Mickey McDonough
@mickeymcdonough.bsky.social
She/her, anti-racist, anti-misogynist, movie nerd, car racer
Oh for fucks sake
Why have Americans become so mean, sad, and alienated? The answer is simple, @nytdavidbrooks argues. People no longer grow up learning how to be decent to one another: bit.ly/4qskLny
December 28, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Oh for fucks sake
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That Musk and Sachs and other tech billionaires backing and working for Trump are white South Africans who left after apartheid fell is not a coincidence bsky.app/profile/coll...
When I was a teenager one of the most unmitigatedly good things anyone could do was oppose, vigorously, apartheid. There were concerts. International boycotts. Whole-ass action movies. We protested at consulates.
Among the nominees just confirmed is Leo Brent Bozell III, a far-right activist and critic of the fight to end apartheid, who Collins just approved to be the United States AMBASSADOR TO SOUTH AFRICA.
Vile and irredeemable. tinyurl.com/5fwv4dzc #MEpolitics
Vile and irredeemable. tinyurl.com/5fwv4dzc #MEpolitics
December 19, 2025 at 4:06 AM
That Musk and Sachs and other tech billionaires backing and working for Trump are white South Africans who left after apartheid fell is not a coincidence bsky.app/profile/coll...
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What the absolute [expletive] was that?!?
December 18, 2025 at 2:21 AM
What the absolute [expletive] was that?!?
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It’s all lies lies lies.
December 18, 2025 at 2:04 AM
It’s all lies lies lies.
So we're using US military forces for piracy now
Breaking news: U.S. forces seized an oil tanker near the Venezuelan coastline, President Trump said, a significant escalation against President Nicolás Maduro and his country’s oil-dependent economy.
U.S. seizes ‘very large’ oil tanker off Venezuelan coast, Trump says
The seizure was a significant escalation in the U.S. pressure campaign against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his country’s oil-dependent economy.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 9:39 PM
So we're using US military forces for piracy now
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If the Democrats keep nominating charismatic candidates who actually like people, they're going to get massacred in 2026 and 2028.
by Rahm Emanuel
by Rahm Emanuel
November 5, 2025 at 4:14 PM
If the Democrats keep nominating charismatic candidates who actually like people, they're going to get massacred in 2026 and 2028.
by Rahm Emanuel
by Rahm Emanuel
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San Francisco always seems like 1978 to me
October 29, 2025 at 11:52 PM
San Francisco always seems like 1978 to me
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3 times in the past 2 weeks, a WashPost editorial "has taken on matters in which Bezos has a financial or corporate interest without noting his stake. In each case, the Post's editorial line landed in sync with its owner's interests"
Via @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social
www.npr.org/2025/10/28/n...
Via @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social
www.npr.org/2025/10/28/n...
'Washington Post' editorials omit a key disclosure: Bezos' financial ties
Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.
www.npr.org
October 28, 2025 at 11:33 AM
3 times in the past 2 weeks, a WashPost editorial "has taken on matters in which Bezos has a financial or corporate interest without noting his stake. In each case, the Post's editorial line landed in sync with its owner's interests"
Via @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social
www.npr.org/2025/10/28/n...
Via @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social
www.npr.org/2025/10/28/n...
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This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.
October 29, 2025 at 9:44 PM
This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.
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October 28, 2025 at 7:49 PM
We've reached "yt folks pretend not to know Auntie is an honorific not necessarily requiring a parental sibling"? Already?
October 29, 2025 at 2:46 AM
We've reached "yt folks pretend not to know Auntie is an honorific not necessarily requiring a parental sibling"? Already?
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"Technologies purchased by ICE in recent weeks include spyware that can hack into smartphones remotely and cellphone location software that can enable the tracking of a phone’s movements without a court warrant..."
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
October 17, 2025 at 6:16 PM
"Technologies purchased by ICE in recent weeks include spyware that can hack into smartphones remotely and cellphone location software that can enable the tracking of a phone’s movements without a court warrant..."
