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Scott Gillispie

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Historical board gamer. Scouter. United Methodist. I think I drew a bunch of Perot's 1992 infomercial charts. J! Record: 6-2. Hill '86. Go Jackets!

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026
Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?

I don't take part in that kind of exchange.
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Scott Gillispie @fsgillispie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Good AJC op-ed providing color on the R Ga governor candidate - www.ajc.com/opinion/2026...
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Rick Jackson claims to be a self-made man. Let’s unpack this American myth.
Georgia Republican gubernatorial nominee Rick Jackson is touting his story as a self-made man who owes nobody anything, but that feeds into an old and dangerous American myth.
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Geoff Engelstein - The Universe Explained with Cookie out now! @gengelstein.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I wrote something I think is important. gametek.substack.com/p/changing-t...
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Changing the World
A Modest Proposal
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Patrick De Haan @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
turns out the best day to buy gas this year was january or february
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Greg Bluestein @bluestein.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
As Republicans target Bottoms’ record as Atlanta’s leader, Mayor Dickens pushes back “I watched her do the hardest version of this job in one of the hardest years in the history of the United States. She cared and she led.” #gapol www.ajc.com/politics/202...
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Prominent Black Democrats rally behind Keisha Lance Bottoms
Republicans want to make Bottoms' record as Atlanta mayor a major liability in the governor's race, but her successor, Andre Dickens, offered an unequivocal defense on Sunday.
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Citizen Cohn / Jonathan Cohn @citizencohn.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
NEW Everybody knows Abdul El-Sayed is committed to Medicare for All But how would that translate to governing? I spoke to the key players in a revealing, mostly forgotten 2020 episode—including El-Sayed Here’s what I learned www.thebulwark.com/p/forgotten-...
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Little-Known Episode Offers a Big Clue to El-Sayed’s Politics
Republicans call him a radical. Progressives love his uncompromising politics. This obscure fight complicates both pictures.
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Scott Gillispie @fsgillispie.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
The median American opinion right now is setting up guillotines. Was the French Revolution a success? “Too soon to tell.”
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United Methodist News @umnews.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The Chinese ministry at Pittman Park #UMC in Statesboro, Ga., did not begin with an outreach campaign or a strategic plan. It began with a mother and her teenage twins willing to visit the church and congregants willing to extend welcome. www.sgaumc.org/advnewsdetai...
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United Methodist News @umnews.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Hamilton honored for connectional leadership | The Rev. Adam Hamilton, #UMC pastor and Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, was honored for leadership on Aug. 4 during the 2026 installment of Discipleship Ministries’ School of Congregational Development. www.umnews.org/en/news/hami...
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Hamilton honored for connectional leadership | UMNews.org
The Rev. Adam Hamilton, United Methodist pastor and Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, was honored for leadership on Aug. 4 during the 2026 installment of Discipleship Ministries’ School of…
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Scott Gillispie @fsgillispie.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Viewing from out of state, it feels increasingly that AES is a fairly normie Dem. And the Rs are getting desperate; about ready to condemn him as a “thespian” perhaps.
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GMT Games @gmtgames.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Check out today's Customer Newsletter, featuring new P500s, a C&C Series Focus, Digital Launch News, Art Samples, Design and Production Updates, and More! zurl.co/FevoA
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Scott Gillispie @fsgillispie.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
4/11/1956 episode of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: About 5 minutes in, to about 5:30 - "But I thought our present tax system..." archive.org/details/OTRR...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
If any historians want to suffer through the Florida Man Version of AP History, here's the document:
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
You want a 2028 candidate who vows to dismantle everything Trump has done. Me? I demand a 2028 candidate who goes to the dedication of a John Brown memorial and declares:
Our government, national and state, must be freed from the sinister influence or control of special interests. Exactly as the special interests of cotton and slavery threatened our political integrity before the Civil War, so now the great special business interests too often control and corrupt the men and methods of government for their own profit.
— Theodore Roosevelt, Osawatomie, Kansas, August 31, 1910
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 18/04/2026
The FBI Director, the DC US Attorney, and the Secretary of Defense walk into a bar. Apparently like every day.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 18/04/2026
The Onion’s Exclusive Interview With Pope Leo XIV theonion.com/the-onions-exclusive-i…
How do you turn regular water into holy water?
Boil eight hot dogs in it, then let it cool.
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Scott Gillispie @fsgillispie.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Fiat justicia ruat caelum
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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
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Scott Gillispie @fsgillispie.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
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Emergency Triad: Another American Has Been Murdered by Our Government
It’s worse than it looks and it looks plenty bad.
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Scott Gillispie @fsgillispie.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Today’s wordle - where Trump should be.
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Scott Gillispie @fsgillispie.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Would be great if Usha Vance could become the first pregnant first lady since Jackie Kennedy!
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Scott Gillispie @fsgillispie.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
I have two kids starting college, one special needs, aging parents, four work projects, planning church events, and my right knee hurts. The doc says I need to lower my blood pressure, and the shortest route is impeachment. Could the Rs please get on board?
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Scott Gillispie @fsgillispie.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
NPR started their 6 am hour this morning with 15 minutes of each story basically saying, "Trump is nuts" Trump needs to go away to make my blood pressure go down.
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
a lot of people don't realize that Christmas carols and traditions are actually folk memories of suppressed pre-Christian events, namely the end of the Third Age and the Fall of Sauron.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
"Those who would twist this moment to attack Afghan families aren’t seeking safety or justice — they’re exploiting division and endangering all of us." Statement from the @afghanevac.bsky.social veterans on the DC shooting.
