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Kris McDermott

@krismcd.bsky.social

Shakespeare prof, historical fiction and SF/F reviewer, budding editor. Pro: knitting, books, cats, comedy, fat liberation, people standing up for each other. Miss my native South but glad to live in Blu(ish) Michigan. She/her/hers.

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The perfect screengrab doesn't exi----

08.02.2026 18:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"I'll have meat and yogurt," said the Health Secretary, his voice box rattling like a decaying wooden roller coaster. "It's healthier," he added, as his forehead skin exploded into black and maroon flowers of biotic rot and his nose slid off his face into his plate of raw chicken pieces.

08.02.2026 16:55 β€” πŸ‘ 2076    πŸ” 299    πŸ’¬ 76    πŸ“Œ 8

Cool, Rep. Gonzales -- maybe start with fascism?

08.02.2026 18:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Superb Owl Sunday X A special Sunday event: our tenth-annual photo collection celebrating these magnificent birds of prey. If you have some time before the big game (or are skipping the event entirely), we invite you to have a look.

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08.02.2026 17:15 β€” πŸ‘ 245    πŸ” 56    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 6

At EVERY level, they cheat, because they know the majority loathe them and they could never win fairly.

08.02.2026 17:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The fact that MAGA is pissed about Bad Bunny in the halftime show should be presented as an uncomplicated positive. "Not only is he hugely popular with the majority of mainstream U.S. audiences, he's also made ignorant bigots as angry and excluded as we would always hope to make them feel."

08.02.2026 13:41 β€” πŸ‘ 481    πŸ” 74    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2

Bad Bunny is so amazing that the headliner for his concert tonight is the first half of a football game

08.02.2026 14:07 β€” πŸ‘ 36    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

No. Nononono. True, the craftsmanship i -- no.

07.02.2026 21:48 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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It doesn’t get any more disgusting than this.

07.02.2026 20:41 β€” πŸ‘ 19270    πŸ” 7787    πŸ’¬ 751    πŸ“Œ 340
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Notice how the idiot telling us to "move on" from the Epstein files released six days ago never shuts up about an election that happened SIX YEARS AGO?

07.02.2026 20:53 β€” πŸ‘ 4732    πŸ” 1413    πŸ’¬ 228    πŸ“Œ 80

JD Vance should just stay home, it's really too much trouble to let him out into the world

07.02.2026 19:28 β€” πŸ‘ 546    πŸ” 97    πŸ’¬ 32    πŸ“Œ 0

Kinda strange how Trump proposes he's just a befuddled old man who didn't mean to be a racist Nazi, but keeps doing things a racist Nazi would do

He never accidentally gives children free lunches or constructs affordable housing

07.02.2026 03:28 β€” πŸ‘ 62    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0
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List as of Feb 6 at 7:30pm et / 4:30pm pt

07.02.2026 00:33 β€” πŸ‘ 334    πŸ” 159    πŸ’¬ 28    πŸ“Œ 15

Millions of $ spent by Novo on messaging that GLP-1s are for health, not appearances, down the tubes.

06.02.2026 21:38 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Looking forward to hearing MAGA types attacking Mamdani’s order by asserting that they’re in favor of abusive immigration enforcement.

06.02.2026 16:46 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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It’s so bad even Tim Scott isn’t afraid to criticize it.

06.02.2026 15:11 β€” πŸ‘ 4176    πŸ” 880    πŸ’¬ 653    πŸ“Œ 116
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06.02.2026 14:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Here's a hint: if you can't "justify" the decision, is it really a good decision? Maybe yes, maybe no, but whining about having to show your work is never a good look for academics.

05.02.2026 17:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Nothing says prayer breakfast like concentration camps

05.02.2026 14:34 β€” πŸ‘ 4161    πŸ” 1302    πŸ’¬ 270    πŸ“Œ 55

Again, claiming that members of the other party cannot, in fact, share your broad religious faith is 100% at odds with the basic idea of the National Prayer Breakfast.

And saying Democrats shouldn't be at a non-partisan event "because they certainly don't give us the vote" is just batshit insane.

05.02.2026 14:25 β€” πŸ‘ 974    πŸ” 192    πŸ’¬ 50    πŸ“Œ 3
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Jacob Frey: "The continued presence of 2,000 federal agents in a city that only has 600 police officers is still not deescalation"

04.02.2026 21:19 β€” πŸ‘ 9264    πŸ” 2508    πŸ’¬ 135    πŸ“Œ 75

When this happens at my house, it's usually a Housewives-style grievance airing by several different songbirds against one bluejay.

04.02.2026 19:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"Nothing human is alien to me," wrong! Every day I read a new headline about human acts that are completely alien to me. I can't imagine being a millionaire sex trafficker. I can't imagine joining ICE. How am I in the same species as these people?

04.02.2026 18:51 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It shouldn't be legal for any person or entity to own a national newspaper at all, much less buy it in order to sabotage it and destroy it.

04.02.2026 17:43 β€” πŸ‘ 306    πŸ” 52    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 0

The headline should be, "DHS to keep 2,000 immigration officers in Minnesota."

Instead, it seems the entirety of the traditional media went with, "DHS to withdraw 700 immigration officers from Minnesota."

This presser worked like a charm.

04.02.2026 15:43 β€” πŸ‘ 3889    πŸ” 1295    πŸ’¬ 116    πŸ“Œ 49

Would love to hear MI Rep. Moolenaar's defense of this; the dangers posed by selling things to China is practically his only political message.

03.02.2026 22:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The lies just keep heaping up, getting bigger and bigger, and nobody in any position of power challenges them. The effect on pubic discourse is so poisonous.

03.02.2026 22:39 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yes, they keep talking about "historical accuracy" when it's a MYTH.

03.02.2026 19:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Really? It’s 2026 and a bunch of grown-ass dudes are whining about the fact that Christopher Nolan cast a (brilliant) Black actress to play a 3000-year-old FICTIONAL CHARACTER??? #AYFKMWTS

03.02.2026 04:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

β€˜They were caravaning to this church to perform an attack style infiltration’

Is this Pam Bondi’s first day speaking the English language?

03.02.2026 02:37 β€” πŸ‘ 964    πŸ” 112    πŸ’¬ 66    πŸ“Œ 6

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