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Peter McCollum @petermccollum.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Somehow I suspect that denying Catholic prisoners in ICE facilities the right to give confession will not raise the same level of concern about religious freedom from Sam Alito as letting gay people get married.

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Peter McCollum @petermccollum.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There is no political issue people gripe about more at the kitchen table than corruption. Corruption and kitchen table issues are the same thing.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026

remarkable piece of journalism. really worth reading.

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I’m on a quiz show that only tapes 46 days a year and even I think this schedule is a little light.

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Peter McCollum @petermccollum.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The Rams are in sole possession of last place in the NFC West.

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Peter McCollum @petermccollum.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Michael Dickson is punting his mf ass off. The Rutgers guy is doing this. And @chriswarcraft.bsky.social is too busy knocking doors and putting in call time to post about punting. I hate what is happening to America.

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Peter McCollum @petermccollum.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

And this is why we have to let people with out of state plates drive their F150 through the market. #tourism

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Peter McCollum @petermccollum.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

China is absolutely kicking out ass right now. And it’s entirely our fault.

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Peter McCollum @petermccollum.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Pete Carroll and Mike Macdonald are the Freaky Friday body swap combo of NFL coaching. No 70-year-old should be that energetic and fired up. And there’s no way Macdonald is only 39.

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Peter McCollum @petermccollum.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Among other benefits, this would make the trip to and from Mukilteo Ferry terminal much faster and easier.

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Aine Yore, MD 🏳️‍⚧️🇮🇪 @aineyoremd.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

An attempted coup without accountability is just a dry run.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

(pausing as I nail up the Ten Commandments in a classroom) "They shouldn't be forcing their religion on schoolchildren!"

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

This is all a crazy effort to rewrite the past, yes. But what's really terrifying is hearing these people tell us how badly they're going to fuck up the *next* pandemic they're now creating without that nerd Fauci holding them back.

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

The whole 8647 affair is missing the real issue: Harry Truman thought it was dumb to count non-consecutive Cleveland twice and so he insisted he was the 32nd, not 33rd president. By which reckoning, we should be arguing about 8644 since Trump is only the 44th individual to be POTUS.

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Peter McCollum @petermccollum.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Watching the internet go wild for Jimothy and realizing he has 100% been in our backyard many times.

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Peter McCollum @petermccollum.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

The end of an era, but hopefully another great one ahead.

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Peter McCollum @petermccollum.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

What did I do to deserve this Facebook ad?

Facebook ad with photo of woman eating a disturbingly large spoon of mayonnaise and caption “Get basic and enjoy fresh homemade mayo whenever you want”

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Sharon "Screams in Perimenopause" Z @sharonz.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

With alt text because this is so good everyone should get to enjoy it.

Marge Simpson looks horrified and says “have you been up all night watching scaffolding?”

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Peter McCollum @petermccollum.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Merge two movies: Dirty Dancing with Wolves

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Peter McCollum @petermccollum.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Merge Two Movies: Thor: Love and Thunderball

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Peter McCollum @petermccollum.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Merge two movies: St. Elmo’s Fire: Christmas Countdown!

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Peter McCollum @petermccollum.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Merge two movies: The Fantastic Four Weddings and a Funeral: First Steps

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Peter McCollum @petermccollum.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

I’m seriously excited about this NBA Finals.

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Peter McCollum @petermccollum.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

This post and the comments are the canonical example of what social media has done to our ability to consume long-form journalism.

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Spencer Sharpe @jspencersharpe.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

*Brandon Flowers voice* 🎵 He’s got six genders Watch it now, here he comes He’s got a real hit on Jesus But he talks like a gentlemen 🎵

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Of all the people to complain about businesses being “forced” to leave Seattle….

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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

This would constitute one of the most brazen, most appalling acts of corruption in U.S. history. I know we’re numb to all of this but this is a seven-alarm fire. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/b...

