Darin 🙇🏼♂️
@darinmckenna.bsky.social
Bi and basic dog dad in LA
Y’all, my life is complicated. 😂 Bios are hard. Feel free to ask lol
Politics 🏳️🌈, TV/Movies 🎬, Gay Stuff ™️, Theater 🎭, Theology (reluctantly)
Y’all, my life is complicated. 😂 Bios are hard. Feel free to ask lol
Politics 🏳️🌈, TV/Movies 🎬, Gay Stuff ™️, Theater 🎭, Theology (reluctantly)
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@darinmckenna.bsky.social
· Nov 11
Look how cute my dog Indy is! He’s worth the follow even if I’m not!
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Hype.
No form of CO₂ removal is a climate solution as long as we’re still releasing >40 billion tonnes of CO₂ every year from fossil fuel burning.
No form of CO₂ removal is a climate solution as long as we’re still releasing >40 billion tonnes of CO₂ every year from fossil fuel burning.
Hope or hype? Deep Sky says unique carbon-capture facility eyed for southwestern Manitoba will help ‘save our planet’; critics call technology high-risk and under-researched
Since early October, the rural municipalities of Pipestone and Two Borders — agriculture and oil-dominant communities about three hours southwest of Winnipeg — have found themselves at the heart of a ...
www.winnipegfreepress.com
December 20, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Hype.
No form of CO₂ removal is a climate solution as long as we’re still releasing >40 billion tonnes of CO₂ every year from fossil fuel burning.
No form of CO₂ removal is a climate solution as long as we’re still releasing >40 billion tonnes of CO₂ every year from fossil fuel burning.
We cannot overstate how cooked right wing brains are these days.
EPA, state lawmakers could consider regulating abortion pills as pollutants in 2026 | #ksleg via @sofiaresnick.bsky.social kansasreflector.com/2025/12/20/r...
EPA, state lawmakers could consider regulating abortion pills as pollutants in 2026 • Kansas Reflector
Going into the fourth year without federal abortion rights protections, groups that helped overturn Roe v. Wade are focused on cutting off access to abortion pills.
kansasreflector.com
December 20, 2025 at 4:47 PM
We cannot overstate how cooked right wing brains are these days.
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Officials in Tennessee aren't just banning books, they're now demanding information on who checked out contested (largely LGBTQ+) books, including names, addresses, and "household composition."
A librarian who was given the directive has come forward asking for whistleblower protections.
A librarian who was given the directive has come forward asking for whistleblower protections.
Tennessee whistleblower says library board chair sought private data as part of state's book purge
A First Amendment expert told The Advocate that there are "huge" legal implications stemming from the situation.
www.advocate.com
December 17, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Officials in Tennessee aren't just banning books, they're now demanding information on who checked out contested (largely LGBTQ+) books, including names, addresses, and "household composition."
A librarian who was given the directive has come forward asking for whistleblower protections.
A librarian who was given the directive has come forward asking for whistleblower protections.
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These Epstein files are wild
𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗥𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗞𝗢, Untitled (Black, Blue), 1968
acrylic on paper laid on linen
121.3 x 101.9 cm (47 3/4 x 40 1/8 in.)
© 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
𝚂𝚒𝚐𝚗 𝚞𝚙 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚁𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚔𝚘 𝚛𝚎𝚕𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚍 𝚗𝚎𝚠𝚜 𝚘𝚛 𝚖𝚊𝚔𝚎 𝚊 𝚝𝚊𝚡 𝚍𝚎𝚍𝚞𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚋𝚕𝚎 𝚍𝚘𝚗𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗. 𝙻𝚒𝚗𝚔𝚜 𝚒𝚗 𝚋𝚒𝚘
acrylic on paper laid on linen
121.3 x 101.9 cm (47 3/4 x 40 1/8 in.)
© 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
𝚂𝚒𝚐𝚗 𝚞𝚙 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚁𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚔𝚘 𝚛𝚎𝚕𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚍 𝚗𝚎𝚠𝚜 𝚘𝚛 𝚖𝚊𝚔𝚎 𝚊 𝚝𝚊𝚡 𝚍𝚎𝚍𝚞𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚋𝚕𝚎 𝚍𝚘𝚗𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗. 𝙻𝚒𝚗𝚔𝚜 𝚒𝚗 𝚋𝚒𝚘
December 20, 2025 at 12:20 AM
These Epstein files are wild
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HUGE NEWS from the new Epstein files:
Records show that Maria Farmer, who worked for Epstein, filed a "child pornography" report to the FBI in 1996.
The FBI has never before acknowledged that complaint. The case went nowhere, and mass abuse followed.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...
Records show that Maria Farmer, who worked for Epstein, filed a "child pornography" report to the FBI in 1996.
The FBI has never before acknowledged that complaint. The case went nowhere, and mass abuse followed.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...
