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Shamus McGillicuty @giraffeword.bsky.social · 1d

I’m sure it’s been covered already but your issue seems to be that you feel weird and uncomfortable when faced with people actually practicing their values because you have none.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 4d

I fear if things don’t change right now, this image is going to come back to haunt us

Laura Rodriguez, on Twitter:

A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them.

Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ICE activity across the city, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area.

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Shamus McGillicuty @giraffeword.bsky.social · 4d

That's neat. Got any other near decade old scoops about what a president's kid was up to while said president wasn't president? Not a whole lot else going on, so this is a great time to drop these otherwise overlooked gems.

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Col. Boozy Badger @boozybadger.lawyersandliquor.com · 4d

Dunno man, seems a little misleading to write an article about Trump describing activity in Portland and Chicago as “insurrection” with a 33 year old photo of a burning donut shop taken in the 1992 LA Riots (sans caption explaining that) as the header on all your posts about it.

The picture from
The article with a picture of an armed men standing in front of a burning donut shop. You must click through to read the caption “
Two National guardsmen stand guard outside a burning donut shop in Los Angeles on April 30, 1992.
The National Guard was called in to aid police during the second day of rioting in the city.”

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Shamus McGillicuty @giraffeword.bsky.social · 4d

That’s a photo from 1992, you absolute dorks.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 7d

wow I wonder why my entire body was in the air in the first place

Meatball Rob @wrenispinkle.bsky.social · 7d

Absolutely INSANE use of passive voice in this CNN piece

just incredible

@katmabu.bsky.social “landed on the ground” during the protest???

At least one other person, who identified herself on social media as Kat Abughazaleh, a former journalist also running for Congress, landed on the ground during that same protest after she was pushed by a federal law enforcement agent in a camouflage uniform wearing a full face covering, sunglasses and a helmet, video by CNN affiliate WBBM showed.

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Shamus McGillicuty @giraffeword.bsky.social · 8d

The Supreme Court of your withered little heart?

Shamus McGillicuty @giraffeword.bsky.social · 8d

www.gofundme.com/f/genesis-we...

Donate to Help Lay My Daughter Genesis Webber to Rest, organized by Autumn Redding

On 9/30/2025, my world was shattered when My Daughter, Genesis Webber's lif… Autumn Redding needs your support for Help Lay My Daughter Genesis Webber to Rest

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 14d

The rebranding of reactionary gender and biological essentialism as “heterodox and challenging ideas to which liberal students must be exposed” is one of the greatest achievements of our stupid era. Congratulations to the reactionary centrists who helped make it happen - you dupes, you utter dolts.

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 14d

“I’m emotionally shellshocked right now,” said one professor in the Texas Tech system. “What does it say about academic freedom? It says we don’t have it.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

Texas Tech Moves to Limit Academic Discussion to 2 Genders

www.nytimes.com

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 14d

I always admired Kaleb Horton's writing so much and am terribly sorry to hear of his death. It's a long list of singular writers who didn't have the careers they should have because of the people, places, and things that killed online media, but his name is right at the very top. I hate all of it.

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JF @jessefarrar.com · 27d

@jay.bsky.team hope you enjoyed your weekend away from moderation apologia. when do you think you might be back in the office so we can talk about why this post is still up bsky.app/profile/nypo...

New York Post @nypost.com · 28d

Charlie Kirk assassination latest shooting committed by trans people and advocates

The assassination of conservative pundit Charlie Kirk marks the latest example of a growing wave of murders and other shootings committed by transgender people and others advocating for their rights.

nypost.com

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 20d

Rugby has been well officiated for over a century, grow stronger and be better

Dianna Russini @diannarussini.bsky.social · 20d

The pileup of humanity in every tush push makes it nearly impossible for officials to properly monitor the line of scrimmage.

That frustration is exactly why so many teams — and coaches — wanted it gone in the first place.

www.nytimes.com/athletic/664...

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 28d

hey @safety.bsky.app @jay.bsky.team @aaron.bsky.team

what the fuck

New York Post @nypost.com · 28d

Charlie Kirk assassination latest shooting committed by trans people and advocates

The assassination of conservative pundit Charlie Kirk marks the latest example of a growing wave of murders and other shootings committed by transgender people and others advocating for their rights.

nypost.com

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 27d

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Eric the Tired @ericthetired.bsky.social · 28d

One time, for the sake of just having my pronouns listed, Chris posted me and my entire staffs photos and emails to all of his followers to be chastised and have death threats lobbed at us.

So please, tell me again, writers of the Atlantic, how this isn’t a system he used from the jump.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 28d

I regret to inform you that Thomas Chatterton Williams is at it again.
Chris Rufo is "learning" to use cancel culture. What the fuck do you think his entire career is based on?
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Christopher Rufo’s Cancel Culture

The right-wing activist is learning from his enemies—and changing the rules of the culture war.

www.theatlantic.com

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Shamus McGillicuty @giraffeword.bsky.social · 27d

Clown shit. Coward shit. Just say you think more black men need to be arrested or that black women can't achieve anything without stealing it from a white woman or that Haitians are going to enslave an Ohio town. Just say you like it. Say it with your chest.

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Dan McCoy @dankmccoy.bsky.social · 27d

Eat butts, Post.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 29d

So about that “transgender ideology” WSJ report

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Shamus McGillicuty @giraffeword.bsky.social · Sep 11

You gotta remember that folks on this website did some unconscionable things to ol’ TCW, like actually reading his book. That’s not what his books are for! They’re for being required purchases at the University of Austin!

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ceej @ceej.online · Sep 30

DR. SAMUEL BECKETT: Oh my god, I've quantum leaped! I hope they send someone professional to help me get home
AL CALAVICCI: (Getting paged in the middle of railing a cocktail waitress in Kansas City) Jesus Christ. Hold on, babe, my coworker just turned asian

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Shamus McGillicuty @giraffeword.bsky.social · Sep 8

Got to see freshman year HS Derrick Henry play against the HS I was teaching/coaching at and it was the most video game Bo Jackson nonsene I'd ever seen.

Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · Sep 8

looks like I have never posted Derrick Henry's high school game log on BlueSky. time to fix that

Derrick Henry's high school game log. he had four 400-plus yard games, including a 510-yard, 6 TD performance. his season low was 189 yards and one touchdown

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · Sep 7

These days, the football game of what’s more and more. In order to champion — when its competition of the ballgame — America is the time for together. And that’s which of the fans. The fans of what it’s most of all. Let’s what it again: the fans of when it’s more.

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John "At the Mountains of" Madden @mathletesfoot.bsky.social · Sep 2

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · Sep 1

A screenshot of a post on X. It's a double quote tweet. The original post is a photo of bacon in a frying pan and the caption says, "Just wanting to share some bacon with all my lovable Muslim peeps this monning. It's the least I can do." Then another account quotes that with the caption, "Hey @ZohranKMamdani this is for you, Bone-petite!" And finally Zohran quote tweets that with the caption, "my brother, this isn't garlic and we're not vampires."

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Jordan Maison @jordanmaison.com · Sep 1

RIP Graham Greene. Every time he popped up on screen when I was a kid, my mom would excitedly point him out for being an actual Native on the screen. Able to be deadly serious and infinitely hilarious (even in smaller roles like Last of Us), he ate up the screen. Nʌki’wah brother.

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