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Justice Dept. Officials Consider Settling Trump Suit Against I.R.S.

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Peter McCollum @petermccollum.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Slightly increase a band Prince & The Provisional Government

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Peter McCollum @petermccollum.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Slightly increase a band Bicameral Legislature-Funkadelic

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Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me · 12/05/2026

Slightly increase a band They Are Quite Probably Giants

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Peter McCollum @petermccollum.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Slightly increase a band Jason Isbell and the 401 Unit

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

It was stunning stuff

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Peter McCollum @petermccollum.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

"High gas prices aren't just hitting pocketbooks, they're breaking spirits. Today..." -Some local news anchor

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Spirit Airlines Prepares to Shut Down

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 30/04/2026

What do conservatives always say when liberals criticize a Supreme Court decision? "Get Congress to pass a law," right? That is EXACTLY what happened here. In 1982, Congress explicitly overruled a Court case that narrowly interpreted the VRA. Today, Sam Alito said, nope, we were right all along.

In 1982, when Congress passed a series of amendments strengthening the Voting Rights Act of 1965, lawmakers wanted to make one thing very clear: that minority voters seeking to prove violations of the Voting Rights Act do not have to prove that lawmakers intentionally discriminated against them based on race. Instead, under a provision of the law known as Section 2, Congress said, it is enough for voters to show that a given policy—a redistricting plan, for example—has the effect of making it more difficult for them to actually participate in democracy.

At the time, Congress had good reason to be specific. Two years earlier, the Supreme Court in City of Mobile v. Bolden had held that a facially neutral electoral map did not violate the Voting Rights Act, even though it had the practical effect of reducing Black voting strength. In the 1982 amendments, Congress explicitly overruled Bolden; in its final report on the bill, the Senate Judiciary Committee affirmed that requiring challengers to prove discriminatory intent would impose an “inordinately difficult burden,” and would make it too easy for racist lawmakers to disguise their true motivations by leaving a “false trail” of non-discriminatory justifications.

In Louisiana v. Callais, which the Supreme Court decided on Wednesday, the six conservative justices took it upon themselves to reimpose the “inordinately difficult burden” Congress lifted five decades ago. In his opinion for the majority, Justice Samuel Alito strains to present Callais as faithful to the law passed by Congress: His opinion, he says, merely “updates” the tests that courts use to evaluate Section 2 claims, and “realigns” that framework with the text of the Voting Rights Act.

In reality, what Alito and the majority have done is make it functionally impossible for voters to prove that a given map is an illegal racial gerrymander, no matter how discriminatory the map’s real-world impact. Their opinion in Callais preserves only a husk of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, leaving intact the ability of minority voters to cast ballots while simultaneously guaranteeing lawmakers’ power to ensure that those ballots are meaningless. Going forward, the same racist lawmakers whom Congress sought to bind in 1982 will be freer than ever to draw lines that gerrymander their Black and brown constituents out of electoral existence.

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Peter McCollum @petermccollum.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Advertise your account with a Simpsons image.

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Peter McCollum @petermccollum.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

This is an absolute train wreck of graphic design bullshit and terrible decision making. But they will have Gonzaga games.

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Peter McCollum @petermccollum.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

George W. Bush was a horrendous president I quit a job, joined campaign and worked thousands of hours for very little pay trying to defeat. If George W. Bush was on the ballot against Donald Trump, I would crawl over broken glass to pull that lever.

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Peter McCollum @petermccollum.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Given the surge of former Trump enablers crossing over lately, it’s fair to ask whether we’ve moved too much, too fast—maybe we slow things down until people like Tucker Carlson are ready to assimilate to our culture before we let them in.

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

I can’t believe the company that’s founded by a fascist vampire and named after an evil wizard‘s all seeing stone has some fucked up ideas about politics.

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Peter McCollum @petermccollum.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

I don’t know why this is so surprising. Swalwell resignation gave GOP majority enough breathing room to kick Gonzales to the curb.

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