J. Duncan McGinnis
@jdmcg.bsky.social
Writer. Drawn to people, place, and the stories that live just under the surface.
I wrote a piece about riding motorcycles across Texas with a friend I was lucky to know. It’s about long days, bad planning, a few laughs, and the miles that end up meaning more than you expect.
#Writing #Friendship #Motorcycles #Texas #GriefWriting #Storytelling
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#Writing #Friendship #Motorcycles #Texas #GriefWriting #Storytelling
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We Should Have Ridden More
Friendship, motorcycles, and bad ideas that worked
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December 29, 2025 at 11:12 AM
I wrote a piece about riding motorcycles across Texas with a friend I was lucky to know. It’s about long days, bad planning, a few laughs, and the miles that end up meaning more than you expect.
#Writing #Friendship #Motorcycles #Texas #GriefWriting #Storytelling
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#Writing #Friendship #Motorcycles #Texas #GriefWriting #Storytelling
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This message hits hard.
December 27, 2025 at 8:38 PM
This message hits hard.
🎁 The Ultimate New Year’s Gift
A quick reminder for all my new followers: On New Year’s Day, I am giving every single subscriber a FREE lifetime subscription. No catch. If you’re on the list by midnight on Dec 31st, you’re in forever.
Don’t miss the cutoff!
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A quick reminder for all my new followers: On New Year’s Day, I am giving every single subscriber a FREE lifetime subscription. No catch. If you’re on the list by midnight on Dec 31st, you’re in forever.
Don’t miss the cutoff!
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Unfiltered | Duncan McGinnis | Substack
Unfiltered offers a blend of sharp political commentary, cultural reflection, and personal essays, delivering thought-provoking writing that moves seamlessly between big ideas and intimate observation...
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December 27, 2025 at 2:43 AM
🎁 The Ultimate New Year’s Gift
A quick reminder for all my new followers: On New Year’s Day, I am giving every single subscriber a FREE lifetime subscription. No catch. If you’re on the list by midnight on Dec 31st, you’re in forever.
Don’t miss the cutoff!
open.substack.com/pub/jdmcginn...
A quick reminder for all my new followers: On New Year’s Day, I am giving every single subscriber a FREE lifetime subscription. No catch. If you’re on the list by midnight on Dec 31st, you’re in forever.
Don’t miss the cutoff!
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#ThreeLayerChocolatePie
#FamilyRecipes
#CookingWithoutRules
#DessertFirst
#ChocolateLovers
#EasyDesserts
#raisedbystrongwomen
#ThreeLayerChocolatePie
#FamilyRecipes
#CookingWithoutRules
#DessertFirst
#ChocolateLovers
#EasyDesserts
#raisedbystrongwomen
A Three-Layer Chocolate Pie and Other Ways to Avoid Writing About the Criminal Justice System
My mother’s philosophy on cooking, competence, and why dessert was always part of the plan.
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December 26, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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The CBS 60 Minutes Doc confirms what we knew: The U.S. is currently using our tax dollars to imprison brown people with no criminal record in torture camps overseas.
It’s no wonder administration shill Bari Weiss pulled this off the air: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjY7...
It’s no wonder administration shill Bari Weiss pulled this off the air: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjY7...
CANCELLED 60 MINUTES CECOT DOC
YouTube video by eoin higgins
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December 22, 2025 at 11:39 PM
The CBS 60 Minutes Doc confirms what we knew: The U.S. is currently using our tax dollars to imprison brown people with no criminal record in torture camps overseas.
It’s no wonder administration shill Bari Weiss pulled this off the air: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjY7...
It’s no wonder administration shill Bari Weiss pulled this off the air: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjY7...
I’ve published a new piece on Substack exploring a topic that doesn’t always get the space it deserves here—context, nuance, and what it means for how we work and make decisions right now.
Rule of Law, Not Wrath
Part One in a Six Part Series on Justice in America
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December 23, 2025 at 12:37 AM
I’ve published a new piece on Substack exploring a topic that doesn’t always get the space it deserves here—context, nuance, and what it means for how we work and make decisions right now.
“There’s a man with a gun over there”
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“There’s a man with a gun over there”
— and then we tell a story about him
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December 10, 2025 at 1:35 AM
“There’s a man with a gun over there”
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MAJOR NEWS: Federal judges, including a Trump appointee, just BLOCKED Texas Republicans from using their new gerrymandered congressional map in 2026, ruling it was likely an illegal racial gerrymander. TX must revert to its 2021 map as Trump’s redistricting power grab collapses.
November 18, 2025 at 6:50 PM
MAJOR NEWS: Federal judges, including a Trump appointee, just BLOCKED Texas Republicans from using their new gerrymandered congressional map in 2026, ruling it was likely an illegal racial gerrymander. TX must revert to its 2021 map as Trump’s redistricting power grab collapses.
Absolutely! January 20, 2026 would be an excellent day for a general strike. It's the day after MLK day so it could be a four day weekend for everyone.
October 20, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Absolutely! January 20, 2026 would be an excellent day for a general strike. It's the day after MLK day so it could be a four day weekend for everyone.
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The world joined us and said, “No Kings.”
October 19, 2025 at 4:17 AM
The world joined us and said, “No Kings.”
@whitehouse-47.bsky.social we had a great, fun, love filled No Kings Protest. Nobody thought much of you though.
October 19, 2025 at 2:05 PM
@whitehouse-47.bsky.social we had a great, fun, love filled No Kings Protest. Nobody thought much of you though.
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So no terrorism then?
October 18, 2025 at 8:26 PM
So no terrorism then?
