Richard McGovern
@richardmcgovern.bsky.social
“Who has enough chrome to outfit every Mercedes in Compton? The Shadow does.”
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I may eat nothing but olives, pasta, and parmesan cheese for the rest of my life.
February 7, 2026 at 12:54 AM
I may eat nothing but olives, pasta, and parmesan cheese for the rest of my life.
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Ok who’s primary-ing this purple haired grandma?
“I would rather you vote for what is morally correct,” Davidson said.
“Don’t talk to me about my own morality,” DeLauro shot back.
“Don’t tell your constituents what they can and can’t talk to you about,” replied Rev. Nathan Empsall. “What you are voting for is not moral.”
“Don’t talk to me about my own morality,” DeLauro shot back.
“Don’t tell your constituents what they can and can’t talk to you about,” replied Rev. Nathan Empsall. “What you are voting for is not moral.”
DeLauro to pressing clergy: 'I will not vote to abolish ICE'
The Connecticut U.S. representative found herself at odds with faith leaders.
www.ctpublic.org
February 7, 2026 at 12:10 AM
Ok who’s primary-ing this purple haired grandma?
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It’s extortion and extortion is a felony.
Also, that funding was authorized by Congress. He has no right to stop it. NONE
Also, that funding was authorized by Congress. He has no right to stop it. NONE
February 6, 2026 at 10:23 PM
It’s extortion and extortion is a felony.
Also, that funding was authorized by Congress. He has no right to stop it. NONE
Also, that funding was authorized by Congress. He has no right to stop it. NONE
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Internal White House meetings going on, like, "Hopefully the racism will distract from the pedophilia which will distract from the killings which will distract from the pedophilia again which will distract from the economy which will distract from the pedophilia a third time"
February 6, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Internal White House meetings going on, like, "Hopefully the racism will distract from the pedophilia which will distract from the killings which will distract from the pedophilia again which will distract from the economy which will distract from the pedophilia a third time"
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BREAKING:
New reaction from Leader Jeffries to the racist Trump video:
"This disgusting video posted by the so-called president was done intentionally. Fuck Donald Trump and his vile, racist, and malignant behavior. This guy is an unhinged bottom feeder."
New reaction from Leader Jeffries to the racist Trump video:
"This disgusting video posted by the so-called president was done intentionally. Fuck Donald Trump and his vile, racist, and malignant behavior. This guy is an unhinged bottom feeder."
February 6, 2026 at 9:56 PM
BREAKING:
New reaction from Leader Jeffries to the racist Trump video:
"This disgusting video posted by the so-called president was done intentionally. Fuck Donald Trump and his vile, racist, and malignant behavior. This guy is an unhinged bottom feeder."
New reaction from Leader Jeffries to the racist Trump video:
"This disgusting video posted by the so-called president was done intentionally. Fuck Donald Trump and his vile, racist, and malignant behavior. This guy is an unhinged bottom feeder."
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It's the legal successor state of the Holy Roman Empire and, if I were Lichtenstein, I would play that angle up.
February 6, 2026 at 8:38 PM
It's the legal successor state of the Holy Roman Empire and, if I were Lichtenstein, I would play that angle up.
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Lichtenstein: We’re One Of The Tiny Countries
February 6, 2026 at 8:37 PM
Lichtenstein: We’re One Of The Tiny Countries
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Mike Johnson Staffers Work Tirelessly Supplying Him With Things To Notice Rather than Bigoted Lawlessness
February 6, 2026 at 8:13 PM
Mike Johnson Staffers Work Tirelessly Supplying Him With Things To Notice Rather than Bigoted Lawlessness
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Drew and I talked about our friend and coworker Dan McQuade, who we said goodbye to yesterday in Philadelphia, on this week's episode of The Distraction. We're sad, but this is also one of the most literal His Memory Is A Blessing scenarios imaginable. defector.com/the-last-may...
