Professor Declan Patrick Aloysius MacManus

Professor Declan Patrick Aloysius MacManus

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Husband/father/lawyer. I'm not like this because I'm in Van Halen, I'm in Van Halen because I'm like this. Diamond Dog. Swiftie. Here for sports/pop culture/theology/politics. Ted Lasso S2.9 at 12:35.

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OBAMA: When I was president, all these Republicans are all deficits, deficits, debt, debt. You got to do something about it. And now—$40 trillion—Crickets. Somehow deficits only matter when a Democratic president is in office

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Senator Jon Ossoff speaks on Trump regime corruption. It’s insanity! America, vote like your life depends on it! We don’t have any other choice at this point. #Pinks 🌊

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if we don't have standing to challenge your dumb monuments to yourself you don't have standing to challenge the names of senate candidates. just kidding this is america and law is fake

MS NOW@ms.now

BREAKING: The Department of Justice has sued the state of Alaska to effectively force Alaska to set aside the results of the 2026 Senate race if anyone other than the Republican incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan wins.

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Reuters Pictures@pictures.reuters.com

Lights are reflected off a bulletproof screen as President Trump speaks during a campaign rally in Greenville, North Carolina. More photos of the week: reut.rs/4yGkBNh 📷 Evan Vucci

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In case it wasn't apparent why the Lakers were OK giving up 1sts and two swaps for Walker Kessler this offseason... it should be now

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Republicans in Washington State have placed a measure on the ballot requiring that EVERY girl who participates in sports must first undergo a genital exam. That's right. To "protect" young girls, Republicans want to poke their vaginas. That reminded me of something from the Epstein files.

Just so we’re clear, this is the President of the United States offering a bribe to vote for Republicans, and of course this bribe payment will not ever actually appear if the Republicans somehow hold on to Congress. Because he knows you’re a sucker.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "If you elected a Republican House and Senate on November 3, you're gonna get $5,000. And if we lose, you get nothing. You're gonna get nothing! If we lose, you get nothing. Make it a lot easier vote."

AR going for 30 (to be fair, he might have done so anyway, since his eyes light up when he sees Pods)

Anthony Slater@anthonyvslater.bsky.social

Brandin Podziemski is out for the Warriors tomorrow night in Los Angeles. Lower back soreness. He played all 82 games last season but will miss the opener this season against the Lakers. Steph Curry is probable.

The dementia is getting worse. I saw this happen with my FIL - he would just lose his mind over pretty innocuous things that never would have bothered him before his mind began suffering from impairment.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

😳 Trump loses it and SNAPS at a string of reporters, says Ilhan Omar might "go to jail," calls Somalia "a shit house," and boasts that thanks to a new program he announced today Americans "will make millions of dollars by turning others in" during absolutely deranged Oval Office event Supercut:

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French riots are the new Hurricane Helene response which was the new "America's crime crisis" which was the new Hunter’s laptop which was the new migrant caravan which was the new Hillary's emails which was the new Ebola outbreak which was the new Benghazi. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fre...

mediamatters.orgFrench riots are the new Hunter’s laptop which was the new migrant caravan which was the new Ebola

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If Zohran Mamdani or Abdul El-Sayed had used the word “Shylock” as an insult, the ADL would be attacking them by name relentlessly. But Donald Trump used it, so we get a generic condemnation of the word without any specific reference to who actually used it, and with no assumption of intent.

… were none of these people alive in 2008, and/or haven’t seen The Big Short?

Mohamed A. El-Erian@elerianm.bsky.social

From the FT: "Investors are racing to buy credit default swaps to protect their portfolios in the event the AI boom unravels.... In a sign of investors’ increasing unease over the borrowing binge, the cost of buying CDS on many AI-linked companies has hit record highs this month." #economy #markets

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social

Huge follow-up reporting to my scoop: The Guardian confirmed America Next—the conservative nonprofit founded by Bobby Jindal that was offering students $ to disrupt El-Sayed events—paid a firm registered to Tommy Teepell’s dad Timmy $250k for “canvassing and influencer marketing” against El-Sayed.

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Delightful blog. "Absolutely as much fun as you can have reading an overview of Tears For Fears' career through the lens of one of the lead guys' astrology-obsessed memoir." - David Roth

Phil Christman@philipchristman.bsky.social

I don't know whether anyone will read this, but it is, of all the essays I'll ever write, the one I've been preparing for the longest: on the memoir by the guy from Tears For Fears philipchristman.substack.com/p/the-madnes...

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For you youngs who weren't alive for this: Understand that the Chicks were an early rollout of the far right intimidation that we see targeting judges, members of Congress, and ICE protestors now.

Team Talarico@teamtalaricohq.bsky.social

omg The Chicks just brought out James Talarico on stage 👀

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I wish it hadn’t taken 25-30 years and getting to whatever point this is, but I’m very much enjoying the new era of Dem/left/lib politicians responding to bad father gotchas with some variation of “with all due respect, go fuck yourself” rather than playing defense hoping to avoid future accusations

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This is what happens when intelligent, good people run for office. Compare this to a lying blowhard Republican politician blathering on Fox News or at a Trump rally. There’s simply no comparison. It’s two different universes. And I believe Americans are getting fed up with the dumb universe.

Abdul El-Sayed@abdulelsayed.bsky.social

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

“Tommy” is racist AF. Does he disavow the KKK? I haven’t heard him do that, so because he’s white and Christian I must automatically assume that he wouldn’t disavow the KKK based on the premise of his question and whatever “logic” his smooth brain pieced together in order to formulate it.

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social

Q: Will you disavow the Muslim Brotherhood? El-Sayed: Yes. Why are you asking the question? Do you assume that I wouldn’t? Q: Yes, because I have not heard you disavow them yet. El-Sayed: Have you disavowed them? I have not heard you disavow them yet.

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Ossoff: "It's the most corrupt administration of all time & everybody knows it. While the crook president & his crook family rake in billions from all over the world, you pay more for everything.. they lied us into war & spent most of the last year covering up for the world's most famous pedophile"

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Apparently at around 1:30 PM ET, the main accounts for the No Kings coalition on Instagram were frozen and pulled down. Admins have lost access to the account and are unable to log in. This happened at the peak of the organization's national day of action. Instagram, of course, is owned by Meta.