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Francis Heaney @francisheaney.bsky.social · 8d

This seems right in line with other right-wing jurisprudence, such as "even though it's been the norm for years and years with no issues, now that I'm thinking about it the idea of a trans woman using women's bathrooms bothers me, therefore it should be illegal"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Francis Heaney @francisheaney.bsky.social · 12d

Does Frank Black get a co-composer credit on Actually Romantic

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Francis Heaney @francisheaney.bsky.social · 14d

This interpretation makes "I'm not leaving unless you come with me" VERY ominous (though honestly it's sketchy no matter what)

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Francis Heaney @francisheaney.bsky.social · 14d

How have I previously failed to know this fact

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Benjamin Tausig @burrata.bsky.social · 17d

This was a really fun conversation. I don’t get too many chance to talk about puzzles as independent media, but I really believe in the point and Phil is a pretty brilliant interlocutor.

Philip Moscovitch @philmoscovitch.bsky.social · 17d

For my @halifaxexaminer.ca morning file today I spoke with @burrata.bsky.social about crosswords as independent media, and the editorial choices that inform puzzles. Plus, links to a whole bunch of stories by Examiner colleagues. Enjoy.
www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file...

Crosswords as independent media: a conversation with AVCX editor Ben Tausig - Halifax Examiner

"We don't want to be famous, we don't want to be rich. We just want to be a really robust, healthy community."

www.halifaxexaminer.ca

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Francis Heaney @francisheaney.bsky.social · 18d

His own privately commissioned (and heavily NDA'd) Rifftrax for The Day the Clown Cried

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Francis Heaney @francisheaney.bsky.social · 20d

Babe, wake up, the Supreme Court's version of "Well, when the president does it, that means that it is not illegal" just dropped

Kelsey Reichmann @kelseyreichmann.bsky.social · 21d

Barrett spurns Supreme Court bias claims after string of Trump shadow docket wins

“I want people to understand, agree or disagree with the decisions that the court reaches, that we are engaged in a legal enterprise."
@courthousenews.bsky.social
www.courthousenews.com/barrett-spur...

Barrett spurns Supreme Court bias claims after string of Trump shadow docket wins

Justice Amy Coney Barrett sat for an extended discussion where she defended the high court’s rulings and her jurisprudence.

www.courthousenews.com

Francis Heaney @francisheaney.bsky.social · 21d

Guys, if you can't pivot your entire worldview on a dime to accommodate the latest piece of incoherent cognitive dissonance, I have to question your commitment to even being a conspiracy theorist

A headline from Mother Jones: Anti-Vax Groups Struggle to Explain How Tylenol Fits In With Their Whole Thing

A paragraph from that Mother Jones article: Since President Trump’s rambling Monday announcement about the supposed cause of autism and a purported new treatment, anti-vaccine groups have grappled with what the administration’s latest revelations mean for their movement. While some MAHA activists appeared to be overjoyed that the president had brought their cause to a national stage, others were frustrated that it was Tylenol, and not vaccines, that took the brunt of the blame.

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Francis Heaney @francisheaney.bsky.social · 28d

From a legislative body which includes an elected trans representative yet

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28d

This is eliminationist, genocidal rhetoric. There’s nothing ambiguous about it. And it didn’t come from a random Bluesky account with 28 followers. It came from a sitting member of Congress.

talkingpointsmemo.com/news/texas-c...

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 28d

Weird that the FCC Chair had no issue with Kilmeade wanting to euthanize homeless people.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 28d

Fuck yes to this

Writers Guild of America West @wgawest.bsky.social · 28d

WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!

The right to speak our minds and to disagree with each other - to disturb, even - is at the very heart of what it means to be a free people. It is not to be denied. Not by violence, not by the abuse of governmental power, nor by acts of corporate cowardice.
As a Guild, we stand united in opposition to anyone who uses their power and influence to silence the voices of writers, or anyone who speaks in dissent. If free speech applied only to ideas we like, we needn't have bothered to write it into the Constitution. What we have signed on to - painful as it may be at times - is the freeing agreement to disagree.
Shame on those in government who forget this founding truth. As for our employers, our words have made you rich.
Silencing us impoverishes the whole world.
The WA stands with Jimmy Kimmel and his writers.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 29d

coates is genuinely a generational writer

What are we to make of a man who called for the execution of the American president, and then was executed himself? What are we to make of an NFL that, on one hand, encourages us to "End Racism," and, on the other, urges us to commemorate an unreconstructed white supremacist? And what of the writers, the thinkers, and the pundits who cannot separate the great crime of Kirk's death from the malignancy of his public life? Can they truly be so ignorant to the words of a man they have so rushed to memorialize? I don't know. But the most
telling detail in Klein's column was that, for all his praise, there was not a single word in the piece from Kirk himself.

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Francis Heaney @francisheaney.bsky.social · Sep 15

A chart showing that the population of the United States is about 340 million. Or that's what it was, anyway, before the drugs.

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Francis Heaney @francisheaney.bsky.social · Sep 15

I still dream of Natural Lawson

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · Sep 14

Yesterday's piece from @jamellebouie.net is the only high-profile piece I've seen that specifically discusses the watchlist, its effect on academics, and its effect on public attitudes toward academia as a whole. (gift link)

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/o...

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · Sep 13

all these people with material power in some sector and the genuine belief that they are indispensable to America and should therefore be untouchable by the Rabble™️ lost their whole minds during the brief window when they thought a Rabble™️ might have notched a hit against their brother Charlie

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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · Sep 12

did a little media criticism www.theverge.com/politics/777...

The WSJ carelessly spread anti-trans misinformation

The Wall Street Journal’s fuckup while covering Charlie Kirk’s killing needs more than an editor’s note.

www.theverge.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Sep 12

man they really didn't give a shit about that guy. as soon as it was clear they couldn't use his death to launch a purge they started to treat it like a nothingburger

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 12

Q: My condolences on the loss of your friend Charlie Kirk. How are you holding up?

TRUMP: I think very good. And by the way, right there you see all the trucks. They just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House, which is something they've been trying to get for about 150 years.

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · Sep 11

If Charlie Kirk had been, say, a Black Panther or member of the Nation of Islam and went around college campuses saying white people weren't qualified to fly planes or deserved to die in mass shootings, no one would eulogize him by saying he was "practicing politics the right way."

Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · Sep 11

I can’t believe how many liberals take this stupid person seriously

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Francis Heaney @francisheaney.bsky.social · Sep 10

I'm imagining it and I hate it

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · Sep 8

This is a paragraph Brett Kavanaugh wrote on his little computer and then sent out into the world:

Moreover, as for stops of those individuals who are legally in the country, the questioning in those circumstances is typically brief, and those individuals may promptly go free after making clear to the immigration officers that they are U.S. citizens or otherwise legally in the United States.

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Francis Heaney @francisheaney.bsky.social · Sep 8

There's definitely been a couple. This was the first one I managed to find, but I'm pretty sure I remember one with multiple different diacritics from somewhere: rexwordpuzzle.blogspot.com/2012/11/2003...

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Francis Heaney @francisheaney.bsky.social · Sep 8

This is why you're a PP (multi-alphalingual spelling of "pro")

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Francis Heaney @francisheaney.bsky.social · Sep 8

No, it doesn't -- and you're quite right about the reason it matters more with ANO, it just brings up a host of questions about other adjacent ways of treating letters

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Francis Heaney @francisheaney.bsky.social · Sep 8

What about a Cyrillic P though

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