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Rex Halligan

@rexhalligan.bsky.social
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Professional Firefighter. Burlesque performer. Union strong. General history and science nerd.

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Rex Halligan @rexhalligan.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Since I can be more honest on here than anywhere, because nobody is on this: The responses to all the latest burlesque drama are the exact reason why I don’t hang out with 99% of burlesque people. Jesus Christ
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Rex Halligan @rexhalligan.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
If your labor quote is more than the naked women on stage are making, you fucked up. If you expect me to use you, instead of the people I normally work with, because you’re “tied to the venue,” we’ll find another venue. If you want to act like a union stagehand at a BK backroom venue, fuck off.
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Rex Halligan @rexhalligan.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
“If the Boyscouts don’t get in line, the Pentagon will pull their funding” is not a sentence I ever thought I would read.
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Rex Halligan @rexhalligan.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Watching a jiujitsu video breakdown, and the teacher just referred to slamming someone as “hitting them with the planet.”
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Rex Halligan @rexhalligan.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Everyday is back day
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Rex Halligan @rexhalligan.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
I’ll keep saying it: I’m a public employee. You can look up my salary, employment history, disciplinary issues. From there it’s not hard to see where I live. This is required by law because I’m a fireman. Yet somehow posting info on armed, masked men in unmarked cars grabbing people is “doxxing.”
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Rex Halligan @rexhalligan.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
There was a “what’s the most famous weapon from your country” thread. Someone from Mexico posted a Macuahuitl. He lost to the person that responded with this.
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Rex Halligan @rexhalligan.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
So you want to watch this thing on ESPN+, but it’s locked behind ESPN Unlimited. You need to upgrade ESPN+ to ESPN Unlimited, you can do so by going to ESPN+ in your Disney+ settings, which says you have the Disney+ HULU ESPN+ package through your Verizon app.
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Rex Halligan @rexhalligan.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
This is literally why the war criminals in Ireland were called “Black & Tans.” They were thrown into policing with almost no training, and a mishmash of non-matching military and police uniforms. 100 years later, we’re reliving history.
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Rex Halligan @rexhalligan.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
This moment is the happiest I’ve ever been on a stage
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Rex Halligan @rexhalligan.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
“We can’t abolish an entire agency!” N. Ireland renamed their police, reduced them by 12-20%, forced officers to wear name tags, forced officers to disclose any orgs. they belong to, and mandated hiring changes. “But that was long ago!” They did this 15 months before ICE was created.
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Rex Halligan @rexhalligan.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Houston St and 2nd Ave
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Rex Halligan @rexhalligan.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
My friend just stated that, going forward, his page is going to be 100% trains and smut. I don’t think I’ve ever seen autism summed up in one post
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Rex Halligan @rexhalligan.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Again reminding everyone to follow @ryangrim.bsky.social . Pretty much the only actual reporter left in the U.S. Not a pundit, not a talking head. A guy that goes out and does actual investigative journalism in 2026. He’s broken stories some huge stories on Gaza, ICE, etc.
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Rex Halligan @rexhalligan.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Just deleted Threads, because META was filling my IG feed with right wing garbage. Realized I forgot about this app. So I guess I’m back and going dick out again
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Rex Halligan @rexhalligan.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
People see Ben Affleck’s perfect summation of A.I. development plateauing, and act shocked that he’s incredibly intelligent. “How’d he end up with J-Lo twice?” Look, we’ve all done insanely dumb shit for latinas. Cast the first stone, etc.
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Rex Halligan @rexhalligan.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
The news is telling on itself again. 0 deaths in L.A. is a “riot,” 203 deaths in Iran is a “protest.”
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Rex Halligan @rexhalligan.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
This 23 year old in MN blew the roof off this daycare fraud by showing up to the daycares! My brother in Christ, go to a daycare and say “hi, I’m just here to film the children for a bit.” In a red state, you’d be shot in the first 30 seconds.
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Rex Halligan @rexhalligan.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Can’t wait for China to snatch our President, and I can point to the celebration in Washington Square and say “but look how happy the Americans are!”
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Rex Halligan @rexhalligan.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
I’m at the age where I’ll think a celebrity is cute, look her up, and get skeeved out with myself if she’s like 22. So I’m pretty sure a huge chunk of men are just straight pedos.
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Rex Halligan @rexhalligan.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Another odd indicator of the K shaped economy. The $400/ticket New Year’s Eve events seem to be selling out, the $90/ticket ones seem to still be running sales on 12/30; and I’ve never seen so many performers have their gigs pulled last minute. We’re well into the second gilded age.
