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Patrick McCann

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Husband of @eamccann.bsky.social Father of a future lawyer Retired Molecular Biologist/Virologist + MBA 4° black belt in Wa-shin-ryu Karate-do #Geocachers - ShadesOfGray Secular Humanist E Street Belmartian in the FLX https://linktr.ee/pjmccann3

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Patrick McCann @pjmccann3.bsky.social · 2d

A direct quote from Reich Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda Joseph Goebbels … I mean Deputy White House Chief of Staff, Stephen Miller.

Based on zero evidence.

Might as well spend hundreds of millions to protect us from Russell’s teapot.

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 8h

People ask what they can do in this moment: here's a crucially important election. There are 52,000 elections taking place next month, many of which will be determined by turnout.

Alex Burness @burness.bsky.social · 1d

Dispatch from Pennsylvania on a highly unusual state Supreme Court election—one of the few most consequential matters on the ballot anywhere in the country next month. New from me in @boltsmag.org: boltsmag.org/pennsylvania...

Inside the Clunky Elections to Control Pennsylvania's Supreme Court - Bolts

The GOP is making an expensive push to end Democrats’ majority on a court at the center of election lawsuits, sparking a fledging campaign season with little precedent or template.

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Patrick McCann @pjmccann3.bsky.social · 11h

When Fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross

Patrick McCann @pjmccann3.bsky.social · 12h

Businesses need to be highly regulated.

Runaway capitalism destroys democracies.

Patrick McCann @pjmccann3.bsky.social · 12h

Businesses are about making money. Period. People that you have to pay are a cost to businesses. Businesses don’t want to pay costs because it reduces profit.

If you haven’t watched businesses automate people out of jobs and eliminate roles with technology, you aren’t paying attention.

Patrick McCann @pjmccann3.bsky.social · 12h

When will Americans learn and, most importantly, remember the lesson that “business friendly” politicians eventually hurt them?

Harding and Hoover brought us the Great Depression in the last century and Reagan, Bush Jr, Trump are leading us straight into the next.

Pay attention people!

Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 20h

October 7, 2025

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) today floated the idea that workers furloughed during a government shutdown are not guaranteed back pay when the shutdown is resolved.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 14h

JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment.

New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2014...

Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule

He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.

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DemCast USA @demcast.com · 13h

“I think it’s valuable that the American people get a sense of what you’ve refused to answer today.” Senator Adam Schiff went on to list the various questions Bondi refused to answer.

Bondi was hired to be Trump’s shill. She’s doing that job well.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 23h

Congress continues to fail at providing the checks & balances the Constitution intends on the executive branch, but Senate Democrats are working hard to try and get it there. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Oversight

Attorney General Pam Bondi showed up for an oversight hearing in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee today, and she brought her best Scarlett O’Hara demeanor along with her.

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Patrick McCann @pjmccann3.bsky.social · 1d

It really is staggering to see so many Republicans willing to abandon our 249 year experiment in democracy for an increasingly unstable criminally convicted reality show charlatan.

#FixedIt

Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 2d

It really is staggering to see so many people willing to abandon our 249 year experiment in democracy for an increasingly unstable criminally convicted reality show charlatan.

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 2d

Thank you Dr. Houry for calling a spade a spade. RFK Jr. is leading a hostile takeover of the CDC. ~80% of experienced leaders gone, science sidelined. The health of all Americans is on the line. #FireRFKJ #SaveTheCDC
@drdebhoury.bsky.social

Full interview:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

A ‘hostile takeover’: ousted CDC official raises alarm over RFK Jr approach to infectious disease

Debra Houry speaks after testifying on eight months under Kennedy, who critics say shuns science and spreads falsehoods

www.theguardian.com

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The Steady State @steadystatevets.bsky.social · 2d

"Labeling beliefs--as opposed to actions--as suspicious or criminal is antithetical to the First Amendment and betrays American pluralism."

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stardust melody @karenparish.bsky.social · 2d

“…we are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”

Kevin Roberts president, Heritage Foundation, July 2024

A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 2d

In their own words the Republicans declared war against the United States and now they are waging it.

LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 2d

I guess we should have taken "The South will rise again" both literally and seriously.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 2d

This is like planting evidence and then making an arrest.

The image is an X post by Acyn (@Acyn
) from 13 hours ago, quoting Pritzker: "He's saying that Chicago is a war zone. None of that is true. They're just making this up. And then what do they do? They fire tear gas and smoke grenades, and they make it look like it's a war zone." The post includes a screenshot from CNN's "State of the Union" showing two individuals discussing, with a chyron indicating DHS officers fired at a driver who rammed their vehicle, later determined to be someone trying to storm the Presidential Palace, as the South Caucasus Coalition.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

U.S. Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva won her election two weeks ago. Republicans refuse to seat her in Congress.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

71.5% of ICE detainees have no criminal convictions, according to government data.

Don’t fall for Trump’s lies about targeting the “worst of the worst.”

As Trump's regime terrorizes communities to fill up detention centers, remember that some of his biggest donors are private prison corporations.

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Axios @axios.com · 2d

JUST IN: Hundreds of ex-DOJ staffers demand oversight ahead of Pam Bondi hearing, amid widespread questions about the department's decisions to target Trump's political foes such as former FBI director James Comey.

Hundreds of ex-DOJ staffers accuse Pam Bondi of putting Trump over the constitution

The former staffers warn that the Justice Department is failing its mission in an open letter released Monday.

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 2d

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

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Patrick McCann @pjmccann3.bsky.social · 1d

The Republicans are responsible for the shutdown

During the shutdown they are dismantling more of our government & screwing you over even more

During this dismantling they are making us all less safe from our enemies

Start prepping for the Insurrection Act and full militarization of our streets

Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 1d

October 5, 2025

October 6, 2025

If White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller is at the head of the administration’s deployment of federal agents against undocumented immigrants, it appears that Office of Management and Budget...

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