Robert McKay
@robertmckay.bsky.social
Climate finance | Exec MBA | #amquerying upmarket financial neo-noir | Fractional data/ops https://hopp.bio/climateschool
Shakespeare next; that dude was hella woke.
Texas A&M has decided that Plato is woke & thus has forbidden a philosophy professor from teaching Plato's works.
Not a joke. Not satire. This is the world the anti-woke "free speech warriors" have bequeathed us.
dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
Not a joke. Not satire. This is the world the anti-woke "free speech warriors" have bequeathed us.
dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
Texas A&M Bans Plato - Daily Nous
Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy at Texas A&M University, was told by university officials today about his upcoming "Contemporary Moral Problems" course, due to start next
dailynous.com
January 8, 2026 at 12:04 AM
Shakespeare next; that dude was hella woke.
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The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
January 7, 2026 at 8:26 PM
The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
And they will get away with it until we are back in power, at which point Gitmo will need a lot of extra beds.
This is not self defense. Nor is it where you aim your gun if you are trying to disable a moving vehicle before providing someone with due process. This is a federal agent choosing to murder.
Here's the ICE agent "defending himself" by shooting into the driver's side window of a car that's pulling *away* from him.
Put this photo on the front page of every newspaper in America.
Put this photo on the front page of every newspaper in America.
January 7, 2026 at 11:11 PM
And they will get away with it until we are back in power, at which point Gitmo will need a lot of extra beds.
Mona Awad doing AI boyfriends before they existed.
November 28, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Mona Awad doing AI boyfriends before they existed.
Credit where due: @cecile-rogue.bsky.social
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JUST IN: Katie Wilson significantly extends her lead in the Seattle mayoral race.
She now leads Mayor Bruce Harrell by 1,346 votes, or 0.5%.
That's up from the squeaker-lead of 91 votes in yesterday's update). She won today's batch of nearly 6K ballots by 20% (!).
Not much left at this point.
She now leads Mayor Bruce Harrell by 1,346 votes, or 0.5%.
That's up from the squeaker-lead of 91 votes in yesterday's update). She won today's batch of nearly 6K ballots by 20% (!).
Not much left at this point.
November 12, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Credit where due: @cecile-rogue.bsky.social
Always worth a read: @adamtooze.bsky.social on @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/adamtooz...
open.substack.com/pub/adamtooz...
Chartbook 415 Zohran Mamdani, New York City and the promise to revive social democracy in America.
The election of Zohran Mamdani as the mayor of New York City was a political shock well captured by the tweet of the night:
open.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Always worth a read: @adamtooze.bsky.social on @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
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If you live in Seattle, go here and track your ballot. Make sure it is counted. Because this mayoral race, which Katie Wilson now leads by 91 votes, is epically close.
info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...
info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...
King County Elections
Led by Director Julie Wise, King County Elections conducts accurate, secure, and accessible elections for King County's over 1.4 million registered voters.
info.kingcounty.gov
November 11, 2025 at 12:19 AM
If you live in Seattle, go here and track your ballot. Make sure it is counted. Because this mayoral race, which Katie Wilson now leads by 91 votes, is epically close.
info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...
info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...
Anyone at @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social have a quick way to map these precinct numbers in Tableau or something? I think I would just need some shape files I can load in but my skills are rusty AF. Did a quick SUMIFS on the precinct-level data but want a geo viz. 1drv.ms/x/c/91aa8e49...
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November 8, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Anyone at @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social have a quick way to map these precinct numbers in Tableau or something? I think I would just need some shape files I can load in but my skills are rusty AF. Did a quick SUMIFS on the precinct-level data but want a geo viz. 1drv.ms/x/c/91aa8e49...
"In 2007 BYD was not yet a $600 billion conglom vaporizing the German auto industry. It was a seemingly fraudulent goat rodeo making batteries for frivolous ‘electric cars’, in a dank warehouse in a city still in the process of transforming from a fishing village."
www.notboring.co/p/7653b980-d....
www.notboring.co/p/7653b980-d....
Not Boring by Packy McCormick
Tech strategy and analysis, but not boring. Click to read Not Boring by Packy McCormick, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.
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October 26, 2025 at 9:31 PM
"In 2007 BYD was not yet a $600 billion conglom vaporizing the German auto industry. It was a seemingly fraudulent goat rodeo making batteries for frivolous ‘electric cars’, in a dank warehouse in a city still in the process of transforming from a fishing village."
www.notboring.co/p/7653b980-d....
www.notboring.co/p/7653b980-d....
This is the messaging I want to hear from @democrats.org: "Fed agents & anyone ordered to aid & abet them: quit now or start making yourself a useful witness, because when you're charged for terrorism & treason in 2029, you'll be lucky if we use civilian courts." chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'
The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.
chicago.suntimes.com
October 4, 2025 at 11:27 PM
This is the messaging I want to hear from @democrats.org: "Fed agents & anyone ordered to aid & abet them: quit now or start making yourself a useful witness, because when you're charged for terrorism & treason in 2029, you'll be lucky if we use civilian courts." chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Get ready for TikTok to go the way of X, becoming a propaganda arm of the regime and a platform for Nazi traitors, pedophiles and terrorists.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
TikTok Deal Gives Americans 6 of 7 Board Seats, White House Says
The US operations of TikTok will be majority-owned and controlled by Americans under a deal reached this week to spin off the platform from its Chinese ownership, White House Press Secretary Karoline ...
www.bloomberg.com
September 27, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Get ready for TikTok to go the way of X, becoming a propaganda arm of the regime and a platform for Nazi traitors, pedophiles and terrorists.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
If the UN functioned as originally envisioned, it would have an air force and that air force would currently be bombing the IDF, or more likely would’ve obliterated it by now and the country would be occupied by UN troops enforcing regime change via “authoritarian liberal” methods.
