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@mcglu.bsky.social
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Bluesky Lurker, News Junkie, Husband, Father, Proper Human. American. One of the useful ones.

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Alfa Romeo Owners Club UK @aroc-uk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Southern Alfa Day is THIS SUNDAY! ❤️🇮🇹 Tickets here --> aroc-uk.com/events/south... Here's some images from our previous visit to Stonor Park in 2020 #AlfaRomeo #AROC #SouthernAlfaDay #StonorPark ❤️🇮🇹
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 24/09/2026
In the past week Trump has banned free press, launched state-run media, attacked the international criminal court, and literally rolled out the red carpet for a communist. Trump is the communist.
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Eva Holland @evaholland.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
"Britannica’s lawsuit said that OpenAI unlawfully copied nearly 100,000 of its articles... The complaint said that ChatGPT produces “near-verbatim” copies of Britannica’s encyclopedia entries, dictionary definitions and other content, diverting users who would otherwise visit its websites."
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Encyclopedia Britannica sues OpenAI over alleged AI training
Case is one of many high-stakes lawsuits filed by copyright owners against tech giants
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mcglu.bsky.social @mcglu.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This is genius. 💯
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mcglu.bsky.social @mcglu.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
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Ben Ross @benross.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I will never get used to a president talking about his own country’s biggest cities this way
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
The president took on a vanity project, gave no-bid contracts to contractors who screwed it up, made up a story about vandals to cover it up, and then fomented a felony prosecution against an innocent scapegoat. You could impeach for anything he's done but "This asshole is out of control" is a layup
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
The President of the United States is selling six figure subscriptions to Truth Social that will give users advanced access to his posts so they can profit off insider knowledge. There are so many necessary reforms but aggressive anti-corruption is essential. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Trump offering early access to online posts in move seen as corruption
Truth Social, where Trump’s account is by far the largest, to offer users early access for up to $100,000 per month
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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
I'd also just note that Trump always does shit like this when he has a week where it's shown he has literally 0 juice. Can't get the senate to listen on the save act, can't get his AG nominated.
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 01/08/2026
given that Democrats have outright stated they are not focusing on fighting corruption but instead on "affordability issues" it's not entirely an unexpected result
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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Remarkable camera angle of President Trump as he listens to Wall Street Journal reporters receiving an award for their investigation into Trump’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein — which they pursued despite Trump’s threats and lawsuit.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/07/2026
DOOCY: There's a parasite that is giving people in the US explosive diarrhea. When is it gonna be safe to eat lettuce again. TRUMP: I don't know. I haven't thought about it. Are you eating a lot of lettuce Peter?
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Trump has turned the White House into a 24/7 corruption operation. This is a national crisis. Trump thinks the public will stop paying attention. So I went to the Senate floor to call his bluff. I told the ENTIRE STORY of his 500 days of corruption. 1/ Here it is - in one🧵
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
He’s threatening to sue the media over pool coverage. What an unbelievable, petulant manchild. Everyone knew he was going to fuck up the reflecting pool. He fucked up the reflecting pool, and now he’s invented vandals (despite the fact that the pool is under 24/7 video surveillance) to blame.
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mcglu.bsky.social @mcglu.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Look, here’s the deal, he took an interest in those kids in the 80s and 90s…
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mcglu.bsky.social @mcglu.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
And WTF is he was talking about? I can’t tell if he’s saying things he shouldn’t or if he’s just imagining it.
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mcglu.bsky.social @mcglu.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
How long is it going to take for this country to see through his complete bullshit? He’s literally playing, “If you say it’s going to rain enough times…” with our country and with geopolitics.
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proffrisch.bsky.social @proffrisch.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
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Super Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Trumpian Victory: (n) when you fuck up irrevocably and declare victory
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
This is real. This is what we did to the world. This is what Republicans in Congress and millions of Americans support. We need to be stopped.
