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Devin Thomas O’Shea

@devintoshea.bsky.social
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author of THE VEILED PROPHET — writing in The Nation, The Intercept, Slate, Jacobin, Boulevard — he/him — rep Erik Hane, Headwater Literary linktr.ee/devintoshea

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Col. Will Porter @dinosaursheriff.bsky.social · 4m
Some Americans will gun up over the suggestion that Hollywood is turning boys into catgirls, but show them a guy who got to steer US foreign policy for over 40yrs based solely on his connections to a famously corrupt rich guy's club and they'll tell you that's still better than communism.
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Devin Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 1h
up now on @robertskvarla.bsky.social's Neither Confirm Nor Deny, we talked Clark Clifford, Harry Truman's anticommunist Veiled Prophet, and the BCCI banking scandal that brought him down neitherconfirmnordeny.substack.com/p/bcci-clark... @haymarketbooks.org
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Grove Resident 🇺🇦 @smb-grove.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
STL’s “Builder Billionaire” Bob Clark was a “Daily Cover Story” for Forbes last week: “‘I’ve been in the data center business for most of my career, but never would’ve imagined what’s happening today,’ he says.” www.forbes.com/sites/christ...
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Devin Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 17h
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Devin Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
no I think it's a genuine wish to see Eric Schmitt gain more power
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Devin Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
yeah none of that makes his case any clearer and it seems like he rammed a bunch of disjointed ideas together at the end — as if maybe he doesn't have a good reason for thinking this way at all
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Devin Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
missouriindependent.com/2025/09/15/m...
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Devin Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
bill is right to say that apologizing doesn't get you anywhere, but why do you want Eric Schmitt, a delusional Christian nationalist psycho, pro-ICE dipshit, to be elevated to Vance's running mate
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Devin Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
no — Bill used to be a real one, and he used to have some pretty biting criticism of Missouri Republicans, but he's now he's way out of touch with all this stuff
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Devin Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
writing this kind of shit about a senator being a dickhead during Epstein hearings should go to his folksy substack - not the post-dispatch
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Devin Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Bill is shilling for Schmitt for what seems like no good reason
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Devin Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
this is pathetic
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Devin Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
it's cool that there is a giant pile of money being advertised to musicians, and the catch is that you have to put out a song that says they offed charles k for merely expressing a mild opinion
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Devin Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
the 2019 Veiled Prophet Parade intro show
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Devin Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
wow that's so true
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Devin Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
jesus
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Devin Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Devin Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
yes
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Devin Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Devin Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
lookin' good everyone
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Devin Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
not worth it?
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Devin Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I would like to write about going there for a publication if anyone has a little travel budget
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Devin Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
i would like to go to the George Washington freemasonry museum in DC because it looks like an establishing shot in Star Wars
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Devin Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Devin Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
rivers, and who gets to use them, is another spot where Republicans controlling the country of Missouri still manages to screw over urban centers
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Devin Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
the state is moving backward on renewables to do it. the majority of power in Missouri comes from coal fire plants — Ameren has been raising rates on consumers, and so everything is going to be a little more expensive, and hot, so we can have Gemini
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Devin Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Amazon and Google are building hyper-scale data centers up water from St. Louis, and now the state's monopoly power company says it needs to build more gas power plants to meet demand www.stltoday.com/news/local/g...
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Devin Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Absolutely
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Devin Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Devin Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
happening soooon
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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
All of @devintoshea.bsky.social ‘s “Veiled Prophet” is very self-aware about the fact that this is a story about America in 2026 but this part really spoke to me
Those few, of course, will always end up betraying their foot sol-diers, administrators, and allies. The Klansmen of the 1860s did not become the millionaires of the Gilded Age; the Democratic toughs did not live peaceful lives in the afterglow of political violence; the American Bundists did not win the war, and if they had, they'd have been shot in ditches as their superior officers consolidated power.
Members of the White Citizens Council died out, and had their neighborhoods sold to private equity; the most violent street fascists of today will be thrown to the dogs as soon as they lose their use-fulness. As Thomas Pynchon puts it at the end of Shadow Ticket,
"Hitler-happy adolescents," those grinning faces "imagining themselves predators but when observed more closely, fated after all to suffer, to be brought down as prey, even as the hands of those they thought were brothers in a struggle for which them themselves were always too fragile."27
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Devin Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is tomorrowwww
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Devin Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
all my students are so in love with B2B Saas - they’re all like, “I love B2B Saas” and “I want to dedicate my life to B2B Saas”
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Devin Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
obligatory: leviathanbookstore.com/store/p/the-...
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The Veiled Prophet by Devin Thomas O'Shea — Leviathan Bookstore
A provocative look at the secret society that has controlled St. Louis for over a century, revealing how shadowy elites organize themselves against working-class power. Every December in downtown St...
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Devin Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I’ve followed the lawsuit from his sister which makes it hard to understand who’s lying and who’s telling the truth there - but that’s just my opinion
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Devin Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Then it’s also possible to wrap your head around an elite class who are planning to weather world war 3 and the climate crisis in bunkers
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Devin Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
He’s the spokesperson for a drastic wave of automation, and if you *get* the kind of class politics St. Louis has — a local elite that is happy and willing to ditch the city that made their wealth and abscond to western suburbs —
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Devin Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
it is significant to understand Sam Altman as having grown up in St. Louis, in Clayton, in the Veiled Prophet class milieu at John Burroughs
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Devin Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
everyday it seems like something will happen, but experts agree: So far, it hasn't. Or maybe it has. Maybe it will happen soon — no one is sure
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Devin Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
it was a great honor to create some content with some extremely talented writers — Jasper Craven and @robertskvarla.bsky.social — we talked Hegseth, the Knights of the Golden Circle, Navy Seals, and secret boys clubs, military and civilian 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=9p1q...
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Devin Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
an early progressive take from the paper that would later become a reactionary fed rag edited by Pat Buchanan
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Devin Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
St. Louis Globe-Democrat mentioned
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Devin Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
toward the end we touched on this section from caliban and the witch
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Devin Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Devin Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
get Jasper's book: bookshop.org/p/books/god-...
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God Forgives, Brothers Don't: The Long March of Military Education and the Making of American Manhood
In the tradition of Sebastian Junger’s Tribe and Chris Hedges’s classic War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning, a powerful investigation into the fraught history and ominous future of military education...
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Devin Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
it was a great honor to create some content with some extremely talented writers — Jasper Craven and @robertskvarla.bsky.social — we talked Hegseth, the Knights of the Golden Circle, Navy Seals, and secret boys clubs, military and civilian 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=9p1q...
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Devin Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Devin Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
If you enjoyed the ominous aesthetics of True Detective Season 1, but wish it had a debutante component, I have a book for you leviathanbookstore.com/store/p/the-...
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The Veiled Prophet by Devin Thomas O'Shea — Leviathan Bookstore
A provocative look at the secret society that has controlled St. Louis for over a century, revealing how shadowy elites organize themselves against working-class power. Every December in downtown St...
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