Ian MacDonald
@ianmac234.bsky.social
Kelsey's husband and Raelyn's dad. He/him/his. Black Lives Matter #FinsUp 🐬#RepBX
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If you’re doing a ‘double tap’ strike on a hospital, you’re a war criminal and a terrorist.
#GAZA: Multiple journalists killed by Israeli strikes on Nasser Hospital, including a freelance journalist who worked for @apnews.com.
At least 8 people were killed in a double-tap strike on the 4th floor, Gaza's Health Ministry said, the second attack came as rescue crews arrived.
At least 8 people were killed in a double-tap strike on the 4th floor, Gaza's Health Ministry said, the second attack came as rescue crews arrived.
August 25, 2025 at 1:20 PM
If you’re doing a ‘double tap’ strike on a hospital, you’re a war criminal and a terrorist.
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Do you know how insane and infuriating it is to live in a country where one party claims, with media and public support, the mantle of being the ‘tough on crime’ party while its leader openly calls for convicted criminals to be released from prison ‘or else’?
August 21, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Do you know how insane and infuriating it is to live in a country where one party claims, with media and public support, the mantle of being the ‘tough on crime’ party while its leader openly calls for convicted criminals to be released from prison ‘or else’?
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Hmm, what do ‘central camps’ and ‘final plan’ remind you of?
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August 8, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Hmm, what do ‘central camps’ and ‘final plan’ remind you of?
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These are the bastards telling you they care about women's sports.
August 8, 2025 at 1:13 AM
These are the bastards telling you they care about women's sports.
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The trans panic is maddening, because trans people are expected to defend ourselves with logic science and any sign of emotion is a failure.
And yet the anti-trans campaign is nothing but appeals to emotion unburdened by facts, precedent, or empathy.
And yet the anti-trans campaign is nothing but appeals to emotion unburdened by facts, precedent, or empathy.
August 7, 2025 at 2:55 PM
The trans panic is maddening, because trans people are expected to defend ourselves with logic science and any sign of emotion is a failure.
And yet the anti-trans campaign is nothing but appeals to emotion unburdened by facts, precedent, or empathy.
And yet the anti-trans campaign is nothing but appeals to emotion unburdened by facts, precedent, or empathy.
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The student newspaper.
This fell. To the student. Newspaper.
This fell. To the student. Newspaper.
Stanford University’s student-run newspaper sued two senior Trump administration officials Wednesday, challenging Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s ability to revoke student visas and deem an individual deportable based on the content of their speech.
Stanford newspaper sues Trump administration over student deportations
The lawsuit challenges Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s ability to revoke student visas and deem an individual deportable based on the content of their speech.
wapo.st
August 7, 2025 at 2:10 AM
The student newspaper.
This fell. To the student. Newspaper.
This fell. To the student. Newspaper.
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We're watching the Trump administration systematically purge trans people from public life and the fucking media just hand waives it away as being about sports. This is why the Dem capitulation on this is so dangerous. It obscures and legitimizes what is being done to us.
August 6, 2025 at 3:55 AM
We're watching the Trump administration systematically purge trans people from public life and the fucking media just hand waives it away as being about sports. This is why the Dem capitulation on this is so dangerous. It obscures and legitimizes what is being done to us.
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In some ways, the drug prices thing is the platonic ideal of Trump assertions:
An incredibly wrong statement that isn’t sensible much less possible, a media that won’t push back, and an American discourse that will adopt it uncritically, making culture just a hair worse. Great work, all around.
An incredibly wrong statement that isn’t sensible much less possible, a media that won’t push back, and an American discourse that will adopt it uncritically, making culture just a hair worse. Great work, all around.
August 4, 2025 at 12:21 AM
In some ways, the drug prices thing is the platonic ideal of Trump assertions:
An incredibly wrong statement that isn’t sensible much less possible, a media that won’t push back, and an American discourse that will adopt it uncritically, making culture just a hair worse. Great work, all around.
An incredibly wrong statement that isn’t sensible much less possible, a media that won’t push back, and an American discourse that will adopt it uncritically, making culture just a hair worse. Great work, all around.
