Patrick McCann
@pjmccann3.bsky.social
Husband of @eamccann.bsky.social
Father of a future lawyer
Retired Molecular Biologist/Virologist + MBA
4° black belt in Wa-shin-ryu Karate-do
#Geocachers - ShadesOfGray
Secular Humanist
DemSoc
E Street
Belmartian in the FLX
https://linktr.ee/pjmccann3
Father of a future lawyer
Retired Molecular Biologist/Virologist + MBA
4° black belt in Wa-shin-ryu Karate-do
#Geocachers - ShadesOfGray
Secular Humanist
DemSoc
E Street
Belmartian in the FLX
https://linktr.ee/pjmccann3
Pinned
@hcrichardson.bsky.social nails it in her opening…
“We are watching the ideology of the far-right MAGAs smash against reality, with President Donald J. Trump and his cronies madly trying to convince voters to believe in their false world rather than the real one.”
“We are watching the ideology of the far-right MAGAs smash against reality, with President Donald J. Trump and his cronies madly trying to convince voters to believe in their false world rather than the real one.”
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Trump has destroyed all credibility in government departments. The latest one: the Justice Department classifying fentanyl as a chemical weapon to justify murdering civilians in small boats.
Words mean nothing any more. Neither does authority. We do what we want. Take or leave our excuse.
Words mean nothing any more. Neither does authority. We do what we want. Take or leave our excuse.
November 14, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Trump has destroyed all credibility in government departments. The latest one: the Justice Department classifying fentanyl as a chemical weapon to justify murdering civilians in small boats.
Words mean nothing any more. Neither does authority. We do what we want. Take or leave our excuse.
Words mean nothing any more. Neither does authority. We do what we want. Take or leave our excuse.
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Merrick Garland left a standing impression that no one powerful will ever be held accountable. Democrats should rectify that by saying, loudly and every hour, that people who act on illegal orders will face punishment by the next DOJ.
Dems can say: Are you really sure you want to trust Trump, of all people, when he tells you that what he’s directing you to do is lawful, and that you’ll be protected later as a result? That’s a tenuous position for anyone to put themselves into—and Dems should not hesitate to say so.
Awful: Trump's boat bombings are now being justified by a new legal memo that relies on WH's own determinations as evidence. Memo also says people can't be prosecuted for the killings. But that reveals WH knows there's legal vulnerability here, Ds tell me.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2032...
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2032...
November 14, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Merrick Garland left a standing impression that no one powerful will ever be held accountable. Democrats should rectify that by saying, loudly and every hour, that people who act on illegal orders will face punishment by the next DOJ.
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Someone, make this make sense.
Trump wants to attack Venezuela because the cartel must be stopped, yet he pardons drug traffickers here at home.
Something stinks here.
Trump wants to attack Venezuela because the cartel must be stopped, yet he pardons drug traffickers here at home.
Something stinks here.
November 14, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Someone, make this make sense.
Trump wants to attack Venezuela because the cartel must be stopped, yet he pardons drug traffickers here at home.
Something stinks here.
Trump wants to attack Venezuela because the cartel must be stopped, yet he pardons drug traffickers here at home.
Something stinks here.
That they be… Republicans
Burns: The Old Testament says there’s nothing new under the sun. On July 4th, 1776, there was. Everybody up to that point had been under authoritarian rule. It was in the interests of their rulers that they be uneducated, that they be superstitious, that they be distracted by conspiracies…
November 14, 2025 at 10:15 PM
That they be… Republicans
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THE GOP: GUARDIANS OF THE PEDOPHILES
The Trump Administration and the MAGA media ecosystem are engaging in the most disgusting political cover-up in modern history, desperately trying to protect a gang of pedophiles.
with @daniellemoodie.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
The Trump Administration and the MAGA media ecosystem are engaging in the most disgusting political cover-up in modern history, desperately trying to protect a gang of pedophiles.
with @daniellemoodie.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
November 14, 2025 at 10:00 PM
THE GOP: GUARDIANS OF THE PEDOPHILES
The Trump Administration and the MAGA media ecosystem are engaging in the most disgusting political cover-up in modern history, desperately trying to protect a gang of pedophiles.
with @daniellemoodie.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
The Trump Administration and the MAGA media ecosystem are engaging in the most disgusting political cover-up in modern history, desperately trying to protect a gang of pedophiles.
with @daniellemoodie.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
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Republicans continue to weaken the U.S. by dissing foreign allies that are essential to our security.