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Rex Halligan @rexhalligan.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
A24: “So it’s a movie about two incels that kidnap a CEO, because they think she’s an alien. Maybe go minimalist. Just ominous tones, and silence?” Guy who scored BUGONIA:
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Rex Halligan @rexhalligan.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Odessa A’Zion sounds like a J.K. Rowling character
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Rex Halligan @rexhalligan.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
A child trafficker meets with POTUS’ personal lawyer, lies about POTUS innocence, and gets transferred to a min. security camp with special privileges. Emails drop with indisputable proof that she lied. Dems: Haha, Trump sucked dick
min.security
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Rex Halligan @rexhalligan.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Burn the Democratic Party to the ground
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Rex Halligan @rexhalligan.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Not the fucking Razor Ramon pyro at Charlie Kirk’s funeral
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Rex Halligan @rexhalligan.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Watching Next Gen Chef, chefs are competing at the CIA. First challenge is to create a menu based on the CIA graduate you’ve been assigned to emulate. There’s a team assigned “Anthony Bourdain.” If their first course isn’t “go out into the alley and do this bump” then what’s the point of this?
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Rex Halligan @rexhalligan.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
“Tickets are more at the door, but you can save $5 by preordering tickets, with a $5 eventbrite fee!”
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Rex Halligan @rexhalligan.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
I’m just a boy, standing in front of a they, asking you to send in your music
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Rex Halligan @rexhalligan.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Whoever is running the gay 90’s EDM party on Myrtle Ave called “Aphex Twinks” -Bravo. No notes
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Rex Halligan @rexhalligan.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
It’s 6:30 am. I just had a nightmare where I was riding a citibike, but couldn’t find a dock, and the people trying to help or impede me kept getting more and more annoying until I seriously thought about harming them. And I fucking realized that I wrote the NYC adaptation of Satre’s “No Exit”
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Rex Halligan @rexhalligan.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Yes, a more famous guy than me also got engaged this week, but I don’t look like a cop that turns his body cam off
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Rex Halligan @rexhalligan.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
The internet has ruined me, because some plumbing magazine had a headline “Keep These Baddies Out of Your Drains,” and I was expecting some kind of goth plumber girl photoshoot.
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Rex Halligan @rexhalligan.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
LEAKED TRACK LISTING: 1. Changing in the walk in 2. Creepy DJ 3. Why won’t you work this sex party for $50? 4. Exposure 5. Teaching after 3 months 6. An uber is what?! 7. Toilet selfie 8. You’re so brave
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Rex Halligan @rexhalligan.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Me explaining to my plants that there is a limited number of spots in this NYC apartment, and if they want a spot, they need to start succeeding out here in the garden before winter
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Rex Halligan @rexhalligan.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
The new MasterChef season is all duos. If this isn’t 50 minutes of people yelling “you’re in my way” this is TV bullshit
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Rex Halligan @rexhalligan.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
So many of my friends were born to be on cars in hair metal videos, just 20 years too late.
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Rex Halligan @rexhalligan.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Guy on a gaming forum: “it’s not set in a small town! Small towns don’t have monorails!” Me:
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Rex Halligan @rexhalligan.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
There’s uncomfortable, then there’s your partner looking at you for singing the Irish songs in Sinners uncomfortable
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Rex Halligan @rexhalligan.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
If im staring off during conversation, it’s because You is back on Netflix and I’m doing the Joe voiceover in my head again.
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Rex Halligan @rexhalligan.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Just found out that a guy at the firehouse has a brother that runs a crane company called “Reliable Erections”
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Rex Halligan @rexhalligan.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Watching 3 Body Problem, and I’m like “it’s crazy that this group wants to go outside, so they just hang out at The Cliffs of Dover.” Then I realize that I can just look at the Statue of Liberty, Brooklyn Bridge, or Central Park whenever I want. Don’t lose that sense of wonder.
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Rex Halligan @rexhalligan.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
I know times are tough right now, but Fyre Fest 2 is taking place in 49 days, and hasn’t announced a single act outside of former Steelers WR Antonio Brown. Tickets start at $1,400, and they were forced to move to a different venue, after Isla Mujeres claimed to have no knowledge of the event.
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Rex Halligan @rexhalligan.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Get me to god’s country
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Rex Halligan @rexhalligan.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Anyone that’s beaten Sid Meier’s Civilization on Prince difficulty or higher could run a better economy than this 😂
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Rex Halligan @rexhalligan.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Life in your 40’s- “this storage unit place is playing my jams.”
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Rex Halligan @rexhalligan.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Rewatched Terminator 2, and the bomb going off turning playground equipment into the 4 Horsemen is such an underrated shot.
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Rex Halligan @rexhalligan.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
It’s been 40 years, and if you still put “Space Balls: The (noun)” on something, I will laugh
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Rex Halligan @rexhalligan.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
“We should call the show Strip Patrick’s Day!” Me, scribbling out the word “Potussy”
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Rex Halligan @rexhalligan.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
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