind most people worldwide are deprived of,” John McWhorter writes. “Showing us what the era entailed for all different kinds of early Americans isn’t woke; it’s accurate.”
“The American Revolution,” Ken Burns’s new docuseries, “is intelligently self-critical history of a kind most people worldwide are deprived of,” John McWhorter writes. “Showing us what the era entailed for all different kinds of early Americans isn’t woke; it’s accurate.”
Opinion | ‘The American Revolution’ Is Not Woke. It’s Magnificent.
Don’t be shocked: There were Black people and Native Americans during the colonial era.
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December 6, 2025 at 12:55 AM
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“The American Revolution,” Ken Burns’s new docuseries, “is intelligently self-critical history of a kind most people worldwide are deprived of,” John McWhorter writes. “Showing us what the era entailed for all different kinds of early Americans isn’t woke; it’s accurate.”
“The American Revolution,” Ken Burns’s new docuseries, “is intelligently self-critical history of a kind most people worldwide are deprived of,” John McWhorter writes. “Showing us what the era entailed for all different kinds of early Americans isn’t woke; it’s accurate.”
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JUST NOW: "This is like Alice in Wonderland", Judge Breyer says when trying to get the DOJ to explain to him why what happened in CA is a "rebellion" justifying the deployment of the National Guard. "Words just mean what you want them to mean?"
December 5, 2025 at 6:58 PM
JUST NOW: "This is like Alice in Wonderland", Judge Breyer says when trying to get the DOJ to explain to him why what happened in CA is a "rebellion" justifying the deployment of the National Guard. "Words just mean what you want them to mean?"
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"When there’s no war, you aren’t committing war crimes when you kill people indiscriminately. You’re just a straight-up murderer."
A war criminal without a war
It's just murder.
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December 5, 2025 at 9:57 PM
"When there’s no war, you aren’t committing war crimes when you kill people indiscriminately. You’re just a straight-up murderer."
“There is a risk that the focus on the second strike and specifically the talk of ‘war crimes’ feeds into the administration’s false wartime framing and veils the fact that the entire boat-strikes campaign is murder, full stop," said Rebecca Ingber, former State Department expert in the law of war.
Second Strike Scrutiny Obscures Larger Question About Trump’s Boat Attacks
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December 5, 2025 at 5:25 PM
“There is a risk that the focus on the second strike and specifically the talk of ‘war crimes’ feeds into the administration’s false wartime framing and veils the fact that the entire boat-strikes campaign is murder, full stop," said Rebecca Ingber, former State Department expert in the law of war.
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Just once I'd like to hear a TV news anchor say, "Sir, that's not true, and if you keep insisting it is, we're going to end this interview to protect our viewers from further disinformation. And we won't invite you back."
HASSETT: Gas prices dropped below $2 a gallon in a lot of places
CORDES: Gas prices on average are still at $3 a galloon
HASSETT: For a few states they got below $2
CORDES: Gas prices on average are still at $3 a galloon
HASSETT: For a few states they got below $2
November 30, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Just once I'd like to hear a TV news anchor say, "Sir, that's not true, and if you keep insisting it is, we're going to end this interview to protect our viewers from further disinformation. And we won't invite you back."
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How did the @nytimes.com editors let this sentence appear?
"Critics have likened Mr. Trump’s approach to extortion, while others have chalked it up as a cost of doing business with this administration."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
"Critics have likened Mr. Trump’s approach to extortion, while others have chalked it up as a cost of doing business with this administration."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Northwestern University Nears Deal to Resolve Its Conflict With the White House
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:07 AM
How did the @nytimes.com editors let this sentence appear?
"Critics have likened Mr. Trump’s approach to extortion, while others have chalked it up as a cost of doing business with this administration."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
"Critics have likened Mr. Trump’s approach to extortion, while others have chalked it up as a cost of doing business with this administration."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
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Cool name, job, look. Get Willoughby in a crime novel asap.
Willoughby Babcock (1934)
2405 Lake of the Isles Blvd.
Source: Hennepin County Library
Babcock is the curator of the museum of the Minnesota Historical Society
2405 Lake of the Isles Blvd.
Source: Hennepin County Library
Babcock is the curator of the museum of the Minnesota Historical Society
November 20, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Cool name, job, look. Get Willoughby in a crime novel asap.
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Astonishing to stop and realize that, at any given moment, bands of masked men armed to the teeth are storming churches and daycares, terrorizing entire communities—and that most of the country's political establishment barely blinks.
November 19, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Astonishing to stop and realize that, at any given moment, bands of masked men armed to the teeth are storming churches and daycares, terrorizing entire communities—and that most of the country's political establishment barely blinks.
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"What am I doing with my lives?"
November 12, 2025 at 4:55 PM
"What am I doing with my lives?"
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"The Vichy Dems' heel turn is not new. You couldn’t see the heel because it was stepping on your face."
