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Scaremy Neely

@jeremyneely.bsky.social

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Dad, citizen, historian, cranky Missourian. Publications: A Union Tested, The Border between Them. The views expressed here are my own.

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Scaremy Neely @jeremyneely.bsky.social · Nov 18

There it is: my new book, A Union Tested, is out in the world. I hadn’t expected it for a few more weeks, but now that it’s arrived, here’s a quick intro and plug for anyone who’s teaching about loyalty, gender, marriage, illness, and the border West during the Civil War. #booksky #skystorians

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A book, A Union Tested, sits on a green and gold afghan.

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Scaremy Neely @jeremyneely.bsky.social · 11h

Play all night, what the hell

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Scaremy Neely @jeremyneely.bsky.social · 12h

I’ve seen my team win and get crushed in Super Bowls, but neither experience came close to the emotional whipsaw of following my team across a month of playoff baseball.

Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 12h

baseball is the best preparation for death because it does not come with a clock that tells you when your suffering will end one way or the other

Scaremy Neely @jeremyneely.bsky.social · 12h

Make time for the new John Candy documentary. Very well done.

Scaremy Neely @jeremyneely.bsky.social · 23h

Say what you will, at least it isn’t a Qatari surveillance balloon floating over sovereign American soil, because that would be a damn outrage.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

Scaremy Neely @jeremyneely.bsky.social · 1d

I mean…. (bUt WhY dO tHe KiDs aLL mOvE aWaY aFtEr GrAdUaTiOn?)

Another damn text from my ISP saying that the internet will be out yet again

Scaremy Neely @jeremyneely.bsky.social · 1d

Paying too much for shitty internet to own the libs.

KFF Health News @kffhealthnews.org · 1d

A 91-year-old learns to check health portals; a 7-year-old finally can do homework. They were among rural residents helped by a digital navigator, until President Trump abruptly canceled the Digital Equity Act’s dollars.
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Trump Called Digital Equity Act ‘Racist.’ Now Internet Money for Rural Americans Is Gone. - KFF Health News

President Donald Trump called the Digital Equity Act unconstitutional, racist, and illegal. Then the $2.75 billion program for rural and underserved communities to gain internet access disappeared.

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 2d

Pope Leo is spitting.

www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Leo questioned a world where the wealth of the elite grows
"exponentially" while many "millions of people die of hunger or survive in conditions unfit for human beings." He also criticized "ideologies that defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation,"
with false promises "that a free-market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty."

Leo described a "new tyranny," which shuns any kind of oversight and where the economy is structured "in such a way that sacrifices are demanded of the masses in order to serve the needs of the powerful." The poor, he wrote, are only allowed "drops that trickle down."

The pope openly challenged "prosperity theology" and called Christians to the practice of giving charity. "It will not solve the problem of world poverty, yet it must still be carried out, with intelligence, diligence and social responsibility," he wrote.

Popular movements that challenge "the empire of money," invite people to take on the cause to combat poverty alongside the poor, instead of on their behalf, and "make history," the pope said. It our duty, Leo said, to "make their voices heard, albeit in different ways, in order to point out and denounce such structural issues, even at the cost of appearing foolish or naïve."

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2d

This remains the most important piece i’ve written about the goals and ideological principles of the second Trump administration www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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Scaremy Neely @jeremyneely.bsky.social · 2d

“Trump seemed to be very proud to have ‘Blacks for Trump’ at all of his rallies and behind the podium, but not behind him in the cabinet meetings.” An attempt to resegregate the federal workforce unlike anything since Woodrow Wilson. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration

www.nytimes.com

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Scaremy Neely @jeremyneely.bsky.social · 2d

The meritocracy stays undefeated

Scaremy Neely @jeremyneely.bsky.social · 2d

One of you nerds better get that reference

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Scaremy Neely @jeremyneely.bsky.social · 2d

Salacious B. Crumb is on it.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”

Marco Rubio whispers into Donald Trump's ear.

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Scaremy Neely @jeremyneely.bsky.social · 2d

Jesus, maybe the Epstein files are all tucked inside those folds.

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Zach Halper @zanath.bsky.social · 2d

"We took freedom of speech away" should be in every campaign ad moving forward.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 3d

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Dr. Jeff Masters @drjeffmasters.bsky.social · 3d

Drought is climate change's biggest threat: If this winter is as dry as last winter, and no major reductions in use occur, Lake Powell by 2027 would have no storage left and “would have to be operated as a ‘run of river' facility” in which only the inflow from the river could be released downstream.

‘No One Comes Out of This Unscathed’: Experts Warn That Colorado River Use Needs Cutting Immediately - Inside Climate News

A new report finds that Lakes Mead and Powell, the nation’s largest reservoirs, could store just 9 percent of their combined capacity by the end of next summer.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 3d

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 3d

Here’s video of the incident

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 3d

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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Scaremy Neely @jeremyneely.bsky.social · 4d

Holy shit. There’s a Chefs ending that I recognize from the first 95 percent of my life.

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Scaremy Neely @jeremyneely.bsky.social · 4d

Butker, too far to the right, as ever.

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Scaremy Neely @jeremyneely.bsky.social · 4d

I’ve muted ‘em. Too much.

Scaremy Neely @jeremyneely.bsky.social · 4d

Michael Fellman’s Inside War and Chris Phillips’ The Rivers Ran Backward would be my first recs. If you’re looking at more specific parts of the state (Adam Arenson for St. Louis, Kristen Epps or my first book for the west side), there are a lot of other options.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 5d

If U.S. states have any degree of sovereignty, if there’s any states’ rights at all, it is the right not to be invaded by the armed forces of another U.S. state.

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