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John McCall @pathofshrines.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Yeah, they’re playing get chunk yards, it’s bizarre. They’re in solid FG range already, and there’s no point in trying for a TD. You want to try to get five yards just to make things easier, okay, QB needs to know to throw it away if the read is bad. But the WRs are like 20 yards downfield

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Every word of this from @drewmagary.bsky.social. Democrats will likely retake Congress, but what they do next is an open question. That's why it's important for us all to press Democrats -- right now -- to commit to an aggressive agenda of oversight and accountability.

As desperate as Republicans are to hold onto power, the Democratic establishment is even more rattled. An oil slick like Schumer sees his GOP chums on the other side of the aisle get marginalized by an interloper (Trump), and now fears a similar interloper on his side doing likewise. The Schumers of the DNC fear the likes of Zohran Mamdani and AOC (even as she's gone about sanding down her politics over the last eight years) far more than they fear Trump. So if they wrest control of Congress a month from now, their priority won’t be to reform a brazenly corrupt Supreme Court, or to punish Trump and his many accomplices for their endless crimes, or to finally cut off aid to Israel, or even to force an end to that shitty war in Iran. All they’ll do is sit on their candy asses and wait around for the next election. Then they’ll tell you the best way, the most responsible way, to express your anger at their indifference is to continue voting for them.

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John McCall @pathofshrines.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Oh, it definitely makes more sense than the real expression

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John McCall @pathofshrines.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Ah yes, we must think of the irreparable harm that I will suffer if I am unable to autogenerate nude pictures with specific other people’s faces on them without their consent while this case is pending

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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

there are moral arguments against the death penalty in its ideal form but in real life you never need to get there. the prior question is "can the state be trusted to end the life only of the rightly convicted without torture?" and the answer is no

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John McCall @pathofshrines.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Gay romance just has an unfair advantage here. It’s not that you *can’t* put spice in chapter 3 in other romance genres, but wow is it easier

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John McCall @pathofshrines.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Ma’am, this is not a job interview, now where were you on the night of September 17th

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/09/2026

i think you can fairly say that the second trump administration is the most racist federal administration since woodrow wilson and honestly i'm not sure that it isn't more racist than wilson's

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John McCall @pathofshrines.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

These guys’ lives center around wielding power in all the awful ways that people with unchecked authority have always lorded over other people, and their ideologies center around letting them pretend that this time is somehow different and virtuous

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/09/2026

i think it is bad that the president is that helm of a deranged cult of personality

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Ed Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

In Massachusetts, we have a responsibility to protect the vulnerable and stand up for those who need it. We don’t throw trans kids under the bus for political points. We protect them—and all of our neighbors—because trans rights are human rights.

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John McCall @pathofshrines.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Third base coach sent a runner home who got thrown out by a mile and now he’s hopping mad and yelling that there’s no way the ump had the right angle to make the call

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

It’s mind-blowing that we have literal white nationalists in the White House carrying out unfathomably cruel, abusive, white nationalist policies, and the punditariat has spent the last two weeks debating if some people were too intemperate after a Black man was murdered by cops six years ago.

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🏳️‍⚧️ UNBAN LINK @biancamack.co · 30/08/2026

Love a direct, to the point queen. Say it plainly and leave no space for bad-faith bullshit.

Asked why the WNBA continues to experience these heightened distractions, Cloud said, "Men."
"The men now that are like 'Oh, we need to protect the WNBA,’ y'all were the same ones saying we shouldn't be paid," Cloud continued. "Y'all were the same ones saying we shouldn't have been invested in, saying we're a joke, the same ones that don't respect Black women. So, if you're going to protect women, that means all women. That includes Black women, trans women and the list goes on."

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

These people had protected status. They lived here legally. They worked, they paid taxes. They made lives. Raised families. Now we’ve dehumanized them. Ripped away that protection and told them to get out. This is a stain on the soul of this Nation.

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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Perfect summation of the antiwoke worldview: trying to destroy democracy is bad, but not nearly as bad as sitting through an HR training

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John McCall @pathofshrines.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

It’s technically not yours until you acknowledge receipt

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

“Silly” is a good way to put it! There were excesses in 2020 but they were mostly low-stakes efforts by well-intentioned people to address real injustices. The excesses of the right during the same era were far more harmful. The reckoning we need now is about how elites lost sight of that.

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John McCall @pathofshrines.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Probably less that it wasn’t obvious at the time and more that there have always been idiot failsons who need these things spelled out for them

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John McCall @pathofshrines.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Notably, his innocent granddaughter caught “between” Max Miller and his daughter

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Aside from its many other problems, the idea Fauci was America's power-abusing covid dictator is somewhat complicated by the fact that he never had the power to do the things they're mad about. His recommendations bound nobody and were not particularly rigorously followed by the actual policymakers.

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John McCall @pathofshrines.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Yeah, it’s pretty simple. He’s in favor of the policy but thinks it’s absurd to allow it to be used by people he considers intrinsically inferior, a category which, like most racists, he has a very idiosyncratic definition of which probably varies day by day

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Despite the whining about “ historical accuracy,” the racist backlash to the casting in Nolan’s Odyssey is about the right wanting to justify racial hierarchy by projecting it into a past where it did not actually exist. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

When some on the right speak of reverence for “civilization,” what they’re doing is trying to anachronistically justify the hierarchy of race they would like to see enacted today by rooting it in antiquity. You cannot cast Black people in The Odyssey, because The Odyssey is a pillar of “Western civilization,” which they consider to be white. This faction of the far right imagines antiquity as a kind of idyllic Jim Crow universe of utterly separate civilizations, one in which the integration they despise could not possibly exist.

