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.
oldest trick in the book.
November 10, 2025 at 7:39 PM
oldest trick in the book.
It is annoying to see this framed as "reality," as though what is happening here is a Republican promising something starry-eyed but then running up against the structural limitations of the economy. Sherrod Brown highlights how actually saving these jobs might well have been within Moreno's power.
this is a story really worth reading and sharing, of republican elected officials pandering to blue-collar workers and, as always, betraying them.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/b...
A MAGA Senator Promised Hope for a Dying Ohio Mill. Then Reality Set In.
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:12 PM
It is annoying to see this framed as "reality," as though what is happening here is a Republican promising something starry-eyed but then running up against the structural limitations of the economy. Sherrod Brown highlights how actually saving these jobs might well have been within Moreno's power.
this is a story really worth reading and sharing, of republican elected officials pandering to blue-collar workers and, as always, betraying them.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/b...
A MAGA Senator Promised Hope for a Dying Ohio Mill. Then Reality Set In.
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:07 PM
this is a story really worth reading and sharing, of republican elected officials pandering to blue-collar workers and, as always, betraying them.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/b...
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To put it in happily partisan lay terms, it so happens that one of our parties has transmogrified itself into the face of an old and pernicious evil dwelling in this land. Impossible to ignore.
it is absolutely true that "the gospel is political but not partisan" insofar as per se support for a given political party is not the content of the gospel
but if that becomes "one party supports pepper spraying the baby, so you can't talk about that or you're being partisan" we should all go home
but if that becomes "one party supports pepper spraying the baby, so you can't talk about that or you're being partisan" we should all go home
November 10, 2025 at 4:21 PM
To put it in happily partisan lay terms, it so happens that one of our parties has transmogrified itself into the face of an old and pernicious evil dwelling in this land. Impossible to ignore.
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"It wasn't working" it was making everyone miserable and they were broadly blaming Trump. That's the strategy working.
November 10, 2025 at 2:50 PM
"It wasn't working" it was making everyone miserable and they were broadly blaming Trump. That's the strategy working.
I don’t think you can discuss the public’s distorted sense of consumer spending power without also talking about that very modern profession of “influencer,” someone whose job is literally to present an aspirational lifestyle sponsored by corporations who sell consumer products.
November 10, 2025 at 6:45 AM
I don’t think you can discuss the public’s distorted sense of consumer spending power without also talking about that very modern profession of “influencer,” someone whose job is literally to present an aspirational lifestyle sponsored by corporations who sell consumer products.
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One predictable downside of making it "no this is only about ACA, our only demand" is that does get harder to defend as time goes on and the shutdown pain stacks up. The line for giving up on that, taking its loss as the lesser evil, is much lower than "we're not funding this fascist police state."
November 10, 2025 at 5:54 AM
One predictable downside of making it "no this is only about ACA, our only demand" is that does get harder to defend as time goes on and the shutdown pain stacks up. The line for giving up on that, taking its loss as the lesser evil, is much lower than "we're not funding this fascist police state."
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if you genuinely think Schumer and Democratic leadership opposed this & Republicans coincidentally got exactly the number of votes they needed to avoid a filibuster and none of those votes are from Democratic Senators who are up for reelection in the midterms next year, I have a bridge to sell you.
November 10, 2025 at 3:05 AM
if you genuinely think Schumer and Democratic leadership opposed this & Republicans coincidentally got exactly the number of votes they needed to avoid a filibuster and none of those votes are from Democratic Senators who are up for reelection in the midterms next year, I have a bridge to sell you.
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40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine.
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:20 AM
40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine.
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
I have to write something longer about this but the actual secret sauce to Mamdani's campaign (and, well, Trump's) was that they did not set out to win the election.
November 9, 2025 at 7:38 AM
I have to write something longer about this but the actual secret sauce to Mamdani's campaign (and, well, Trump's) was that they did not set out to win the election.
This really is a synecdoche of the Trump regime. Install a bunch of loyalists ranting about 'DEI,' rip the wiring out of the walls, and alienate fucking everyone.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
The Kennedy Center Crackup
www.nytimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:55 PM
This really is a synecdoche of the Trump regime. Install a bunch of loyalists ranting about 'DEI,' rip the wiring out of the walls, and alienate fucking everyone.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
it is kind of amazing that Zohran is so squeaky clean. the worst oppo they could find on him was that he shouted out the holy land 5 in some lyrics once!
November 8, 2025 at 8:03 PM
it is kind of amazing that Zohran is so squeaky clean. the worst oppo they could find on him was that he shouted out the holy land 5 in some lyrics once!
Look I hope Cuomo is gone forever but a possible and still very funny humiliating outcome is that he becomes one of those perennial candidates with increasingly decrepit campaigns (see also: Monserrate, Hiram)
November 8, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Look I hope Cuomo is gone forever but a possible and still very funny humiliating outcome is that he becomes one of those perennial candidates with increasingly decrepit campaigns (see also: Monserrate, Hiram)
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i don’t think the main problem with the american church is “too many of them refuse to be scammed by a lady who is obviously lying.”
There is a lady on TikTok pretending to have a baby that has gone without formula all night — she is calling churches around the country to ask if they can help.
Some of them are really embarrassing themselves. Especially the mega-churches.