The Last Mayor Of Philadelphia | Defector
The understanding that we have reached when we’ve talked about it, to the extent we’ve talked about it at all, is that The Distraction should try to be a good hang even in bad times. This is dependent...
defector.com
February 6, 2026 at 5:24 PM
Drew and I talked about our friend and coworker Dan McQuade, who we said goodbye to yesterday in Philadelphia, on this week's episode of The Distraction. We're sad, but this is also one of the most literal His Memory Is A Blessing scenarios imaginable. defector.com/the-last-may...
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Ever get the feeling that Stephen Miller watched Wonder Showzen and didn’t realize it was satire? (Also, sorry about the group text notification)
February 6, 2026 at 5:28 PM
Ever get the feeling that Stephen Miller watched Wonder Showzen and didn’t realize it was satire? (Also, sorry about the group text notification)
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They are building a GULAG archipelago run by private contractors. Like the "KZ" of Nazi Europe, its us without any kind of public scrutiny or oversight, but also public knowledge of who goes there and rumors about what happens inside.
It can happen here - in Pa. coal country
I went to tiny Tremont, Pa. to see how a former Big Lots warehouse for cheap goods would become an island in a U.S. gulag archipelago, warehousing 7,500 human beings from ICE raids
My special report on an American nightmare www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
I went to tiny Tremont, Pa. to see how a former Big Lots warehouse for cheap goods would become an island in a U.S. gulag archipelago, warehousing 7,500 human beings from ICE raids
My special report on an American nightmare www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
From Big Lots to warehousing humans: ICE plan sparks fear in Schuylkill County | Will Bunch
A massive warehouse in Tremont, Pa., that once moved cheap goods will now detain migrants in a $119 million ICE deal.
www.inquirer.com
February 6, 2026 at 2:34 PM
They are building a GULAG archipelago run by private contractors. Like the "KZ" of Nazi Europe, its us without any kind of public scrutiny or oversight, but also public knowledge of who goes there and rumors about what happens inside.
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Well,that's one sane person. Schulkill county has loved their "cottage industry" of....correctional facilities for decades. They just love penal colonies. It's disgraceful considering the history. Nineteen coal miners hung up there in one day. The county drips with irony.
February 6, 2026 at 1:56 PM
Well,that's one sane person. Schulkill county has loved their "cottage industry" of....correctional facilities for decades. They just love penal colonies. It's disgraceful considering the history. Nineteen coal miners hung up there in one day. The county drips with irony.
“I didn't think the ravenous fishes would shark on ME!”
February 6, 2026 at 1:08 PM
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“I didn't think the ravenous fishes would shark on ME!”
February 5, 2026 at 4:31 PM
“I didn't think the ravenous fishes would shark on ME!”
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Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.
February 5, 2026 at 1:07 PM
Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.
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Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...
A screenshot from a video posted on Trump's Truth Social account: truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...
February 6, 2026 at 9:28 AM
Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...
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the voters of a rich suburban district outside New York City just voted for a Sanders/AOC-endorsed labor organizer who wants to abolish ICE
February 6, 2026 at 3:52 AM
the voters of a rich suburban district outside New York City just voted for a Sanders/AOC-endorsed labor organizer who wants to abolish ICE
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👀 Apparently, Ross Douthat invited Seth Harp to debate him on Douthat's "Interesting Times" NYT podcast. Harp says that the episode was recorded, Douthat got crushed, and RD/NYT decided not to publish it.
What? x.com/sethharpesq/...
What? x.com/sethharpesq/...
February 6, 2026 at 1:57 AM
👀 Apparently, Ross Douthat invited Seth Harp to debate him on Douthat's "Interesting Times" NYT podcast. Harp says that the episode was recorded, Douthat got crushed, and RD/NYT decided not to publish it.
What? x.com/sethharpesq/...
What? x.com/sethharpesq/...
Sugarman should have bought an NWSL team; he could have kept up there.
Who's that? Is she Greenland?
