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Pat McDevitt

@pfmcdevitt

Historian of Ireland, British empire, famine, gender & sport• NJ expat• mediocre bassist• WHU, NYK, Liberty, NYY• Assoc. Dean of UGE & Honors College @ UBuffalo “To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle" - Orwell

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When I was doing dissertation research at Croke Park in 1995, a groundskeeper I was chatting with invited me to walk the pitch. This was in stark contrast to when I stepped onto the grass at Lord's a year later and received a very strong rebuke, thus confirming all my prior biases.

09.03.2026 10:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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New newsletter from me. We don't have many details about Pokémon Champions, but I think given how Pokémon has approached both the competitive scene and their other mobile games, we can say it's probably going to be bad.

myfairneadie.beehiiv.com/p/we-don-t-n...

04.03.2026 22:55 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Field Notes From an Extinction by Eoghan Walls was just released yesterday in the US. I must have preordered it months ago. It was such a pleasant surprise. The first third (so far) is marvellous.

04.03.2026 11:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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02.03.2026 17:01 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Those three downed jets run around $90 million each.

It cost $20 million a year to operate the food kitchens serving 816,000 people in Sudan.

02.03.2026 12:50 👍 2912 🔁 960 💬 49 📌 30

"It all started when he hit me back..."

02.03.2026 11:29 👍 28 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

I should have said Kind of Blue, which is the album. So What is the opening track. But yes, you should listen to more Miles.

24.02.2026 13:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I write to Morphine’s Cure For Pain, The Edge’s soundtrack to the movie Captive, The Brandenburg Concertos (no 4-6), and Miles
Davis’s So What.

24.02.2026 10:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Good luck. You’ll find the perfect pup soon!! We’ve also found that if you make contact with a local rescue, you can get pre approved and let them know generally what you’re looking for, and they will often make it less of a race.

23.02.2026 20:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

We remind our rescue all the time: it weren’t for us she’d be living with the other, perfectly lovely and loving, family that wanted to adopt her but who came 10 minutes after us.

23.02.2026 10:53 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Let’s focus on what unites us.

22.02.2026 14:54 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Just a girl watching her team win a silver medal

22.02.2026 13:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Time to fix that!

17.02.2026 20:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

who only has one guitar?

17.02.2026 19:53 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Gender studies courses are shutting down across the US. The Epstein files reveal why | Joan Wallach Scott Texas A&M University is the latest school to end women’s and gender studies programs and teaching race. We know why

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

13.02.2026 13:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I actually have a name in mind but I wouldn’t trust my memory that I’m not eliding different uncomfortable RCHA talks to say it publicly. The person I’m thinking of did extraordinarily well for themselves and suffered no ill effects for this youthful misstatement.

10.02.2026 22:30 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Do you remember when that speaker at Rutgers said that they were going to speak about what they called "Identity"?

10.02.2026 20:49 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Did not see it

09.02.2026 03:45 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

My class this semester is 100% old school. No computers. No PowerPoint. No take-home assignments. In-class writing responses to readings. Bluebooks exams. Lectures with a whiteboard.

It's been kind of awesome and fun.

07.02.2026 11:10 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That third paragraph! I hope that every AP story about every US athlete discusses our current political strife, attacks on democracy, lawlessness. If it's pertinent to a story about Haitian Olympians, why not about US athletes?

06.02.2026 17:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Sure, but after you sing it, the All Blacks play!

(At least in my limited experience;-))

05.02.2026 23:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Canada’s and NZ’s

05.02.2026 20:10 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Cato Study: Immigrants Reduced Deficits by $14.5 Trillion Since 1994 The best way to balance the budget is to reduce spending—particularly on wealthy retirees—but rather than hinder our efforts to control deficits, immigrants are helping.

If anti-immigrant policies aren’t about saving money, I wonder what they could be about?

www.cato.org/blog/cato-st...

05.02.2026 01:50 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Federal Agents Arrest Don Lemon Over Minnesota Church Protest

Govt arrests Don Lemon for 1/18 Cities Church events while he covers the Grammies in L.A. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...

30.01.2026 13:31 👍 56 🔁 18 💬 8 📌 2
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ICE agents shatter window, leave 1-month-old baby, mother in car after Portland arrest Video shows federal immigration agents leaving behind an infant and broken glass after detaining a Guinean immigrant with no known criminal history.

Video shows ICE leaving behind an infant and broken glass after arresting a man with no criminal history.
“There was a car seat in the back... There were broken glass shards all over it... There was just this tiny peanut of a baby. He was crying.”
My latest: www.pressherald.com/2026/01/28/i...

29.01.2026 18:05 👍 5255 🔁 3189 💬 131 📌 307
WATCH: Philadelphia lawmakers introduce 'ICE Out' legislation to restrict federal operations in city
WATCH: Philadelphia lawmakers introduce 'ICE Out' legislation to restrict federal operations in city YouTube video by PBS NewsHour

The City of Philadelphia has introduced legislation to limited ICE in the city. The Federal Agents can not be masked, must have ID visible, must have arrested warrants signed by federal judges. They can't attack people. If they can't do this, they will be arrested.
youtu.be/i5Yvg_HHfbE?...

28.01.2026 15:47 👍 23895 🔁 6961 💬 917 📌 621
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Kristi Noem AND Stephen Miller must go.

29.01.2026 00:27 👍 15195 🔁 4113 💬 651 📌 250
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"Disgusted" Breanna Stewart Holds Up "Abolish ICE" Sign Before Unrivaled Game | Defector Two-time WNBA MVP Breanna Stewart held up a sign that read “Abolish ICE” during player introductions at an Unrivaled game Sunday, just a day after federal agents shot and killed Alex Pretti in…

“Disgusted” Breanna Stewart holds up “Abolish ICE” sign before Unrivaled game: defector.com/disgusted-br...

26.01.2026 18:36 👍 120 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 0

The massive nonviolent citizen response to ICE operations in Minneapolis is the way forward. Violence is what the fascists want. And it is not who we are.

24.01.2026 01:39 👍 1282 🔁 260 💬 36 📌 5

Recap for episode 3 of Starfleet Academy is up! I can't overstate how much I loved the ending, and if they stay the course this will be one of my favorite series.

23.01.2026 18:21 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0