Tom McGhan
@tmcghan.bsky.social
Engineer. Maryland Grad and Maryland ex-pat. Gamer. Baseball fan. Was an Oriole for a day. Bay Area. he/him
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The legacy media narrative has been unified in claiming that Jeffrey Epstein abused minors. But how can anyone report that without interviewing Jeffrey Epstein? I asked Alan Dershowitz.
—Bari Weiss, today in the New York Times
—Bari Weiss, today in the New York Times
December 22, 2025 at 6:22 PM
The legacy media narrative has been unified in claiming that Jeffrey Epstein abused minors. But how can anyone report that without interviewing Jeffrey Epstein? I asked Alan Dershowitz.
—Bari Weiss, today in the New York Times
—Bari Weiss, today in the New York Times
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Weird how The Free Press was able to publish all of these without comment from the Washigton University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children's Hospital.
December 22, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Weird how The Free Press was able to publish all of these without comment from the Washigton University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children's Hospital.
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Judge: That's what I'll do. Prohibit federalization or deployment of any NG troops into Oregon. For all reasons in prior opinion. Deployment of federalized military is ultra vires and contrary to law, violating Title 10, section 12406. I also find it's likely that defendants violate 10th Amendment.
October 6, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Judge: That's what I'll do. Prohibit federalization or deployment of any NG troops into Oregon. For all reasons in prior opinion. Deployment of federalized military is ultra vires and contrary to law, violating Title 10, section 12406. I also find it's likely that defendants violate 10th Amendment.
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We don’t yet know what motivated the person who shot and killed Charlie Kirk, but this kind of despicable violence has no place in our democracy. Michelle and I will be praying for Charlie’s family tonight, especially his wife Erika and their two young children.
September 10, 2025 at 9:26 PM
We don’t yet know what motivated the person who shot and killed Charlie Kirk, but this kind of despicable violence has no place in our democracy. Michelle and I will be praying for Charlie’s family tonight, especially his wife Erika and their two young children.
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it’s like actually really uncool, man, that you won’t surrender to authoritarianism. stop being so square, man. you’re really killing the vibes, man.
Mike Johnson: "I cannot for the life of me understand how the Democrats think this is some kind of winning political message. Yield man! Let the troops come into your city and show how crime can be reduced."
September 9, 2025 at 3:44 PM
it’s like actually really uncool, man, that you won’t surrender to authoritarianism. stop being so square, man. you’re really killing the vibes, man.
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Chaired law professor at NYU its.law.nyu.edu/facultyprofi...
When people who've devoted their careers to the law start talking like this...
When people who've devoted their careers to the law start talking like this...
September 8, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Chaired law professor at NYU its.law.nyu.edu/facultyprofi...
When people who've devoted their careers to the law start talking like this...
When people who've devoted their careers to the law start talking like this...
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I would be moving for sanctions right about now.
Ladies and gentlemen, it's been only 52 days since Trump sued WSJ journalists and said — in court! — the Epstein letter doesn't exist.
And now. We know. It does.
And now. We know. It does.
September 8, 2025 at 7:58 PM
I would be moving for sanctions right about now.
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September 6, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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That's not authority. Also, they're not terrorists, literal or otherwise, other than in the Dumb Person sense of terrorist = bad. Drug dealers do not tend to be ideology driven. Nobody is smuggling coke to take down capitalism.
Q: On the Venezuela vessel strike, what legal authority were you guys working under?
JD VANCE: The legal authority is there are people who are bringing -- literal terrorists -- who are bringing deadly drugs into our country
JD VANCE: The legal authority is there are people who are bringing -- literal terrorists -- who are bringing deadly drugs into our country
September 3, 2025 at 10:57 PM
That's not authority. Also, they're not terrorists, literal or otherwise, other than in the Dumb Person sense of terrorist = bad. Drug dealers do not tend to be ideology driven. Nobody is smuggling coke to take down capitalism.
