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Patrick Connolly

@patrickconnolly.bsky.social
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Career educator and life-long student. Math guy, finance guy, and music guy. I like to think I am good at thinking and teaching. Hell is empty, and all the devils are here.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 15/05/2026
"I thought I made myself perfectly clear the last time you came home with one of my kids. You are not welcome here. I am busy with real life, working full-time and schlepping my three kids to sporting events in which they are mediocre at best. I don’t have time for your bullshit."
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An Open Letter to My Son’s Recorder
March 7 2021 5/18/23 5/21/25 5/15/26
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Gerald Ford vetoed naming a post office after himself.
(archive document) 

Memorandum of Disapproval

I have today vetoed H.R. 11897, a bill which would name the United States Courthouse and Federal Office Building in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the "President Gerald R. Ford Federal Office Building."

Although I appreciate the honor expressed by the Congress in enacting this legislation, I intend to continue the policy of past Administrations that the executive branch not endorse the naming of Federal office buildings. Generally, the executive branch has deferred to the desires of the Congress on such matters.

Although several Federal office buildings have been named for incumbent members of the Congress, I know of none that have been named for a President while still in office. I consider it improper for me as an incumbent President to approve legislation which places my name on a Federal building. This is a precedent I do not wish to establish.

In general, I feel this way: office buildings which house the functions of Government should not be used as monuments to Federal officials, but rather as workshops for the people's business.

In particular, I would hope our Presidents will be remembered for their labors in building better Government rather than for their efforts in constructing public works projects to themselves.
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 25/03/2026
A viral dog rescue from 2016 is now immortalized with a statue in Kazakhstan. When a dog fell into the Sayran reservoir, bystanders formed a human chain to pull him to safety. The statue is a reminder of the value of unity, solidarity and collective action. 14/10 for all
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Breaking: LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jury finds Instagram and YouTube liable in landmark social media addiction trial.
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FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Epic Paralympic Games,,, Congratulationz to all the competitors ,, medalists ,, and way to go parasled hockey team on GOLD,!! Now Thatz a hat trick for USA Hockey 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾 All that is HARDER THAN YOU THINK youtu.be/pCx5Std7mCo?...
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Harder Than You Think [OFFICIAL VIDEO]
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Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Consent calendar just passed and I am now officially endorsed by the California Democratic Party! Thank you to all the delegates and everyone involved in the process - it’s not always sexy work, but it’s all important for a functioning democracy. Onwards to the primary!
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
NBER: “.. Tariff increases are contractionary: imports fall sharply, exports decline with a lag, and output and manufacturing activity drop persistently.” @scottlincicome.bsky.social www.nber.org/papers/w34852
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/02/2026
Mamdani: "I speak of Renee Good, whose final words to the man who murdered her were, 'I'm not mad at you.' I speak of Alex Pretti who died as he lived, caring for the stranger. ICE shot him bc he did something they could never fathom ... let us offer a new path: one of defiance through compassion."
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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center Philip Glass Philip Glass Philip Glass Philip Glass Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
The letter from Bill and Hillary Clinton to James Comer explaining their refusal to testify in his Epstein investigation is really remarkable, not like any letter of this genre I've seen. It's signed by them, not a lawyer, and the arguments are not legal ones. Reprinted from their X account:
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 11/01/2026
Jay-Z’s Limited Problem Set: Let x = the set including Jay’s total number of possible tribulations (maximum = 100). GIVEN: One of the set ≠ “a bitch.” How many other potential quandaries might Jay-Z face?
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Pop Song Math Quiz
Answer all questions in the form of a song title. 1. The Rob Base Postulate Given that a number greater than 1(x) is required to make a thing go ri...
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Melissa Murray @profmmurray.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Because reading is fundamental.
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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
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Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Reason one million and ten I love NYC: Every single time I need to get my giant double stroller up or down stairs or up into the bus, a kind stranger jumps in to help me. Every single time!
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
RFK Jr. is anti-science, anti-vax, anti-public health, and in charge of preventing infectious disease in the United States. If I’m flying I’m masking.
Photo of a  brunette in tortoiseshell glasses sitting in an airplane seat. She is wearing a grey shirt and a white KF94 mask.
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Patrick Connolly @patrickconnolly.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Implement a 100% tariff and ruin a movie: My Two Left Feet
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#9 Dream @gayfabfourfan.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Protect yourself against SARS-CoV-2/COVID despite everything around you telling you it’s no longer a threat. #CovidIsntOver #WearAnN95
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Patrick Connolly @patrickconnolly.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
This is enraging me lol. No one deserves or is entitled to my attention without my consent and willing participation.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Probably worth saving this number
Reddit post from bebe_laroux

