@mckander.bsky.social
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One of the best things I’ve read in a while:
January 25, 2026 at 10:39 PM
One of the best things I’ve read in a while:
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“Over the course of a lifetime, we face only a few moments where the decisions we make and the actions we take will shape our history for years to come. This is one of them. If we give our freedoms away after 250 years, we might never get them back.” — President Bill Clinton, 1/25/26
January 26, 2026 at 10:27 AM
“Over the course of a lifetime, we face only a few moments where the decisions we make and the actions we take will shape our history for years to come. This is one of them. If we give our freedoms away after 250 years, we might never get them back.” — President Bill Clinton, 1/25/26
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Walz: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal government that can kill, injure, menace and kidnap its citizens off the streets or on the side of a nurse at the V.A. who died bearing witness to such government
January 25, 2026 at 7:12 PM
Walz: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal government that can kill, injure, menace and kidnap its citizens off the streets or on the side of a nurse at the V.A. who died bearing witness to such government
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Walz: "To Americans who are watching this, I've got a question for you: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal govt that can kill, injury, menace, & kidnap its citizens off the streets? Or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such govt?"
January 25, 2026 at 8:24 PM
Walz: "To Americans who are watching this, I've got a question for you: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal govt that can kill, injury, menace, & kidnap its citizens off the streets? Or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such govt?"
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No one can be watching this Davos speech and reach any conclusion but that the President of the United States is mentally disturbed and that something is deeply wrong with him. This is both embarrassing and extremely dangerous.
January 21, 2026 at 2:49 PM
No one can be watching this Davos speech and reach any conclusion but that the President of the United States is mentally disturbed and that something is deeply wrong with him. This is both embarrassing and extremely dangerous.
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Until today, Helsinki was our worst moment in public diplomacy, but this is the new Hall of Famer
At this point, has America ever had a more embarrassing moment on the global stage in our history? I certainly can’t think of one.
January 21, 2026 at 3:02 PM
Until today, Helsinki was our worst moment in public diplomacy, but this is the new Hall of Famer
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“We know the old order is not coming back. We shouldn’t mourn it. Nostalgia is not a strategy… The powerful have their power. But we have something, too: the capacity to stop pretending.”
— Canadian PM Mark Carney at Davos, basically announcing divorce from America and receiving a standing ovation
— Canadian PM Mark Carney at Davos, basically announcing divorce from America and receiving a standing ovation
January 20, 2026 at 11:41 PM
“We know the old order is not coming back. We shouldn’t mourn it. Nostalgia is not a strategy… The powerful have their power. But we have something, too: the capacity to stop pretending.”
— Canadian PM Mark Carney at Davos, basically announcing divorce from America and receiving a standing ovation
— Canadian PM Mark Carney at Davos, basically announcing divorce from America and receiving a standing ovation
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Federal agents are pulling over off duty cops based on the color of their skin.
This is not a serious operation to enforce immigration law. It’s a performative show of force and it’s gotten way out of hand.
This is not a serious operation to enforce immigration law. It’s a performative show of force and it’s gotten way out of hand.
January 20, 2026 at 11:51 PM
Federal agents are pulling over off duty cops based on the color of their skin.
This is not a serious operation to enforce immigration law. It’s a performative show of force and it’s gotten way out of hand.
This is not a serious operation to enforce immigration law. It’s a performative show of force and it’s gotten way out of hand.
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"The rest of the world is tired of America’s bullshit — problems that existed before Trump but were largely manageable enough to fall in the realm of pragmatic working relationships have now worsened exponentially in the past year."
"This is the diplomatic equivalent of a wronged spouse telling their partner: No, I am not asking for a break or a trial separation. It’s time to move on."
Canada Announces Divorce from America
And rightly so.
charlotteclymer.substack.com
January 21, 2026 at 6:32 AM
"The rest of the world is tired of America’s bullshit — problems that existed before Trump but were largely manageable enough to fall in the realm of pragmatic working relationships have now worsened exponentially in the past year."
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Once upon a time, American soldiers handed out food to Germans because *they* had followed a fascist madman into national ruin.
How times change.
How times change.
NEW: The US Army website for its bases in Bavaria, Germany told its soldiers and employees that it might need to obtain free food from the German government during the US government shutdown.
