Reposted by Ash McGonigalJess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 4hIf you’re not from Missouri, you may not know that Eric Schmitt got his start in MAGA politics by suing public schools for mask mandates while their teachers died during a pandemic. The really strange thing? He never sued his own kids’ school for their mask mandate. He’s a piece of Schitt. 592099644
Ash McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 4hThere were six NBA games on Feb 3, 2024, in addition to 14 NCAA men's D1 games and 5 NCAA women's games. This is pretty normal Republican stuff. A baseless allegation that's meaningless if true, with equally ludicrous claims to support it. 020
Reposted by Ash McGonigalFLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 15hKnow their names: Scott Kretzschmar, Scott Norris, Diego Sarabia, Gillio Lopes, Winston Lee, Johnathan Newell and Matthew Ingalls #Cornell7 But also, everyone in the group chat, the administrators, university, and DA. SHAME. 13245981616
Ash McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 4hWhen I was young, California was a swing state. Then their Republican governor wrote a somewhat less horrific version the Trump immigration playbook. 000
Reposted by Ash McGonigalNeil A. Evans @neilevans.rocks · 5hWhy are so many folks still using substack, just start your own website... www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...theatlantic.comSubstack Has a Nazi ProblemThe newsletter platform’s lax content moderation creates an opening for white nationalists eager to get their message out. 152
Reposted by Ash McGonigalArizona Right Watch @azrww.bsky.social · 14hThe person claiming to have doxed Jane Doe in the Cornell rape case is Aidan Thompson, a groyper nazi who runs "AF Post" which he took over from Ali Alexander (who also once faced sexual assault allegations of his own). Thompson described himself as a "rape expert" in his videos leading up to this. 4310139
Reposted by Ash McGonigalDaniel J. Willis @bayareadata.press · 14hI’m sorry, he’s FIVE YEARS younger than me? Dude looks like if Carl from Aqua Teen had an older brother on the sex offender registry. 331
Reposted by Ash McGonigalA People's Tribunal ⚖️ 🇵🇸 ⚖️ @canadastreet67.bsky.social · 14hGolden advice I advise all young taxpayers citizening in offices to remember. Set boundaries. 021
Reposted by Ash McGonigalPatrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 14hThe “super intelligence” thing is useful in the sense that if someone calls AI that you know you are dealing with a TURBO bozo 372452350
Ash McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 16hI want at least two more seasons of the Richmond women's team #TedLasso 050
Reposted by Ash McGonigalcyber disposables @twen.bsky.social · 16hEveryone asking “why haven’t we wiped out the the frats” needs to know every uni that tries has a hoard of these rapist shits flood the city and the uni with threats They wine and dine faculty to get them on side They bring this energy into town and scare the people who know what needs to be done 46515
Reposted by Ash McGonigalJay Willis @jaywillis.net · 29/09/2026If you’d asked me to parody how silly and broken legal journalism is, I genuinely don’t think I could have come up with “so the best-known ‘nonpartisan’ Supreme Court outlet is now run by an ex-Trump DOJ flack who had her longtime personal friend Brett Kavanaugh officiate her wedding”ballsandstrikes.orgThe Conservative Takeover of SCOTUSblog Is Just What the Supreme Court NeededSCOTUSblog used to cover the Supreme Court. Now, it cheers for it. 9562161
Reposted by Ash McGonigalRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 19hLast week the Portland Police made a huge deal about a K9 killed in the line of duty apprehending a dangerous suspect. Turns out that K9 was shot and killed by...the Portland Police www.kgw.com/article/news...kgw.com 932574512
Reposted by Ash McGonigalBillie Jean Sweeney @billiejsweeney.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Transphobia, a U of Kansas prof told me, "is historically comparable to any point in history, when those in power are punching down at the weakest in society. When you concede to them these points, you’re conceding that it’s OK to punch down and letting them position themselves to ask for even more" 15215
Reposted by Ash McGonigalMike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 18h"They did a thing, maybe it was the right thing to do at the time maybe it wasn't, but regardless between this and bombing iran we now have ironclad evidence a) the israeli govt are unmanageable and b) US MENA specialists are all gigantic dumdums" is the objectively correct take from mcgurkin it 542557
Reposted by Ash McGonigalScott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 18hThe greatest playoff performer in Atlanta Hawks history 1053151
Reposted by Ash McGonigalKelly “Free Link” McGonigal @kellysmcgonigal.bsky.social · 18hPSA: Taco Bell’s Olivia Rodrigo Baja blast tastes like fizzy pink lemonade, so if you, like me and @ashmcgonigal.com, have always enjoyed pink lemonade but wished it were fizzy, your time is now! 161
Reposted by Ash McGonigalKelly “Free Link” McGonigal @kellysmcgonigal.bsky.social · 18hJoke was on James; Ash let him have a try but he wound up licking the fire sauce so then he ran away 😂 021
Ash McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 18hEvery time I get food I have to deal with this filthy beggar 1263
Reposted by Ash McGonigalKelly “Free Link” McGonigal @kellysmcgonigal.bsky.social · 23hStill no real change on this one, so we’re pretty sure it didn’t make it and no, that’s not opening up any womb twin survivor wounds for me at all, why do you ask? 151