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The media is completely ignoring that Brown University just agreed to a full bathroom ban and defining trans people out of existence. Even worse, when they mention it, they're describing it as a sports ban. This is not just a sports ban.
The media is hiding what's happening here.
The media is hiding what's happening here.
August 1, 2025 at 2:12 PM
The media is completely ignoring that Brown University just agreed to a full bathroom ban and defining trans people out of existence. Even worse, when they mention it, they're describing it as a sports ban. This is not just a sports ban.
The media is hiding what's happening here.
The media is hiding what's happening here.
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The United States, both Biden and Trump Administrations, are complicit in this genocide.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
More than 60,000 people killed in Gaza war, local health officials say
The toll announced by the Gaza Health Ministry is likely to be an undercount as Israel pursues its war and starvation spreads.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 29, 2025 at 3:47 PM
The United States, both Biden and Trump Administrations, are complicit in this genocide.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
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Israel won’t allow journalists embedded with Jordanian airdrops to film what they’re seeing outside the plane windows, so the BBC’s Bowen describes what he’s seeing:
“Communities in northern Gaza that I knew well…are flat. There’s nothing left of them.”
“Communities in northern Gaza that I knew well…are flat. There’s nothing left of them.”
July 29, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Israel won’t allow journalists embedded with Jordanian airdrops to film what they’re seeing outside the plane windows, so the BBC’s Bowen describes what he’s seeing:
“Communities in northern Gaza that I knew well…are flat. There’s nothing left of them.”
“Communities in northern Gaza that I knew well…are flat. There’s nothing left of them.”
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President Donald Trump continued his Profit-Off-The-Presidency World Tour this week with a stop in Scotland, where he opened a new private golf course.
You, dear taxpayer, footed the bill for most of the trip.
Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
You, dear taxpayer, footed the bill for most of the trip.
Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
July 29, 2025 at 3:22 PM
President Donald Trump continued his Profit-Off-The-Presidency World Tour this week with a stop in Scotland, where he opened a new private golf course.
You, dear taxpayer, footed the bill for most of the trip.
Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
You, dear taxpayer, footed the bill for most of the trip.
Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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The FTC is seeking public comment about gender affirming care in order to go after providers and restrict access. Share your stories instead of how this care has helped you and how it is life saving.
We need to counteract their false narratives. Please share!
www.regulations.gov/docket/FTC-2...
We need to counteract their false narratives. Please share!
www.regulations.gov/docket/FTC-2...
Regulations.gov
www.regulations.gov
July 29, 2025 at 1:50 AM
The FTC is seeking public comment about gender affirming care in order to go after providers and restrict access. Share your stories instead of how this care has helped you and how it is life saving.
We need to counteract their false narratives. Please share!
www.regulations.gov/docket/FTC-2...
We need to counteract their false narratives. Please share!
www.regulations.gov/docket/FTC-2...
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liberals are in this weird position of needing to believe that kamala lost because the left drew a red line at genocide, but also needing to believe that kamala didn't lose because she supported genocide, which explains why they are Being Like This
July 27, 2025 at 11:57 AM
liberals are in this weird position of needing to believe that kamala lost because the left drew a red line at genocide, but also needing to believe that kamala didn't lose because she supported genocide, which explains why they are Being Like This
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“Nearly a third of Gazans had not eaten for several days, the U.N.’s World Food Program said this week.”
Breaking news: Israel has allowed airdrops of food into Gaza amid mounting starvation. Israel blocked aid from entering the enclave in March and has restricted food distribution by U.N. agencies since May.
Food airdropped into Gaza as starvation deaths rise
Airdrops of food have resumed in Gaza, Israel and the United Arab Emirates said, as deaths from starvation in the besieged enclave spread.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 26, 2025 at 9:09 PM
“Nearly a third of Gazans had not eaten for several days, the U.N.’s World Food Program said this week.”
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what this is, above all else, is the biggest green light we’ve ever seen for Dem primary challenges
the Dem base is deeply, deeply angry at the party for not doing more to oppose Trump and the door is wide open for anyone who is serious about doing more on that front
the Dem base is deeply, deeply angry at the party for not doing more to oppose Trump and the door is wide open for anyone who is serious about doing more on that front
New WSJ poll: The Democratic Party is 30 points under water with registered voters, considerably worse than the GOP (-11). www.wsj.com/politics/ele...
