Maureen McKamey
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Maureen McKamey
@maureenmckamey.bsky.social
TV news anchor-turned-travel agent-turned professional wine geek. Still trying to figure out what I want to do when I grow up, I guess!

WSET Level 3

Minnesota-born, living in Minneapolis. Sports nut, avid reader, world explorer.
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In space, Venus flanks Earth on the left, with a hellfire greenhouse effect. Mars on the right, which long ago had running water. Today, it's bone dry. Something bad happened on each planet.

Seems like the wrong time to limit the Nation’s capacity to conduct climate research.
May 5, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Even *if* you accept Stephen Miller’s (textually, historically, and morally indefensible) claim that undocumented immigrants are not entitled to due process, you’d *still* need due process to ensure that the individuals at issue are, in fact, undocumented.

His argument fails even on its own terms.
May 5, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Meanwhile over on the other place, rightwing free speech warriors (this guy is a former DeSantis campaign staffer) are calling for me to be denaturalized and deported because they don’t like my political speech. This is what fascism and racism looks like, folks.
March 16, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House.

We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.

They own what happens next.
March 14, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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The terrible CR Budget bill — written by right-wing House Republicans with no input from anybody but themselves — was passed tonight with the support of 10 Democrats.
 
An absolute failure of Democratic leadership. NOBODY in the Senate should have voted for this dangerous bill.
March 15, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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Project 2025 says fire federal workers, so they are.

Project 2025 says abolish the Department of Education, so they are.

Project 2025 says kick moms and babies off Medicaid, so they are.
 
Project 2025 calls for a national abortion ban using the Comstock Act… see where I’m going with this?
March 13, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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Finally, someone with the courage to stick it to those evil assholes at Habitat for Humanity.
Kash Patel wants to criminally charge groups who received EPA grants for climate change projects. You know, like those greedy bastards at Habitat for Humanity.

He thinks climate change isn't real, so he thinks these groups have committed fraud.

Which of course is fucking crazy.
Trump’s FBI Moves to Criminally Charge Major Climate Groups
The Trump administration is targeting climate organizations that received a Biden-era grant.
newrepublic.com
March 12, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Ten years ago if you had written a dystopian SF story in which the person in charge of U.S. public health did a press event at a fast food joint to say that fried food is good but measles vaccines cause measles the ghost of Philip K. Dick would have said that you were being too bleak and unrealistic
RFK Jr on the measles vaccine: "There are adverse events from the vaccine. It does cause deaths every year. It causes all the illnesses that measles itself cause."
March 12, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Look, I love #realmadrid with every fiber of my being but can someone please tell me why Julian Alvarez's goal wasn't a goal? Can anyone really show a replay where it's clear he definitively touched the ball with both feet?

#championsleague #atleticodemadrid #realmadrid #madridderby #derbimadrileño
March 13, 2025 at 12:24 AM
I'd like to live in a version of this country where A. The 2028 election actually happens bc we haven't descended fully into a fascist dictatorship by then and B. The winning ticket is some combo of @aoc.bsky.social and @repjasmine.bsky.social. This is it. The final shred of optimism I have left.
March 10, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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DOGE’s expenses have risen above 40 million, with weekly costs now exceeding 10 million. We will release an updated DOGE staff list soon.
February 22, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Minnesota is now South Manitoba. I don't make the rules.
February 21, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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more cities should be uniquely insane like philly
February 10, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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This was the ultimate Hater’s Super Bowl: just a 4 hour straight middle finger to the Chiefs, Trump, and Drake. My heart has grown three sizes tonight
February 10, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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The Chiefs are Great Value brand Patriots is my issue
The commentators are still talking more about Mahomes than like the entire Philadelphia team which is a significant part of why I’m rooting against the Chiefs lol
February 10, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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With the Eagles obliterating the Chiefs, now is a good time to remind everyone that the last time the Eagles won the Super Bowl they refused to go to the White House because of Donald.
February 10, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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A private citizen, with the backing of the President, illegally shut down a major government agency over the weekend and it is not on the front page of this morning's New York Times

@peterbakernyt.bsky.social
February 3, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"
February 2, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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February 3, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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Vikings are undefeated since we started posting on BlueSky again. 👀

#Skol
December 1, 2024 at 9:13 PM
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Just a reminder that there’s an app available for your TV called PBS RETRO where you can watch all sorts of wonderful old pbs shows like Mr. Rogers and Reading Rainbow, you know, in case you might need that sort of energy right now
November 26, 2024 at 1:22 PM
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Lebanon’s Health Ministry has accused Israel of 'war crimes' for targeting medical staff and health facilities, while Israel continues its siege of Gaza's Kamal Adwan hospital and the targeting of its staff and patients.

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Lebanon says Israeli forces target medical workers, air strikes hit Beirut
World Health Organization says 226 health workers, patients killed in Lebanon since start of Israel’s war on Hezbollah.
aje.io
November 23, 2024 at 7:46 AM
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🤣🤣🤣
November 23, 2024 at 7:52 PM
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President-elect Trump promised voters that he would cut energy and electricity prices in half within 18 months of taking office. But energy industry experts noted that a president has limited influence on how much Americans pay at the pump, and even less leverage when it comes to electricity prices.
Trump Promised to Halve Energy Costs in 18 Months. Experts Have Doubts.
A president has little control over global oil markets, economists say.
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2024 at 6:24 PM