Man alive. I have studied Right Wing authoritarianism for years and have watched some truly fucked up shit and today’s memorial service is maybe the most concentrated example of how messed up and disturbing that sector truly is.

I’m so tired of these bozos just making shit up as they go along.

look, it’s just a fired prosecutor and an inexplicable tape gap. since when has that ever indicated anything

I'll be on tomorrow 1pm ET/10 am PT! Check it out! www.youtube.com/live/RVbjw4Y...

He just testified all morning about the reasons why the tariff policy was going to make America great. Then he checked his phone and realized everything he just said was canceled on Truth Social.

You set the house on fire, watched it burn, and then lost your nerve and put it out. You now have a partially burned house. Great job.

Welp, glad I updated my iPhone 3 days ago

My favorite from today. #HandsOff #HandsOff2025

Things will get real when half of America realizes that Hawaii can't solely supply our entire coffee crop

I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! ☘️ Sláinte mhaith!

Every other downturn I remember was largely due to bad actors in the finance sector, & the govt then scrambling to patch things up. This is the only time I remember where the *government itself* is causing the downturn, with the finance sector screaming, "WTF ARE YOU DOING?"

I bought a Tesla because it was fast like a rocket ship. But now every time I drive it, I feel like a rolling billboard for a man dismantling our government and hurting people. So Tesla, you’re fired! New ride coming soon.

As predicted, women in New Hampshire had a hard time voting yesterday because of the new proof of citizenship law: “It doesn’t have my married name on it,” she said. Town voting officials then sent her away a second time, to get her marriage certificate. www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...

Every moderate who told me to calm down in 2016 owes me a thousand dollars.

Want to go visit the national parks this year? Sorry. The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

I've been thinking a lot about that bumper sticker which says "everything looks like a conspiracy theory when you don't understand how anything works" and folks it's pretty obvious to me that the people in power right now have absolutely no desire to understand how anything works.

Trump whining that Democrats wouldn't applaud him even if he cured a disease and then a second later bragging about withdrawing from the World Health Organization

This is always the New York Way of it: you pick a nice sunny spot, and five minutes later, the sun has disappeared behind a different building and you’re freezing 🥶

I owe an apology to all James Bond movies. I mocked them for having completely unrealistic, cartoonish villains that simply weren't believable. 2025 has made it impossible to levy that criticism anymore.

new EO orders Google maps to change name of Yosemite (rhymes like obscenity) to Yosemite (rhymes with marmite)

National Park staff on the chopping block. This is just one case of several I’ve heard about 🤬

What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.

I keep saying Dems need to do a daily briefing on Capitol Hill and fill the void, fact check the WH. Hire Pete Buttigeig and give him a staff to do this.

REPOST if you support our federal workforce and know how dedicated they are to their jobs. Show them you appreciate them!

Word of the day (discovered via the book I'm currently narrating, a huge Civil War tome). Never heard of this one, but let's bring it back: fla·​gi·​tious flə-ˈji-shəs —Marked by scandalous crime or vice; villainous

New haircut, new beer #CapitalTapHouse

The CFPB is one of the American people’s best defenses against waste, fraud, and abuse. Demolishing it will, of course, lead to more waste, fraud, and abuse.

Project 2025 was unpopular because of things like the plan for Trump to shut down the CFPB, which helps you get your money back if a bank cheats you.

It’s pretty insane that a private citizen can come in, hijack federal government servers, fire people, and steal their PII.

Mike Johnson represents a state whose largest city was built below sea level behind levees sandwiched between the ocean and a massive river on hurricane alley, but he doesn’t want to give aid to CA because their policies invite natural disasters.

It finally happened. I knew it would. The long, hard, ugly cry with wails of anguish I cannot stop, that I've known was inevitable since Nov. 5th. It feels unbearable to watch my country being destroyed and being helpless in the face of it. I knew this would come eventually.

Amazing news!!! I've received my 1st Audie Award nomination for my narration of HAMLET'S CHILDREN by Richard Kluger ! It's 1 of 5 audiobooks nominated in the Fiction category this year! 🏆 Thanks to @tantoraudio.bsky.social & for this WWII-era historical fiction memoir! #Audies2025 #Audiobooks

We have four finalists in the 2025 Audie Awards! #Audies2025 @wiswell.bsky.social @paulwoodson.bsky.social @seancrisden.bsky.social @avenkind.bsky.social

The audio version of my book is out, and @paulwoodson.bsky.social's golden, sonorous narration is a sheer delight! (I know, I'm not exactly impartial here.) Now I know "Southwick" is pronounced "suth-ick." The info is here: rbmediaglobal.com/audiobook/97...

If you’re afraid that books might change someone’s thinking, you’re not afraid of books, you’re afraid of thinking.

An enduring and universal experience amongst narrators is that someone is upset that you pronounced a word wrong - but you were absolutely correct, and it never occurred to them that they’d been pronouncing it wrong their entire lives.

One thing I am thankful for today are all the people who did the hard ass work of growing/raising/manufacturing the food and food products that will be on my table today. Without them…nothing else happens. 💙

I feel like we're at the false ending in WARGAMES where NORAD has just confirmed that all the missiles were fake, so they're not about to launch WWIII into being, and everyone has stood around laughing and congratulating each other until they realize… 1/2

This is going to suck so bad

Great to see @tantoraudio.bsky.social on BlueSky! :D

What’s the most underrated Thanksgiving food? I will start. Whiskey.

Ah, so ANORA is PRETTY WOMAN except everyone sucks

Just a request for anybody who follows me here and actually knows me in person, but doesn’t use their own real name in their handle – it can be tricky for me to know that that’s you, so send me a little note so that I know it’s you and can follow you back!

Did you know that by substituting your morning coffee with green tea, you can eliminate up to 93% of what little joy you have left?

Good to be here in some Blue Skies! Let's make it a happy time.

If the rules of a social media platform tell you that you have to listen to Nazis, debate with fascists, and let trolls stalk you in order to use it, change the platform.