But Greece is not as far from Africa as the North American continent is, and the modern construct of race, a pseudoscientific product of the Atlantic slave trade, would not be invented until thousands of years after Homer. Black people are depicted in Greek art. Egypt, Libya, and “Aethiopia” are frequently referenced in ancient writings. As the Black classics scholar Frank Snowden Jr. wrote in the 1970s, at least one of the characters in The Odyssey, Eurybates, is specifically described as “black-skinned and woolly-haired.” As the Stanford classics professor Sarah Derbew notes in her book Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity, Black people are referenced in plays by Euripides, Sophocles, and Aeschylus. They also appear in the writings of Hesiod and Herodotus. One of the lost epic poems is The Aethiopis, in which Memnon, the Aethiopian king and an ally to Troy, plays a major role.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

And again, it doesn’t even matter if these were true. He, a random unelected and unappointed guy, doesn’t get to end run the law, Constitution, & Congress to decide how to set policy. He did, & therefore needs to go to jail for the rest of his life.

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John McCall @pathofshrines.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Yeah, I never served, but (1) it seems like pretty sound practice that anyone who’s not immediately obviously an exceptional talent should do a couple months of KP just to break through ego and (2) even for the exceptions you’ve gotta have them do *something* while you’re figuring out who gets them

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John McCall @pathofshrines.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Costner has really leaned in to this shit. I saw a clip of him as the newly-elected governor of Montana (?) where he no-nonsenses his way through a bunch of supposedly contradictory policy proposals from his advisors and then fires them all, and I was like… I bet this really plays well to idiots

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

ICE is not about immigration. ICE is not about the southern border. ICE is about normalizing paramilitary force on our streets. It cannot be reformed. It cannot be retrained. ICE must be abolished.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/07/2026

there is a cohort of men who resent the responsibilities and obligations of adulthood — of the fact that you owe things to other people. it is a fundamentally childish impulse that they have reconfigured as the height of masculinity, and i think it informs the parasocial attraction to platner.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 06/07/2026

“He then put her license plate details on a surveillance “hotlist,” meaning he would get a notification in real time anytime she drove by an AI-powered license plate surveillance camera.”

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John McCall @pathofshrines.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

This is funny except of course if that score is plausible in any sport it would be cricket

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John McCall @pathofshrines.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

The offsides rule is not a good rule anyway. Its goal is just to allow defenders to play up on offense, but it intensely rewards shenanigans on defense. But you cannot talk to fans about that because it’s woven into the game now; they’ll just think about every call that’s ever helped/hurt their team

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lynn @chordbug.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

fixed your headline

A hit song on the Billboard 100 charts is termed *$k$-good* if it is _ever_ in a weekly top-$k$, and *$k$-immediate* if it _debuts_ in the top-$k$.

An artist is *$(n,k)$-Olivian* if their $n$ first $k$-good hits are all also $k$-immediate.

*Headline 1.* Olivia Rodrigo is the first $(10,10)$-Olivian woman.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

For them, it does. They cannot conceive of a world in which someone they think should belong to a suboordinate class has the same rights as them. That's also why they hate the Reconstruction amendments. bsky.app/profile/gabr...

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John McCall @pathofshrines.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

“All politics is local” is a time-worn truth for good reason. Some of the people we just nominated may turn out to be useless in office, too; that’s how it goes, we’ll just to primary ‘em with a better candidate when the time comes

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John McCall @pathofshrines.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

They also ignore overall changes to the field. Here in NY-7, Mamdani’s endorsement was probably really important to Valdez, but we had four candidates (three who made the ballot) and *none* of them were trying to position as moderate Dems

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John McCall @pathofshrines.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Can’t wait to watch ads on the entertainment system on top of highest-in-country baggage fees

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John McCall @pathofshrines.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Sorry, sorry, I’m coming back as fast as I can

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John McCall @pathofshrines.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

JetBlue is a fucking shitshow. Pushed back my flight 3 hours, then only 2.5, then suddenly, thirty minutes before the original departure, it’s back on schedule. Good thing I didn’t act on any of your previous announcements other than getting another round

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Cole Donovan @colesci.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

G) I honestly don't know why Iran didn't ask for ponies, they basically got everything else.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

this is a catastrophe and he will do harm, and only harm, to those living with disabilities

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

If you're hosting an international sporting event, you should be required to actually host all of the competitors. This isn't hard.

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 15/06/2026

may we remember speaker hortman every time a kid in Minnesota eats their free lunch. every time a trans person moves to mn for safety. when an undocumented person gets their driver’s license or a returning citizen gets to vote. when we have clean energy and electric school buses and warm homes.

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John McCall @pathofshrines.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Honestly, I’m skeptical that Netanyahu is ever going to consider himself bound by any of this. But yes, this is something that not even a reasonable Israeli government could sign off on.

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John McCall @pathofshrines.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

It is simultaneously true that we too often dehumanize pregnant people and subject them to unreasonable demands, and that a late-term pregnancy is essentially a slowly unfolding medical emergency that needs to be more seriously than locking oneself in a metal tube without medical care for ten hours

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John McCall @pathofshrines.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

She didn’t get turned away because they ran out of seats. She was far enough along to be at serious risk of going into labor on a transoceanic flight. This is not some weird US policy, basically every airline has a rule like this.

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John McCall @pathofshrines.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

…the counties on your maps are colored differently

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John McCall @pathofshrines.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Every time this happens, Trump actually sees through some of our concessions before the issues are discovered and the strait stays closed. Iran has every incentive to keep going around for another taste. Meanwhile Trump cannot ever admit he got taken for a ride, so he simply chooses not to remember

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