Steve McKinnon @stevemckinnon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Aren’t these numbers completely reasonable? I, as a member of the 70%, believe that more Americans would benefit from working in factories. Specifically, I think the 33% who want factory work would benefit from having it. 000
Steve McKinnon @stevemckinnon.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Right-wing spokesman are going to be all over TV talking about the democratic president’s ‘surrender’ to Iran. And the media will uncritically repeat them. 010
Steve McKinnon @stevemckinnon.bsky.social · 16/08/202640 million people in the state and it comes down to these two… 010
Steve McKinnon @stevemckinnon.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Was that before or after the international concentration camps stage? I can never keep track of these things. 010
Reposted by Steve McKinnonmaura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 14/07/2026I respect France's commitment to not working on a holiday. 114111462404
Steve McKinnon @stevemckinnon.bsky.social · 14/07/2026I wonder if, by the time this makes its way to the Supreme Court, the justices start thinking post-Trump. They’re not going to want a Democratic president to have the level of control over appropriations asserted here. 020
Steve McKinnon @stevemckinnon.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Educated people are predominately progressive, so universities must be biased and failing. 010
Steve McKinnon @stevemckinnon.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Makes you think which senators from recent memory will be remembered? McCain? Sanders? Warren might end up leaving a legislative legacy that gets discussed? 010
Steve McKinnon @stevemckinnon.bsky.social · 14/07/2026If Talarico doesn’t win this election, activists/donors really need to give up on Texas for the foreseeable future. 100
Steve McKinnon @stevemckinnon.bsky.social · 14/07/2026This one seems like more of a failure. Trump and DHS aren’t out there doing the ‘he was a terrorist’ thing. Minnesota taught them to keep their evil under the radar. 000
Steve McKinnon @stevemckinnon.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Maybe she’s hoping that doing the bare minimum will keep the story out of the press? Protesters need to keep the energy up. 051
Reposted by Steve McKinnonDavid J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 14/07/2026WHOA DHS does not say that the agent feared for his life… just the vague concern for “public safety.” So he killed him just because he did not want him in America, not because of any specific threat to agents? 760118053645
Steve McKinnon @stevemckinnon.bsky.social · 20/06/2026(Indirect costs are different than direct and all that of course.) 010
Steve McKinnon @stevemckinnon.bsky.social · 20/06/2026USA foreign aid by year before the Trump cuts. They spent over a year’s worth of aid to get a worse deal than the one they ripped up. 120
Steve McKinnon @stevemckinnon.bsky.social · 19/06/2026These guys were happy to give them everything! They’re all the same. If you look at a BYD, it’s clear Elon handed China the IP. Something to keep in mind when they argue we need to win the AI race with China. Even if ‘we win’, they’ll hand it straight over. 050
Steve McKinnon @stevemckinnon.bsky.social · 19/06/2026He’s buddies with the guys running the algo, so I think he might be able to just make this a ‘fact’ in the eyes of the public. 000
Steve McKinnon @stevemckinnon.bsky.social · 19/06/2026And you are just hoping that someone values your valueless piece of paper more tomorrow, than you do today. 000
Steve McKinnon @stevemckinnon.bsky.social · 19/06/2026You get a piece of paper that says you own a fraction of SpaceX. But it doesn’t actually mean you own a fraction of SpaceX. 100
Steve McKinnon @stevemckinnon.bsky.social · 19/06/2026What do you get when you buy stock in SpaceX that is different from buying Bitcoin? You don’t get profits, or voting rights. You don’t get control over IP. Your stock can be diluted by new offerings, by CEO pay demands, without any recourse. 120
Steve McKinnon @stevemckinnon.bsky.social · 19/06/2026And you hope that someone else values that valueless piece of paper more tomorrow, than you do today. 000
Steve McKinnon @stevemckinnon.bsky.social · 19/06/2026You get a piece of paper that says you own part of SpaceX. That is all. The paper does not actually mean you own a piece of SpaceX. 100
Steve McKinnon @stevemckinnon.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Anytime anyone talks about these companies it’s basically ‘line go up’. But at some point we’re going to have to deal with the fact that a huge share of global capital is locked in shares of companies that offer nothing to shareholders. 100
Steve McKinnon @stevemckinnon.bsky.social · 19/06/2026In theory, the value of the companies comes from the future profits, discounted to present values by the potential growth rate. But there are no future profits that will ever be dispersed! 100
