Chris Macdonald-Dennis
@chrismacden.bsky.social
Gay Mixed Jew, radical educator.
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MAGA is a fascinating cult. Completely oblivious to how weird, freakish and hypocritical they appear to the world.
Their Daddy Trump pardons a drug trafficker but then wants to go to war over...drug trafficking.
They are trying to shame me by saying my parents are criminal but Trump is...
Sigh.
Their Daddy Trump pardons a drug trafficker but then wants to go to war over...drug trafficking.
They are trying to shame me by saying my parents are criminal but Trump is...
Sigh.
December 2, 2025 at 2:37 AM
MAGA is a fascinating cult. Completely oblivious to how weird, freakish and hypocritical they appear to the world.
Their Daddy Trump pardons a drug trafficker but then wants to go to war over...drug trafficking.
They are trying to shame me by saying my parents are criminal but Trump is...
Sigh.
Their Daddy Trump pardons a drug trafficker but then wants to go to war over...drug trafficking.
They are trying to shame me by saying my parents are criminal but Trump is...
Sigh.
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Today is World AIDS Day, even in the US, even if the federal government has decided (for the first time in almost 4 decades) not to mark it.
And in NYC, we have a Mayor-Elect that will fight to mark it, remember those lost, and keep fighting for the living!
And in NYC, we have a Mayor-Elect that will fight to mark it, remember those lost, and keep fighting for the living!
This World AIDS Day, we remember the hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers lost to HIV and AIDS, and those living with HIV today. We must remind ourselves and each other that the fight isn’t over until the epidemic is over for everyone.
December 2, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Today is World AIDS Day, even in the US, even if the federal government has decided (for the first time in almost 4 decades) not to mark it.
And in NYC, we have a Mayor-Elect that will fight to mark it, remember those lost, and keep fighting for the living!
And in NYC, we have a Mayor-Elect that will fight to mark it, remember those lost, and keep fighting for the living!
I have been living with HIV for 30 years. I know too many who didn’t survive. Being a gay elder is a blessing. Call me “old” because too many gay men never got the chance.
December 2, 2025 at 1:17 AM
I have been living with HIV for 30 years. I know too many who didn’t survive. Being a gay elder is a blessing. Call me “old” because too many gay men never got the chance.
Jose Vargas wrote about my tweets on Huffington Post: www.huffpost.com/entry/bearin...
#WorldAIDSDay #HIV #AIDS
#WorldAIDSDay #HIV #AIDS
Bearing Witness 2.0 -- On Twitter Feed, A Man Tells His Story of Living With HIV (w/ TRANSCRIPT)
On Twitter, we are each other's witnesses, one tweet at a time. Chris MacDonald-Dennis gave new meaning to that Tuesday night when within two hours -- firing off about 100 tweets in succession, totali...
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November 27, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Jose Vargas wrote about my tweets on Huffington Post: www.huffpost.com/entry/bearin...
#WorldAIDSDay #HIV #AIDS
#WorldAIDSDay #HIV #AIDS
Because the Trump administration is officially no longer commemorating World AIDS Day, I’m resurrecting something I did on Twitter back in the day: I’m going to tell my story living w HIV here. 12/1, 9pm EST #worldAIDSDay #HIV #AIDS
November 26, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Because the Trump administration is officially no longer commemorating World AIDS Day, I’m resurrecting something I did on Twitter back in the day: I’m going to tell my story living w HIV here. 12/1, 9pm EST #worldAIDSDay #HIV #AIDS
This.
We were right; we wish we weren't.
November 11, 2025 at 12:48 AM
This.
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It is very weird seeing my friends and family slowly start to realize we're not overreacting.
Read every word & share with everyone you know. This is real life here in Chicago. Americans need to know this grotesque reality & stand with us.
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
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He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 10, 2025 at 12:17 PM
It is very weird seeing my friends and family slowly start to realize we're not overreacting.
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Yes, I do.
do you all ever think about how howard dean got knocked out of a primary for being a lil too excited and now we have All This and people who will defend it because politics are sports to some people
November 10, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Yes, I do.
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This is all a girl can hope for.
Me, I’m the girl.
Thank you, Deborah.
Me, I’m the girl.
Thank you, Deborah.
My students (first-year college) just watched your IG mini-lecture on the promise of access--and one of them said quite literally, "I think she's giving us the steps to think about AI and what's happening." Thank you
November 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
This is all a girl can hope for.
Me, I’m the girl.
Thank you, Deborah.
Me, I’m the girl.
Thank you, Deborah.
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We'll see, but the degree of immediate blowback, and how many other Dems immediately jumped onboard trashing it loudly, makes me think this might end up a failed attempt to cave. Overestimated their ability to hold enough Dem votes.
Thing about being spineless is you can be pushed either way.
Thing about being spineless is you can be pushed either way.
November 10, 2025 at 12:59 AM
We'll see, but the degree of immediate blowback, and how many other Dems immediately jumped onboard trashing it loudly, makes me think this might end up a failed attempt to cave. Overestimated their ability to hold enough Dem votes.
