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Sean M McCord @milliondollarduck.bsky.social · 4h

The Cavalier Daily, UVA’s student newspaper, gives the most thorough (and non-paywalled) report I’ve yet seen on yesterday’s campus lockdown
cavalierdaily.com/article/2025/11/false-report-of-active-shooter-placed-uva-on-lockdown-monday

False report of active shooter placed U.Va. on lockdown Monday

The University shared a “run, hide, fight” alert with community members at 3:05 p.m. today, saying that there was an active attacker with a gun in the area of Shannon Library.

cavalierdaily.com

Sean M McCord @milliondollarduck.bsky.social · 4h

Remember to vote today for the candidate with the best hair! #DontPanic 👍🏼
youtu.be/UeaM1MtXwJQ

Vote Beeblebrox (2005)

YouTube video by Brad Hood

youtu.be

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Sean M McCord @milliondollarduck.bsky.social · 4d

The most popular candy nationwide this Halloween of 2025 may be Reese's Pieces; except Mississippi, where it's Rhesus Monkeys.

Lab Monkey On The Loose After Mississippi Crash

Sean M McCord @milliondollarduck.bsky.social · 4d

The pedophile-formerly-known-as-prince is now out of job and with no real marketable skills.

Prince Charles on the right with his brother Andrew

Sean M McCord @milliondollarduck.bsky.social · 4d

Just in case Trump demolishing the White House wasn't quite enough metaphor, today Winsome Sears' campaign bus erupted in flames...
wtkr.com/news/politics/earle-sears-campaign-bus-reportedly-catches-fire-spanberger-relieved-opponents-team-is-safe

Sean M McCord @milliondollarduck.bsky.social · 8d

Donald Trump finally accomplished what the 9/11 hijackers could only dream of.

Satellite images of the White House before and after demolition

Sean M McCord @milliondollarduck.bsky.social · Sep 30

Here, in September of 2025, I am going to go out on a limb and declare that the next Democratic Party nominee for President — and, with any luck, the next actual President of the United States — will be…

…someone most of us have not heard of in September of 2025.

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Sean M McCord @milliondollarduck.bsky.social · Sep 22

Good gawd, he is dumb!
Also, you know exactly to whom I am referring.

Sean M McCord @milliondollarduck.bsky.social · Sep 18

𝐼𝑡'𝑠 𝑢𝑝 𝑡𝑜 𝑦𝑜𝑢, 𝐽𝑖𝑚𝑚𝑦 𝐹𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑛
𝐴 𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑠 𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑥𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝑒𝑦𝑒𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑦𝑜𝑢
𝑤𝑜𝑜 𝑤𝑜𝑜 𝑤𝑜𝑜
(with apologies to Paul Simon and everyone else)

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Sean M McCord @milliondollarduck.bsky.social · Sep 14

Kirk Konfederates: “Charlie Kirk died for exercising his Freedom of Speech!” hashtag FreeSpeech
Also: “Anyone who didn’t respond exactly as we say should be punished!” hashtag CheapSpeech
www.29news.com/2025/09/12/u...

UVA Republicans urge university to punish people they say celebrated Kirk slaying

These claims were made in a letter addressed to UVA Interim President Paul Mahoney and the Board of Visitors, and was published online.

www.29news.com

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Sean M McCord @milliondollarduck.bsky.social · Sep 13

It is not just the ubiquity of guns in our society, it is that the ease with which anybody anywhere can simply pick one up makes them seem a ready answer to any disagreement. In that sense, Charlie Kirk did die for his beliefs.

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Sean M McCord @milliondollarduck.bsky.social · Sep 13

Let us now talk about how a young man, apparently unhappy with what he was hearing, concluded that his most effective recourse was a rifle.

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Sean M McCord @milliondollarduck.bsky.social · Sep 13

Let us now talk about the guns. We have debated whether Charlie Kirk was a martyr to Free Speech even as his followers want to silence any criticism. We have debated whether Kirk’s brand of hostile xenophobia and white christian nationalism attracted the very violence that led to his murder.

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Sean M McCord @milliondollarduck.bsky.social · Sep 12

Should we assume that Trump will now deploy his shock troops to Orem UT in order to deal with the crime problem?

Sean M McCord @milliondollarduck.bsky.social · Sep 12

Looking forward to the podcast explaining how the two Trump-appointed podcasters failed to find the podcaster killer.

Sean M McCord @milliondollarduck.bsky.social · Sep 12

Trump is sending troops to American cities for the same reason that Nazis invaded Charlottesville in 2017: to beat up Democrats and Black and Brown people.

Sean M McCord @milliondollarduck.bsky.social · Sep 10

"I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights." — Charlie Kirk
mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk/charlie-kirk-its-worth-have-cost-unfortunately-some-gun-deaths-every-single-year-so-we

Charlie Kirk: “It’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment”

mediamatters.org

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Sean M McCord @milliondollarduck.bsky.social · Sep 8

In this instance, sending workers back to their home country squarely punishes the corporation. Am I naïve to think that Hyundai might now open up to local labor or, at the very least, start following the rules?

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Sean M McCord @milliondollarduck.bsky.social · Sep 8

Chasing down brown people in the Home Depot parking lot is, among other things, horrifyingly racist and also punishes the individual, but the root of the problem has always been businesses that depend on this labor.

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Sean M McCord @milliondollarduck.bsky.social · Sep 8

After the parade of horrors that has been the past eight months (!!!) of Trump 2.0, am I wrong to feel a bit smug at the sight of undocumented workers being rounded up at a South Korean-owned Hyundai plant in Georgia?

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Sean M McCord @milliondollarduck.bsky.social · Sep 3

I look back on this moment now with the wisdom of age and am humbled that what was meant to be a harmless prank was taken so seriously by someone whom I genuinely liked. Anyway, Carol, if you somehow read this, I’m sorry you died that day.

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Sean M McCord @milliondollarduck.bsky.social · Sep 3

but I threw my head back as if she had struck me full on in the face and I howled in mock agony. This was a move I had perfected as a teenager watching too many Three Stooges films. I thought it would be obvious that I was joking, but Carol leapt back and screamed at the top of her lungs...

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Sean M McCord @milliondollarduck.bsky.social · Sep 3

Carol hadn’t noticed me, so I decided to play a little prank by stepping out of view, waiting until I thought she was right at the door, then stepped in front just as she swung it open. The door slammed with a tremendous thud into my booted foot, not hurting me in the least...

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Sean M McCord @milliondollarduck.bsky.social · Sep 3

Many years ago, I worked for a medical lab in the old industrial wing of a hospital that felt a bit like a naval vessel, with narrow hallways and swinging door with port holes in them. One afternoon, as I approached one of those doors, I saw my co-worker Carol doing the same on the other side...

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Sean M McCord @milliondollarduck.bsky.social · Sep 2

What does 'anxiety' mean to you? In my day, I might have acknowledged being a bit anxious in a Charlie Brown way when faced with, say, a pending test or a job interview, but I sense that the word if not the understanding is different for a Late Boomer like me than it is for Millennials or GenZ.