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Bill Grueskin
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Journalist, professor, dad. Via Sioux City, Colorado Springs, Palo Alto, Rome, Standing Rock, Bologna, Baltimore, Miami Herald, WSJ, Bloomberg, Columbia J School

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bgrueskin.bsky.social
Aw this is sad, when your bestest and only friend is a complete moron.
Now, senior administration officials are increasingly getting fed up with Pulte's approach. Yet Pulte remains close with the President and has direct access that aides have not been able to control. "Trump isn't just Pulte's biggest ally in the admin, he is perhaps his only friend," said one person familiar with their dynamic. "During Trump 2.0, the last time anything got as much pushback as this was over the 'Epstein Files.' MAGA is furious."
November 11, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
You will switch from freshly tossed Spaghetti Alla Puttanesca to Chef Boyardee's Cheesy Burger Macaroni In A Cheesy Meat Sauce, and you will not complain.
November 10, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
Like trying to explain Norway to a dog
November 10, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
It’s always weird when these government officials do something that makes sense.

🎁 ⤵️

www.wsj.com/business/air...
FAA Limits Private Aircraft Flights at Major Airports
The restrictions will affect private jet flights at a dozen airports, including Atlanta, Dallas-Fort Worth, Denver, and Chicago’s O’Hare, according to the National Business Aviation Association trade ...
www.wsj.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:58 PM
bgrueskin.bsky.social
And all this time, I thought the Iliad and the Odyssey were two different books.
November 11, 2025 at 2:17 AM
bgrueskin.bsky.social
This Washpost oped is every bit as awesome as its headline
Marc A. Thiessen The filibuster is a wall against a Mamdani-inspired socialist dystopia
November 11, 2025 at 1:28 AM
bgrueskin.bsky.social
That’s me, age 19, two-thirds of the way through the fall quarter, reassuring myself that my 20-page term paper on Greek tragedy wasn’t due til December 17
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h
VAN SUSTEREN: Is the Republican healthcare solution going to go into effect at midnight on Dec. 31? Because people are gonna get sticker shock

MIKE JOHNSON: We have November and December to work on it
November 11, 2025 at 12:01 AM
bgrueskin.bsky.social
You might think that, given the Dems' concessions in the Senate last night, the Trump administration would give up on its battle to withhold SNAP funding.

Wait, you didn't think that. Neither did any other sane person.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Trump administration wants Supreme Court to intervene in SNAP fight again
The battle over funding for the nation’s largest anti-hunger program has left millions wondering how they will afford food.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:16 PM
bgrueskin.bsky.social
Stewart Rhodes, Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman and Maria Bartiromo will be guiding your 757 into Newark Airport this afternoon.

www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
‘REPORT TO WORK IMMEDIATELY’: Trump threatens to replace absent air traffic controllers with ‘true Patriots’
The president “wouldn’t last five minutes as an air traffic controller,” Biden-era Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg responded.
www.politico.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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pbump.com
I think normal people may not know how totally unmoored Bartiromo has been during the Trump era. A brief thread.
November 10, 2025 at 5:25 PM
bgrueskin.bsky.social
Online folks are saying they're gonna back a primary challenge against Kaine and, well, he is up for re-election in 2030
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h
Kaine on why he thinks just getting a vote on healthcare is a win: "We're the minority party, but everybody will get to see who is standing for them when it comes to lowering their healthcare costs"
November 10, 2025 at 4:27 PM
bgrueskin.bsky.social
Like trying to explain Norway to a dog
November 10, 2025 at 2:05 PM
bgrueskin.bsky.social
You will switch from freshly tossed Spaghetti Alla Puttanesca to Chef Boyardee's Cheesy Burger Macaroni In A Cheesy Meat Sauce, and you will not complain.
November 10, 2025 at 2:03 PM
bgrueskin.bsky.social
It’s always weird when these government officials do something that makes sense.

🎁 ⤵️

www.wsj.com/business/air...
FAA Limits Private Aircraft Flights at Major Airports
The restrictions will affect private jet flights at a dozen airports, including Atlanta, Dallas-Fort Worth, Denver, and Chicago’s O’Hare, according to the National Business Aviation Association trade ...
www.wsj.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:58 PM
bgrueskin.bsky.social
Prof. @jeremylittau.com suggested ham and pineapple, adding, “but I have the privilege of tenure.”

www.chronicle.com/newsletter/d...
lollardfish.bsky.social David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 4d
I'm ordering four pizzas for an undergraduate lunch (about 15 people). What toppings would you pick?

1) cheese
2) veggie
3)
4)
November 10, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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electproject.bsky.social
Trump and Republicans raised ACA health care premiums. They were unwilling to compromise despite a historically long shutdown and dismal public approval. Holding a vote after premiums go up, and enforcing the vote with another shutdown threat can force Republicans to own the issue
November 10, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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newsjennifer.bsky.social
Read every word & share with everyone you know. This is real life here in Chicago. Americans need to know this grotesque reality & stand with us.
bgrueskin.bsky.social Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 1d
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
November 10, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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jamescdownie.bsky.social
According to a new letter from @raskin.house.gov: "The deference and servility to Ms. Maxwell have reached such preposterous levels that one of the top officials at the facility has complained that he is 'sick of having to be Maxwell’s bitch.'"

www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/d...
Democrats reveal whistleblower details of Ghislaine Maxwell prison "luxuries"
In a letter to the president, House Democrats say Maxwell's treatment as she prepares a clemency request makes the convicted sex offender look like a “guest at a Trump hotel."
www.msnbc.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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figgityfigs.bsky.social
I think there is a near-pathological remove from which a lot of people on this website view politics. For all the talk about material conditions, a refusal to see the effects on material shutdown that have happened and were worsening. “Yeah but the other guy’ll get blamed” can change on a dime.
November 10, 2025 at 1:29 AM
bgrueskin.bsky.social
meanwhile, in the lower left corner..
November 9, 2025 at 11:33 PM
bgrueskin.bsky.social
Someone wrote a story recently about how the party that gives in on a shutdown historically suffers no or little damage in the following year's election (eg, GOP caved in 2013, gained 9 Senate and 13 House seats in 2014).

Does anyone remember that piece?
November 9, 2025 at 11:04 PM
bgrueskin.bsky.social
This MLB indictment is incredible. It alleges, among many other things, that a star Cleveland pitcher was placing bets *during a game* that a pitch he was about to throw would be a ball, and it would be under 98 mph.

www.justice.gov/usao-edny/me...
November 9, 2025 at 9:20 PM
bgrueskin.bsky.social
"A development that appeared to break the logjam: Republicans proposed that healthcare funding be provided directly to households rather than used to pay for a 1-year extension of ACA subsidies. That involves sending federal money into FSAs instead of insurance companies" www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Republicans Pitch Alternative to ACA Extension to End Government Shutdown
A proposal by GOP senators to send money directly to consumers’ health accounts rather than to insurance companies showed signs of breaking a stalemate on negotiations.
www.wsj.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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akivamcohen.bsky.social
Donald Trump appeared to be wearing a red tie.
cnn.com CNN @cnn.com · 2d
Images of Donald Trump appearing to close his eyes at an Oval Office announcement this week rocketed around social media this weekend, with the president’s opponents seizing on the footage to raise questions about Trump’s on-the-job performance.
Images of Trump appearing to close his eyes during Oval Office event spread across social media | CNN Politics
Images of Donald Trump appearing to close his eyes at an Oval Office announcement this week rocketed around social media this weekend, with the president’s opponents seizing on the footage to raise qu...
www.cnn.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:33 PM
bgrueskin.bsky.social
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM