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gilroy0

@gilroy0.bsky.social
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Teacher, American, human(ish). Learning the past, observing in the present, living in the future.

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gilroy0 @gilroy0.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
My thoughts on birthright citizenship, gathered in one place. adfinemfidelis.net/2026/07/birt...
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Birthright Citizenship isn’t new – The Mongrel Dogs Who Teach
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I'm not sure if Ken Paxton heard these questions about the pedophile he pardoned, so everyone in Texas should keep asking Paxton about the pedophile he pardoned, and maybe ask other Republicans about the pedophile Paxton pardoned and see if local media cares about the pedophile Paxton pardoned and
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gilroy0 @gilroy0.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
If you are looking to support excellent journalism while getting the insights of one of the sharpest political commentators in the business -- and one where that commentary derives from, rather than drives, coverage -- please consider joining Talking Points Memo. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/ka-pow
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‘Ka-pow’!
In most ways, being a majority reader-funded news operation is an obviously...
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gilroy0 @gilroy0.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap26022... The image is cool, too, but today's Astronomy Picture of the Day title -- "Shadows of a Martian Robot" -- is amazing. It sounds like a noir-pulp treatment of the psychological torment of a veteran of the War of the Worlds.
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APOD: 2026 February 22 – Shadow of a Martian Robot
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.
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gilroy0 @gilroy0.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Here's the thing: polarization isn't bad -- not when one side deploys masked thugs as the President's personal praetorian guard.
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gilroy0 @gilroy0.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
I haven't run this yet (about to, on Wednesday) but it seems fantastic. A Hands-On Activity for Introducing Gauss’s Law pubs.aip.org/aapt/pte/art...
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A Hands-On Activity for Introducing Gauss’s Law
Forming a cornerstone of electromagnetism as one of the four Maxwell’s equations, Gauss’s law is typically introduced early in the second-semester introductory
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gilroy0 @gilroy0.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
@talkingpointsmemo.com I don't want to be overly negative, but I'm not a fan of the apparent redesign of the front page and site. It's aggressively unaesthetic.
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gilroy0 @gilroy0.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
@puzzmo.com The website says "Gift a Subscription for $29". Clicking the button leads to a checkout that lists the price as $39. Which is it?
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Zeroisanumber @zeroisanumber.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Donald Trump is a rapist and a pedophile.
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gilroy0 @gilroy0.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
@ap-trevor.bsky.social Any comment about the capitulation by College Board and retreat from its commitment to lifting up ALL students? Is the AP Program specifically planning on following the corporate concession? www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
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Exam administrator College Board scraps tool for identifying disadvantaged students
College Board, the non-profit administrator of the SAT college admissions exam, has said it is discontinuing a tool aimed at helping to identify promising college applicants from disadvantaged backgrounds and neighborhoods.
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gilroy0 @gilroy0.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Just a reminder: There is no United States Department of War. The Department of Defense is established by law, and no President -- not even a toddler-king one -- can simply change it. Trump's executive order is essentially a command to the executive branch to give the DoD a nickname.
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gilroy0 @gilroy0.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
January 6 was a violent insurrection, not a peaceful protest. Just posting this periodically to make sure we remember.
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gilroy0 @gilroy0.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
I believe Trump when he claims he's trying to tackle violent crime in the Capital. He's just 1678 days late.
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gilroy0 @gilroy0.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Also... >> the state of California gets not one dime << I guess she doesn't know that California pays $83 billion more in federal taxes (every year!) than it receives back.
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gilroy0 @gilroy0.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Age verification? I utterly disdained Dinesh D'Souza when he wasn't known anywhere but in DC local rags.
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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
We are a mongrel nation, and so long as we remain so purely impure, we will continue to eat the world's lunch
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gilroy0 @gilroy0.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
I'm not generally a fan of the Big Blue Boy Scout, but these day are making me reconsider.
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
This is the heart of it. They cannot imagine a public good.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
A Path Forward to Save American Bio-Medical Research talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-pat...
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A Path Forward to Save American Bio-Medical Research
Over the past four months, I’ve spoken to dozens of biomedical researchers...
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 07/05/2025
If guilty people don't have Due Process rights, then innocent people don't have Due Process rights, because we don't know if they're innocent or guilty until we have a trial or hearing.
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Helen Jeannine 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 @helen-jeannine.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
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gilroy0 @gilroy0.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Perfection.
