Claire McKinney
@clairemckinney.bsky.social
Political theorist, studying reproductive politics and disability
“We stopped pancakeo and saved the pancakes” is I line I just heard on my kid’s weirdo show about monster truck super heroes.
November 17, 2025 at 1:36 AM
“We stopped pancakeo and saved the pancakes” is I line I just heard on my kid’s weirdo show about monster truck super heroes.
To speak ignorantly and incautiously, the housing crisis is a combination of neoliberal bailouts post 2008, private equity, and the sheer failure of municipal governments to look beyond corporate payouts for decades. But also I could be wrong and nothing has consequences on social media.
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 PM
To speak ignorantly and incautiously, the housing crisis is a combination of neoliberal bailouts post 2008, private equity, and the sheer failure of municipal governments to look beyond corporate payouts for decades. But also I could be wrong and nothing has consequences on social media.
My favorite thing my kid says is “no more times” when we have reached his limit for whatever (swinging, songs, nonsense talk). No more times is a great way to end a series of events
November 12, 2025 at 1:16 AM
My favorite thing my kid says is “no more times” when we have reached his limit for whatever (swinging, songs, nonsense talk). No more times is a great way to end a series of events
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tfw when even Reductress has got your ass
November 6, 2025 at 12:08 AM
tfw when even Reductress has got your ass
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Political theorists have lots of explanations for this
A fun fact is that contemporary political philosophy has something like ~no explanation for why democracy is something ordinary people would or should care about this much
ordinary americans are filming ice agents and trying to save their neighbors. for all the hemming and hawing during 2024 about how democracy was an elite concern, the elites gave up far more quickly than average people.
October 24, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Political theorists have lots of explanations for this
If those seeking a more just world of freedom organized, we would see new chapters of Black Power and Trans Justice organizations flourish on college campuses and elsewhere in the wake of the passing of Assata Shakur and Miss Major. It isn't happening now, but let's make this world possible.
October 22, 2025 at 8:40 PM
If those seeking a more just world of freedom organized, we would see new chapters of Black Power and Trans Justice organizations flourish on college campuses and elsewhere in the wake of the passing of Assata Shakur and Miss Major. It isn't happening now, but let's make this world possible.
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I use this too.
October 17, 2025 at 11:27 PM
I use this too.
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There was a two or three year period where political scientists called the US a democracy from 1965 to present, as if the VRA created equality. The fact that I saw no one mark Holder ending democracy spoke to the absurdity of the premise but now we know that multiracial democracy is over, yeah?
October 17, 2025 at 10:25 PM
There was a two or three year period where political scientists called the US a democracy from 1965 to present, as if the VRA created equality. The fact that I saw no one mark Holder ending democracy spoke to the absurdity of the premise but now we know that multiracial democracy is over, yeah?
As a feminist theorist specializing in democratic thought and working in the US, I feel like I am basically the appendix of this body politic.
October 8, 2025 at 3:55 PM
As a feminist theorist specializing in democratic thought and working in the US, I feel like I am basically the appendix of this body politic.
The sooner everyone realizes the USA is a third world autocracy who dis-invested from its knowledge, cultural, and military economy, the better. The nation has no ideology, has no natural resources, and is ripe for being gobbled up.
October 2, 2025 at 8:58 PM
The sooner everyone realizes the USA is a third world autocracy who dis-invested from its knowledge, cultural, and military economy, the better. The nation has no ideology, has no natural resources, and is ripe for being gobbled up.
I wish more attention was being directed to Bernie Sanders and AOC. The liberal left is Weimar, centrists are screaming in the void, and the right is full fascist. If I controlled media (without being rich which would turn me into Weimar trash), I would turn all our attention to the new left.
September 23, 2025 at 9:03 PM
I wish more attention was being directed to Bernie Sanders and AOC. The liberal left is Weimar, centrists are screaming in the void, and the right is full fascist. If I controlled media (without being rich which would turn me into Weimar trash), I would turn all our attention to the new left.
This is of no consequence. The post-kirk crackdown (building years of anti-speech activity) is so much more threatening to free speech than any Harper letter imagined and I have seen ZERO elite reaction. All I can conclude is that people wanted to say the n-word and were sad and rich.
