Robert McTague
@mctaguer.bsky.social
Professional Dilettante, retired US Army Officer, English Teacher; Writer. Reader of many novels. Rare male Gen-Xer who's not screwing the pooch. Connecting with others who will not go quietly & deeper into this dark, specious, and gravely stupid night....
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I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
January 22, 2026 at 3:58 AM
I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
Can't stop laughing...
Amazing protest sign at a #HandsOff protest.
MAGA isn't gonna like this one.
MAGA isn't gonna like this one.
April 6, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Can't stop laughing...
Courtesy of my cousin in DC: www.instagram.com/p/DIE-VJXRG5...
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April 6, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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Senate Republicans took a major step toward enacting President Donald Trump’s tax cut agenda and increasing the debt ceiling that could inject a small degree of certainty into financial markets roiled by the president’s tariff policies.
Trump Tax Cut, Debt Limit Plan Advances Amid Tariff Turmoil
Senate Republicans took a major step toward enacting President Donald Trump’s tax cut agenda and increasing the debt ceiling that could inject a small degree of certainty into financial markets roiled...
www.bloomberg.com
April 5, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Senate Republicans took a major step toward enacting President Donald Trump’s tax cut agenda and increasing the debt ceiling that could inject a small degree of certainty into financial markets roiled by the president’s tariff policies.
Can't be there today, but I support 💯
Donald Trump and Elon Musk think this country belongs to them. They're taking everything they can get their hands on & daring the world to stop them. On April 5th, we're taking to the streets nationwide to say: Hands Off! #HandsOff #April5
Donald Trump and Elon Musk think this country belongs to them. They're taking everything they can get their hands on & daring the world to stop them. On April 5th, we're taking to the streets nationwide to say: Hands Off! #HandsOff #April5
April 5, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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If you worked for 18F and got fired, Group together to start a consulting company.
It’s just a matter of time before DOGE needs you to fix the mess they inevitably create.
They will have to hire your company as a contractor to fix it. But on your terms.
I’m happy to invest and/or help
It’s just a matter of time before DOGE needs you to fix the mess they inevitably create.
They will have to hire your company as a contractor to fix it. But on your terms.
I’m happy to invest and/or help
March 2, 2025 at 12:34 AM
If you worked for 18F and got fired, Group together to start a consulting company.
It’s just a matter of time before DOGE needs you to fix the mess they inevitably create.
They will have to hire your company as a contractor to fix it. But on your terms.
I’m happy to invest and/or help
It’s just a matter of time before DOGE needs you to fix the mess they inevitably create.
They will have to hire your company as a contractor to fix it. But on your terms.
I’m happy to invest and/or help
1. Good Morning.
2. Lindsey Graham, STFU.
3. Coffee.
4. LINDSEY GRAHAM, STFU. Just so we're clear on that.
2. Lindsey Graham, STFU.
3. Coffee.
4. LINDSEY GRAHAM, STFU. Just so we're clear on that.
March 1, 2025 at 10:03 AM
1. Good Morning.
2. Lindsey Graham, STFU.
3. Coffee.
4. LINDSEY GRAHAM, STFU. Just so we're clear on that.
2. Lindsey Graham, STFU.
3. Coffee.
4. LINDSEY GRAHAM, STFU. Just so we're clear on that.
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We stand with Ukraine always 🇺🇦
February 28, 2025 at 10:13 PM
We stand with Ukraine always 🇺🇦
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Here I react to the shameful encounter between American leaders and media and the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share.
snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...
snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...
Five Failures in the Oval Office (video)
America hurt itself badly today.
snyder.substack.com
February 28, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Here I react to the shameful encounter between American leaders and media and the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share.
snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...
snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...
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Vance blew up that meeting on purpose
February 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Vance blew up that meeting on purpose
Once again, The Onion mistakes itself for a Real New Outlet....
RFK Jr. Vows To Make Measles Deaths So Common They Won’t Be Upsetting Anymore
RFK Jr. Vows To Make Measles Deaths So Common They Won’t Be Upsetting Anymore
WASHINGTON—Addressing the ongoing outbreak in Texas that has infected at least 124 state residents and killed one child, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. vowed Thursday to mak...
theonion.com
February 28, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Once again, The Onion mistakes itself for a Real New Outlet....
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If your representative is dodging in-person town halls, call them out! Tag them and demand they face their constituents.
February 27, 2025 at 2:10 PM
If your representative is dodging in-person town halls, call them out! Tag them and demand they face their constituents.
