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Bill McKay
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Adolescence lasts until first taste of Modelo, say brain scientists
November 25, 2025 at 8:47 PM
mckay4senate.bsky.social
Ultimately they had both a set of concrete political principles and a preferred aesthetic style of contrarian left-punching centrism, and as America took a reactionary turn that made that untenable they decided to abandon those principles to preserve their style and so marched on to the right.
astro-egg-celnt.bsky.social 🌻🌾🍁🍂Autumnal Eggcelent🍂🍁🌾🌻 @astro-egg-celnt.bsky.social · 13h
Its wild seeing r/neoliberal conditionally turn into a conservative sub, depending on what kind of headline is posted. There is quite literally no tenet of the sub that they won't become fervent detractors of in the reply section of an article titled "Democrats need to acknowledge the _____ problem"
November 25, 2025 at 7:38 AM
mckay4senate.bsky.social
"Sorry American, the Czechoslovak gets the girl."
Still from Casablanca with Rick and Victor
November 25, 2025 at 5:33 AM
mckay4senate.bsky.social
Germans: das kandie... ist like... ein ass! Hihihi

(proceeds to directly huff Russian natural gas Saw Gerrera style)
douglasmack.bsky.social Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 16h
* Haribo used to sell a gummi candy in Germany called "Asses With Ears."

I promise this image is 100% real and not AI.
little bucket of gummi candy with the label "Haribo A...Mit Ohren"
November 25, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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boxelderdust.bsky.social
Gonna be seeing this exact segment in my dreams for the next 20 years
November 25, 2025 at 3:47 AM
mckay4senate.bsky.social
Chotiner: how can you defend genocide?

Me: actually, I don’t.

Chotiner: you’re anti-genocide? Are the rest of your politics this good?

Me: the rest of my opinions on politics and media.

Chotiner: impressive. I also see you’re quite tall.

Me: yes. I love reading and Clairo.

Chotiner: wow.
November 25, 2025 at 1:52 AM
mckay4senate.bsky.social
There was a black guy with public service experience running as the left-liberal YIMBY candidate (Zellnor Myrie) and they backed a hedge fund manager who wanted ICE on Riker’s and posted AI edits of Mamdani instead, so I wouldn’t rule out the NY New Libs as not racist just yet.
louisevans.bsky.social Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 20h
wait so

CA New Libs: racist brainrot in the 12th dimension
NY New Libs: landlord brainrot in the 53rd dimension

am i getting that right? what do we even have these "new" "libs" for?
November 25, 2025 at 1:27 AM
mckay4senate.bsky.social
Everyone wants a class of people below them to feel better about themselves. To that end, the fact that some people on the bottom of society seem to oppose measures for greater equity isn’t surprising; they see it as permanently shutting off the path that might allow them to have that.
jdportes.bsky.social Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 23h
Trevor Philips in the Times, calling for a Trump/Miller-style of random deportations based on skin colour.

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Second, we need to enforce the policy with a vigour that has reduced flows at America’s southern borders by 90 per cent, and in Denmark by 95 per cent. Crucial to the Trump programme is an aggressive policy of removals, including snatching suspected illegals off the street. One friend tells me Latino parents are now so afraid to be seen out and about that the other parents have a rota to walk the Latino children to and from school.
November 24, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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I know some of my more hawkish/R2P mutuals disagree with me here but I stand by this piece, especially with Venezuela ramping up
Regime Change Is Still Illiberal
Few words have become more loaded in the vocabulary of American international relations than ‘regime change’.  As documents regarding the origins of the Iraq war became public, it became clear that it...
www.liberalcurrents.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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WHAT THE FUCK?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsi5...
ZOHRAN MAMDANI Talks Meeting Trump, Mayoral Election, Arsenal
YouTube video by The Adam Friedland Show
www.youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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I asked Claude and he told me Rommel is as good as defeated.
Claude Auchinleck, C-in-C of British forces in North Africa
November 24, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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i asked claude and he told me to make a lil mouse robot and run it through a maze
claude shannon
November 24, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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Well I asked Claude and he told me that he's shocked - shocked! - to find that gambling is going on here.
A black and white photograph of Claude Rains, a handsome man with dark hair graying around the edges wearing a suit jacket and tie and looking directly into the camera. Is his animal magnetism overpowering you? It is.
November 24, 2025 at 6:51 AM
mckay4senate.bsky.social
Fuck my stupid chud life, why do I live in Babylon during the Fall…

(After a sip of Modelo) come brothers and sisters and non-binary siblings, let us make kind the savageries of this brutal world together in universal fraternity
November 24, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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My father-in-law is a liberal. He is insanely gifted. We were looking at a welfare state together years ago and I asked him what it would cost to build it today. I will never forget his answer…

