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Maggie McNeill

@maggiemcneill.bsky.social

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Overeducated and unrepentant whore who talks far too much and writes the popular blog The Honest Courtesan in addition to the usual harlotry.

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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · Mar 5

If the HPV vaccine had been available 20 years earlier, my beloved Grace might still be alive.

Get vaccinated.

Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · Mar 4

“Healthcare personnel often do not realize that in the U.S., HPV-related mortality far surpasses the mortality from tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis & meningococcal disease combined. Each year, about 4,000 deaths are the result of cervical cancer; most are preventable through pre-exposure vaccination”

Technically Speaking: Why HPV Vaccination Before Age 11 Years Is a Good Idea

Dr. Sean O’Leary, Chair of AAP’s COID, explains why AAP and CDC recommendations about HPV vaccine differ.

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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 1m

As a native Louisianan, I can confirm that most of the people like him I ever met, professionally or socially, were politicians or car dealership owners or that sort of creature.

Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 3m

Somebody good with these things needs to make a sepia-toned version of the video, change the music for mid-19th-century folk music, and read your words in a tired-sounding voice a la Ken Burns.

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.bsky.social · 4h

Just today, the streets were occupied by a dancing unicorn!

Is this all a game to the citizens of Portland?

Why do they not value our sacrifice? We are here to save them, no matter how many tear gas canisters it takes.

Why do they not appreciate us? I feel despondent. I was meant to be a hero.

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.bsky.social · 4h

We were sent to create order from chaos! To save the people of Portland from themselves and the idea that they should decide what's best for them

But if not us, then whom shall save the cereal cafes from being plundered?

Instead of being greeted as liberators, we are greeted by dancing frogs

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.bsky.social · 5h

My dearest Gertrude,

I fear I shall not make it home. This war has ravaged our supplies and broken our will.

We arrived with weapons, purpose, and a directive. Yet at every turn, we are mocked. Belittled.

I have never experienced an insult so great in a war zone

Send my best to the children

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6h

#WarRavagedPortland

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 4h

if you're rich beyond the dreams of avarice then you can marinate in horseshit conservative ideology re healthcare consequence-free. but even if you're just upper middle class, you probably know people who are going to get BONED by this ACA subsidy repeal

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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 9m

THIS. I was never grouped with a slacker, but the coordination (this was long before cell phones or email) was a huge pain.

Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 15m

Yeah, but like Newsom he's still just talking. No actual action yet that I can see.

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Yo Gabapentin @yogabapentin.bsky.social · 23h

Claude AI’s logo is unironically Kurt Vonnegut’s butthole drawing

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Plenary Popehat Power @kenwhite.bsky.social · 15h

These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 17h

Here’s video of the incident

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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 15h

Can you imagine going through life as a quadriplegic because your parents were too stupid and evil to vaccinate you?

Dorit Reiss @doritreiss.bsky.social · 4d

Six young children died, one facing amputation of limbs, all unvaccinated, all from measles.

Protect your children.
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11-Month-Old Charedi Baby Faces Amputation After Severe Measles Complications - Belaaz News

An 11-month-old infant from Beitar Illit, hospitalized at Hadassah Medical Center after contracting measles, is scheduled for surgery to amputate all four limbs due to necrosis, according to a Tuesday...

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 3h

The Fraternal Order of Police is on the side of MAGA and against the people they are supposed to be "policing." I think this says a lot to the people who insist local police are going to be "resistance."
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National police union calls Chicago's refusal to help ICE agents 'shocking' violation of duty

Police union leaders called Chicago's alleged directive to not assist ICE agents surrounded by protesters a violation of law enforcement's duty to protect fellow officers.

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 7h

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Michelangelo Signorile @msignorile.bsky.social · 3h

This is a good way to hit back at Trump's deranged statements and calls to jail Democrats.

Media needs to focus on his mental decline. Democrats must force media to do it.

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Gov. JB Pritzker says President Trump deploying troops to Chicago due to ‘dementia’ and obsessive fixations

In a scathing critique of President Donald Trump, Gov. JB Pritzker on Tuesday accused the Republican president of deploying National Guard troops to the Democratic cities of Chicago and Portland based...

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 4h

This is fascist.

"Regular" prisons constantly and regularly ban books.

That's fascist, too.

New York Focus @nysfocus.bsky.social · 4h

NEW: The ICE detention center near Buffalo has banned book deliveries, New York Focus has learned.

Rejected books include a Spanish-English dictionary, a translation of a George R.R. Martin novel, and “The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work.”
nysfocus.com/2025/10/08/b...

New York’s Biggest ICE Detention Center Bans Book Deliveries

Rejected books include a Spanish-English dictionary, a Spanish translation of a George R.R. Martin novel, and "The Seven Principles for Making Marriage…

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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 2h

Really is the height of hypocrisy for Mike Johnson to cite pregnant women in the ER as deserving treatment when 1) the Trump Administration would let them die if they need an abortion and 2) Louisiana made misoprostol, an emergency drug needed for post-partum hemorrhage, a controlled substance

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 3h

In a fight between Pritzker and and police, who is going to win? This is what happens when both parties allowed law enforcement to become one of the most powerful political actors in the country -- a taxpayer-funded political movement that wants to kill people.

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Desiree Alliance @desireealliance.bsky.social · 2h

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 2h

You're telling me the Dems are failing to rise to the moment? Why, it must be a day.

Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 2h

This hearing is a missed opportunity for Dems. Instead of either detailing how 🐘s have jawboned tech companies not to moderate content, or debunking 🐘 jawboning claims, they're fixated giving the gov't more power to break up media, which would likely change little and give 🐘s more leverage

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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 30m

This is why I have an email filter that automatically trashes anything with "prime day" in the subject line, without my even having to see it.

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 4h

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 38m

I think so, yes. These are genuinely evil people.

Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 39m

Glad to hear it, but please explain how it will do that. Making speeches and posting tweets does not count.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Johnson: "He has defunded our education system. He has defunded our transportation system. He's firing black women across this country. He's defunding our healthcare system. This president is absolutely out of control... Chicago is going to stand firm in protecting humanity."

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 1h

in the Bible it says to help people only if they have papers and a Cigna plan

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 3h

Sens Ted Cruz and Eric Schmitt are holding their hearing on the Biden Censorship Regime of 2018. Watch live here as they try to figure out: who was president in 2020?

Witnesses: Alex Berenson, Sean Davis of the Federalist,
Eugene Volokh, Gene Kimmelman

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QRu...

LIVE: Ted Cruz Leads Senate Hearing About 'How Uncle Sam Jawboned Big Tech Into Silencing Americans'

YouTube video by Forbes Breaking News

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