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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 5h

Some analogies to how Brandt's Ostpolitik mainly involved accepting Eastern Bloc governments, human rights abuses and all, as a form of penance for WW2's Eastern Front

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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 5h

Apparently I got bamboozled, Yeekanda forever

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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 5h

The psychology here is striking similar to the person who doesn’t like what their family member is doing but feels compelled to support them until they change while getting angry at the victim of their behavior attacking “one of them.”

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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 6h

I think it would be more accurate to say he wanted Israel to want a ceasefire and didn’t want to push them more than he wanted to see it. That’s the pattern with these left-Zionist people and that’s how they delude themselves.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 6h

After two years it is no question in my mind that there is essentially no red line for the US or Germany.

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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 6h

Suharto stans would be all over the place if anyone knew who he was

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No true bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 10h

fetterman is a straightforwardly evil person

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 10h

Trump has been illegally bombing boats off the coast of Venezuela.

Tim Kaine and Adam Schiff forced a vote on reasserting Congress's role over war powers and ending this reckless
warmongering.

It failed 48-51.

Murkowski and Paul voted yes.

Fetterman voted no.

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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 10h

Some of my best friends are white monsters

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 11h

Are white Monsters any good?

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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 11h

So Porter sucks, Yee is apparently a NIMBY, Villaraigosa sucks… is Xavier Becerra at least normal?

Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 11h

🎶knives out / catch the mouse🎶

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘Get out of my f--king shot’: Katie Porter tears into staffer in newly released video

The former member of Congress, who is now running for California governor, also vented that she was snubbed by the Biden White House, complaining she raised the president “a shit ton of money.”

www.politico.com

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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 11h

Lee Harvey Oswald muttering “this is for Abdul-Karim Qasim” as he pulled the trigger

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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 11h

Broke: JFK was assassinated over his Cuba policy

Joke: JFK was assassinated over his Vietnam policy

Woke: JFK was assassinated over his Iraq policy

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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 19h

Book recommendations from fellow weirdos

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 19h

Marco Rubio is going to hell.

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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 19h

The success of Dr Strangelove proves people yearn for more thinly veiled descriptions of an Adlai Stevenson presidency

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21h

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 1d

Like passing Lenin in Zurich... you will see him again at the Finland Station

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

thank you brett kavanaugh!

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 1d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 1d

OH COME ON

I thought she was a YIMBY? Is there any other decent candidate

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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 1d

California must be governed by an egomaniac at all times

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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 1d

Where have you gone (in the polls) Betty Yee? California turns its lonely eyes to you.

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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, this seems like the Katie Porter who responded to losing a primary by calling it rigged.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 1d

Someone who used to work with Katie Porter sent me this clip from a train wreck interview with her and said “now imagine what she’s like when there aren’t cameras around.”

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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 1d

Who would Taylor Swift support in the Second Spanish Republic

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Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s video of the incident

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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 1d

As the number one Katie Porter hater I cannot hate her for this

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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 1d

The years of education are in part due to rent seeking—there’s no reason why medicine shouldn’t be an undergraduate degree in the US like the rest of the world

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