Megan Macmanus
@meganmacmanus.bsky.social
Writer. College Counselor. Yoga teacher. Erstwhile Actress. Aspiring Gaeilgeoir. Owned by an Irish Wolfhound and a garden that hates me.
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Megan Macmanus
@meganmacmanus.bsky.social
· Feb 12
Taken captive after a botched raid, Revni needs to get north before she’s declared dead. Eavus needs to get her south to prove he’s not a deserter.To survive, they’ll have to decide who to trust–because they are both slaves & conquerors in enemy land & everyone else wants them dead. #questpit #F #YA
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WTAF
BREAKING: The federal government has filed a motion seeking to end asylum claims for the family of Liam Conejo Ramos, according to the lawyer representing the family.
DHS has requested expedited deportation proceedings against family of Liam Conejo Ramos
The federal government has filed a motion seeking to end asylum claims for the family of Liam Conejo Ramos, according to the lawyer representing the family.
www.mprnews.org
February 6, 2026 at 2:50 AM
WTAF
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Every single day it’s another openly impeachable offense (if not something gratuitously treasonous), and we’re all forced to watch while the people in positions of authority meant to protect against exactly this kind of abuse do nothing & less than nothing.
February 5, 2026 at 9:28 PM
Every single day it’s another openly impeachable offense (if not something gratuitously treasonous), and we’re all forced to watch while the people in positions of authority meant to protect against exactly this kind of abuse do nothing & less than nothing.
What is one thing you have never done that absolutely blows people's minds?
I've never ordered from a food delivery app.
I've never ordered from a food delivery app.
February 5, 2026 at 4:05 PM
What is one thing you have never done that absolutely blows people's minds?
I've never ordered from a food delivery app.
I've never ordered from a food delivery app.
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Watch this, it's astonishing.
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 2:58 PM
Watch this, it's astonishing.
A newspaper that doesn't report on international, a newspaper located in DC that doesn't report metro, a newspaper for the people that doesn't report on sports or books...
What the hell are they even going to report on now? Nothing but interviews with Iowans in diners??
What the hell are they even going to report on now? Nothing but interviews with Iowans in diners??
WaPo also closing Books section and downsizing International and Metro sections
February 5, 2026 at 12:58 PM
A newspaper that doesn't report on international, a newspaper located in DC that doesn't report metro, a newspaper for the people that doesn't report on sports or books...
What the hell are they even going to report on now? Nothing but interviews with Iowans in diners??
What the hell are they even going to report on now? Nothing but interviews with Iowans in diners??
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Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.
February 5, 2026 at 2:48 AM
Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.
Escaping famine and colonial oppression on one side. Escaping revolution on the other. One side left behind poverty for a chance at hope. The other left behind wealth and status to start again from nothing, because survival was more important.
Genuinely curious: If your family is American, what brought them here?
Mine: religious nuttery & primogeniture
Mine: religious nuttery & primogeniture
February 3, 2026 at 4:33 AM
Escaping famine and colonial oppression on one side. Escaping revolution on the other. One side left behind poverty for a chance at hope. The other left behind wealth and status to start again from nothing, because survival was more important.
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If a university student group had celebrated Charlie Kirk being killed, complete with a graphic made from an actual picture of the killing, the whole lot of them would have been expelled before the ink on the digital story was dry.
University of Illinois college republicans advocate for executing protesters as “traitors” with art that takes a disturbing killing and makes it even more extreme.
dailyillini.com/news-stories...
dailyillini.com/news-stories...
‘Fell the enemies:’ Illini Republicans support ICE amid killings - The Daily Illini
In a post that included a graphic of a presumed officer holding a gun to someone's head, Illini Republicans stated that they “stand with ICE."
dailyillini.com
February 2, 2026 at 12:03 PM
If a university student group had celebrated Charlie Kirk being killed, complete with a graphic made from an actual picture of the killing, the whole lot of them would have been expelled before the ink on the digital story was dry.
I have been saying this!! For the record, it's super gross & I'm glad it's no longer acceptable, but I was hit on by 50yr old men at the age of fifteen IN FRONT OF MY PARENTS and everyone thought I should have been flattered!
This was, like, a very NORMAL thing. All the "well I nevers!" are LYING.
This was, like, a very NORMAL thing. All the "well I nevers!" are LYING.
Again, it's one of THE great memory-holings, and one to always mention to declinists:
When I was a kid in the 80s it was NORMAL for adult men to not only have 13, 14 year old "girlfriends" BUT TO PICK THEM UP FROM FCKN SCHOOL.
Ppl joked about "cradlesnatchers" "dirty old men" and "green bananas".
When I was a kid in the 80s it was NORMAL for adult men to not only have 13, 14 year old "girlfriends" BUT TO PICK THEM UP FROM FCKN SCHOOL.
Ppl joked about "cradlesnatchers" "dirty old men" and "green bananas".
We really have come a LONG way in a pretty brief amount of time as a culture on “oh, maybe it’s actually creepy and gross to incessantly perv on teenage girls everywhere all the time.”
February 1, 2026 at 5:15 PM
I have been saying this!! For the record, it's super gross & I'm glad it's no longer acceptable, but I was hit on by 50yr old men at the age of fifteen IN FRONT OF MY PARENTS and everyone thought I should have been flattered!
This was, like, a very NORMAL thing. All the "well I nevers!" are LYING.
This was, like, a very NORMAL thing. All the "well I nevers!" are LYING.
