James McClure
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Relocated Texan in the Midwest (Appleton, Wisconsin). Spouse, Dad, Longhorn, Product Manager.
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🏈 JAX 29 - 36 HOU
FINAL
✅ That's Scorigami!! It's the 1094th unique final score in NFL history.
FINAL
✅ That's Scorigami!! It's the 1094th unique final score in NFL history.
November 9, 2025 at 9:35 PM
🏈 JAX 29 - 36 HOU
FINAL
✅ That's Scorigami!! It's the 1094th unique final score in NFL history.
FINAL
✅ That's Scorigami!! It's the 1094th unique final score in NFL history.
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40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
November 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
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Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment
November 6, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment
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Big day at U.S. District Court in D.C. where Sean Dunn, the D.C. Sandwich Guy, is on trial for misdemeanor assault of a federal officer.
Border Patrol agent Gregory Lairmore is on the stand narrating surveillance video of the sammie toss.
'Now he’s struck me with the sandwich,' Lairmore says.
Border Patrol agent Gregory Lairmore is on the stand narrating surveillance video of the sammie toss.
'Now he’s struck me with the sandwich,' Lairmore says.
November 4, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Big day at U.S. District Court in D.C. where Sean Dunn, the D.C. Sandwich Guy, is on trial for misdemeanor assault of a federal officer.
Border Patrol agent Gregory Lairmore is on the stand narrating surveillance video of the sammie toss.
'Now he’s struck me with the sandwich,' Lairmore says.
Border Patrol agent Gregory Lairmore is on the stand narrating surveillance video of the sammie toss.
'Now he’s struck me with the sandwich,' Lairmore says.
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Border Patrol agent Lairmore testifies that he was not injured by the sandwich, but he felt the impact through his ballistic vest.
The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says.
"I could smell the onions and mustard."
The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says.
"I could smell the onions and mustard."
November 4, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Border Patrol agent Lairmore testifies that he was not injured by the sandwich, but he felt the impact through his ballistic vest.
The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says.
"I could smell the onions and mustard."
The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says.
"I could smell the onions and mustard."
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people have completely memory holed this which is a shame because I don't know that I've seen anything like it before or since. Natalie Maines, performing in London, said she was ashamed that George W. Bush was from Texas, and in response she and her bandmates had their lives destroyed
In my second of two opinion writing seminars for MPP students today, I was asked about getting canceled in the future over writing today. I immediately responded with my deeply held belief that only The Chicks ever have been canceled. 3 of the 65 people laughed; everyone else was very confused.
November 4, 2025 at 2:43 PM
people have completely memory holed this which is a shame because I don't know that I've seen anything like it before or since. Natalie Maines, performing in London, said she was ashamed that George W. Bush was from Texas, and in response she and her bandmates had their lives destroyed
"Do not build the Torment Nexus™"
It’s Sunday. You got an extra hour to fuck with. I got you: youtu.be/zH2dFXDMwe4
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November 4, 2025 at 12:24 AM
"Do not build the Torment Nexus™"
Y'know, it's possible that a lot of folks in our government don't care about actually governing so much as amassing personal wealth and power - and maybe a lot of the hateful things they say and do are just a smokescreen.
Occam's razor and all…
Occam's razor and all…
November 3, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Y'know, it's possible that a lot of folks in our government don't care about actually governing so much as amassing personal wealth and power - and maybe a lot of the hateful things they say and do are just a smokescreen.
Occam's razor and all…
Occam's razor and all…
Today's AI is yesterday's Facebook, Twitter, etc. feed of doomscrolling.
"We are replacing pluralism with personalization… We’re shown only the facts these systems think we want to see… weighted by models whose workings remain hidden."
archive.ph/7u0A3#select...
"We are replacing pluralism with personalization… We’re shown only the facts these systems think we want to see… weighted by models whose workings remain hidden."
archive.ph/7u0A3#select...
archive.ph
November 3, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Today's AI is yesterday's Facebook, Twitter, etc. feed of doomscrolling.
"We are replacing pluralism with personalization… We’re shown only the facts these systems think we want to see… weighted by models whose workings remain hidden."
archive.ph/7u0A3#select...
"We are replacing pluralism with personalization… We’re shown only the facts these systems think we want to see… weighted by models whose workings remain hidden."
archive.ph/7u0A3#select...
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someone invited people magazine to the kitchen and they brought their own knives
November 2, 2025 at 6:00 PM
someone invited people magazine to the kitchen and they brought their own knives
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Reminder: There’s no such thing as “a substack” and definitely no such thing as _your_ substack. www.anildash.com/2024/11/19/d...
November 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Reminder: There’s no such thing as “a substack” and definitely no such thing as _your_ substack. www.anildash.com/2024/11/19/d...
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If they pass this--an effective ban because every medical facility requires those funds to function--then next up is adults. That's it. Full stop.