September 14, 2025 at 8:14 PM
If the UN functioned as originally envisioned, it would have an air force and that air force would currently be bombing the IDF, or more likely would’ve obliterated it by now and the country would be occupied by UN troops enforcing regime change via “authoritarian liberal” methods.
My Boomer mom: How do I delete my FB so fascists don’t target me because Charlie Kirk?
Me: You don’t need to do tha—wait, WTF am I saying? *sends account deletion help page*
Me: You don’t need to do tha—wait, WTF am I saying? *sends account deletion help page*
September 11, 2025 at 11:26 PM
My Boomer mom: How do I delete my FB so fascists don’t target me because Charlie Kirk?
Me: You don’t need to do tha—wait, WTF am I saying? *sends account deletion help page*
Me: You don’t need to do tha—wait, WTF am I saying? *sends account deletion help page*
“I have determined the business need is higher than the security risk associated with this implementation and I accept all risks,” wrote Aram Moghaddassi, who worked at… X and Neuralink, before becoming Social Security’s chief information officer, in a July 15 memo. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...
DOGE Put Critical Social Security Data at Risk, Whistle-Blower Says
www.nytimes.com
August 28, 2025 at 3:47 AM
“I have determined the business need is higher than the security risk associated with this implementation and I accept all risks,” wrote Aram Moghaddassi, who worked at… X and Neuralink, before becoming Social Security’s chief information officer, in a July 15 memo. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...
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The moment I knew Katie Wilson was in the driver's seat was when I talked to Tanya Woo last week at #aaja25. She seemed resigned to the fact that a second Trump term would push Seattle voters to the "far-left" (her words, not mine) and that she's considering resuming a career in TV news
Tonight, we got results that were even better than we hoped, and it’s likely to only get better.
Seattle, you showed up!
It’s clear that voters want change.
This is your city.
Join the campaign, and let’s get this done!
Seattle, you showed up!
It’s clear that voters want change.
This is your city.
Join the campaign, and let’s get this done!
August 6, 2025 at 4:39 AM
The moment I knew Katie Wilson was in the driver's seat was when I talked to Tanya Woo last week at #aaja25. She seemed resigned to the fact that a second Trump term would push Seattle voters to the "far-left" (her words, not mine) and that she's considering resuming a career in TV news
I can say this is very in-character
"Voters, gaze with horror upon the most terrifying extremist ever to menace Seattle since Kshama Sawant!"
[cut to: Katie Wilson helping her kid onto the light rail escalator and dropping a sheaf of housing affordability studies]
[cut to: Katie Wilson helping her kid onto the light rail escalator and dropping a sheaf of housing affordability studies]
Wilson is the perfect progressive candidate because the perfect rebuttal to calling her "extreme" is just... being herself. Wonky. Mild-mannered.
August 6, 2025 at 5:46 AM
I can say this is very in-character
Ugh I feel so much less smart and efficient now... thanks for working on it @notion.com
August 4, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Ugh I feel so much less smart and efficient now... thanks for working on it @notion.com
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For those keeping score, the Senate Bill adds $18 billion in new handouts for Big Oil.
We are a joke nation, and it's a bad joke
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
We are a joke nation, and it's a bad joke
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
The GOP Wants to Give Big Oil a Handout It Doesn’t Need
Lawmakers are proposing giveaways to fossil-fuel producers that would cost the US $17.9 billion over a decade.
www.bloomberg.com
July 1, 2025 at 2:23 PM
For those keeping score, the Senate Bill adds $18 billion in new handouts for Big Oil.
We are a joke nation, and it's a bad joke
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
We are a joke nation, and it's a bad joke
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Bro, truly, the atmosphere does not care how you feel or what you say. Greenhush all you want, but fucking execute. www.thetimes.com/business-mon...
Standard Chartered boss: My shame at going quiet on environment
Bill Winters says other business leaders should feel ashamed about not speaking up on green issues as it has become less ‘politically acceptable’
www.thetimes.com
July 2, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Bro, truly, the atmosphere does not care how you feel or what you say. Greenhush all you want, but fucking execute. www.thetimes.com/business-mon...
Yo @profgalloway.com you gotta credit @oliverbullough.bsky.social for the “Butler Britain” line bro. And read his books if you haven’t.
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June 30, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Yo @profgalloway.com you gotta credit @oliverbullough.bsky.social for the “Butler Britain” line bro. And read his books if you haven’t.
bookshop.org/a/91532/9781...
bookshop.org/a/91532/9781...
June 25, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Props to @gavinnewsom.bsky.social & every other state Dem floating #TaxResistance. We need to help the #BondVigilantes into the saddle so they can #Truss up this outlaw gang and ride 'em outta town! 🤠
June 9, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Props to @gavinnewsom.bsky.social & every other state Dem floating #TaxResistance. We need to help the #BondVigilantes into the saddle so they can #Truss up this outlaw gang and ride 'em outta town! 🤠
Taleb never gets old. Dig the reinsurance bit.
April 10, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Taleb never gets old. Dig the reinsurance bit.