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D. Neil McKay, Esq.

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Turkish Minute @turkishminute.com · 24/07/2026
More than 700 members, officials and elected representatives have announced their resignations from Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party since ousted leader Özgür Özel said that he would form a breakaway party. www.turkishminute.com/2026/07/23/m...
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
As this war stumbles to a close, it is clear that the president is lost: He didn’t know what he was doing when he began it, and now he doesn’t know how to get out of it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Trump’s War Is Staggering to an Incoherent Defeat
Even the president’s supporters are alarmed.
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Barbara Kaskosz @kaskosz.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Tom Nichols about the dangers of our current situation: “If I were a foreign opponent, I’d be looking into this and saying: this is singularly the most incompetent American regime we’ve ever faced and they’re burning through their stocks.” @radiofreetom.bsky.social
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Turkish Minute @turkishminute.com · 12/04/2026
207 minors convicted in Turkey in 2025 for insulting Erdoğan, government www.turkishminute.com/2026/04/10/2...
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207 minors convicted in Turkey in 2025 for insulting Erdoğan, government - Turkish Minute
Two hundred seven minors were convicted in Turkey in 2025 on charges of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan or the government under laws critics say are used to restrict freedom of expression,...
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
In other news, no, the United States cannot blockade the Strait of Hormuz, for so many reasons
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Remember all the times I said never to celebrate the death of another human being, because it just makes you look like a terrible, shitty person? Don't be this guy.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Honestly, I always hated the Powell "doctrine," because it was just wishcasting. Basically, it comes down to: Always fight against a weaker enemy with overwhelming force in a place where you have an advantage and all the goals are clearly marked. That's not usually possible.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
I'm pretty sure there's not
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D. Neil McKay, Esq. @dneilmckay.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
The bad taste of a megalomaniac is endless.
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Turkish Minute @turkishminute.com · 24/01/2026
European rights court rules Turkey violated prisoners’ rights by restricting visits and phone calls www.turkishminute.com/2026/01/22/e...
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European rights court rules Turkey violated prisoners’ rights by restricting visits and phone calls - Turkish Minute
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on Tuesday ruled that #Turkey violated prisoners’ right to respect for their private and family life by restricting weekend visits and telephone calls.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
On the execution in Minnesota: Obviously, the individuals involved should be held accountable. But responsibility goes to the top of ICE and CBP, and DHS. Their appropriations come up next week in the senate. Not a cent for DHS without pulling ICE and CBP off the streets, in MN and everywhere else.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 24/01/2026
This is the grim, depressing reality Donald Trump has made of American life. Instead of waking up on a Saturday, relaxing and spending time with your loved ones, you now have to watch American towns being ravaged and their citizens being murdered by violent secret police. All because of one man.
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I am watching what is happening in Minneapolis on Ali Velshi and one of the ICE officers (off camera) literally says, “It’s like Call of Duty. Pretty cool huh?” as they shoot whatever it is they are shooting. Agents walking around, guns unholstered for no reason. This is insanity
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 24/01/2026
I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening. The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
More like your basic 1950s era Latin American caudillo
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Melissa Jo Peltier @melissjpeltier.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
This is genius. There are a lot of hidden geniuses in these there corners of America.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
The Rock Hall of Fame is, uh, bollocks, as I wrote here www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Should Not Exist
A bad idea gets worse every year.
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James B. Kane @jamesbkane.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
My boss for 12 years. The most brilliant pol in NYS history. He wrote more books than other Senators read. “Independent to the bone” - was his favorite quote attributed to him in his last term by a Rochester Institute of Technology president and he was - better to read his bio for the full story.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Democrats: Read this. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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To Understand Today’s Left, Remember Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Can the late senator show his party how to win again?
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Judge Luttig @judgeluttig.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Please read this piece by the National Review’s Jim Geraghty, if you never read anything else. www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-...
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Trump’s Appalling Reiner Reaction Is a Sign of Something Deeply Wrong | National Review
Yes, we must talk about what President Trump posted on Truth Social about the brutal murders of the Reiners.
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Judge Luttig @judgeluttig.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
The New York Times' David French on Character, Courage, Righteousness, Truth & Kindness open.substack.com/pub/judgelut...
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David French on Character, Courage, Righteousness, Truth, and Kindness
"There must be light to answer the darkness, or the darkness will devour us all."
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
The Signalgate report showed that Hegseth risked American lives. Instead of taking responsibility, his sniveling responses were the worst kind of bureaucratic ass-covering. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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Pete Hegseth’s Weak Excuses
His evasive responses to Signalgate are shameful nonsense.
