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Bill Shea

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Ex-journalist writing a shitty novel. Key West literary beach bum. Anti-fascist Leftist. Cleveland guy in Detroit. Filled with japery, rage, soup. Libertine degenerate descended from Welsh coal miners. Unhinged. No gods, no kings. Essays: Billshea.com

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Bill Shea @billshea19.bsky.social · Aug 22

This is a long, meandering essay about an ugly but thankfully brief mental health breakdown I had last week over fucking sock. It was rooted in many things, like the relentlessly bleak news. If a privileged mediocre white guy like me can break down, then millions more are enduring much worse.

How an ankle sock (and tacky fascism) drove me into therapy

I had an brief but ugly mental breakdown last week over something extremely trivial, but it was a sign to get help because this world isn’t going to get better any time soon. No one is coming…

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Bill Shea @billshea19.bsky.social · 1m

10 horror movies to get to know me

✝️ Exorcist III
🏚 The Shining
🥃 Doctor Sleep
🎬 Shadow of the Vampire
🧛‍♂️ Dracula (1979)
🐀 Dracula (1992)
🐺 American Werewolf in London
🦈 Jaws
🩸 Dracula (2020 Netflix/BBC)
🚀 Lifeforce

Bukkakestocracy (cumming soon) @boo.bsky.social · 15m

10 horror movies to get to know me

👹The Wailing
🚃Train to Busan
🌞Midsommar
🥓Martyrs
🐙The Void
📷Lake Mungo
🐵Nope
🧩Hellraiser
⚰Let The Right One In
🎸Green Room

Trans Ferdinand: Robot Princess @emdashreed.bsky.social · 15h

10 horror movies to get to know me

🥚 Alien (1979)
🐦‍⬛ Hereditary (2018)
🐕 The Thing (1982)
🪚 Evil Dead Rise (2023)
☎️ Skinamarink (2022)
🔽 The Void (2016)
🚪 Barbarian (2022)
🐐 The VVitch (2015)
🦈 Jaws (1975)
🎞️ Lake Mungo (2008)

Bill Shea @billshea19.bsky.social · 23m

I'm sure, but it's a necessity that's been net negative for a long, long.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 13h

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 2h

I love how Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House and #2 in line for the presidency, is always like, “What? News?! I never read or hear anything that happens in the world, anywhere. I’m totally offline. What even is ‘social media’? They play news all day on TV!? Wow! That’s a surprise!”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

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Bill Shea @billshea19.bsky.social · 5h

You can just walk up Mount Kilamanjaro

NPR @npr.org · 6h

About 900 hikers, guides and other staff who were stranded by a weekend snowstorm on the Chinese side of Mount Everest have reached safety, state media said late Tuesday.

Hundreds of hikers rescued from Mount Everest after severe snowstorm

About 900 hikers, guides and other staff who were stranded by a weekend snowstorm on the Chinese side of Mount Everest have reached safety, state media said late Tuesday.

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 1d

I’ve underestimated her before. Or more accurately I underestimated the commitment of the biggest loser billionaires in our country to floating her talentless career.

Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 1d

I have a strong sense that Bari's tenure in her current role will be short. She may get moved up or she may exist but I don't think it's sustainable.

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Bill Shea @billshea19.bsky.social · 5h

Today he's a deputy director of the FBI and openly takes bribes of bags of hamburgers, and Karoline Levitt will call you a domestic terrorist and communist for questioning it

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 6h

Stephen Miller believes that if he supercharges the debate over Trump's abuses of power with enough propaganda, he can polarize it and force low-info voters to embrace authoritarianism. Pritzker/Newsom have accepted that this requires an information war in response.

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Bill Shea @billshea19.bsky.social · 5h

Hard to believe Trump, the guy building an enormous tacky ballroom bigger than the White House and staging a huge UFC event on the White House lawn next year, would give this fascist mid-life crisis freak $20 billion.

