Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃 @alanallport.bsky.social · 1hThe whole presidential pardon mechanism, basically a relic of medieval monarchy, needs to be totally constitutionally rethought. 1131
Reposted by Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 15/10/2026"Faculty must maintain strict political neutrality at all times. Otherwise, we just risk becoming yet another frontline in the culture wars. We cannot pose yet another existential threat to the prevailing political order by discussing historical facts." buff.ly/hjUfwPrbuff.lyPlease Do Not Offend the Pro-Genocide Members of the College Board of Trustees“We need to maintain an environment of fairness, collegiality, and blind deference to the state-appointed men and woman who somehow have unlimited leverage o... 110238
Reposted by Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 21hFlag yourself... I'm a Night Weirdo. 35605192
Reposted by Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃Phil Wilkinson @philmorandi.bsky.social · 14hwww.theguardian.com/music/2026/o...theguardian.com‘A guy held a knife to my throat and said: play something normal!’ Richard Thompson on crazy crowds, his beloved beret and Sandy Denny’s driving skillsAs he releases new album Hippies, Thugs and Heroes, the 77-year-old British folk legend answers your questions about Billy Connolly, Californian fish and chips and whether he nearly joined the Eagles 011
Reposted by Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃Dr. M.A. Davis @mikedavis.bsky.social · 15/10/2026the median German history timeline - this is a thought experiement I've occasionally referred to and I wanted to get my thoughts about it down on paper somewhere. thread 183
Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃 @alanallport.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Same with the HE sector. UK universities punch way above what they should for a medium sized European country and that’s in part because they’ve always attracted great international talent. Not so much now. 051
Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃 @alanallport.bsky.social · 15/10/2026I was happy in the haze of a long-eared owl But heaven knows I’m miserable now 280
Reposted by Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃Yakhunt @yakhunt.net · 14/10/2026The Smiths, if Bill Oddie was the lead 'singer' 18615
Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃 @alanallport.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Surprised Ted Kennedy wasn’t on the list or had he given it up by then 130
Reposted by Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 15/10/2026NEW Sally Rooney and Faber are not overreacting in withdrawing books from the UK market Their interpretation of Section 15 of the Terrorism Act is not fanciful By me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...prospectmagazine.co.ukFaber withdrawing Sally Rooney's books from the UK is no overreactionTheir interpretation of Section 15 of the Terrorism Act is not fanciful 19509245
Reposted by Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃Nick Walker @nickwalker.bsky.social · 15/10/2026A definite sign of ageing is that you cannot impress me with "over 20 years" anymore. Am I expected to think this sauce is ancient, because it's as old as Nelly Furtado's Maneater? 1315142733
Reposted by Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 08/08/2025Facebook reminded me of this meme 441872
Reposted by Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃Nova @holyandroidnova.bsky.social · 15/10/2026what the fuck do you mean catch her 1140382
Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃 @alanallport.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Have British politicians ever considered dropping these suppertime parlour games (who is English, what is a woman) and asking a slightly more urgent question like, say, ‘why hasn’t there been any productivity growth since 2008?’ 2221
Reposted by Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Once again we remember that the absolute Ground Zero of systematic racist beliefs is that everyone from Group A is as bad as the worst person in Group A, and that nobody in Group B should be judged for what anyone else in Group B does. 05211
Reposted by Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Crazy idea: Democrats should defend immigration and immigrants, run on the idea that immigrants make America great, and stop Homer Simpsoning themselves into the shrubbery every time Republicans try to demagogue it. 582803756
Reposted by Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Would be very cool if the democrats acted as if they believed this is a bad thing and a serious problem 1553154
Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃 @alanallport.bsky.social · 15/10/2026And the absolute maximum any Iranian missile can go right now is about 3,000 miles but let’s not get bogged down with detail 2111
Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃 @alanallport.bsky.social · 15/10/2026It’s 6,100 miles from Tehran to NYC and 7,500 miles to LA so yeah that makes perfect sense 1151
Reposted by Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃Megan L. Cook @meganlcook.bsky.social · 14/10/2026I will not roll my eyes in the faculty meeting I will not roll my eyes in the faculty meeting I will not roll my eyes in the faculty meeting I will not roll my eyes in the faculty meeting I will not roll my eyes in the faculty meeting 9883
Reposted by Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Correct, nobody does this because that would obviously be fucking stupid 932149249
Reposted by Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 14/10/2026This is going to be very appealing to the all-important "After three days, I suddenly noticed that my child was missing" voting demographic. 491599234
