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Jeff McKown

@waythingsturn.bsky.social
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I like writing, whiskey, politics, and sports. I deplore the American fascist government. Oh, and I'm the world's worst Buddhist.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 26/01/2026
ICE murdered Renée Good in broad daylight. Less than 3 weeks later, they killed Alex Pretti, shooting him 10 times. Every day, we watch as people are ripped from their cars, their homes, their lives. We can't allow ourselves to look away from this cruelty. Abolish ICE.
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American Partisan™ 🚫Fascism @american.partisan.social · 24/01/2026
President Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace” faces fresh ridicule after it emerges that nearly half of the countries on it are banned from entering the US under his travel ban. www.newsbreak.com/share/445695...
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Nearly half of countries on Trump’s Board of Peace banned from entering US - NewsBreak
President Donald Trump ’s “Board of Peace” has faced fresh ridicule after it emerged that nearly half of the countries on it are banned from entering the U
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Julia Rose Kraut @juliarosekraut.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
“Don’t be discouraged when you find that the process of self-discovery takes a long, long time,” she said. “Don’t even be surprised if at 50 you are still wondering what you are going to be when you grow up.” 🗃️ RIP Barbara Aronstein Black www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/u...
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Barbara Aronstein Black, a First as a Law School Dean, Dies at 92
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today
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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Urgent update: Migrant choked to death by ICE agents in ICE custody, his death will be ruled a homicide. His last words: “I can’t breathe.” ICE tear gasses a 6-month-old baby. Agents arrest workers hours after dining at Mexican restaurant. The reality of America. open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...
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Important Update: Migrant Choked to Death by ICE Agents in Custody and ICE Tear-Gasses 6-Month-Old Baby as ICE Escalates Tactics
Good morning everyone.
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
9 January 1942 | Dutch Jewish boy Jacob de Mesquita was born in Amsterdam. He arrived at #Auschwitz on 18 October 1942 in a transport of 1,710 Jews. He was murdered in a gas chamber after selection. --- ▶ The first two gas chambers created near Auschwitz II-Birkenau: youtu.be/Rr6lF75fDmU
Vintage photo of a smiling baby boy lying on a light-colored blanket.
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Jeff McKown @waythingsturn.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Today was horrific and I am bitterly angry. I took some time to process that today. thewaythingsturn.blogspot.com/2026/01/angr...
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Angry
I’m angry. Deeply, profoundly, angry. I’m just a guy. A sixty-year-old, white, middle-class, American guy. I’m married, I work for a living,...
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Jeff McKown @waythingsturn.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Not sure if this is helpful to others — but since Trump 2.0, whenever I find myself in a situation (political or otherwise) where I feel I’m spiraling, I fall back on four short words — how can I help? It calms me, reminds me who I am, and sometimes, helps me find a way to lift someone else.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Imagine watching Sinatra, son of Dolly & Antonini born in Genoa & Sicily, respectively, and Martin, son of Gaetano & Angela, born in Montesilvano, Italy & Ohio respectively, (Angela to parents born in Monasterolo, Italy), and crusading against the value of children of immigrants to the U.S.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Extremely obvious combing through this who is redacted and why. It's Epstein, Maxwell, a lot of Bill Clinton, maybe Michael Jackson (?) and basically nobody else. Everybody else's head is in a black rectangle. In practice, they didn't release shit.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Transparency at last 🙄
fully redacted Epstein documents released by Trump's DOJ
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Micah @rincewind.run · 19/12/2025
lmao this is the worst possible way they could have done it, you gotta leave him in some non-terrible stuff so you can argue that's all there is "he wasn't mentioned once" is not gonna fly
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
MORE from Jack Smith: "The decision to bring charges against President Trump was mine, but the basis for those charges rests entirely with President Trump and his actions, as alleged in the indictments returned by grand juries in two different districts."
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Eileen Higgins just became the first Democrat elected mayor of Miami in nearly 30 years.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Marco Rubio knew the truth 9 years ago, but he sold his soul for power. Yet he was correct: He will one day have to explain his support for Trump, and this is not going to end well.
A screenshot of a social media post from “Republicans against Trump.” The post quotes Marco Rubio from 2016 criticizing Donald Trump. Below the text is a CNN interview screenshot showing a man in a suit speaking with U.S. and Florida flags behind him. The on-screen chyron reads: “RUBIO: TRUMP RHETORIC LIKE ‘THIRD-WORLD STRONG MEN’” and “Sen. Marco Rubio (R) Presidential Candidate.”
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Demolishing the East Wing of the White House before finalizing plans for what will be built above its ruins is a near-perfect metaphor for Trump's approach to economic policy. The only difference is the wrecking crew doesn’t claim the rubble is evidence of unprecedented growth.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
The president is about to start a war for no real reason. All of the things he has blamed on the country he’s targeting — fentanyl distribution, “emptying the asylums” and sending patients to the U.S., alignment with Tren de Aragua— are provably, obviously false. Lots of people are going to die.
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Ben Silverstein ❌👑 @bensilverstein.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
I remember this guy. He was the one on TV two months ago claiming Dems have a culture of condoning violence.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Swear her in. Release the Epstein Files.
Ettingermentum writes: “Actually what on earth is in those files bro.”