Steve McKinnon @stevemckinnon.bsky.social · 19/06/2026If you want to use your voting rights as a shareholder to change this dynamic. You cannot, because public shareholders in modern tech companies are placed in a lower class of share and do not get a say in the company. 110
Steve McKinnon @stevemckinnon.bsky.social · 19/06/2026They do not pay dividends and will never pay dividends. Meta and Apple are established companies who have achieved extraordinary market share. If they’re not going to pay out some of their profits, none of these companies will. 100
Steve McKinnon @stevemckinnon.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Modern tech stocks have no intrinsic value and are fundamentally the same as Bitcoin, or any other ponzi-adjacent investment. 110
Steve McKinnon @stevemckinnon.bsky.social · 19/06/2026‘This war is completely unfeasible politically, so we’ll do it in 6 months.’ Bold strategy! 010
Steve McKinnon @stevemckinnon.bsky.social · 19/06/2026It’s a remarkable metaphor for the tangible harms of corrupt contracting. 000
Steve McKinnon @stevemckinnon.bsky.social · 19/06/20262028 will be a whole campaign season of ‘JD the peacemaker’ shoved down our throats by unrepentant liars. 1211
Steve McKinnon @stevemckinnon.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Leftists are annoying because they’re convinced you’re amoral. Rightists are annoying because they are amoral. 010
Steve McKinnon @stevemckinnon.bsky.social · 21/05/2026They just got handed a guy who can run the point, in crunch time, in one of the biggest conference finals ever. Nobody else could’ve offered a couple second rounders??? 000
Steve McKinnon @stevemckinnon.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Won’t the other companies you recommend also go the same way as Google eventually? Is the goal just to keep slightly ahead of the enshittification wave? 120
Steve McKinnon @stevemckinnon.bsky.social · 19/05/2026As superhuman force rose to oppose the robotic OKC. It’s the triumph of human will vs. technocracy. It’s the spirit of the worker vs. corporate neoliberalism. It’s the artistic spirit rebelling against the safe path. It’s everything. Go Spurs!! 010
Reposted by Steve McKinnonBrian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 09/05/2026This, among other reasons, is why VA Dems can’t throw up their hands and wait til next year. Dems everywhere have tragically underweighted the importance of insisting on one set of rules for years. But now the GOP is enforcing double standards at gun point. Accept that passively, and it’s all over. 8965224
Steve McKinnon @stevemckinnon.bsky.social · 08/05/2026He’s almost 80, can barely move, and he bruises from handshakes! Embarrassing answer from Republican men. 000
Steve McKinnon @stevemckinnon.bsky.social · 04/05/2026He said it’s on the way back from Iran. So Cuba should be safe for ten years or so. 020
Reposted by Steve McKinnonMatthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Oh, you’re saying that what he says in his hours and hours and hours of work product isn’t what he really believes, and you’re going to elicit the “real” tucker by asking him questions? ok 924613
Steve McKinnon @stevemckinnon.bsky.social · 04/05/2026So you’re left with subjective decision making at the principal level, which, I’m sorry to say, will be rife with poor decision making and nepotism. 190
Steve McKinnon @stevemckinnon.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Plus the ‘best’ teacher is usually the one who is doing lots of support work, clubs work, excursions, etc. that won’t show up in objective measurement, but make the school an effective community. 1110
Steve McKinnon @stevemckinnon.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Like maybe you can objectively determine who is the best maths teacher at a school. But the best arts teacher? Gym? Woodwork? And for primary you’d need years before you had an appropriate sample size. 170
Steve McKinnon @stevemckinnon.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Is this a good policy though? Like there are programs that kick out the worst teachers, those are effective. But determining the ‘best’ teachers is very difficult, for primary we’re talking a very small sample size. And there’s so many subjects that lack capacity for objective measurement. 1150
Steve McKinnon @stevemckinnon.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Tucker is giving the hard sell that this was couldn’t possibly have been predicted. Seems like that’s the narrative they’ll end up going with. 010
Steve McKinnon @stevemckinnon.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Can you please predict that the 76ers are gonna crush the Knicks!? 000
Steve McKinnon @stevemckinnon.bsky.social · 04/05/2026So it’s a platform for rich, tech savvy people (or inside traders) to bleed gambling addicts of their money…Sounds great. Let’s definitely keep it going. 010
Steve McKinnon @stevemckinnon.bsky.social · 04/05/2026The Teapot Dome scandal was ~$7 mil in today’s money. And it was being taught to us in schools 80 years later…Corruption could be the only legacy Trump leaves behind. 100
Steve McKinnon @stevemckinnon.bsky.social · 03/05/2026The new ones are probably equally capable of charging enemies with fake crimes and ignoring corruption! 030