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🌸Bibi🌸♿ @bibiblossoms.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
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gilroy0 @gilroy0.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Excellent resource. We too often leave people in the weeds and then scoff when they don't understand. Tariff policy sounds like it is complicated but this boils it down nicely.
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His Excellency, the Duke of Fall @timhodgson.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
It is 2002. I am 18 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2008. I am 24 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2020. I am 36 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2025. I am 41 years old. We are in a—
image of watchmen's doctor manhattan, a superhero who is entirely blue and nude, sitting on a rock, small in frame, on what is depicted to be a very pink version of the surface of the planet mars. he looks pensive.
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Ray Radlein @radlein.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Painting over the black stripes on all the zebras
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
This is a very important point. Breathlessly vague headlines and summaries of these executive orders created for the executive powers it does not have. This kind of press contributed to authoritarian regime change.
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
“The 5 things Pete Hegseth did last week” - Shared classified attack plans on an unsecured commercial chat application. - Denied doing it. - Denied the plans were classified. - Denied the plans were plans. - Attacked the journalist who proved he was lying.
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gilroy0 @gilroy0.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Attacking Columbia b/c of a property dispute from the New Aughts. Erasing Bea Arthur b/c Golden Girls made fun of him in the 1980s. Is Trump executing long-held grudges? Or has Trump has been such a mess for so long that any controversy has some connection to him?
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 22/03/2025
shipping people off to prisons in foreign countries is literally one of the things the united states was borne in opposition to, it wasn't *just* taxes
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gilroy0 @gilroy0.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
There's a certain irony in a US Vice President, of all people, wondering if someone has a real job...
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gilroy0 @gilroy0.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
A colorful 8-bit depiction of the well of the Senate in ancient Rome, with a gaggle of senators standing over a bloodied body.  The phrase "Happy Death to Tyrants Day" floats above.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/03/2025
re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens
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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 22/02/2025
Everyone should know that Social Security is massively efficient. It's the most efficient program we have. Its overhead is only 0.5%. Cutting Social Security staff will do nothing to improve that and only result in problems with people getting the payments they are legally owed.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 19/02/2025
We wanted them to have healthcare and a high paying job and a planet to live on and freedom. They want us to suffer. The parties are not the same.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
White House defying court orders, persisting with illegal action, and usurping Congress’ power of the purse, which would effectively end checks and balances. If that’s not a Constitutional crisis, what is? Sorry, media, but like climate change, Constitutional crisis is out of “some say” territory.
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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 10/02/2025
It's a constitutional crisis and a coup, y'all. The longer we hesitate to admit this, the more trouble we are in.
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bluelightning99.bsky.social @bluelightning99.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Every dollar Musk claims to have "discovered being stolen" is detailed on usaspending.gov which was created by Senators Cobern, McCain, Carper, and Obama and was signed into law by G.W. Bush in 2006. There is NOTHING DOGE is uncovering that wasn't available for public scrutiny for nearly 2 decades.
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USAspending.gov
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Politics In The Wild @politicsinthewild.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Around 35% of SpaceX’s revenue comes directly from the federal govt. Less than 1% of NPR’s budget comes from the federal govt.
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Scott Berfield ❌👑- May it happen today. @berfield.com · 04/02/2025
Is writing terribly and not proofreading becoming a badge of MAGA? It seems really disrespectful.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
This is what happens when you ask me to help sanewash the Trump tariffs.
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Remember as you watch all of this that Democrats decided they couldn't raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour because the Senate parliamentarian said no
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Trump could say “I am bombing Kiribati so we can destroy the moon elves who live there” and there would be DC think tank morons who went “I think there’s a p=30% chance we are instead witnessing a brilliant geostrategic move to counter Chinese hegemony”
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Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 03/02/2025
The funniest detail about Trump wanting to buy Canada or whatever is that he keeps saying it would become the "51st state". Like...it would become one single state. Not each province. Just one massive state that spans like 6 times zones and speaks two different languages. Very normal and smart.
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Joseph Fink, we're going to win @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
I'm glad that America is doing real classic end of empire stuff. A king who is visibly losing his mind declaring a war based on a dream he had. Greedy courtiers feuding over access to the treasury. Some looks are timeless.
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Risho @shmortalcoil.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
There's also the fact that his trick absolutely didn't work leading to the whole escape scene. So I am betting on him not being a details guy and relying on his insane luck stat to carry him to safety over and over again.
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