Epstein Files Include 1996 Child Porn Complaint That F.B.I. Ignored
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
HUGE NEWS from the new Epstein files:
Records show that Maria Farmer, who worked for Epstein, filed a "child pornography" report to the FBI in 1996.
The FBI has never before acknowledged that complaint. The case went nowhere, and mass abuse followed.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...
Records show that Maria Farmer, who worked for Epstein, filed a "child pornography" report to the FBI in 1996.
The FBI has never before acknowledged that complaint. The case went nowhere, and mass abuse followed.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...
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This event in Plattsburgh, NY, didn't go as expected for Elise.
here's clips of Elise Stefanik getting brutally booed at an event today in her district
December 19, 2025 at 11:49 PM
This event in Plattsburgh, NY, didn't go as expected for Elise.
A generational talent for being inept
Confirmed: House Democratic leaders have decided to use a stock trading ban bill as a campaign issue rather than actually pass something that had the GOP support to advance.
Jeffries' team is actively discouraging participation in the bipartisan bill and warning outside groups too.
Jeffries' team is actively discouraging participation in the bipartisan bill and warning outside groups too.
Jeffries Undercuts Congressional Stock Trading Ban - The American Prospect
A bipartisan solution was gaining momentum, but the House Democratic leader just issued his own bill that will prevent consensus.
prospect.org
December 19, 2025 at 8:47 PM
A generational talent for being inept
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it's people's job to collect labor statistics and tell us what they say about the economy in general, which is not a thing people experience directly (which in turn helps to explain why we bother with the first bit)
December 19, 2025 at 8:37 PM
it's people's job to collect labor statistics and tell us what they say about the economy in general, which is not a thing people experience directly (which in turn helps to explain why we bother with the first bit)
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to spin off Tyler Burge's example: you get to tell your doctor whether or not your knee hurts, your doctor gets to tell you whether or not you have arthritis. these are just reports about different things and weighing one against the other is confused
yuuuuuup. I didn't want to accept this but it's hard to deny something broke in how people experience the economy.
That doesn't mean material conditions *don't matter*, but there's real attenuation of the connection between feelings and objective conditions and I don't know what to do about it
That doesn't mean material conditions *don't matter*, but there's real attenuation of the connection between feelings and objective conditions and I don't know what to do about it
December 19, 2025 at 8:35 PM
to spin off Tyler Burge's example: you get to tell your doctor whether or not your knee hurts, your doctor gets to tell you whether or not you have arthritis. these are just reports about different things and weighing one against the other is confused
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It's worth reading through the whole thing, not just these horrific excerpts. Most important: not a single person -- with the exception of a guy who says he'll turn on CNN if he's out of other options -- gets their news from actual journalists. It's all RW podcasts, YouTubers and TikTok.
From the right-wing Manhattan Institute's focus group of Gen Z conservatives -- just jaw-dropping stuff. We have a very sick society. www.city-journal.org/article/manh...
December 19, 2025 at 8:26 PM
It's worth reading through the whole thing, not just these horrific excerpts. Most important: not a single person -- with the exception of a guy who says he'll turn on CNN if he's out of other options -- gets their news from actual journalists. It's all RW podcasts, YouTubers and TikTok.
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The thing that continues to amaze me about the AI push is how top-down it is. It seems to always come from the managers and the C-suite. (At least in creative fields, I know some programmers who are genuinely interested.)
‘An overwhelmingly negative and demoralizing force’: What it’s like working for a company that’s forcing AI on its artists and developers:
aftermath.site/ai-video-game-...
aftermath.site/ai-video-game-...
December 18, 2025 at 10:51 PM
The thing that continues to amaze me about the AI push is how top-down it is. It seems to always come from the managers and the C-suite. (At least in creative fields, I know some programmers who are genuinely interested.)
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Zohran Mamdani scares the ADL more than these guys and I think it's fair to ask why
December 19, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Zohran Mamdani scares the ADL more than these guys and I think it's fair to ask why
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These folks are being so openly and casually antisemitic, it makes me wonder if some other outlets' are sanewashing their focus groups.
From the right-wing Manhattan Institute's focus group of Gen Z conservatives -- just jaw-dropping stuff. We have a very sick society. www.city-journal.org/article/manh...
December 19, 2025 at 7:28 PM
These folks are being so openly and casually antisemitic, it makes me wonder if some other outlets' are sanewashing their focus groups.
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I want to raise a few issues with this ...
- The unemployment rate was 4.6% in Nov 2025.
- There are 982,000 more unemployed people in Nov 2025 than in Jan 2025.
- There are 271,000 fewer federal government employees.
- 982,000 > 271,000. More than 3 times more unemployed.
- The unemployment rate was 4.6% in Nov 2025.
- There are 982,000 more unemployed people in Nov 2025 than in Jan 2025.
