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Greg O’Malley @gogogomalley.bsky.social · 3h

Maybe a hybrid clone?

Greg O’Malley @gogogomalley.bsky.social · 4h

And yet.

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Greg O’Malley @gogogomalley.bsky.social · 5h

Looking forward to Game 4 of the #ALDS, I really just have one question: Is Bryce Miller the secret love child of Simon & Simon? Tell me I’m wrong.
#Mariners | #TridentsUp

Comparison of Bryce Miller photo with a Simon & Simon tv promo photo.

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Greg O’Malley @gogogomalley.bsky.social · 5h

Looking forward to Game 4 of the #ALDS, I really just have one question: Is Bryce Miller the secret love child of Simon & Simon? Tell me I’m wrong.
#Mariners | #TridentsUp

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Greg O’Malley @gogogomalley.bsky.social · 1d

We've been getting endorsement blurbs for The Escapes of David George, and I'm deeply honored and moved by the kind words from these great scholars.
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The book drops from @stmartinspress.bsky.social
on Feb. 2, and is available for pre-order now:
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

bookshop.org

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Chris Graham, Journeyman Buzzkill @cagraham.bsky.social · 1d

Really looking forward to this

Greg O’Malley @gogogomalley.bsky.social · 1d

We've been getting endorsement blurbs for The Escapes of David George, and I'm deeply honored and moved by the kind words from these great scholars.
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The book drops from @stmartinspress.bsky.social
on Feb. 2, and is available for pre-order now:
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

bookshop.org

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Greg O’Malley @gogogomalley.bsky.social · 1d

And by the way, I'm super eager to get out and give talks about the new book! Hit me up!!

Greg O’Malley @gogogomalley.bsky.social · 1d

Alan Taylor: "By turns tragic, picaresque, & inspiring, The Escapes of David George illuminates the daunting chains of American slavery and the resolve of courageous people to break them. O'Malley deftly explores the interplay of freedom and slavery in a time of revolution."
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Greg O’Malley @gogogomalley.bsky.social · 1d

@wcaleb.org: "Where on earth, could a Black man in eighteenth-century America go to be free? With his award-winning ability to narrate histories of slavery, between the local & the global, ... the material & the spiritual, Greg O’Malley is an expert guide through George’s Atlantic world.”
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Greg O’Malley @gogogomalley.bsky.social · 1d

Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard/PBS: "Gregory E. O’Malley’s The Escapes of David George is a gripping, novelistic study of the remarkable man whose life forces all of us to reexamine the realities of colonial slavery and the conflicted legacies of the American Revolution."
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Greg O’Malley @gogogomalley.bsky.social · 1d

Jennifer L. Morgan, NYU: "If you read only one book on the American Revolution--this should be it. O'Malley's riveting history reframes the concepts of liberty & freedom in ways that are profoundly important as we mark the 250th anniversary of the War for American Independence."
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Greg O’Malley @gogogomalley.bsky.social · 1d

We've been getting endorsement blurbs for The Escapes of David George, and I'm deeply honored and moved by the kind words from these great scholars.
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The book drops from @stmartinspress.bsky.social
on Feb. 2, and is available for pre-order now:
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

bookshop.org

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Paul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social · 1d

to paraphrase Tyrion, "we aren't challenging your integrity, Madam Attorney General, we are denying its existence"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bondi to Blumenthal: "You lied. How dare you? I'm a career prosecutor. Don't you ever challenge my integrity. Do not question my ability to be fair and impartial."

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 13d

To read the university’s triumphant all-campus email about restored NIH funding, you’d think UC administrators made it happen. But that’s not true. In fact the UC *Faculty Association* organized the lawsuit; administrators kept their heads down and hoped it’d go away.

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 6d

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

Paramount Officially Acquiring The Free Press and Making Bari Weiss CBS News Editor in Chief: Report

Paramount Skydance will be officially acquiring The Free Press and hiring its founder Bari Weiss as editor in chief of its CBS News division, with the deal to be announced this coming Monday, accordin...

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 6d

We are losing something by having newsrooms where everyone who has more than a few years’ experience has gotten fired. I don’t fault a young writer for not knowing about things that happened before she was born. But now there are no editors to help give context to these stories, either.

Prince with “Slave” written on his face, in protest of his unfair recording contract, including lack of ownership of his master recordings.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 6d

He knows it. They know it. They've always known it. Amongst themselves, they joke about it. They tell stories about it. They swap advice on how to deal with it.

But most importantly, to everyone else, they lie about it.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

MADELEINE DEAN: The president is unhinged. He's unwell

JOHNSON: A lot of folks on your side are too

D: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals?

J: I didn't see it

D: It's so dangerous! Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing. You have a POTUS who's unwell.

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 6d

If I had a penny for every time some idiot claimed that Russia must be allowed to do whatever it wants or else World War III will erupt, I’d be swimming in wealth.

Appeasing aggression invites escalation. Holding Russia accountable for its provocations is what actually deters it.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 8d

Breaking news: The Trump administration’s push to arrest and deport international students for their pro-Palestinian activism was illegal, a federal judge ruled, calling the crackdown a “truly scandalous and unconstitutional suppression of free speech.”

Trump administration illegally targeted pro-Palestinian protesters, judge rules

The efforts to detain and deport noncitizen activists earlier this year represented an unconstitutional infringement on the First Amendment, the ruling says.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12d

very cool that trump is singularly dedicated to making everything in your life more expensive

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 13d

Trump: ‘We will be imposing a 50% Tariff on all Kitchen Cabinets, Bathroom Vanities, and associated products, starting October 1st, 2025. Additionally, we will be charging a 30% Tariff on Upholstered Furniture. The reason for this is the large scale “FLOODING” of these products

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Shelley Stamp @shelleystamp.bsky.social · 12d

Yup. Key point.

Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 13d

To read the university’s triumphant all-campus email about restored NIH funding, you’d think UC administrators made it happen. But that’s not true. In fact the UC *Faculty Association* organized the lawsuit; administrators kept their heads down and hoped it’d go away.