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R. J. MacReady

@macreadything.bsky.social
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Cowboy helicopter pilot, arctic research team member, flamethrower expert, thing killer. Opinions are my own? Arctic Tundra (a.k.a. Minnesota)

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R. J. MacReady @macreadything.bsky.social · 21h
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R. J. MacReady @macreadything.bsky.social · 22h
Wow... how "Presidential".
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R. J. MacReady @macreadything.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
As a Minnesotan, this really boils my blood. Not only that these ICE scumbags murdered Good, but that noone was ever held accountable for it! I know that it can't bring her back, but I hope that her family takes them to the bank. I also hope that Pretti's next of kin are able to do the same.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A third aircraft carrier and a second Marine division has now been sent toward Iran, the WSJ is reporting. Looks like Trump wants to empty those stockpiles completely.
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R. J. MacReady @macreadything.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
But the thing is... even if it was true, what exactly does it prove? I'm not seeing the intended "gotcha" on this. That Smith was in one of the largest cities in the country?
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R. J. MacReady @macreadything.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Don't threaten me with a good time!
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
One of the biggest media failures (among many) of the past year has been the failure to cover the Venezuela "operation" for what it was--a smash-and-grab mafia state theft by the U.S. that violates international law and the rights of Venezuelans while achieving very damn little for the U.S.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
These people make Marie Antoinette look connected to the people and empathetic by comparison. They laugh at what their own voters are going through as they continue to mock them as they enrich themselves and have a great time.
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R. J. MacReady @macreadything.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
As if we needed more examples that demonstrate what we (Minnesotans) already know: that Emmer is a hypocriticial POS.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
How did we ever get along without snipers looming over a cemetery?
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R. J. MacReady @macreadything.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Bill Maher: Equivocator Extraordinare
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This all feels like Last Days of Rome stuff. Trump has totally lost control of everything.
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R. J. MacReady @macreadything.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
If I just stop spending $500 a month at the grocery store, I'm saving $500 a month! That's just math!
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R. J. MacReady @macreadything.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Isn't that "Hoax Buster" image from his New York trial? I guess that makes sense since he seems to be so proud of his Georgia mugshot (he uses it for everything).
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 11/09/2026
You can become a journalist to be a TV star or to join the elites or to write an American canto or you can become a journalist to challenge power and advocate for the powerless.
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R. J. MacReady @macreadything.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I would expect no less from Bruce. I love everything that's he's given us and cannot express how much he's enriched my life for being around.
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R. J. MacReady @macreadything.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
But the real question, Kevin, is if he's a YouTube streamer! 🙄
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R. J. MacReady @macreadything.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Sorry, but if he's the Dem nom in 2028, he's got my vote. I honestly want someone who's actually going to bring the fight.
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R. J. MacReady @macreadything.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
5) The US didn't strike Kharg Island, they did a missle strike on launchers on Larak Island. The old man doesn't even propaganda correctly.
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R. J. MacReady @macreadything.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
My God, he's just an amorphous blob.
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R. J. MacReady @macreadything.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Built over decades, destroyed by Iran in days. This national security disaster is one for the history books…and all on Trump and Hegseth.
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The devastation of NSA Bahrain is a national security warning
Opinion: If NSA Bahrain is not reconstituted to pre-attack capabilities, it will fundamentally change how the U.S. Navy operates, the author of this op-ed writes.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The UN’s International Maritime Organization says around 6,000 seafarers aboard roughly 400 ships are still stranded in the Persian Gulf, unable to safely exit through the Strait of Hormuz. This is Trump’s problem now, right, as America “owns” the Strait?
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The FIFA Peace Prize winner, everyone.
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R. J. MacReady @macreadything.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I'm still trying to figure out what exactly social media "'settlement' with the public" actually is. 🤷
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
And if it was just diplomacy, why have an intelligence chief and no actual diplomats?
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Spoiled child Trump will smash things if he can’t get his own way.
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Trump administration says it might demolish the Kennedy Center if court blocks renovations
The DOJ attorneys called the Kennedy Center “structurally unsound, fundamentally unsafe, and embarrassing to the Nation’s Capital.”
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
