Michael Patrick MacDonald
mickpaddymack.bsky.social
Michael Patrick MacDonald
@mickpaddymack.bsky.social
Author and Educator
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NEW: sources in MA tell us hours after banning Harvard from having intl students Trump Admin is already stopping them at Logan Airport in Boston.

If you have further info, pls DM, we need all of us to keep students safe 🙏🙏
May 22, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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An innocent man who committed no crime but is the same race as the person who murdered your daughter should have to spend the rest of his life in a concentration camp is the argument?
April 18, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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The president of El Salvador doesn’t want our judiciary cutting off his newfound supply of slaves.
March 19, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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I mean.
March 17, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Awww. 😢
In Seattle several Cybertrucks spontaneously combusted. #TeslaTakedown
March 12, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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not by any stretch the first person to say this but: it is darkly funny how nakedly imperialist Trump turned out to be given the lengths to which some professional opinion havers went to take his "isolationism" intellectually seriously
March 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Pitch perfect response from Georgetown Law reminding Ed Martin that it’s wildly inappropriate on both religious liberty and free speech grounds for him to attempt to use the power of his (interim) office to dictate what curriculum is “unacceptable” at the university.
With his permission, I'm sharing Dean Treanor's response to Ed Martin's letter:
March 6, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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gotta wonder how many other national, subnational, and supranational entities will follow suit. imagine the conversations happening in the EU bureaucracy right now

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Ontario rips up Starlink deal, plans to tax electricity in response to Trump trade war | CBC News
Ontario will rip up its $100-million deal with Elon Musk's Starlink internet provider and U.S. companies will be banned from procurement contracts as part of the province's response to President Donal...
www.cbc.ca
March 4, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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A grassroots movement is calling on all Americans to abstain from shopping with major retailers tomorrow, February 28, as part of an “economic blackout.”

I encourage you to join. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/boycott
February 28, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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February 13, 2025 at 8:27 AM
6/20
A book constantly
referenced to me after I wrote All Souls. Been assigning it since.

Choose 20 Books that stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations. No reviews. Just covers. #Booksky #20BookChallenge
February 1, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Rest in Peace MF. Amazing how effortlessly she synchronized with the punk era. When I heard her older cailleach voice I knew it like I knew family.

youtu.be/_lMtRsw63Ag?...
Marianne Faithfull "Working Class Hero" (Live 1989)
YouTube video by Rock Record Report
youtu.be
January 30, 2025 at 11:20 PM
5/20 On the Transformative Justice front, and a reimagining of the F word—Forgiveness.

Choose 20 Books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations. No reviews. Just covers. #Booksky #20BookChallenge
January 30, 2025 at 11:08 PM
4/20

Choose 20 Books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations. No reviews. Just covers. #Booksky #BookChallenge #20BookChallenge
January 29, 2025 at 9:30 PM
3/20

Choose 20 Books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations. No reviews. Just covers. 1/20 #Booksky #BookChallenge #20BookChallenge
January 28, 2025 at 7:51 PM
2/20 Not for the horror. I avoid fictional gore—too much in real life. But for the voice of a child’s brain.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge
January 27, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Even better: circular firing squad of insufferable narcissists. Only problem is if they take the rest of us down with them. We have to prepare for the rebuilding of a good society.
January 27, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Definitely gotta put a pin in this one.
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!

1/20

#booksky
#bookchallenge
#20bookchallenge
January 27, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Yup. This will be in my #20BooksIveAssigned list.
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
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#BookSky
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#BookChallenge
January 27, 2025 at 4:52 AM
I need to repost this one. Even though it’ll be on my own list one of these 20 days. #booksky #BookChallenge #20BookChallenge #Bulgakov
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 1/20

#BookChallenge
#booksky
#20bookchallenge
January 27, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Choose 20 Books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations. No reviews. Just covers. 1/20 #Booksky #BookChallenge #20BookChallenge
January 27, 2025 at 4:43 AM