The Army later altered publication to remove a list of food banks, but we have the original text here:
The Army later altered publication to remove a list of food banks, but we have the original text here:
US Army Tells Soldiers to Go to German Food Bank, Then Deletes It
The initial 'Shutdown Guidance' for the US Army Garrison Bavaria included instructions to go to German food banks.
www.404media.co
November 5, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Once upon a time, American soldiers handed out food to Germans because *they* had followed a fascist madman into national ruin.
How times change.
How times change.
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The Trump administration & Republicans think it's okay to send untrained, unprofessional, violent forces to brutalize and terrorize the American people.
Their injuring children & the elderly, of even US Citizens!
Call Congress & demand accountability and an end to #ICELawlessness
Call 202-224-3121
Their injuring children & the elderly, of even US Citizens!
Call Congress & demand accountability and an end to #ICELawlessness
Call 202-224-3121
October 29, 2025 at 3:12 PM
The Trump administration & Republicans think it's okay to send untrained, unprofessional, violent forces to brutalize and terrorize the American people.
Their injuring children & the elderly, of even US Citizens!
Call Congress & demand accountability and an end to #ICELawlessness
Call 202-224-3121
Their injuring children & the elderly, of even US Citizens!
Call Congress & demand accountability and an end to #ICELawlessness
Call 202-224-3121
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If you can't report on what the President is doing because it is "inappropriate", maybe that's exactly what you *should* be reporting?
October 19, 2025 at 4:02 PM
If you can't report on what the President is doing because it is "inappropriate", maybe that's exactly what you *should* be reporting?
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Sorry we had to cancel your cancer treatment, but the Secretary of Defense had to fly all the generals in so he could call them fat.
October 1, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Sorry we had to cancel your cancer treatment, but the Secretary of Defense had to fly all the generals in so he could call them fat.
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This may explain why there’s an aggressive response to people who merely post Kirk’s own words. It threatens the existence of the alternate Kirk - the motivational speaker that had been marketed to young kids and white Christian groups through selective quotation & clips.
September 14, 2025 at 12:55 PM
This may explain why there’s an aggressive response to people who merely post Kirk’s own words. It threatens the existence of the alternate Kirk - the motivational speaker that had been marketed to young kids and white Christian groups through selective quotation & clips.
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I'm aware that the President likes to go on television and beg me to call him to ask for troops.
I find it strange, as Chicago doesn't want troops.
I also have experience asking him for assistance – just to have the rug pulled up from underneath me when execution meets reality.
I find it strange, as Chicago doesn't want troops.
I also have experience asking him for assistance – just to have the rug pulled up from underneath me when execution meets reality.
September 2, 2025 at 10:46 PM
I'm aware that the President likes to go on television and beg me to call him to ask for troops.
I find it strange, as Chicago doesn't want troops.
I also have experience asking him for assistance – just to have the rug pulled up from underneath me when execution meets reality.
I find it strange, as Chicago doesn't want troops.
I also have experience asking him for assistance – just to have the rug pulled up from underneath me when execution meets reality.
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@nealkatyal.bsky.social: “You’ve got the president who's imposed the largest tax increase on American consumers since 1993 … and he did it without Congress saying one word. That is not our constitutional structure.”
August 30, 2025 at 4:31 PM
@nealkatyal.bsky.social: “You’ve got the president who's imposed the largest tax increase on American consumers since 1993 … and he did it without Congress saying one word. That is not our constitutional structure.”
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Police have set up a checkpoint and appear to be stopping every single car on 14th st NW, between W+V, here in northwest DC. Some cars are being pulled over after being stopped.
Some police are wearing “HSI police” vests (Homeland Security Investigations)
Some police are wearing “HSI police” vests (Homeland Security Investigations)
August 14, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Police have set up a checkpoint and appear to be stopping every single car on 14th st NW, between W+V, here in northwest DC. Some cars are being pulled over after being stopped.
Some police are wearing “HSI police” vests (Homeland Security Investigations)
Some police are wearing “HSI police” vests (Homeland Security Investigations)
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Maybe we should call this the "City of the Big Shoreline"? John recently did a "beach hopping" trip, bicycling to and wading at all 26 coastal Chicago Park District beaches in 8 hours.
