swmckay.bsky.social @swmckay.bsky.social · 10/11/2025Dude, STFU, you folded like a wet paper bag and squandered a blue tsunami that happened less than a week ago. Step aside and let a real leader lead. 000
Reposted by @swmckay.bsky.socialWajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 10/11/2025Remember when some of us said the Democratic leadership would take all the wrong lessons from the blue tsunami and squander all the goodwill? Here you go. 290106081992
Reposted by @swmckay.bsky.socialQasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 10/11/2025Tonight Democrats proved that old quip. If a genie gave Democrats 3 wishes, they'd negotiate it down to 1, and then wish for something they think Republicans will like. We need a true opposition party now more than ever. Because this aint it. 17790205
Reposted by @swmckay.bsky.socialQasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 10/11/2025AOC needs to primary Schumer. 28824116
swmckay.bsky.social @swmckay.bsky.social · 09/11/2025Heh, I’m not a huge JCO fan but that put-down is savage and 100% truth. Dang! It seems to apply to the entire Trump circle: zero humanity. Btw, billionaire CEOs are the exact definition of takers, their net worth being entirely dependent on the output of others. 0531
Reposted by @swmckay.bsky.social🕸️ Cobweb Curtains For Zoosha 🦇 @brianvan.bsky.social · 09/11/2025So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird! 132173444476
swmckay.bsky.social @swmckay.bsky.social · 09/11/2025The “lady and the unicorn” tapestry there is spectacular. This is a museum I did not expect to like much, but it’s really good. 010
Reposted by @swmckay.bsky.socialAdam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 08/11/2025 12559002455
Reposted by @swmckay.bsky.socialJustadutchguy | Convoy Goblin for Ukraine | NAFO @justadutchguy.bsky.social · 07/11/2025USA Photo of the year 866155813218
swmckay.bsky.social @swmckay.bsky.social · 07/11/2025In my experience, being very intelligent doesn’t prevent you from having very stupid opinions. Watson was well-known to be like this. 010
swmckay.bsky.social @swmckay.bsky.social · 07/11/2025Except Hegseth wants us to be the ones who invade the Sudetenland 011
swmckay.bsky.social @swmckay.bsky.social · 07/11/2025At the risk of sounding meme-ish, I'm something of an AI expert myself. Trust me when I say that all these MAGA conservatives trying to prop up using AI everywhere don't know *shit* about AI and you should not trust their advice. 080
swmckay.bsky.social @swmckay.bsky.social · 06/11/2025What's the name of his website? DressLikeThePenguin.com ?dresslikethepenguin.com 010
Reposted by @swmckay.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/11/2025incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty 45714297812293
swmckay.bsky.social @swmckay.bsky.social · 06/11/2025Ugly on the inside and on the outside. The guy is an intellectually dishonest tool and always has been. 021
swmckay.bsky.social @swmckay.bsky.social · 06/11/2025Don’t leave us all in suspense! How were the momos? 000
swmckay.bsky.social @swmckay.bsky.social · 05/11/2025Please, please, do run on your record with healthcare and the economy. 030
Reposted by @swmckay.bsky.socialWajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 05/11/2025Can all the Islamophobes and MAGA Reeks please move out of NYC now? You all threatened to leave if Mamdani won. Bon Voyage! 311157107
Reposted by @swmckay.bsky.socialLeah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 05/11/2025serious note: they're gonna try 5x harder to sabotage the midterms after tonight and we're gonna have to organize on a literally historic scale to stop them 12796642490
Reposted by @swmckay.bsky.socialJonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 05/11/2025Only took 417 years for Virginia to elect a woman as governor 131501197
Reposted by @swmckay.bsky.socialGeorge Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 05/11/2025Inshallah 473399468
swmckay.bsky.social @swmckay.bsky.social · 02/11/2025There’s always The Good Place, which is one of the kindest and most thoughtful series I know. And it’s funny. And has Ted Danson. 010
Reposted by @swmckay.bsky.socialPeter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 02/11/2025Ok, here's the thing. If Donald Trump runs a third time for president, the Democrats need to run Obama. 47710
swmckay.bsky.social @swmckay.bsky.social · 02/11/2025I don’t see how they pay off debt that’s 100x their current revenue. Maybe I lack imagination, but this doesn’t seem remotely realistic. I also don’t see how these incestuous financial relationships can lead to anything but ruin. One belch and everything collapses, Yertle the Turtle style. 2130
swmckay.bsky.social @swmckay.bsky.social · 01/11/2025It’s not hypocrisy. It’s the sincere belief that the law does not apply to the “in group”, which is much much worse than hypocrisy. 2344
swmckay.bsky.social @swmckay.bsky.social · 01/11/2025Our future looks a lot like Forbidden Planet 020
swmckay.bsky.social @swmckay.bsky.social · 01/11/2025When are the torches and pitchforks coming? They won’t just be from blue states. Also, do any of these people remember how the roaring 20s ended? 061
Reposted by @swmckay.bsky.socialJC R WHIT, Ph.D. @jc99whit.bsky.social · 01/11/2025“They were careless people…they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsbymedia.tenor.coma man in a tuxedo and bow tie is standing next to a woman in a dress at a party .ALT: a man in a tuxedo and bow tie is standing next to a woman in a dress at a party . 141633292
Reposted by @swmckay.bsky.socialAdam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 01/11/2025same 53575071805
swmckay.bsky.social @swmckay.bsky.social · 30/10/2025I think there's also a distinction between "the Internet" and "social media sites on the Internet", which are admittedly drowning the rest of the Internet. 010
Reposted by @swmckay.bsky.socialQasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 29/10/2025Whether by opposing the Fugitive Slave Act, refusing Segregation, or legalizing Cannabis— States have a LONG history of opposing Federal oppression. Now, Democratic States must enact Soft Secession to oppose Trump's fascism & prevent our residents from starving. www.qasimrashid.com/p/blue-state...qasimrashid.comBlue States: It Is Time For Soft SecessionDemocratic run State and County Govts contribute 71% of the United States economy, and it's past time they flexed their muscle to protect our humanity 413736
Reposted by @swmckay.bsky.socialRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/10/2025I know it’s too much to expect them to know their history, but if the American Revolution had a motto, it definitely would not have been “immigrants go home.” It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.” 190120203045
swmckay.bsky.social @swmckay.bsky.social · 29/10/2025What does is say about me that I am not sorry to see the extent to which his wife is being ruined by this. 020
swmckay.bsky.social @swmckay.bsky.social · 29/10/2025Kyoto is nice and filled with cool temples and all that, but this is the real reason to visit. 030
Reposted by @swmckay.bsky.socialQasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 28/10/2025It is the moral, ethical, and yes legally right for Democratic States and Cities to engage in Soft Secession by withholding federal taxes. This would not violate the Supremacy Clause, has immense precedent in US history, & the time to act is NOW. www.qasimrashid.com/p/blue-state...qasimrashid.comBlue States: It Is Time For Soft SecessionDemocratic run State and County Govts contribute 71% of the United States economy, and it's past time they flexed their muscle to protect our humanity 42729272
swmckay.bsky.social @swmckay.bsky.social · 28/10/2025People got hooked on Eliza/Doctor in the 60s despite the fact that it was comically primitive. ChatGPT is a gazillion times more sophisticated, so it’s not surprising to see people anthropomorphizing it and getting addicted to it. It’s not good. 010