mrborelli.bsky.social

9 Feb

OK, this is full PR.

19 Dec 2025

The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go.

Alan Sepinwall@sepinwall.bsky.social

The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go. (I would not object to such an outcome.)

7 Nov 2025

So has everyone gotten all the sandwich puns out of their system yet?

3 Nov 2025

A movie you've seen more than seven times with a gif.

AkivaMCohen@akivamcohen.bsky.social

A movie you've seen more than seven times with a gif.

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Popehat

@kenwhite.bsky.social

23 Sept 2025

This is utterly deranged.

Jacqueline Sweet@jsweetli.bsky.social

Well looks like they met for this — Ed Martin sent a letter to the FBI agent who testified during Alex Jones trial about seeing the Sandy Hook children dead. Martin asked if the agent had a financial incentive. The rest is hard to parse. Martin wrote asking to keep the letter private.

@fascinatorfun.bsky.social

12 Sept 2025

I personally cannot wait for Ice-T to explain the term "groyper" on an episode of next season's Law and Order:SVU.

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Fionna O’Leary

10 Sept 2025

Northern Ireland man from Lisburn kidnapped by Trump’s Ice raids because he “looked like a Mexican”. He had the correct visa, all his documents. He’s never been in trouble with police. Held in terrible conditions. A fellow captive couldn’t get his medication and dropped dead of a heart attack

Belfast Telegraph@belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Horrors of Trump detention centre: Lisburn man tells his story after arrest for 'looking like a Mexican' Lee Stinton was lifted by US immigration police on an American street — in an incident he compared to a kidnapping. Here, he tells us his story.

10 Sept 2025

Somehow the Right can create a winning political coalition of white nationalists, Christian dominionists, and atheist tech-bro transhumanists, but the Left fractures over obvious jokes.

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This seems to come up every time there is a discussion about team names based on racial or ethnic identities, so as an alum let me try to explain why the "Fighting Irish" moniker is not the same as "Redskins."

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Thus, the history and folklore of the name is a point of pride for Irish alumns and subway alumns, and is also generally beloved in Ireland itself. I traveled to Ireland with one of the former Leprechaun mascots and he never paid for a drink.

The point is that in sports nicknames, context matters. The "Fighting Irish" represents a minority ethnic group that ultimately became an American success story. The context of "Redskins" and "Indians" is much more complicated and troublesome.

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In the 1920s, the university students famously fought the Klan back to the trains when that organization attempted to march in South Bend.

And, of course, the football team which, under Rockne, developed the reputation of being scrappy and never quitting, leading sportswriters to adopt the moniker (and Rockne, a bit of a Barnum himself, encouraging the use).

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But what about the "Fighting" part? Couldn't that be perpetuation of a negative stereotype? Again, historical context matters.

Father Corby, one of the early university presidents, has two statutes honoring him in the U.S. One is on campus, a copy of the original at the Gettysburg Memorial depicting him blessing and giving absolution to the Irish Brigade as they prepared to fight in the bloody Wheatfield.

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First, and most obviously, "Irish" is a description, not a slur. The relevant parallel would be if the team were named the "Micks" or "Paddys."

Second, there is the historical context. The Irish name came from the large number of Irish Catholics who made up a significant portion of the student population and university officials during the 19th and early 20th centuries.

27 June 2025

It must feel good today to be a US District Court Judge and know that your colleagues at the USSC hold you in the same esteem as a cup of warm sputum.

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Adam Bonica

@adambonica.bsky.social

25 June 2025

Since May: Federal district courts have ruled against Trump admin 94% of the time. Supreme Court has sided with the Trump admin 94% of the time. A judiciary at war with itself.