standard. SCOTUS allows Trump to continue to create literal facts on the ground while they 'consider' his his meritless challenge. nothing is more important than reforming the court and ending its corruption.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
My sympathy is reserved for the victims of harm not the facilitators of harm.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
shorter trump: we're reducing tariffs to reduce the price you pay for ordinary stuff 🤔
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R. J. MacReady @macreadything.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Bradley: Did the ancient Greeks wear Nike shoes? Bailey: Were you there? Bradley: No. Bailey: Neither was I, so who really knows?
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R. J. MacReady @macreadything.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Ossof's 3 words were a stroke of brilliance. I couldn't have imagined the kind of MAGA freak-out reaction and public scrutiny of Harp that's been happening for the last 4 days. I can only hope it keeps up for the next month or two.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
What folks miss is MAGA doesn't care if people think Trump cheated for the 1900th time. What worries is the image of an 80 yr old man wildly dependent on a clincially fangirlish 30-something who he appears to use as a kind of human emotional support blanket as his faculties & political power fade.
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R. J. MacReady @macreadything.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Not to mention Trump trying to renege on an over 70 year-old defense treaty. One that has a great implication of the balance of power across East Asia.
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R. J. MacReady @macreadything.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Beautiful. Of course as a Minnesotan, the first thing I think of when I saw this was "I wonder what you can catch in that?". 😉
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R. J. MacReady @macreadything.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
It's pretty awesome that we have a President that actively / enthusiastically wants our country to join the Axis of Evil.
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R. J. MacReady @macreadything.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
As I mentioned below to someone else, this is the thing that really pisses me off. I know that the bulk of this spam is the result of me donating to a candidate I liked. And now it's turned into me blocking people that I might otherwise would want to support. 😠
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R. J. MacReady @macreadything.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
As someone who'll receive a dozen or more a week, I don't reply because that just tells them that they've reached someone. I just use the "report spam and block" feature on my phone and move on. Really pisses me off because most of this came about by donating to a candidate I liked.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Senior IRGC official General Mohammad Reza Naqdi: “Victory is not enough. Iran wants revenge for Khamenei, and the Basij has been ordered to expand operations abroad.”
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R. J. MacReady @macreadything.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
The only embarassing thing here is that Michele got the nod to try to represent Minnesota. She's the very definition of a sandbagger.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The Iranian Revolutionary Guards have a public exhibition displaying downed aircraft from the war, including a US F-15E and several MQ-9 Reapers, as if the humiliation wasn’t enough already.
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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
"Elon didn't kill anyone, he just cut foreign aid" shut up shut the fuck up, Hitler didn't personally execute 6 million Jews either, if you knowing enact a policy that results in mass death, you are responsible for the mass death.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
RESULT in #MN02: The Democratic primary to replace Rep. Angie Craig (who is running for Senate) was won by a progressive candidate to her left: state Senator Matt Little easily prevailed in a three-way race that drew a lot of spending.
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
🚨🚨Trump loses again. His endorsed candidate - Mike Lindell the pillow clown conspiracy theorist - goes down to State House Speaker Demuth who will get her ass most likely kicked by Klobuchar this Nov. Trump who reportedly recently cut & by ran in a catering truck doesn’t appear to have the juice.
Screenshot of post from “Political Polls”

“Minnesota House Speaker Lisa Demuth defeats Trump endorsed Mike Lindell in the Republican primary for governor and will face Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar in November.”
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R. J. MacReady @macreadything.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I first heard the phrase "doing the dozens" on a George Carlin album. Wherein he proceed to give extremely funny examples.
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Rep. Kelly Morrison @kellymorrisonmn.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Doctor here 👋 There's no new evidence that supports this. He's just making up policies that would cost families more and make kids less safe. It's expensive and it's dangerous.
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dudiedimples2.bsky.social @dudiedimples2.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
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R. J. MacReady @macreadything.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
This is the same semi-yearly crap the GOP has been trying to push for, at least, the last 30 years. Jonah Goldberg's "Liberal Fascism" tried to make the argument that Nazis were actually leftists because they had "socialist" in their name. By that same "logic" North Korea is a democracy. 🙃
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Matt McNeil Show @mattmcneilshow.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Of course! www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
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Minnesota State Fair named nation's best by USA TODAY
USA TODAY has confirmed what Minnesotans already know well: our state fair is the best in the nation.
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R. J. MacReady @macreadything.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Was just going to post the same. I want to donate to my candidates, but hate when I start receiving all the spam texts and calls.
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