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Devin Rooney @devinrooney.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Heard the phrase "Congress is capitalism's complaint department," on Toby Buckle"s latest Political Philosophy Podcast episode and just wanted to pass it forward

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Devin Rooney @devinrooney.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I will say, I've done a lot of work to shake my inner high school theater kid. But this made me laugh so hard. Shout out to Margo Davis. for teaching us Commedia dell'Arte.

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Devin Rooney @devinrooney.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

TFW when you change your email footer from master's candidate to master is crazy.

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Devin Rooney @devinrooney.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Never having to deal with changing my clocks again would be a huge improvement, but realistically my quality of life would stay about the same overall because the loss of one of my favorite things to complain about would deal a huge blow.

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 09/07/2026

Report: Grim Reaper Considering Nuclear Option to End Ongoing Filibuster of Mitch McConnell's Death

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Devin Rooney @devinrooney.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

The craziest part isn't that it drove through a wall painted to look like the road. The craziest part is it can't stop in time, and runs over a child sized mannequin standing in the middle of the road in broad daylight.

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Devin Rooney @devinrooney.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Can we please hold him to it? Carville is a scourge on politics full stop.

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Devin Rooney @devinrooney.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

The idea that an avowed prison abolitionist is almost definitely heading to Congress next year is giving me goosebumps. I didn't follow the NY primaries closely. So last night was the first I'd heard of Avila Chevalier. I can safely say she's radical AF. Now to sink my teeth into a deep dive.

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Devin Rooney @devinrooney.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Inside me I have two horses. One believes podcast hosts are people who deserve work life balance and who resists capitalist commodification of parasociality. The second's less a horse and more a gremlin with bottomless need for content who rages, rages against short breaks between episode drops.

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Devin Rooney @devinrooney.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

I would like to formally request that people remember that Subway Takes is not supposed to be taken seriously.

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Devin Rooney @devinrooney.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

This story sounds cooked up in a lab to tempt Netflix producers who are trying to hit their number one target demo: people scrolling on their phone who need some white noise in the background

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C.I.A. Officer Found With Gold Bars Said to Have Created Fake Spy Program

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Devin Rooney @devinrooney.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Just a general plea: quit it with the scrollytelling

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Devin Rooney @devinrooney.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

I just want to point out, "going viral is the coin of the realm," and "what's known as 'dunking'" It beggars belief* that someone who chose a career in writing would make those two choices and put them in a single sentence *That's a call back

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Devin Rooney @devinrooney.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Pray for us sinners now and at the time of the inevitable civilizational collapse, a collapse we can now see from here, but is still question mark years away

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Devin Rooney @devinrooney.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

A deep cut I'll never let die is the guy working in the hardware store in Garden State trying to sell Zach Braff on an MLM saying, "We all have dreams. I know I do." Not much of that movie holds up, but 20 years later people who don't even know the reference will almost always laugh

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Devin Rooney @devinrooney.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Maybe my cold, dead heart isn't quite as cold and dead as I thought it was

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Devin Rooney @devinrooney.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Getting ready to head to the polls so I can vote for Nida Allam. Valerie Foushee is an avatar of everything that's wrong with the Democratic Party. She's bought and paid for by AIPAC money. Her other positions are plug and play focus group results or generic radical centrist slop.

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Devin Rooney @devinrooney.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

My dental hygienist today told me she thinks cell towers are causing more severe and more frequent cases of dementia. Crazy like a fox because it's hard to push back when she's going at your teeth with a pokey pokey

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Devin Rooney @devinrooney.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

First. Abolish ICE. However, do not let ICE's cartoonish fascism and violence make municipal police, state police, and sheriff's departments look good. We cannot allow ICE to be the bad apple in the barrel of all "law enforcement." Abolish all police.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Our kids nymag.com/intelligence...

"I am Puerto Rican," she says. "I send my kids with their passports to school. I'm having conversations with them about safety: Am I safe at school? A week ago we had an incident where there was a school bus with the STOP sign open and kids were getting on the bus and it was surrounded by ICE agents. And this is 7:20 in the morning and - just - you get that fight-or-flight response." At first her 9-year-old was carrying her passport in her backpack; now it's in her back pocket. "I have to prepare them for it if they get stopped," she says. "I said, Do not engage. This is not the time to be cussing at anyone. But she said, Mom, if I create enough noise, my friends can get away."

