Jackie McGinnis
@jackiemcg.bsky.social
Lover of books, Gryffindor, marketer, endo warrior, not enough spoons: https://jackiemcg.substack.com
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For Tolkien fans, a timely passage for No Kings Eve, from WH Auden’s review of Lord of the Rings.
October 18, 2025 at 4:13 AM
For Tolkien fans, a timely passage for No Kings Eve, from WH Auden’s review of Lord of the Rings.
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"By facing this history, we honor the original stewards of the land. We honor the Indigenous Peoples who never stopped fighting for their homelands. That's the story behind America's Best Idea. And it's a story we all need to be telling."
October 14, 2025 at 12:15 AM
"By facing this history, we honor the original stewards of the land. We honor the Indigenous Peoples who never stopped fighting for their homelands. That's the story behind America's Best Idea. And it's a story we all need to be telling."
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"Agree to disagree" is reserved for things like "You don't like my favorite sports team." We can agree to disagree about that. It's not the same for racism, homophobia, & sexism. Not human rights. Not basic common decency. We do not have a difference of opinion. We have a difference in morality.”
September 11, 2025 at 8:28 PM
"Agree to disagree" is reserved for things like "You don't like my favorite sports team." We can agree to disagree about that. It's not the same for racism, homophobia, & sexism. Not human rights. Not basic common decency. We do not have a difference of opinion. We have a difference in morality.”
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Poe
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
September 5, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Poe
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
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This is very much extremely the thing.
"You stupid SHEEP! There's no invisible MAN on a MOUNTAIN!"
"No shit, Sherlock."
"And no Magic SkyDaddy is gonna just FIX things if you pray hard enough!!"
"That's correct."
"And people don't get sick because they were bad!!"
"Did... you think they did??"
"You stupid SHEEP! There's no invisible MAN on a MOUNTAIN!"
"No shit, Sherlock."
"And no Magic SkyDaddy is gonna just FIX things if you pray hard enough!!"
"That's correct."
"And people don't get sick because they were bad!!"
"Did... you think they did??"
I also think that like… white American atheists who conclude that literally all religion is what they were taught growing up in their evangelical churches are helping to reinforce the belief that that version of Christianity is the correct way to practice religion?
September 3, 2025 at 3:56 PM
This is very much extremely the thing.
"You stupid SHEEP! There's no invisible MAN on a MOUNTAIN!"
"No shit, Sherlock."
"And no Magic SkyDaddy is gonna just FIX things if you pray hard enough!!"
"That's correct."
"And people don't get sick because they were bad!!"
"Did... you think they did??"
"You stupid SHEEP! There's no invisible MAN on a MOUNTAIN!"
"No shit, Sherlock."
"And no Magic SkyDaddy is gonna just FIX things if you pray hard enough!!"
"That's correct."
"And people don't get sick because they were bad!!"
"Did... you think they did??"
Backyard photos 💜
Everything is hard. Way, way too difficult. But there are baby birds and lily blooms to get us through the day.
Everything is hard. Way, way too difficult. But there are baby birds and lily blooms to get us through the day.
August 31, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Backyard photos 💜
Everything is hard. Way, way too difficult. But there are baby birds and lily blooms to get us through the day.
Everything is hard. Way, way too difficult. But there are baby birds and lily blooms to get us through the day.
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Stop doomscrolling and focus on something positive, give your soul a break and breath for a moment.
August 12, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Stop doomscrolling and focus on something positive, give your soul a break and breath for a moment.
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Republicans across the country are waging war on public education. They’re:
💰 Withholding school funding
❌ Trying to abolish the Department of Education
📜 Mandating the Ten Commandments in classrooms
🏫 Pushing private school vouchers
Sign our petition to fight back NOW:
💰 Withholding school funding
❌ Trying to abolish the Department of Education
📜 Mandating the Ten Commandments in classrooms
🏫 Pushing private school vouchers
Sign our petition to fight back NOW:
Block Donald Trump’s Attempts to Abolish the Department of Education
Public education in this country is under attack. And Trump has already made clear his intentions to undermine public education even further at every turn—including the extreme proposal to completely…
MoveOn.org
July 30, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Republicans across the country are waging war on public education. They’re:
💰 Withholding school funding
❌ Trying to abolish the Department of Education
📜 Mandating the Ten Commandments in classrooms
🏫 Pushing private school vouchers
Sign our petition to fight back NOW:
💰 Withholding school funding
❌ Trying to abolish the Department of Education
📜 Mandating the Ten Commandments in classrooms
🏫 Pushing private school vouchers
Sign our petition to fight back NOW:
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You can learn all about us right here at this link, and yes we are a 501c3.
thepolarzoo.org/our-story
thepolarzoo.org/our-story
Our Story — The Polar Zoo @AltYelloNatPark
thepolarzoo.org
July 27, 2025 at 2:46 PM
You can learn all about us right here at this link, and yes we are a 501c3.
thepolarzoo.org/our-story
thepolarzoo.org/our-story
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A good friend of mine [who is Palestinian] swears by this group doing work directly in Gaza: chuffed.org/campaign/zay...
