Shay O’Reilly
@shaygabriel.bsky.social
“The needy shall not always be forgotten, nor the hope of the poor perish forever.” NYC ➡️ Berlin. Climate organizer/campaigner. Kita dad. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈✝️
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Shay O’Reilly
@shaygabriel.bsky.social
· Jan 31
To do list for this moment:
1. Establish a discipline of calling your Congressional reps every day.
2. Join an ongoing organizing effort in your local community.
3. Take on at least one personal habit that expands your capacity for attention, compassion, and commitment.
1. Establish a discipline of calling your Congressional reps every day.
2. Join an ongoing organizing effort in your local community.
3. Take on at least one personal habit that expands your capacity for attention, compassion, and commitment.
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NYC‼️ TODAY, 6PM, FOLEY SQUARE
EMERGENCY RALLY IN RESPONSE TO #ICE KILLING MINNEAPOLIS PROTESTER
“This tragedy did not happen in a vacuum. It is the direct & predictable result of a federal agency that has been allowed to operate with impunity” @handsoffnyc.bsky.social @riseandresist.bsky.social
EMERGENCY RALLY IN RESPONSE TO #ICE KILLING MINNEAPOLIS PROTESTER
“This tragedy did not happen in a vacuum. It is the direct & predictable result of a federal agency that has been allowed to operate with impunity” @handsoffnyc.bsky.social @riseandresist.bsky.social
January 7, 2026 at 8:41 PM
NYC‼️ TODAY, 6PM, FOLEY SQUARE
EMERGENCY RALLY IN RESPONSE TO #ICE KILLING MINNEAPOLIS PROTESTER
“This tragedy did not happen in a vacuum. It is the direct & predictable result of a federal agency that has been allowed to operate with impunity” @handsoffnyc.bsky.social @riseandresist.bsky.social
EMERGENCY RALLY IN RESPONSE TO #ICE KILLING MINNEAPOLIS PROTESTER
“This tragedy did not happen in a vacuum. It is the direct & predictable result of a federal agency that has been allowed to operate with impunity” @handsoffnyc.bsky.social @riseandresist.bsky.social
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"I urge any who are involved in the administration of the current immigration enforcement regime at any level to seek the counsel of their clergy, given my urgent pastoral concern for the moral and spiritual injury that their participation is causing them." - Bp. Rob Price of Dallas, 1/1/2026
January 7, 2026 at 8:09 PM
"I urge any who are involved in the administration of the current immigration enforcement regime at any level to seek the counsel of their clergy, given my urgent pastoral concern for the moral and spiritual injury that their participation is causing them." - Bp. Rob Price of Dallas, 1/1/2026
gimme your best cold weather clothes(=layers, problems thereof) / donning socks advice for sensory sensitive kids.
January 7, 2026 at 3:48 PM
gimme your best cold weather clothes(=layers, problems thereof) / donning socks advice for sensory sensitive kids.
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January 7, 2026 at 1:19 PM
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"It shouldn’t be this hard to get language into law that requires a spending bill to actually spend the money it authorizes. But if Democrats won’t defend the power of the purse, it does not functionally exist." prospect.org/2026/01/07/t...
If Democrats Won’t Shut Down the Government, Trump Will - The American Prospect
Congress is moving to avoid another lapse in funding, but a freeze in welfare support to blue states shows what’s missing in the debate.
prospect.org
January 7, 2026 at 12:57 PM
"It shouldn’t be this hard to get language into law that requires a spending bill to actually spend the money it authorizes. But if Democrats won’t defend the power of the purse, it does not functionally exist." prospect.org/2026/01/07/t...
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1/Quick thoughts on Venezuela oil and what it means for world politics. Rather than a simple story of corporate oligarchy, more about Trump putting himself at the center of spoils that can be used to consolidate power i.e neo-royalism.
www.cnbc.com/2026/01/06/t...
www.cnbc.com/2026/01/06/t...
Trump says Venezuela to give up to 50 million barrels of oil to U.S.
Trump's announcement came days after U.S. forces attacked Venezuela and captured its leader, Nicolas Maduro, to be prosecuted on drug-trafficking charges.
www.cnbc.com
January 7, 2026 at 12:07 PM
1/Quick thoughts on Venezuela oil and what it means for world politics. Rather than a simple story of corporate oligarchy, more about Trump putting himself at the center of spoils that can be used to consolidate power i.e neo-royalism.
www.cnbc.com/2026/01/06/t...
www.cnbc.com/2026/01/06/t...
