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ProfGadfly

@profgadfly.bsky.social
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Historian, podcaster (isn't everyone?), ex-professor, Canadian and American, consumer of ridiculous amounts of tv and film, grumpy person. liesagreedupon.com

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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 18h
You mean Hawkeye Schmitt?
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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is so enraging. Not Sargent, but the whole, "Wait. What!?! You mean if the press refuses to kowtow and does it's job, they might actually perform their sacred, civic role in democratic society? Why didn't anyone point this out earlier?"
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.
A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with 
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future
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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Respond with an image of your favorite Bond (wrong answers only)
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Guilty Busted: Exasperated Reaction
ALT: Guilty Busted: Exasperated Reaction
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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 22/09/2026
Funny, because the Truckers got three weeks to hang out before police lifted a finger. Interesting.
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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Seriously? Anyone telling themselves that boycotting is some sort of noble, principled action that makes them especially virtuous is next level delusional. Would people stop trying to make themselves exceptional!?! Just be an average, participating member of the polis.
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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I’m shocked! Shocked, I tell you!
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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Fantastic thread. Yes!
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 11/09/2026
Trump notes that falling asleep onstage at 9/11 ceremony technically counts as moment of silence
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Trump notes that falling asleep onstage at 9/11 ceremony technically counts as moment of silence
ARLINGTON COUNTY, VA - Awakening briefly, President Trump addressed Americans assembled to pay their respects to the victims of the September 11th attacks, insisting that his mid-morning nap constitut...
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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Make a band edible: Poi Division
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 08/09/2026
Counter-Tariffs take effect as Canadians brace for life without American truck nutz
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Counter-Tariffs take effect as Canadians brace for life without American truck nutz
OTTAWA - With anti-American counter-tariffs taking effect as of September 8th, Canadians will be forced to make due without easy market access to their most-purchased American products, namely chrome ...
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FRINGE QUEST @fringequest.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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Jay Troyer @gr8flbluejay.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Criselda Vasquez, American, The New American Gothic, 2017, oil on canvas, 72 x 48 in, private collection The artist's father, portrayed in the painting, was kidnapped by ICE on 31 March 2026
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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
What’s an example of perfect casting?
Linda Hunt in The Year of Living Dangerously
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Wages of unionized workers are 13% higher than their nonunion counterparts. But unions also set a higher pay standard that all workers enjoy. In high-union-density states, median household income is $12,000 higher than in low-union-density states. This is why unions are vital.
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Raymond Norman @raymondnorman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Ukrainian LSU women’s basketball player leaves team over signing of Russian recruit Kate Koval departed the program “to remain true to myself, my values and my country.” www.nbcnews.com/sports/colle...
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Ukrainian LSU women’s basketball player leaves team over signing of Russian recruit
Kate Koval departed the program “to remain true to myself, my values and my country.”
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 03/09/2026
Hilroy to remove additional province from map of Canada every year until demands met
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Hilroy to remove additional province from map of Canada every year until demands met
MISSISSAUGA, ON – Earlier this week Canadians noticed that Hilroy had excluded Newfoundland and Cape Breton from the map of Canada on the cover of their latest notebooks. Today, the company confirmed ...
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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
That's pretty amazing.
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STAY WOKE AMERICA! @biggfredd.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I have never, ever, seen anyone using their Cybertruck as a truck. Ever.
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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
What the hell is going on with the Vegas neon net posts at the US Open!?!?
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Bari Weiss "praised the story during the network's daily editorial meeting ... Weiss even personally directed that the headline be tweaked to mention that El-Sayed had deleted tweets referencing the Sept 11 terrorist attacks." via @oliverdarcy.bsky.social www.status.news/p/cbs-news-e...
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CBS’ El-Sayed Scandal
The Bari Weiss-led outlet is being pummeled by a storm of outrage over a story about Abdul El-Sayed—and Status has learned that within the network, some staffers have raised the matter with standards.
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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I had forgotten about this.
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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
We have to stop thinking that we're saving money by buying stuff through these vendors. We're not. We're just letting their owners get rich while we subsidize their greed through our taxes and degraded public services.
