Meg Mac
@mcmac603.bsky.social
comms strategist. mom to a toddler & pup. EDS & co. opinions are my own 🏳️🌈♿️ (she/her)
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The basic infrastructures that allow women to be participants in public life—birth control & abortion access, no fault divorce, childcare access & affordability, civil rights law in employment and public accommodations, the minimal efforts to mitigate sexual and domestic violence—are all crumbling.
September 30, 2025 at 2:29 PM
The basic infrastructures that allow women to be participants in public life—birth control & abortion access, no fault divorce, childcare access & affordability, civil rights law in employment and public accommodations, the minimal efforts to mitigate sexual and domestic violence—are all crumbling.
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This is not about the merits of Iran’s nuclear program. No president has the authority to bomb another country that does not pose an imminent threat to the US without the approval of Congress. This is an unambiguous impeachable offense.
June 22, 2025 at 12:26 AM
This is not about the merits of Iran’s nuclear program. No president has the authority to bomb another country that does not pose an imminent threat to the US without the approval of Congress. This is an unambiguous impeachable offense.
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Just a legal historian here reminding everyone that “high crimes and misdemeanors” do not need to be felonies.
They can include political abuses and stupidity, like, hypothetically, destroying the economy and wiping out people’s savings in 3 days.
They can include political abuses and stupidity, like, hypothetically, destroying the economy and wiping out people’s savings in 3 days.
April 7, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Just a legal historian here reminding everyone that “high crimes and misdemeanors” do not need to be felonies.
They can include political abuses and stupidity, like, hypothetically, destroying the economy and wiping out people’s savings in 3 days.
They can include political abuses and stupidity, like, hypothetically, destroying the economy and wiping out people’s savings in 3 days.
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people being in the streets means something. never let your cynicism convince you otherwise.
April 5, 2025 at 6:33 PM
people being in the streets means something. never let your cynicism convince you otherwise.
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Everyone should read this, especially for the bits in the article that give us some insight into what these detention prisons used by ICE are like.
And no one, no one, should be traveling to the US if they can avoid it. No one.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
And no one, no one, should be traveling to the US if they can avoid it. No one.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre
Graphic artist Rebecca Burke was on the trip of a lifetime. But as she tried to leave the US she was stopped, interrogated and branded an illegal alien by ICE. Now back home, she tells others thinking...
www.theguardian.com
April 5, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Everyone should read this, especially for the bits in the article that give us some insight into what these detention prisons used by ICE are like.
And no one, no one, should be traveling to the US if they can avoid it. No one.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
And no one, no one, should be traveling to the US if they can avoid it. No one.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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What's absolutely wild about this is the way they've manufactured a global financial crisis for no reason at all. This isn't 2007-08, where it was a bubble bursting. This is taking a relatively thriving economy and deliberately destroying it in the first three months of your presidency.
April 2, 2025 at 10:47 PM
What's absolutely wild about this is the way they've manufactured a global financial crisis for no reason at all. This isn't 2007-08, where it was a bubble bursting. This is taking a relatively thriving economy and deliberately destroying it in the first three months of your presidency.
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This was….five months ago
April 2, 2025 at 11:49 PM
This was….five months ago
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They are arresting people on the streets, terminating their visas, and disappearing them for writing things they disagree with. This is where we are. Two months in. Right now. If you think they won’t begin coming after citizens soon, you are mistaken.
March 27, 2025 at 12:03 PM
They are arresting people on the streets, terminating their visas, and disappearing them for writing things they disagree with. This is where we are. Two months in. Right now. If you think they won’t begin coming after citizens soon, you are mistaken.
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The Trump administration is laying the groundwork to round up and detain their political opponents. They’ve started with immigrants and non-citizens, but let’s be perfectly clear where this is headed.
Dictators are afraid of their own people. Trump is trying to end free speech.
Dictators are afraid of their own people. Trump is trying to end free speech.
March 17, 2025 at 3:45 AM
The Trump administration is laying the groundwork to round up and detain their political opponents. They’ve started with immigrants and non-citizens, but let’s be perfectly clear where this is headed.
Dictators are afraid of their own people. Trump is trying to end free speech.
Dictators are afraid of their own people. Trump is trying to end free speech.