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just wondering if American LNG still feels like a good deal to Europe.
December 7, 2025 at 6:49 PM
just wondering if American LNG still feels like a good deal to Europe.
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I was listening to @thebulwark.com's Next Level podcast today and they were thinking through the chance that Trump actually tries to seize Greenland and there was a @jvl.bsky.social sort of 'I kinda hope he does it to drop the mask entirely' and I just cannot scream loudly enough: No, You Do Not. 1/
January 7, 2026 at 4:15 AM
I was listening to @thebulwark.com's Next Level podcast today and they were thinking through the chance that Trump actually tries to seize Greenland and there was a @jvl.bsky.social sort of 'I kinda hope he does it to drop the mask entirely' and I just cannot scream loudly enough: No, You Do Not. 1/
Don’t forget that five years ago today, the Democrats, who controlled the House of Representatives, adjourned rather than doing anything about the previous day’s effort to overturn the presidential election.
January 7, 2026 at 7:12 AM
Don’t forget that five years ago today, the Democrats, who controlled the House of Representatives, adjourned rather than doing anything about the previous day’s effort to overturn the presidential election.
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it's kind of wild that it's basically been an open secret that America has been running ops against the Danes and basically no one in Congress cared
January 6, 2026 at 9:36 PM
it's kind of wild that it's basically been an open secret that America has been running ops against the Danes and basically no one in Congress cared
as with all white supremacists, these guys despise actually existing “western civilization” and classics and wish only to celebrate the *idea* of them as something that requires a constant denigration and destruction of the Other
From an email to one of our faculty members....
Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!
Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!
January 6, 2026 at 9:48 PM
as with all white supremacists, these guys despise actually existing “western civilization” and classics and wish only to celebrate the *idea* of them as something that requires a constant denigration and destruction of the Other
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“the weak are meat the strong do eat” as a governance philosophy
I don’t think there’s better evidence I can give for the decline of civic values in America than the unflinching embrace of unjustified wars of conquest that would take hundreds or thousands of lives for literally no reason—coming from people who think we should just throw Ukraine to the wolves
December 24, 2024 at 7:08 PM
“the weak are meat the strong do eat” as a governance philosophy
The real culinary innovation in Paris is all the little shops selling roasted chickens to go.
January 6, 2026 at 8:01 PM
The real culinary innovation in Paris is all the little shops selling roasted chickens to go.
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Another thing I think doesn't get discussed enough on the politics: O&G takes supply side fights very seriously because infrastructure with multi-decade lifespans creates HUGE long-term constituencies. Workers, community tax base, and resultant political power.
January 5, 2026 at 8:09 PM
Another thing I think doesn't get discussed enough on the politics: O&G takes supply side fights very seriously because infrastructure with multi-decade lifespans creates HUGE long-term constituencies. Workers, community tax base, and resultant political power.
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I have no interest in trying to dunk on anyone but there is absolutely no evidence for this at all.
SARS-CoV-2 has not been demonstrated to make you more susceptible to other infections by impairing the function of your immune system.
SARS-CoV-2 has not been demonstrated to make you more susceptible to other infections by impairing the function of your immune system.
January 6, 2026 at 4:07 PM
I have no interest in trying to dunk on anyone but there is absolutely no evidence for this at all.
SARS-CoV-2 has not been demonstrated to make you more susceptible to other infections by impairing the function of your immune system.
SARS-CoV-2 has not been demonstrated to make you more susceptible to other infections by impairing the function of your immune system.
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In a frankly bizarre interview with the New York Times, Dan Goldman says he's not ready to conclude that Israel has committed any war crimes in Gaza.
Not genocide, any war crimes at all.
Not genocide, any war crimes at all.
Facing Challenge From Lander, Dan Goldman Prepares to Defend His Seat
www.nytimes.com
January 6, 2026 at 5:17 PM
In a frankly bizarre interview with the New York Times, Dan Goldman says he's not ready to conclude that Israel has committed any war crimes in Gaza.
Not genocide, any war crimes at all.
Not genocide, any war crimes at all.
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Trump openly told oil execs in 2024 that he'd govern in their naked financial interests if they raised $1 billion for his campaign. He's now taking this further, telling them they'll reap great riches if they buy into his vision of imperial hemispheric dominance. 5/
newrepublic.com/article/2049...
newrepublic.com/article/2049...
