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Amy M O’Neal

@medievalamy.bsky.social
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Medieval historian from Houston

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 7h
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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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h
when you need to be cut off from the Diet Coke refills (REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque)
Trump, looking extremely orange with his eyes barely open, with Zuckerberg today at the WH
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h
🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3h
“Well, you see, I have to stay on the White Supremacist Child Porn Rape Victim Doxxing site because that’s where my community is”
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 5h
imagine being a historian in the future trying to make sense of the characters in the right wing blogosphere lol
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 6h
One, this hilariously outs who all got the talking points in advance and how blatantly they parrot those. Two, Schmitt really thought today he'd launch himself to the VP nomination and with that a decent shot at the presidency down the line. Instead this is the only thing he'll be remembered for.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Technically, the New Dealers gave it to the Greatest Generation and to the Boomers, but yes, absolutely
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Van Rouge @van-rouge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Not just public universities but K to 12 and excluding the funds from being used for private school vouchers
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Alicia Stoller @aliciastoller.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"We can’t just tell youth what not to do, we have to tell them what they should do. We have to actively teach boys and young men what to do when they witness the dangerous behavior of their peers. We have to teach them to disrupt the group chat…” - @ruthz.bsky.social
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God @thegodshow.com · 29/09/2026
Is he serious
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
John Oliver lists off just some of Ken Paxton’s scandals: “Paxton spent nearly 9 years under indictment for securities fraud... He was also accused of bribery and abuse of office by eight of his own top deputies... But wait, because I'm still not done.”
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Whenever you see a pollster or consultant give a take like this, it’s always worth following the money. In this case, Emanuel has paid Anzalone’s firm nearly $300k (maybe more but that’s what I found so far). A consultant class is devouring the Dem Party www.elections.il.gov/CampaignDisc...
John Anzalone &
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Underestimate @RahmEmanuel at your own risk.
He knows how to win. He knows how to fight.
And he knows how to message.
And no one will out work him. Regardless of whether he wins the Democratic nomination in 2028 he will make an impact on the race. You can be sure of that. Don't take your eyes off of him. At the minimum, learn from him.
Rahm Emanuel Makes His 2026 Play
Rahm Emanuel Makes His 2026 Play
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/09/2026
Johnson: "When people are promising free things to you, you must ask what the real price is. It's your freedom. It will drive costs up. It will make people more dependent upon govt, & that's the communist's ultimate goal." (Trump literally just proposed giving people $5k if they vote Republican...)
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“I’ve heard people dismiss Trump’s mendacity with a shrugging “they all lie,” but we are witnessing a rare, very possibly once-in-a-lifetime political liar.”
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I started fact-checking Trump 10 years ago. Here are 15 things I’ve learned | CNN Politics
Ten years ago this month, in my old job as Washington correspondent for the Toronto Star, I started what I believed would be a quick little side project: fact-checking underdog presidential candidate ...
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Donald Trump is so crude, stupid, and lowbrow, he has no appreciation for the majestic beauty of our national parks. If a place doesn't have gaudy gilding, flashing neon, and ringing cash registers, he doesn't see worth.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Cornell University takes rape so seriously that seven #ChiPhi fraternity rapists (Matthew Ingalls, Jonathan Newell, Winston Lee, Gillio Lopes, Diego Sarabia, Scott Norris and Scott Kretzschmar) were punished by having to write an essay. And you wonder why women don't feel safe . . .
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Lionel Dripps @lioneldripps.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
For those not following, there’s a city in Russia occupied Ukraine near the frontline cut off from everywhere by mines and torn up roads, the people who haven’t been able to evacuate have only food they can grow themselves or have been rationing for a year, and Russia does not care.
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pissed-off-g.bsky.social @pissed-off-g.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Houston Chronicle @houstonchronicle.com · 26/09/2026
In an emotional moment, Justin Verlander's daughter Genevieve ran to the mound to embrace her father before he was removed from the final start of his career. bit.ly/4AzoJkh
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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
After a long day at the aquarium, the otters help tidy their toys away. Payment is made promptly and entirely in ice cubes.
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Chris Conaton @conatonc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A familiar story for anyone who follows @volts.wtf. “The Chronicle spoke to more than half a dozen grid experts…to try to understand why Texas’s notoriously unreliable grid had a remarkably reliable summer. The answer was unanimous: solar panels and batteries.”
houstonchronicle.com
Texas shattered energy demand records this summer. Here's why the grid held up.
Texas repeatedly broke electricity demand records this summer, but ERCOT avoided emergencies as booming solar and battery capacity helped keep the grid stable.
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waxmonkey @waxmonkey.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
ok so at this point we *dont* want the strait that we control open
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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Words to live by: “baby’s in his find out era.”
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A brave woman who captured the truth of Alex Pretti’s murder and spoke publicly about it. Hero. Video: buff.ly/Y81RLRm
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/09/2026
RAJU: So you're not planning to help Paxton fundraise at all? CORNYN: Correct R: Why? C: This is the way majority parties become minority parties -- by nominating candidates that are less than appealing to a general electorate R: Does he deserve to be a senator? C: I'll let voters decide that
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 24/09/2026
An investigation has found that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other agencies have wasted tens of millions of dollars pursuing uninformed plans to increase detention capacity, and the total will likely rise due to ongoing mismanagement.