@stevevance.net @rideillinois.bsky.social @equiticity.bsky.social @bikegridnow.org
@stevevance.net @rideillinois.bsky.social @equiticity.bsky.social @bikegridnow.org
Beach hopping: How to bicycle to, and wade at, all 26 coastal Chicago beaches in a single day. - Streetsblog Chicago
This article is a bit outside Streetsblog Chicago’s usual wheelhouse, but I thought many of our readers might enjoy it and find it useful. “And the embers never fade.”In your city by the lake” – “Toni...
chi.streetsblog.org
August 12, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Maybe we should call this the "City of the Big Shoreline"? John recently did a "beach hopping" trip, bicycling to and wading at all 26 coastal Chicago Park District beaches in 8 hours.
@stevevance.net @rideillinois.bsky.social @equiticity.bsky.social @bikegridnow.org
@stevevance.net @rideillinois.bsky.social @equiticity.bsky.social @bikegridnow.org
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RFK Jr. and the Trump administration are canceling vaccine development for bird flu and other dangerous diseases - an action which puts us and our kids in danger.
RFK Jr. cuts $500 million in mRNA vaccine contracts, dealing major blow to promising area of research
The cuts add to mounting evidence that Kennedy is pursuing an aggressive anti-vaccine agenda.
www.nbcnews.com
August 6, 2025 at 6:25 PM
RFK Jr. and the Trump administration are canceling vaccine development for bird flu and other dangerous diseases - an action which puts us and our kids in danger.
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For all the little girls that should be warned
I could choose silence, but what for?
You took my innocence, now I'll take yours
But I'll choose anger, I'll choose rage
When I build an army of girls half your age ~ @Jax
#HoldThemAccountable
youtube.com/watch?v=CLV4...
I could choose silence, but what for?
You took my innocence, now I'll take yours
But I'll choose anger, I'll choose rage
When I build an army of girls half your age ~ @Jax
#HoldThemAccountable
youtube.com/watch?v=CLV4...
JAX - i choose violence [Official Audio]
YouTube video by JAX
youtube.com
August 5, 2025 at 8:03 PM
For all the little girls that should be warned
I could choose silence, but what for?
You took my innocence, now I'll take yours
But I'll choose anger, I'll choose rage
When I build an army of girls half your age ~ @Jax
#HoldThemAccountable
youtube.com/watch?v=CLV4...
I could choose silence, but what for?
You took my innocence, now I'll take yours
But I'll choose anger, I'll choose rage
When I build an army of girls half your age ~ @Jax
#HoldThemAccountable
youtube.com/watch?v=CLV4...
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#StopGunMadness
We have not always been this insane. It was just in 2008 that SCOTUS’ interpretation of the 2A shifted, with DC v. Heller, to an individual right instead of a collective one within in a “well regulated militia”, and limited of gun regulation.
🎧 Great podcast on that decision:
We have not always been this insane. It was just in 2008 that SCOTUS’ interpretation of the 2A shifted, with DC v. Heller, to an individual right instead of a collective one within in a “well regulated militia”, and limited of gun regulation.
🎧 Great podcast on that decision:
More Perfect: The Gun Show
In 2008, the Supreme Court stepped in to settle our fight over the Second Amendment’s meaning. They did. And they didn’t.
radiolab.org
July 29, 2025 at 2:02 PM
#StopGunMadness
We have not always been this insane. It was just in 2008 that SCOTUS’ interpretation of the 2A shifted, with DC v. Heller, to an individual right instead of a collective one within in a “well regulated militia”, and limited of gun regulation.
🎧 Great podcast on that decision:
We have not always been this insane. It was just in 2008 that SCOTUS’ interpretation of the 2A shifted, with DC v. Heller, to an individual right instead of a collective one within in a “well regulated militia”, and limited of gun regulation.
🎧 Great podcast on that decision:
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Feather stars come in all different beautiful colours… ⭐️
July 28, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Feather stars come in all different beautiful colours… ⭐️
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I can never get enough of this magnificent dinosaur bird the Shoebill… 🐦 ❤️
July 28, 2025 at 2:03 PM
I can never get enough of this magnificent dinosaur bird the Shoebill… 🐦 ❤️