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Capitol Hill Books @capitolhillbooks.bsky.social · 11h

Me, an old, to the kids: First the mullets, then the regrets.

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Capitol Hill Books @capitolhillbooks.bsky.social · 1d

Hey, DC: Are you poor and/or furloughed but looking for good times? This Saturday from 5pm to 7:30pm we’ll have free wine & cheese plus 10% off all purchases.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 2d

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

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Capitol Hill Books @capitolhillbooks.bsky.social · 16d

Grant’s memoirs. First edition. $750

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 1d

Just a reminder that Banned Books Week isn’t about selling more copies of 1984. It’s about keeping authors and teachers and librarians safe and making sure all of us have the freedom to read widely. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Children’s Authors on the Real-World Cost of Book Banning

Authors discuss how having their work targeted by censors has directly affected their livelihood and their well-being.

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Capitol Hill Books @capitolhillbooks.bsky.social · 1d

Hey, DC: Are you poor and/or furloughed but looking for good times? This Saturday from 5pm to 7:30pm we’ll have free wine & cheese plus 10% off all purchases.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 2d

The US is going to host a Qatari air base in Idaho which is somehow fine but Mexican immigrants are somehow not

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Capitol Hill Books @capitolhillbooks.bsky.social · 2d

Hullo. www.capitolhillbooks-dc.com/pages/books/...

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Capitol Hill Books @capitolhillbooks.bsky.social · 2d

Free wine & cheese plus 10% off this Saturday from 5pm to 7:30pm.

Capitol Hill Books @capitolhillbooks.bsky.social · 2d

Tomorrow is Second Saturday. You know what that means….

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Capitol Hill Books @capitolhillbooks.bsky.social · 2d

Tomorrow is Second Saturday. You know what that means….

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 4d

Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area ICE facility and began to pray.

The masked ICE agents on the roof responded by firing pepper balls, with one striking him in the head

religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

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Capitol Hill Books @capitolhillbooks.bsky.social · 8d

Open til 8pm. Furloughed folks get 10% off.

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Capitol Hill Books @capitolhillbooks.bsky.social · 5d

Happy pub day to Pynchon!

Lemme just text him real quick and see if I can get him to come sign these…

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Capitol Hill Books @capitolhillbooks.bsky.social · 6d

I kinda knew Jim Harrison was a master of the novella, but now that I have been fricaseed by his novellas I have to say that Jim Harrison is a master of the novella.

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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 9d

NEW: Reuters took a closer look at violent crime in D.C. after President Trump began a show of force here. Despite the big investment of federal resources, it's really hard at this point to see any dramatic changes.

www.reuters.com/world/us/did...

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Capitol Hill Books @capitolhillbooks.bsky.social · 8d

Open til 8pm. Furloughed folks get 10% off.

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Capitol Hill Books @capitolhillbooks.bsky.social · 9d

Oooohhh. Found a Pauli Murray quarter!

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Capitol Hill Books @capitolhillbooks.bsky.social · 9d

Also, if you’re currently furloughed you get 10% off.

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Capitol Hill Books @capitolhillbooks.bsky.social · 9d

Do you unexpectedly have the day off? Consider spending it here.

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Capitol Hill Books @capitolhillbooks.bsky.social · 11d

Thus bad begins…
But, as always, those furloughed due to the government shutdown get 10% off books for as long as the shutdown lasts.

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Capitol Hill Books @capitolhillbooks.bsky.social · 15d

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 15d

Part of ICE’s efforts will be setting up random traffic stops and checkpoints throughout the city and making educated guesses about who to detain and who not to detain. These 'Guess Stops' will be staffed by special agents known as Guess Stop Officers, or 'Guess-Stop-O for short.

ICE’s Training Manual for Determining Who to Terrorize

“The Supreme Court on Monday lifted a federal judge’s order prohibiting government agents from making indiscriminate immigration-related stops in t...

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Capitol Hill Books @capitolhillbooks.bsky.social · 16d

If we could get ICE to focus on the spotted lanternflies instead that’d be dope.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 16d

I often say that conservatives want to repeal the various Civil Rights Act but it’s probably more accurate to say they want to overturn the Reconstruction amendments.

Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 16d

Trump asks Supreme Court to decide whether he can end birthright citizenship www.cnn.com/2025/09/26/p...

Trump asks Supreme Court to decide whether he can end birthright citizenship | CNN Politics

The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Friday to review the constitutionality of President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship, pushing the issue back bef...

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 16d

Ian McEwan’s What We Can Know, Arundhati Roy’s Mother Mary Comes to Me, Kiran Desai’s The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, and Stephen Greenblatt’s Dark Renaissance all feature among September’s best reviewed books.

The Best Reviewed Books of the Month

Featuring Ian McEwan, Arundhati Roy, Kiran Desai, Stephen Greenblatt, and more

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