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Maggie McNeill

@maggiemcneill.bsky.social

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Overeducated and unrepentant whore who talks far too much and writes the popular blog The Honest Courtesan in addition to the usual harlotry.

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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · Mar 5

If the HPV vaccine had been available 20 years earlier, my beloved Grace might still be alive.

Get vaccinated.

Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · Mar 4

“Healthcare personnel often do not realize that in the U.S., HPV-related mortality far surpasses the mortality from tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis & meningococcal disease combined. Each year, about 4,000 deaths are the result of cervical cancer; most are preventable through pre-exposure vaccination”

Technically Speaking: Why HPV Vaccination Before Age 11 Years Is a Good Idea

Dr. Sean O’Leary, Chair of AAP’s COID, explains why AAP and CDC recommendations about HPV vaccine differ.

www.chop.edu

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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 3m

Looks like it's time to remind people what "becoming the Joker" actually means.

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 5h

This is why the inflatable costumes works so well -- it works the same way calling them "weird" or "creepy" did. It disrupts their narrative, and makes them seem pathetic rather than cool-and-cruel.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 14h

You need to see this:

“The show of force is the point. They want these images to be out…The Department of Homeland Security is walking around Chicago with a film crew.” @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 5h

Remember they not only want to expand this but also decrease the regulations.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 5h

www.cnn.com/interactive/...

Americans are losing millions to scammers at crypto ATMs. Here’s how companies profit

Companies often fail to refund money to victims and aggressively fight police to claw back scam money seized from machines.

www.cnn.com

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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 5m

Take THAT, durian!

Jesse Walker @notjessewalker.bsky.social · 4h

"rotting fruit delicacy found in Roman toilet"

"Open arse" — medieval Europe's rotting fruit delicacy found in Roman toilet

A 2,000-year-old Roman toilet in Switzerland contained seeds from a fruit so forgotten that modern botanists often can't identify it.

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Kelly² @anarchakelly.bsky.social · 4h

Idk how you read the daily accounts of ICE’s thuggery and not become an anarchist instantaneously. The State is the worse human invention hands down.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15h

The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.

Maria Greeley, 44, had just finished working a double shift at the Beach Bar on Ohio Street
earlier this month when she said she was surrounded by three federal agents who grabbed her, forced her hands behind her back and zip tied her.
Headphones in, Greeley had been focused on getting home to her two dogs for a walk.
Instead, she said she was detained by masked agents who did not answer when she asked for names. They questioned her for an hour, she said.

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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 8m

Also: there are FAR worse pictures of him, though we need many more.

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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 11m

His hair. A 78-year-old president of the US, and he's worried about his fucking HAIR like a teenage girl.

Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 7h

lol

Donald J. Trump @realDonald Trump

Time Magazine wrote a relatively good story about me, but the picture may be the Worst of All Time. They "disappeared" my hair, and then had something floating on top of my head that looked like a floating crown, but an extremely small one. Really weird! I never liked taking pictures from underneath angles, but this is a super bad picture, and deserves to be called out. What are they doing, and why?

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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 14m

"Forever". Ell Oh Ell.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4vk...

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Gluon Spring @gluonspring.bsky.social · 19h

The idea that someone could hire 100 thousand people, to say nothing of a million, to engage in protest is the sort of thing only a child could believe. 100? Sure. 1000? Possible. 100,000? You are a mental child.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."

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Jason Kuznicki @jkuznicki.bsky.social · 2h

In before grief about Walmart. I don’t care about left wing purity politics. Buy local if you prefer. But hundreds or thousands of folks with American flags will do best, whatever way we can get them.

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Jason Kuznicki @jkuznicki.bsky.social · 2h

Descend on your local Walmart or whatever. Buy every American flag. Hand them out.

We are a republic, if we can keep it.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 2h

Rep. Scalise calls the “No Kings” protests a “hate America” rally.

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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 24m

It would be a far better world if things like this happened more often.

the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 2d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 2h

"In the past 15 years, flags in New York have been lowered more than 250 times for a total of more than 850 days of public mourning. That equates to roughly one day a week.

"New York is not unique....Flag lowering has become a largely empty gesture, illegible to the broader public."

Stop Lowering the Flag

The symbol of public mourning loses its meaning when it’s used too much.

www.theatlantic.com

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 2h

I get exactly what he’s saying but to be clear the best nat sec reporters in businesses often don’t have pentagon press passes

NPR @npr.org · 8h

Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says. n.pr/4q87Jwb

Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 2h

This is not just funny, it's smart. We need more of this mockery that shows these thugs that we see their despicable fascism and give them the respect that they deserve.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3h

ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert

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Lucy Steigerwald @lucystag.bsky.social · 1h

I don't understand wtf definitely not a vegetarian Ted is going on about, but I sure love how conservatives have decided that every single tribe was as brutal as the Comanche on a bad day.

It's the much more deliberately racist version of thinking that every tribe was the same proto-hippies.

PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 5h

Ted Cruz celebrates Trump who implied his wife was ugly

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 2h

I've said this before, but one of the more striking things about the current generation of righties is that they really show no sign of understanding that there's a world *beyond* their screens, beyond owning & being owned on social media. A real world, with real people & real problems.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."

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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 32m

Authoritarian is an authoritarian is an authoritarian is an authoritarian.

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Lucy Steigerwald @lucystag.bsky.social · 1h

Once again, fighting over the different methods of protest seems like a waste of time. Grannys and flag-waving normies are not going to join the black bloc. The black bloc isn't going to carry your statist flag.

Human diversity is gonna be seen in your protest without scolding.

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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 34m

Not me. I'm much closer to 63 than I am to 36.

alboo @captainacab.airbud.website · 13h

everyone on bluesky is currently and has always been 36 years of age

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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 2h

"The DOJ will continue engaging tech companies to *eliminate platforms* . . ."

This is your daily reminder Bondi specifically, and MAGA generally, spent the last 4 years accusing the Biden admin of jawboning tech companies to take down content in violation of the 1A.

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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 35m

The behavior of Trumpists makes a lot more sense when thought of as the behavior of cultists rather than members of a political party.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4h

It’s amazing how all the reporting is just memory-holing this part

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Lucy Steigerwald @lucystag.bsky.social · 1h

Oh cool, it's actual tear gas (CS) and not pepper gas (OC). Just normal American shit.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2h

Mike Johnson — man of deep faith, we are told — wants pastors to be shot in the head with pepper balls.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Q: We've seen images out of Chicago of federal agents shooting faith leaders with pepper balls and arresting journalists. Where's the limit for you on what's acceptable conduct by federal agents?

MIKE JOHNSON: I've not seen them cross the line yet.

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