J. MacQuinn 🍵🐉
@psyfic.bsky.social
📚✍🏽psyfic is a wry, rueful, wicked, trenchant, whimsical, geeky nerd 🏳️🌈 married to the brilliant, lovely💕 clever nerdy geek @chazpure.bsky.social
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Me: 1. Cancer: 0. Had radiation. Waiting for my superpowers. 🖖🏽💙⚖️🗽#persist
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J. MacQuinn 🍵🐉
@psyfic.bsky.social
· Feb 21
In this week's column, I explore what I see as a very real prospect of systemic collapse, caused by Trump's actions, and suggest we start preparing.
I try to explain how complex systems fail, and suggest some of the failure paths we could be on.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I try to explain how complex systems fail, and suggest some of the failure paths we could be on.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
There are many ways Trump could trigger a global collapse. Here’s how to survive if that happens | George Monbiot
It could be wildfires, a pandemic or a financial crisis. The super-rich will flee to their bunkers – the rest of us will have to fend for ourselves, writes columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
Prep for the worst, hope for the best.
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So you gonna drop your lawsuit against us right, Pam?
December 5, 2025 at 1:24 AM
So you gonna drop your lawsuit against us right, Pam?
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This is a beautifully written piece.
"Fractures have emerged in the Maga coalition," writes Guardian columnist Moira Donegan. "Republicans are beginning to imagine what the country – and more importantly, their own careers – will look like without him."
Cracks have emerged in the Maga coalition | Moira Donegan
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 6:05 PM
This is a beautifully written piece.
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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Stephen King is among the most censored authors in America. As an effort to help more readers discover banned books, Pen America is giving away a banned book bundle to five winners
sites.prh.com/stephenking-...
sites.prh.com/stephenking-...
November 29, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Stephen King is among the most censored authors in America. As an effort to help more readers discover banned books, Pen America is giving away a banned book bundle to five winners
sites.prh.com/stephenking-...
sites.prh.com/stephenking-...
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When Trump calls Somalis “garbage,” I respond: how many Somalis are in the Epstein files?
December 3, 2025 at 1:19 AM
When Trump calls Somalis “garbage,” I respond: how many Somalis are in the Epstein files?
How much lower is he going to go 🤔
December 3, 2025 at 1:00 AM
How much lower is he going to go 🤔
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December 2, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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This is insane, but a fun side note: former Overstock CEO and Maria Butina honeypot victim Patrick Byrne as been MIA (after his lawyer was arrested) in a defamation suit brought against him by Hunter Biden. A judge found him in default and Biden has filed a $33.3M default judgement request.
December 2, 2025 at 5:00 AM
This is insane, but a fun side note: former Overstock CEO and Maria Butina honeypot victim Patrick Byrne as been MIA (after his lawyer was arrested) in a defamation suit brought against him by Hunter Biden. A judge found him in default and Biden has filed a $33.3M default judgement request.
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This is infuriating on so many levels, but partly because it ignores Congressional intent to penalize immigrants who followed the rules. And partly because these are people who have done nothing wrong beyond trying to negotiate a broken system.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 10:09 PM
This is infuriating on so many levels, but partly because it ignores Congressional intent to penalize immigrants who followed the rules. And partly because these are people who have done nothing wrong beyond trying to negotiate a broken system.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Good to hear, although I'm not optimistic given, well, everything
“In a rare split with the Trump administration, GOP-led panels in the House and Senate say they want a full accounting in the September military attack.”
Hegseth appears to have crossed a line even the GOP can’t ignore.
Hegseth appears to have crossed a line even the GOP can’t ignore.
November 30, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Good to hear, although I'm not optimistic given, well, everything
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“The only people who get angry when hearing service members being told to ignore illegal orders are people who intend to issue illegal orders.”
November 30, 2025 at 7:58 PM
“The only people who get angry when hearing service members being told to ignore illegal orders are people who intend to issue illegal orders.”
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They’re simultaneously arguing that soldiers have to follow all orders from the president, legal or not, but they get to ignore orders from a federal judge if they feel they’re not legal.
KARL: Did you know about the judge's order when you issued your order for the planes to continue?
KRISTI NOEM: This is an activist judge. We comply with all federal orders that are lawful and binding.
KRISTI NOEM: This is an activist judge. We comply with all federal orders that are lawful and binding.
November 30, 2025 at 5:43 PM
They’re simultaneously arguing that soldiers have to follow all orders from the president, legal or not, but they get to ignore orders from a federal judge if they feel they’re not legal.
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This absurd pardon shows the murderous boat bombings were never about stopping drugs
November 29, 2025 at 7:07 PM
This absurd pardon shows the murderous boat bombings were never about stopping drugs
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31 years ago this month, I warned that America was becoming a two-tiered society composed of a few winners and a larger group left behind, whose anger and disillusionment could be easily manipulated.
I took a lot of heat for this speech. Watch and tell me if I was wrong.
I took a lot of heat for this speech. Watch and tell me if I was wrong.
A Warning from 1994 of a Two-Tiered Society | Robert Reich
Robert Reich
youtu.be
November 29, 2025 at 9:01 PM
31 years ago this month, I warned that America was becoming a two-tiered society composed of a few winners and a larger group left behind, whose anger and disillusionment could be easily manipulated.
I took a lot of heat for this speech. Watch and tell me if I was wrong.
I took a lot of heat for this speech. Watch and tell me if I was wrong.
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November 28, 2025
November 28, 2025
As Trump’s popularity continues to drop, the MAGA coalition shows signs of cracking, and Trump’s mental acuity slips, there is a frantic feel to the administration, as if Trump’s people are trying to ...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:32 AM
November 28, 2025