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 14h

The guy we are saving with $20B bailout

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Bill Shea @billshea19.bsky.social · 6h

Her rudimentary lizard brain political survival instinct kicked in because these premium increases are going to be devastating for voters, and Republicans are going to be swept from office.

Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 7h

Here is why MTG is for extending the enhanced premium tax credits (EPTCs) for ACA marketplace plans.

In her district, GA14

there are 78,000 on ACA plans
74,000 receiving subsidies
the average increase in premiums would be 85%
for a 60-yr-old on a silver plan: 246%
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Bill Shea @billshea19.bsky.social · 8h

Clearly this calls for the 82nd Airborne to be dropped on Portland like its Normandy in June 1944

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 14h

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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sydder @sydder.bsky.social · 15h

It's terrifying how casual they are aiming & shooting at people. Straight up evil.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 18d

CW: protester being struck in the head by a pepper ball

Footage I took earlier of the moment Reverend David Black, a regular protester outside of the Broadview Detention Center, was shot in the head with a pepper ball by ICE agents on the roof of the facility.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 17h

It's one thing to be politically divided into red states and blue states. We are now being militarily divided into red states and blue states. It's crossing the Rubicon, a bright-red flashing warning that the constitutional order is coming unglued, in a way that will have monumental consequences. /x

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Bill Shea @billshea19.bsky.social · 17h

He so badly wants into the Christmas Adventurers Club

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 18h

‘Pete Hegseth was a Harvard University master’s degree candidate who described closing racial achievement gaps as a “laudable goal,” backed “equality, diversity, and accessibility”’

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/07/m...

Pete Hegseth railed against diversity and equity to his generals. As a Harvard student, he had a much different take. - The Boston Globe

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth once described closing minority achievement gaps as a “laudable goal.”

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Bill Shea @billshea19.bsky.social · 17h

Very legitimate chance that Truman Capote heard rap music

Bill Shea @billshea19.bsky.social · 17h

MF really said Lee Greenwood. These monsters are such unserious dipshits.

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 17h

Mike Johnson isn't happy that Bad Bunny is performing at the Super Bowl: It sounds like he's not someone who appeals to a broader audience. There's so many eyes on it. A lot of young, impressionable children. In my view, you would have Lee Greenwood or role models doing that. Not somebody like this.

Bill Shea @billshea19.bsky.social · 17h

In 2000, this show would have been from 1975

Programming Insider @programminginsider.bsky.social · 17h

📺 October 7, 2000: Police procedural "The District" starring Craig T. Nelson premiered on CBS.

TV's last Saturday primetime scripted series to average at least 10 million viewers per episode within a season (it last did so in the 2001-02 season).

Ran four seasons.

Bill Shea @billshea19.bsky.social · 17h

Tactical wedges

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 18h

this is such a fucking idiotic farce

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18h

Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.

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Bill Shea @billshea19.bsky.social · 17h

The White House has or will see this photo and Trump will be livid with Abbott, and Hegseth looks pathetic

Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 20h

Don’t think these Texas National Guard guys are going to be chasing any immigrants around Chicago on foot

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 18h

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 18h

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17h

I know we're all used to the president talking like Livia Soprano all the time, but this is a goddamn outrage

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22h

“.. we’re going to take care of our people,” Trump added. “There are some people that really don’t deserve to be taken care of. And we’ll take care of them in a different way.”

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Bill Shea @billshea19.bsky.social · 18h

Stadium trickle-down economics is like a zombie that even a headshot cannot kill.

Bill Shea @billshea19.bsky.social · 18h

[Ned Yost spontaneously combusts]

Defector @defector.com · 18h

Never bunt: defector.com/never-bunt

Never Bunt | Defector

PHILADELPHIA — By the top of the ninth inning, the stadium was visibly pockmarked by absences, and people were booing Jhoan Duran’s walkout show. Duran, who was just doing his job as the Philadelphia…

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