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Michael McKay @87mck.bsky.social · 3h

Christian nationalist billionaires are tech bros. @neilmackay.bsky.social @anticapitalistmusings.com
@gemmaclark.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The gospel according to Peter Thiel: why the tech svengali is obsessed with the antichrist

The influential billionaire investor has been giving secret lectures warning about Armageddon. Here’s why it matters

www.theguardian.com

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Pop-Pop @dcdiversity1.bsky.social · 1d

“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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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 4h

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.

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Michael McKay @87mck.bsky.social · 5h

The Scottish Greens and Green in England and Wales are fast becoming the only voice of sanity left.

Scottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 1d

'The people who make our lives more difficult arrive in private jets, not dinghies.'

Michael McKay @87mck.bsky.social · 5h

The future of the USA?? 👇

@gemmaclark.bsky.social
@anticapitalistmusings.com
@neilmackay.bsky.social
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social
@calltoactivism.bsky.social
@systemnotbroken.bsky.social

Michael McKay @87mck.bsky.social · 5h

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.

Michael McKay @87mck.bsky.social · 5h

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.

Michael McKay @87mck.bsky.social · 5h

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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Simon Pearson @anticapitalistmusings.com · 7h

open.substack.com/pub/seymourh...

WHY ARE US TROOPS OCCUPYING AMERICAN CITIES?

Trump's homeland invasion may be a prelude to election interference

open.substack.com

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Gemma Clark 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸 @gemmaclark.bsky.social · 8h

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www.bigissue.com/news/social-...

Anti-abortion groups have received funds from the UK government

Taxpayer money has gone towards funding anti-abortion groups and crisis pregnancy centres in the UK.

www.bigissue.com

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 1d

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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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 6h

"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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Scottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 1d

The system isn't broken, it's rigged. It's time for real change.

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The Francis Crick Institute @crick.ac.uk · 13h

NEW EPISODE: Will we survive climate change?

Join our expert panellists as they answer your questions about curbing rising global temperatures and what life could be like in a warmer world.

Listen on your favourite podcast platform: www.lnk.to/AQOSClimateBB

Panel of speakers with the title ‘Can We Survive Climate Change?’ from BBC Studios and The Francis Crick Institute.

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Michael McKay @87mck.bsky.social · 16h

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.

Michael McKay @87mck.bsky.social · 16h

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.

Michael McKay @87mck.bsky.social · 16h

What books on the subject would you recommend?

Michael McKay @87mck.bsky.social · 16h

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.

Michael McKay @87mck.bsky.social · 16h

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.

@anticapitalistmusings.com
@gemmaclark.bsky.social
@neilmackay.bsky.social
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social

suzanneelaine @suzanneelaine.bsky.social · 23h

www.bbc.com/news/article...

US strikes another vessel off Venezuela coast, killing six

President Trump said the vessel belonged to "narcoterrorists" and that it was "trafficking narcotics." US officials have not provided evidence to this claim.

www.bbc.com

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Michael McKay @87mck.bsky.social · 16h

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 18h

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.

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Michael McKay @87mck.bsky.social · 18h

Cuba is inventing cures for cancer, and you can't get them in the USA because "that's socialism."

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Michael McKay @87mck.bsky.social · 18h

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.

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Michael McKay @87mck.bsky.social · 18h

He should be the Democratic nominee. Let him lose to call republicans weirdos and Elon Musk a dipshit. It works.

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Michael McKay @87mck.bsky.social · 18h

Notice it's only a wealthy Jew that bothers them rather than the wealthy. Another sign of nazism.

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 19h

"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

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