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Andrew Galvin

@andrewgalvin.bsky.social

My whole feed right now is people talking about Will

December 27, 2025 at 3:42 AM

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Sherrilyn Ifill

@sifill.bsky.social

Imagine watching Sinatra, son of Dolly & Antonini born in Genoa & Sicily, respectively, and Martin, son of Gaetano & Angela, born in Montesilvano, Italy & Ohio respectively, (Angela to parents born in Monasterolo, Italy), and crusading against the value of children of immigrants to the U.S.

December 26, 2025 at 7:03 PM

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Benjamin Ryan

@benryanwriter.bsky.social

This is a stunning must-read on what became of the LGBTQ activist movement in recent years. open.substack.com/pub/american...

Memory-Hole Archive: Sex and (Trans)Gender Wars

Part VIII of the Memory-Hole Archive

open.substack.com

December 24, 2025 at 4:23 AM

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Frustrated Fan

@frustratedfan.bsky.social

If you were to guess that any random white baseball player was a MAGA shithead, you’d be right way more often than you’d be wrong.

November 5, 2024 at 6:06 PM

Andrew Galvin

@andrewgalvin.bsky.social

Reminder that the Myrtle Beach Bowl is currently airing on ESPN

December 19, 2025 at 4:32 PM

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Zach Everson

@zacheverson.com

It gets even more pathetic—

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Rep. Joyce Beatty
@RepBeatty
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For the record. This was not unanimous. I was muted on the call and not allowed to speak or voice my opposition to this move. Also for the record, this was not on the agenda.

December 18, 2025 at 7:21 PM

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Craig Calcaterra

@craigcalcaterra.bsky.social

The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story.

Holy. Shit.

www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...

Were there moments that you missed? Anything that happened that’s on the cutting room floor?
I don’t think there’s anything I missed that I wish I’d gotten. I’ll give you a little anecdote: Stephen Miller was perhaps the most concerned about the portrait session. He asked me, “Should I smile or not smile?” and I said, “How would you want to be portrayed?” We agreed that we would do a bit of both. And then when we were finished, he comes up to me to shake my hand and say goodbye. And he says to me, “You know, you have a lot of power in the discretion you use to be kind to people.” And I looked at him and I said, “You know, you do, too.”

December 17, 2025 at 8:34 PM

Andrew Galvin

@andrewgalvin.bsky.social

The people voted that the system was broken, so they elected the guy who would smash it beyond repair

December 16, 2025 at 7:38 PM

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Acyn

@acyn.bsky.social

Mother of Karoline Leavitt’s Nephew speaks out after ICE arrest: I think what I would have to say to Karoline is just because you went to a catholic school doesn't make you a good catholic.

December 13, 2025 at 12:38 AM

Andrew Galvin

@andrewgalvin.bsky.social

Bunch of #cishets on the CFP screwed up royally today

December 7, 2025 at 10:43 PM

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Mediaite

@mediaite.com

CEO Behind Trump Stares Skyward and Possibly Yearns for Rapture as President Rages Against Immigrants

Antonio Filosa fidgeted nervously before staring skyward during Donald Trump's rant against Somali immigrants. The post CEO Behind Trump Stares Skyward and Possibly Yearns for Rapture as President Rages Against Immigrants first appeared on Mediaite.

dlvr.it

December 4, 2025 at 4:57 AM

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick

@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social

The first official confirmation that Noem herself made the decision not to turn the planes around. A couple hundred men were tortured as a result — and soon after, the Supreme Court confirmed that the Trump admin’s Alien Enemies Act process was a total violation of due process.

Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · Nov 26

BREAKING:

“After receiving that legal advice, Secretary Noem directed that the AEA detainees who had been removed from the United States before the Court’s order could be transferred to the custody of El Salvador. “

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche and Principal Associate Deputy Attorney

General Emil Bove provided DHS with legal advice regarding the Court’s order as to flights that

had left the United States before the order issued, through DHS Acting General Counsel Joseph

Mazzara. Mr. Mazzara then conveyed that legal advice, as well as his own legal advice, to

Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem. See 6 U.S.C. § 113(a)(1)(J). After receiving that

legal advice, Secretary Noem directed that the AEA detainees who had been removed from the

United States before the Court’s order could be transferred to the custody of El Salvador. As

explained below, that decision was lawful and was consistent with a reasonable interpretation of

November 26, 2025 at 1:45 AM

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American Immigration Council

@immcouncil.org

The Trump administration has a new mass deportation playbook.

We’ve seen it in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Charlotte. And it’s coming to more cities.

@daralind.bsky.social explains 👇