The Zaynab Project: GAZA Relief
Our name is inspired by Zaynab bint Jahsh (RA) — wife of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ, renowned for her extraordinary compassion and generosity.She was called the shelter for orphans, widows, and the needy....
chuffed.org
July 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
A good friend of mine [who is Palestinian] swears by this group doing work directly in Gaza: chuffed.org/campaign/zay...
Whoa. 🌳
“Wolves, along with bears and cougars, have helped reduce elk numbers, giving aspen a chance to regrow.”
“Wolves, along with bears and cougars, have helped reduce elk numbers, giving aspen a chance to regrow.”
"Three decades after wolves returned to [Yellowstone] NP, researchers have found the first new generation of overstory aspen trees in 80 years...'The reintroduction of large carnivores has initiated a recovery process that had been shut down for decades.'" 🌏 www.discoverwildlife.com/environment/...
Yellowstone: "remarkable" recovery of aspen trees 30 years after return of wolves – new study | Discover Wildlife
Three decades after wolves returned to the US national park, researchers have found the first new generation of overstory aspen trees in 80 years.
www.discoverwildlife.com
July 27, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Whoa. 🌳
“Wolves, along with bears and cougars, have helped reduce elk numbers, giving aspen a chance to regrow.”
“Wolves, along with bears and cougars, have helped reduce elk numbers, giving aspen a chance to regrow.”
The bears from @explore.org get me through the workday. Oh, to be a bear.
July 7, 2025 at 9:47 PM
The bears from @explore.org get me through the workday. Oh, to be a bear.
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In Gaza, in Texas, everywhere
"The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality."
- James Baldwin
- James Baldwin
July 6, 2025 at 3:37 AM
In Gaza, in Texas, everywhere
Check your local indie bookstore. I’ve seen some in both SA and Austin collecting items.
Here is a way to help those affected by the storms & flooding in Central Texas.
July 6, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Check your local indie bookstore. I’ve seen some in both SA and Austin collecting items.
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Here is a way to help those affected by the storms & flooding in Central Texas.
July 5, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Here is a way to help those affected by the storms & flooding in Central Texas.
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McMorrow: What Trump has done is weaponize us against each other, when everybody needs hospitals, good schools, and health care.
It has become this battle for scarcity, when we’re the wealthiest country in the world. We should not be fighting each other for our basic needs.
It has become this battle for scarcity, when we’re the wealthiest country in the world. We should not be fighting each other for our basic needs.
July 4, 2025 at 8:23 PM
McMorrow: What Trump has done is weaponize us against each other, when everybody needs hospitals, good schools, and health care.
It has become this battle for scarcity, when we’re the wealthiest country in the world. We should not be fighting each other for our basic needs.
It has become this battle for scarcity, when we’re the wealthiest country in the world. We should not be fighting each other for our basic needs.
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It's Bearly Thursday and I'm done with this week already.
July 3, 2025 at 4:44 PM
It's Bearly Thursday and I'm done with this week already.
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Save every human being.
Fight for every single person that you can.
AND it's all of us or none of us, truly. We must continue to fight back in all the ways that we can.
AND literally: Save every single person that you can.
There is no buffer time. It's now
Fight for every single person that you can.
AND it's all of us or none of us, truly. We must continue to fight back in all the ways that we can.
AND literally: Save every single person that you can.
There is no buffer time. It's now
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Save every human being.
Fight for every single person that you can.
AND it's all of us or none of us, truly. We must continue to fight back in all the ways that we can.
AND literally: Save every single person that you can.
There is no buffer time. It's now
Fight for every single person that you can.
AND it's all of us or none of us, truly. We must continue to fight back in all the ways that we can.
AND literally: Save every single person that you can.
There is no buffer time. It's now
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This is amazing, let’s go! Blue states are fighting back against Trump’s threats to withhold funding by introducing bills that give the federal government a taste of its own medicine.
June 30, 2025 at 10:48 PM
This is amazing, let’s go! Blue states are fighting back against Trump’s threats to withhold funding by introducing bills that give the federal government a taste of its own medicine.
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these vintage library promotional posters go so hard
![[vintage book posters, from the 1910s to the 1960s, with slogans like "develop the power that is within you" and "for greater knowledge, use your library often"]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hppum4l25hcczzffastsicpq/bafkreiavh5kz4naixgys6ia6z4pa3bq5clmccducidoiwda5prwosysqgi@jpeg)
June 29, 2025 at 8:05 PM
these vintage library promotional posters go so hard
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If you are feeling scared and angry, remember: That's part of the strategy.
They said they wanted to put people into trauma. You might be feeling traumatized. That's purposeful.
Knowing that this is political strategy helps. You're not crazy. Talk to others; rest; keep going as you are able.
They said they wanted to put people into trauma. You might be feeling traumatized. That's purposeful.
Knowing that this is political strategy helps. You're not crazy. Talk to others; rest; keep going as you are able.
June 28, 2025 at 3:44 PM
If you are feeling scared and angry, remember: That's part of the strategy.
They said they wanted to put people into trauma. You might be feeling traumatized. That's purposeful.
Knowing that this is political strategy helps. You're not crazy. Talk to others; rest; keep going as you are able.
They said they wanted to put people into trauma. You might be feeling traumatized. That's purposeful.
Knowing that this is political strategy helps. You're not crazy. Talk to others; rest; keep going as you are able.