Statement from AfghanEvac President Shawn VanDiver – November 26, 2025  On the shooting of two West Virginia National Guardsmen in DC We are deeply saddened by the tragic attack in Washington, DC, and our hearts go out to the West Virginia National Guardsmen and their families. No one should ever have to endure this kind of harm. We reject and condemn anyone who uses, or seeks to use, violence, and we stand with every American who is horrified and saddened by this crime. There is no excuse — no context, no grievance, no ideology — that justifies the actions of the shooter. AfghanEvac expects and fully supports the perpetrator facing full accountability and prosecution under the law. None of us want to be defined by the actions of another person, so we encourage the media, elected leaders, decision-makers, and other people of influence not to demonize the Afghan community for the deranged choice this person made.  Afghan immigrants and wartime allies who resettle in the United States undergo some of the most extensive security vetting of any population entering the country. As with any serious crime, authorities will examine how this happened and whether any systems failed — and we support a fact-based review. But nothing we learn will change the simple truth that this individual alone is responsible for his actions. This individual’s isolated and violent act should not be used as an excuse to define or diminish an entire community.  AfghanEvac rejects any attempt to leverage this tragedy as a political ploy to isolate or harm Afghans who have resettled in the United States. Those who would twist this moment to attack Afghan families aren’t seeking safety or justice — they’re exploiting division and endangering all of us. Our adversaries benefit when Americans turn on our neighbors, and so we must work together – neighbors, faith groups, civic leaders, and all who believe in justice – to extinguish rhetoric that seeks to sow fear and hate. Our organization stands
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
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Scott Gillispie @fsgillispie.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
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Gregory Bovino is exactly who E.B. White — author of 'Charlotte's Web' — warned us about
DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Over the past week, the president said the DOJ should pay him a quarter billion dollars, bulldozed half the White House to build himself a gaudy ballroom, bragged about murdering civilians in international waters, pardoned some more criminals, directed federal prosecutors to indict his opponents ...
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Scott Gillispie @fsgillispie.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
"Sometimes people fool themselves into believing things that aren't true. Sometimes that can be quite dangerous for the person. They see the world in a wrong way. They won't let themselves see that what they believe is wrong. (1/2)
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Scott Gillispie @fsgillispie.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
"You knew where you were with kindness, especially if you were holding a pie it had just given you " -- Unseen Academicals
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Scott Gillispie @fsgillispie.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
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No, Zohran Mamdani Isn’t a Communist
Trump tries to smear the NYC mayoral candidate. But it’s Trump himself who uses Communist tactics.
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Northern Ireland man from Lisburn kidnapped by Trump’s Ice raids because he “looked like a Mexican”. He had the correct visa, all his documents. He’s never been in trouble with police. Held in terrible conditions. A fellow captive couldn’t get his medication and dropped dead of a heart attack
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Scott Gillispie @fsgillispie.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
America Needs Taxpayers. All domestic issues can be sorted by figuring out - how can we get more people able to pay more taxes? Healthier workers. Immigrants. Funding IRS. Happier workers. Housed workers. Safer workers. Progressive tax reform, not regressive.
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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
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Scott Gillispie @fsgillispie.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Peace prize needs to go to Jose Andres this year.
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Scott Gillispie @fsgillispie.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
The sheer incompetence… www.npr.org/2025/08/16/n...
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Government papers found in an Alaskan hotel reveal new details of Trump-Putin summit
Documents with sensitive details about the meeting between President Trump and Russian President Putin were left behind on a public hotel printer.
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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Extortion of Nobel Prize is Hall of Fame level abuse of office. Every single Democrat should be mocking this clown for being so fragile, so insecure, so weak, and so openly corrupt.
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Scott Gillispie @fsgillispie.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
"The world is full of things worth more than gold. But we dig the damn stuff up and then bury it in a different hole. Where's the sense in that? What are we, magpies? Is it all about the gleam? Good heavens, potatoes are worth more than gold!" - Moist Von Lipwig, Making Money
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Will Sommer @willsommer.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Right-wing activist Laura Loomer had a disastrous deposition in her lawsuit against HBO's Bill Maher. Among the mishaps: Loomer tries to evade a question by claiming MTG keeps Arby's sandwiches in her pants. www.thebulwark.com/p/laura-loom...
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An Uncomfortably Revealing Laura Loomer Deposition
Insights into her insults, clues about her career hopes.
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Opal @opalescentopal.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.
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Scott Gillispie @fsgillispie.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Today, thirteen presidential terms ago, the existence of the Oval Office recording system was revealed. Nixon lasted another 13 months.
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Scott Gillispie @fsgillispie.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
From FF#21:
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
"And let me conjure you, in the name of our common country, to express your utmost horror and detestation of the man who wishes, under specious pretenses, to overturn the liberties of our country, and who wickedly attempts to open the floodgates of civil discord." www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-gro...
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Trump’s Grotesque Military Address
The president yuks it up at Fort Bragg with his personal army and drools over the possibility of smashing protests in the capital.
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Scott Gillispie @fsgillispie.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
"The enemy is not Troll, nor is it Dwarf, but it is the baleful, the malign, the cowardly, the vessels of hatred, those who do a bad thing and call it good." - Thud!
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Scott Gillispie @fsgillispie.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
"Usually she got her own way and he was happy to give it to her, but the unspoken agreement was that when he really insisted, she listened. It's a married couple thing." - Thud!
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Scott Gillispie @fsgillispie.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
"When Reacher Gilt talks about freedom he means his, not anyone else's." - Going Postal
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Scott Gillispie @fsgillispie.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
"What kind of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter." - Going Postal
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Scott Gillispie @fsgillispie.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
"Nothing in there about orders, even from me. You're an officer of the law, not a soldier of the government." - Night Watch
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