mc_raney42
@mikescraney.bsky.social
Writer/Director, Autistic, Columbia College Chicago alumi, Wisconsin born and raised
"Nothing about us, without us."
"Nothing about us, without us."
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December 9, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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The binary mindset that we either get a Netflix/WB or a Paramount/WB is *completely untrue*. Warner Bros without its dying cable channels can be a profitable company, as it was this year. All of these merger offers are illegal, and state AGs can challenge them and win.
December 6, 2025 at 4:59 PM
The binary mindset that we either get a Netflix/WB or a Paramount/WB is *completely untrue*. Warner Bros without its dying cable channels can be a profitable company, as it was this year. All of these merger offers are illegal, and state AGs can challenge them and win.
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And then there’s a world here where movies like Sinners and One Battle After Another don’t even hit our biggest screens, or they do only in major cities on the coasts. Further instilling that the movies are no longer for everyone now, just those in the right place with money.
December 5, 2025 at 1:16 PM
And then there’s a world here where movies like Sinners and One Battle After Another don’t even hit our biggest screens, or they do only in major cities on the coasts. Further instilling that the movies are no longer for everyone now, just those in the right place with money.
I gotta ask, how did we end up with so influential people who are Fucking MARKS!!! Trump famously thought McMahon died when his limo "blew up", and last year asked the Undertaker, on camera, if wrestling was real... Trump's been in a WWE match! How far does this go!
Can someone who has read Nuzzi's book let me know if this is actually a thing in it? Or is this one of those "JD Vance bangs couches" things? x.com/bryancurtis/...
December 3, 2025 at 5:24 PM
I gotta ask, how did we end up with so influential people who are Fucking MARKS!!! Trump famously thought McMahon died when his limo "blew up", and last year asked the Undertaker, on camera, if wrestling was real... Trump's been in a WWE match! How far does this go!
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Last night, the Trump Administration sent a letter suggesting Wisconsin should return our FoodShare payments.
My response ⬇️
My response ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Last night, the Trump Administration sent a letter suggesting Wisconsin should return our FoodShare payments.
My response ⬇️
My response ⬇️
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It's good that public sentiment flipped as soon as people saw the consequences of the things they thought they wanted, but we have a serious problem if we're going to keep cycling through this process forever.
November 7, 2025 at 11:29 AM
It's good that public sentiment flipped as soon as people saw the consequences of the things they thought they wanted, but we have a serious problem if we're going to keep cycling through this process forever.
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The story of this week is that millions of Americans were told in 2024 their lives would be improved if trans people's lives were made worse and I'm glad they're finally waking up to the fact that was never true to begin with--but trans people's lives are still getting worse
November 6, 2025 at 10:42 PM
The story of this week is that millions of Americans were told in 2024 their lives would be improved if trans people's lives were made worse and I'm glad they're finally waking up to the fact that was never true to begin with--but trans people's lives are still getting worse
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Schools went on lockdown, people stayed inside. It lasted the entire afternoon. A constant din of whistles, sirens, helicopters, people shouting. Or dead silence.
I see the NYT, New Yorker, commentariat frame it as "activists clashing with ICE."
No.
ICE/CBP/DHS are terrorizing US citizens.
I see the NYT, New Yorker, commentariat frame it as "activists clashing with ICE."
No.
ICE/CBP/DHS are terrorizing US citizens.
November 1, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Schools went on lockdown, people stayed inside. It lasted the entire afternoon. A constant din of whistles, sirens, helicopters, people shouting. Or dead silence.
I see the NYT, New Yorker, commentariat frame it as "activists clashing with ICE."
No.
ICE/CBP/DHS are terrorizing US citizens.
I see the NYT, New Yorker, commentariat frame it as "activists clashing with ICE."
No.
ICE/CBP/DHS are terrorizing US citizens.
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People are so brainwashed about Chicago being a crime infested hellhole that they assume white people and single family homes must be in the burbs. This is in the city.
its remarkable to see random suburbanites in their fucking PJs have more courage than the vast majority of america's political, social, and civil elites
More from the scene
October 25, 2025 at 7:21 PM
People are so brainwashed about Chicago being a crime infested hellhole that they assume white people and single family homes must be in the burbs. This is in the city.