July 26, 2025 at 6:54 PM
what this is, above all else, is the biggest green light we’ve ever seen for Dem primary challenges
the Dem base is deeply, deeply angry at the party for not doing more to oppose Trump and the door is wide open for anyone who is serious about doing more on that front
the Dem base is deeply, deeply angry at the party for not doing more to oppose Trump and the door is wide open for anyone who is serious about doing more on that front
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When South Park has more integrity than Columbia 🤷🏻♀️
July 24, 2025 at 5:57 AM
When South Park has more integrity than Columbia 🤷🏻♀️
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IDF soldiers have now themselves admitted they have been ordered to murder aid-seekers in Gaza.
Truly an atrocity built on atrocity.
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Truly an atrocity built on atrocity.
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
June 27, 2025 at 12:05 PM
IDF soldiers have now themselves admitted they have been ordered to murder aid-seekers in Gaza.
Truly an atrocity built on atrocity.
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Truly an atrocity built on atrocity.
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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Viktor Orban banned pride events in Hungary, the people took it as a challenge and just had the largest pride march in their country's history.
June 28, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Viktor Orban banned pride events in Hungary, the people took it as a challenge and just had the largest pride march in their country's history.
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hi, cis folks!
the GOP put the all-ages trans medicaid ban back in the budget, despite it being struck. they did it to force dems to challenge it on the floor.
if you've been paying attention, you know dems need to hear you want them to actually stand up to the GOP. contact info at reps.fyi 🧵
the GOP put the all-ages trans medicaid ban back in the budget, despite it being struck. they did it to force dems to challenge it on the floor.
if you've been paying attention, you know dems need to hear you want them to actually stand up to the GOP. contact info at reps.fyi 🧵
June 28, 2025 at 7:03 PM
hi, cis folks!
the GOP put the all-ages trans medicaid ban back in the budget, despite it being struck. they did it to force dems to challenge it on the floor.
if you've been paying attention, you know dems need to hear you want them to actually stand up to the GOP. contact info at reps.fyi 🧵
the GOP put the all-ages trans medicaid ban back in the budget, despite it being struck. they did it to force dems to challenge it on the floor.
if you've been paying attention, you know dems need to hear you want them to actually stand up to the GOP. contact info at reps.fyi 🧵
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Ok that’s it this is a concerted group effort there is no denying it. The Dem establishment got together in a back room and said “how are we gonna stop this man from making change in the party he is too dangerously progressive and popular.”
And then they all agreed “use the Jews.”
And then they all agreed “use the Jews.”
Democratic congressman Eric Swalwell says of Zohran Mamdani: "I don't associate myself with what he has said about the Jewish people."
June 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Ok that’s it this is a concerted group effort there is no denying it. The Dem establishment got together in a back room and said “how are we gonna stop this man from making change in the party he is too dangerously progressive and popular.”
And then they all agreed “use the Jews.”
And then they all agreed “use the Jews.”
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This country is thoroughly screwed for at least a generation. People haven't taken stock of how much damage has already been done. 2026 and 2028 won't magically fix this. It's going to be a long walk.
June 28, 2025 at 2:30 AM
This country is thoroughly screwed for at least a generation. People haven't taken stock of how much damage has already been done. 2026 and 2028 won't magically fix this. It's going to be a long walk.
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Brett Meiselas: They’re just smearing the guy with all of these things, right? And, and, and let me just show you a photo of the Republican candidate… looks like a communist dictator
June 27, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Brett Meiselas: They’re just smearing the guy with all of these things, right? And, and, and let me just show you a photo of the Republican candidate… looks like a communist dictator
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Brett Meiselas: Criticizing that government, criticizing Netanyahu, criticizing what's happening in Gaza does not make you anti-Semitic… just like criticizing Donald Trump does not make you anti-American.
June 27, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Brett Meiselas: Criticizing that government, criticizing Netanyahu, criticizing what's happening in Gaza does not make you anti-Semitic… just like criticizing Donald Trump does not make you anti-American.