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D. Neil McKay, Esq. @dneilmckay.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
The crusade of the #MAGA #MAHA Know Nothings rampages on.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
I have an announcement. I have, like a real man, recaulked and resealed my shower. I will never, ever do this again, and the next time I will pay a plumber or handyman, even if it has to be in gold bullion, to do it.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
This entire administration is a national security risk
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
President Donald Trump was greeted by an enthusiastic crowd at the Commanders ga— … oh, wait wrong clip
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Turkish Minute @turkishminute.com · 06/11/2025
[OPINION] Erasing the archives: How authoritarian regimes wage war on memory www.turkishminute.com/2025/11/06/o...
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[OPINION] Erasing the archives: How authoritarian regimes wage war on memory - Turkish Minute
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”That line appeared as a party slogan in George Orwell’s novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four." It warned of a world...
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D. Neil McKay, Esq. @dneilmckay.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Rank antisemitism.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
The Santos commutation is a prelude to a Ghislaine Maxwell pardon. Mark my words.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
The war zone in Portland is out of control.
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D. Neil McKay, Esq. @dneilmckay.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Of course they do.
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D. Neil McKay, Esq. @dneilmckay.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Bloody ignoramus...and Russian asset.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 10/10/2025
I moderated this conversation with Machado and David Smolansky, the elected mayor of El Hatillo who was forced into exile, last December @snfagora.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUw1...
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Venezuela's Epic Movement Towards Democracy
YouTube video by Johns Hopkins University
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 10/10/2025
Congratulations to Maria Corina Machado, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize - her incredible optimism has already changed her country. I spoke to her, and wrote about her, at the beginning of this year: www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
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The ‘Anthropological Change’ Happening in Venezuela
Maduro is still in place, but a pro-democracy movement is transforming the beleaguered country.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 10/10/2025
“I went around the country saying, ‘I have nothing to offer but work. I have nothing to offer you but [the possibility] that we’re going to get together, and we’re going to put this country back on our feet. So we’re going to do this right.’ And people cried and prayed.” - Machado
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 10/10/2025
Nobel Peace Prizes have often been awarded to people who fight autocracy. Maria Corina Machado fits right into that tradition www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Why María Machado Deserved the Nobel Peace Prize
The Venezuelan opposition leader shows why participation matters.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 13/10/2025
Who was president in 2020? There appears to be a concerted effort to get you to forget www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/p...
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‘Who was president in 2020?’ Trump and GOP want you to think it was Biden | CNN Politics
If you asked people what the worst one-year period in recent American history was, it’s a good bet that many would choose roughly between January 2020 and January 2021.
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D. Neil McKay, Esq. @dneilmckay.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
A ceasefire is not a peace deal, nor is peace the absence of war.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Think the website says “Made in the USA”? Think again.
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Geoffrey P Johnston😎🇨🇦🇺🇦 @geoffypjohnston.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-... “COVID vaccines reduced people’s risk of emergency department visits by 29 percent, their risk of hospitalizations by 39 percent and their risk of death by 64 percent.”
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Annual COVID Vaccines Save Lives, New Study Shows
A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination
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Turkish Minute @turkishminute.com · 30/09/2025
Questions vetted in advance for Erdoğan on plane spark accusations of a stage-managed press in Turkey www.turkishminute.com/2025/09/29/q...
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Questions vetted in advance for Erdoğan on plane spark accusations of a stage-managed press in Turkey - Turkish Minute
Allegations that officials vetted questions posed to Erdoğan during a return flight from Washington have fueled accusations of a stage-managed press, with critics saying that even the pro-government...
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Many people and institutions that fight back are winning. This is a large part of the reason to scorn the people and institutions that have caved. When this is over their lives should be made miserable. More, I mean.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
If only we could figure out why this is happening
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John Ma 🇺🇦 @nakhthor.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Trumpism is fascist, sure. But we're not yet under fascism. I think that's a fair summation. Let's make sure it doesn't get worse.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Just FYI: Portland as a war zone is horseshit, and deploying federal troops is horseshit.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
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BigBlueWaveUSA2026® ….. 🇺🇸🌊🇺🇦🦋🏳️‍🌈 @bigbluewaveusa.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Megyn Kelly, who recently took over the title of Most Racist Podcaster in America has just decided she doesn’t care if anyone in Trump’s criminal MAGA World, like Tom Homan, commits felonies. And let’s #ReleaseAllTheEpsteinFiles including #PedoPresidentTrump.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
I’m worried it can still get stupider
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