We have (a suicide hotline) in Canada that people in the US can call.

1-877-330-6366

Edit: you can also access our health websites. If one was shutdown in the US there's likely a Canadian equivalent you can search out.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
They make it sound like there are millions of dead people getting Social Security checks. But it's just not true.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Not you, J.D. Not you.
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
NEW TODAY: 200 college and university presidents band together to condemn “unprecedented government overreach” in higher education and reaffirm the “essential freedom to determine, on academic grounds, whom to admit and what is taught, how, and by whom.” www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...
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A Call for Constructive Engagement | AAC&U
A Call for Constructive Engagement
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Patrick Connolly @patrickconnolly.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
This is just outstanding.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
HAPPENING NOW: The Justice Department has missed a 5pm deadline to file details about Kilmar Abrego Garcia's whereabouts and efforts to comply with a judge's otder to facilitate his return. Still waiting to see if they're just a few minutes behind or not planning to file at all
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AG Andrea Joy Campbell @massago.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
BREAKING: We're suing the Trump Administration over their attempt to gut funding that supports our public libraries and museums. Massachusetts is home to countless diverse cultural institutions - and I won't let attacks on them go unchecked.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 30/03/2025
A reminder that Bill Maher has long been an antivaxxer and AIDS denier and helped mainstream the “do your own research” culture now dismantling public health. He is also a good friend of RFK Jr. It’s time for the media to stop giving him a platform. You are not entitled to your own facts.
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Why Is CNN Platforming Notorious Anti-Vaxxer Bill Maher?
In a desperate play for relevance, the flailing cable news network gave the neo-luddite comic a primetime slot. That’s a mistake for “the most trusted name in news.”
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
From an operational security perspective, this is the highest level of fuckup imaginable. These people cannot keep America safe.
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The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
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Patrick Connolly @patrickconnolly.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
You fuck with Bea Arthur (or any golden girl) you fuck with me. Bring it, and may whatever god you believe in help you, bc you’re going to need it.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
We expected 2,000 people out in GOP-held Greeley, Colorado. 11,000 people showed up. Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.
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Joshua Kosman @joshuakosman.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
BREAKING: Pianist András Schiff cancels all his US engagements for 2025-26 in response to "the recent and unprecedented political changes in the United States." "Some people might say, 'just shut up and play.' I cannot, in good conscience, do that." www.kirshbaumassociates.com/agency.php?v...
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Pianist Sir András Schiff Cancels U.S. Appearances for 2025-2026 Season
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FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Congratulationz to all my friends at Ted Lasso,,, I think we all need something to BELIEVE in right now ,,, and if y’all need Flavor Flav to step up and sponsor your women’s soccer team,,, I gots you. 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾 @jasonsudeikis.bsky.social
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a man standing in front of a door with ted lasso written on the bottom right
Alt: Jason Sudiekis hitting the Ted Lasso BELIEVE sign
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
CALLS ARE WORKING - it has bought us precious time, but we NEED to keep the pressure up. Tomorrow is the cloture vote. KEEP CALLING: (202) 224-3121 ☎️☎️☎️ Tell your Dem Senator to vote NO on Cloture and NO on the Republican spending bill. Do NOT assume your Senator will be good on this. Trust me.
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Judge Stephen Dillard @judgedillard.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
“Judicial independence does not happen all by itself. It is hard to create, and it is easier than most people imagine to damage or destroy.” Justice Sandra Day O’Connor.
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 04/03/2025
I’m headed to a corn and soybean farm in Cannon Falls to hear about the impact of Trump’s tariffs on Minnesota farmers.   Farming is a tough job, and it certainly isn’t made any easier by two out-of-touch billionaires cutting off economic opportunities.
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 02/03/2025
#copyediting tortuous = twisty, also lengthy/complicated torturous = painful like torture
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Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
No kings, no tyrants. Not now, not ever.
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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 18/02/2025
This is fucking incredible.
REYES: [The order] calls an entire category of people dishonest, dishonorable, undisciplined, immodest, who lack integrity, people who have taken an oath to defend this country, people who have been under fire, people who have received medals for taking fire for this country. I want to know from the government whether that language expresses 'animus.' Does that express animus? DOJ ATTORNEY: Not in any constitutional- REYES: In a commonsense way. This is a policy from the President of the United States affecting thousands of people ... to call an entire group of people, lying dishonest people who are undisciplined, immodest and have no integrity. How is that anything other than showing animus? DOJ ATTORNEY: I don't have an answer for you. REYES: You do have an answer, you just don't want to give it... People can make solid arguments as to why some or even most transgender people shouldn't be in the military We're dealing with unadulterated animus. We are dealing with the president of the United States dealing with a group of people serving their country... calling them liars. (Reyes then said she changed her courtroom orders to bar people who graduated from UVA law school from appearing before her because "they're all liars and lack integrity and are undisciplined and can't possibly meet the high rigors of benign a lawyer for the government" She made the DOJ lawyer sit down on that basis, then after he did, she called him back up and asked whether that was a display of animus.)
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
For folks in DC with animal pals
To our federal government employee/contractor community:  