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The Confluence
I’ve been right so long, I’ve been done wrong.
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November 10, 2025 at 4:18 PM
"The Vichy Dems' heel turn is not new. You couldn’t see the heel because it was stepping on your face."
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Horrifying.
“This is how you’re allowing them to treat the people taking care of our babies”
We have heard privately from Republicans who are horrified by this one.
She has papers. They went room to room in a daycare. This is both racial profiling, and terrorism.
We have heard privately from Republicans who are horrified by this one.
She has papers. They went room to room in a daycare. This is both racial profiling, and terrorism.
November 6, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Horrifying.
I couldn't love this more.
The federal judge in the lawsuit against Homeland Security's violent attacks in Chicago reads Carl Sandburg's poem "Chicago" in full as she prepares to issue her ruling. Read Sun-Times reporter Jon Seidel's live-posting from court.
Ellis begins by quoting from Carl Sandburg's "Chicago": www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
November 6, 2025 at 5:15 PM
I couldn't love this more.
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Don't tell Donald Trump, but Texas is deep into wind and solar power
Don't tell Donald Trump, but Texas is deep into wind and solar power
“It’s economic—it is what customers want.”
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November 5, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Don't tell Donald Trump, but Texas is deep into wind and solar power
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Democrats won up and down the ballot yesterday, riding a backlash to Donald Trump’s second term, David A. Graham argues:
The Anti-MAGA Majority Reemerges
Democrats won up and down the ballot yesterday, riding a backlash to Donald Trump’s second term.
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November 5, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Democrats won up and down the ballot yesterday, riding a backlash to Donald Trump’s second term, David A. Graham argues:
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dawg they’re live laugh loving the white house. president homegoods
November 5, 2025 at 3:55 PM
dawg they’re live laugh loving the white house. president homegoods
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The officer Sandwich Guy is charged with assaulting testifies that he could feel the impact of the sandwich through his ballistic vest, and it “exploded all over my uniform.” He says he could “smell the onions and the mustard.”
November 4, 2025 at 3:34 PM
The officer Sandwich Guy is charged with assaulting testifies that he could feel the impact of the sandwich through his ballistic vest, and it “exploded all over my uniform.” He says he could “smell the onions and the mustard.”
Another step backwards for freedom of speech and expression.
November 4, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Another step backwards for freedom of speech and expression.
"Big day at U.S. District Court in D.C. where Sean Dunn, the D.C. Sandwich Guy, is on trial for misdemeanor assault of a federal officer." Daylong guffaws available on whole thread.
The defense team presses Lairmore on whether the sandwich really 'exploded.' They return to the photo of the sandwich and wrapper on the ground.
"That sandwich hasn't exploded at all, has it?" defense asks.
"It looks like a little bit is coming out towards the bottom," Lairmore replies.
"That sandwich hasn't exploded at all, has it?" defense asks.
"It looks like a little bit is coming out towards the bottom," Lairmore replies.
November 4, 2025 at 5:09 PM
"Big day at U.S. District Court in D.C. where Sean Dunn, the D.C. Sandwich Guy, is on trial for misdemeanor assault of a federal officer." Daylong guffaws available on whole thread.
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Did a little doomposting so here's a PELICAN TRIPLE DIVE(!) to make up for it 🪶
November 2, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Did a little doomposting so here's a PELICAN TRIPLE DIVE(!) to make up for it 🪶
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Imagine telling someone in the 1970s that the NYT and WaPo are bending the knee to fascists while Glamour and Teen Vogue are the journalistic champions of human rights and democracy.
I hope you’re all proud of yourselves, you have disgracefully sullied the good name of the renowned and respected Glamour Magazine Women Of The Year Award
October 31, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Imagine telling someone in the 1970s that the NYT and WaPo are bending the knee to fascists while Glamour and Teen Vogue are the journalistic champions of human rights and democracy.
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On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.
October 31, 2025 at 5:57 PM
On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.
ICE going into Evanston during an invasion of Chicago is like if ICE were to go into Piedmont during an invasion of Oakland.
This is near my niece and nephew's school in Evanston, Ill just hours ago as they are now on lockdown.
This is what's happening. It's an occupation by ICE in a Chicago suburb. They must be abolished.
This is what's happening. It's an occupation by ICE in a Chicago suburb. They must be abolished.
October 31, 2025 at 7:02 PM
ICE going into Evanston during an invasion of Chicago is like if ICE were to go into Piedmont during an invasion of Oakland.
So twisted.
FOX: Pritzker has asked you specifically to pause immigration enforcement operations in Chicago so kids can safety celebrate Halloween. Do you have any plans to alter activity tomorrow?
NOEM: No. We're gonna be out on the streets in full force and increase our activities to make sure kids are safe.
NOEM: No. We're gonna be out on the streets in full force and increase our activities to make sure kids are safe.
October 30, 2025 at 5:54 PM
So twisted.