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Scaremy Neely

@jeremyneely.bsky.social
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Dad, citizen, historian, cranky Missourian. Books: A Union Tested, The Border between Them.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 22h
Holy shit.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Kansas has 4 former, living GOP governors. Two have now endorsed Adam Hamilton, the Dem, for Senate. Mike Hayden just penned this oped in the Kansas City Star this morning; Adam Graves had done the same last month.
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I think we have enough data to show if you're arresting elderly human rights lawyers you are not the good guys in this story.
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Scaremy Neely @jeremyneely.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
What if—hear me out—they tried to operate *without* a commissioner for a while?
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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago
I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody &everything.

Charles Darwin
Letter to Charles Lyell
1st October 1861
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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows...
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
these look more and more like late Brezhnev, late Chernenko photos
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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's a bit of a bummer that the story today has been "look at this absolute doofus of a senator" and not "Jack Smith once again credibly accuses the president of many serious crimes"
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.
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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is the most Bluesky targeted ad I've ever seen lmao
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Scaremy Neely @jeremyneely.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Good job, refs, good effort
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.
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Scaremy Neely @jeremyneely.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Fire Butker.
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Taking a break from football on a rainy Sunday to watch a baggy old man skulk down a hotel hallway (?) while a voiceover of him saying the word "globalists" in a Master Shake voice plays. And what's this, I also paid for it? Nice.
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Scaremy Neely @jeremyneely.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The person who reads this would represent an improvement over the current safeties playing for the Chefs.
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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
There are lots of ways to answer this and one of them is that studying history makes you a better citizen and our public universities have an obligation to produce good citizens. History education is essential to a republican model of government. Engineering is not.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
ICE has abducted Senegalese WBB player Aminata Seck and won't release her. DHS 'policy' is to provide medical care to prisoners at intake, yet they admit to denying her care for an ACL injury for 1.5 months. The NCAA is letting it happen, despite its predatory recruitment of ICAs. We explain.
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ICE has abducted a college athlete. What are the NCAA and universities going to do about it?
Aminata Seck’s detention shows the bargain facing international college athletes: universities eagerly recruit them, but support can disappear when their immigration status becomes precarious.
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 25/09/2026
I've been thinking about this photo all day. Considering how the Trump administration is constantly ranting about Communists, and how Pete Hegseth is always nattering on about our WARFIGHTERS, it's genuinely crazy to me that this image exists. www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-kowt...
Screenshot of a Getty photograph captioned: "U.S. military personnel unroll the red carpet at the bottom of the stairs of an Air China plane carrying Chinese President Xi Jinping at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on September 23, 2026. (Kent Nishimura / AFP via Getty Images)" Above it, also in the screenshot, is a paragraph of text from a Bulwark article that included that picture. The text reads: "That was certainly the sense conveyed by the ceremony as a whole. There was the televised spectacle of American service members on their hands and knees, smoothing wrinkles and picking specks of dirt off the 100-foot long red carpet that had been unrolled for Xi, as Chinese officials looked on approvingly from the door of their airplane before their leader descended the stairs."
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teamhamiltonhq.bsky.social @teamhamiltonhq.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Meischa was Roger Marshall's patient. This is her story.
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Scaremy Neely @jeremyneely.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This Gemstones erasure will not stand.
The New York Times’ list of the 100 best TV shows of the 21st century.
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Trump stole taxpayer $$ to destroy the White House and replace it with a firetrap and too few ladies stalls. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
McCrery informed the White House that Trump’s ballroom design did not meet fire safety codes, which require the majority of guests to be able to quickly exit through the main entrance during an emergency, according to the people and documents. The architect also pointed out that alternative emergency exit routes out of the building were insufficient, and that there was little in the design to prevent a kitchen fire from rapidly spreading into the event space on the floor above.

