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John McKay

@sealawman.bsky.social
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Former U.S. Attorney, law professor turned volunteer legal aid lawyer, advocate for the rule of law and anti-authoritarianism

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John McKay @sealawman.bsky.social · 7h
"President Trump is such an awful human being that just writing about him feels degrading... when someone as morally warped as Trump... something bad is going to happen to us as a result. We and our children are going to pay for this, and not only at the gas pump." Friedman warning us all - again
nytimes.com
Opinion | Trump Is Going Viral in the Worst Ways
On the technological, diplomatic and biological fronts, Trump is creating a disaster.
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John McKay @sealawman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
What the hell? Are we in North Korea?? Chilling, absolutely chilling.
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John McKay @sealawman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Brace for it - come October, the Facist-in-Chief will deploy federal agents to polling places in swing districts. When counter demonstraters respond, he will federalize National Guard troops and seize or close polling places. It's all about voter suppression. He is desperate. Stand up, speak out!
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John McKay @sealawman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
He thinks so little of us that for $5000 we'd sell out our integrity to him
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John McKay @sealawman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
So we're supposed to pretend he's on the midterm ballot, that gas prices will drop "right after the elections" and if that isn't enough - everyone gets a $5,000 bribe?
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John McKay @sealawman.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
With the Ninth Circuit holding Trump cannot bypass Senate confirmation of United States Attorneys, pretenders in Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Seattle and Spokane should resign immediately. Every District Court in the U.S. with these phonies should replace them according to law as is underway in Seattle.
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John McKay @sealawman.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
“Requiring Senate confirmation of U.S. Attorneys is a critical part of maintaining political independence in our system of justice and the unchecked appointment of his MAGA loyalists is a threat to the rule of law.”
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John McKay @sealawman.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
“The President is engaged in an unconstitutional scheme to void the Senate’s advice and consent role when it comes to U.S. Attorneys,” said John McKay, former U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Washington."
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John McKay @sealawman.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Trump/Blanche won't get away with openly trashing the U.S. Constitution, appointing U.S. Attorney "sock puppets" without Senate confirmation
seattletimes.com
Seattle U.S. Attorney’s Office is in constitutional crisis, full stop | Editorial
The conflict between federal court in Seattle and the DOJ is a constitutional crisis between the president and the U..S Senate. It's clear who's in the right.
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John McKay @sealawman.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
What's up Bluesky
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
I think more people fell for culture war bullshit before the party peddling it started sending death squads to round people up for concentration camps.
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John McKay @sealawman.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Go Seahawks 🏈
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John McKay @sealawman.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Shocking - even from fascist Stephen Miller
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John McKay @sealawman.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
“We have an autocratic leader seeking power and aggrandizement through the conquest of territory and resources. In addition to Venezuela, Mr. Trump has threatened to attack Cuba, Colombia, Mexico and Iran while musing about the annexation of Greenland, the Panama Canal and even Canada.” - Ben Rhodes
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John McKay @sealawman.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
That Attorney General Bondi claims Maduro will face "the full wrath" of the U.S. Justice system, proves she does not understand its mission of "ensuring fair and impartial justice by enforcing federal laws and defending U.S. interests." Fair and impartial - not wrathful.
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John McKay @sealawman.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Repulsive, outrageous violation of international law - throw in the violations of the U.S. Constitution and this U.S. President is a bonafide outlaw.
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John McKay @sealawman.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Looking forward to this New Years Day curling up with my iPad to watch the deposition of the great Jack Smith - making we DOJ alumni proud. His courage and commitment to the rule of law under personal threat is truly an inspiration.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Happy New Year! Wishing everyone a fresh start! Counting on 2026 to be the year America reminds itself and the world that we are dedicated to democracy and freedom, not despotism.
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John McKay @sealawman.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Trump's racist comments about Somali people in the United States (calling them "garbage") and saying they should go back to their own country (even American citizens) prove one thing - the President is an unapologetic RACIST
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Issa Rae has canceled her sold out performance at the Kennedy Center. Pulitzer Prize winner Rhiannon Giddens, Peter Wolf, Low Cut Connie, and the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, D.C., have also canceled. Lin-Manuel Miranda has canceled the entire Kennedy Center run of Hamilton.
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John McKay @sealawman.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Trump's pet ignorant racist Stephen Miller blames immigrant children for his self-hatred
nytimes.com
Stephen Miller Cites Children of Immigrants as a Problem
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John McKay @sealawman.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Forgiving those who voted to let him run the country will take every ounce of my Christian forgiveness
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Joe Biden’s fatal flaw was relying on the reluctant institutionalist Merrick Garland to prosecute the case of insurrectionist Donald J Trump. Had Garland done his job, Trump would have been banned from office and America and the world would not be in this predicament.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Someone should put up one of those running tally Times Square billboards that keeps track of the cost to undo what Trump is doing.