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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Take a picture of yourself at the No Kings rally.
Print it.
Put it in a frame.
Your grandchildren will speak about you for generations to come. You took a stand against fascism. You stood up for democracy. 
Print it.
Put it in a frame.
Your grandchildren will speak about you for generations to come. You took a stand against fascism. You stood up for democracy. 
October 16, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Take a picture of yourself at the No Kings rally.
Print it.
Put it in a frame.
Your grandchildren will speak about you for generations to come. You took a stand against fascism. You stood up for democracy. 
Print it.
Put it in a frame.
Your grandchildren will speak about you for generations to come. You took a stand against fascism. You stood up for democracy. 
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Swear her in. Release the files.
October 15, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Swear her in. Release the files.
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🎶 IIIIIIIIIIIFF they ask you to do violence they're a fed 🎶
🎶 if they ask you to do violence they're a fed 🎶
🎶 if they ask you to do violence they're a fed 🎶
October 12, 2025 at 10:44 PM
🎶 IIIIIIIIIIIFF they ask you to do violence they're a fed 🎶
🎶 if they ask you to do violence they're a fed 🎶
🎶 if they ask you to do violence they're a fed 🎶
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More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site
As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.
www.miamiherald.com
September 23, 2025 at 5:39 PM
More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
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Donald Trump is way less popular than he wants you to believe.
And you are significantly more powerful than he wants you to think.
And you are significantly more powerful than he wants you to think.
September 20, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Donald Trump is way less popular than he wants you to believe.
And you are significantly more powerful than he wants you to think.
And you are significantly more powerful than he wants you to think.
The Seattle Mariners are going to the post-season. LFG!
September 24, 2025 at 4:46 AM
The Seattle Mariners are going to the post-season. LFG!
Whew.
What we're seeing in the "don't sign up for protests" discourse is what Paulo Freire described as the convert's failure to trust the knowledge of the oppressed. As the convert tries to stand in solidarity with the oppressed, they refuse to let go of a world where they were the authority by default.
September 18, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Whew.
They were never pro free speech
They were never pro family
They were never pro life
They were never pro states' rights
They were never pro religious freedom
They were never pro family
They were never pro life
They were never pro states' rights
They were never pro religious freedom
September 18, 2025 at 9:19 PM
They were never pro free speech
They were never pro family
They were never pro life
They were never pro states' rights
They were never pro religious freedom
They were never pro family
They were never pro life
They were never pro states' rights
They were never pro religious freedom
Who is shocked that David Brooks has "friends" who think Floyd and Kirk are equivalent?
Ok PBS just let David Brooks say that his friends texted him “this is our George Floyd”
September 13, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Who is shocked that David Brooks has "friends" who think Floyd and Kirk are equivalent?
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The Nation pulls NO punches, from @espiers.bsky.social
"There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”
"There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”
Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning
The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn’t a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division
www.thenation.com
September 13, 2025 at 2:39 AM
The Nation pulls NO punches, from @espiers.bsky.social
"There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”
"There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”
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Western media has completely ignored this story.
Israel’s Supreme Court just ruled that the Israeli Govt is intentionally depriving thousands of Palestinian prisoners of even a minimum amount of food for daily subsistence.
These are war crimes. This is genocide.
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Israel’s Supreme Court just ruled that the Israeli Govt is intentionally depriving thousands of Palestinian prisoners of even a minimum amount of food for daily subsistence.
These are war crimes. This is genocide.
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September 10, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Western media has completely ignored this story.
Israel’s Supreme Court just ruled that the Israeli Govt is intentionally depriving thousands of Palestinian prisoners of even a minimum amount of food for daily subsistence.
These are war crimes. This is genocide.
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Israel’s Supreme Court just ruled that the Israeli Govt is intentionally depriving thousands of Palestinian prisoners of even a minimum amount of food for daily subsistence.
These are war crimes. This is genocide.
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