Bridie Macdonald
@bridiemacdonald.bsky.social
I make stuff (images, words, things). Magic is everywhere. Curiosity leads to great treasures. Yes to collaboration rather than extraction! Yes to #biophilia #bluecrew #love — I didn't vote for this chaos machine. 👉DMs blocked unless I know you
Exciting wins this week against the giant extraction machine who's bounty goes to only a teeny tiny percentage of everyone. Here is a clip that outlined peak corporate awfulness. P.S. the teeny tiny amount Nestle pays for their water that they sell back to us is truly astonishing.
Only Rich People Deserve to Live
YouTube video by Rebal D
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November 6, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Exciting wins this week against the giant extraction machine who's bounty goes to only a teeny tiny percentage of everyone. Here is a clip that outlined peak corporate awfulness. P.S. the teeny tiny amount Nestle pays for their water that they sell back to us is truly astonishing.
Increasingly the news just makes me tired.
October 22, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Increasingly the news just makes me tired.
Increasingly makes me think of DC comics Bizzaro world ""Us do opposite of all earthly things! Us hate beauty! Us love ugliness! Is big crime to make anything perfect on Bizarro World!".
TRUMP IN JULY, discussing plans to build a ballroom beside the White House:
“It won’t interfere with the current building. It’ll be near it but not touching it — and pays total respect to the existing building, which I’m the biggest fan of."
THE NEWS TODAY:
Trump is demolishing the entire East Wing.
“It won’t interfere with the current building. It’ll be near it but not touching it — and pays total respect to the existing building, which I’m the biggest fan of."
THE NEWS TODAY:
Trump is demolishing the entire East Wing.
October 22, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Increasingly makes me think of DC comics Bizzaro world ""Us do opposite of all earthly things! Us hate beauty! Us love ugliness! Is big crime to make anything perfect on Bizarro World!".
Increasingly the quality of writing seems so dumbed down that I really am left without words. Ironically this article has a bi-line but sure does sound like it's written via AI "The writer, who is clearly a fan of using the imagination, as evidenced in his writing, calls it "a form of perception"."
Author Philip Pullman calls on government to act over 'wicked' AI scraping
The writer of the trilogies His Dark Materials and The Book of Dust wants copyright laws changed.
www.bbc.com
October 22, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Increasingly the quality of writing seems so dumbed down that I really am left without words. Ironically this article has a bi-line but sure does sound like it's written via AI "The writer, who is clearly a fan of using the imagination, as evidenced in his writing, calls it "a form of perception"."
Joyful resistance. >> "The goal was to make it harder for the Proud Boys to create slick online recruitment videos. "We're not going to change their minds," one organizer said. "But we can make sure their videos are filled with poop emojis and a lot of music.""
What anti-Trump protests can learn from Portland's tactics
The city's residents are leaning into an absurdist approach from its long history of protest.
www.msnbc.com
October 16, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Joyful resistance. >> "The goal was to make it harder for the Proud Boys to create slick online recruitment videos. "We're not going to change their minds," one organizer said. "But we can make sure their videos are filled with poop emojis and a lot of music.""
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A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
October 16, 2025 at 2:07 PM
A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
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California will start producing and selling its own supply of low-cost insulin in January.
The suggested price for consumers will be no more than $55 for a pack of five pens.
Currently even generic insulin typically costs about $260 for a pack of five.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
The suggested price for consumers will be no more than $55 for a pack of five pens.
Currently even generic insulin typically costs about $260 for a pack of five.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
In shot across Big Pharma's bow, California will sell its own insulin
Delivery of the state-branded drug makes good on a longstanding promise by Gov. Gavin Newsom.
www.politico.com
October 16, 2025 at 1:59 PM
California will start producing and selling its own supply of low-cost insulin in January.
The suggested price for consumers will be no more than $55 for a pack of five pens.
Currently even generic insulin typically costs about $260 for a pack of five.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
The suggested price for consumers will be no more than $55 for a pack of five pens.
Currently even generic insulin typically costs about $260 for a pack of five.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
As the MAGA sanctioned violence of ICE continues and escalates, I think of Kent State and the killings that happened May 4, 1979. >> This is a conversation w/ Devo's Jerry Casale on that event. "history as it had been taught was one big lie." Also catch the doc on DEVO if you can - it's very good.
