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Shay O’Reilly @shaygabriel.bsky.social · 18h

the Right wants to immiserate you and steal the future from your children and they want you to shut up about it

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 01/10/2026

“Becca Good addressed the media for the first time, saying, ‘I’m Renee Good’s partner, and she was the love of my life.’”

startribune.com

Live: Renee Good’s partner calls for ‘accountability’ in emotional statement

Renee Good was fatally shot on Jan. 7 in south Minneapolis by ICE agent Jonathan Ross.

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Shay O’Reilly @shaygabriel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

maybe the Trump administration should stop trying to bankrupt Ørsted if it wants some European help with its energy problems

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Shay O’Reilly @shaygabriel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This combined with the current policy on trans people just adds an additional level of insult. So glad I can get a passport that opens me up to harassment and abuse - and misrepresents my actual life - in a fancy fucking envelope.

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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 30/09/2026

One thing to bear in mind about a federal permitting bill is that its mistakes would be essentially permanent - Dems could only reverse mistakes with a filibuster-proof 60-vote supermajority in the Senate. Repubs, on the other hand, could use captured courts to shave off bits their donors dislike.

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Shay O’Reilly @shaygabriel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“It takes too long to build transmission lines” is a problem you can solve with permitting reform (although, a lot of this could be addressed with state capacity…). “Donald Trump is the president and wants to kill wind power by any means possible” is not really a permitting reform problem

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Shay O’Reilly @shaygabriel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

why the fuck are Dems rushing through a “permitting reform” bill that will almost certainly be less favorable than what they could get in six months? When they can also, say, impeach Trump and exercise their legislative power to stop him from fucking with wind projects?

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Shay O’Reilly @shaygabriel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Got home to learn that my kid wants to be her first grade class representative and we need to make an election poster. As class representative she wants to “be nice to everyone.” Man what a bold move for a kid who only immigrated last year 🥲

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Shay O’Reilly @shaygabriel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In August last year, the Trump administration canceled federal funding (that was going to be matched by a private company) to revive an old Bethlehem Steel facility in Maryland, with 500 unionized steelworker jobs.

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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 25/09/2026

At a certain point you just have to call it election interference from the US.

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Shay O’Reilly @shaygabriel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I am really scrupulous about my social media hygiene and I think it has prevented it from being (too) harmful to me or my politics. but I think I am in at least the 1% of conscientious users, and a tech that requires this is bad.

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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 28/09/2026

i'd take it even a step further than you do: it's not that social media produces fascists, but that it produces antisocial behaviour broadly, where even good acts of protest can quickly devolve online into just another method for expressing antisocial impulses in a way that feels "safe" to do

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 28/09/2026

something I'd add to this is that social media, by selecting for the most attention-grabbing content, simultaneously mass produces angry, paranoid, xenophobic morons (ie fascists) and undermines the foundation of public literacy itself

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 28/09/2026

“The playing field of the social media informational environment is uneven, and it systematically benefits autocracies.” www.liberalcurrents.com/social-media...

liberalcurrents.com

Social Media Has Not Brought Liberation

Social media has been a boon to autocratic regimes and their allied movements in democracies.

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Shay O’Reilly @shaygabriel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Sorry to post so much about podcasts - I’m traveling until tomorrow so my listening time is up - but my god the new maintenance phase subscriber episode has convinced me that short form video must be destroyed.

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fa-BOO!-s @fabius.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Luigi Pantisanos Aussage zum Verhältnis zwischen faschistisch agierender CDU und faschistischer AfD ist, würde ich sagen, bisher ziemlich gut gealtert

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Shay O’Reilly @shaygabriel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I honestly suspect that the recent QAA podcast on the state department under Trump is a better overview for European governments than whatever briefings they’ve been getting. podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/g...

podcasts.apple.com

Great Replacement Theory at the State Department feat. Josef Burton (E390)

Podcast Episode · QAA Podcast · 25 September · 1hr 26min

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Shay O’Reilly @shaygabriel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The most revealing part of the Heidenau stolpersteine ban is that while the local CDU gestures to a Jewish Bavarian leader’s position against stolpersteine, they wish not to remember the way Munich does but to hide the memorial away from public life, in a cemetery.

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Shay O’Reilly @shaygabriel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We found out last week that the director of my daughter’s old daycare center voted for the AfD for pro-car culture war reasons.

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Shay O’Reilly @shaygabriel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Have been in London for five hours and already got canvassed by some Green Party folks. (Unsolicited advice: put the date of the election somewhere clearly visible on the leaflet!)

“Vote green to keep Labour in check on housing, climate, safer communities, Gaza”

Vote green for Zack Polanski with pic of Polanski and Hannah Spencer

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Shay O’Reilly @shaygabriel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Eating a nice dinner of honey-bbq peanuts and the last bit of a Breads babka because the food options at EWR are horrific

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Shay O’Reilly @shaygabriel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Thinking about how we are definitely going to see an escalation after the midterms, regardless of the result. I think November-January will be pivotal for US democracy and I hope everyone is connected with a local civic organization that takes the threat seriously.

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Shay O’Reilly @shaygabriel.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It’s underreported in the horse race coverage that a Republican win in the midterms would not mean things just go on like this, — it would mean getting much, much worse.

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advait @advaitarun.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Times Square on Wednesday had ad for COP31 followed by an ad for the Dangote Refinery lmao climate week is insane now

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Shay O’Reilly @shaygabriel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Biased because I started it in 2024 but if you are a nyc co-op owner who wants to green your building and get support from the government to do it, you can join @greencoopcouncil.bsky.social instead. :)

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Shay O’Reilly @shaygabriel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I know heatmap’s value proposition has become “what if climate journalism was also negative towards climate activists” but I don’t understand how this is not embarrassing. you got a professional liar to lie to you on stage and treated it like a big deal?