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Holy shit:
Stateline spoke to nearly a dozen firefighters, agency staffers and contractors, who said that top officials assigned to the fire deployed the crews to a remote location under false pretenses so federal agents could check their immigration status.
www.hcn.org/articles/fir...
Stateline spoke to nearly a dozen firefighters, agency staffers and contractors, who said that top officials assigned to the fire deployed the crews to a remote location under false pretenses so federal agents could check their immigration status.
www.hcn.org/articles/fir...
Firefighters question leaders’ role in ICE raid near Bear Gulch Fire - High Country News
Firefighting veterans believe the management team overseeing fire crews played a key role in handing team members over to immigration authorities.
www.hcn.org
September 3, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Holy shit:
Stateline spoke to nearly a dozen firefighters, agency staffers and contractors, who said that top officials assigned to the fire deployed the crews to a remote location under false pretenses so federal agents could check their immigration status.
www.hcn.org/articles/fir...
Stateline spoke to nearly a dozen firefighters, agency staffers and contractors, who said that top officials assigned to the fire deployed the crews to a remote location under false pretenses so federal agents could check their immigration status.
www.hcn.org/articles/fir...
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@kenwhite.bsky.social generally speaking, is it a good idea to figure out your legal excuse for a completely unforced, premeditated homicide *after* said homicide?
Nine grafs deep into the article and we find out:
"Pentagon officials were still working Wednesday on what legal authority they would tell the public was used to back up the extraordinary strike in international waters."
"Pentagon officials were still working Wednesday on what legal authority they would tell the public was used to back up the extraordinary strike in international waters."
Trump Administration Says Boat Strike Is Start of Campaign Against Venezuelan Cartels
www.nytimes.com
September 4, 2025 at 2:19 AM
@kenwhite.bsky.social generally speaking, is it a good idea to figure out your legal excuse for a completely unforced, premeditated homicide *after* said homicide?
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Best part of the Harvard ruling from today is when the judge repeatedly quotes Trump boasting over and over again that what he’s doing is exactly retaliation
September 4, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Best part of the Harvard ruling from today is when the judge repeatedly quotes Trump boasting over and over again that what he’s doing is exactly retaliation
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Summarily killing a boat full of suspected illegal migrants rather than summarily killing a boat full of suspected drug dealers lowers the approval rate with the American populace from maybe 35% to 25%.
You know that boat the administration blew up? A former law enforcement official told the NYT the boat seemed to be carrying not drugs but *’migrants *
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
September 4, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Summarily killing a boat full of suspected illegal migrants rather than summarily killing a boat full of suspected drug dealers lowers the approval rate with the American populace from maybe 35% to 25%.
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EVERYONE STOP AND LOOK AT MY CAT
September 3, 2025 at 10:42 PM
EVERYONE STOP AND LOOK AT MY CAT
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lol at Bari's "broadly shit-kicking anti-establishment disposition." She's not fucking Stone Cold Steve Austin, she is the kid from your high school who's unsettlingly good at talking to other kid's parents. Her only demonstrable skill, a very valuable one, is that rich dummies find her amusing.
You can start getting ready for CBS News guided by Bari Weiss of the Free Press. This is from Dylan Byers. [Paywall likely]
"I am told David plans to give Bari a role at CBS News that would, among other things, task his fellow Millennial with guiding the editorial direction of the division."
"I am told David plans to give Bari a role at CBS News that would, among other things, task his fellow Millennial with guiding the editorial direction of the division."
September 4, 2025 at 2:26 AM
lol at Bari's "broadly shit-kicking anti-establishment disposition." She's not fucking Stone Cold Steve Austin, she is the kid from your high school who's unsettlingly good at talking to other kid's parents. Her only demonstrable skill, a very valuable one, is that rich dummies find her amusing.
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next weekend w/ BARCS and Bikemore
September 1, 2025 at 11:36 PM
next weekend w/ BARCS and Bikemore
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“Papers, please”
DC police are now harrasssing people on metro bus stops. This is Fascism.