Remembering May 4 - An Interview with Devo's Jerry Casale
“I had always been making art and music but the events of May 4th and beyond galvanized my creativity, infusing it with an existential anger and urgency that would otherwise not have happened. In shor...
www.kent.edu
October 14, 2025 at 9:27 AM
As the MAGA sanctioned violence of ICE continues and escalates, I think of Kent State and the killings that happened May 4, 1979. >> This is a conversation w/ Devo's Jerry Casale on that event. "history as it had been taught was one big lie." Also catch the doc on DEVO if you can - it's very good.
People are fascinated with serial killers & their terrible deeds. Monsters! Yet, some people go to war and do things as bad as any of them. Related Some ICE workers clearly are there for the violence & their post has become their permission slip. Also worth a read > the Stanford Prison Experiment.
The Menace Within
What happened in the basement of the psych building 40 years ago shocked the world. How do the guards, prisoners and researchers in the Stanford Prison Experiment feel about it now?
stanfordmag.org
October 13, 2025 at 11:23 AM
People are fascinated with serial killers & their terrible deeds. Monsters! Yet, some people go to war and do things as bad as any of them. Related Some ICE workers clearly are there for the violence & their post has become their permission slip. Also worth a read > the Stanford Prison Experiment.
This popped into my feed today. So many specific details about the rot behind our current farm labor system that has slavery kind of built in, from a small farmer, crop scientist and ex-farm worker, Sarah Taber. 24 minutes....wow. #thesystemisrigged #ice
ICE Raids Are Only Half The Story
YouTube video by Farm to Taber
www.youtube.com
October 13, 2025 at 10:46 AM
This popped into my feed today. So many specific details about the rot behind our current farm labor system that has slavery kind of built in, from a small farmer, crop scientist and ex-farm worker, Sarah Taber. 24 minutes....wow. #thesystemisrigged #ice
"Fear. Anger. Hate.....by design these platforms spread lies - by a 2018 study 6xs faster....if you lace it with fear, anger, hate it can go viral.....online violence is real world violence." Maria Ressa, Nobel Peace Prize-winning journalist #thedailyshow
Maria Ressa - Fighting Back Against Trump’s Authoritarian Algorithm With Truth | The Daily Show
YouTube video by The Daily Show
www.youtube.com
September 19, 2025 at 9:26 AM
"Fear. Anger. Hate.....by design these platforms spread lies - by a 2018 study 6xs faster....if you lace it with fear, anger, hate it can go viral.....online violence is real world violence." Maria Ressa, Nobel Peace Prize-winning journalist #thedailyshow
THE most unfriendly "friends". Fox and Friends host Brian Kilmeade suggests in response to the other host's suggestion to jail all homeless people who have mental illness - that actual murder is another solution “...or involuntary lethal injection… or something. Just kill ‘em.” #WTF
Fox News’ host Brian Kilmeade says ‘just kill ‘em’ about mentally ill homeless people
Comments met with outrage online and calls for him to resign
www.independent.co.uk
September 14, 2025 at 12:25 AM
THE most unfriendly "friends". Fox and Friends host Brian Kilmeade suggests in response to the other host's suggestion to jail all homeless people who have mental illness - that actual murder is another solution “...or involuntary lethal injection… or something. Just kill ‘em.” #WTF
That "birthday book" is so weird & slapped together. Besides the infamouse Trump letter are odd little notes and drawings and zebras and lions having sex. linked below for you to see with your own very own eyes (from PBS yeah, the one that is being defunded by this administration. #eptstein
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September 10, 2025 at 10:39 PM
That "birthday book" is so weird & slapped together. Besides the infamouse Trump letter are odd little notes and drawings and zebras and lions having sex. linked below for you to see with your own very own eyes (from PBS yeah, the one that is being defunded by this administration. #eptstein
Reposted by Bridie Macdonald
Let this sink in…
September 3, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Let this sink in…
"75 in a 70 is not a national security thread" - John Shin, a Utah violinist, has returned to Utah after being held by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Colorado. He was reportedly released on bond after being detained on Aug. 18. #icestory
Violinist detained by ICE speaks after returning to Utah
YouTube video by KSL News Utah
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September 7, 2025 at 6:43 AM
"75 in a 70 is not a national security thread" - John Shin, a Utah violinist, has returned to Utah after being held by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Colorado. He was reportedly released on bond after being detained on Aug. 18. #icestory
I stopped shopping at Target specifically after they rolled back their "inclusive" policies. The daughter of the founder of Target Anne & Lucy Dayton called the move "a betrayal". The boycott was lead by Pastor Jamal H. Bryant. "I think we are looking at the moving of peanut shells in central park."
