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Kinako

@seamusmcgee.bsky.social
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Media attendant and St. Louis admirer.

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Kinako @seamusmcgee.bsky.social · 22h
This is the sloppiest NFL season I've ever seen. Every team seems like they are coached by toddlers.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/10/2026
a livestreamed execution is just a lynching
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Why is 🇺🇸 media not reporting on this 128 day Albanian protest of Kushner and Ivanka’s insane corruption?
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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I reviewed Chuck Klosterman’s book on American football and couldn’t get past the dishonesty about the nature of the game to even accept his premise of its future www.thenation.com/article/cult...
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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
If you're going to argue that major prizes are "deforming and hollowing out literary culture" because of the demographics and chosen topics of the winners, you need to go ahead and name exactly which books wrongly beat which books
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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 17/09/2026
feels kind of wild that the default great future achievement of LLMs is "someday if could cure cancer" when mRNA vaccines are in fact making progress on potentially curing or preventing certain cancers, very "we have curing cancer at home"
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Macklemore: Palestinian children are people. Robert Kraft *actively getting a handjob from a strip mall prostitute he refuses to tip*: We must ban this hate speech from every stadium in America. Let me call up my friends, the Epstein client list. Ed Sheeran: Good point, sir. Both sides, sir.
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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Worth noting, as Macklemore was banned by NFL owners in what will be dubbed "fighting antisemitism", that Kanye, who - sold merch with swastikas - said on Alex Jones that he idolizes Hitler - tweeted he was "going Defcon 3 on Jewish people" is currently on a multi-city tour of NFL stadiums
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 09/09/2026
From The Crimson editorial board: “…to encourage unfettered use of AI, especially for “writing-intensive” courses, is antithetical to promoting learning and jeopardizes the purpose of a liberal arts education.”
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Don't Tell Us To Write Our Papers With AI | The Harvard Crimson
It’s still unclear how AI could be used to support academic writing without meaningfully outsourcing one’s thinking. Professors might not be able to enforce a prohibition on its use for larger take-ho...
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 01/09/2026
The value of Graham Platner is that right up until all his red flags came toppling down upon him is that he is the most naked example of the amount of grace & credibility Simply Being White grants you. Compared to Abdul El-Sayed, who has to re-earn every ounce of credibility he has on a daily basis.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
cool we finally discovered what the military equivalent of bankrupting a casino is
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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I need the HR report from the first time one of them tries to jack it with the gloves on
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Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
The moderators of the King George County Community Facebook page took a post about this story down and told me it’s because it is “stirring the pot.” Wouldn’t it be great if everyone on Bluesky saw this story in response to their censorship? www.advocate.com/opinion/king...
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These LGBTQ+ Virginia kids found support and community in school. Then, bigoted adults took that away
The hardest thing about growing up queer isn’t being different. It’s what adults like conservatives in King George County do because of it, writes John Casey.
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Diana Moskovitz @dianamoskovitz.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
The right got a big win when the U.S. Supreme Court upheld states banning trans girls from women's sports. What's next? Over at @defector.com, I dig into their plan for essentially winding down competitive women's sports and Title IX — think of it as make women's sports girly again. Gift link:
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Is The Right's Next Project Make Women's Sports Girly Again? | Defector
Within a few weeks of the country’s highest court giving states permission to ban trans girls from nearly all school sports, the influential right wing think tank The Heritage Foundation made clear it...
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
It's fun watch Bari Weiss grasping her way to figuring out what journalism is through her hires at 60 Minutes. Is it when you ask a prominent person a question and nod? Is it when you make sure that something Benny Johnson said on Twitter makes it into a reported story despite it not being true?
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
It is genuinely bizarre that we’ve become acclimatized to right wingers throwing a tantrum every time a black person (particularly a black woman) is cast in something, but are also supposed to pretend that this is not racism but related to some other substantive concern.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 22/07/2026
Politico's owner is giving Peter Thiel an award. Semafor just added more tech billionaires to its Silicon Valley suck-up advisory board. Now comes the Economist's "Insider" interview with Elon Musk, sponsored by Anthropic. The sorry state of business/tech journalism in one stunning image.
screenshot of Economist "Insider" newsletter, an interview with Elon Musk...sponsored by Anthropic
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Literacy is not an individual skill. Literacy is a public infrastructure.
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Luis Paez-Pumar @lpp.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Spain is so good (at playing truly rancid matches for a neutral)!!!
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
We are going to reach a point where every student is paid 50,000 dollars to take a rightwing class to turn them against the idea of government spending
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/07/2026
this is like the literal opposite of true. the most fruitful eras of the modern democratic party coincided with periods where the walls separating political radicals from the mainstream were way less solid
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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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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
In case it wasn’t clear, I think there are a lot of mistakes and beliefs that people can change and — with effort and good faith — try to make right. Rape is not one of those. You cannot rehabilitate a rapist. There is no room for rapists in our movement.
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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 07/07/2026
One of the most insidious mechanisms of rape culture is the way we treat a rapist experiencing *literally any consequences at all* as "ruining their lives." Not getting an extremely competitive job that literally 100 people have is not only not a death sentence-- it's not a sentence. At all.
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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I don't think Platner is a plant. he's just your run-of-the-mill misogynistic, racist leftish dudebro.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
i will not forget the men who downplayed the earlier allegations of abuse against platner and said accepting them was just the price we had to pay to gain control of the senate. i hope they feel like fucking assholes.