- There are 271,000 fewer federal government employees.
- 982,000 > 271,000. More than 3 times more unemployed.
December 19, 2025 at 6:41 PM
I want to raise a few issues with this ...
- The unemployment rate was 4.6% in Nov 2025.
- There are 982,000 more unemployed people in Nov 2025 than in Jan 2025.
- There are 271,000 fewer federal government employees.
- 982,000 > 271,000. More than 3 times more unemployed.
- The unemployment rate was 4.6% in Nov 2025.
- There are 982,000 more unemployed people in Nov 2025 than in Jan 2025.
- There are 271,000 fewer federal government employees.
- 982,000 > 271,000. More than 3 times more unemployed.
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The moment I realized salary jobs almost never drug test while hourly jobs do, I saw the jig.
December 19, 2025 at 5:18 PM
The moment I realized salary jobs almost never drug test while hourly jobs do, I saw the jig.
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The velocity of my eye rolling right now. What is Liz Plank thinking here?
I found it. The Bari Weiss/CBS News town hall promo for feminism does indeed use a 1964 photo of Beatles fans.
December 19, 2025 at 5:59 PM
The velocity of my eye rolling right now. What is Liz Plank thinking here?
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uh
December 19, 2025 at 6:12 PM
uh
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it's kind of funny from a economic policy perspective, Bidenomics was actually fairly successful (full employment, IRA + other state-driven investment)
he just... never really managed to figure out how to sell any of it with comms
he just... never really managed to figure out how to sell any of it with comms
Pretty sure a president who could communicate well and wasn’t a bazillion years old could have explained to the public why this is Actually Good.
December 19, 2025 at 3:59 PM
it's kind of funny from a economic policy perspective, Bidenomics was actually fairly successful (full employment, IRA + other state-driven investment)
he just... never really managed to figure out how to sell any of it with comms
he just... never really managed to figure out how to sell any of it with comms
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lol when a rich, powerful white man begs for higher taxes, you know that vibes are about to shift towards eating the rich:
Mitt Romney is in the New York Times saying we should tax the rich.
December 19, 2025 at 4:07 PM
lol when a rich, powerful white man begs for higher taxes, you know that vibes are about to shift towards eating the rich:
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Yeah, having reported a story in this last year, it’s a very recent phenomenon that even *most* first-class tickets are bought in cash, and the proportion of premium class tickets in a given plane has also increased a lot. Used to be used mostly as a free upgrade pot sweetener for frequent flyers.
December 19, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Yeah, having reported a story in this last year, it’s a very recent phenomenon that even *most* first-class tickets are bought in cash, and the proportion of premium class tickets in a given plane has also increased a lot. Used to be used mostly as a free upgrade pot sweetener for frequent flyers.
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One thing that absolutely definitely happens for real in the academic job market is that when you do not get a job, the Dean calls you and explains why you didn't get it. This is extra-super true when the explanation is something legally actionable on its face.
You’ll never guess who else experienced ‘racism’ on the job market despite their unimpeachable academic credentials.
December 19, 2025 at 2:59 PM
One thing that absolutely definitely happens for real in the academic job market is that when you do not get a job, the Dean calls you and explains why you didn't get it. This is extra-super true when the explanation is something legally actionable on its face.
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The Senate seems to be officially done with recorded votes for 2025.
Top # of votes with Trump in 2025 among Dems:
Fetterman: 141
Hassan: 124
Shaheen: 124
King: 123
Rosen: 101
Warner: 100
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Top # of votes with Trump in 2025 among Dems:
Fetterman: 141
Hassan: 124
Shaheen: 124
King: 123
Rosen: 101
Warner: 100
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Tracking Senate Votes 2025
docs.google.com
December 19, 2025 at 4:22 AM
The Senate seems to be officially done with recorded votes for 2025.
Top # of votes with Trump in 2025 among Dems:
Fetterman: 141
Hassan: 124
Shaheen: 124
King: 123
Rosen: 101
Warner: 100
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Top # of votes with Trump in 2025 among Dems:
Fetterman: 141
Hassan: 124
Shaheen: 124
King: 123
Rosen: 101
Warner: 100
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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Hi Senator, excuse me for jumping in, but... while I agree with you that this is really damaging, I couldn't help but notice YOU VOTED FOR THE FREAKING BILL THAT GAVE TRUMP THIS POWER (which some of us warned you not to do).
www.senate.gov/legislative/...
www.senate.gov/legislative/...
December 19, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Hi Senator, excuse me for jumping in, but... while I agree with you that this is really damaging, I couldn't help but notice YOU VOTED FOR THE FREAKING BILL THAT GAVE TRUMP THIS POWER (which some of us warned you not to do).
www.senate.gov/legislative/...
www.senate.gov/legislative/...
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Who does she endorse for First Lady?
December 19, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Who does she endorse for First Lady?