Reposted by Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 14/10/2026He's with the Angles now 1252625347
Reposted by Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃Fred, His Enemy Getting a Vote @thefred.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Weird how the US Navy can seize boats without murdering the crews in the Gulf of Oman but not the Gulf of Mexico. 115952
Reposted by Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃David @bluebookballoon.bsky.social · 14/10/2026But at least we’re now protected from Sally Rooney’s dangerous books 0119
Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃 @alanallport.bsky.social · 14/10/2026The real question is why she’s conducting this blatantly illegal bit of vote buying dressed as a deck officer from The Wrath of Khan. 2255
Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃 @alanallport.bsky.social · 14/10/2026She doesn’t have an ‘immigration status.’ She’s a citizen. Appalling though predictable framing. 1746167
Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃 @alanallport.bsky.social · 14/10/2026It’s like Valhalla for middle class English children 2130
Reposted by Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃Kenny Campbell @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social · 14/10/2026I have never seen coverage of a live trial, one involving allegations of multiple sex attacks on multiple women, framed in a more distasteful way. It's not 'Fame under fire' it's a rape trial. And it involves actual women. And this from the *checks notes* BBC 2054101886
Reposted by Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Now that is quite a photo. (Credit: Doug Mills / New York Times) 58044241001
Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃 @alanallport.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Partly because a lot of what it’s demanding is actually pretty reasonable by modern standards (public education! No child labor!) 020
Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃 @alanallport.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Relabel the Communist Manifesto as written by Lincoln and there’d be a whole different attitude to it 020
Reposted by Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 14/10/2026There's something profoundly sad about so many Boomers spending their last years on earth disassociating from reality and cooking their brains with AI videos. I see this with plenty of people in my own life and I just cannot understand it. 37019
Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃 @alanallport.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Yes Smith is the sort of bizarro world version of Marx in that he’s praised for a version of his work he didn’t actually write and wouldn’t have agreed with 130
Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃 @alanallport.bsky.social · 14/10/2026There are quite a few statements in The Communist Manifesto which your average American would happily nod along to if he was offered them without knowledge of whom the authors were. 4446
Reposted by Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 13/10/2026It was fascinating for me to watch, as someone who hated Obama’s drone program, to watch how many critics of Obama’s drone program failed to scale their criticism to Trump’s worse drone program 2336
Reposted by Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 13/10/2026This is an actual reason why Bari Weiss’ CBS foreign editor told staff that they could not include reporting on Netanyahu receiving advance warning of a Hamas attack before Oct 7. The astonishing tirade in @status.news www.status.news/p/bari-weiss... 622280557
Reposted by Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Billions of dollars’ worth of contracts predicting oil would fall and the S&P 500 would rise were placed about 15 minutes before Trump announced a U-turn on Iran in a post on Truth Social. CFTC staff began to investigate...then were told to lay off. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...bloomberg.comCFTC Staff Were Told to Retract Analysis of Suspicious Oil TradesChairman’s adviser intervened to take over examination of lucrative bets that were made around Trump reversal on Iran power plant attack. 6627381440
Reposted by Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 14/10/2026I am entirely serious when I say that this should be seen as a moderate position. It specifically and surgically dismantles institutions that did not exist pre-9/11 and assigns their functions much as they were assigned pre-9/11. 1355151688
Reposted by Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/10/2026"If these people take over Congress, they're going to use its powers exactly how the Founders intended! Can you imagine that? Congress doing its job?! Heaven forfend!" 371537261
Reposted by Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃VoteVets @votevets.org · 13/10/2026In a message released by VoteVets, Fort Hood shooting survivor SFC (Ret.) Paul Martin speaks out against the plan to livestream Hasan’s execution. If he doesn’t want this turned into a spectacle, neither should you. 821876
Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃 @alanallport.bsky.social · 13/10/2026The women of this administration are no more or less terrible than the men (and certainly deserve to get canned just as much) but it’s interesting that they’re the only ones who ever experience any consequences at all. 2738
Reposted by Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃Matt Trueblood @matrueblood.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Getting fired by this White House for being too unethical. It’s like being suspended by the ‘86 Mets for doing too much blow. 1636166