McDaragh @mcdaragh.bsky.social · 2hThere will have to be an entire government agency dedicated to destroying what's left of RFK's reputation when this is all over, as well as helping everyone impacted by his quackery to sue him into the dirt. 000
McDaragh @mcdaragh.bsky.social · 2hWe've officially found out how unpopular Republicans can be and still win elections 000
Reposted by McDaraghholdmybooks @holdmybooks.bsky.social · 6hAnd this refusal to admit that they were so painfully wrong about this just might kill us all. 1144
McDaragh @mcdaragh.bsky.social · 8hAgain - part of the scandal here should be @axios.com cheerfully printing nonsense propaganda for ambitious fascist senators. 010
McDaragh @mcdaragh.bsky.social · 19hI'd love to believe that but I think it's much more likely Republicans just decide that no, Jack Smith perjured himself. 010
McDaragh @mcdaragh.bsky.social · 21hA reminder that this type of coverage of blatantly criminal activity by @axios.com is why a clownish buffoon like Trump has brought the country to the edge of fascism - www.axios.com/2026/09/29/t...axios.comScoop: Trump's hand-picked, taxpayer-funded ads about to ramp upPresident Trump is personally selecting which government-funded ads his administration is airing. 000
McDaragh @mcdaragh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026"We aren't even remotely journalists and we won't insult your intelligence by pretending.' 000
McDaragh @mcdaragh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Fun fact - the same hi tech polymers used to assemble a Space X rocket are used to hold together Elon Musk's girdle. 020
McDaragh @mcdaragh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026No it doesn't. It's illegal. That's the long and short of it. 130
McDaragh @mcdaragh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Prosecute literally everyone involved with this, on even the most drearily technical level. The guy who released the funds, the guy who processed the booking - put them in jail. 000
McDaragh @mcdaragh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The proper response to this by legitimate social scientists is to blackball anyone who applies for the prize and publicly discredit their research however possible. Make them pariahs. 010
McDaragh @mcdaragh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Shipman is both a bloated overpaid stenographer and a terrible human. 020
McDaragh @mcdaragh.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Finance capitalism promises the efficient distribution of investment capital and always seems to produce everyone chasing the same dollar. 010
McDaragh @mcdaragh.bsky.social · 26/09/2026static.klipy.comMad Max Immortal JoeALT: Mad Max Immortal Joe 031
McDaragh @mcdaragh.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I'm sure Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss Will be all over this. 130
Reposted by McDaraghLuke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all 7359701996
Reposted by McDaraghRuth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This is a poor take that suggests Owen Jones doesn't know much about Russia in the 1990s, including Russia-US or wider Russia-West relations in the 1990s. By giving only one part of the story, he is repeating the Russian political elite's self-serving line that it was all the West's fault. Long 🧵 41657246
McDaragh @mcdaragh.bsky.social · 25/09/2026For once I'd like a commentator to say "the level of popular upset bears absolutely no relation to the reality of the situation and is cynically exacerbated by opportunistic politicians and editors. The people going out in the streets on this are unemployable racist scum and can get fucked." 3709
McDaragh @mcdaragh.bsky.social · 25/09/2026A reminder that Biden pulled off an incredibly complex, multi country prisoner swap with Russia in a bravura feat of diplomacy after the debate with Trump when everyone said he was senile. @jaketapper.bsky.social and his ilk should be ashamed but of course they aren't capable of it. 020
McDaragh @mcdaragh.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I've been a Russianist my entire professional life. This is absolute bollocks from an opportunistic chancer. 051
McDaragh @mcdaragh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Latest photos of Igor Sechin in the FT today look like he's had some sort of horrifically botched chemical peel. 000
McDaragh @mcdaragh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Well that's it - I've finally won BlueSky and have no more worlds to conquer. 050
McDaragh @mcdaragh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026We are rapidly approaching the "Toyota Hilux with a Dushka welded to the truck bed" stage of aerial combat. 021
Reposted by McDaraghMatt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 23/09/2026CDU’s Mario Czaja says Merz’s first mistake was…loosening the debt brake. Still crippled by German debt superstition. It’s like watching a farmer try to cope with climate change when he really deeply believes that the weather is God’s judgment on sexual morality www.zeit.de/politik/deut...zeit.deKritik am Bundeskanzler: Brinkhaus soll in Unionsfraktionssitzung mit Merz abgerechnet habenDer ehemalige Unionsfraktionschef hat dem Kanzler laut einem Bericht schwere Vorwürfe gemacht. »Wir alle müssen uns verändern und in erster Linie du«, sagte Brinkhaus. 2202