Reposted by Ash McGonigalMike Scollins @mikescollins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026"Mr Smith is true you recently attended a football game with Buffalo Bill?! FROM SILENCE OF THE LAMBS?!" "No, the name of the team is the Buffalo Bills." "WHERE ARE THE GIRLS MR SMITH?!??!" 1154786
Ash McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 29/09/2026Ray Wylie Hubbard did not coin the term "endarkenment" for us not to use it 000
Ash McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 29/09/2026Finally some visionary has dared to bring discount clothes, home decor, and clown terror to one convenient location. 181
Ash McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 29/09/2026I insist that the cost to Democratic politicians -- and all people, really -- for not loudly leaving Elon's Nazi/CSAM app is far greater than the potential benefits of staying. 020
Reposted by Ash McGonigalKelly “Free Link” McGonigal @kellysmcgonigal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026His physical comedy was incredible. 221
Reposted by Ash McGonigalNome @nome.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I apologize to the author of every literary or movie scumbag I ever called unrealistically shitty. 68811
Reposted by Ash McGonigalKelly “Free Link” McGonigal @kellysmcgonigal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026And really, Frasier was brilliant because of the supporting cast. I doubt I’ll ever watch the revival simply because David Hyde Pierce isn’t in it. His portrayal of Niles elevated that show into something truly special. 392
Reposted by Ash McGonigalKelly “Free Link” McGonigal @kellysmcgonigal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Finished watching the 11-season run of Cheers, and I’m just flabbergasted by how much better Frasier was. Cheers was a good show, I’m glad I watched it, but no individual episodes stand out, and I don’t think I’ll want to rewatch it. Frasier was absolutely brilliant (even if Grammer is a POS). 291
Reposted by Ash McGonigalKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026"Fuck that." "I'm Sherrod Brown and I approve of this message." 13148821032
Ash McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 29/09/2026This might be my favorite version of the Star-Spangled Banner since Jimi Hendrix 1111
Ash McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 28/09/2026Incomplete list of things that do not have rights: Machines States Other inanimate objects/legal fictions. 020
Reposted by Ash McGonigalOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026its part of the reason younger dems like aoc and maxwell frost and others are so much more hard edged vs the gop than establishment dems. when aoc was 14, bush invaded iraq. for her entire life she's seen gop going buck wild and then try to tear down a dem president. they know its war 530167
Reposted by Ash McGonigalMatthew Borus @matthewborus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026If the movie Office Space took place today, Peter, Michael, and Samir could just say that they didn’t mean to steal all that money—their AI agents went rogue. Though they might have to be tech billionaires, not lowly software engineers, for that excuse to work.  091
Reposted by Ash McGonigalDevonian Stone @devonianstone.bsky.social · 28/09/2026i felt it was missing something 021
Reposted by Ash McGonigalBen Ferree @benferree.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Hey @amyactonoh.bsky.social just wanted to make sure you saw this. 1237
Reposted by Ash McGonigalFallon | [see pinned!] @fallonturing.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Regular reminder that I make $100-200 in sales in a good month, and if I can't get a work exemption for Medicaid, my only option to keep my lifesaving medication is to magically quintuple-to-sextuple that number. 13241
Ash McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 27/09/2026I've been trying to look this up. I found the same photo signed by the cast -- with signatures from Steven Weber, Crystal Bernard, and Tim Dalyetsy.comWings Cast Signed Photo X3 - Tim Daly, Steve Weber, Crystal Bernard - W/COA - Etsy IsraelThis Memorabilia item by StarSignCollectibles has 4 favorites from Etsy shoppers. Ships from United States. Listed on Sep 5, 2026 011
Ash McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 27/09/2026Related: Buy my Miata. It's as fun going the speed limit as a Ferrari is committing felony reckless endangerment, and just knowing how to drive is enough to keep you out of the trees. Plus! A lot cheaper to buy, a lot cheaper to drive, and almost infinitely cheaper to fix. 142
Reposted by Ash McGonigalAndrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026There are a lot of cogent criticism of this response, but also, if you just hand a Ferrari to someone who "knows how to drive" they are going to wrap it around a tree, if you're lucky. 0122
Ash McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 27/09/2026Okay I have listened to Choosin' Texas. I haven't been into new country music in several years, or the kind of country music that shows up on the charts in several decades. I was unprepared for how bad it would be. 190
Ash McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 27/09/2026Okay we're masculinizing band names now All Man Brothers 062
Reposted by Ash McGonigalsam @samthielman.com · 26/09/2026Oh that's unfair. As a middle-aged married person who has regular sex, at no point am I thinking, "why am I doing this at all" or "this person does this exact same thing with so many different outlets I doubt they could even name mine" 626318