August 23, 2025 at 5:51 PM
“Papers, please”
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a true Poster's Retirement Home moment: I have no memory of where this meme came from
alas
alas
August 21, 2025 at 2:33 PM
a true Poster's Retirement Home moment: I have no memory of where this meme came from
alas
alas
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god shoutout to being 25, living in dc, and taking day trips up to baltimore to eat crabs and crush natty bohs bsky.app/profile/pjcr...
And if you’ve got a can of Natty Boh, well that’s a good combo.
August 21, 2025 at 2:28 PM
god shoutout to being 25, living in dc, and taking day trips up to baltimore to eat crabs and crush natty bohs bsky.app/profile/pjcr...
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give me a bag of these and you don't even have to worry about the money
August 21, 2025 at 1:03 AM
give me a bag of these and you don't even have to worry about the money
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Alright friends, I’m probably delusional here, but I’m starting daily Orioles Finish .500 updates!
After tonight’s WIN against the Red Sox, the Orioles are 59-67
There are 36 games left in the regular season, and the O’s need to win 22 of them to finish the season at .500
Let’s go O’s!
After tonight’s WIN against the Red Sox, the Orioles are 59-67
There are 36 games left in the regular season, and the O’s need to win 22 of them to finish the season at .500
Let’s go O’s!
August 20, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Alright friends, I’m probably delusional here, but I’m starting daily Orioles Finish .500 updates!
After tonight’s WIN against the Red Sox, the Orioles are 59-67
There are 36 games left in the regular season, and the O’s need to win 22 of them to finish the season at .500
Let’s go O’s!
After tonight’s WIN against the Red Sox, the Orioles are 59-67
There are 36 games left in the regular season, and the O’s need to win 22 of them to finish the season at .500
Let’s go O’s!
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My pops once said "if all the men disappeared tomorrow women would thrive but if all the women disappeared tomorrow most of the men would kill each other in 30 seconds and the few left behind would starve soon after"
How you gon ask "what would women do without men?" with the same typing fingers you use to say "that's why you ain't got a man?"
A lot of women without a man keep telling you how joyful their lives are. You not accepting it doesn't make it any less true.
A lot of women without a man keep telling you how joyful their lives are. You not accepting it doesn't make it any less true.
August 13, 2025 at 7:43 PM
My pops once said "if all the men disappeared tomorrow women would thrive but if all the women disappeared tomorrow most of the men would kill each other in 30 seconds and the few left behind would starve soon after"
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*Record scratch* *freeze frame* yep that's me
What a freakin thrill it was to join the (super kind and funny) @latenightseth.bsky.social on his show tonight. Please tune in if you are staying up late--12:35 am ET on NBC
What a freakin thrill it was to join the (super kind and funny) @latenightseth.bsky.social on his show tonight. Please tune in if you are staying up late--12:35 am ET on NBC
August 12, 2025 at 12:10 AM
*Record scratch* *freeze frame* yep that's me
What a freakin thrill it was to join the (super kind and funny) @latenightseth.bsky.social on his show tonight. Please tune in if you are staying up late--12:35 am ET on NBC
What a freakin thrill it was to join the (super kind and funny) @latenightseth.bsky.social on his show tonight. Please tune in if you are staying up late--12:35 am ET on NBC
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the youtube algo has been feeding me hbcu marching band videos and now I’ve watched this approximately 50 times in a row
August 12, 2025 at 2:39 AM
the youtube algo has been feeding me hbcu marching band videos and now I’ve watched this approximately 50 times in a row
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The stuff that, 15 years ago, would have been a screaming 72-point all-caps headline — and now appears in the sixth paragraph, almost as an aside
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
August 12, 2025 at 3:12 AM
The stuff that, 15 years ago, would have been a screaming 72-point all-caps headline — and now appears in the sixth paragraph, almost as an aside
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
www.wsj.com/world/russia...