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John J McKay

@mammothjohn.bsky.social
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Alaskan. Duke Ellington fan. I wrote a book about mammoths. Now I'm obsessing over permafrost. Babies find me fascinating.

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Nae King! Nae Quin! Nae Laird! Nae Master! @bloodyhades.bsky.social · 05/09/2024
Activated charcoal is also often made by burning coconut husks. So if you have a coconut allergy, they can be deadly! My partner is allergic to coconut, so we have to check ALL the things this time of year.
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John J McKay @mammothjohn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It’s highly racist of them not to consider tortillas
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
run this as an ad right now
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hard to imagine what that would be like
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/09/2026
Trump: Sleepy Joe Biden, have you heard of him? *a few moments later* Trump: 😴😴😴
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BeshearStan @beshearstan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
God I love Angie Nixon. I hope she wins
Now @AshleyMoodyFL. Why would I want to abolish the police when I want you arrested and in jail for stealing $10 million from sick kids? BFFR
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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There's something special about a man falling asleep on live television three minutes after calling his predecessor "Sleepy Joe."
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Please don't give the DA reopening the Cornell case any cookies. District Attorney Matthew Van Houten all but called Jane Doe a liar today. He said that in Doe's initial statement, she described "her participation in drug use and sexual conduct as voluntary, conscious, and consensual.” CONSENSUAL
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
People aren’t faking their disabilities, they’re faking being well. We know society hates us. We know we will be judged for using assistive devices. Many of us take years to get the courage to lean in to accommodations. Stop judging. Help us build a more inclusive world.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 27/09/2026
Their punishment was to write essays.
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Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If you adopted a feral cat to the inside and he keeps meowing maybe he just really wants to smoke real cigarettes. You don’t know what he was up to before
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The latest minute-long ad features Trump speaking against the backdrop of Mount Rushmore and ends with him declaring: “This is only the beginning of the golden age of America.” And at the end? “Paid for by the U.S. Government.”
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
2026 was the hottest summer on record since records began in 1895. Shockingly, Republicans are trying to stop ALL federal heat safety protection regs-NOW OR IN THE FUTURE. HR6213 prohibits OSHA from creating or enforcing ANY national heat safety standard. Let's stop this! 1/
Graphic reading “Not having shade, water, breaks is not just dangerous it is inhumane,” with a  hand holding strawberries chained to gray links with the link breaking up top; the stark design conveys urgency
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Rep. Gregory Meeks @meeks.house.gov · 24/09/2026
The alarm bells have been going off. The fact that the court had to step in and force Trump to abide by the First Amendment should concern us all.
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Can we at least agree that A.I. has now exceeded the lower bound of human intelligence
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chemborg @chemborg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Can’t ’go rogue’ as it’s a machine. It did either 1) what the coder intended or 2) did what the bad code allowed.
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Try to live the kind of life that will make war criminals hate you.
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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“Are you AI enhanced or did you just suffer a concussion?” is going to be a question doctors ask in the future
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John J McKay @mammothjohn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Only 91 shopping days left until Christmas.
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Wife sets up a camera so her husband won’t sneak food… But his response is way too genius. Original post
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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
There's a voice telling me that this year's election could be an absolutely historic blowout, like almost every Republican running in a district or state Trump won by 15 points or less winds up losing, and I keep saying to the voice "Hush, that's hope not reason" but the voice gets louder by the day
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 23/09/2026
BREAKING: Harvey Weinstein has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for a 2006 sex crime in New York after his original conviction was overturned.
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Harvey Weinstein is sentenced to 15 years in prison for 2006 sex crime in New York
Harvey Weinstein has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for sexually assaulting a woman in New York in 2006.
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A bit on the nose to take money intended to save the lives of thousands of poor children and instead give to protect the life of one extremely wealthy and powerful old guy.
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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026
“The Department of Health and Human Services informed congressional appropriators earlier this year that it was moving about $12 million from its Office of Minority Health to help cover the ballooning cost of security for Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.” www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Exclusive | RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health Office
The cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, the man ICE shot on Sunday, was sent to a detention center *with a bullet still in his back.* He was reportedly given no pain medication and only sent to a hospital after losing feeling in the left side of his body. ICE’s cruelty knows no bounds.
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Venezuelan man shot by ICE in Texas says he’s in pain and still has bullet in his back
Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez spoke from detention as lawmakers and advocates said he’s the victim of an ICE shooting and i
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Micah @rincewind.run · 22/09/2026
“to the victor go the spoils” is basically the whole thing the UN was designed to prevent
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"We're uprooting fraud by getting rid of these freeloaders who keep paying into the system without taking anything back out" Genius.
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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
If everyone on here could stop being so much younger than me, that'd be really nice. Mentioning events that happened when I was in grad school and casually saying you were in elementary school is absolutely unnecessary. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Civil engineers say it would be catastrophic to put a military target in the middle of an urban traffic circle. An AI video shared by Natalie Harp shows it would be super badass. For busy presidents planning triumphal arches, it can be hard to know who to trust.
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Shoshanah in Alaska @shanahstone.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Alaska Governor Moves from Lean Republican to Toss Up #akelect
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The way to look at this is George bush is trying to help Donald trump retain power on the Hill
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SANTA CLAUS @santaclausalaska.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A flashback to (blind) Helen Keller’s time; still resonates: "You sit in your velvet parlors weeping over sad novels, absolutely blind to the fact that the beautiful dress you are wearing was woven by a freezing, exhausted child locked in a factory." ~ Helen Keller
A black and white photo of (blind) Helen Keller, accompanied by these quotes:

