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Carolyn Gallaher @cgallaher.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Best review of Missouri Senator Schmitt's faceplate on CSPAN. "It is not difficult to see what Schmitt was trying to do, and it is extremely easy to see how and why he and his staff of pale and chittering Renfields screwed it up. That failure is grounded in a tragicomic lack of Ball Knowledge..."

defector.com

Jack Smith Did Not Conspire Against Donald Trump While Watching Steph Curry Score 60 Points In An Overtime Loss To The Hawks | Defector

The most salient part of the accusation that Missouri Sen. Eric Schmitt lodged against former special prosecutor Jack Smith in a Senate hearing on Tuesday is that it was wrong. It was ecstatically and...

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Carolyn Gallaher @cgallaher.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Rufo is an 'interesting' choice for a fellow position at an Institute that has this to say on its "about us" page: "We offer constructive alternatives to identity politics to help overcome our nation’s ethnic and cultural divides." I guess overcome = expulsion?

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Carolyn Gallaher @cgallaher.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

trump 2 has taken a legal approach I can only call 'throw all the stuff at the wall & see what sticks.' So good on Maryland for passing the law and letting the feds challenge it. Given the stuff flying at the legal wall from the other direction, there was no need to unilaterally disarm beforehand.

washingtonsun.com

Trump Administration Sues Maryland to Stop Law Enforcement Mask Ban

The law came amid concerns about ICE officers hiding their identities when detaining people.

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Carolyn Gallaher @cgallaher.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Such a great read. Go out and touch grass, but do it with other people

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Carolyn Gallaher @cgallaher.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I always tell my students to watch it. It's great on its own terms as a gripping TV drama, but it's got academic merit too. It shows what post-conflict feels like on the ground in all its messiness. And the fact that it got made at all speaks volumes about the progress inside all those fits & starts

irishtimes.com

The writers behind Blue Lights: ‘I think I fell in love. I thought, I have to work with this guy’

Writers Declan Lawn and Adam Patterson say that despite the ‘love’ in the North for their hit PSNI-centred drama, they were petrified to take on such a ‘hot potato’ topic

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Katie J. Wells @katiejwells.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Looking forward to this conversation and lucky to be doing it. Silicon Valley vs. Home Rule.

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✨ Spooky Monica ✨ @monicacarmean.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

JD Vance has clearly never taken his children to the doctor, since he thinks prescriptions are written and filled by teachers' aids.

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Carolyn Gallaher @cgallaher.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Catching up on yesterday's news. Eric Schmitt knows him some airball

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Carolyn Gallaher @cgallaher.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

These dynamics sound a lot like the southern baptist convention and the catholic church when they were defending their abusive leaders. How dare you question us, you sinful apostates, you fifthy Jezebels, you weaklings of faith!?

iankduncan.com

Sex, AI, and the Apocalypse - Ian Duncan

How a community devoted to thinking clearly incubated salvation stories, abusive experiments, race science, and an affection for autocracy, and why that history matters now that its alumni are asking ...

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Carolyn Gallaher @cgallaher.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code." -- Problems of the 1%

nytimes.com

Opinion | Jensen Huang Thinks A.I. Alarmism Has Gone Too Far

Jensen Huang, the chief executive of Nvidia, does not want you to be afraid of A.I.

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Carolyn Gallaher @cgallaher.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Given President Trump's recent comments in support of Irish Unification, my colleague @kbcowell.bsky.social & I decided to write an explainer for @theconversation.com on what the Belfast/Good Friday says about that process, and what issues need to be sorted before that happens.

theconversation.com

Irish reunification is more complicated than Trump may think

There are many barriers to reunification, but Irish American lobbying may move the needle a little.

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Carolyn Gallaher @cgallaher.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

1st sign this guy might be in a cult--he says he'd do it all over again (even though he barely saw his 4 yr old for 11 months). 2nd sign--he's monetizing his failure. That he's getting free advertising from the man who won't let his delivery drivers take bathroom breaks is the cherry on a moldy cake

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The Onion @theonion.com · 18/09/2026

Trans Teen Hatches Nefarious Plot To Undergo Years Of Medical Treatments And Counseling To Win At Swimming theonion.com/trans-teen-hatches-nef…

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Carolyn Gallaher @cgallaher.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"Sexy apocalypse" - that part of the venn diagram where weird tech bros and evangelicals meet

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Carolyn Gallaher @cgallaher.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I think we've gotten so cynical that too many folks couldn't see that Van Hollen was acting on a moral principle, not a political one. Sure his visit prompted politics, but the reason he went is because what they did to Abrego Garcia was morally repugnant & he used his power to try & undo it.

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Carolyn Gallaher @cgallaher.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Watching aging star athletes is depressing. You hope they'll take their brilliance on the pitch/in the pool/on the court & make it shine somewhere else. Maybe that's too much to expect, but do we have to be ok with them throwing all that shine into a grift that just creates real world victims?

defector.com

LeBron James Wants Your Paycheck To Become His Paycheck, By Way Of Polymarket | Defector

The new Polymarket ad spot opens with LeBron James stepping onto an elevator and pushing a button labeled “SPORTS.” This is not some AI-extruded, near-enough visual representation of a generic basketb...

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Carolyn Gallaher @cgallaher.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I'd love to see billionaire brain make it to the DSM

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Carolyn Gallaher @cgallaher.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This news makes me ridiculously happy. One of the more bone-headed things Will Lewis and Jeff Bezos did to the post (and there were many) was to scrap the metro and sports sections. Every town has a story or two, and the DMV has loads of them, on the regular! ❤️🤍

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Carolyn Gallaher @cgallaher.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I'm relieved my favorite font - Garramond- remains unscathed!