September 15, 2025 at 8:06 PM
This is of no consequence. The post-kirk crackdown (building years of anti-speech activity) is so much more threatening to free speech than any Harper letter imagined and I have seen ZERO elite reaction. All I can conclude is that people wanted to say the n-word and were sad and rich.
I would have never counted on returning to 1930s Europe with a new twist of globalization with all its continuing environmental harms but now it feels inevitable. How do I bet the market for Nazis, inflation, and climate change?
September 15, 2025 at 6:59 PM
I would have never counted on returning to 1930s Europe with a new twist of globalization with all its continuing environmental harms but now it feels inevitable. How do I bet the market for Nazis, inflation, and climate change?
I've come to a conclusion about where i fall in the "what would you have done in nazi germany" question. The answer is, I would have been a very vocal opponent until it was clear that maybe a majority but definitely a sizeable minority was into it and then just said fuck it, because I have no power.
August 26, 2025 at 1:19 AM
I've come to a conclusion about where i fall in the "what would you have done in nazi germany" question. The answer is, I would have been a very vocal opponent until it was clear that maybe a majority but definitely a sizeable minority was into it and then just said fuck it, because I have no power.
Gloves?
DHS Secretary Noem says entire southern border wall will be painted black to stop people from climbing it
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says the entire southern border wall with Mexico is being painted black to deter illegal immigration, at President Trump's request.
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August 20, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Gloves?
My hot take: AI is headed for a similar dot com burst as internet startups in the 90s, but what will survive will be bigger, scarier, and so uncontrollable that anyone concerned about public life should be preparing now for the aftermath.
August 12, 2025 at 8:58 PM
My hot take: AI is headed for a similar dot com burst as internet startups in the 90s, but what will survive will be bigger, scarier, and so uncontrollable that anyone concerned about public life should be preparing now for the aftermath.
Dude America is early 20th century Germany. We are actively destroying scientific inquiry for no reason, endeavoring on a nonsensical quest to assert ethnonationalist sovereignty, have a right wing elite fetishizing a friend enemy distinction, and actively supporting genocidal regimes.
August 7, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Dude America is early 20th century Germany. We are actively destroying scientific inquiry for no reason, endeavoring on a nonsensical quest to assert ethnonationalist sovereignty, have a right wing elite fetishizing a friend enemy distinction, and actively supporting genocidal regimes.
What the actual fuck. US is incinerating birth control rather than giving it away, destroying vaccine research and actively ignoring the latest genocide since 1945. I just don’t even know what to do.
August 7, 2025 at 10:43 PM
What the actual fuck. US is incinerating birth control rather than giving it away, destroying vaccine research and actively ignoring the latest genocide since 1945. I just don’t even know what to do.
If someone just destroyed all non-earth tech, the world would suffer but then be better off.
July 26, 2025 at 7:22 PM
If someone just destroyed all non-earth tech, the world would suffer but then be better off.
Mock religious people in private all
You want but I don’t think mocking a woman for divorcing on religious grounds in public is in good taste. It is incredibly difficult to dissolve a marriage sanctified by God.
You want but I don’t think mocking a woman for divorcing on religious grounds in public is in good taste. It is incredibly difficult to dissolve a marriage sanctified by God.
July 10, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Mock religious people in private all
You want but I don’t think mocking a woman for divorcing on religious grounds in public is in good taste. It is incredibly difficult to dissolve a marriage sanctified by God.
You want but I don’t think mocking a woman for divorcing on religious grounds in public is in good taste. It is incredibly difficult to dissolve a marriage sanctified by God.
Now that we are living through fascism, it occurs to me once again that the things that allowed fascism to rise are the things that allow fascism to thrive. There is no moment of decision or break; just endless erosion of some forces and proliferation of others.
July 2, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Now that we are living through fascism, it occurs to me once again that the things that allowed fascism to rise are the things that allow fascism to thrive. There is no moment of decision or break; just endless erosion of some forces and proliferation of others.
One thing political junkies cannot understand is that democrats espouse the positions 60% of people agree with but they are being beaten by people who have positions the majority of people disagree with. Everything is vibes and no one cares what is real.
June 22, 2025 at 12:29 AM
One thing political junkies cannot understand is that democrats espouse the positions 60% of people agree with but they are being beaten by people who have positions the majority of people disagree with. Everything is vibes and no one cares what is real.
Honestly, destroy the internet.
June 20, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Honestly, destroy the internet.