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Exclusive: Woman who dated Graham Platner says he sexually assaulted her
The Maine Democrat denied the allegations and said, “Any accusation of non-consensual behavior is categorically untrue.”
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
gooooooo fuck yourself
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 06/07/2026
It's really important to emphasize this: the reason that conservatives are arguing for increased teaching loads is that they want to END mainstream humanities research
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 30/06/2026
As called on TV Trece in Paraguay:
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aslynn is just a ghoul 👻 @aslynnromano.com · 29/06/2026
judging SNAP users by their purchases and how they spend their benefits
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Eoghan Sweeney @eoghan.eurosky.social · 28/06/2026
I don't want to hear another word about how much white European visitors are enjoying ranch dressing while team officials, Africa's top referee, and now one of the world's most celebrated fans are turned away from the World Cup. The USA is an utterly unfit host — it's as simple as that
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DR Congo superfan denied US visa to support team at World Cup
Michel Kuka Mboladinga is iconic for his motionless tribute at DRC games, but a US World Cup repeat has been denied.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/06/2026
Mike Johnson: "Right now the foundations of America are under violent and unprecedented attack"
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Matthew Thomas Miller (He/Him) @mtmiller.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Seriously disappointed in my alma mater, @washu.edu, and its chancellor, Andrew Martin. Really disgusting attack on academic freedom and scholarship.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Johnson: If we lose the midterms, these Democrats will turn every committee of Congress into an investigative body, and they'll go after the president's family, the cabinet, his donors, friends, half of you in this room will be targeted. I run the protection program. We’ll take care of you.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Who among us has not referred to our spouse with a definite article followed by their ethnicity bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
The correct terms are "racism" and "sexism," not anti-diversity politics.
"Hegseth Strikes Female and Black Navy Officers From Promotion List
The defense secretary’s decision to block the officers’ promotions appears driven by his anti-diversity stance rather than based on merit"
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Sen. Pumpkin Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
"Couch potato" is the archetypal metaphor for laziness. Yet if you leave a potato on the couch it will sprout without soil, relying solely on its internal reserve of water. What is this if not grindset? Are we not all, now, relying on our internal reserves to grow, on the computer?
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Barry Petchesky @barryp.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
This is a great blog. defector.com/nathaniel-bu...
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Longtime NBA Photographer Nathaniel S. Butler Explains How He Sees Basketball | Defector
The Defector basketball chat was captivated by a sequence of artfully stage-lit photos in Game 1 of the Knicks-Sixers playoff series at Madison Square Garden. They were the work of Nathaniel S. Butler...
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Fascists succeed in general because they are willing to take stuff, break rules, get violent, while most of their opponents are not Fascists lose, in general, because they pick (at least) one fight too many with someone they didn't expect to fight back
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andré crombie @andrecrombie.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
this is correct. we so often choose to not fight when we might lose, rather than taking the risk and getting caught trying. older example: the biden wh's response to dobbs. “well, our executive action is guaranteed to be overturned” — and? do it anyway, lose, and show the courts are partisan.
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Daramola @izdaramola.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Sigh… I wrote about the Michael Jackson movie defector.com/michael-is-t...
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'Michael' Is The Most Cynical Attempt At Biopic Myth-Making Yet | Defector
Michael is a bad movie. Let’s just get that out of the way now. It is a movie designed less to tell a story than to recreate moments, ones you are probably already familiar with. It is a movie designe...
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Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Masterful work here from @izdaramola.bsky.social defector.com/michael-is-t...
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'Michael' Is The Most Cynical Attempt At Biopic Myth-Making Yet | Defector
Michael is a bad movie. Let’s just get that out of the way now. It is a movie designed less to tell a story than to recreate moments, ones you are probably already familiar with. It is a movie designe...
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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
I don’t think I can take another news cycle of Democrats solemnly tutting about how violence is never the answer while Republicans promise to put their political enemies and whatever immigrants they can find in a wood chipper
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Defector @defector.com · 19/04/2026
Defector is simply the 26 worker-owners who staff the site, along with the 40,000 or so paid subscribers who sustain it. Become one of them for only $1.
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Achieve Information Independence Via Defector’s Spring Sale | Defector
When I survey energy markets—that is, when I gaze through binoculars at the gas station sign I can read from my home as long as there isn’t a big truck in the intersection—I see the disruptive…
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Diana Moskovitz @dianamoskovitz.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
I wrote about Dianna Russini, the constant pressure female reporters face to prove they aren't sleeping with sources (plus the pressure we do get from sources to get involved with them), and why all of this is so uncomfortable to talk about. Gift link:
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You Can Never Let Them Think They Have A Chance | Defector
I don’t remember the first time someone hit on me as a reporter. I believe this is because my brain has come to treat these events as unremarkable. For any woman in journalism, they pile up over the y...
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Ed BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
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Kinako @seamusmcgee.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
This seems like it will be a very cool thing.
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Ravenous @weareravenous.com · 06/04/2026
We are Ravenous — food media with teeth. Ravenous is worker-owned food and culture media company founded by @francesdoingthings.bsky.social, @aemccarthy.bsky.social, @jayasaxena.com, @shokdiesel.bsky.social, and @thecourtneyesmith.bsky.social.
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Ravenous Is a New Worker-Owned Food Culture Media Company
For too long, food media has felt toothless. Help us take a bite out of it.
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