Carol McDonald (they/them)
@carolmcdonald.bsky.social
Doer. Maker. Mover. Shaker.
Founding partner at KEACALI.com.
Working at the intersection of art and advocacy to build a new world.
Founding partner at KEACALI.com.
Working at the intersection of art and advocacy to build a new world.
Dude WTF
BREAKING: Trump orders the Pentagon to start testing nuclear weapons for the first time since 1992.
Trump orders Pentagon to begin testing nuclear weapons 'immediately'
The U.S. voluntarily halted nuclear explosive testing in 1992, though it has the ability to resume tests at a site in Nevada.
nbcnews.to
October 30, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Dude WTF
Wait — and I’m not being sarcastic at all — people were pressed about the Amelia Earhart files…? Like, why is this news?
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...
Trump Orders Unsealing of All Files on Amelia Earhart and Her Disappearance
www.nytimes.com
September 27, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Wait — and I’m not being sarcastic at all — people were pressed about the Amelia Earhart files…? Like, why is this news?
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...
What do you mean the hangings on the same day in the same state aren’t connected?!? Y’all just hang people loose?!?!?
www.clarionledger.com/story/news/l...
www.clarionledger.com/story/news/l...
Another man found hanging from tree in Mississippi. This time in Vicksburg, police say
Authorities said a man was found hanging from a tree on Monday, Sept. 15 near a Vicksburg casino.
www.clarionledger.com
September 16, 2025 at 9:10 PM
What do you mean the hangings on the same day in the same state aren’t connected?!? Y’all just hang people loose?!?!?
www.clarionledger.com/story/news/l...
www.clarionledger.com/story/news/l...
Damn Mississippi!
The body of 35-year-old Cory Zukatis, a homeless man, was found hanging in a tree in Vicksburg, Mississippi, on Monday afternoon, hours after officials found a student hanging in a tree on the Delta State University campus 100 miles away.
Police say there is no connection.
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Police say there is no connection.
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Man Found Hanging in Tree in Vicksburg, Hours After DSU Hanging
The body of 35-year-old Cory Zukatis, a homeless man, was found hanging from a tree in a wooded area in Vicksburg, Mississippi.
www.mississippifreepress.org
September 16, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Damn Mississippi!
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Hey, so...Covid rates have gotten real high. Maybe change your behavior to fit this new risk profile? Stop eating indoors at restaurants, mask on mass transit, that kind of thing?
September 15, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Hey, so...Covid rates have gotten real high. Maybe change your behavior to fit this new risk profile? Stop eating indoors at restaurants, mask on mass transit, that kind of thing?
MA’AM.
We’re in the middle of a hostile government takeover.
Surely you have a better contribution to the cause than to tell people how to use their words.
We’re in the middle of a hostile government takeover.
Surely you have a better contribution to the cause than to tell people how to use their words.
Don't say "birthing person."
Don't say "incarcerated person."
Don't say "the unhoused."
Don't say "chest feeding."
Don't say "centering.
Don't say "Latinx."
When voters hear this, they think Democrats are out of touch crazy people. Just talk normal. Be normal.
Don't say "incarcerated person."
Don't say "the unhoused."
Don't say "chest feeding."
Don't say "centering.
Don't say "Latinx."
When voters hear this, they think Democrats are out of touch crazy people. Just talk normal. Be normal.
August 22, 2025 at 10:24 PM
MA’AM.
We’re in the middle of a hostile government takeover.
Surely you have a better contribution to the cause than to tell people how to use their words.
We’re in the middle of a hostile government takeover.
Surely you have a better contribution to the cause than to tell people how to use their words.
The name My Source News Opinion Now sounds like Worldstar Hip Hop for white people.
Which actually is quite fitting for these times now that I think about it…
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www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/...
Which actually is quite fitting for
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www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/...
MSNBC to become MS NOW, My Source News Opinion World
CNBC's Andrew Ross Sorkin discusses the new name for MSNBC.
www.msnbc.com
August 19, 2025 at 12:45 PM
The name My Source News Opinion Now sounds like Worldstar Hip Hop for white people.
Which actually is quite fitting for these times now that I think about it…
🤷🏾♀️
www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/...
Which actually is quite fitting for
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www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/...
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Reposted by Carol McDonald (they/them)
I’m definitely going to watch this Hannah Arendt documentary now streaming on PBS.
Arendt was a political theorist who coined the phrase “banality of evil,” which inspired the famous Milgram experiments into how every day people could suppress their own morals in the face of authority.
Arendt was a political theorist who coined the phrase “banality of evil,” which inspired the famous Milgram experiments into how every day people could suppress their own morals in the face of authority.
August 3, 2025 at 8:20 PM
I’m definitely going to watch this Hannah Arendt documentary now streaming on PBS.
Arendt was a political theorist who coined the phrase “banality of evil,” which inspired the famous Milgram experiments into how every day people could suppress their own morals in the face of authority.
