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Retired professor of literature & writing and critical thinking, Yale and USC. Also 10 years’ teaching high school English. NYC native, now in CT. New Deal Democrat, like my parents before me.

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Spread this poster, and help diminish the Republican reality distortion field. We took President Biden too much for granted, and look where that got us!

14.10.2025 03:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Red red wine, UB40. Most people think it’s the original, can’t believe it’s by Neil Diamond!

13.10.2025 23:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

In fact, St. Peter’s installing an express down elevator just for you, Donnie.

12.10.2025 23:13 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

“Propagandists—in other words, state-sponsored liars.”

Use the apposition, Luke!

12.10.2025 23:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Requires one grandparent born in Ireland.

07.10.2025 02:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Preview
Blue states should come together to declare an emergency. Here’s how | Thomas Geoghegan States opposed to Trump can create a compact – a new prototype for American government – even if it’s perceived as political theater

Important suggestions for Blue-State self-defense and steps on the way to autonomous self-rule. By Thomas Geoghegan, a labor lawyer who understands the power of organizing.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

06.10.2025 05:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Just getting started on the road to Nuremberg II. They’re eagerly documenting their own war crimes!

04.10.2025 15:37 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

What must it be like to live life as a pitch-perfect Times Pitchbot clone?

04.10.2025 15:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Article doesn’t even mention Posse Comitatus.

03.10.2025 05:04 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Rachel Bitecofer told us to do that to the Republicans in 2024, take off the gloves, demonize them–it looks like she was correct, since they’ve been doing it to us Democrats for 30 years or more, and look where we are.

Tear it down, start over; make Bernie the face of the party and chair.

30.09.2025 17:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

True—fairness is now woke, or some such nonsense.

30.09.2025 02:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Bill Clinton’s campaign had a rapid response team—how hard would that be? Incomprehensible passivity by Dem leadership. “Influencers” essentially do this for a living—can’t find a few of them? Look on Meta—thousands of them!

29.09.2025 22:45 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

My advice to Fetterman: Get over yourself, dickhead. And buy a suit.

29.09.2025 22:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The ingratitude!

29.09.2025 03:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Pollsters are hired guns, but I was still sad to see that Cornell Belcher, once Obama’s pollster, is working for the Andrew Cuomo campaign. Of course, Cuomo was Clinton’s HUD secretary, so maybe it’s just more evidence that we need a new party, root and branch.

That stink won’t wash off.

29.09.2025 03:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

No wonder he and Trump are such good friends! Birds of a feather…

29.09.2025 01:01 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ellison must be good at math, or coding, or something—but he doesn’t know anything about actually *thinking*. This is one of the shallowest, least reflective remarks I’ve ever read. Pathetic—if it weren’t so dangerous and sociopathic.

28.09.2025 22:05 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Mammon, to be precise.

“Mammon, the least erected spirit that fell
From heaven; for ev'n in heaven his looks and thoughts
Were always downward bent, admiring more
The riches of heaven's pavement, trodden gold,
Than aught divine or holy else enjoy'd In vision beatific.”

Paradise Lost, 1, 678

28.09.2025 21:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

You can take the leader out of the clubhouse, but you can’t take the clubhouse out of the leader.

28.09.2025 19:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Oh, good—officially-sanctioned vigilantes, fresh off their pardons for January 6.

28.09.2025 16:41 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Good catch! And throws Prince Andrew under the bus for good measure. In a world of selfish dickheads, he’s right up there at the top.

27.09.2025 22:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

What he really needs to be is UN-appointed!

27.09.2025 21:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

OregonLive has many other good stories about ICE/citizen confrontations, detailing abundant ICE misbehavior and incompetence.

27.09.2025 17:11 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

“Portland Antifa” meme is always ready to dust off and deploy.
To be fair, Portland has had real problems with anarchic street people in the past—only not now!

27.09.2025 16:03 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I insulted the MSM as a way of endorsing your suggestion! Too much of a bank shot, I guess.

For the record:Marcy’s idea is excellent. We’ve seen the power of citizen videos of ICE brutality against innocent people just keeping their appointments —“Portland is actually peaceful” videos do the same.

27.09.2025 15:55 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

“Isn’t that the job of the national media?”

Just kidding.

27.09.2025 15:40 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

“The president should be removed from office because he is plainly insane.” Pass it on.

27.09.2025 15:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I wonder what would have happened if Lee Bollinger were still President there. Probably would have looked like Harvard under Garber

27.09.2025 15:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Collective action problem at Columbia, whose leadership and governing structure has had problems for years: with Kimmel, it came down to one person deciding to fight, after which the people rallied to him.

27.09.2025 15:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Just curious—how does he plan to stop them if they decide to do it? Send over a sternly-worded Jared Kushner?

25.09.2025 21:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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