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LifuX @lifux.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This is why the internet was invented... #LifuX #Dogs #Dogsofbluesky

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Carolyn Gallaher @cgallaher.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Even Fox News wouldn't want to go through another lawsuit around the false claims about the 2020 election. They had to fork over 787 million to settle that case. At some point someone will write a book about all the people who committed career suicide for the most dishonest man of our age.

cnn.com

Maria Bartiromo’s exit reveals the limits of Fox’s loyalty to Trump | CNN Business

President Trump and Fox News have a mostly mutually beneficial relationship. But every so often, their interests diverge, and Maria Bartiromo is a prime example.

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Carolyn Gallaher @cgallaher.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I don't even know what to call the illness that is Matt Bevins. Narcissist? Sociopath? Entitled arse who thinks the law is for other people? But it really says something abt this moment that he's probably closer to the baseline maga politician than an outlier. The underlying case is stomach-turning

kentucky.com

Former Gov. Matt Bevin arrested in Central Kentucky, dispatchers confirm

Matt Bevin was arrested by the Bourbon County Sheriff’s Office Thursday.

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Carolyn Gallaher @cgallaher.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Kentucky worms it's way into your heart. I fell in love with it and I only lived there for 5 years. Besides Belle Brezing, I can't think of anyone who really captures the state's vinegary frontier ethos better than Wendell Berry.

kentuckylantern.com

Kentucky writer, farmer and advocate Wendell Berry dies at 92 • Kentucky Lantern

A lover of forests, the farmer, author and former English professor died on Thursday, according to his family and the New York Times. He was 92.

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Carolyn Gallaher @cgallaher.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Such a great thread. Dolly really modeled how you create narratives that are fundamentally moral and political without directly saying as much. As an artist she didn't need to do that, but i think she knew storytelling is the building block for all of it.

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Carolyn Gallaher @cgallaher.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I have never understood the Mars hysteria. The planet has no oxygen, a very thin atmosphere that can't protect from solar radiation, and planet wide, ferocious dust storms. To survive, you have to live inside all the time, & that's assuming you can get cranes and diggers to Mars to build an inside.

defector.com

Let's Remember Some Publications That Said We Would Get To Mars By 2026 | Defector

Good science journalism is by its nature suspicious of grand or outlandish claims. Good science journalism does not take press releases at face value, but rather investigates the evidence behind those...

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Carolyn Gallaher @cgallaher.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Everytime some pundit pulls a quote from an assistant prof in a humanities dept to 'prove' how leftwing universities are, I like to remind them Larry Summers (a neoliberal economist who shows up in the Epstein files looking for 'dating' advice) was president of Harvard. Leftists aren't the problem.

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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.sheshed.rocks · 26/08/2026

Choir Africa’s beautiful farewell to “Mama Dolly.” Music really does have no borders. 🩷🕊️ #SheShed

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Carolyn Gallaher @cgallaher.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I loved that Dolly patterned her look after the "town tramp". She knew people thought the town tramp was "trashy" and she leaned into it anyway. That she embraced the "jezebel" look when & where she did was a kiss to a particular type of underdog, and I loved her for it. Travel well Dolly 💛💚💜

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Carolyn Gallaher @cgallaher.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

"...as many as half of Texas A&M–Victoria’s full-time faculty have resigned, including the entire counselor education department." Some people break places inentionally. Others don't set out to break places, but whether through hubris or ignorance, break them anyway. Tragedy either way.

insidehighered.com

Faculty Quit as Texas University Orders Them Back to Campus

The new policy, announced in June, is a response to a Texas law restricting remote work for public university faculty. The Texas AAUP says it has prompted chaos and tears.

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Carolyn Gallaher @cgallaher.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Race 'science' has been disproven over & over again. It's not your responsibility to debate people who want to pretend otherwise. Especially in academia. These bad faith chancers aren't following academic rules (i.e. by respecting evidence) but expect you to (i.e. by engaging in debate).

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Jenna Routenberg @jennaroutenberg.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I have said many times that I felt in my heart it was my job as an editor to save the writer from themselves — it’s an ethical obligation to tell someone they’re about to look like a major asshole in front of the whole entire internet

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Gerald Goodridge @ghgoodridge.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I’ve never had a column spiked. But in 2020, I wrote a pretty personal piece about the racial dynamics at the University of Texas in light of athletes asking to change The Eyes of Texas. The editor made me sound more eloquent than I am and saved me from unforced errors that would sap credibility.

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Carolyn Gallaher @cgallaher.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Add my university to the growing list of universities that cracked down on protestors (to keep in trump's good graces) only to have their arses handed to them in court. I don't say this with glee. It's disturbing and deeply depressing that we ever got here in the first place.

awolau.org

How the criminal case against a pro-Palestinian protestor fell apart - AWOL

Do you have information about this story or another? AWOL wants to hear from you. Contact the editor at awolau@gmail.com or on the encrypted messaging app Signal at willsytsma.27. Elaf Hasan woke up o...

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Carolyn Gallaher @cgallaher.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Poor Roger Ralph's. I wouldn't want to follow Darth Vader either

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Carolyn Gallaher @cgallaher.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Today I went to a Denny's with a BAR! I was having some cognitive dissonance. A scrambler with alcohol??? But the waitress brought me back to earth when my friend asked if they had fresh squeezed orange juice and she replied "we don't have time for squish squish OJ." All was right with the world.

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