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@markmckechnie.bsky.social

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Just trying to find a nice corner of the internet unmolested by oligarchs. Vegetarian for a livable climate. Solar powered. Equity. Justice. Science. 3rd Gen ANTIFA Pictures of birds 📷🦉🐦‍⬛🦜 https://flic.kr/ps/3UZJfV Unabashed opinions about music 🎵🎸🎶

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Mark's Spot @markmckechnie.bsky.social · Aug 4

Trump is lying.

Mark's Spot @markmckechnie.bsky.social · 8h

"FBI agents now deployed alongside Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agent have been taken away from their work tackling cybercrimes, drug trafficking, terrorism, espionage, violent crimes, counterintelligence and other efforts that are part of the bureau’s mission"

Nearly half of FBI agents in major offices reassigned to immigration enforcement

Data shows stunning shift in law enforcement priorities that has raised public safety concerns

www.theguardian.com

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Mark's Spot @markmckechnie.bsky.social · 11h

"Facebook shows Sanford posing alongside his wife and 10-year-old son wearing a Re-elect Trump 2020 T-shirt."

Mark's Spot @markmckechnie.bsky.social · 11h

"The gunman who killed at least four worshippers, wounded eight and was shot to death by police... at a Mormon church in... Michigan, had a sign emblazoned with the last name of Donald Trump outside his house"

Mormon church shooting suspect had Trump sign outside home, records show

Google Maps images show suspect who was shot dead by police had Trump sign outside his Michigan house

www.theguardian.com

Mark's Spot @markmckechnie.bsky.social · 18h

Get to know a Godwit: Bar-tailed Godwit at Willapa Bay, WA, USA
#birds #birdphotography #nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography #photography #life #PNW #Nikon #Godwit

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Mark's Spot @markmckechnie.bsky.social · 1d

“Current events call for particular discernment and responsibility, and it is clear that the media has a crucial role in forming consciences and helping critical thinking”.
--Pope Leo XIV

You won’t believe what degrading practice the pope just condemned

Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“.. Inside the White House, top advisers joke that they are ruling Congress with an “iron fist,” according to people who have heard the comments. Steve Bannon, the influential Trump ally, likened Congress to the Duma, the Russian assembly that is largely ceremonial.”

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 1d

That sound you hear is plaintiff lawyers popping champagne corks and DOJ lawyers groaning.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: How many layoffs have you authorized?

TRUMP: It'll be a lot. And it'll be Democrat-oriented.

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Mark's Spot @markmckechnie.bsky.social · 1d

Common MAGA tactic: play the victim, when you are, in fact, the offender.

NPR @npr.org · 1d

ICE claims assaults on its officers are up sharply since June. There's no public evidence that number is true.

White House claims "more than 1,000%" rise in assaults on ICE agents, data says otherwise

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers claim assaults on their officers are up sharply since June. There's no public evidence that number is true.

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NPR @npr.org · 1d

ICE claims assaults on its officers are up sharply since June. There's no public evidence that number is true.

White House claims "more than 1,000%" rise in assaults on ICE agents, data says otherwise

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers claim assaults on their officers are up sharply since June. There's no public evidence that number is true.

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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 1d

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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Mark's Spot @markmckechnie.bsky.social · 1d

Chicken Man's Got Game

An Interview With the Portland Chicken

Jack Dickinson, 26, says “we’re winning this.”

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Mark's Spot @markmckechnie.bsky.social · 1d

Democracy depends on people who refuse to stay silent, who dare to step forward despite grave risk, and who remind us that freedom must never be taken for granted, but must always be defended – with words, with courage and with determination."

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Mark's Spot @markmckechnie.bsky.social · 1d

When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognise courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist...

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Mark's Spot @markmckechnie.bsky.social · 1d

Nobel award to Maria Corina Machado:
"Democracy is a precondition for lasting peace. However, we live in a world where democracy is in retreat, where more and more authoritarian regimes are challenging norms and resorting to violence...

The official website of the Nobel Prize - NobelPrize.org

The Nobel Prize rewards science, humanism and peace efforts. This is one of the central concepts in the will of Alfred Nobel, and it also permeates the outreach activities that have been developed for...

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Mark's Spot @markmckechnie.bsky.social · 2d

"It is an unprecedented abuse of procedural power on the part of the speaker, one that has had the effect of silencing a political opponent and denying representation to the citizens of her district."

Why is the US House speaker refusing to seat an elected Democrat? | Moira Donegan

Adelita Grijalva won a landslide election for her Arizona seat. But Mike Johnson is defying the will of the voters

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

All to cover up the Epstein files.

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Montana Democrats @montanademocrats.org · 3d

Donald Trump has taken a wrecking ball to the US economy. His erratic policy has eliminated a million jobs in the first 9 months of the year, the highest cuts since the pandemic in 2020. #mtpol

Donald Trump has caused one million job cuts in 2025. There are officially more unemployed Americans than available jobs. Are we great yet?

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Mark's Spot @markmckechnie.bsky.social · 3d

Plenary power is a complete and absolute power to take action on a particular issue, with no limitations.

This is the power Stephen Miller claims that Trump possesses to send the military into American cities for no legitimate reason.

Stephen Miller Gives Strange Interview on Trump’s “Plenary Authority”

The White House aide thinks Trump has ultimate power—and he admitted as much.

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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.bsky.social · 3d

Cruelty was the point and the paycheck. 💰

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Mark's Spot @markmckechnie.bsky.social · 4d

Actual problems in the United States:
-Rising prices driven by Trump tariffs
-Wildfires and extreme weather events exacerbated by climate change
-A healthcare system that already denies care and bankrupts families is about to get much, much worse

Mark's Spot @markmckechnie.bsky.social · 4d

Oregon GOP blatantly lying about Portland:
"The image of the police officers comes from a photo of 'South American riot police' that was uploaded to the Getty Images archive in 2008."

Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest – using photos of South America

A federal judge had blocked Trump’s request to deploy California national guard to Portland

www.theguardian.com

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Mark's Spot @markmckechnie.bsky.social · 4d

"Bucking tradition" should refer to wearing white after Labor Day, not weaponizing national guard troops against your own citizens to establish Christo-fascist authoritarian rule.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 5d

Journalist Edward R. Murrow used his platform on CBS to criticize the witch hunts led by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s.

This is what real journalism should do — hold power to account, not capitulate to it.

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Mark's Spot @markmckechnie.bsky.social · 5d

"The video appears to contradict the government’s allegation that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire on her late Saturday morning...
U.S. District Judge Heather McShain denied a request by the federal government to detain Martinez...."

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 5d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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