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Devin Rooney @devinrooney.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

I might be wrong, why I'm genuinely open to discussion, but a real prosecution of Jonathan Ross for murder in 3 years seems preferable to having a pantomime investigation now that finds him not guilty which would 1) let him go free and 2) further consolidate authoritarian state power.

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Devin Rooney @devinrooney.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Will scroll for whispers of hope

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Whether it’s Donald Trump demanding Greenland from Denmark or Barack Obama asking for Dijon mustard from a hotdog vendor, both presidents made some highly unusual requests.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 23/12/2025

I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.

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Devin Rooney @devinrooney.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Would you read this paper: "Mean Streets: How Planners Aid and Abet the Police" Because I'm writing it.

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Devin Rooney @devinrooney.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Until you've spent more than a full work week on the phone with insurance and pharmacies over the course of a single year, you simply can't be called a holdmusic-elier

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Devin Rooney @devinrooney.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

If you have a single footnote that is three lines shy of taking up two entire pages, it's not a footnote. But honestly, you do you. Live your life out loud.

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Devin Rooney @devinrooney.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Why? Why? Why? Norton is the virus. Holy hell

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Devin Rooney @devinrooney.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Just googled the Trump hand IV theory, and learned that during a state dinner in 1992, George HW Bush keeled over in his seat and vomited into the lap of the Japanese prime minister. Yes there is video. Yes I'm including it here.

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When George Bush THREW UP In Japan 🇯🇵🤯

YouTube video by Sir Mix-A-Lot Rare Music

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Devin Rooney @devinrooney.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Listen, any chance I have to deploy "beggars belief" in a dunk, I'm taking it.

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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Somebody on LinkedIn said what we're all thinking.

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Devin Rooney @devinrooney.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

I would love a way to tell Bluesky I'm never interested in random pet pics from people I don't follow in my discover feed

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

seems like a good day to tap the "support independent, worker run, local media" sign

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Devin Rooney @devinrooney.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Good rule of thumb: if Jim Clyburn supports someone, they're likely trash

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David A. Graham @dgraham.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

NUTS SACKED

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Devin Rooney @devinrooney.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

It's too on the nose that the NYT piece about the restaurant term "86" only interviewed a lexicologist and then almost completely mischaracterized its use despite one coauthor being their former food critic of 12 years. You couldn't call a single GM? Or literally anyone in the industry?

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Devin Rooney @devinrooney.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Janelle Monae says, I will rage, rage against the dying of steampunk

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Devin Rooney @devinrooney.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Chat, leap seconds are a real thing. I'm late, but given the context that makes perfect sense.

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Devin Rooney @devinrooney.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Style note for anyone reporting on Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the word is "illegally" deported. It was not an oopsie. It was not a mistake. Do not cede that rhetorical territory.

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Devin Rooney @devinrooney.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

The NYT is a rag, but the bright spot of their coverage of Trump's second go-round is the photo editors publishing pictures like this one. (Instead of finding the most flattering picture imaginable and calling it unbiased reporting).

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Devin Rooney @devinrooney.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Quick Q: has anybody else's barber ever asked to trim your eyebrows with clippers?

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Devin Rooney @devinrooney.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Why haven't I seen a single commentator say that for the tariffs to bring manufacturing home, they would need to remain in place until at minimum, the next presidential election?

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Devin Rooney @devinrooney.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

I'm not a lawyer, but I've watched enough West Wing to know there's no attorney client privilege here.

Screenshot of a New York Times article that says: "Finding himself in the hot seat, Mr. Ensign often stumbled as he tried to respond to Judge Boasberg's inquiries. He repeatedly said that he either did not know the answers or asserted that the information was protected by attorney-client privilege."

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Devin Rooney @devinrooney.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

It still amazes me how different each grieving can be from the others.

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Devin Rooney @devinrooney.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

I'm halfway through Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò's book, Elite Capture and it's slaying some golden calves, and absolutely everyone should read it

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Devin Rooney @devinrooney.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Am I naive or is AOC running for president?

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