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Megan Hallinan

@meganhallinan.bsky.social
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An Innocent Abroad. Posts about ⚓️🏃‍♀️ 📕 🏒 🇮🇪 🇸🇳 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 & whatever the emoji is for kindness. Love for 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 humans. Mashpee kid. (She/her) #GSD

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Megan Hallinan @meganhallinan.bsky.social · 19h
"I remembered the young labourer, who had been shouting senselessly and whose face I had studied for several minutes. Would he start work today as a man who hated vice and idleness more than before? And what about me? What did I get from it? A feeling of involuntary astonishment at a murderer, a moral monster, who could show his contempt for death. Can the law-giver desire such impressions?"
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Megan Hallinan @meganhallinan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
🗳️ Voted
US Mail-in absentee ballot
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Megan Hallinan @meganhallinan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“If you tell a woman what the standard is, she will do the work to not only meet it, but often exceed it”
militarytimes.com
Hegseth made the fitness test harder for women in combat roles. Most female Marines are passing.
New from The War Horse: Hegseth made fitness tests harder for women in combat roles. Service data show that more than 9 in 10 female Marines are passing.
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Megan Hallinan @meganhallinan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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Megan Hallinan @meganhallinan.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"The work we do explains the complexity of America."
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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
We really did lose one of the best advocates for books that there ever was.
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Megan Hallinan @meganhallinan.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Morning runs where you can look across the lake to Canada and listen to the loons calling out to each other.
Morning in East Grand Lake, Maine
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Megan Hallinan @meganhallinan.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Before the moment tries to disappear Don't the sky look pretty up here?
Waiting for sunrise on East Grand Lake, Maine
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
What makes this even more grotesque is that Doris Miller was denied the medal of honor when he was alive just because he was black. bsky.app/profile/carl...
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juliacurlee.bsky.social @juliacurlee.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The White House fired me for being transgender. In 2013 I became the first CIA officer to successfully transition. I worked for Mike Pence for a year. Then I volunteered to serve the second Trump White House.
theatlantic.com
The Wrong Kind of American
The Trump White House needed me—until the fact that I am trans became public.
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Megan Hallinan @meganhallinan.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Another Falmouth Road Race come and gone. Great crowd throughout the course, but @whoi.edu was definitely best dressed 🐧 🐻‍❄️ 🦈 🏃‍♀️
Sign in Woods Hole shaped to look like a Massachusetts town sign “Entering Falmouth Road Race”Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute road race cheering team dressed in inflatable aquatic critters
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Jason Pritchard Art @jasonpritchardart.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Number 12 of my Cape Cod series - a tumultuous day at 'Old Chappy' or Chapoquoit Beach in Falmouth, MA. Oil on Canvas 18 x 36
Oil painting of Chapoquoit Beach, Falmouth MA
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Megan Hallinan @meganhallinan.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Wait till the Italians get to Wareham 🤌
Restaurant sign just off Cape Cod reading Cranberry Pizza and Steak Tips
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Megan Hallinan @meganhallinan.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Time to make the donuts: Seen on my Monday morning run🏃‍♀️
Commuters lining up to board the Steamship Authority ferry to Martha’s Vineyard in Woods HoleTurkey citizen on the way to turkeying in Woods Hole
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Megan Hallinan @meganhallinan.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Seen at the packie.
Photo from a Cape Cod package store showing a display of Jaws wine spritzers- the bottles an unholy color of blue one shade darker than Windex. Tagline “You’re gonna need a bigger glass”.
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Megan Hallinan @meganhallinan.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Well worth a rewatch of My Left Foot this weekend.
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Megan Hallinan @meganhallinan.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Joyeux 14 Juillet 🇫🇷 ! The last time the 🇺🇸 hosted the World Cup, Dad was an airline pilot routinely flying to CDG. Back then he picked up a couple bottles of rosé, made to celebrate the event. ⚽️
Empty bottle of French rosé, bottle designed in honor of the US hosting the 1994 World Cup
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Megan Hallinan @meganhallinan.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Newport Kite Festival taking flight 🪁
Kites sumo wrestler, pterodactyl (I think?) shark, squid and other various kites being flown
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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
it can still be 0-0 if infantino has the courage
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Megan Hallinan @meganhallinan.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I absolutely love this time of the year, where the tomatoes taste like candy and the vines look like a child’s xylophone.
Tomatoes growing on the vine in different stages of ripeness
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Lake Michigan @lakemichigan13.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Water rushing to the Great Lakes in Canada (a portion will make it to me 🌊🌊). Respect. Happy Canada Day to all 🇨🇦🇨🇦
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Megan Hallinan @meganhallinan.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Boston fans might be interested to know that Lucky has a Sardinian brother who also enjoys tennis. ☘️ 🏀
Store sign in La Maddalena using Boston Celtics mascot Lucky as a baseline.
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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Happy 100th birthday to Cpl Melvin Kaminsky aka Mel Brooks - the Mensch of Mensches When speaking of his service with the 78th Infantry Division in WWII, he reportedly said, “I was a combat engineer. Isn’t that ridiculous? The two things I hate most in the world are combat and engineering.”
Mel Brooks in ODs sitting in the cab of a vehicle during WWII, looking like he’s really over this and ready to start some satire
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Megan Hallinan @meganhallinan.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
And if you want a bone chilling testimony to this, visit the Museo per la Memoria di Ustica in Bologna.
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Megan Hallinan @meganhallinan.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Força Cabo Verde!
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Megan Hallinan @meganhallinan.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Happy Juneteenth! Here’s to celebrating and honoring our nation’s complete history.
"Freedom’s Eve" on January 1, 1863, marked the first Watch Night services where African Americans gathered in anticipation of the Emancipation Proclamation.