The world is on fire and so many things deserve your attention but this is exactly what trans people have been yelling about for years now.
The world is on fire and so many things deserve your attention but this is exactly what trans people have been yelling about for years now.
October 30, 2025 at 3:01 PM
If they pass this--an effective ban because every medical facility requires those funds to function--then next up is adults. That's it. Full stop.
The world is on fire and so many things deserve your attention but this is exactly what trans people have been yelling about for years now.
The world is on fire and so many things deserve your attention but this is exactly what trans people have been yelling about for years now.
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Hey, remind me what happened after the Roaring 20s?
Dancers at Trump’s Halloween party as people begin losing food stamps under his administration
November 1, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Hey, remind me what happened after the Roaring 20s?
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I am motivated by the fact that I don’t think any president should get a blank check to murder as many people as he wants with zero oversight based on his opinion that they were transporting drugs without due process or proof presented to anyone. Jesus would agree with me. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Mike Johnson dismisses Democrats criticizing Trump's lawless strikes on boats: "They are motivated out of fear and Trump derangement syndrome."
October 31, 2025 at 12:38 PM
I am motivated by the fact that I don’t think any president should get a blank check to murder as many people as he wants with zero oversight based on his opinion that they were transporting drugs without due process or proof presented to anyone. Jesus would agree with me. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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When I worked in WaPo Opinions in 2017-2018, senior editors specifically told junior editors not to factcheck Marc Thiessen and other MAGA columnists, otherwise they wouldn’t be able to publish anything by them at all, and “we need them for intellectual diversity.”
It’s very telling that opening your publication to MAGA “thought” requires a massive downgrade in quality control.
October 30, 2025 at 10:38 PM
When I worked in WaPo Opinions in 2017-2018, senior editors specifically told junior editors not to factcheck Marc Thiessen and other MAGA columnists, otherwise they wouldn’t be able to publish anything by them at all, and “we need them for intellectual diversity.”
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The Art of Letting Trump Claim a Win, While Walking Away Stronger www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/w...
I’ve gifted this like he gifted Xi
I’ve gifted this like he gifted Xi
The Art of Letting Trump Claim a Win, While Walking Away Stronger
www.nytimes.com
October 30, 2025 at 4:24 PM
The Art of Letting Trump Claim a Win, While Walking Away Stronger www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/w...
I’ve gifted this like he gifted Xi
I’ve gifted this like he gifted Xi
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Portland dance group offers free Latin dance lessons at ICE facility 💃🏽
October 30, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Portland dance group offers free Latin dance lessons at ICE facility 💃🏽
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You know, Trump being President for life and Trump not fully serving out his current term are not mutually exclusive things.
October 26, 2025 at 7:27 PM
You know, Trump being President for life and Trump not fully serving out his current term are not mutually exclusive things.
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here's today's post: "elderly fuckwit shits the bed in Asia" — it’s just one embarrassment after another.
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elderly fuckwit shits the bed in Asia
it’s just one embarrassment after another
bit.ly
October 29, 2025 at 3:18 PM
here's today's post: "elderly fuckwit shits the bed in Asia" — it’s just one embarrassment after another.
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Excited for 2028 when some state SoS kicks Trump off the ballot, Federal district and appellate judges uphold it and then SCOTUS issues an unsigned 6-3 shadow docket rulling staying the lower court ruling, allowing Trump to stay on the ballot and schedules arguments for the case for February 2029.
October 29, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Excited for 2028 when some state SoS kicks Trump off the ballot, Federal district and appellate judges uphold it and then SCOTUS issues an unsigned 6-3 shadow docket rulling staying the lower court ruling, allowing Trump to stay on the ballot and schedules arguments for the case for February 2029.
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“This is a political prosecution and a gross attempt to silence dissent, a right protected under the first amendment," Abughazaleh said in a video she shared on social media.
More: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
More: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
October 29, 2025 at 6:03 PM
“This is a political prosecution and a gross attempt to silence dissent, a right protected under the first amendment," Abughazaleh said in a video she shared on social media.
More: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
More: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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The whole Third Term Project isn’t actually about Trump. The people behind it know he will likely be dead or enfeebled by 2029. It is about them, the vastly unpopular group around Trump, wanting to grift us forever without elections.
October 29, 2025 at 3:46 PM
The whole Third Term Project isn’t actually about Trump. The people behind it know he will likely be dead or enfeebled by 2029. It is about them, the vastly unpopular group around Trump, wanting to grift us forever without elections.
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America in 2025: A judge has to tell a Border Patrol officer to only tear gas adults after warning them, not kids who are out on Halloween
Ellis: "Halloween is on Friday. I do not want to get violation reports from the plaintiffs that show that agents are out and about on Halloween where kids are present and tear gas is being deployed."
October 28, 2025 at 4:41 PM
America in 2025: A judge has to tell a Border Patrol officer to only tear gas adults after warning them, not kids who are out on Halloween