Craig Gallagher
@kreggallagher.bsky.social
Scottish émigré. Assistant Professor of History at Colby-Sawyer College. Early America, Early Modern Britain, Atlantic World. 🏴🇮🇪🇵🇸
Puppy raiser with Guiding Eyes for the Blind: https://www.guidingeyes.org/volunteer
Puppy raiser with Guiding Eyes for the Blind: https://www.guidingeyes.org/volunteer
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Here's #GEBGia rapt with attention as one of my students gives a presentation on Elizabeth Cady Stanton today. Gia is the fifth puppy we have raised for Guiding Eyes for the Blind and we hope she will become the fourth to become a working guide dog!
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Featuring Julie Flavell, Mary Beth Norton, @michaelhattem.bsky.social, and @frankcogliano.bsky.social
Super voice work by @gracemallon.bsky.social, Amber Pelham, Evan McCormick, @aipsmith.bsky.social, @kreggallagher.bsky.social, and @johntrterry.bsky.social
Super voice work by @gracemallon.bsky.social, Amber Pelham, Evan McCormick, @aipsmith.bsky.social, @kreggallagher.bsky.social, and @johntrterry.bsky.social
September 23, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Featuring Julie Flavell, Mary Beth Norton, @michaelhattem.bsky.social, and @frankcogliano.bsky.social
Super voice work by @gracemallon.bsky.social, Amber Pelham, Evan McCormick, @aipsmith.bsky.social, @kreggallagher.bsky.social, and @johntrterry.bsky.social
Super voice work by @gracemallon.bsky.social, Amber Pelham, Evan McCormick, @aipsmith.bsky.social, @kreggallagher.bsky.social, and @johntrterry.bsky.social
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"He" has done bad things.
Twenty seven bad things.
How bad were they?
They were so bad that they justified severing all ties with his country. And now, the airing of the grievances. #sschat
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Twenty seven bad things.
How bad were they?
They were so bad that they justified severing all ties with his country. And now, the airing of the grievances. #sschat
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
September 16, 2025 at 12:00 PM
"He" has done bad things.
Twenty seven bad things.
How bad were they?
They were so bad that they justified severing all ties with his country. And now, the airing of the grievances. #sschat
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Twenty seven bad things.
How bad were they?
They were so bad that they justified severing all ties with his country. And now, the airing of the grievances. #sschat
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Thanks to my friend @capodice.bsky.social for the opportunity to contribute to this very fun episode on the grievances in the Declaration of Independence. This is one of my favorite exercises to go through with students every year and I loved getting the chance to do it for such a great podcast
"He" has done bad things.
Twenty seven bad things.
How bad were they?
They were so bad that they justified severing all ties with his country. And now, the airing of the grievances. #sschat
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Twenty seven bad things.
How bad were they?
They were so bad that they justified severing all ties with his country. And now, the airing of the grievances. #sschat
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
September 16, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Thanks to my friend @capodice.bsky.social for the opportunity to contribute to this very fun episode on the grievances in the Declaration of Independence. This is one of my favorite exercises to go through with students every year and I loved getting the chance to do it for such a great podcast
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Demanding that you respect and mourn a dead fascist who built his career on the graves of slain children, among other things, is just another grotesque demand of the numerically weak and unpopular authoritarians
September 11, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Demanding that you respect and mourn a dead fascist who built his career on the graves of slain children, among other things, is just another grotesque demand of the numerically weak and unpopular authoritarians
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“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind
September 11, 2025 at 1:47 PM
“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind
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No better evidence that "The Cathedral" is fake than allegedly liberal journalists tripping over their dicks to praise, as a champion of free discourse and expression, a guy who made one of his central accomplishments a blacklist of professors
What Elon Musk bought for $44 billion was the ability to fill the brains of people like Ezra Klein with this kind of bullshit www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...
Opinion | Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way
www.nytimes.com
September 11, 2025 at 11:47 AM
No better evidence that "The Cathedral" is fake than allegedly liberal journalists tripping over their dicks to praise, as a champion of free discourse and expression, a guy who made one of his central accomplishments a blacklist of professors
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I'm really having trouble processing the relative silence from Barack Obama about a colleague who he'd hosted at the White House, the Minnesota State House Speaker, being assassinated, but rushing to get out a weepy statement about Charlie fucking Kirk.
September 11, 2025 at 1:00 AM
I'm really having trouble processing the relative silence from Barack Obama about a colleague who he'd hosted at the White House, the Minnesota State House Speaker, being assassinated, but rushing to get out a weepy statement about Charlie fucking Kirk.
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Once again: politics in this country is not a serious business. The idea that you can't have more than two parties when both of them are so manifestly unfit for purpose is pathetic. It is long past time for US citizens to find more respect for themselves and ditch this disgraceful duopoly
Matthew Yglesias identifying the Democratic Party's electoral issues: school closures during covid, "paralysis on women's sports" and "candidates running on late-term abortions"
June 4, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Once again: politics in this country is not a serious business. The idea that you can't have more than two parties when both of them are so manifestly unfit for purpose is pathetic. It is long past time for US citizens to find more respect for themselves and ditch this disgraceful duopoly
this is true of games for the most popular sport in the world too. The decline of PES remains a tragedy
Nostalgia is a poison, but it really does feel as though video games for the sports most popular in the US peaked from around 2004-2009.