The Emancipation Proclamation declared all enslaved people in Confederate States legally free at midnight.

Implementation of the Emancipation Proclamation was limited in areas still under Confederate control, delaying freedom for many, particularly in Texas.

Freedom for enslaved people in Texas was officially announced on June 19, 1865, by Union troops in Galveston Bay, leading to the celebration of "Juneteenth."

Juneteenth is recognized as the nation’s second independence day, celebrated primarily within the African American community but largely unknown to many Americans.
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Megan Hallinan @meganhallinan.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Never gets old. #EternalCity
Rome’s Ponte Sant’Angelo and Castel Sant’Angelo
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Megan Hallinan @meganhallinan.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
We visited the Marcinelle 1956 Museum today. A disaster that I’ve heard referenced on Italian media each year on August 8th.
Remnants of mine at Bois du Cazier, now a museum
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Matthew Crory @slotheroux.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
belfast resident here, yesterday while waiting at the dentist the receptionist was making calls checking in with POC who work there to see if they or their families need somewhere to stay, and i carried that warm, glowing feeling with me while i got a tooth drilled
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Megan Hallinan @meganhallinan.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
“‘This country is great because of us, despite how they have treated us. And when I think about what I’m willing to live or die for, I would not sit idly by and let someone else come in and take away what we’ve built, despite some folks not recognizing the role that we played in building it.”’
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 08/06/2026
Award-winning Somali referee Omar Artan, set to be the first from his country to officiate at the World Cup, was denied entry to the United States, a sports ministry official told AFP on Monday u.afp.com/SDH9
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Megan Hallinan @meganhallinan.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Birds are a trending topic right now, so I nominate the big energy of Kehaar as #BirdoftheDay from Watership Down. We watched, rewatched & were totally scarred by this cartoon as kids. youtu.be/hxCa7fXjq94?...
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Watership Down but Kehaar is the only character
YouTube video by Snowy Rabbit of Inle
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Megan Hallinan @meganhallinan.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Time capsule view at FCO this morning.
Fiumicino aeroporto at sunrise with aircraft livery including Alitalia, Air France, Lufthansa and KLM
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Megan Hallinan @meganhallinan.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
And while we're at it, can we still gripe about the condos that now block the Wyland next to I-93? Precious little joy to be had getting in and out of Boston, and the whales were always a landmark to watch for.
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Megan Hallinan @meganhallinan.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Love this. It wasn't until I got to work in Cape Verde as an adult that I finally understood so much about the context of my community in New England. Definitely rooting for Cabo Verde in their World Cup debut.
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Megan Hallinan @meganhallinan.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
There’s an excellent film “C'è ancora domani” (There’s Still Tomorrow) for folks interested in Rome during this timeframe. Buona festa della Repubblica! 🇮🇹
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Megan Hallinan @meganhallinan.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
This is true. I miss my mixtapes of songs (often) recorded imperfectly off the radio, then played on my Dad’s revolutionary Walkman. I hate now when I can’t “find” songs I once bought online because they didn’t transfer in an update and/or they are not offered on streaming.
1980s Sony Walkman, without the old foam headphones
