Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Haydon is reading The Uncertain Center, Arthur C McGill

@haydonmp.bsky.social

2.5K followers 3.1K following 3.1K posts

Dad, husband, double hoo. 10+ years as a fire/medic, neuro/stroke clinical researcher, policy degrees. Occasional woodworking posts. Opinions my own, especially when they're wrong. Reposts are not endorsements.

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

Haydon is reading The Uncertain Center, Arthur C McGill @haydonmp.bsky.social · Aug 19

I haven’t inhaled a bunch of industrial solvents today so I’m not prepared to talk about the regime’s foreign policy.

3 32

Haydon is reading The Uncertain Center, Arthur C McGill @haydonmp.bsky.social · 6h

It’s graded on a curve now.

Haydon is reading The Uncertain Center, Arthur C McGill @haydonmp.bsky.social · 6h

More importantly than just that he’s Oklahoma governor, he’s speaking as head of the National Governor’s Association.

Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 6h

Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes National Guard Deployment in Chicago - The New York Times www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes National Guard Deployment in Chicago

www.nytimes.com

1 7

Reposted by Haydon is reading The Uncertain Center, Arthur C McGill

Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 7h

a lot of people are finally waking up to the importance of the 3rd amendment. As a 3A absolutist, i think it should be illegal for soldiers to be quartered anywhere in this country. they should be camping under the open sky at all times. all military bases and barracks are unconstitutional.

66 430 2.9K

Haydon is reading The Uncertain Center, Arthur C McGill @haydonmp.bsky.social · 9h

This is kind of the perfect thing to happen to stem any bleeding for the jones campaign too.

Haydon is reading The Uncertain Center, Arthur C McGill @haydonmp.bsky.social · 10h

But is it even that? Like, what in the world do they think this looks like when they get discovery into malicious prosecution stuff?

Comey is retired and independently wealthy, and James is a politician and will use that material accordingly.

Haydon is reading The Uncertain Center, Arthur C McGill @haydonmp.bsky.social · 10h

I don’t want to just underestimate them because they look stupid though!

But this both looks and appears *to be* stupid.

Haydon is reading The Uncertain Center, Arthur C McGill @haydonmp.bsky.social · 10h

Like, you gave them enough time to retain and game out an entire strategy with pretty much the only lawyer in the country that *would* have any business prosecuting the former head of the FBI or a sitting state attorney general.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick...

Patrick Fitzgerald - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Haydon is reading The Uncertain Center, Arthur C McGill @haydonmp.bsky.social · 10h

Is there something about authoritarian transitions I’m missing here?

It seems counter productive to allow your personal attorney with no meaningful experience whatsoever in criminal law make up prosecutions of the former head of the FBI and sitting attorney general.

Haydon is reading The Uncertain Center, Arthur C McGill @haydonmp.bsky.social · 10h

Why are they choosing their first major political prosecutions against some of the most well prepared people on the planet to make them look stupid?

4 5

Haydon is reading The Uncertain Center, Arthur C McGill @haydonmp.bsky.social · 10h

I’m thinking both because I assume one happens alongside the other, but fair point.

Haydon is reading The Uncertain Center, Arthur C McGill @haydonmp.bsky.social · 10h

Really enjoyed listening to this talk by @jamellebouie.net with my son this afternoon.

youtu.be/44Q8aVooIvI?...

Why the Lincoln-Douglas Debates Still Matter

YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie

youtu.be

Haydon is reading The Uncertain Center, Arthur C McGill @haydonmp.bsky.social · 10h

It’s also the only way any deal would hold, that risk is the only thing that makes us credible anymore.

If it even really does that.

1 2

Haydon is reading The Uncertain Center, Arthur C McGill @haydonmp.bsky.social · 10h

“Oh it sends a message to everyone else that isn’t as prepared!”

Oh, it certainly does.

Haydon is reading The Uncertain Center, Arthur C McGill @haydonmp.bsky.social · 10h

Why are they choosing their first major political prosecutions against some of the most well prepared people on the planet to make them look stupid?

3 16

Haydon is reading The Uncertain Center, Arthur C McGill @haydonmp.bsky.social · 11h

Take some Tylenol and go watch some trains, man.

Haydon is reading The Uncertain Center, Arthur C McGill @haydonmp.bsky.social · 11h

They’d have two entirely separate conversations, and quite possibly speak positively of one another at the end, having successfully communicated nothing.

Haydon is reading The Uncertain Center, Arthur C McGill @haydonmp.bsky.social · 11h

The fun part is all of these make one another worse the longer it goes on.

Reposted by Haydon is reading The Uncertain Center, Arthur C McGill

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 12h

NEW: A federal judge hands win to clergy (and others) who say ICE agents violated their religious freedom by, among other things, shooting them with pepper balls.

Also: a pastor tells me senior Border Patrol official Gregory Bovino personally shoved him last week. religionnews.com/2025/10/09/f...

7 99 230

Reposted by Haydon is reading The Uncertain Center, Arthur C McGill

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 16h

HAPPENING NOW: A Ninth Circuit panel hears arguments on whether the Trump admin can deploy federalized National Guard troops to Portland, Oregon.

The panel: Susan P. Graber (Clinton), Ryan D. Nelson (Trump), Bridget S. Bade (Trump)

San Francisco Courtroom 2 9:00 AM Thursday 10/9

YouTube video by United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

www.youtube.com

11 84 190

Haydon is reading The Uncertain Center, Arthur C McGill @haydonmp.bsky.social · 17h

I think it’s even more insane that the regime thinks that holding a gun to its own genitals and threatening to shoot will make anyone else want to negotiate with them.

“Oh horrible delays and unsafe flying conditions? Let’s make that way worse and be public in doing so.”

1 1 6

Reposted by Haydon is reading The Uncertain Center, Arthur C McGill

FiftyPlusOne.news @fiftyplusone.news · 18h

new polls website just dropped fiftyplusone.news

18 110 450

Haydon is reading The Uncertain Center, Arthur C McGill @haydonmp.bsky.social · 17h

Other than the organizations you probably already know about, I know a lot of credit unions and financial associations with lots of fed/mil members often offer low / zero interest shutdown loans. May be worth looking into depending where you are.

1 8

Haydon is reading The Uncertain Center, Arthur C McGill @haydonmp.bsky.social · 18h

This is a remarkably narcissistic approach to your civic responsibility to reduce the harm done to your neighbors.

Haydon is reading The Uncertain Center, Arthur C McGill @haydonmp.bsky.social · 18h

Lots of people, MTG most publicly, trying to carve out their own niche for What Comes After I think.

3 2 18

Haydon is reading The Uncertain Center, Arthur C McGill @haydonmp.bsky.social · 18h

You lose a shit ton of money on this model unless you’re a satellite facility of a tertiary care hospital that you can transfer your sick patients to.

1 17

Reposted by Haydon is reading The Uncertain Center, Arthur C McGill

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 20h

The worst-kept secret in California and Washington.

Andrew Palmer @andrewp97.bsky.social · 1d

katie porter makes amy klobuchar look like mother theresa

8 9 77