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I think Russian intelligence services cannot believe their good fortune at everything that is happening right now. This is a bonanza across the board. The vicious attack on Ukraine, nutters at the FBI, Gabbard at DNI, shredding of CI capabilities. A monumental tragedy for the West.
This is incredible. Knock yourself out, Russian intel services. “A person familiar with the matter …said analysts at the agency were verbally informed that they were not to follow or report on Russian threats, even though this had previously been a main focus for the agency.” Cc @ciaranm.bsky.social
March 3, 2025 at 10:49 PM
I think Russian intelligence services cannot believe their good fortune at everything that is happening right now. This is a bonanza across the board. The vicious attack on Ukraine, nutters at the FBI, Gabbard at DNI, shredding of CI capabilities. A monumental tragedy for the West.
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As someone who spends a lot time thinking about the values I want to teach my kid (besides PLEASE DON’T EAT DIRT), the thing I keep coming back to is this: I want him to believe that the strongest, bravest thing he can do is give a shit about other people—especially ones who aren’t like him at all.
March 2, 2025 at 11:21 PM
As someone who spends a lot time thinking about the values I want to teach my kid (besides PLEASE DON’T EAT DIRT), the thing I keep coming back to is this: I want him to believe that the strongest, bravest thing he can do is give a shit about other people—especially ones who aren’t like him at all.
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Hulu ruining the Oscars is really poetic coming after Sean Baker’s speech about streaming services killing the movies
March 3, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Hulu ruining the Oscars is really poetic coming after Sean Baker’s speech about streaming services killing the movies
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I worked for homeless services in NYC during covid. Cuomo’s choices killed some of my coworkers and traumatized so many of us. He is an evil selfish narcissistic dangerous man.
Andrew Cuomo, in addition to being a serial sexual harasser, knowingly sent people with Covid into old folks homes, leading to a massive rate of infection and death for the elderly.
Read and share the @propublica.org story about how Andrew Cuomo killed your elders.
Read and share the @propublica.org story about how Andrew Cuomo killed your elders.
“Fire Through Dry Grass”: Andrew Cuomo Saw COVID-19’s Threat to Nursing Homes. Then He Risked Adding to It.
A nursing home in Troy, New York, followed the governor’s order to accept patients being treated for COVID-19. Six weeks later, 18 residents were dead of the disease.
www.propublica.org
March 1, 2025 at 8:53 PM
I worked for homeless services in NYC during covid. Cuomo’s choices killed some of my coworkers and traumatized so many of us. He is an evil selfish narcissistic dangerous man.
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you might have had a bad day at work before, but you are not whoever just ended the oscars stream at hulu before best picture and best actress were announced.
March 3, 2025 at 3:39 AM
you might have had a bad day at work before, but you are not whoever just ended the oscars stream at hulu before best picture and best actress were announced.
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In recalling all the abusive behavior, please don't sleep on the fact that Cuomo was ALSO corrupt, dishonest and bad at his job!
March 1, 2025 at 8:24 PM
In recalling all the abusive behavior, please don't sleep on the fact that Cuomo was ALSO corrupt, dishonest and bad at his job!
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I've seen three different articles on this, because the guy who owns the company that makes this stuff reached out to the press. He's got 400,000 boxes of life-saving goo sitting in a warehouse, and if USAID won't accept it, he's going to have to throw it out.
An estimated 300,000 children globally are expected to lose access to a nutrient-dense peanut butter that’s specially formulated to treat severe acute malnutrition.
Georgia Nonprofit That Produces Life-Saving Food For Kids Has Federal Contract Cut
An estimated 300,000 children globally are expected to lose access to a nutrient-dense peanut butter that’s specially formulated to treat severe acute malnutrition.
www.huffpost.com
February 28, 2025 at 11:22 PM
I've seen three different articles on this, because the guy who owns the company that makes this stuff reached out to the press. He's got 400,000 boxes of life-saving goo sitting in a warehouse, and if USAID won't accept it, he's going to have to throw it out.
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18F did things like making online government forms (like filing your taxes or submitting VA claims) easier to fill out, create text message notification systems for govt agencies, and streamlining internal data sharing. They were literally making govt more efficient & user-friendly. This sucks.