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Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism.
We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive
We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive
November 12, 2024 at 1:22 AM
Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism.
We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive
We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive
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I'm a nobody compared to the other people saying this. Here's Larry Diamond, one of the most distinguished scholars of democracy in the world, and based at the conservative Hoover Institution, sharing the same diagnosis: www.theunpopulist.net/p/trumps-ame...
Trump's America Is in a Free Fall—Not a Slippery Slope—to Tyranny
He is instilling fear not just among lawmakers but every sector of society that dares to criticize him or hold him accountable
www.theunpopulist.net
February 26, 2025 at 10:27 PM
I'm a nobody compared to the other people saying this. Here's Larry Diamond, one of the most distinguished scholars of democracy in the world, and based at the conservative Hoover Institution, sharing the same diagnosis: www.theunpopulist.net/p/trumps-ame...
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We just launched this important tool for tracking the Abusive Presidency:
www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-unpopu...
www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-unpopu...
February 27, 2025 at 9:15 PM
We just launched this important tool for tracking the Abusive Presidency:
www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-unpopu...
www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-unpopu...
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Gutting NIH funding won't just hurt research for cures and access to clinical trials. It'll make us less safe and less competitive.
While Donald Trump and RFK, Jr. try to turn their backs on the world's best scientists, China is waiting to take our place.
While Donald Trump and RFK, Jr. try to turn their backs on the world's best scientists, China is waiting to take our place.
Rep. Trahan on NIH Funding
YouTube video by Congresswoman Lori Trahan
youtube.com
February 27, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Gutting NIH funding won't just hurt research for cures and access to clinical trials. It'll make us less safe and less competitive.
While Donald Trump and RFK, Jr. try to turn their backs on the world's best scientists, China is waiting to take our place.
While Donald Trump and RFK, Jr. try to turn their backs on the world's best scientists, China is waiting to take our place.
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She’s great!
First-ever former CIA officer to present Democratic response to Trump State of the Union address. ⬇️
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
US Senator Slotkin to rebut Trump speech as Democrats seek to sharpen message
Democratic leaders are hoping U.S. Senator Elissa Slotkin, a former CIA analyst and a winner of tough elections, will help rehabilitate their public image when she gives their rebuttal to President Donald Trump's address to Congress on Tuesday night.
www.reuters.com
February 28, 2025 at 4:05 AM
She’s great!
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As Starmer smarms Trump, @johnsipher.bsky.social and I have launched our own UK-USA collaboration: a think piece on how the theatrics of Trump picking fights with allies may well be accompanied by quieter reining in of intelligence cooperation with Washington.
foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/27/t...
foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/27/t...
Allies Assess What Intelligence They Can Still Share With Trump
Washington’s loose lips and closer ties to Moscow could unravel Western cooperation.
foreignpolicy.com
February 27, 2025 at 9:49 PM
As Starmer smarms Trump, @johnsipher.bsky.social and I have launched our own UK-USA collaboration: a think piece on how the theatrics of Trump picking fights with allies may well be accompanied by quieter reining in of intelligence cooperation with Washington.
foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/27/t...
foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/27/t...
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Usefully sober fact sheet on Ukraine. Please share with those who need it.
understandingwar.org/backgrounder...
understandingwar.org/backgrounder...
Institute for the Study of War
Russian forces currently occupy around 20 percent of Ukraine, leaving the remaining 80 percent of the country under Ukraine's sovereign control. At the current rate of advance, it would take Russian f...
understandingwar.org
February 22, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Usefully sober fact sheet on Ukraine. Please share with those who need it.
understandingwar.org/backgrounder...
understandingwar.org/backgrounder...
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now eagerly awaiting these installments every Saturday - the current situation as a non-servile American press would have covered it happening overseas
February 22, 2025 at 7:28 PM
now eagerly awaiting these installments every Saturday - the current situation as a non-servile American press would have covered it happening overseas
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It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office.
Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc.
Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.
Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc.
Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.
February 22, 2025 at 8:07 PM
It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office.
Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc.
Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.
Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc.
Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.
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February 23, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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I absolutely do.
Who else thinks the Democrats should form a SHADOW CABINET to organize against Trump’s appointees? ✋
Pass it on:
Pass it on:
Why Democrats MUST Form a 'SHADOW CABINET'
Rep. Wiley Nickel breaks down how we should organize our opposition to Trump.
www.tealandorangereport.com
February 14, 2025 at 11:44 PM
I absolutely do.