Reposted by McDaraghDavid Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 22/09/2026So confused. How was Pro Publica able to uncover and report this bribery scandal and administration cover-up without being at the White House and having the president assuring them they are stupid piggies? hhttps://www.propublica.org/article/fbi-susan-collins-navatek-campaign-donations-investigationpropublica.orgThe FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the WayAfter the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini... 17764196
McDaragh @mcdaragh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Good god what an interminable braying jackass this man is. 000
Reposted by McDaraghStarfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Okay, so I have a plan to get everyone on our side. First, we be absolutely as viscerally unpleasant as possible. Next, we downplay any time we get what we want, say it's the bare minimum and so forth. Finally, if anyone gives up and says we win or apologizes, we belittle them. 471830300
Reposted by McDaraghJessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Started watching Sky’s War Game last night where Michael Gove is the PM during the Russian attack and I’m afraid it is just very difficult to watch it without thinking of this, one of the great cartoons ever published 541631391
Reposted by McDaraghBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026you can learn a lot about America by remembering that this man lived through the coronavirus 141847295
McDaragh @mcdaragh.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Spouse promised toddlers they could watch Toy Story 3 before heading them out, so more I'm trying to talk a four year old through an existential crisis. 120
McDaragh @mcdaragh.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Making the "discussing issues and politics around transgender policy" mistake today. 200
McDaragh @mcdaragh.bsky.social · 19/09/2026To be fair "pretend not to speak English" is a common response from human women when Piers Morgan talks at them. 522226
Reposted by McDaraghClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026every day of my life I think about the people using “she” to describe this computer program who still need to be convinced to use it for trans women 6138723683
McDaragh @mcdaragh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026You have to be exceptionally thin skinned to think Politico are anything other than toe sucks to power. 000
McDaragh @mcdaragh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I like reading Joe Klein's Substack because it's always hugely entertaining to read the inner monologue of the quintessential vapid American pundit. To wit 010
McDaragh @mcdaragh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026John McGuirk crashing out and just making up his own fantasy version of the Ed Sheeran controversy is classic stuff. The kind of total inability to understand public opinion that has made him so entertainingly incompetent at every job he has ever done. 010
Reposted by McDaraghNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The US already got a do over. A mulligan. A second chance. Much of the world, especially US allies, were ready to write off Trump’s first term as a fluke. The American people’s choice to put him back in power—as a convicted felon, after an openly bigoted, anti-democracy campaign—showed it was not. 12247251141
Reposted by McDaraghJonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 17/09/2026It’s like he asked ChatGPT “draft a message perfectly tailored to bring out the guillotines” 917621
Reposted by McDaraghLouis @louisevans.bsky.social · 17/09/2026HALLUCINATED COMMUNITIES, by benedict ainderson 38722
Reposted by McDaraghSteve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 17/09/2026As vile and as telling an image in the clip as Trump mocking a reporter with disabilities. These people are telling us who they are. We should not make the same mistake the US made. 27643235
Reposted by McDaraghDr. Bourbonstein Ph. D @drbourbonstein.bsky.social · 17/09/2026The "how much do you like dogs" chart we all needed. 221091363
McDaragh @mcdaragh.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Counterpoint - McConnell is a soulless ghoul who bears a large share of responsibility for America's ongoing descent into fascism. Suffering the indignity of having his empty husk shuffled onto the floor of the senate is the very least punishment he could hope for. 010
McDaragh @mcdaragh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Again - the president of the United States announcing a diplomatic breakthrough in a major ongoing war that has not, in fact, happened probably to to try and manipulate energy markets, is the kind of thing that should be a huge deal. That all of his people will lie about it if asked as a big a deal! 1189
