R. J. MacReady

R. J. MacReady

@macreadything.bsky.social

Cowboy helicopter pilot, arctic research team member, flamethrower expert, thing killer. Opinions are my own? Arctic Tundra (a.k.a. Minnesota)

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Whoever that reporter was, can we please get him to every press meeting? Please and thank you.

Headquarters@headquartersnews.bsky.social

Reporter: Do you believe that 5 deaths, potentially 6 from measles in Pennsylvania-- Staffer: We're not gonna talk about measles-- Reporter: He's the highest ranking health official in the country, he can answer that question. He's a Cabinet Secretary.

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The owners of the oil tanker Minerva Zen travelling from St Petersburg to the US East Coast say it is actually carrying liquid fertiliser not oil.

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Not only should brooks and others shut up. But Ossoff is the best example in the country of a Democrat playing dominance politics and using it to control the whole terms of his race.

Watch for the "Midterm Surprise!", will be wild!

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "My Rally crowds & enthusiasm are unbelievable! Nobody has seen anything like it. We are flipping races all over... the Dumocrats never counted on this. Thanks you to the great Networks covering the Rallies in full. They are being rewarded with BIG RATINGS. Watch for the 'Midterm Surprise!'"

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A third aircraft carrier and a second Marine division has now been sent toward Iran, the WSJ is reporting. Looks like Trump wants to empty those stockpiles completely.

Don't threaten me with a good time!

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One of the biggest media failures (among many) of the past year has been the failure to cover the Venezuela "operation" for what it was--a smash-and-grab mafia state theft by the U.S. that violates international law and the rights of Venezuelans while achieving very damn little for the U.S.

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These people make Marie Antoinette look connected to the people and empathetic by comparison. They laugh at what their own voters are going through as they continue to mock them as they enrich themselves and have a great time.

As if we needed more examples that demonstrate what we (Minnesotans) already know: that Emmer is a hypocriticial POS.

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

L - Tom Emmer in 2024 on the House subpoenaing Hunter Biden. R - Tom Emmer today on why the House shouldn’t investigate Don Jr: He’s a private citizen.

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Replying to @pbump.com

You can become a journalist to be a TV star or to join the elites or to write an American canto or you can become a journalist to challenge power and advocate for the powerless.

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The UN’s International Maritime Organization says around 6,000 seafarers aboard roughly 400 ships are still stranded in the Persian Gulf, unable to safely exit through the Strait of Hormuz. This is Trump’s problem now, right, as America “owns” the Strait?

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standard. SCOTUS allows Trump to continue to create literal facts on the ground while they 'consider' his his meritless challenge. nothing is more important than reforming the court and ending its corruption.

Peter Baker@peterbakernyt.bsky.social

John Roberts allows Trump to continue building his ballroom for now as the justices consider a legal challenge. @amarimow.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/u...

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What folks miss is MAGA doesn't care if people think Trump cheated for the 1900th time. What worries is the image of an 80 yr old man wildly dependent on a clincially fangirlish 30-something who he appears to use as a kind of human emotional support blanket as his faculties & political power fade.

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Senior IRGC official General Mohammad Reza Naqdi: “Victory is not enough. Iran wants revenge for Khamenei, and the Basij has been ordered to expand operations abroad.”

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The Iranian Revolutionary Guards have a public exhibition displaying downed aircraft from the war, including a US F-15E and several MQ-9 Reapers, as if the humiliation wasn’t enough already.

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Replying to @jowiph.bsky.social

"Elon didn't kill anyone, he just cut foreign aid" shut up shut the fuck up, Hitler didn't personally execute 6 million Jews either, if you knowing enact a policy that results in mass death, you are responsible for the mass death.

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RESULT in #MN02: The Democratic primary to replace Rep. Angie Craig (who is running for Senate) was won by a progressive candidate to her left: state Senator Matt Little easily prevailed in a three-way race that drew a lot of spending.

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🚨🚨Trump loses again. His endorsed candidate - Mike Lindell the pillow clown conspiracy theorist - goes down to State House Speaker Demuth who will get her ass most likely kicked by Klobuchar this Nov. Trump who reportedly recently cut & by ran in a catering truck doesn’t appear to have the juice.

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Doctor here 👋 There's no new evidence that supports this. He's just making up policies that would cost families more and make kids less safe. It's expensive and it's dangerous.

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com

NEWS: Trump has signed an executive order overhauling the childhood vaccine schedule, pushing to separate vaccines into multiple appointments and split up the MMR shot. Medical experts warn the changes could leave children vulnerable to dangerous diseases for longer.

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This guy never served. He faked an injury to avoid the draft. None of his children have served. He called those who did serve their country "suckers and losers." He skipped the centenary memorial for servicemen who died in WWI because it was drizzling. This is more than usually repellent.

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Honestly, there has never been a leader of any country ever as stupid as this one. Trump: "I owned the Miss Universe pageant. And Miss Venezuela always did very well in that pageant. So I know something about the country."

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Replying to @chadbourn.bsky.social

Might also be worth pointing out that the other wars had troops in action. (Venezuela wasn’t a war it was an extraction.) In Iran, service members are dying *at their own bases* because the higher-ups are too incompetent to protect them.

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My takeaway from that speech is that we are headed down the road of Trump trying to outright rig elections. It probably won't work, but he's going for it.

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In a sane world (an alt reality) today's dissents would sufficient to warrant Thomas, Gorsuch and Alito's impeachment and removal from office. If you defy the plain words, meaning, intent, history, precedent of a black letter constitutional injunction u are abusing your power and should be removed.

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same guy

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Rep. Tom Kean finally speaks after months away from Congress for a previously unexplained absence: "I was given the diagnosis of depression ... the doctors recommended I remain in the hospital to address my illness"

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Damn, I thought I'd lined up an interview with arch coup plotter Rep. Scott Perry in which he'd have the chance to explain/argue/prove his claim that j6 and the coup plot never happened. Alas ...

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Replying to @chadbourn.bsky.social

This answer from Rubio illustrates the stupidity of the Trump administration. It’s now in the Premier League of countries that disregard international law, with small boats in the Caribbean, the War itself… Reporter: “Can the US and allies guarantee freedom of navigation in the Strait?” 1/

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Replying to @chadbourn.bsky.social

The Iranian delegation humiliated Vance and Witkoff in Switzerland. They made the US team wait, turned up after the media had gone, then refused to shake hands. This is also how you know who is winning and who is desperate.

Oh man, this is so sweet, it's like taking a glucose tolerance test!

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

JD Vance comes out in support of Iran's right of self-defense and right to have ballistic missiles: "Israel doesn't give up the right of self-defense if Hezbollah fires rockets or drones at Israel. The Iranians don't give up the right of self-defense in their country."

lolwut?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

KAITLAN COLLINS: Are you okay with Iran having missiles? SEN. ROGER MARSHALL: I prefer that they not, but they have to defend themselves COLLINS: You think Iran needs to be able to defend itself? MARSHALL: I do, otherwise we turn this into a forever war