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Bolt451. He's Our Bastard ❤️ @bolt451.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
This quote from Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell has been in my head the last few days
You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch
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mcglu.bsky.social @mcglu.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Well, that helped.
Chart showing the Dow dropping after Trump’s speech.Chart showing the price of oil going up after Trump’s speech.
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Ray Douglas @raydouglas.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
🇺🇸 Traders placed $580mn oil bet ahead of Donald Trump’s social media post on Iran talks “My gut from watching markets for the last 25 years is this is really abnormal,” said a portfolio manager FT www.ft.com/content/1171...
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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
so if i have this correctly: we've substantially increased the value of Iran's primary export we've made it legal to buy that export for the first time in 30 years and we've made it such that only safe way through the strait is to make a deal with iran masterful gambit
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mcglu.bsky.social @mcglu.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Trump considers "winding down" Iran war without opening Hormuz Strait www.axios.com/2026/03/20/t...
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a man in a black coat is holding an umbrella while walking down the stairs of an airplane .
ALT: a man in a black coat is holding an umbrella while walking down the stairs of an airplane .
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 21/03/2026
I’ll admit my macroeconomic outlook didn’t include a Leeroy Jenkins bombing campaign against Iran with no plan whatsoever for securing Hormuz. And you know what, that’s on me.
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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
20 days into the war in Iraq vs. 20 days into the war in Iran:
A statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad being toppledA map of the Strait of Hormuz showing no ships going through
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mcglu.bsky.social @mcglu.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
lol. “… he’s ruled out …”
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26 NO - 41% YES - 38% UNSURE - 21%
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mcglu.bsky.social @mcglu.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
USA USA USA USA
Chart showing that Oil is currently up 13% for the day.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
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mcglu.bsky.social @mcglu.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
And how the hell is this making us greater?
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mcglu.bsky.social @mcglu.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
This entire thread is beyond depressing.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Jesus Christ they're running the war from Mar-a-Lago www.reuters.com/world/us/top...
WASHINGTON, Feb 28 (Reuters) - Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine are monitoring the U.S. operation in Iran from President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, where Trump is currently located, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters.
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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Secretary Hegseth announced this afternoon that DOD will cease ALL graduate study by military personnel at universities including MIT, all the Ivies, Stanford, etc because such schools teach "the enemy's wicked ideology" to officers. thehill.com/policy/defen...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
This is amazing. www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com
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Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
The Federal Aviation Administration barred flights on Thursday in an area around Fort Hancock, Texas, after lawmakers said a military laser-based anti-drone system was believed to have been used by the Pentagon to accidentally shoot down a U.S. government drone. www.reuters.com/business/aer...
reuters.com
FAA closes airspace in Fort Hancock, Texas after reported accidental use of anti-drone laser
The Federal Aviation Administration barred flights on Thursday in an area around Fort Hancock, Texas, after lawmakers said a military laser-based anti-drone system was believed to have been used by th...
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
winning message right here, Bessent
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Also, here’s a photo of people dying to defend a “multicultural economic zone”
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Quinn Yeargain @yeargain.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
there's fierce competition, but this is one of the most stomach-turning things I've read in some time
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Exclusive: White House uses USAID funds for budget director Vought's security, documents show
The White House budget office is using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought, President Donald Trump's budget chief and an archit...
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Ring is first and foremost a scheme to charge Amazon customers to deter crime that costs Amazon (not the customers themselves) billions annually in refunds, returns, double shipping, and customer service overhead.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
When the CIA did this to the Senate it was one of the biggest intel scandals of the 21st century. But here it’s not just a huge scandal, it’s dumb: Pam Bondi is so bad at her job she brought the evidence herself to an open congressional hearing. www.theguardian.com/world/2014/j...
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CIA admits to spying on Senate staffers
John Brennan issues apology after acknowledging that agency spied on Senate intelligence committee’s staff members
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
It’s almost like Putin is running our foreign policy.