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When this era is done, I don’t want to hear anyone saying “Let’s move on.” We deserve ACCOUNTABILITY.
NEW — Videos obtained by The TRiiBE show federal agents detaining a Laugh Factory worker on Chicago’s North Side this morning.
He and another person were detained around 9:20 a.m., according to rapid response teams.
Story TK shortly on thetriibe.com.
He and another person were detained around 9:20 a.m., according to rapid response teams.
Story TK shortly on thetriibe.com.
October 24, 2025 at 6:06 PM
When this era is done, I don’t want to hear anyone saying “Let’s move on.” We deserve ACCOUNTABILITY.
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Went to Broadview ICE today. All I'm gonna say is... what I want is for whistles & neighborhood lookouts & text chains & the rest not to be necessary. I want the war on us to stop. I want no one--except those who are doing this--to hear the racking sobs of someone whose loved one is inside Broadview
October 25, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Went to Broadview ICE today. All I'm gonna say is... what I want is for whistles & neighborhood lookouts & text chains & the rest not to be necessary. I want the war on us to stop. I want no one--except those who are doing this--to hear the racking sobs of someone whose loved one is inside Broadview
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Proud papa moment: my son J published a letter in the @nytimes.com today (in print tomorrow) on the need to think our definitions of autism.
October 18, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Proud papa moment: my son J published a letter in the @nytimes.com today (in print tomorrow) on the need to think our definitions of autism.
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Cops led us into the street as the new “protest zone” and then beat us repeatedly.
Got hit in the face with a baton. Leaving to pick up my friends who were arrested.
Stay safe out there.
Got hit in the face with a baton. Leaving to pick up my friends who were arrested.
Stay safe out there.
October 17, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Cops led us into the street as the new “protest zone” and then beat us repeatedly.
Got hit in the face with a baton. Leaving to pick up my friends who were arrested.
Stay safe out there.
Got hit in the face with a baton. Leaving to pick up my friends who were arrested.
Stay safe out there.
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Greg Bovino, Kristi Noem, and DHS need to answer for their unchecked attacks on Chicago residents.
ICE is an out-of-control danger to our peaceful communities.
The images from the Sun-Times today speak for themselves.
ICE is an out-of-control danger to our peaceful communities.
The images from the Sun-Times today speak for themselves.
October 15, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Greg Bovino, Kristi Noem, and DHS need to answer for their unchecked attacks on Chicago residents.
ICE is an out-of-control danger to our peaceful communities.
The images from the Sun-Times today speak for themselves.
ICE is an out-of-control danger to our peaceful communities.
The images from the Sun-Times today speak for themselves.
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Hey, @jay.bsky.team.
As a disabled person, it's disheartening to see one of the foundational pushers of alt text, a Black STEM voice, a queer advocate, and a huge voice for the disabled community gone over a poor taste joke.
Having Link here is good for so many people.
Please reconsider?
As a disabled person, it's disheartening to see one of the foundational pushers of alt text, a Black STEM voice, a queer advocate, and a huge voice for the disabled community gone over a poor taste joke.
Having Link here is good for so many people.
Please reconsider?
October 6, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Hey, @jay.bsky.team.
As a disabled person, it's disheartening to see one of the foundational pushers of alt text, a Black STEM voice, a queer advocate, and a huge voice for the disabled community gone over a poor taste joke.
Having Link here is good for so many people.
Please reconsider?
As a disabled person, it's disheartening to see one of the foundational pushers of alt text, a Black STEM voice, a queer advocate, and a huge voice for the disabled community gone over a poor taste joke.
Having Link here is good for so many people.
Please reconsider?
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We need to understand that, too. There is no "reform." Either poorly trained people with no impulse control can murder people on the streets while we watch, or we have a democracy.
The two are antithetical.
The two are antithetical.