"I'm here because I love thoughtful dialogues on energy, climate change, and human lives, Energy Secretary Chris Wright told my colleague Robinson Meyer this afternoon. "That's been a passion my whole life, and nothing will change that."

Then, of course, there was Wright.
The energy secretary - whom climate insiders have described to us as the biggest climate villain in the Trump administration after Trump himself - talked to Rob about as many fuels as they could cover. Wind: "There have been very spirited dialogues in the administration about this. I do believe a successful permitting reform thing changes the playing field for anything you want to build in this country, including wind." Nuclear: "Our thing is just to try to get it back on its feet and get out of the way." Natural gas:
"Gas in my lifetime is going to be the American energy superpower for sure, but you never want all your eggs in one basket."
Batteries: "I'm all in." And EVs:

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Shay O’Reilly @shaygabriel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I’m at this offshore wind event and John Kerry is telling the audience he’s happy to talk to anyone, Republican or Democrat, and we have to stop being “stupid - partisan” which I think is exactly the wrong message for the audience of industry and government leaders. The horse is out of the barn!

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Andrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A couple went on a Fox News podcast and claimed the state of #Massachusetts took away their teen because they won't help the teen transition. But it's actually because the father was charged with beating and threatening to kill the teen and the mother was charged with witness intimidation.

wbur.org

Mass. parents' story about child's gender transition complicated by court records

Joseph Kutzko was charged with assaulting the child in January 2025, not long before the child was removed from the family’s home. Mother Arlene Kutzko was charged with witness intimidation in connect...

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Turing Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

One thing I do think a lot of social democratic politicians have basically completely lost through jadedness and cynicism is the ability to speak of values, to the heart, and we live in a time in which that is absolutely desperately needed.

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Turing Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Take, for instance, migration. It is in my opinion a disaster that it is becoming rarer and rarer for someone to just stand up and say that fundamentally they believe in sheltering the wretched of the Earth, that it is a duty we have to each other because of our common humanity.

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Shay O’Reilly @shaygabriel.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I’ve been away from nyc for too long because I see “DAC” and I think “direct air capture” instead of “Darializa Avila Chevalier”

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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Maral Salmassi, who is treated as a reasonable expert on the Middle East and antisemitism by significant sections of the German media and who received 390,000 euro in taxpayer money to fight antisemitism, appears to believe that Elif Eralp will declare herself Ayatollah tomorrow.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 21/09/2026

Video appears to show an injured man — from being struck by an ICE agents’ car or from being beaten is unclear — and the ICE agents driving away with a flat tire (!) while the man is still laying in the street. Unreal.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The man ICE shot in Austin today is named Wilber Rafael Garces Perez. Per his lawyer, she and Perez’s family were run off of hospital property where he’s being treated and won’t even confirm he’s there because he’s “in ICE custody.” Actual criminals.

npr.org

Federal immigration agent shoots and injures man in Austin, Texas

The person shot is in serious but stable condition, Austin Mayor Kirk Watson said in a press conference.

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Shay O’Reilly @shaygabriel.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Damn the CDU didn’t make it into the state parliament in MeckPom. Just astonishing.

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Shay O’Reilly @shaygabriel.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Crazy split here in my neighborhood. The people love Lars Düsterhöft???

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Shay O’Reilly @shaygabriel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

CDU / Stefan Evers ran a smarmy sneering islamophobic and anti trans campaign after a governing cycle of austerity and incompetence and I’m glad to see their reign ending.

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Shay O’Reilly @shaygabriel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Berlin votes today! My partner is taking our daughter to the polls as a first time voter in Germany. ❤️💖 I wish my German was good enough yet to help with the campaign, but at least there’s a voter in our household who can help break the CDU’s disastrous control of the city.

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Shay O’Reilly @shaygabriel.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It’s underreported in the horse race coverage that a Republican win in the midterms would not mean things just go on like this, — it would mean getting much, much worse.

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 18/09/2026

"The UK should convene a coalition of concerned north Atlantic states to establish an Amoc Observatory, with an early warning system to be the global reference point on the issue." - Ben Judah www.ft.com/content/4870...

ft.com

We need an observatory for the cooling north Atlantic

The UK should convene a coalition of concerned states if rising emissions lead to the collapse of the Amoc that brings warm water to northern regions

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Shay O’Reilly @shaygabriel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

man. this whole thing is just horrific to me.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

We need a crash program to get New England off of oil heat. Stat.

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Shay O’Reilly @shaygabriel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

can someone explain to me why the UK decided to murder its universities all of a sudden

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Shay O’Reilly @shaygabriel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Just as a reminder, “keeping gender ideology out of schools” in practice means harassing my six year old because of her family composition and it means preventing teachers from defending kids from bullying. That is precisely the function of previous iterations. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section...

en.wikipedia.org

Section 28 - Wikipedia

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is bad and should be called out. I push back against accusing everyone that breathes for wanting to throw us under the bus, so it is credible when we call it out when it unambiguously occurs. This is an unambiguous occurrence.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 17/09/2026

It really is worth remembering just last year the conventional wisdom on immigration was that people supported mass deportation to such a degree people should be cautious in opposing the Trump administration snatching people and sending them to CECOT.

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 17/09/2026

It was confirmed yesterday that the centre left coalition won the election in Sweden As predicted, with the far right performing poorly, coverage has almost entirely vanished from international media

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Dimi Reider @dimireider.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Got a piece in this weekend's New Statesman on some of the least helpful reactions to NAZA, such as:

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