We understand more than most that accidents and emergencies have a way of happening at the worst possible time.  



For federal government employees/contractors who have lost their jobs during the downsizing of the federal government workforce, starting tomorrow we are waiving our emergency exam fee, non-routine primary care exam fee (sick visit), and offering extended payment options on all services.  



As always, if you think your pet is having a medical emergency, take him or her to the nearest emergency facility. If you are unsure whether or not your pet needs to be seen, please give us a call at 202-363-7300.  We are available 24-hours a day to help assist you in your decision.  



Sincerely,



Your Friends at Friendship Hospital for Animals
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Anna Stansbury @annastansbury.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
I am hiring a predoc at MIT to start this summer! We will work on various topics in labor economics - unions, minimum wages, imperfect competition, etc. Please apply and share ! #predoc @mitiwer.bsky.social #EconSky apply.interfolio.com/163492
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 13/02/2025
This is where you go to tell the National Park Service to restore the word "transgender" in its entry on the Stonewall monument. (Scroll down.)
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Stonewall National Monument (U.S. National Park Service)
Before the 1960s, almost everything about living openly as a lesbian, gay, bisexual (LGB) person was illegal. The Stonewall Uprising on June 28, 1969 is a milestone in the quest for LGB civil rights a...
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 13/02/2025
NEW: My office is hearing that DOGE is now at the IRS. That means Musk's henchmen are in a position to dig through a trove of data about every taxpayer in America. And if your refund is delayed, they could very well be the reason.
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Patrick Connolly @patrickconnolly.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
To quote Rick Wilson, Everything Trump Touches Dies. Guess that includes the Chiefs.
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Ellen L. Weintraub @ellenlweintraub.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.
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Melissa Murray @profmmurray.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
DOGE is not a real department. In order to be a real department, DOGE would have to be approved by Congress. Pass it on.
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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Leopard: I will eat your face Bank analysts: Our baseline assumes no face-eating Leopard: Chomp chomp chomp
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
If a plea for kindness and empathy makes you furious, you might be a sociopath.
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Mark D. Levine @marklevinenyc.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Brilliant use of vacant office space in NYC: Two empty floors of 307 W. 38th St have come back to life as new home of the famed Paul Taylor Dance Company. With beautiful studios, classrooms and rehearsal space. A win for dance. A win for NYC. Thrilled to join today’s ribbon cutting.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Elon’s estranged daughter has re-entered the chat
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