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Michael McKay @87mck.bsky.social · 4h

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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suzanneelaine @suzanneelaine.bsky.social · 10h

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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.

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Michael McKay @87mck.bsky.social · 3h

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 · 3h

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 · 4h

What books on the subject would you recommend?

Michael McKay @87mck.bsky.social · 4h

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 · 4h

suzanneelaine @suzanneelaine.bsky.social · 10h

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 · 4h

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 5h

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 · 6h

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

Michael McKay @87mck.bsky.social · 6h

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.

Michael McKay @87mck.bsky.social · 6h

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

Michael McKay @87mck.bsky.social · 6h

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 · 6h

"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.

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Michael McKay @87mck.bsky.social · 6h

That is incredible propaganda. Really impressive and direct.

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iwanttobecanadian.bsky.social @iwanttobecanadian.bsky.social · 14h

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Michael McKay @87mck.bsky.social · 6h

Did you know? The Native Americans came to the Americas from Siberia? Today, Siberia is part of the Russian Federation following its conquest and colonisation by Russia in 1581.

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Michael McKay @87mck.bsky.social · 7h

Are you aware of Spec Ops: The Line? You're a soldier but it's an antiwar game during which you go mad. One of your closest comrades is killed but you imagine him alive til the end, you kill civilians with white phosphorus thinking they are terrorists & in one ending you commit suicide due to PTSD

Michael McKay @87mck.bsky.social · 7h

Excellent Simon. Really interesting.

Michael McKay @87mck.bsky.social · 8h

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Emma Haslett @emmahaslett.bsky.social · 20h

This is a huge story but massively under the radar in the UK.

A US Christian legal org called the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) is working to roll back abortion rights here using the same playbook it used in the US: briefing politicians, watching, waiting.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

They Helped Topple Roe v. Wade. Now Their Sights Are Set on Britain.

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Michael McKay @87mck.bsky.social · 14h

And the final point, white americans love reminding people they are part of a European project. I'm Scottish, I'm Irish, I'm Italian, I'm German - and Europeans traditionally hold a positive view of the USA even if they don't like the politics.

Michael McKay @87mck.bsky.social · 14h

The fight against white supremacy in the USA is really just a fight against the attitude of superiority Europe has towards Africa and the Middle East. The fight against misogyny is a fight against patriarchy imported to North America from European nations.

Michael McKay @87mck.bsky.social · 14h

There is a quote, I think it was Du Bois, that points out the USA is still a European project despite the appearance of a foreign country. All its main ideas, good & bad, are imported from Europe - Christianity, white supremacy, liberalism, human rights, nationalism, capitalism, democracy etc.

Michael McKay @87mck.bsky.social · 15h

Another example of the USA exporting its protests Simon 👇

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 17h

Could we maybe get rid of our own king first before we go helping the Americans with their wannabe one?

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Michael McKay @87mck.bsky.social · 15h

Becky Fischer explaining her vision of Christian terrorism.

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Jesus Camp Making Martyrs for Holy War

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Michael McKay @87mck.bsky.social · 15h

How many of these kids do you reckon grew up to be Christian nationalists? I'd imagine most of them. Even the adults in MAGA have an origins story.

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Jesus Camp Extract Praise Bush

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Michael McKay @87mck.bsky.social · 15h

They always were. That's the section of the right that says rock music is satanic & if you play it backwards, you can hear the devil's laughter. That celebs drink children's blood to look young etc.

Have you ever seen the documentary Jesus Camp from W. Bush era?

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Harry Potter is the Devil!

YouTube video by Katrien Lefevre

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