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John McKay @sealawman.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Every Republican Senator has the blood of ICE, CECOT and the First Amendment on their hands. Long after Trump is gone, we will remember their complicity and reject their pathetic claims of innocence, ignorance or secret opposition.
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John McKay @sealawman.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Remember this racist remark by the Vice President of the United States
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John McKay @sealawman.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
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TheRoadie. @roadie63.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
So the "most transparent president in history" won't let Jack Smith's testimony become public. He's got them holding back tens of thousands of Epstein documents, haven't seen his taxes, his school records, and no one knows why the East Wing was destroyed before he even had ballroom plans. Yeah.
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John McKay @sealawman.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
As a long time proponent of legalized cannabis, I have to point out that the feds have kept a stranglehold on the study of health consequences. Rescheduling benefits public safety and should remove dangerous banking prohibitions. Trump is right on this.
nytimes.com
Opinion | Trump’s New Marijuana Policy Offers an Opportunity
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John McKay @sealawman.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Mitt is right, again
nytimes.com
Opinion | Mitt Romney: Tax the Rich, Like Me
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John McKay @sealawman.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Trump's sickening post about the Reiners brings out my righteousness as a political independent. Democrats must atone for their poor choices: not holding Biden to his pledge to be "transitional," abandoning labor, failing immigration policies and elevating DEI over economic opportunity for all.
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John McKay @sealawman.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Trump's post mocking and blaming the Reiners for their own deaths stuns with its abject cruelty and reminds us of the evil of which he is capable
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John McKay @sealawman.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
He thinks foreign affairs are like developing a strip mall in New Jersey
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Eric Holder @ericholder.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
It is shameful-and expected-that the Supreme Court has chosen to side with those who seek to undermine our democracy and disenfranchise voters of color.
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John McKay @sealawman.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
As a former U.S. Attorney, I had great respect and admiration for federal agents, including their training, professionalism and dedication to Constitutional rights of accused persons. Watching masked ICE and Border Patrol disgusts me. Cowards and hypocrites.
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John McKay @sealawman.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
People are not garbage and the fascists who think this must be opposed with all of our strength and will
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John McKay @sealawman.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
We must again elevate public virtue over avarice. Trump knows nothing of the sacrifices it took to form this republic. He and his billionaire buddies have no care for individual rights, for true freedom or for the happiness of anyone but themselves. The U.S. Constitution is their enemy.
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John McKay @sealawman.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
What the heck is he talking about? This is yet another Trump outrage and we all.see it, including Sen. Mullin.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
To make common cause with this Administration is to support an affirmatively white supremacist vision of this country. Period. Every corporation. Every Republican. Every influencer. Every Governor. Every evangelical leader. Every voter. Yes. Every voter.
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John McKay @sealawman.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
A nine year old President thinks this is a school playground. Such an embarrassment.
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John McKay @sealawman.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Not war crimes, just mass murder by a U.S. President and "Secretary of War." The first must be impeached and the second indicted. America will pay for these crimes, for they act in our names.
cnn.com
Trump says US land action against alleged drug trafficking networks in Venezuela will start ‘very soon’ | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump suggested Thursday that the United States is preparing to take new action against alleged drug trafficking networks in Venezuela, telling service members during a Thanksgiving c...
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Name one.
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John McKay @sealawman.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Trump is willing to stand up to Venezuela, but not Russia. Which makes him a coward and a fool (with bone spurs).
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John McKay @sealawman.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Sedition is not punishable by death, you moron.
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John McKay @sealawman.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Amb. Huckabee did this to show his fellow Trumpers that even a notorious spy betraying the United States of America gets a free pass if it serves Israeli interests. Disgusting and dangerous.
nytimes.com
Huckabee Held Meeting at U.S. Embassy With American Who Spied for Israel
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John McKay @sealawman.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Of course there are Democrats in the Epstein files - it's about wealthy men with too much money and the delusion that the rules shouldn't apply to them. Too much wealth, not too much politics. Obviously, Trump is both a prime example and utterly lacking in self awareness to know it.
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John McKay @sealawman.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Yepp
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John McKay @sealawman.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
They have no intention to release the files and will use the bogus SDNY "investigation" to claim they cannot. We are all suckers as far as the White House and Pam Bondi are concerned.
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John McKay @sealawman.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
The U.S.President blaming the victim Jamal Kashoggi in the presence of his murderer in the gilded oval office
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John McKay @sealawman.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
"Quiet, Piggy" 👉 Are we not shocked by his indecency?
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