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brianamcginnis.bsky.social
Northerner settled in the Deep South; scholar of exile, punishment, and (usually dysfunctional) political community. Future breast cancer survivor. More thoughts than patience. She/her All posts in my personal capacity only.
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My girl, my girl, don’t lie to me, tell me…

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

1. Where lies the strangling fruit 2. that came from the hand of the sinner 3. I shall bring forth the seeds of the dead 4. to share with the worms that gather in the darkness 5. and surround the world with the power of their lives

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

1. This is the water 2. And this is the well. 3. Drink full, and descend. 4. The horse is the white of the eyes 5. and dark within.

submitted 6 days ago • 14 comments

Fired federal workers share the crucial jobs no longer being done Six people describe what they were doing to benefit public health, safety and the environment www.sciencenews.org/article/fire...

submitted 6 days ago • 133 comments

From a FOIA perspective, "the entire federal workforce should write down and email what they did last week" is extremely funny

submitted 6 days ago • 198 comments

I wonder if Elon Musk has read the Prince. If so, I wonder if he ever thinks about that one story about the guy who does his boss’s dirty work and then gets… a helluva bonus. Maybe tread more cautiously, it might be a trap.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

BREAKING: Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier released from prison after nearly 50 years

submitted 10 days ago • 642 comments

No one better than the @nytimes.com to turn the idea of an aggressive, illegal land grab into a story about the US domestic electoral horse race. Completely embarrassing journalism.

submitted 11 days ago • 30 comments

House cats are an anchorite order. Stop trying to make them go outside.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

"we arrested the guy with a palestinian flag, gonna try to figure out later what crime it was" really does nail something

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

- racist DOGE guy (redundant) canned - federal judge upholds birthright citizenship - another judge blocks voluntary resignation - NY state going to court over treasury business - patel put on ice for at least a week

submitted 22 days ago • 111 comments

Calling all Charleston-area folks!!! Come see Dr. Sarah Schoemann talk about queer video game design! What makes a game “queer?” Character design? Narrative elements? What about mechanics?

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

A constitutional crisis requires friction to make it legible. That often comes from conflict between the branches of government, but a Republican-controlled Congress and SCOTUS are not interested in challenging Trump’s lawlessness. That why it’s *especially* important for Democrats to act.

submitted 28 days ago • 81 comments

I'm struck by the near-total failure of leadership across civil society, in a country that fetishizes the concept. Whole sections of leadership books at every bookstore. Named, endowed "leadership" institutes and curricula across higher ed. Awards and special recognition for "leaders." AND YET

submitted 28 days ago • 186 comments

The job of congress isn't to come on here and tell us stuff, that's the media's job. Your job is to tell us what you're going to DO about it.

submitted 28 days ago • 570 comments

Watched like 10 min of the RFK hearing and I can’t overemphasize how dangerous it is that so many of the people in power think that disabled people are inherently bad for society and protecting us hurts “healthy” people.

submitted 29 days ago • 7 comments

I did not expect the US, as a nation, to share my grad school experience of being surreptitiously bullied by Straussians. I appreciate the solidarity, but this is really not necessary.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Has anyone checked with the integralists to see how “armed agents of the state invading churches in search of refugees” fits with Leo XIII’s encyclicals?

submitted 38 days ago • 7 comments

It’s snowing in Charleston, y’all

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

Re-posting as the Great Capitulation appears to continue apace...

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

i love you trans people

submitted 39 days ago • 8 comments

TikTok has a real Pet Sematary vibe currently.

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

I’m home visiting family in Minnesota currently. I’ve been decompressing from a very stressful semester (went up for tenure, am a shell of my former self) by making these angel tree toppers for myself and a couple of friends. Be not afraid?

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

It’s really hard to scold people over civility in a system that dehumanizes everyone and it rings pretty hollow when people are more upset by jokes than the day to day humiliation that millions of people have to go through

submitted 78 days ago • 18 comments

Every time I see this man I'm going to remind everyone who will listen that his career started under Obama where he was ICE's head of deportations & innovated a policy of separating children from parents as a migration deterrent. Obama gave him a Presidential Rank Award for Distinguished Executives.

submitted 80 days ago • 28 comments

American legacy media is so embarrassing.

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

World’s richest man believes homelessness is a “propaganda”

submitted 80 days ago • 885 comments

NYPD have planted a CEO under a cardboard box propped up by a stick in midtown Manhattan

submitted 82 days ago • 8 comments

All jokes aside it's really fucked up to see so many people on here celebrating murder. No one here is the judge of who deserves to live or die. That's the job of the AI algorithm the insurance company designed to maximise profits on your health and no one else

submitted 86 days ago • 202 comments

Chase Strangio, first trans attorney to argue at SCOTUS, walks out to cheers.

submitted 86 days ago • 50 comments