October 4, 2025 at 9:29 PM
We need to understand that, too. There is no "reform." Either poorly trained people with no impulse control can murder people on the streets while we watch, or we have a democracy.
The two are antithetical.
The two are antithetical.
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The ICE agents deploying these are people without necessary training, those who couldn’t cut it in police training or didn’t want to join the military.
They are in this to hurt people and play Call of Duty on our streets, deploying chemical weapons on our neighbors as if they’re pressing L1.
They are in this to hurt people and play Call of Duty on our streets, deploying chemical weapons on our neighbors as if they’re pressing L1.
Remaining feds left the scene in a large caravan, deploying more tear gas straight into the crowd - and right at my feet - as they left.
October 4, 2025 at 9:01 PM
The ICE agents deploying these are people without necessary training, those who couldn’t cut it in police training or didn’t want to join the military.
They are in this to hurt people and play Call of Duty on our streets, deploying chemical weapons on our neighbors as if they’re pressing L1.
They are in this to hurt people and play Call of Duty on our streets, deploying chemical weapons on our neighbors as if they’re pressing L1.
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FWIW, Trump focusing on autism is not a distraction from Epstein. He has been obsessed with autism ever since his friendship with Bob Wright, the former head of NBC Universal and the founder of Autism Speaks. Wright was also the person who put him on the Apprentice.
September 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
FWIW, Trump focusing on autism is not a distraction from Epstein. He has been obsessed with autism ever since his friendship with Bob Wright, the former head of NBC Universal and the founder of Autism Speaks. Wright was also the person who put him on the Apprentice.
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Yes give me money to actually make stuff, instead of just being the dude who sees all the patterns of Bad Things™ and gets yelled at for pointing them out instead of ignoring them.
Neurodivergent folks should all be paid a stipend to do things we like to do, and the world would end up benefiting from it.
The thing about being neurodivergent is that I Like It. What I don’t like is that the world imposes numerous taxes on me for being like this.
I don’t view it as a Me problem.
I don’t view it as a Me problem.
September 24, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Yes give me money to actually make stuff, instead of just being the dude who sees all the patterns of Bad Things™ and gets yelled at for pointing them out instead of ignoring them.
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Kenvue, which owns Tylenol, is issuing mildly worded statements when they need to say “we are going to sue you into the middle of next year.” There is no scientific basis whatsoever for people with zero medical expertise telling anybody to not take Tylenol, cut and dried interference-with-commerce
September 22, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Kenvue, which owns Tylenol, is issuing mildly worded statements when they need to say “we are going to sue you into the middle of next year.” There is no scientific basis whatsoever for people with zero medical expertise telling anybody to not take Tylenol, cut and dried interference-with-commerce
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The government knowingly putting false information in the label of a drug is crossing a Rubicon that should not be taken lightly
Trump: FDA will be updating label of existing drug
September 22, 2025 at 8:57 PM
The government knowingly putting false information in the label of a drug is crossing a Rubicon that should not be taken lightly
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I have zero fucking sense of humor about this rfk shit. besides the obviously gross misreprestation/othering/etc of autistic people it's catastrophic from any sound scientific POV. any doctor who consults governmental guidelines for anything at all under this admin is guilty of malpractice
September 22, 2025 at 9:12 PM
I have zero fucking sense of humor about this rfk shit. besides the obviously gross misreprestation/othering/etc of autistic people it's catastrophic from any sound scientific POV. any doctor who consults governmental guidelines for anything at all under this admin is guilty of malpractice
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Trump: "Finally, to help reach the ultimate goal of ending the autism..."
Their goal is very clear.
Their goal is very clear.
September 22, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Trump: "Finally, to help reach the ultimate goal of ending the autism..."
Their goal is very clear.
Their goal is very clear.
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So cool they discovered the cause of autism on basically day they guessed they would. I’m also glad they are withholding this information for a few days to prep for a WrestleMania-style announcement. This is how science works.
September 22, 2025 at 6:46 PM
So cool they discovered the cause of autism on basically day they guessed they would. I’m also glad they are withholding this information for a few days to prep for a WrestleMania-style announcement. This is how science works.