Record-breaking transfer window 🤯
The January 2026 women's football transfer window set a new record with clubs spending over $10M for the first time on international transfer fees–over 85% more than the previous record set in 2025 💰
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The January 2026 women's football transfer window set a new record with clubs spending over $10M for the first time on international transfer fees–over 85% more than the previous record set in 2025 💰
📸 @mancitywomen.bsky.social
February 5, 2026 at 7:50 PM
Sugarman should have bought an NWSL team; he could have kept up there.
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Democracy dies in Bezos #JeffBezos #WashingtonPost #Melania #Journalism #Trump #DemocracyDiesInDarkness
February 5, 2026 at 7:35 PM
Democracy dies in Bezos #JeffBezos #WashingtonPost #Melania #Journalism #Trump #DemocracyDiesInDarkness
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“The U.S. is clearly echoing previous history with these warehouse acquisitions,” @andreapitzer.bsky.social said. “Dachau — not a death camp, to be sure, but one of the earliest Nazi concentration camps — took over a converted factory when it began its heinous existence in 1933."
The banality of evil is shocking. An ex-Big Lots warehouse for cheap consumer junk is bought by ICE to ship as many as 7,500 handcuffed human beings, as the Trump regime builds a U.S. gulag archipelago
The unthinkable comes to Pa. coal country. My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
The unthinkable comes to Pa. coal country. My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
From Big Lots to warehousing humans: ICE plan sparks fear in Schuylkill County | Will Bunch
A massive warehouse in Tremont. Pa. that once moved cheap goods will now detain migrants in an $119 million ICE deal.
www.inquirer.com
February 5, 2026 at 6:41 PM
“The U.S. is clearly echoing previous history with these warehouse acquisitions,” @andreapitzer.bsky.social said. “Dachau — not a death camp, to be sure, but one of the earliest Nazi concentration camps — took over a converted factory when it began its heinous existence in 1933."
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The America we were taught about in school wasn’t real, but I want it to be and so do 200 million of my friends
February 5, 2026 at 6:17 PM
The America we were taught about in school wasn’t real, but I want it to be and so do 200 million of my friends
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This story from @willbunch.bsky.social is gut wrenching and soon to play out across the country as the Trump admin tries to run DHS "like a business, with a deportation process “like [Amazon] Prime, but with human beings.”
The banality of evil is shocking. An ex-Big Lots warehouse for cheap consumer junk is bought by ICE to ship as many as 7,500 handcuffed human beings, as the Trump regime builds a U.S. gulag archipelago
The unthinkable comes to Pa. coal country. My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
The unthinkable comes to Pa. coal country. My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
From Big Lots to warehousing humans: ICE plan sparks fear in Schuylkill County | Will Bunch
A massive warehouse in Tremont. Pa. that once moved cheap goods will now detain migrants in an $119 million ICE deal.
www.inquirer.com
February 5, 2026 at 6:27 PM
This story from @willbunch.bsky.social is gut wrenching and soon to play out across the country as the Trump admin tries to run DHS "like a business, with a deportation process “like [Amazon] Prime, but with human beings.”
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What we loved about Dan McQuade:
What We Loved About Dan McQuade | Defector
Today is Dan McQuade’s funeral. To celebrate our friend, we wanted to give the people he worked with a place to explain what they loved so much about him. If you would like to support Dan’s widow Jan,...
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February 5, 2026 at 2:04 PM
What we loved about Dan McQuade:
There is something about using converted warehouses as concentration camps that is too on the nose for late-stage capitalism.
Like you arrest the undocumented workers in an Amazon warehouse and then move them to a former Amazon warehouse.
Like you arrest the undocumented workers in an Amazon warehouse and then move them to a former Amazon warehouse.
February 5, 2026 at 1:43 PM
There is something about using converted warehouses as concentration camps that is too on the nose for late-stage capitalism.
Like you arrest the undocumented workers in an Amazon warehouse and then move them to a former Amazon warehouse.
Like you arrest the undocumented workers in an Amazon warehouse and then move them to a former Amazon warehouse.