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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.

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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 7h

Blocked Trumpsucker.

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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 7h

I just blocked this nauseating bootlickery.

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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 7h

I disagree. The wives and kids of politicians, including presidents, are IMHO not fair game unless they choose to become political. Hillary & Chelsea Clinton are both fair game; Michelle Obama & her daughters are not. No, First Lady shit is not being political.

Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 7h

Same. I already know all the rules.

Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 7h

I never cared for it personally, but I sure remember it.

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.bsky.social · 12h

Yes, but also, can she please start giving money to smaller orgs?

Please, I beg

Kim McLarin @kimmclarin.bsky.social · 12h

Source: Fortune
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Billionaire MacKenzie Scott doubles down on DEI with $42 million donation | Fortune

In a signal to nonprofits and boardrooms, the Yield Giving philanthropist is backing diversity and equity with no‑strings grants—building on more than $19 billion she’s distributed in five years.

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Chroma @chromatographic.bsky.social · 11h

I don't think we can emphasize enough how big and shiny and ATTENTION grabbing a Monstrance is. And how HOLY its considered. You can NOT mistake a Monstrance for anything else. If you don't know what it is, you ask yourself "What the hell is that?", and you're already wrong because its that HOLY.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 11h

found exactly the one use of “evil recoils in the presence of Christ” I am willing to sign off on, HOOOOOOOOLY SHIT

Father Larry did not come here to fuck around

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 18h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 11h

if you’re not Catholic, let me real quick tell you about the breathtaking audacity of bringing the monstrance with him

a monstrance is a big bedazzled gold ornament with a round glass window in the middle where you put a consecrated wafer, usually the bigger ceremonial one and not the bite-size

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Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 22h

A student on TikTok has been documenting her journey with a professor who “wrote” the anatomy textbook and it’s all a bunch of AI hallucinations.

She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly!

Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:

A diagram of the bones and (some) deep muscles of the hand and forearm. AI says that we only have four digits. It’s also identified a tendon as the median nerve, another tendon as the ulnar nerve, among other issues.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the neck. It hallucinated the “ennocleidomasid” muscle, and the “anterior scalpalin muscle”.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the lateral thigh. It says that the gluteus Maximus (the big juicy butt muscle) is on the anterior side. It also points to the quadriceps muscle and says “attattment”. It also says that the same structure is the tibia AND the deep fascia of the leg.

An AI generated diagram of the bones of the hand and forearm. This time AI says we have 6 digits. It also says that the radius is the ulnar artery. Among other many issues.

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 12h

repeating non-falsifiable claims undermines the entire premise of journalism

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says reut.rs/4mZNZbu

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says

Donald Trump was found to be in "exceptional health" in a medical evaluation, the U.S. president's doctor said in a memo released by the White House on Friday, with his "cardiac age" 14 years younger than in "chronological age."

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Jerry Boyle @jecboyle.bsky.social · 13h

Pritzker’s goons shutting down protests at ICE Detention Center in Broadview.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 16h

Troopers just violently attacked protesters, tackled several, several arrests, shoving activists and press with batons.

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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 7h

The second he accepts this appointment, he becomes a political figure and therefore fair game.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 21h

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 8h

“Who was president in 2020?” is the question of our time.

I wrote a substack about this on Friday!This isn’t an accident.

open.substack.com/pub/agentsof...

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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 12h

"Kidnapping" implies the motive is ransom.

Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 12h

"Kidnapping" assumes the motive is ransom, which it isn't here.

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Drigo 🪁 @origamiste.bsky.social · 15h

Nous vivons aux sociétés des euphémismes, qui réduit la force destructive du patriarcat institutionnalisé aux monde.

Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 21h

Reporters: stop using the deferential term "detaining" when talking about ICE goons' abduction of innocent people from US streets. You proper term would indeed by "abduction", but if you want to pretend neutrality you could use "capture", which at least says nothing about the captors' motives.

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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 12h

Many people keep saying "kidnapping", which is no more correct than "detaining". "Kidnapping" assumes the motive is ransom, which is not the case here.

Run, Erasmus @elmeaux.bsky.social · 15h

Without hesitation, I'd call them abductions and kidnappings.

As such, I'd also report them as kidnappings/abductions to the police, with as much documentation as possible.

Let them be responsible for tracking and investigating the kidnappers and those who go missing.

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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 12h

Kidnapping assumes the motive is ransom, which it is not here.

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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 1d

“Parliament had turned over its constitutional authority to Hitler and thereby committed suicide, though its body lingered on in an embalmed state.”

Shirer, William L. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (p. 331)

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“.. Inside the White House, top advisers joke that they are ruling Congress with an “iron fist,” according to people who have heard the comments. Steve Bannon, the influential Trump ally, likened Congress to the Duma, the Russian assembly that is largely ceremonial.”

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 12h

One of my English teachers was really into the Annie Hall look.

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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 12h

Right? I am flabbergasted by this. I don't think most non-Catholics can really understand what a HUGE deal it is to remove the monstrance from its church.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 17h

Nixon’s crimes look like harmless high school pranks compared to the now-daily unprecedented illegal & unconstitutional crimes being committed daily by this president & his staff

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 17h

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 13h

Amen.

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