18F, a digital services unit inside the General Services Administration, has been completely laid off, according to an email I’ve seen. The email says that 18F was deemed “non-critical” and the decision was made with the “explicit” direction of the administration and GSA leadership.
March 1, 2025 at 12:21 PM
18F did things like making online government forms (like filing your taxes or submitting VA claims) easier to fill out, create text message notification systems for govt agencies, and streamlining internal data sharing. They were literally making govt more efficient & user-friendly. This sucks.
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the main effect of firing 800,000 people — in addition to debilitating the federal government — would be to plunge the US economy into a recessionary spiral that rivaled the Great Recession
"If the job is not essential...obviously they should not be on the public payroll."
What does this mean?
Trump's EO calls for focusing reductions in force for employees deemed "non-essential" during a shutdown. That is 800,000 employees. The want a permanent government shutdown.
What does this mean?
Trump's EO calls for focusing reductions in force for employees deemed "non-essential" during a shutdown. That is 800,000 employees. The want a permanent government shutdown.
February 27, 2025 at 3:02 AM
the main effect of firing 800,000 people — in addition to debilitating the federal government — would be to plunge the US economy into a recessionary spiral that rivaled the Great Recession
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Please look up the influenza epidemic of 1918-19 to understand that the CDC not selecting strains for next year’s vaccines sets the stage for a public health calamity that will, without doubt and at bare minimum, catastrophically and directly impact people you know. This is a five alarm fire.
February 27, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Please look up the influenza epidemic of 1918-19 to understand that the CDC not selecting strains for next year’s vaccines sets the stage for a public health calamity that will, without doubt and at bare minimum, catastrophically and directly impact people you know. This is a five alarm fire.
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said this before and i wasn't exaggerating: RFK has the exact personality type of the kind of person that, in a different sort of regime, oversees mass starvation.
“We have measles outbreaks every year," Trump's health secretary said when asked about the death, which is the nation's first in a decade.
RFK Jr. Dismisses Measles Outbreak As ‘Not Unusual’ After Child's Death
“We have measles outbreaks every year," Trump's health secretary said when asked about the death, which is the nation's first in a decade.
www.huffpost.com
February 27, 2025 at 2:54 AM
said this before and i wasn't exaggerating: RFK has the exact personality type of the kind of person that, in a different sort of regime, oversees mass starvation.
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People laughed a few days ago when @jamellebouie.net said we might not have flu shots next year, but:
NEWS: The FDA abruptly canceled its upcoming advisory committee meeting to select the strains for next year's flu shot.
by @berkeleyjr.bsky.social
by @berkeleyjr.bsky.social
FDA cancels meeting to select flu strains for next season's shots
The canceled meeting comes just days after a CDC vaccine advisory committee meeting was abruptly postponed.
www.nbcnews.com
February 27, 2025 at 12:43 AM
People laughed a few days ago when @jamellebouie.net said we might not have flu shots next year, but:
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Ninety nine USAID public servants gave their lives in the line of duty.
February 15, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Ninety nine USAID public servants gave their lives in the line of duty.
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Further confirmation that there is no enforcement mechanism for these orders. Musk and co. are going to keep going until someone physically stops them.
SCOOP from @nbcnews.com — A senior FEMA official instructed subordinates to freeze funding for a wide array of grant programs Monday, just hours after a federal judge ordered the Trump administration — for the second time — to stop such pauses.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
FEMA official ignores judge's latest order, demands freeze on grant funding
Federal workers are being swept into the fight between Donald Trump and federal courts, with four FEMA aides fired Tuesday for being "deep state activists."
www.nbcnews.com
February 11, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Further confirmation that there is no enforcement mechanism for these orders. Musk and co. are going to keep going until someone physically stops them.
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Once again reminding folks that abusers in power don’t simply abuse one victim or those around them. On some level, they abuse all of us with their power.
February 11, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Once again reminding folks that abusers in power don’t simply abuse one victim or those around them. On some level, they abuse all of us with their power.
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I can’t believe the Supreme Court said the president was above the law and now the president is acting like he’s above the law.
February 11, 2025 at 2:17 AM
I can’t believe the Supreme Court said the president was above the law and now the president is acting like he’s above the law.