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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 15h

Let’s lack no discipline, make no delay,
For, lords, tomorrow is a busy day.

James R Benn @jimmywriter.bsky.social · 11h

So does a walk through the library shelves, where you find your books arrayed against the oncoming years, waiting for future readers.

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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 13h

It’s painfully clear. By refusing to swear in Adelita Grijalva, Speaker Johnson’s covering up Jeffrey Epstein’s global sex-trafficking ring.

Hey GOP: Bring back the House, cancel your health care cuts, reopen the government and release the files.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19h

He first threatened sanctions on Jan 19 if Russia didn’t cease fire. He has threatened to impose them many times since then. It is now Oct 17. He has done nothing.

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 1d

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 1d

MTG slams the Trump administration for bailing out Argentina:

“Americans are getting decimated by the high cost of living and skyrocketing insurance costs… Tell me how it’s ‘America First’ to bail out a foreign country with $20 or even $40 BILLION in taxpayer dollars.”

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James R Benn @jimmywriter.bsky.social · 2d

Excellent title

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James R Benn @jimmywriter.bsky.social · 2d

I was interviewed by Matthew Clemens for the Authors on the Air podcast. Give a listen if you're interested!
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James R. Benn discusses book twenty in the Billy Boyle series, A Bitter Wind.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2d

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America-The Republic of Suffering @iampilgrim.bsky.social · 2d

lithub.com/on-the-terri... when Antifa gave all

On the Terrible Toll of the Last Bloody Year of WWII

The cost of the invasion in matériel and lives lost was enormous, but Allied troops were now planted on French soil. To guard against undue optimism that the war in Europe would soon be over, the w…

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James R Benn @jimmywriter.bsky.social · 2d

Have you read any of the books by Peter Caddick-Adams? British author with a great non-fiction trilogy: Sand and Steel, Snow and Steel, Fire and Steel. Excellent stuff.

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James R Benn @jimmywriter.bsky.social · 3d

Colditz fascinated me when I first read of it - in high school. I think prison escape stories resonate with teenagers especially. Something about escaping the restrictive bonds of society.
Or not.

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James R Benn @jimmywriter.bsky.social · 3d

No Kings
More Frogs

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 3d

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Sign with blue on blue no kings, repeating background. On the left is a crown with a red cross through it underneath that it says no kings. On the right is a green

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James R Benn @jimmywriter.bsky.social · 3d

Take a good look at this guy; does he look like he's going to hang around a Nazi prison for long?
Thirty-six POWs escaped from Colditz, showing that the Germans had no idea about the brain trust they created when they put hard-core escapers together.

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James R Benn @jimmywriter.bsky.social · 3d

On this day in 1942, British Captain Patrick Reid escaped the supposedly escape-proof Colditz Castle. Disguised as a Flemish workman, he slipped through the POW kitchens into the German yard and down to a dry moat to freedom. It took him four days to reach Switzerland.

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Reader of Banned Books @readerofbannedbook.bsky.social · 3d

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 3d

Turns out your assumptions about what republican group chats are like is correct www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

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James R Benn @jimmywriter.bsky.social · 4d

Funny how when virtue is supposed to be its own reward, people are punished for demonstrating it.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 5d

ICE GOONS, laughing and pepper spraying Pastor after shooting him in the face with pepper balls, proceeded to gas the crowd who were trying to protect him.

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James R Benn @jimmywriter.bsky.social · 4d

Just finished the latest Billy Boyle novel (A Bitter Wind) and looking for something new to read? Check out my four stand-alone books and short story collection. Available in e-book and print formats; also in audio for On Desperate Ground, Souvenir, and The Refusal Camp.

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James R Benn @jimmywriter.bsky.social · 4d

In 1944 she would be brutally murdered at Dachau. She never revealed any information to the Germans.

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James R Benn @jimmywriter.bsky.social · 4d

On this day in 1943, children's book author & Special Operations Executive agent Noor Inayat Khan was captured by the Gestapo in Paris. The only surviving radio operator in Paris, she volunteered to remain even after SOE had offered to fly her out.
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The Bravery of Noor Inayat Khan - Historic UK

The descendant of Indian royalty Noor Inayat Khan, known as Nora Baker, was a British spy who was sent to occupied France in World War Two as a secret agent. After months of carefully avoiding being e...

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James R Benn @jimmywriter.bsky.social · 5d

Crimes upon crimes. Cruelty reigns.

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 6d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

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He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 5d

CBS reporter Edward R. Murrow embodied what a journalist should be: someone who holds power to account instead of capitulating to it.

Over 70 years later, his segment denouncing Joe McCarthy’s congressional witch hunts rings truer than ever.

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 5d

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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