“We can’t, we don’t know how to do it”.
November 24, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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Meme of guy looking at One Battle After Another and going "wow!! PTA is the same type of communist I am" and the thing over the head is "white guys are really weird around black women"
November 24, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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The Sun Belt: a concept invented by Storm Thurmond in 1971 to spread the plantation owner mindset outside of the Old Confederacy
November 23, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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"I asked Claude and it said—" well I asked Claude and he just called me a slur :(
Governor Claude Kirk (R-FL)
November 23, 2025 at 11:54 PM
mckay4senate.bsky.social
Achcar talks about why this is in the introduction to The Arabs and the Holocaust
his exchange above with Helit Yeshurun, ‘Do you know why we Palestinians are famous? It’s because you are our enemy. Interest in the Palestinian question flows from interest in the Jewish question. Yes. People are interested in you, not me ... ! The international interest in the Palestinian question merely reflects the interest people take in the Jewish question.” This was, of course, an exaggeration blurted out in the heat of the moment: the Palestinian tragedy would certainly have resounded if the Westerners who settled in Palestine had been, say, members of a Protestant sect rather than Jews. How, then, are we to explain the importance accorded to the Palestinian tragedy apart from the Jewishness of Israel? | It cannot fairly be said that the ‘uprooting’ of the Palestinians — to borrow the expression used by Pierre Bourdieu and Abdelmalek Sayad to describe the rural populations ‘regrouped’ by the French army in camps in colonial Algeria® — has been exceptionally extensive or cruel. Compare it with the Algerian case, in which some two million ‘regrouped persons’ came under the direct control of the French colonial army: measured against its standards of brutality, the Israeli army pales. None of the massacres of Palestinians carried out by Israeli forces compares in scope to the one perpetrated by the French army in May 1945 in the Algerian cities of Setif and Guelma, to cite only that case: several thousand Algerians — tens of thousands, by Algerian estimates — were massacred there in the space of a few weeks. And what the black population of sub-Saharan Africa had to endure during the long ‘civilizing’ period in the history of the colonial empires, from slavery to veritable genocides (which all too often go unmentioned even today), was far more terrible than even the Algerian horror. As colonial abominations go, the fate of the Palestinians is far from being the worst. The only people who can be excused for thinking differently are those who are directly subject… apply to their own case the superlatives appropriate to the Jewish genocide. “Who would want morally to equate mass extermination with mass dispossession?’ Said exclaims in the essay cited above. ‘It would be foolish even to try. * Similarly, Benny Morris is correct to point out that Deir Yassin — the Palestinian village where 120 people were massacred by the Revisionist Zionist Irgun in 1948 — ‘was no Srebrenica (the Bosnian city in which eight thousand people were slaughtered by the forces of the Serbian Republic of Bosnia in 1995).° How, then, are we to explain the immense place that the oppression of the Palestinians at the hands of the Israelis holds among the passionately debated issues of our day? There are several reasons for this. One is that Israel is the only European colonial settler state in which the political rights of the native population have yet to be restored (apart from places like North America and Australia, where colonization all but wiped out the native population). With the disappearance of the South African apartheid system in 1994, the Palestinian question became the last major burning issue of European colonialism. Israel is currently the only state in the world that combines three modes of colonial oppression: members of the indigenous minority who remained after 1948 (the ‘Israeli Arabs’) have the status of second-class citizens; since 1967, the inhabitants of the West Bank and Gaza have had the status of a population under either foreign occupation or direct control by the former occupiers; and the great majority of Palestinians have the status of people uprooted from their land and barred from returning. Most of this last group live in refugee camps on the periphery of the colonial state or in the territories it controls; others have joined the vast Palestinian diaspora; still others are living uprooted within the 1949 borders as ‘internally displaced persons. The persistence of these colonialist modes of oppression makes Israel, in … population received Israel’s declaration of independence as an outrage. At the time, a yawning gulf separated those who regarded the creation of Israel as an act of liberation of the first importance — the redemption of European Jewry’s centuries-old history of oppression — and those who perceived it as the establishment of a colonial entity at the cost of the indigenous population. As the American journalist I. F. Stone wrote in 1967: “The fact that the Jewish community in Palestine afterwards fought the British is no more evidence of its not being a colonial implantation than similar wars of British colonists against the mother country, from the American Revolution to Rhodesia.’*’ Nevertheless, the notion of Israel as the product of an anti-colonial war of independence long held sway in the West. It was decisively modified by the June 1967 war, when the myth of Israel as a David facing the Goliath of the surrounding Arab countries gave way to an image of Israel as the state of ‘an elite people, self-assured and domineering, as General Charles de Gaulle put it. The phrase was widely criticized because it was not free of anti-Semitic overtones: the French president was targeting what, in his view, the Jews ‘had always been.