Target CEO steps down as company faces weak sales and customer boycott
Brian Cornell to be replaced next year as retailer navigates boycott over its scaling back of DEI initiatives
www.theguardian.com
August 22, 2025 at 4:16 AM
I stopped shopping at Target specifically after they rolled back their "inclusive" policies. The daughter of the founder of Target Anne & Lucy Dayton called the move "a betrayal". The boycott was lead by Pastor Jamal H. Bryant. "I think we are looking at the moving of peanut shells in central park."
"those Epstein files gonna bite your butt and it 'aint gonna go away" Cathy Fink, 2 Spoons Music
IT AINT GONNA GO AWAY - ODE TO THE EPSTEIN FILES
YouTube video by Cathy Fink Marcy Marxer
www.youtube.com
August 18, 2025 at 6:54 PM
"those Epstein files gonna bite your butt and it 'aint gonna go away" Cathy Fink, 2 Spoons Music
Just finished this over three hour interview with Hunter Biden. He goes into detail talking about EVERYTHING. Great conversation covering everything from his past drug addiction to *that* George Clooney op-ed. #huntterbiden
Hunter Biden Interview
YouTube video by Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan
www.youtube.com
August 6, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Just finished this over three hour interview with Hunter Biden. He goes into detail talking about EVERYTHING. Great conversation covering everything from his past drug addiction to *that* George Clooney op-ed. #huntterbiden
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my new piece in @thenation.com, up now. no trigger alert: no eddie cantor references in this one. www.thenation.com/article/cult...
Jay Leno’s Phony Case for Balanced Comedy
The former Tonight Show host thinks a dose of bothsidesism will punch up the late-night scene.
www.thenation.com
July 30, 2025 at 3:16 PM
my new piece in @thenation.com, up now. no trigger alert: no eddie cantor references in this one. www.thenation.com/article/cult...
Katie Couric does a great job of outlining the facts around MAGA's terrible well, everything. 1. Destroying Food Aid housed in Saudi Arabia 2. There were guidelines in place to make The Hill Country safer - they were ignored 3. and of course Epstein
KATIE COURIC LIVE #1: All About the Epstein Files
YouTube video by Katie Couric
www.youtube.com
July 16, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Katie Couric does a great job of outlining the facts around MAGA's terrible well, everything. 1. Destroying Food Aid housed in Saudi Arabia 2. There were guidelines in place to make The Hill Country safer - they were ignored 3. and of course Epstein
The very 1st place I lived in LA was across from MacArthur Park - in a million years I would not have predicted that many years later in the following century there would come a day when a heavy military outfit would stomp around the park, scare people & shut down a kids sumner camp. #losangeles
July 8, 2025 at 12:19 PM
The very 1st place I lived in LA was across from MacArthur Park - in a million years I would not have predicted that many years later in the following century there would come a day when a heavy military outfit would stomp around the park, scare people & shut down a kids sumner camp. #losangeles
Why one pre-med recent UCLA grad is choosing to move to Tijuana. This is such a great listen. #mexico
Why I'm Moving to Mexico After Graduating from UCLA
YouTube video by Sea Valiente
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July 6, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Why one pre-med recent UCLA grad is choosing to move to Tijuana. This is such a great listen. #mexico
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It’s costing taxpayers $450/M annually & Alligator Alcatraz concentration camp is already flooding. Imagine a hurricane. People are going to die.
There’s always enough money to hurt folks, but when it comes to public transit, low-income housing, schools, or public healthcare, “Sorry, we’re broke.”
There’s always enough money to hurt folks, but when it comes to public transit, low-income housing, schools, or public healthcare, “Sorry, we’re broke.”
July 2, 2025 at 10:22 AM
It’s costing taxpayers $450/M annually & Alligator Alcatraz concentration camp is already flooding. Imagine a hurricane. People are going to die.
There’s always enough money to hurt folks, but when it comes to public transit, low-income housing, schools, or public healthcare, “Sorry, we’re broke.”
There’s always enough money to hurt folks, but when it comes to public transit, low-income housing, schools, or public healthcare, “Sorry, we’re broke.”
Friend and new kid on the block fighting the good fight.
June 28, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Friend and new kid on the block fighting the good fight.