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The funny thing about a certain type of angry conspiracy guy is that they’re literally being confronted with an elite paedophile ring and a tyrannical government at the same time right now, and because it isn't being done by the people they wanted it to be done by they’re all being pussies about it
January 31, 2026 at 9:20 AM
The funny thing about a certain type of angry conspiracy guy is that they’re literally being confronted with an elite paedophile ring and a tyrannical government at the same time right now, and because it isn't being done by the people they wanted it to be done by they’re all being pussies about it
Really devastated about the loss of Catherine O'Hara.
This year really sucks for losing talented people that brought so much joy 😭
This year really sucks for losing talented people that brought so much joy 😭
January 30, 2026 at 6:38 PM
Really devastated about the loss of Catherine O'Hara.
This year really sucks for losing talented people that brought so much joy 😭
This year really sucks for losing talented people that brought so much joy 😭
Just started watching Paradise and while I do not blame the show- it's a useful shorthand- it remains v. weird* that if you open with a mom making lunches pre-dawn & leaving cute notes for kids, it's, is she a career gal? Single? Unappreciated? Let's find out!
Dad: packs an apple.
Oh, mom's dead.
Dad: packs an apple.
Oh, mom's dead.
January 28, 2026 at 4:49 AM
Just started watching Paradise and while I do not blame the show- it's a useful shorthand- it remains v. weird* that if you open with a mom making lunches pre-dawn & leaving cute notes for kids, it's, is she a career gal? Single? Unappreciated? Let's find out!
Dad: packs an apple.
Oh, mom's dead.
Dad: packs an apple.
Oh, mom's dead.
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LA people: ICE IS IN KTOWN
1/26: 10:15 a.m. CBP 🧊 cluster raids starting in Koreatown, Pico/Union, Salvadoran Corridor this morning.
ICE also in Riverside
ICE also in Riverside
January 26, 2026 at 7:15 PM
LA people: ICE IS IN KTOWN
I have a deep phobia of giant roaches in my house and last night we watched Aliens and the freezing rain on the windows sounds like ten thousand insect legs tip-tapping in my office and I am NOT OKAY.
January 25, 2026 at 11:57 PM
I have a deep phobia of giant roaches in my house and last night we watched Aliens and the freezing rain on the windows sounds like ten thousand insect legs tip-tapping in my office and I am NOT OKAY.
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hey everybody lifelong tech expert here
> "system crash” deleted nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from inside the facility
that's not how anything works they're lying and destroying evidence hope that helps
> "system crash” deleted nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from inside the facility
that's not how anything works they're lying and destroying evidence hope that helps
And what is happening inside ICE detention centers? 404 Media also learned that the federal government claimed that the day after it was sued for allegedly abusing detainees at an ICE detention center, a “system crash” deleted nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from inside the facility.
ICE Says Critical Evidence In Abuse Case Was Lost In 'System Crash' a Day After It Was Sued
The government also said "we don't have resources" to retain all footage and that plaintiffs could supply "endless hard drives that we could save things to."
www.404media.co
January 25, 2026 at 5:26 PM
hey everybody lifelong tech expert here
> "system crash” deleted nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from inside the facility
that's not how anything works they're lying and destroying evidence hope that helps
> "system crash” deleted nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from inside the facility
that's not how anything works they're lying and destroying evidence hope that helps
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A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
January 25, 2026 at 12:28 PM
A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
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Historic pic comparison.
January 25, 2026 at 5:55 AM
Historic pic comparison.
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Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.
"Please get the truth out about our son."
"Please get the truth out about our son."
January 25, 2026 at 12:43 AM
Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.
"Please get the truth out about our son."
"Please get the truth out about our son."
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Minnesotans are showing the soul of the United States to the world.
January 25, 2026 at 12:11 AM
Minnesotans are showing the soul of the United States to the world.
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Imagine how much they’d be lying about what happened without all the videos showing it from multiple angles.
January 24, 2026 at 10:24 PM
Imagine how much they’d be lying about what happened without all the videos showing it from multiple angles.
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thinking about Mr. Rogers "look for the helpers" quote and I see the helpers and the helpers are being shot in the fucking head
January 24, 2026 at 7:34 PM
thinking about Mr. Rogers "look for the helpers" quote and I see the helpers and the helpers are being shot in the fucking head
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All of it lies. Footage doesn't support any of this. Not one word.
Greg Bovino accuses the man that ICE just murdered in Minneapolis of "approaching them violently with a 9mm handgun" and says CBP "fired defensive shots" because "he wanted to do maximum damage and massacre law enforcement. Then 200 rioters arrived at the scene."
January 24, 2026 at 7:36 PM
All of it lies. Footage doesn't support any of this. Not one word.
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This is fascist propaganda. This is not a legitimate government.
Bovino shamelessly lies: "This looks like a situation where an individual wanted to do maximum damage and massacre law enforcement"
January 24, 2026 at 7:18 PM
This is fascist propaganda. This is not a legitimate government.
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We have been told for nearly 30 years that America needed to tolerate mass shootings because the broad availability of guns would help us defend ourselves from an overreaching federal government. That day has come. The people who said this are supporting the federal agents. Many have joined them.
January 24, 2026 at 6:02 PM
We have been told for nearly 30 years that America needed to tolerate mass shootings because the broad availability of guns would help us defend ourselves from an overreaching federal government. That day has come. The people who said this are supporting the federal agents. Many have joined them.
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UK writer Oliver Kornetzke. Note: this was written 5 months ago when everything was merely rotten, not wackadoodle totalitarian evil.
January 24, 2026 at 7:00 PM
UK writer Oliver Kornetzke. Note: this was written 5 months ago when everything was merely rotten, not wackadoodle totalitarian evil.