Paul Mackie
@paulmackie.bsky.social
Dad. Husband. Professor. Army Veteran. Skis a little and runs sometimes. Still on X but not sure why. Posts randomly on purpose. Ubet’Cha, Minnesota.
Worst presidential Thanksgiving message ever.
November 28, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Worst presidential Thanksgiving message ever.
So, turns out there wasn’t an alternative health plan, the shutdown was political theater, and Republicans may extend the same ACA plan they keep saying is awful. Applying logic, does that then mean if it’s extended, the ACA becomes the republican health plan?
November 25, 2025 at 12:12 PM
So, turns out there wasn’t an alternative health plan, the shutdown was political theater, and Republicans may extend the same ACA plan they keep saying is awful. Applying logic, does that then mean if it’s extended, the ACA becomes the republican health plan?
Random information
November 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Random information
The difference between being kind and being cruel. People need to eat. All of them.
November 5, 2025 at 3:40 AM
The difference between being kind and being cruel. People need to eat. All of them.
What do yah think? Lean Horse for my next 100 miler?
November 4, 2025 at 11:56 AM
What do yah think? Lean Horse for my next 100 miler?
Things I see while running trials.
November 4, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Things I see while running trials.
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Medicare for All would save $450B a year.
Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity.
Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall.
It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford.
It’s about priorities.
Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity.
Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall.
It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford.
It’s about priorities.
October 31, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Medicare for All would save $450B a year.
Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity.
Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall.
It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford.
It’s about priorities.
Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity.
Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall.
It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford.
It’s about priorities.
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November 1, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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Reporter: SNAP is so stimulative to our economy. There are lots of rural stores where 60% of their sales are SNAP sales. So that rural store might have to shutter its doors. This is our collective struggle. All of us do better when people experiencing hunger do better. All of us lose when they don't
November 3, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Reporter: SNAP is so stimulative to our economy. There are lots of rural stores where 60% of their sales are SNAP sales. So that rural store might have to shutter its doors. This is our collective struggle. All of us do better when people experiencing hunger do better. All of us lose when they don't
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"This is what you get after a decade of Trumpism’s ascendance: a young-activist base that has self-selected for the most amoral and psychotic political strivers, and has held them up as a professional ideal for the young people coming up behind them to emulate." www.thebulwark.com/p/its-gettin...
It’s Getting Worse.
The Trump administration’s assault on the rest of us is intensifying.
www.thebulwark.com
October 15, 2025 at 2:10 PM
"This is what you get after a decade of Trumpism’s ascendance: a young-activist base that has self-selected for the most amoral and psychotic political strivers, and has held them up as a professional ideal for the young people coming up behind them to emulate." www.thebulwark.com/p/its-gettin...
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The Iranian inventor that invented the floating shoes, has now built a propeller-less propulsion system ideal for flying taxis
Mohsen Bahmani is an Iranian-born mechanical engineer and a man with a dream. When he was just 17 years old, he made a pair of floating shoes that ...
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October 16, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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Well, I didn’t wake to the obituary I had hoped for. But at least that orange shit gibbon didn’t win the peace prize.
October 10, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Well, I didn’t wake to the obituary I had hoped for. But at least that orange shit gibbon didn’t win the peace prize.
Indeed.
September 20, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Indeed.
The fact that we even need this speaks volumes.
September 20, 2025 at 3:10 PM
The fact that we even need this speaks volumes.
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"Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves."
-Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
-Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
September 20, 2025 at 1:29 PM
"Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves."
-Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
-Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
I did a thing. Finished the Iron Will 100 miler near Ft Riley, KS last weekend. Spent the past week healing and wondering… what’s next? Time: 33 hours, 49 min.
September 20, 2025 at 3:06 PM
I did a thing. Finished the Iron Will 100 miler near Ft Riley, KS last weekend. Spent the past week healing and wondering… what’s next? Time: 33 hours, 49 min.
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Medicare for All - "That's socialism!"
Social Security - "That's socialism!"
Debt free education - "That's socialism!"
Universal childcare - "That's socialism!"
$1 trillion in tax cuts for the richest 1%...
"That's just how it is."
Social Security - "That's socialism!"
Debt free education - "That's socialism!"
Universal childcare - "That's socialism!"
$1 trillion in tax cuts for the richest 1%...
"That's just how it is."
August 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Medicare for All - "That's socialism!"
Social Security - "That's socialism!"
Debt free education - "That's socialism!"
Universal childcare - "That's socialism!"
$1 trillion in tax cuts for the richest 1%...
"That's just how it is."
Social Security - "That's socialism!"
Debt free education - "That's socialism!"
Universal childcare - "That's socialism!"
$1 trillion in tax cuts for the richest 1%...
"That's just how it is."
This morning’s garden haul. Eating fresh!
August 9, 2025 at 4:23 PM
This morning’s garden haul. Eating fresh!
If language used is any indication, a lot of MAGA folks are caught up in a fowl-mouthed crisis of conscience now. It would be entertaining if it weren’t so damn serious.
July 19, 2025 at 11:50 AM
If language used is any indication, a lot of MAGA folks are caught up in a fowl-mouthed crisis of conscience now. It would be entertaining if it weren’t so damn serious.
Last weekend we all did a thing! Another Pound the Mound 50k completed. Jake took first and set a new course record and the other Paul finished his first ultra!
May 20, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Last weekend we all did a thing! Another Pound the Mound 50k completed. Jake took first and set a new course record and the other Paul finished his first ultra!