"You sit in your velvet parlors weeping over sad novels, absolutely blind to the fact that the beautiful dress you are wearing was woven by a freezing, exhausted child locked in a factory."

“The ruling class possesses the physical gift of sight, but they have deliberately clawed out their own eyes so they never have to look at the blood dripping from their bank accounts.”
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John J McKay @mammothjohn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I’m more and more convinced that we will find mass graves when this is over.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
When you say Twitter is still working for you, you're announcing that you've managed to plug your ears to all the horrors going on there and are just living in denial to what's going on around you, sort of your own personal ZONE OF INTEREST experience.
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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.
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Mathew @realmatrobnew.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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JOE @joetheyogi.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Especially when it’s in the middle of a roundabout and can be a simple Oklahoma City bombing drive by.
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Madame DeFarge @madamedefargeknits.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Let’s have a huge ammunition depot right on the highway!
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
What Trump has realized is that to really defend Washington from terrorists and antifa and other bad guys you need to concentrate the drones and machine gunners in one highly visible building that can be attacked line of sight from any direction or just blown up.
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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Incredibly disappointing ad from Mary Peltola (D-AK) saying she neither supports "kids getting surgeries to change genders or men in girls bathrooms." Yes, flipping the Senate is essential and can stop bad laws and bad judges from happening, but she can do it without my support from the lower 48.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever
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John J McKay @mammothjohn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Is he talking about his career?
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Mark Carney: “I would now like to inform you that the teleprompter has ceased to function. Unlike a certain world leader, I do not view this as a conspiracy.”
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Dave in AK @bikewritedave.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
#Fairbanks: In case any of you are getting suckered in by Pearl Creek revenge candidate for school board Robert Herrick, at last night’s forum at UAF he didn’t even know what preschool is. I’m not making this up. Vote for Bobby Burgess.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
His dad definitely paid someone to take his SATs.
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MAGA Report Cards @magareportcards.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Pete Ricketts in the news: Pete Ricketts Made an Estimated $8.6 Million Last Month Without Doing Anything. Then He Voted to Cut Your Health Care. www.magareportcards.com/blog/rickett...
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Pete Ricketts Made an Estimated $8.6 Million Last Month Without Doing Anything. Then He Voted to Cut Your Health Care.
A stock-tracking firm estimates Nebraska's billionaire senator gained $8.6 million in the market in a single month. He's the 7th wealthiest member of Congress — and he voted to let health care tax cre...
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 17/09/2026
America has an affordability crisis, an AI crisis, and an ongoing war with Iran. Mike Johnson's solution? Send lawmakers home.
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Susie Time @susietime777.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
NSF has reduced the research budget for all atmospheric, ocean, and earth sciences by ~80%. 80%! A lot of us will not be conducting new research or training new students for the foreseeable future.
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