In addition to fire safety concerns, Trump’s desired ballroom design did not include enough toilets to accommodate the structure’s maximum occupancy, according to documents, and there were few options for adding more, as the event space occupied most of the building’s footprint. One early ballroom design featured just seven stalls in the women’s bathroom.
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Bonus for whoever wrote this chyron
Trump speaking at UN — MS NOW chyron reads: Trump touts being a peacemaker while asking if he should annihilate Iran
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
Sen. 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 🧵
Martin Kao, CEO of defense contractor Navatek, poses next to Sen. Susan Collins for a photo. Collins is holding a model of a boat in her hands. Behind them is a large sign with the Navatek logo.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026
whenever i hear some variation on "but what if trump does X or Y or Z" i think of this ulysses s. grant remark to a subordinate during the wilderness campaign.
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Scaremy Neely @jeremyneely.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🚨 Job alert 🚨 My department at Missouri State has a tenure-track opening in early American history. jobs.missouristate.edu/postings/879... 🗃️ #skystorians
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Assistant Professor (Early American History) - 9 month appointment
The successful candidate must demonstrate preparation to teach undergraduate and graduate courses in the Colonial/Revolutionary Era and their specialty as well the first half of the U.S. History Surve...
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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Scaremy Neely @jeremyneely.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Phew. Fire Butker.
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Scaremy Neely @jeremyneely.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Free football! (Stupid Butker)
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Scaremy Neely @jeremyneely.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Run the damn ball, Andy.
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Scaremy Neely @jeremyneely.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Cut Butker.
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Scaremy Neely @jeremyneely.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Poor Jayden Daniels. Ugh.
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Scaremy Neely @jeremyneely.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“It is unclear if Mr. Trump has ever visited a national park, either while in office or as a private citizen.” Let’s preserve this streak, lest he slap a golf course, gold filigree, or some other tacky shit on these places. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/19/c...
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How Trump Has Disrupted National Parks (Gift Article)
Maintenance projects have been put off around the country and resources diverted to the president’s favored projects in Washington.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I’m proud that I stood up to him” Rep Joyce Beatty (D-OH) about Trump’s unraveling at Kennedy Center board meeting ====>
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Scaremy Neely @jeremyneely.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Running the ball and rushing the passer well. Who knew?
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Scaremy Neely @jeremyneely.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Neat.
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Scaremy Neely @jeremyneely.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Apropos of nothing, remember that whole season when the Chefs WRs didn’t catch a touchdown pass? Anyway, I’m really enjoying the upgrades that KC made to its receiving corps this offseason.
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Scaremy Neely @jeremyneely.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
PATRICK F. MAHOMES II
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Scaremy Neely @jeremyneely.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Be still, my run-the-dang-ball heart
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Scaremy Neely @jeremyneely.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The chop sucks. Go Mahomes.
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Scaremy Neely @jeremyneely.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
When I was a kid I thought it was odd when my grandpa would sometimes mute sportscasters and entire commercial breaks. In hindsight, I’m grateful that he prepared me so well for the Pat McAfee era.
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Scaremy Neely @jeremyneely.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Save us, Dear Leader
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Scaremy Neely @jeremyneely.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This Vikings-Packers game is wild.
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Scaremy Neely @jeremyneely.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
It’s a real shame that one of these teams will have to win this game.
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Scaremy Neely @jeremyneely.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Sit this one out, my guy. www.nytimes.com/athletic/758...
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Mizzou’s Eli Drinkwitz blasts Kansas’ ‘Border War’ video depicting rivalry’s Civil War origins (Gift Article)
Following the Tigers’ 38-21 win against the Jayhawks, the Missouri coach said, “I don’t really care if (the rivalry) continues or not."
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Enough Of That Now @andygilder.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Trump becomes the first orange man to support a united Ireland
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
9/11/2001 I was a freshman in high school in Alabama, I wore a hijab. In gym class my teacher wheeled in a screen. Something horrible was happening. I watched, mouth agape as the second tower hit. We were silent. As that period reached an end, my name was announced on the loud speaker. 1/
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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This piece was fascinating, getting at a point I'd never considered: bin-Laden's entire concept about what 9/11 would do to America was just... wrong. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
Bin Laden was equally clear about how he thought terrorism would yield his desired result. In a March 1997 CNN interview with Peter Bergen, he spoke of transferring “the battle into the United States.” In a May 2000 speech, he told supporters that the war would henceforth be waged “against the United States, in the United States.” Americans, he observed to ABC’s John Miller in 1998, cannot tolerate pain, and will react to attacks not by fighting back and blaming al‑Qaeda, but instead by asking “what their government has done that forced us to defend ourselves.” In a November 2001 interview, he hinted at a theory of political change in America: Its citizens should “take the same stand that they did previously,” when they protested the Vietnam War and the presidents who waged it.
Nelly Lahoud, a professor at the Army War College and the author of the definitive book on the Abbottabad documents, told me this political pipe dream was bin Laden’s whole plan: “to replicate the anti–Vietnam War movement of the United States, to get the American public to put pressure on the U.S. government to withdraw its forces from the Middle East.” The documents reveal a man and an organization blindsided by the American reaction to the September 11 attacks. Bin Laden and his associates “didn’t think that the United States would respond by waging war,” Lahoud said. He did not contemplate or plan for the long-term occupation of Afghanistan, nor did he expect the methodical killing of his operatives in a campaign that lasted years.
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Scaremy Neely @jeremyneely.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I’m a Mizzou fan and hope the Tigers win by a hundred, but the historical part of this bit goes pretty fucking hard.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
you can be arrested if you give water to people waiting on line to vote
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