October 18, 2025 at 11:38 PM
No Kings! The Woodlands, Texas. We had a great time, many hundreds showed up. Singing, laughing. Hating on NOTHING except the most pathetic, small man ever to draw breath. #nokings2025 #nokings #fuckMAGA #fuckTrump
October 18, 2025 at 11:37 PM
No Kings! The Woodlands, Texas. We had a great time, many hundreds showed up. Singing, laughing. Hating on NOTHING except the most pathetic, small man ever to draw breath. #nokings2025 #nokings #fuckMAGA #fuckTrump
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🚨🚨🚨Chicago - NOW!🚨🚨🚨
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October 9, 2025 at 12:21 AM
🚨🚨🚨Chicago - NOW!🚨🚨🚨
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"The Antiphibian of Portland is gearing up to be an iconic symbol of resistance."
[Love this image. Wish I could give credit to the artist.]
[Love this image. Wish I could give credit to the artist.]
October 9, 2025 at 11:19 AM
"The Antiphibian of Portland is gearing up to be an iconic symbol of resistance."
[Love this image. Wish I could give credit to the artist.]
[Love this image. Wish I could give credit to the artist.]
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The Trump regime has ordered nine top universities to agree to its demands or lose access to federal funds.
Reminder for any school dealing with Trump's extortion: You can't appease a tyrant.
Reminder for any school dealing with Trump's extortion: You can't appease a tyrant.
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October 2, 2025 at 8:45 PM
The Trump regime has ordered nine top universities to agree to its demands or lose access to federal funds.
Reminder for any school dealing with Trump's extortion: You can't appease a tyrant.
Reminder for any school dealing with Trump's extortion: You can't appease a tyrant.
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Question:
If a POTUS was actually a Russian asset with the specific intent of destroying the military power, market strength, social unity, economic hegemony & global influence of the United States from within,
what would that person do DIFFERENTLY than what that asshole is doing right now?
If a POTUS was actually a Russian asset with the specific intent of destroying the military power, market strength, social unity, economic hegemony & global influence of the United States from within,
what would that person do DIFFERENTLY than what that asshole is doing right now?
October 1, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Question:
If a POTUS was actually a Russian asset with the specific intent of destroying the military power, market strength, social unity, economic hegemony & global influence of the United States from within,
what would that person do DIFFERENTLY than what that asshole is doing right now?
If a POTUS was actually a Russian asset with the specific intent of destroying the military power, market strength, social unity, economic hegemony & global influence of the United States from within,
what would that person do DIFFERENTLY than what that asshole is doing right now?
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DOJ has sued 8 states for refusing to turn over their full, unreacted voter files.
My team has now filed motions to defend voters in 7 of those cases in ME, MI, MN, NH, NY, OR and PA.
I suggest that DOJ monitor the docket in the remaining one in CA.
My team has now filed motions to defend voters in 7 of those cases in ME, MI, MN, NH, NY, OR and PA.
I suggest that DOJ monitor the docket in the remaining one in CA.
October 1, 2025 at 10:27 PM
DOJ has sued 8 states for refusing to turn over their full, unreacted voter files.
My team has now filed motions to defend voters in 7 of those cases in ME, MI, MN, NH, NY, OR and PA.
I suggest that DOJ monitor the docket in the remaining one in CA.
My team has now filed motions to defend voters in 7 of those cases in ME, MI, MN, NH, NY, OR and PA.
I suggest that DOJ monitor the docket in the remaining one in CA.
Did the Secretary of Commerce just admit to being a pedophile? Sex trafficking beneficiary? Sounds like it.
Lutnick on being invited over to his then-neighbor Jeffrey Epstein's house: He invites us in and there's a massage table in the middle of the room. I say, "Massage table in the middle of your house? How often you have a massage?
And he says, "Every day...and the right kind of massage."
And he says, "Every day...and the right kind of massage."
October 1, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Did the Secretary of Commerce just admit to being a pedophile? Sex trafficking beneficiary? Sounds like it.
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Not just Unpopular! He's also the Most Unworthy-Unqualified-Unethical-Uneducated-Unprepared-Undemocratic-Unfortunate-Unhinged-Unjust-Unread-Unappealing-Unconscionable-Untrustworthy-Unscrupulous-Unstable-Unbearable-Unlikable-Unreliable-Unsound & Unctuous President in Modern American History. 🇺🇸 🙄
September 21, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Not just Unpopular! He's also the Most Unworthy-Unqualified-Unethical-Uneducated-Unprepared-Undemocratic-Unfortunate-Unhinged-Unjust-Unread-Unappealing-Unconscionable-Untrustworthy-Unscrupulous-Unstable-Unbearable-Unlikable-Unreliable-Unsound & Unctuous President in Modern American History. 🇺🇸 🙄
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Antifa is not an organization.
You cannot apply for membership.
There isn’t a founder.
There isn’t a building.
You cannot donate.
It does not exist.
Trump just wants to designate any individual he wants a “terrorist.”
That’s Nazism.
You cannot apply for membership.
There isn’t a founder.
There isn’t a building.
You cannot donate.
It does not exist.
Trump just wants to designate any individual he wants a “terrorist.”
That’s Nazism.
September 18, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Antifa is not an organization.
You cannot apply for membership.
There isn’t a founder.
There isn’t a building.
You cannot donate.
It does not exist.
Trump just wants to designate any individual he wants a “terrorist.”
That’s Nazism.
You cannot apply for membership.
There isn’t a founder.
There isn’t a building.
You cannot donate.
It does not exist.
Trump just wants to designate any individual he wants a “terrorist.”
That’s Nazism.