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Megan Hallinan @meganhallinan.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Out for a run in the Belgian countryside. Les coquelicots— the poppies— are in bloom everywhere. Calling to mind remembrance, sacrifice, and resilience for everything that once went on in these places. I’m still hopeful that we might never see it again.
Belgian country road paved by cobblestones with wild poppies growing.
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Megan Hallinan @meganhallinan.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
I'm in for the accountability, and also subscribed because Jami's doing it as a fundraiser for a Scholastic Book Fair in New Orleans. Don't know about anyone else, but the Book Fair was my absolute favorite thing about having to go to school.
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Megan Hallinan @meganhallinan.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Had a pizza last night with someone who had never heard of Diego Maradona. Apparently that is possible.
“El pibe de oro” AKA il ragazzo d'oro by I Pixel di Oplontis spotted on the lungomare in Naples
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Melanie McFarland @mctelevision.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
R.I.P. Rob Base 💔 variety.com/2026/music/n...
variety.com
Rob Base, ‘It Takes Two’ Rapper, Dies at 59
Rob Base, one-half of Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock and best known for the hit 'It Takes Two,' has died. He was 59.
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Megan Hallinan @meganhallinan.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
“Grief for any dog is appropriately and directly proportionate to the happiness of the life they had with you, and the space they leave empty in your life when they go.”
irishexaminer.com
The agonies and ecstasies of adopting a rescue dog — or two
There’s a particular kind of love that comes with a rescue dog. It’s definitely not easy, but it is real and worth it.
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Megan Hallinan @meganhallinan.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
I miss you more than Michael Bay missed the mark When he made Pearl Harbor I miss you more than that movie missed the point
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 19/05/2026
Breaking News: Suspected deaths in an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo rose to 131, and suspected cases jumped to more than 500, the health minister said.
nyti.ms
W.H.O. Chief Is ‘Deeply Concerned’ by Speed and Scale of Ebola Outbreak as Cases Rise
The warning came shortly after Congo officials reported more than 130 suspected deaths and 513 cases, a sharp rise since the outbreak was first reported over the weekend.
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Megan Hallinan @meganhallinan.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Testaccio, land of the amphorae shards. The fountains themselves are the great storytellers of Rome.
Fontana delle Anfore in Testaccio, Rome
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Megan Hallinan @meganhallinan.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
‘My Lovely Horse’ could have easily passed for a legitimate Eurovision song.
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Megan Hallinan @meganhallinan.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
I just finished this amazing read. Embarrassed at how much I didn’t know (esp in the Philippines, even after working alongside the 🇵🇭 Navy). I wondered how much is/was taught in US schools. Because all of it really should.
How to Hide an Empire book cover by Daniel Immerwahr
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Megan Hallinan @meganhallinan.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Perfect Cape Cod gray morning. Always happy to run at home. #RunFalmouth
Start line of the Falmouth Road Race in Woods Hole, looking to Eel Pond Bridge
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Hupple’s Cat @hupplescat.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
“Although he was exempt from the draft, Daniel Inouye volunteered and joined the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, the legendary “Go for Broke” unit of Japanese Americans.”
Senator Inouye serving during Second World War.
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Megan Hallinan @meganhallinan.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Primo maggio: fave e pecorino. Can’t think of a better way to take in the warming days.
Fava beans, pecorino romano and Aperol Spritz: Labor Day in Rome
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