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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Trump just wants to be racist, eat fillet o' fish, and pick out the ugliest possible marble for his ballroom while Miller is trying to get his school shooter manifesto put into the CFR and Rubio is trying to get Trump to sign an EO that just says "invade cuba"
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
JUST IN: Democrats flip a red seat in the Texas Senate. Taylor Rehmet wins against Leigh Wambsganss, a conservative activist who helped lead right-wing efforts to take over TX school boards. With all early vote, and 95% of precincts, in, Dem up 57/43. Trump won this seat by 17% in Tarrant County.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.
1. I am a resident of the Whittier neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota. I am over 18 years of age. I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting.
2. On Saturday, January 24, 2026, at about 8:50 am, I was getting ready to go to work when I heard whistles outside. I knew the whistles meant that ICE agents were in the area, so I decided to check it out on my way to work. I've been involved in observing in my community because it is so important to document what ICE is doing to my neighbors. Connecting to your local community and knowing who your neighbors are is something I profoundly value.
3. I drove to Nicollet Ave. and 26th where I could hear the whistles coming from. I turned south onto Nicollet. There were already several ICE agents there and they'd set up a sort of vehicle convoy on Nicollet and 28th. There were also about 15 observers there, recording and observing ICE.
4. I saw ICE agents surrounding cars and punching car windows. I also saw them stopping vehicles further down Nicollet, so I backed up because I didn't feel safe continuing on.
5. I noticed a man sort of acting to help traffic move more smoothly. He helped me find a place to park. I got out with my whistle and my camera. I went over to him and said something like, "I'm going to film and use my whistle."
6. It seemed like most ICE activity was happening a little farther down the street from us, near 27th. Someone was being thrown to the ground.7. I started recording. There was an agent by a car across the street. Two observers were a few feet away from the agent, blowing their whistles. One was wearing a backpack.
8. I and the man who was observing and helping direct traffic were standing in the street. There was a phone in the man's hand recording a video.
9. An agent approached and asked us to back up, so I moved slowly back onto the sidewalk.
10. The man stayed in the street, filming as the other observers I mentioned earlier were being forced backward by another ICE agent threatening them with pepper spray. The man went closer to support them as they got threatened, just with his camera out. I didn't see him reach for or hold a gun.
11. Then the ICE agent shoved one of the other observers to the ground. Then he started pepper spraying all three of them directly in the face and all over. The man with the phone put his hands above his head and the agent sprayed him again and pushed him.
12. Then the man tried to help up the woman the ICE agent had shoved to the ground. The ICE agents just kept spraying. More agents came over and grabbed the man who was still trying to help the woman get up. All three of the observers looked to have been badly affected by the pepper spray. I could feel the pepper spray in my eyes.13. The agents pulled the man on the ground. I didn't see him touch any of them-he wasn't even turned toward them. It didn't look like he was trying to resist, just trying to help the woman up. I didn't see him with a gun. They threw him to the ground. Four or five agents had him on the ground and they just started shooting him. They shot him so many times.
14.1 don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him.
15. The video I recorded of what happened accurately depicts the events leading up to the agents shooting him and several minutes afterwards. The video is attached as Exhibit 1.
16. I have read the statement from DHS about what happened and it is wrong. The man did not approach the agents with a gun. He approached them with a camera. He was just trying to help a woman get up and they took him to the ground.
17. I feel afraid. Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front me and I don't feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me. I don't know what the agents will do when they find me. I do know that they're not telling the truth about what happened. I've heard that other witnesses might have been arrested and taken to the Whipple Building.
18. I am disgusted and gutted at how they are treating my neighbors and my state. I keep alternating between crying and feeling determined it is important to remember the value of documenting injustice. We show up for the people who need us to bearwitness, because it can't just be one group of people bearing the brunt of their tyranny. This is a struggle to protect our freedom and democracy, those things are on the line. He lost his life for those values.
I declare under penalty of perjury that everything I have stated in this document is true and correct.

Dated and signed on Jan 24, 2026 in Hennepin County, State of Minnesota.
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