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O'Neill of Chicago @brianoneill.bsky.social · 7h

MTG is a true believer, just not in anything. Crossfit, MAGA, it doesn't matter. She needs to find something with fervor. It wouldn't totally surprise me of she's a socialist in two years. She's lost, no center. Just resentment that she hasn't found meaning.

rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 18h

my model of marjorie taylor greene is not that she is a committed bigot but that she is a person with a severe axis ii disorder with no fixed beliefs unrelated to her present set of resentments

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O'Neill of Chicago @brianoneill.bsky.social · 16h

Great piece! As a fellow 1978er, really appreciate your cultural touchstones, the similarities and the differences, and how they led us to whistle past every graveyard. Thanks for sharing, and am excited about the new novel!

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O'Neill of Chicago @brianoneill.bsky.social · 22h

I don't remember them talking this much about No Kings in June. And the media mostly ignored it. But now they're all rushing to downplay it

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."

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O'Neill of Chicago @brianoneill.bsky.social · 1d

Incredible musician. That voice!!!

O'Neill of Chicago @brianoneill.bsky.social · 1d

Let's crash the helicopters on protestors and detainees, as well as random buildings, I say, building broad coalitions.

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O'Neill of Chicago @brianoneill.bsky.social · 1d

This is horrific, and I think shows how much it will backfire. I obviously don't know the politics of the cemetery workers, but they seem like regular guys. More and more people are seeing the violent, unthinkingly brutal face of fascism. It's not too late.

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 1d

ICE attacks cemetery workers trying to help a man in the Des Plaines river www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMUmUjPs/

Caught on camera… ICE agents clash with suburban cemetery workers trying to help man in Des Plaines River… #wgn9 #ice #operationmidwayblitz #immigration

TikTok video by WGN9Chicago

www.tiktok.com

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O'Neill of Chicago @brianoneill.bsky.social · 1d

I think that sounds really good!

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O'Neill of Chicago @brianoneill.bsky.social · 1d

Those are absolutely their best ones!

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O'Neill of Chicago @brianoneill.bsky.social · 1d

The conspiracy stuff mostly doesn't after a few seasons, but the standalone ones are often great. Some terrible episodes, but some that are still gorgeous

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O'Neill of Chicago @brianoneill.bsky.social · 1d

This obvious bullshit aside, of course the dread YOU PERSONALLY FEEL is "palable." That's defintionally true. Amazing (not really) she'd run this idiot quote.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 2d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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O'Neill of Chicago @brianoneill.bsky.social · 2d

Honestly, how does a census taker test someone

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O'Neill of Chicago @brianoneill.bsky.social · 2d

It's made my night. Thank you for bringing these into the world.

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O'Neill of Chicago @brianoneill.bsky.social · 2d

Haunted Ecologies, by @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social, is so incredibly good so far. I try to take comfort in the supernatural but it never lets you forget the horrors that are coming. I've also been moved to tears like three times in the first five stories.

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O'Neill of Chicago @brianoneill.bsky.social · 3d

OK, now they have to do it, right?

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O'Neill of Chicago @brianoneill.bsky.social · 3d

Fox comes back too late from commercial and we miss it

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haunted by the ghost of lowtax @jaysharpmjr.bsky.social · 3d

[guy who only watches family feud at 11:30]

Why is there baseball on my TV?

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O'Neill of Chicago @brianoneill.bsky.social · 3d

You know what? That's what I'll believe.

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O'Neill of Chicago @brianoneill.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah, imagine being like "if this game ends by the 17th lets go grab a beer."

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O'Neill of Chicago @brianoneill.bsky.social · 3d

Which means he'll go 1-2-3.

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O'Neill of Chicago @brianoneill.bsky.social · 3d

The longer this game goes the more chances I have to figure out the rules of The Floor. It's been a couple years of commercials with no progress, but I think I'm getting closer tonight.

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¡matt! ✶✶✶✶ @mattfromchicago.bsky.social · 3d

Yo this is like watching the White Sox play the White Sox

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O'Neill of Chicago @brianoneill.bsky.social · 3d

Tigers are going to score two and then so will the Mariners and we'll start over and the Judge will never stop dancing and the Judge will never die

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O'Neill of Chicago @brianoneill.bsky.social · 3d

I mean, they have to do it here, right?

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O'Neill of Chicago @brianoneill.bsky.social · 3d

For some unknown reason the only ones on this list loud stupid people were performatively annoyed about were Shakira and Rihanna.

NetworkforDemocracy @simple-truth.bsky.social · 3d

Other Super Bowl Halftime performers:
U2: Not American citizen
Paul McCartney: Not American citizen
Rolling Stones: Not American citizens
Phil Collins: Not American citizen
Shakira: Not American citizen
Rihanna: Not American citizen
Sting: Not American citizen

Bad Bunny: Actual American citizen

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O'Neill of Chicago @brianoneill.bsky.social · 3d

It is colonialism to call Phoenix an abomination

LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 3d

Learning a lot of things on the other site

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