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ICE is wasting tens of millions of dollars on 'uninformed' detention projects, report finds
An investigation has found that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other agencies have wasted tens of millions of dollars pursuing uninformed plans to increase detention capacity, and the total will likely rise due to ongoing mismanagement.
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
To paraphrase Tom Wolfe, we are witnesses one of the great unexplained phenomena of modern astronomy: namely that the dark night of AI-Job-Replacement is always descending on the humanities and yet lands only in math and computer science.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 25/09/2026
A man who killed himself in 1982 in a church in Boise was known as the “Unknown Wanderer.” Investigators said he might have a connection to the famous case of tainted Tylenol.
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An Idaho Cold Case Revisits the Unsolved Tylenol Killings in 1982
A man who killed himself that year in a church in Boise was known as the “Unknown Wanderer.” Investigators said he might have a connection to the famous case of tainted Tylenol.
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The Eyewall @theeyewallwx.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A lot of garbage is floating around out there about this weekend’s nor’easter. Here we separate facts and fan fiction. Details on what to expect in New England through Jersey. Plus a peek at the rest of the tropics. Below or at theeyewall.com.
theeyewall.substack.com
Dispelling nor'easter misconceptions and diving into actual expected impacts for this weekend's storm
What should New England expect? Plus, a look around the horn from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The position of the White House is that it is banning media sharing false claims about national security while the reality is that the White House is the source of those claims including…:
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026
Never forget (Scott Olson/Getty)
2024 campaign yard signs that says "TRUMP LOW PRICES. KAMALA HIGH PRICES"
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Tens of thousands of voter registrations have gone unprocessed in Texas. Affecting large areas deeply. If you’re in Texas, check your registration is up to date and accurate ASAP. www.texastribune.org/2026/09/22/t...
texastribune.org
DPS voter registration applications weren’t sent to counties
Counties will start receiving a surge of applications less than two weeks before the Oct. 5 registration deadline, adding work at one of the busiest points in the election calendar.
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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Please know that this is one of my few legitimate areas of actual, high-level professional expertise: Kicking the healthiest people off of a health insurance program will bankrupt it. Not 'could;' not 'might,' not 'probably," but absolutely will, with mathematical certainty.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This warning from David Letterman to the media from just a year ago feels sadly too relevant today. He is right: You can't appease a tyrant.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Alright, let’s all get on the same page about Vought/NIH/Trump. THEY👏WILL👏STOP👏AT👏NOTHING👏 The goal is to destroy the STEM ecosystem, universities, and democracy as we have known it. PERIOD. The only way to win is to impeach them all…which means we need Congress. HERE’S HOW WE WIN 🧵
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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Must feel great being the woman journalist he called “piggy” knowing that your colleagues could have stood with you and done this but didn’t.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Semi driver stops filling up his tank when it hits $1,000 "Almost thirty years of driving trucks and that's a first"
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If executive branch creates a system so that people under government control can be located and then just stops listing some people in that system — despite their still being under government control — that should be a five-alarm fire for the other branches, the states, and the public.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Art of the Deal is buying fertilizer from a Putin-aligned repressive dictator and paying to ship it 6,000 miles from his landlocked and sanctioned country so you can teach Canada a lesson.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/11/2023
As always, my advice is: If you see a poll that worries you, roll up your sleeves and get to work. Donate, register, volunteer. And if you see a poll you like? Go to the same things.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/09/2026
LMFAO -- Trump is holding an event at the White House right now but there's no audio because the press pool isn't there. The Newsmax host notes that this is an example of Trump's attacks on the press "backfiring just a little bit"
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
My mom had polio when she was five. She was living on a US military base in Japan (1947). Four kids on the base died. She was the only survivor.
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the abbot of unreason (a returned archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
a man who definitely delivered these remarks two days ago:
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Honestly just touch the fucking stove already buddy. We’re already boned six ways to Sunday, might as well make it Sunday.
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Straight up confessing to war crimes now.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/09/2026
Trump: "We took out Venezuela in 48 minutes ... we're taking out million and millions of barrels of oil. When they see 'to the victor belongs the spoils,' that's one of the greatest cases anyone has ever seen in history"
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The right to vote is one of the most fundamental parts of our democracy. Check your voter registration at IWillVote.com and make a plan to vote early or on Election Day on November 3.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
What would Alito and Thomas not agree to if Trump proposed it? Is there any line?
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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 15/09/2026
“Reporters were barred from recording video” whaaaaaat
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E. Rosalie @erosalie.infoepi.com · 13/09/2026
The Houthi-aligned Bani Hashish tribes are massing in preparation to “liberate” the remaining Yemeni territory outside Houthi control. It’s a sea of Toyotas with mounted machine guns. I think this is what we should mean when we say Toyotathon from now on.
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