May 29, 2025 at 4:10 PM
this is true of games for the most popular sport in the world too. The decline of PES remains a tragedy
The most frustrating thing about the conspiracy of lies we have all been subjected to about Joe Biden's fitness for office for two years now is that it was not in service of some great agenda. Their goal was to prove they could beat Trump by promising nothing and delivering less
May 19, 2025 at 3:07 PM
The most frustrating thing about the conspiracy of lies we have all been subjected to about Joe Biden's fitness for office for two years now is that it was not in service of some great agenda. Their goal was to prove they could beat Trump by promising nothing and delivering less
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You won't find an emptier suit outside of a department store. Hard to think of a major world leader this devoid of conviction and courage. Never really seen anything like it. It's like they discovered a new political quality called antileadership or something.
2025: Keir Starmer suggests that pressure on housing and public services is because of migrants
2020: Keir Starmer, "Poor housing, poor public services are not the fault of the migrants, they're political failure"
2020: Keir Starmer, "Poor housing, poor public services are not the fault of the migrants, they're political failure"
May 12, 2025 at 3:31 PM
You won't find an emptier suit outside of a department store. Hard to think of a major world leader this devoid of conviction and courage. Never really seen anything like it. It's like they discovered a new political quality called antileadership or something.
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A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
May 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
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Imagine if projector salespeople told you projectors were great in the classroom not because they let everybody see an image better but rather because now every course could be about projectors, because projectors are the future and the time to opt out of talking about projectors all day has passed.
May 6, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Imagine if projector salespeople told you projectors were great in the classroom not because they let everybody see an image better but rather because now every course could be about projectors, because projectors are the future and the time to opt out of talking about projectors all day has passed.
a northern state being attacked by the federal government for the crime of not apprehending a fugitive, cheered on by the very people who whine constantly about respecting "states' rights"? Where have I seen this one before?
The FBI has *ARRESTED* a sitting judge in Milwaukee, over allegations it obstructed immigration enforcement.
abcnews.go.com/US/judge-han...
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Judge Hannah Dugan arrested by FBI for allegedly helping undocumented immigrant 'evade arrest'
A Milwaukee County circuit judge has been arrested by the FBI over allegedly helping an undocumented immigrant "evade arrest," according to FBI Director Kash Patel.
abcnews.go.com
April 25, 2025 at 3:02 PM
a northern state being attacked by the federal government for the crime of not apprehending a fugitive, cheered on by the very people who whine constantly about respecting "states' rights"? Where have I seen this one before?
Stancil has shown has one redeemable quality in that he can barbeque MAGA trolls with the best of them, but he'll fundamentally always be a "people don't believe things or have values, they're told what to believe" late-stage Democratic nihilist at heart
The other thing about "oligarchy" framing is you can't explain any of Trump's worst abuses with it. Why is he demonizing immigrants? Nuking civil rights? Shredding the DOJ to attack his enemies? Pursuing autarky with tariffs? Blackmailing companies and universities? Destroying science investment?
April 25, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Stancil has shown has one redeemable quality in that he can barbeque MAGA trolls with the best of them, but he'll fundamentally always be a "people don't believe things or have values, they're told what to believe" late-stage Democratic nihilist at heart
very funny that Elissa Slotkin was Chuck Schumer's *hand picked* face of the future of the Democratic Party
April 24, 2025 at 9:45 PM
very funny that Elissa Slotkin was Chuck Schumer's *hand picked* face of the future of the Democratic Party
For all the failings of the institution he led, this nevertheless feels like the loss of an essential voice defending basic human decency at a moment when it is harder than ever to do that
BREAKING: Pope Francis has died, Cardinal Kevin Ferrell, the Vatican camerlengo announced.
Pope Francis has died, the Vatican camerlengo, announces
Pope Francis died Monday morning, Cardinal Kevin Ferrell, the Vatican camerlengo, announced.“ At 7:35 this morning, the Bishop of Rome, Francis, returned to the home of the Father.
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April 21, 2025 at 2:02 PM
For all the failings of the institution he led, this nevertheless feels like the loss of an essential voice defending basic human decency at a moment when it is harder than ever to do that
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I could get mad that the NYT Daily podcast features Chris Rufo, but without the NYT no one would know Chris Rufo, so it’s really like a homecoming.
April 11, 2025 at 2:41 PM
I could get mad that the NYT Daily podcast features Chris Rufo, but without the NYT no one would know Chris Rufo, so it’s really like a homecoming.
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Trump take napkin
So in the past few weeks, I went to two fast restaurants that did not have any napkins (out of 2) and now Dunkin has napkins, but not their normal branded ones. What is going on with the napkins! Who has taken the napkins!?
April 11, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Trump take napkin
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See a lot of people without degrees in economics sounding off now, which is fine because that’s not a real degree.
April 2, 2025 at 9:18 PM
See a lot of people without degrees in economics sounding off now, which is fine because that’s not a real degree.
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in fairness to the market no one could have guessed that a nearly 80 year-old ex-President with a messianic self-certainty and the hyperfixation of a toddler would enact a policy he spent each and every day of a two-year campaign promising to enact!
CNBC reacts right after Trump's "Liberation Day" tariff announcement: "And the market reaction after hours -- I’ve never seen anything like it. This -- I think, fair to say -- is worse than the worst-case scenario of the tariffs that many in the market expected the president to impose."
April 2, 2025 at 9:32 PM
in fairness to the market no one could have guessed that a nearly 80 year-old ex-President with a messianic self-certainty and the hyperfixation of a toddler would enact a policy he spent each and every day of a two-year campaign promising to enact!
a colleague reminded me today that the day after the election, I said to him that the question is not when Trump will crash and burn because he has surrounded himself with sycophantic morons, but rather how much he will destroy on his way down. I think I will avoid said colleague tomorrow.
April 3, 2025 at 2:40 AM
a colleague reminded me today that the day after the election, I said to him that the question is not when Trump will crash and burn because he has surrounded himself with sycophantic morons, but rather how much he will destroy on his way down. I think I will avoid said colleague tomorrow.