* Recognition that Israel is a colonial power was long in coming in the West — longer on the left than the right — and, of course, in Israel itself. The considerable distance covered runs from the period when Jean-Paul Sartre’s review Les Temps modernes published a thick issue on the Israeli-Arab conflict on the eve of the 1967 war,*? in which the title of Maxime Rodinson’s remarkable contribution characterizing Israel as a ‘colonial-settler state’ could still be qualified by a question mark,®° to the unabashed 1999 admission by the most famous of the ‘new Israeli historians, Benny Morris, that “Zionism was a colonizing and expansionist ideology and movement.” Uri Ram has summed up Israeli ‘post-Zionist’ discourse on the question: Israel is a sett… decolonization under the name Zimbabwe. South Africa’s indigenous population, in its turn, had gained the same rights as the population of colonial origin by 1994.” Yet the indigenous population of Palestine is still waging a bitter struggle for recognition of its right to sovereignty over as little as one-fifth of its ancestral lands — the portion that Israel did not immediately conquer in 1948, but occupied nineteen years later. The persistence of Israeli colonial oppression, flying in the face of the prevailing tendency of world history, has been made worse by a rising curve of violence. Israel has fought seven major wars in its six decades, in 1948, 1956, 1967, 1973, 1982, 2006 and 2008-9, the latter two the most brutal of all. Each one profoundly alarmed the world because of the strategic location of the conflict. (Contrast the 5.4 million war-related deaths in the Congo in the ten years since 1998 — 45,000 a month or 1,500 a day in 2008, on the estimate of an American NGO.” Black skins are of small worth in comparison with black gold.) | The international implications of the conflicts in the Middle East do not, however, alter the fact that Israeli oppression of the Palestinians is now at its highest level ever. In recent years, it has soared from one peak to the next, beginning with Ariel Sharon’s assumption of the leadership of the Israeli government in 2001, followed by the 2002 reoccupation of the West Bank for the purpose of crushing the Second Intifada, continuing to the 2006 blockade of Gaza and the repeated assaults on it since. Zionist colonial power clings to its 1967 conquered territory in the face of resistance of an intensity and tenacity that would surely have beaten back other forms of colonialism, at considerable cost to Israeli society. The result is hardly surprising: Israel’s image has, inevitably, deteriorated. According to a BBC poll conducted in thirty-four countries and published on 2 April 2008 — several months before the cruel assault o…
November 23, 2025 at 10:43 PM
mckay4senate.bsky.social
It's very funny how the few surviving neocons who haven't regressed to Trotskyism love being like "this administration wants to overthrow the Venezuelan government to strike a blow to the Russian-backed Axis of Autocracy, which they are neutral to positive on."
November 23, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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November 23, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Somehow, Edmund Muskie returned…
Her drug of choice? Ibogaine, a psychedelic derived from an African shrub, and which she went down to Mexico to try for herself. She and other advocates want ibogaine studied in state-funded clinical trials and eventually hope to win Food and Drug Administration approval of the drug as a mental health treatment.
November 23, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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My most "edgy" historical opinion is that it makes no sense not to count the Vichy government as the successor to the Third Republic, like come on, 67% of the French Deputies and Senators voted for the 1940 Constitutional Law (and when you only count parliamentarians who voted, it's 88%!).
November 23, 2025 at 7:06 AM
mckay4senate.bsky.social
This bit from Baldwin's essay The Price of the Ticket is deeply moving to me, but in particular the third paragraph.
November 23, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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Opposition to the West Germany-Israel reparations plan in the 1950s saw opposition from the Zionist right and the Israeli left. Here MK Moshe Sneh (Mapam) accuses the West of setting up a neo-Nazi government in Bonn and calls his party's support for the USSR basic Jewish self-preservation.
The entire democratic world has accepted this solution, for it was clear that Hitler’s doctrine, in theory and in practice, should be completely eradicated even within the people from which Hitler came. However, what do we see today? Not all the occupying powers are upholding what was laid in the foundations of the Yalta and Potsdam accords. Instead of the demilitarization of Germany, the Atlantic powers decided at the Brussels Conference to initiate German rearmament, to rebuild, in a different form, the Nazi army. Instead of denazification, a neo-Nazi government has been established in Bonn and in the West German regional governments – a reactionary government, a government aspiring to vengeance. Instead of punishing the Nazi war criminals sentenced to death, to life or long terms of imprisonment, twenty-one murderers, avowed criminals, have been pardoned, and pardons are being prepared for the other seven who even the beneficent American High Commissioner, McCloy, did not have the courage to pardon. This policy of reviving Nazism is an integral part, a purposeful instrument of the imperialist policy that is preparing a third world war. It is only in preparation of aggression that Nazism is being revived. Mr. Speaker. The Jewish people face the terrible threat in form of the revival of Nazism and fascism. And not only in Germany. Listen to the fears of Australian Jewry with the opening of their country’s gates to one hundred thousand German-Nazi immigrants; listen to the fears of the Jews of Argentina, a country where German and Hungarian Nazis have been honored with key posts in all the country’s walks of life; listen to the news about Nazi generals and officers being sent to Middle Eastern armies, to our closest neighbors. You, members of the Knesset, are ignoring this danger facing the Jewish people in the Diaspora, facing our very existence and security in this region of the world, because you have joined the Anglo-American bloc – a bloc directly responsible for the revival of Nazism and fascism. Our party’s support for Soviet policy falls in line with the interests of the Jewish people, for it is a policy directed towards the uprooting of German militarism and fascism and ensuring world peace. Therefore our support for Soviet policy is born out of independence and freedom. Your support, members of the majority, of the Atlantic powers’ policy runs counter to the interests of the Jewish people with regard to German rearmament, the release of Nazi criminals,
November 23, 2025 at 4:25 AM