Some of them are really embarrassing themselves. Especially the mega-churches.
November 8, 2025 at 12:37 PM
i don’t think the main problem with the american church is “too many of them refuse to be scammed by a lady who is obviously lying.”
i remember hearing about IFS a few years ago and thinking it sounded very suspicious, even as it swept through some of my old seminary circles. feeling vindicated. www.thecut.com/article/trut...
The Truth About IFS, the Therapy That Can Break You
Internal Family Systems is a widely popular trauma treatment. Some patients say it’s destroyed their lives.
www.thecut.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:47 PM
i remember hearing about IFS a few years ago and thinking it sounded very suspicious, even as it swept through some of my old seminary circles. feeling vindicated. www.thecut.com/article/trut...
Trying to answer questions about the Mamdani campaign in Germany and realizing that I must first explain things like “political parties in the US do not functionally exist” and “food deserts”
November 8, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Trying to answer questions about the Mamdani campaign in Germany and realizing that I must first explain things like “political parties in the US do not functionally exist” and “food deserts”
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It’s funny, I was assured that Hungary was a nation defending Christendom from pagan modernity
Hungarian authorities are prosecuting a human rights defender filling the gaps left by its crumbling public services and social security system. Pastor Gábor Iványi, whose church supports people in poverty, faces absurd, politically-motivated charges. More from @hrw.org: www.hrw.org/news/2025/11...
November 7, 2025 at 9:41 AM
It’s funny, I was assured that Hungary was a nation defending Christendom from pagan modernity
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Yes and yet several European countries are embracing a far-right worldview that would burn these policies to the ground, so let’s be not be smug or complacent here - particularly as Mamdani‘s pro-immigration stance is radical by European standards.
Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’ -- Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’
Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Yes and yet several European countries are embracing a far-right worldview that would burn these policies to the ground, so let’s be not be smug or complacent here - particularly as Mamdani‘s pro-immigration stance is radical by European standards.
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We are talking “here are the actual levers he has to influence this, and the detailed political context” put right there with “leftists love degrowth and hate permitting reform they are limited in their embrace of renewable energy.”
Here’s a good example of bad social media incentives: an Insta account on climate politics asked for thoughts/input on Zohran’s platform (including insight on how it was developed or seen by his team) and my actual experience working on it was placed alongside a bunch of speculation and punditry
November 7, 2025 at 6:48 AM
We are talking “here are the actual levers he has to influence this, and the detailed political context” put right there with “leftists love degrowth and hate permitting reform they are limited in their embrace of renewable energy.”
It’s funny, I was assured that Hungary was a nation defending Christendom from pagan modernity
Hungarian authorities are prosecuting a human rights defender filling the gaps left by its crumbling public services and social security system. Pastor Gábor Iványi, whose church supports people in poverty, faces absurd, politically-motivated charges. More from @hrw.org: www.hrw.org/news/2025/11...
November 7, 2025 at 9:41 AM
It’s funny, I was assured that Hungary was a nation defending Christendom from pagan modernity
I think the “leaving the US is reasonable” vs “leaving the US is cowardly abdication” debate from last night is mostly orthogonal to the actual question: are you doing something real with other people from wherever you are or are you just Posting?
November 7, 2025 at 7:47 AM
I think the “leaving the US is reasonable” vs “leaving the US is cowardly abdication” debate from last night is mostly orthogonal to the actual question: are you doing something real with other people from wherever you are or are you just Posting?
We are talking “here are the actual levers he has to influence this, and the detailed political context” put right there with “leftists love degrowth and hate permitting reform they are limited in their embrace of renewable energy.”
Here’s a good example of bad social media incentives: an Insta account on climate politics asked for thoughts/input on Zohran’s platform (including insight on how it was developed or seen by his team) and my actual experience working on it was placed alongside a bunch of speculation and punditry
November 7, 2025 at 6:48 AM
We are talking “here are the actual levers he has to influence this, and the detailed political context” put right there with “leftists love degrowth and hate permitting reform they are limited in their embrace of renewable energy.”
Here’s a good example of bad social media incentives: an Insta account on climate politics asked for thoughts/input on Zohran’s platform (including insight on how it was developed or seen by his team) and my actual experience working on it was placed alongside a bunch of speculation and punditry
November 7, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Here’s a good example of bad social media incentives: an Insta account on climate politics asked for thoughts/input on Zohran’s platform (including insight on how it was developed or seen by his team) and my actual experience working on it was placed alongside a bunch of speculation and punditry
Once again the supreme court uses an unsigned opinion to dismiss months of work by lower court justices and trample on civil rights. www.reuters.com/world/us-sup...
www.reuters.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Once again the supreme court uses an unsigned opinion to dismiss months of work by lower court justices and trample on civil rights. www.reuters.com/world/us-sup...
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BREAKING: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EATS A LOSS IN 'SANDWICH GUY' CASE AS JURORS FIND DEFENDANT NOT GUILTY www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Jury acquits D.C. 'sandwich guy' charged with chucking a sub at a federal agent
Sean Dunn faced single misdemeanor offense after federal grand jurors refused to indict him on the felony charge sought by prosecutors.
www.nbcnews.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:27 PM
BREAKING: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EATS A LOSS IN 'SANDWICH GUY' CASE AS JURORS FIND DEFENDANT NOT GUILTY www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...