Courtney McKenna
@courtlmc.bsky.social
💼 Higher Ed & Student Affairs, strategy, organization development
🙋🏼♀️ Insatiably curious, hopeful cynic, unapologetic democrat
📚2x University of RI grad; PhD candidate at Sacred Heart University
🙋🏼♀️ Insatiably curious, hopeful cynic, unapologetic democrat
📚2x University of RI grad; PhD candidate at Sacred Heart University
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BREAKING — The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has just announced the closure of major regional offices in Philly, LA and Chicago, per email shared with me.
“5 alarm fire,” SEC employee tells me.
Full email text:
“5 alarm fire,” SEC employee tells me.
Full email text:
March 4, 2025 at 4:46 PM
In other corruption news ...
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We'll say it again: No, 150-year-olds are not collecting Social Security benefits. #SOTU www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
No, 150-Year-Olds Aren’t Collecting Social Security Benefits
Elon Musk claims to have found rampant fraud in the Social Security Administration. There’s a much simpler explanation.
www.wired.com
March 5, 2025 at 3:01 AM
We'll say it again: No, 150-year-olds are not collecting Social Security benefits. #SOTU www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
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The CHIPS Act he's slagging passed 64-33 and has led to over $50 billion in investment.
March 5, 2025 at 3:04 AM
The CHIPS Act he's slagging passed 64-33 and has led to over $50 billion in investment.
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"Your government has chosen to do this to you."
- Trudeau to Americans today
- Trudeau to Americans today
March 4, 2025 at 4:38 PM
"Your government has chosen to do this to you."
- Trudeau to Americans today
- Trudeau to Americans today
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(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.
March 4, 2025 at 5:57 PM
(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.
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TL;DR: There’s no new intelligence. A China hawk lab leaker took over the agency and decided to make this the position, with “low confidence.”
How unexpected.
How unexpected.
The CIA has said for years that it did not have enough information to conclude how the Covid pandemic originated. The agency has issued a new assessment this week, with analysts saying they now favor the theory that it emerged from an accidental leak at a research lab in Wuhan, China.
C.I.A. Now Favors Lab Leak Theory to Explain Covid’s Origins
A new analysis that began under the Biden administration is released by the C.I.A.’s new director, John Ratcliffe, who wants the agency to get “off the sidelines” in the debate.
nyti.ms
January 25, 2025 at 9:59 PM
TL;DR: There’s no new intelligence. A China hawk lab leaker took over the agency and decided to make this the position, with “low confidence.”
How unexpected.
How unexpected.
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🚨BREAKING: North Carolina Supreme Court DISMISSES Republican effort to throw out 60,000 votes in Supreme Court election. Sends case to Wake County trial court for further proceedings.
This is not over, but this is very good news!
www.democracydocket.com/cases/north-...
This is not over, but this is very good news!
www.democracydocket.com/cases/north-...
🚨 Griffin v. North Carolina Board of Elections
Learn more
www.democracydocket.com
January 23, 2025 at 1:23 AM
🚨BREAKING: North Carolina Supreme Court DISMISSES Republican effort to throw out 60,000 votes in Supreme Court election. Sends case to Wake County trial court for further proceedings.
This is not over, but this is very good news!
www.democracydocket.com/cases/north-...
This is not over, but this is very good news!
www.democracydocket.com/cases/north-...
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NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research.
Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions
Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions
All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
January 22, 2025 at 9:27 PM
NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research.
Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions
Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions
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Concession prize to the DC police union, which was angry about the J6 pardons.
Trump today pardoned a police officer convicted of second-degree murder, conspiracy to obstruct, and obstruction of justice in connection with the 2020 police chase in D.C. that ultimately killed Karon Hylton-Brown.
January 23, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Concession prize to the DC police union, which was angry about the J6 pardons.
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A 17 year old opened fire in a Nashville high school today. Hours before police shared his name, fringe extremist communities correctly identified him as one of their own. He left behind a manifesto expressing unadulterated neo-Nazi ideology that endorsed violent “accelerationst” tactics.
January 23, 2025 at 12:05 AM
A 17 year old opened fire in a Nashville high school today. Hours before police shared his name, fringe extremist communities correctly identified him as one of their own. He left behind a manifesto expressing unadulterated neo-Nazi ideology that endorsed violent “accelerationst” tactics.
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He’s selling crypto from the White House. bsky.app/profile/yash...
Within the last hour, President Trump has reposted promotional posts for his meme coin giving the posts a boost as a sitting president.
