Reposted by Colin Gilroy McGuirePaul Leigh -Some Rascal on the Internet @pleightx.bsky.social · 8h 15365681441
Colin Gilroy McGuire @colingilroymcguire.bsky.social · 1hRIP www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/o...nytimes.comMargaret Hamilton, Whose Software Guided the Apollo Missions, Has Died (Gift Article)Margaret Hamilton, the first female programmer hired to work on the space project at M.I.T., was 90. 000
Reposted by Colin Gilroy McGuireEvan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 11hI'm increasingly frustrated that people who are anti-AI aren't being taken seriously, and taking a page out of my thoughts on why the anti-trans backlash got as far as it did I'm starting to think the anti-AI side isn't extreme enough. 461725311
Reposted by Colin Gilroy McGuireHeather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The white evangelical movement split in the 1970s so those who hated civil rights, especially for women, could boost right-wing Republicans. Talarico is reclaiming the movement for the others, and it is a very different thing indeed. Jimmy Carter v. Jerry Falwell. 801646575
Reposted by Colin Gilroy McGuireSecretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 05/10/2026#otd in 1943, the F6F Hellcat shoots down a Zero for the first time over Wake Island. After one aviator shot down a Zero and survived an extended dogfight with 3 other Zeros, he’d remark, “you wouldn’t catch me flying around in anything else” 727623
Reposted by Colin Gilroy McGuirejamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026pedocon theory is a theory like gravity is a theory www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/o...nytimes.comDennis Hastert, Powerful Politician Disgraced by Child Sexual Abuse, Dies (Gift Article)The longest-serving Republican speaker of the House admitted in 2016 to abusing teenage boys decades earlier. He was 84. 843479624
Reposted by Colin Gilroy McGuirelauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 05/10/2026you'd like to schedule a doctor's appointment? have you logged into MyHealthChart yet? Remember that MyHealthChart used to be Healbe. If you migrated your chart from Healbe Now or Healbe Epic, you are not eligible to make an account. Please make note Healbe Epic is formerly MyHealthChartRX. 762621314
Reposted by Colin Gilroy McGuiremtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026One thing that Trumpism has made clear over and over again is that the global far right understands itself to be in a ideological alliance the helps itself across borders, and the center and left largely do not. 12614128
Reposted by Colin Gilroy McGuireIron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 05/10/2026To expand on this: Bigotry isn't a result of an innocent misunderstanding, or not having all the facts. It's not a choice made rationally, defeated with a rational argument. Bigotry is a self-protective, foundational belief used to help make the world make sense to them. Debate won't change that. 31982569
Reposted by Colin Gilroy McGuireThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026💯 10459662198
Reposted by Colin Gilroy McGuireMichael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Gary 423101601871
Reposted by Colin Gilroy McGuireCanuckstan 🇨🇦 @jonchevreau.bsky.social · 03/10/2026#via Canadian cartoonist Dave Whamond #CanadaSky #USpol 351138374348
Reposted by Colin Gilroy McGuire4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Love this 👇 211151084311
Reposted by Colin Gilroy McGuireSeth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Not great that Francis from Stripes is in charge of the military. 2931640
Reposted by Colin Gilroy McGuireJoshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 11/06/2026as I’ve become older and wiser, the death penalty is one of the things I’m really radicalized against. we only get one go at this and there are no circumstances under which the state should be allowed to use its monopoly on violence to cut that short. 932929
Reposted by Colin Gilroy McGuireJordan Kurella @jordankurella.com · 01/10/2026waking up every day in 2026 like: 1148031107
Reposted by Colin Gilroy McGuireJay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026Man, imagine you're minding your own business, getting kind of drunk with your friends at a picturesque brewery in Maine, when suddenly John Roberts walks by and you get to start heckling him. Must have felt incredible. That's the dream. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u... 1505365810
Reposted by Colin Gilroy McGuireebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Exactly 😤😡 496213175986
Reposted by Colin Gilroy McGuireAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026it didn't even occur to me that the government might try to execute someone a second time if they torture the person but fail to kill them during a first botched attempt. truly grotesque and a moral stain upon all involved. 618116492032
Reposted by Colin Gilroy McGuireNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026When I say John Roberts is a liar, hack, anti-democracy ideologue, and enemy of the Constitution, I do so in a civil manner. No yelling or cursing here. But since he will be remembered as an utter disgrace who tried to destroy the republic but failed, some in the future might say it less civilly. 22994202
Reposted by Colin Gilroy McGuireMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Look, the easily foreseeable problem with playing stupid parlor games where you lie & pretend the President is a King is that other people in America exist & are also allowed to have opinions about the plain meaning of the Constitution, & so you win stupid prizes. Boo hoo. 850691
Reposted by Colin Gilroy McGuire4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026If you're angry about the men at Cornell University, wait until I tell you about the men in the White House, the Pentagon, health and human services, and on the Supreme Court. 13555561593