January 6, 2026 at 12:34 PM
Trump openly told oil execs in 2024 that he'd govern in their naked financial interests if they raised $1 billion for his campaign. He's now taking this further, telling them they'll reap great riches if they buy into his vision of imperial hemispheric dominance. 5/
newrepublic.com/article/2049...
newrepublic.com/article/2049...
I am not an international affairs expert but suggesting that the US:LatAm power relationship is anything close to the Russia:EU relationship is very unhinged, high-on-Russian-propaganda stuff.
January 6, 2026 at 10:21 AM
I am not an international affairs expert but suggesting that the US:LatAm power relationship is anything close to the Russia:EU relationship is very unhinged, high-on-Russian-propaganda stuff.
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I had this exchange with a friend last week: there are worse things than American liberal empire! Namely American illiberal empire!!
I think the failure to imagine that things can get worse is a really significant problem across the political spectrum (Bevins’s If We Burn makes this point, as well)
I think the failure to imagine that things can get worse is a really significant problem across the political spectrum (Bevins’s If We Burn makes this point, as well)
March 31, 2025 at 12:21 PM
I had this exchange with a friend last week: there are worse things than American liberal empire! Namely American illiberal empire!!
I think the failure to imagine that things can get worse is a really significant problem across the political spectrum (Bevins’s If We Burn makes this point, as well)
I think the failure to imagine that things can get worse is a really significant problem across the political spectrum (Bevins’s If We Burn makes this point, as well)
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Europe’s failure to condemn Trump’s illegal aggression in Venezuela isn’t just wrong – it’s stupid. My piece @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Europe’s failure to condemn Trump’s illegal aggression in Venezuela isn’t just wrong – it’s stupid | Nathalie Tocci
The more European countries act as colonies, unable and unwilling to stand up to Trump, the more they’ll be treated as such, says Guardian Europe columnist Nathalie Tocci
www.theguardian.com
January 6, 2026 at 6:12 AM
Europe’s failure to condemn Trump’s illegal aggression in Venezuela isn’t just wrong – it’s stupid. My piece @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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another example of our incredibly weird status quo - this happened, the cops couldn't actually charge her, and she's been confirmed as released
What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids?
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
January 6, 2026 at 2:13 AM
another example of our incredibly weird status quo - this happened, the cops couldn't actually charge her, and she's been confirmed as released
If you extrapolate this into a broader philosophy you get precisely what is described in the first chapter of Timothy Snyder’s Black Earth, “Hitler’s World.”
Here is the Trump Doctrine, as articulated by Stephen Miller in his truly frightening interview with Jake Tapper this afternoon. It is very much like the doctrine of the dictators we fought and defeated in World War II and of Putin today. It is un-American at its very core.
January 6, 2026 at 6:26 AM
If you extrapolate this into a broader philosophy you get precisely what is described in the first chapter of Timothy Snyder’s Black Earth, “Hitler’s World.”
You can buy sauerkraut juice at the grocery store in Germany and it is the greatest sports drink I’ve ever tried.
they should sell jalapeno flavored brine as a sports drink
This place needs some Innocuous Discourse pronto. Quote this with a take that’s not political or aggressive
January 6, 2026 at 6:19 AM
You can buy sauerkraut juice at the grocery store in Germany and it is the greatest sports drink I’ve ever tried.
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Anyway, here’s a fun thought: things 09A show that “communities” based around pure nihilism can form online, this combined with LLMs and chatbot psychosis, mean you could create scalable turnkey antisocial behavior inculcators as a service. I’m certain nation-states are already thinking about this.
I think the mechanism is pretty clear imo: it's trained to be agreeable, and so when someone with mental illness starts inputting their delusions it defaults to affirmation. what's more interesting is why this isn't happening with the other chatbots. just not as much market penetration?
January 5, 2026 at 8:21 PM
Anyway, here’s a fun thought: things 09A show that “communities” based around pure nihilism can form online, this combined with LLMs and chatbot psychosis, mean you could create scalable turnkey antisocial behavior inculcators as a service. I’m certain nation-states are already thinking about this.
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This seems to fit a pattern that we're seeing again and again: media reporting on the political consensus defaults to reflecting the views of a wealthy elite whose interests are increasingly at odds with the interests of most Americans.
As we've been saying for a while: the "backlash" against climate policies has been wildly, absurdly overstated. This new survey shows how UK MPs badly understate support for climate policies
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
January 5, 2026 at 7:29 PM
This seems to fit a pattern that we're seeing again and again: media reporting on the political consensus defaults to reflecting the views of a wealthy elite whose interests are increasingly at odds with the interests of most Americans.