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Mark T. Sneed @marktsneed.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
On this I cannot disagree. Mainstream media and legacy media have been bought and paid for and are willing turning a blind eye to an obvious coverup. No one is willing to go to the hospital and find out the truth? Shameful.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Protest that endures, I think, is moved by a hope far more modest than that of public success: namely, the hope of preserving qualities in one's own heart and spirit that would be destroyed by acquiescence. Wendell Berry, What Are People For?
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 31/08/2026
The Pentagon influencer scandal keeps getting bigger. More partisan online personalities. More government jobs. More taxpayer money. Who hired them, what are they being paid to do, and are military officers violating the UCMJ? This deserves answers.
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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
It's amazing how long I've managed to go reading every damn day about Hasan Piker while never reading or watching anything he's actually said. Everything is about him but, if you don't seek him out, he's completely invisible. Thus proving the critique of Piker hysteria is totally correct.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
You can’t say you weren’t warned
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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ𝕠𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Tech-optimists confused, chagrined by inexplicable decline in popularity of “the racist toaster that makes child porn & tells you to kill yourself,” the “upskirt revenge porn pervert glasses,” & the “the cameras that shows your stalker cop ex exactly where you are on-demand”
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Paul Simon Radiohead Simply Red Bob Dylan Iggy Pop Lyle Lovett Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy David Bowie Tame Impala Iris deMent
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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
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Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
"Mapped: The Top Import Partner of Every U.S. State" www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-the-t...
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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Two generations of an immigrant family pursue the American dream while running an olive oil import company.
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 28/08/2026
Canadians wonder if they can win trade war against famously self-sacrificing and unified Americans
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Canadians wonder if they can win trade war against famously self-sacrificing and unified Americans
OTTAWA - With tensions continuing to ratchet in the face of President Trump's unilateral trade war, Canadians are openly wondering how they will fare against the notably harmonious, disciplined, and s...
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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Um. Yeah. It’s pretty simple. We’re allowed to enjoy a little vindictive karma pay back and not be bad people, ffs. And if you keep being a kill joy, I might just hope that you too fall into the orphan crushing machine so I can have another giggle.
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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Up here in Canada, we're thinking that having fewer US goods crossing the border these days might not be a bad thing. We're afraid they've all got cooties.
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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Do you think Natalie has to pay for her own ink cartridges? I bet she does.
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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Me: Hey, honey! We live in big Hong Kong now! Hubby: We moved? Me: No. I think it moved. And somehow it's bigger. Even though Vancouver's smaller. It's confusing but Peter Navarro says it's true. Hubby: Oh. Well if he says so.
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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Yep, leave me behind….. #BookSky
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This morning in Danbury, ICE was arresting parents at school bus stops. But it’s more sinister. ICE waited until the kids were on the bus so when they are dropped off at the end of the day, they are alone, scared to death they can’t find their parents. I’m heading to Danbury.
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National Security Counselors 🕵 @nationalsecuritylaw.org · 27/08/2026
Normally making fun of someone's passing is in bad taste but I think Tim Curry of all people would be someone who would actually appreciate this.
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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
My dad was a public school teacher; and he always said the toughest parts of the job were: 1. Having to pay for your own classroom chalk, and 2. Performing gender-reassignment surgeries during class hours w/out parents finding out.
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Tyson @lscpunk.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
If Dolly was our constant reminder that it was Good to be Good, Tim Curry was our reminder that it was Good to be Weird. Embrace your strangeness, sing with Muppets, wear your lingerie with a leather jacket, and fuck with uptight people who hate anything that makes them remotely uncomfortable.
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Jason Song Quinn (Comms Open) @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Think about Miss Piggy. She lost a best friend and now an ex-lover in matter of 24 hours.
Miss Piggy and Dolly Parton in fancy dresses posing together photo of Tim Curry surrounded by muppets, smiling for a photo. A quote from curry is added “it didn’t go very well. It didn’t survive the shoot. She felt I wasn’t being faithful to her” it’s him discussing his ill fated affair with miss piggy
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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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