Nice job senate republicans you fucking clowns
November 14, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Republicans continue to weaken the U.S. by dissing foreign allies that are essential to our security.
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In normal times, it would be a major scandal for the President to direct his AG to criminally investigate his political opponents to deflect from his own involvement in a major scandal — and for the AG to immediately announce she is doing it. The Epstein scandal and cover up just got even bigger.
November 14, 2025 at 10:10 PM
In normal times, it would be a major scandal for the President to direct his AG to criminally investigate his political opponents to deflect from his own involvement in a major scandal — and for the AG to immediately announce she is doing it. The Epstein scandal and cover up just got even bigger.
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Biden didn’t release the Epstein files because Merrick Garland was actively investigating Epstein/Maxwell co-conspirators all the way up until January 2025. Then Trump shuttered the probe. www.cbsnews.com/news/jeffrey...
House Democrats press DOJ for details on Epstein co-conspirators probe that was "inexplicably killed"
Survivors of Jeffrey Epstein provided the Justice Department with "precise and detailed" information about 20 alleged co-conspirators, House Democrats say.
www.cbsnews.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Biden didn’t release the Epstein files because Merrick Garland was actively investigating Epstein/Maxwell co-conspirators all the way up until January 2025. Then Trump shuttered the probe. www.cbsnews.com/news/jeffrey...
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I'm tired of the establishment pissing on my shoe & telling me it's raining
Don't vote for bills that will hurt the US
They approved a budget that does exactly that
As long as Democrats allow themselves to be strong armed, they are failing the American people & deserve to be called out on it
Don't vote for bills that will hurt the US
They approved a budget that does exactly that
As long as Democrats allow themselves to be strong armed, they are failing the American people & deserve to be called out on it
November 14, 2025 at 3:27 PM
I'm tired of the establishment pissing on my shoe & telling me it's raining
Don't vote for bills that will hurt the US
They approved a budget that does exactly that
As long as Democrats allow themselves to be strong armed, they are failing the American people & deserve to be called out on it
Don't vote for bills that will hurt the US
They approved a budget that does exactly that
As long as Democrats allow themselves to be strong armed, they are failing the American people & deserve to be called out on it
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I just don’t understand how anyone can think we have any chance of having a sane country as long as this kind of despicable propaganda, lies and bigotry is broadcast daily by the biggest news site in the country.
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 13, 2025 at 11:37 PM
I just don’t understand how anyone can think we have any chance of having a sane country as long as this kind of despicable propaganda, lies and bigotry is broadcast daily by the biggest news site in the country.
And let’s not forget another “illegal” Republican war…
As Mark Hertling predicted, Venezuelan armed resistance would be highly decentralized - and so very hard to break. The country is quite large, with widely varied terrain, and Maduro has for over a decade been preparing for an asymmetrical war with the US.
In short, another dumb & disastrous war.
In short, another dumb & disastrous war.
Trump, who has criticized America’s past “forever wars” and spent much of this year focused on ending major foreign conflicts, might be about to start one in his own backyard. The Atlantic reports on the president’s endgame in Venezuela:
November 14, 2025 at 4:13 PM
And let’s not forget another “illegal” Republican war…
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In public: Trump wrongly insists prices are down
In private: he's plotting how to flip flop on his own reckless trade policies because prices are too high.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
In private: he's plotting how to flip flop on his own reckless trade policies because prices are too high.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
November 14, 2025 at 12:50 PM
In public: Trump wrongly insists prices are down
In private: he's plotting how to flip flop on his own reckless trade policies because prices are too high.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
In private: he's plotting how to flip flop on his own reckless trade policies because prices are too high.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
I wonder when Ghislaine “Corroborator” Maxwell will be suicided…
And it got her an unprecedented transfer as a sex offender to a minimum security Club Fed where she has laptop access, individual meals delivered, a puppy, and yoga class. For a habitual liar and child trafficker to get a deal like that from DOJ is pretty sweet.
November 14, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I wonder when Ghislaine “Corroborator” Maxwell will be suicided…
Finally someone agrees with me…
The Trump admin is an organized crime operation that has control of the US government.
November 14, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Finally someone agrees with me…
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Every day there are multiple instances of blatant corruption. Our government policy is for sale to the highest bidder and every bad actor in the world knows it. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/w...