The image from Courier Newsroom headline reads: “Rep-elect Adelita Grijalva is now the longest Rep-elect in history to not be sworn in. Mike Johnson still refuses to swear in Rep-elect Grijalva over fear of releasing the Epstein files.”
The picture shows Grijalva in a red jacket beside Speaker Mike Johnson.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
I’m glad that Scott can get help from the White House. Now, what about the millions of other Americans facing steep, premium hikes who also need assistance?
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Take it from me, a former Republican, Republicans do not have a healthcare plan. They don’t.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
What he said: 💯 🎯
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Reminder that Spotify has still not gotten rid of their ICE ads. They think they can just stay silent without answering to the public. Let’s show them how wrong they are, let’s hit them where it hurts! These corporations don’t understand anything unless it hurts their bottom line.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 27/10/2025
We’re giving $40 billion to Argentina. This is $5 billion MORE that the entire USAID budget that DOGE cut.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
A president imposing tariffs (on us) because he’s annoyed (by a real ad not fake) is not how the law works. We are off the cliff, folks. 🇺🇸 www.cnn.com/2025/10/25/b...
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Lyn Ettinger-Harwell @lyneh1.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Sometimes as I drift idly on Walden pond, I cease to live and begin to be... ~ Henry David Thoreau ~
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/10/2025
Brian Schatz: "This is not about money. There is enough money to bail out Argentina with $20b. There is enough money to purchase a brand new aircraft for $173m for Noem. There is enough money to renovate the WH ballroom. What there isn't enough money for under this Republican government is you."
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Jeff McKown @waythingsturn.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
As long as there is no punishment for grifting, the grifting will continue and get worse. . It’s that simple.
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pulsarcube.bsky.social @pulsarcube.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Raise cost for healthcare by thousands of dollars, then send them $100 checks with a Trump signature. Have you even said thank you yet?
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Trump says if he invokes the Insurrection Act, ”there is no more court cases, there is no more anything.” By “no more anything” he means no more democracy.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 19/10/2025
This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings
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Jeff McKown @waythingsturn.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Excellent No Kings turnout in Tampa and it was totally peaceful. I also felt like we learned something from Portland.
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
It's official. Nearly 7 million people. Today is the single largest day of protest in American history. Americans from all corners of the country are standing up and saying #NoKings. This is what peaceful, patriotic protest looks like.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Authoritarianism is a cancer. And it's growing, metastasizing. In America. Now. YOU are the cure. Do your part and join us on Saturday. Do it for your country. For the Constitution. For your freedoms. While you still can. @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social
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Jeff McKown @waythingsturn.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Tampa — with thousands of my friends!
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 15/10/2025
Lots of Republicans quietly agree that something needs to be done about the Trump-led healthcare cost crisis. We must get the GOP on the record to pressure leadership into negotiating an end to the Trump Shutdown: indivisible.org/campaign/sto...
(next to an image of the Capitol and a hand holding a megaphone) STOP THE TRUMP SHUT DOWN
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Jeff McKown @waythingsturn.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
The destruction of objective truth and the devaluation of basic facts have proven to be Trump’s greatest weapons (and his most damaging impacts).
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
13 October 1942 | A French Jewish boy, Jean Stolowicz, was born in Paris. He arrived at #Auschwitz on 10 October 1943 in a transport of 1,000 Jews deported from #Drancy. He was among 491 of them murdered in a gas chamber after the selection. -- Children at Auschwitz: youtu.be/aYKx_zpLSqA
Black and white photo of a young boy wearing a traditional outfit with a detailed collar.Vintage black and white photo of a young boy, sitting and looking directly at the camera.
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Jeff McKown @waythingsturn.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Portland is an American hero.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 13/10/2025
Reverend David Black, the senior pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying at the armed agents above him before being shot in the head with a pepper ball at least twice and falling to his knees. Black said he could hear ICE laughing. trib.al/9Nstfnp
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
OCTOBER 18TH across 🇺🇸 & Tennessee Republicans are calling them “Hate America” rallies, but as with most things they say it’s exactly the opposite. 🇺🇸 #NoKings 👑 Find one: www.nokings.org
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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
At what point will our media ask about Trump’s obvious mental decline? He’s so far gone that he does not remember he was president in January 6, 2021
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Fred Guttenberg @fredguttenberg.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
(1,2) I have often stated my belief that the Current Occupant of the White House lies about everything. Last night he posted this. He is either knowingly lying, senile, or both. HE WAS THE PRESIDENT ON JANUARY 6TH. Biden was still a private citizen.
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
The regime gets more deranged every day. A rightwing conspiracy theorist assassinated a Democratic lawmaker - which the attorney general presents as an example of leftwing political violence in order to justify an authoritarian crackdown on the opposition… We’re in incredibly dangerous territory.
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Republicans are 💯 responsible for shielding the pedophiles they once promised to expose. Republicans are 💯 responsible for stoking civil unrest across the country. They’ve peddled in inflammatory rhetoric for years, outlawed anti-fascism, weaponized the DOJ, ICE and the National Guard. (3/3)
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Jeff McKown @waythingsturn.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
I just donated, and I can’t wait to fully participate in democracy at next Saturday’s No Kings protest.
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