January 22, 2025 at 2:48 AM
He’s selling crypto from the White House. bsky.app/profile/yash...
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This is an amazing quote, from a Jan 6 prisoner who is refusing Trump’s pardon.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
January 22, 2025 at 2:43 AM
This is an amazing quote, from a Jan 6 prisoner who is refusing Trump’s pardon.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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With pardons, January 6 offenders are now free to possess firearms and ammunition again. Their convictions would have made that a federal crime, but no more.
January 21, 2025 at 4:21 PM
With pardons, January 6 offenders are now free to possess firearms and ammunition again. Their convictions would have made that a federal crime, but no more.
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Before the election, I warned that Trump would pardon all of the Jan. 6 defendants and some of them would form the core of a new rightwing paramilitary organization loyal to Trump.
At the time, people dismissed me as alarmist. I stand by that prediction.
At the time, people dismissed me as alarmist. I stand by that prediction.
REPORTER: Is there now a place for the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers in the political conversation following your pardons?
TRUMP: Well, we have to see
TRUMP: Well, we have to see
January 21, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Before the election, I warned that Trump would pardon all of the Jan. 6 defendants and some of them would form the core of a new rightwing paramilitary organization loyal to Trump.
At the time, people dismissed me as alarmist. I stand by that prediction.
At the time, people dismissed me as alarmist. I stand by that prediction.
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If you haven’t read George Orwell's 1945 satirical novella Animal Farm, you really should. It’s a great allegory for what’s happening today in America.
January 12, 2025 at 6:27 PM
If you haven’t read George Orwell's 1945 satirical novella Animal Farm, you really should. It’s a great allegory for what’s happening today in America.
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Great piece by @billyball.bsky.social. #ncpol
January 13, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Great piece by @billyball.bsky.social. #ncpol
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So the world’s richest man, who grew up under apartheid in South Africa and now pulls the mentally deteriorating incoming U.S. president’s strings, has written an op-ed urging Germans to elect a neo-Nazi government. Got that?
Musk Doubles Down on Support for German Far-Right Party
The world’s richest man, a key adviser to President-elect Donald J. Trump, ridicules critics over his backing of the German extremist party AfD, as Germany prepares for elections.
www.nytimes.com
December 29, 2024 at 7:27 AM
So the world’s richest man, who grew up under apartheid in South Africa and now pulls the mentally deteriorating incoming U.S. president’s strings, has written an op-ed urging Germans to elect a neo-Nazi government. Got that?
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This is why I support DEI. The existing system operates to exclude women and minorities. Period.
December 15, 2024 at 4:11 PM
This is why I support DEI. The existing system operates to exclude women and minorities. Period.
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NEW: After reviewing leaked documents, we have found UnitedHealth is strategically limiting access to a treatment for thousands of children with autism across the country in order to cut costs.
Advocates say the company’s strategy may be illegal.
www.propublica.org/article/unit...
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Advocates say the company’s strategy may be illegal.
www.propublica.org/article/unit...
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UnitedHealth Is Strategically Limiting Access to Critical Treatment for Kids With Autism
Leaked internal documents show that the insurance giant is culling providers of applied behavior analysis from its network and scrutinizing the medical necessity of therapy. Advocates say the company’...
www.propublica.org
December 13, 2024 at 1:34 PM
NEW: After reviewing leaked documents, we have found UnitedHealth is strategically limiting access to a treatment for thousands of children with autism across the country in order to cut costs.
Advocates say the company’s strategy may be illegal.
www.propublica.org/article/unit...
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Advocates say the company’s strategy may be illegal.
www.propublica.org/article/unit...
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Donald Trump lied repeatedly during his interview with Kristen Welker.
Zero shock.
Zero shock.
Fact-checking Trump's interview with 'Meet the Press'
The president-elect discussed the major policy priorities for his second term and made several false, misleading or exaggerated claims along the way.
www.nbcnews.com
December 8, 2024 at 8:30 PM
Donald Trump lied repeatedly during his interview with Kristen Welker.
Zero shock.
Zero shock.
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Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer is on tonight.
The classic tale of when people treat you like shit until they find out you can do something for them.
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The classic tale of when people treat you like shit until they find out you can do something for them.
🦌🦌🦌
December 6, 2024 at 5:53 PM
Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer is on tonight.
The classic tale of when people treat you like shit until they find out you can do something for them.
🦌🦌🦌
The classic tale of when people treat you like shit until they find out you can do something for them.
🦌🦌🦌
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Good. Should we make him a starter pack?
December 5, 2024 at 2:30 PM
Good. Should we make him a starter pack?