Arendt was a political theorist who coined the phrase “banality of evil,” which inspired the famous Milgram experiments into how every day people could suppress their own morals in the face of authority.
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Right! We got hounded out of doing it, and then we got it done right back to researchers and civil servants — by folks tied to the Project 2025 people now staffing Trump 47! — for jollies.
August 2, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Right! We got hounded out of doing it, and then we got it done right back to researchers and civil servants — by folks tied to the Project 2025 people now staffing Trump 47! — for jollies.
Reposted by Carol McDonald (they/them)
The parts of the economy that directly touch regular people's lives are not doing well.
August 1, 2025 at 1:09 PM
The parts of the economy that directly touch regular people's lives are not doing well.
There is no bottom.
Everyday it’s a new flavor of horror.
Like, what in the fresh hell?!?
Everyday it’s a new flavor of horror.
Like, what in the fresh hell?!?
Aid groups report that Israel is refusing to allow any olives or other “fruits or vegetables with pits or seeds that could be planted” into Gaza. They will only allow in pitted olives.
Israel’s new measures do nothing to stop the starvation crisis in Gaza, say aid workers
Humanitarian workers say airdrops and corridors to allow trucks into region have done little to stop the rising death toll
www.theguardian.com
July 31, 2025 at 12:55 AM
There is no bottom.
Everyday it’s a new flavor of horror.
Like, what in the fresh hell?!?
Everyday it’s a new flavor of horror.
Like, what in the fresh hell?!?
Because of Manchin’s “centrism” a bunch of people will die so yeah this title is very accurate.
And his “centrism” is pretty firmly to the right, as is the side of his face shown and its placement on the cover.
Like these are all choices. Did he mean that or did he get played by his editor?
And his “centrism” is pretty firmly to the right, as is the side of his face shown and its placement on the cover.
Like these are all choices. Did he mean that or did he get played by his editor?
I seriously do not know how this title got through even a single launch meeting.
July 29, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Because of Manchin’s “centrism” a bunch of people will die so yeah this title is very accurate.
And his “centrism” is pretty firmly to the right, as is the side of his face shown and its placement on the cover.
Like these are all choices. Did he mean that or did he get played by his editor?
And his “centrism” is pretty firmly to the right, as is the side of his face shown and its placement on the cover.
Like these are all choices. Did he mean that or did he get played by his editor?
Wow. WOW!!
Well, I'll be damned.
It's royalty free and there's already six, generic manufacturers lined up.
newatlas.com/infectious-d...
It's royalty free and there's already six, generic manufacturers lined up.
newatlas.com/infectious-d...
The first 100% effective HIV prevention drug is approved and going global
An epidemic that's been sustained for 44 years might finally be quelled, with the milestone approval of the first HIV drug that offers 100% protection with its twice-yearly injections. It's a landmark...
newatlas.com
July 28, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Wow. WOW!!
90 days from August 1 is about 4 weeks before Black Friday and the holiday shopping season. That’s a *perfect* time for goods from China to cost more due to tariffs.
I guess when cruelty is the point, ruining Christmas is on the menu.
I guess when cruelty is the point, ruining Christmas is on the menu.
July 27, 2025 at 10:20 PM
90 days from August 1 is about 4 weeks before Black Friday and the holiday shopping season. That’s a *perfect* time for goods from China to cost more due to tariffs.
I guess when cruelty is the point, ruining Christmas is on the menu.
I guess when cruelty is the point, ruining Christmas is on the menu.
How does this even make sense…?
Good luck to those in the community when strep throat or other communicable illnesses takes hold.
Lawrence County in TN no longer accepting doctors’ notes to excuse student absences.
We’re no longer on the edge of fascism.
Lawrence County in TN no longer accepting doctors’ notes to excuse student absences.
We’re no longer on the edge of fascism.
July 27, 2025 at 8:08 PM
How does this even make sense…?
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Alt: a man wearing glasses says "i very much need your help"
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July 27, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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July 26, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Yeah…I have thoughts and feelings about the current uses of AI. Like, can we bake this thing a little longer before unleashing it onto the world all half-done and wrong?
This happened to me recently. I was having an entire repository scanned for any inconsistencies. The AI then started editing files it wasn't supposed to — ones that had been painstakingly written and not yet committed.
The agent was apologizing while actively destroying my setup.
The agent was apologizing while actively destroying my setup.
July 26, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Yeah…I have thoughts and feelings about the current uses of AI. Like, can we bake this thing a little longer before unleashing it onto the world all half-done and wrong?
Oh wow!
July 25, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Oh wow!
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Since being unhoused last month, I’ve settled into a hotel that’s near my job. Now, I’m looking… Andrea Plaid needs your support for $5 to Help Me Find a Home
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July 24, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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I think something broke in the matrix last night. What are the astrologers saying? Who do I need to be following?!?
July 24, 2025 at 3:02 PM
I think something broke in the matrix last night. What are the astrologers saying? Who do I need to be following?!?