November 14, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Every day there are multiple instances of blatant corruption. Our government policy is for sale to the highest bidder and every bad actor in the world knows it. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/w...
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Megyn Kelly is not just problematic in her defense of Trump and Epstein…she is emblematic of the decline in humanity infesting the Republican Party. The double standard for the definition of a child. The excuses…the rot at the center of the GOP.
open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...
open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...
Excusing Abuse as Political Strategy
Megyn Kelly and the rot within the GOP
open.substack.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Megyn Kelly is not just problematic in her defense of Trump and Epstein…she is emblematic of the decline in humanity infesting the Republican Party. The double standard for the definition of a child. The excuses…the rot at the center of the GOP.
open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...
open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...
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Reposted by Patrick McCann
Why are Republicans in the House and Senate so afraid to bring Jack Smith before their committees to testify in public under oath before the American people? Isn’t that what MAGA wants? Don’t you want to “expose” him? What’s going on here?
November 14, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Why are Republicans in the House and Senate so afraid to bring Jack Smith before their committees to testify in public under oath before the American people? Isn’t that what MAGA wants? Don’t you want to “expose” him? What’s going on here?
Skills that far too many people lack…
This is what intelligence and critical thinking sound like:
VIA hana.clio
What is there to debate?(for myself)
VIA hana.clio
What is there to debate?(for myself)
November 14, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Skills that far too many people lack…
… don’t lie like every single syllable out of Trump’s mouth.
Americans know the truth about Trump’s economy.
Grocery bills and health insurance premiums don’t lie.
Grocery bills and health insurance premiums don’t lie.
November 14, 2025 at 3:29 PM
… don’t lie like every single syllable out of Trump’s mouth.
@hcrichardson.bsky.social nails it in her opening…
“We are watching the ideology of the far-right MAGAs smash against reality, with President Donald J. Trump and his cronies madly trying to convince voters to believe in their false world rather than the real one.”
“We are watching the ideology of the far-right MAGAs smash against reality, with President Donald J. Trump and his cronies madly trying to convince voters to believe in their false world rather than the real one.”
November 14, 2025 at 3:06 PM
@hcrichardson.bsky.social nails it in her opening…
“We are watching the ideology of the far-right MAGAs smash against reality, with President Donald J. Trump and his cronies madly trying to convince voters to believe in their false world rather than the real one.”
“We are watching the ideology of the far-right MAGAs smash against reality, with President Donald J. Trump and his cronies madly trying to convince voters to believe in their false world rather than the real one.”
Because that’s what @schumer.senate.gov does to members of his own party that do not conform to the Corporate Surrender Dem model…
November 14, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Because that’s what @schumer.senate.gov does to members of his own party that do not conform to the Corporate Surrender Dem model…
Billionaires are destroying the planet for a few extra bucks that they don’t need and will never be able to spend.
#EatTheBillionaires
#EatTheBillionaires
Climate breakdown is driven by a storm of lies. This lying is systemic, funded and coordinated, and operates across almost all media, old and new.
This week's column argues that we cannot fight the climate crisis without also fighting the epistemic crisis.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This week's column argues that we cannot fight the climate crisis without also fighting the epistemic crisis.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage | George Monbiot
The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Billionaires are destroying the planet for a few extra bucks that they don’t need and will never be able to spend.
#EatTheBillionaires
#EatTheBillionaires
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This is why we need fighters in the Dems real bad. GOP + Tr*mp are going to claim they didn't lose in a landslide when voters in the midterms obliterate them. We need Dems who will meet the moment and fight to defend election results. Surrender Dems will cost us more than the ACA.
Things are not good & the majority of US know it. 👇
November 14, 2025 at 1:25 PM
This is why we need fighters in the Dems real bad. GOP + Tr*mp are going to claim they didn't lose in a landslide when voters in the midterms obliterate them. We need Dems who will meet the moment and fight to defend election results. Surrender Dems will cost us more than the ACA.
Reposted by Patrick McCann
As John Scalzi often says, the failure mode of 'clever' is 'a**hole' and a lot of clever people in Epstein’s orbit showed that in their private emails.
November 14, 2025 at 1:36 PM
As John Scalzi often says, the failure mode of 'clever' is 'a**hole' and a lot of clever people in Epstein’s orbit showed that in their private emails.