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Michael McKay @87mck.bsky.social · 19h

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If you're not following @anticapitalistmusings.com you should. His analysis of the USA is superb 👇

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Is This the Spark That Ignites the Slow Civil War?

Trump’s threat to invoke the Insurrection Act has moved from rhetoric to rehearsal. The empire’s legions have come home, and the republic now governs itself as colony.

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Michael McKay @87mck.bsky.social · 6h

Can I just point out that in Scotland, we do give illegal immigrants free healthcare, and the reason why is that we are civilised.

Michael McKay @87mck.bsky.social · 6h

Can I just point out that in Scotland, we do give illegal immigrants free healthcare, and the reason why is that we are civilised.

Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 6h

Michael McKay @87mck.bsky.social · 6h

Trump is a dad isn't asshole?? I'm assuming that's autocorrect.

Michael McKay @87mck.bsky.social · 6h

If they exist

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Trump calls for jailing of Chicago mayor and Illinois governor as national guard arrives in city

President accused Brandon Johnson and JB Pritzker of failing to protect Ice officers as troops deploy to Chicago

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Michael McKay @87mck.bsky.social · 6h

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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 6h

"For some, the Trump administration’s Chicago assault was a shock. But for Black Americans, none of it felt extraordinary. It felt remembered." interc.pt/4h2hBUd

A photo of the Trump administration’s Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago on Oct. 4, 2025, overlaid with the headline, "Black People Knew This Would Happen," and the DEK, "Generational experience has taught us what happens when the state builds a weapon for someone else: Sooner or later, it finds a way back to us."

Michael McKay @87mck.bsky.social · 6h

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No! It's wizard frog! 🐸

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competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 4d

wizard frog is insane

Michael McKay @87mck.bsky.social · 6h

I would say now is exactly the time for the USA to wake the fuck up. Imagine the USA in a years time if you don't.

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Trump calls for jailing of Chicago mayor and Illinois governor as national guard arrives in city

President accused Brandon Johnson and JB Pritzker of failing to protect Ice officers as troops deploy to Chicago

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Michael McKay @87mck.bsky.social · 7h

Imagine what the USA will look like in a years time.

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Trump calls for jailing of Chicago mayor and Illinois governor as national guard arrives in city

President accused Brandon Johnson and JB Pritzker of failing to protect Ice officers as troops deploy to Chicago

www.theguardian.com

Michael McKay @87mck.bsky.social · 7h

JD Vance with Stephen Miller pulling his couch fucking strings.

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BlueVoter @bluevoter24.bsky.social · 7h

"Fascist Sociopath".. I like it! #fascism

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Michael McKay @87mck.bsky.social · 7h

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Katie Prout @katieprout.bsky.social · 12h

At least 6 unhoused Chicagoans have been abducted by federal agents since September: 2 have been released, while the status of the remaining 4 is unknown. But the Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness is investigating reports of an additional 19 people disappeared.

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Make It Make Sense: ICE targets Chicago’s homeless community

Plus: state and local leaders crack down on anti-ICE protesters and advocates ask the chief judge to keep ICE out of county courthouses.

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Michael McKay @87mck.bsky.social · 7h

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Is This the Spark That Ignites the Slow Civil War?

Trump’s threat to invoke the Insurrection Act has moved from rhetoric to rehearsal. The empire’s legions have come home, and the republic now governs itself as colony.

open.substack.com

Michael McKay @87mck.bsky.social · 15h

Two articles below that may interest you. @anticapitalistmusings.com

Michael McKay @87mck.bsky.social · 15h

The historical shortcomings of liberalism don’t mean that socialists should throw liberalism out wholesale. On the contrary: socialism needs liberalism.

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Why Socialists Shouldn’t Reject Liberalism

The historical shortcomings of liberalism don’t mean that socialists should throw liberalism out wholesale. On the contrary: socialism needs liberalism.

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Michael McKay @87mck.bsky.social · 15h

Liberals and socialists typically see themselves as foes. But truly realizing liberal ideals of freedom and equality means building a socialist order — a lesson liberals and socialists alike would do well to remember.

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The Case for a Liberal Socialism

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Michael McKay @87mck.bsky.social · 15h

The historical shortcomings of liberalism don’t mean that socialists should throw liberalism out wholesale. On the contrary: socialism needs liberalism.

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Why Socialists Shouldn’t Reject Liberalism

The historical shortcomings of liberalism don’t mean that socialists should throw liberalism out wholesale. On the contrary: socialism needs liberalism.

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 2d

The 21st-century left has often argued that the solution to rampant inequality is income redistribution.

But this may not be a silver bullet.

The Left Needs to Rethink How It Understands Inequality

The 21st-century left has often argued that the solution to rampant inequality is income redistribution. But this may not be a silver bullet. What workers need is power over employers and the market.

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 1d

Herbert Matthews of the New York Times was one of the great reporters of his time.

US conservatives still haven’t forgiven him for his 1957 interview with Fidel Castro and even blamed him for the success of the Cuban Revolution.

Herbert Matthews Was a Role Model for Engaged Journalism

Herbert Matthews of the New York Times was one of the great reporters of his time. US conservatives still haven’t forgiven him for his 1957 interview with Fidel Castro and even blamed him for the success of the Cuban Revolution.

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Michael McKay @87mck.bsky.social · 15h

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Is This the Spark That Ignites the Slow Civil War?

Trump’s threat to invoke the Insurrection Act has moved from rhetoric to rehearsal. The empire’s legions have come home, and the republic now governs itself as colony.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 16h

Patrick Henry is often treated as a second-string Founding Father. But, Drew Gilpin Faust argues, he made the Revolution possible with words that rendered it both desirable and inevitable:

No One Gave a Speech Like Patrick Henry

How he roused a nation to war

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Michael McKay @87mck.bsky.social · 16h

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 18h

‘War is a business’: the Colombian mercenaries at Sudan’s battlefront

A soldier of fortune tells of lucrative contracts, the siege of El Fasher and training child fighters to ‘go and get killed’

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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 18h

"If enough of us move towards peace, it will happen."

Sharone Lifschitz talks to Jackie Long two years after her parents were abducted by Hamas terrorists. Her father was killed, but her mother was freed as part of a prisoner swap.

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‘We need more understanding of each other’s pain’ – daughter of Israeli hostage

Two years ago, Sharone Lifschitz learned that her mother and father had been abducted by Hamas terrorists.

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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 18h

“The rapidity with which many in the contemporary far right have shed their libertarian principles…indicates that the economic philosophies of Rothbard and Hoppe were more disposable than their racial project.” —Suzanne Schneider

From the Cesspool to the Mainstream | Suzanne Schneider

The “new fusionist” intellectuals are the missing link between nineteenth-century race science, twentieth-century libertarianism, and the contemporary alt-right.

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Michael McKay @87mck.bsky.social · 16h

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 16h

Over the past week, ICE and border patrol agents have clashed with Chicago residents, and federal guard troops arriving in the city might inflame tensions further. Our reporters describe the situation on the ground.

Listen to "The Daily."

Trump Claims ‘Rebellion’ in American Cities

President Trump said he would consider using the Insurrection Act to deploy the National Guard in Chicago and other places.

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