Michael McKay
@87mck.bsky.social
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The easiest way to think about the USA is that's it's a much larger version of GB (excluding the monarchy). Just as Scots are not English, Scots are not Welsh, New Yorkers are not Texans or Californian. There are 50 states which are basically nations within the USA.
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dcdiversity1.bsky.social
“They don’t really follow this holy book they wave around like a prop,” @johnfugelsang.bsky.social tells @velshi.com. Fugelsang argues that the rhetoric of Christianity “has been hijacked” by right-wingers and Christian nationalists whose ideology actually runs counter to the teachings of Jesus.”
John Fugelsang: Right-wing Christians use the Bible ‘as a prop’ & ignore Jesus’ message
YouTube video by MSNBC
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newrepublic.com
Our thuggish dictator-wannabe is also a buffoonish man-child who sits there in his breathtakingly tacky Oval Office with his fake face and fake hair, boasting about passing a simple dementia test that a 10-year-old could ace. trib.al/UTlGIXq
Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It
From Chicago to Portland, James Comey to Letitia James, and so much else—this is no longer America.
trib.al
87mck.bsky.social
The Scottish Greens and Green in England and Wales are fast becoming the only voice of sanity left.
scottishgreens.org
'The people who make our lives more difficult arrive in private jets, not dinghies.'
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87mck.bsky.social
The easiest way to think about the USA is that's it's a much larger version of GB (excluding the monarchy). Just as Scots are not English, Scots are not Welsh, New Yorkers are not Texans or Californian. There are 50 states which are basically nations within the USA.
87mck.bsky.social
If we are talking about Scottish, Welsh & even English indy from the UK, it's not impossible that we might see states in the USA wanting independence from the USA because it no longer protects their liberty and interests. We may eventually see the creation of new nation-states, formally of the USA.
87mck.bsky.social
The easiest way to think about the USA is that's it's a much larger version of GB (excluding the monarchy). Just as Scots are not English, Scots are not Welsh, New Yorkers are not Texans or Californian. There are 50 states which are basically nations within the USA.
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joshsternberg.com
This John Oliver segment on the disaster that is Bari Weiss does a great job of explaining why this particular grift is so bad/dangerous.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...
Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
YouTube video by LastWeekTonight
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olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
"And yet Táíwò’s own position misses something fundamental about the world we now inhabit. Shame does not operate in a vacuum...today, the sturdy ground that once formed shame’s foundation has collapsed."

Helpful response by @eric-reinhart.com in @newrepublic.com

newrepublic.com/article/2015...
Why Shame No Longer Works in American Politics
While it once played a role in binding society, shame has lost its power—and so have the liberal tools that depend on it.
newrepublic.com
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scottishgreens.org
The system isn't broken, it's rigged. It's time for real change.
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crick.ac.uk
NEW EPISODE: Will we survive climate change?

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Panel of speakers with the title ‘Can We Survive Climate Change?’ from BBC Studios and The Francis Crick Institute.
87mck.bsky.social
Daily reminder: The recent noble peace prize winner, María Corina Machado, supports these murders by the Trump administration & is desperate for a US coup to install her as leader.
87mck.bsky.social
Daily reminder: The recent noble peace prize winner, María Corina Machado, supports these murders by the Trump administration & is desperate for a US coup to install her as leader.
87mck.bsky.social
What books on the subject would you recommend?
87mck.bsky.social
Daily reminder: The recent noble peace prize winner, María Corina Machado, supports these murders by the Trump administration & is desperate for a US coup to install her as leader.
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nytimes.com
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

“Though it seems absurd in retrospect, there were many in Hamas who believed their massacre of Oct. 7, 2023, would succeed not just in wounding Israel but in destroying it,” our columnist Bret Stephens writes. “The belief turned out to be wrong — and fatal.”
Opinion | Why Israel Won the War
Israelis went to war to defeat an existential threat — and an existential lie.
nyti.ms
87mck.bsky.social
Cuba is inventing cures for cancer, and you can't get them in the USA because "that's socialism."
87mck.bsky.social
Because it's part of US Empire policy to have Israel there. As Joe Biden once said, if Israel didn't exist the United States would have to invent it.
87mck.bsky.social
He should be the Democratic nominee. Let him lose to call republicans weirdos and Elon Musk a dipshit. It works.
87mck.bsky.social
Notice it's only a wealthy Jew that bothers them rather than the wealthy. Another sign of nazism.
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liberalcurrents.com
"The process of the United States being made into a new thing—a competitive authoritarian country that cannot be said to wholly resemble the America of 2024, much less the one of 2015—is wildly jarring." www.liberalcurrents.com/all-in-our-h...
All In Our Heads: On Losing Our Democracy and Life Beyond Our Imaginations
Our language has to meet the moment, and we have to be relentless about dispelling the fiction MAGA is selling.
www.liberalcurrents.com