Reposted by Colin Gilroy McGuireProPublica @propublica.org · 01/10/2026NEW: Emma Joyce died at 3 years old. The next year, her sister Ava Joan died. Then their brother died from the same complication of untreated diabetes that killed Ava Joan. Later, a fourth sibling died. Their parents believed in prayer, not medicine.propublica.orgFour Kids in One Faith-Healing Family Died. Authorities Could Do Nothing.An exemption in Idaho law shields faith-healing parents from criminal prosecution for conduct that otherwise would be charged as neglect. It also keeps police and social workers from stepping in to pr... 50032741478
Reposted by Colin Gilroy McGuireMaximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 25/01/2025#NIH accounts for 47 billion = 25% of US federal research funding, essential for their world-leading position in bio-medical research. Trump just shut it down. No foreign adversary in their wildest wet dream could achieve such a devastating act of traitorous sabotage with a stroke of a pen. 18786302
Reposted by Colin Gilroy McGuireAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026The fact is Trump not only lost his war but it's the biggest L the US has taken at least since Vietnam. Our bases are destroyed & abandoned, Iran is emboldened, China is toying w/ us. Hegseth & co want to move on to culture war slop, but they got routed & we'll be dealing w/repercussions for decades 25172571930
Reposted by Colin Gilroy McGuireElizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026One thing that i don’t see people noting about the Cornell Sun’s reporting on the rape case is that everyone who decided to take the risk and made the core decisions about what would be published is a woman 71078201
Reposted by Colin Gilroy McGuireebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Seriously #SickOfIt 😡 29185142322
Reposted by Colin Gilroy McGuireebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Seriously 💥 😡🙄 205116783094
Reposted by Colin Gilroy McGuireQasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 28/09/2026To the people complaining these sex abuse cases have created a world where men now have to think 10 times before they touch a woman. Yes, that's the point. It's called consent. Welcome to human decency. 298152493603
Reposted by Colin Gilroy McGuireDouglas Reyes-CeroÑ @dreyesceron.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The Star Spangled Banner being played by the Mariachi Herencia de Mexico band before the Bears-Eagles game in Chicago on Monday Night Football was a deeply cool thing to see tonight 17124572613
Reposted by Colin Gilroy McGuireMark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Isn't it nice when there's something we can ALL agree on? #ReleaseTheUnredactedEPSTEIN-Files 882331348395
Reposted by Colin Gilroy McGuire sylviseb 💙🌈☮️🌊💙💛Maga➡️blocked💛💙🌎🌻✌️🦋 @sylviseb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Less than a human being is just one of the things he'll be remembered for. 66272431975
Reposted by Colin Gilroy McGuireregular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 27/09/2026“This is not a dark chapter in Cornell’s history, it’s a morbid pattern” Editorial Board at The Cornell Sun absolutely fucking your shit UP www.cornellsun.com/article/2026... 3634441012
Reposted by Colin Gilroy McGuireSam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 27/09/2026Remarkable piece here.cornellsun.comEDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We WillThe Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies. 414336
Reposted by Colin Gilroy McGuireGOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 26/09/2026i think we are going to learn that there are a number of people in and around this admin who committed no shit, capital T treason and there will be strong incentives for the DOJ to prosecute them 371304170
Reposted by Colin Gilroy McGuireEmma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 26/09/2026We do not just have to deal with, and undo...all the fuckshit he's done, that which we CAN undo.... We cannot bring to life a school full of Iranian little girls, nor all the OTHER people who are dead, or the maimed, or the destroyed but am actual reckoning is needed. Or we are what he made us. 1744
Reposted by Colin Gilroy McGuireEd Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Happy Stanislav Petrov Day He passed in 2017. As Encyclopedia Britannica puts it, “He is survived by his two children, two grandchildren, and the entire human race.” If you don't know his story, please take 3 minutes now to learn it. @gchalliance.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.socialsammatey.substack.comHappy Stanislav Petrov DayTake five minutes to not destroy civilization 252123938
Reposted by Colin Gilroy McGuireDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Once again, the Supreme Court prioritizes imaginary harms done to Trump by not allowing him to indulge in his conspiracy theories, as opposed to the very real harm done to citizens who may lose the ability to vote in this case. 412097714
Reposted by Colin Gilroy McGuireAlex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 25/09/2026America cannot have a multiracial, multicultural democracy if the United States Supreme Court is allowed to continue to exist in its current form 392137615
Reposted by Colin Gilroy McGuireJesse Raub @jesseraub.online · 25/09/2026got to watch nothern minnesota guy yesterday order lunch. turkey sandwich. nothing in it, just the turkey. white bread. catholicism tells you to feel guilt over desire; nordic protestantism frees you from desire itself 1652654
Reposted by Colin Gilroy McGuireRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026"RKF took money earmarked to provide health care for Black infants and spent it on his personal security detail" is a ludicrous headline. Comic book villainy.wsj.comExclusive | RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health OfficeThe cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026. 27674943153
Reposted by Colin Gilroy McGuireAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong. 21088163853
Colin Gilroy McGuire @colingilroymcguire.bsky.social · 22/09/2026www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Susan Collins’s Luck May Be Running Out (Gift Article)The independence and moderation of Maine’s Republican senator hardly matters anymore. 000
Reposted by Colin Gilroy McGuireM Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 22/09/2026THIS 👇 TOO....... 18667472353
Reposted by Colin Gilroy McGuireProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵 412114086088