Thing about being spineless is you can be pushed either way.
Thing about being spineless is you can be pushed either way.
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It's going to be our job to show them.
I think Senate folders are significantly underestimating how fucking angry Democratic voters are at them
November 10, 2025 at 1:47 AM
It's going to be our job to show them.
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My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
November 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
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i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
If the Dems blink after all of this, for a deal that all but ensures no ACA subsidies in 2026 anyway, then what was the purpose of letting the shutdown go for 40 days in the first place?
November 10, 2025 at 12:56 AM
i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
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This is really good to see: Miki Sherrill just put out a statement sharply criticizing the Senate Dems' pending cave in the government shutdown, ripping it as "malpractice" and a betrayal of the people who are "counting on us to fight for them." Sherrill knows what drove her victory. Wake up, Dems.
November 10, 2025 at 1:38 AM
This is really good to see: Miki Sherrill just put out a statement sharply criticizing the Senate Dems' pending cave in the government shutdown, ripping it as "malpractice" and a betrayal of the people who are "counting on us to fight for them." Sherrill knows what drove her victory. Wake up, Dems.
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Warner is up for reelection. He was widely seen driving towards surrender behind the scenes, but he's voting no in public because it's unpopular. The real question is whether he supports a senate leadership change. If not, someone who supports senate leadership change should primary him.
But I cannot support a deal that still leaves millions of Americans wondering how they are going to pay for their health care or whether they will be able to afford to get sick.
November 10, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Warner is up for reelection. He was widely seen driving towards surrender behind the scenes, but he's voting no in public because it's unpopular. The real question is whether he supports a senate leadership change. If not, someone who supports senate leadership change should primary him.
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This right here.
Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"
November 10, 2025 at 1:23 AM
This right here.
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Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.
November 10, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.
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Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"
November 7, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"
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Maybe important to note it was the disruption in air travel that Democrats couldn't stand and not, you know, 40+ million people not knowing where their next meal was coming from.
November 10, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Maybe important to note it was the disruption in air travel that Democrats couldn't stand and not, you know, 40+ million people not knowing where their next meal was coming from.
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For the Black organizers who made it happen, California redistricting was just one more round in a decades-long fight.
Racial justice campaigners were Prop. 50's army in the field
For the Black organizers who made it happen, California redistricting was just one more round in a decades-long fight.
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November 7, 2025 at 9:35 PM
For the Black organizers who made it happen, California redistricting was just one more round in a decades-long fight.
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Yep. What’s demonstrated by the victories is the virtue of a party “big tent” that finds the most representative local iteration of ideological breadth, *all united in common purpose*. Some regions want demsocs, some want bluedogs & that’s GREAT!
What people don’t want is today’s Republican Borg.
What people don’t want is today’s Republican Borg.
Two moderate national security Democrats have just rolled over their opponents in two big states.
November 5, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Yep. What’s demonstrated by the victories is the virtue of a party “big tent” that finds the most representative local iteration of ideological breadth, *all united in common purpose*. Some regions want demsocs, some want bluedogs & that’s GREAT!
What people don’t want is today’s Republican Borg.
What people don’t want is today’s Republican Borg.
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The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.
These big wins will embolden Dems to take on Trump's lawbreaking and show there's a price for GOP enabling of him. Folks hate to hear this, but normal patterns are asserting themselves: Liberalism isn't dead, Rs are likely to lose in 2026, and Trump is really unpopular, not a magical exception.
November 5, 2025 at 2:48 AM
The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.
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You know what this means. Trump is going to put the thumb screws on R senators to nuke the filibuster.
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One can only imagine his fury after viewing tonight's results around the country. His TruthSocial acct is going to be ablaze.
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One can only imagine his fury after viewing tonight's results around the country. His TruthSocial acct is going to be ablaze.
Trump plans breakfast meeting with all GOP senators
(The Center Square) – President Donald Trump has reportedly invited every Republican U. S.
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November 5, 2025 at 3:11 AM
You know what this means. Trump is going to put the thumb screws on R senators to nuke the filibuster.
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One can only imagine his fury after viewing tonight's results around the country. His TruthSocial acct is going to be ablaze.
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One can only imagine his fury after viewing tonight's results around the country. His TruthSocial acct is going to be ablaze.
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Going to go out on a limb here and predict this will not, in fact, result in an exodus of Jews from New York City, and that New York will remain the city in the world with the largest Jewish population.
BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani is elected mayor of New York City in a historic victory. Read more: bloom.bg/43gDsBz
📷️: Michael M. Santiago/Getty
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November 5, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Going to go out on a limb here and predict this will not, in fact, result in an exodus of Jews from New York City, and that New York will remain the city in the world with the largest Jewish population.
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This
The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.
These big wins will embolden Dems to take on Trump's lawbreaking and show there's a price for GOP enabling of him. Folks hate to hear this, but normal patterns are asserting themselves: Liberalism isn't dead, Rs are likely to lose in 2026, and Trump is really unpopular, not a magical exception.
November 5, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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