I thought there were 220 republicans in the house…

I've done it. I've found the most Appalachian man to ever exist. He is a 14-year-old named Ray Burracher, who tried to give President Herbert Hoover a possum and advised him on acquiring hogs to take care of a snake problem.

Ummm… does anyone see my true crime daily posts? They appear to have disappeared. All of them.

Did you read @ordinarytimes.bsky.social today? @captainkudzu.bsky.social on possible war w/ Iran @wvesquiress.bsky.social defends West Virginia post-60 Minutes @ogjaybird.bsky.social on Tourette's & media coverage thereof @hal10000.bsky.social on SCOTUS + State of the Union & more ordinary-times.com

Been a while since @wvesquiress.bsky.social has written for us and, boy, do I miss her voice. Great piece on how both political tribes have abandoned a great state. They mined it for all the coal they could, then left the people there to deal with the consequences.

The trolls and bad faith interweb accounts came for West Virginia following that 60 Minutes piece on McDowell County, and our friend and Mountaineer to the bone @wvesquiress.bsky.social was having none of it. Read here today @ordinarytimemag ordinary-times.com/2026/02/24/p...

Currently locked out of my X account due to a hacker. AMA

True story: the doctor who recognized Speck's tattoo and called the cops on him? He was my mom's boyfriend at the time. She was nurse in Chicago and they were all terrified that he going to slaughter some more nurses.

GUYS.

There are theories that our universe is just one of many. In some of these theories, those universes are not dissimilar to our own and there may be millions of each of spread out over the multiversal cosmos. In none of those universes is Johnny Cash "uncool". Not even a little.

My wife has been fighting Stage 4 pancreatic cancer for almost a year. Another relative had breast cancer which came back on her brain. She's still going strong.

I am from the old internet generation that had ogrish and rotten dot com, so I thought I was pretty desensitized to graphic atrocity. But I cannot get that video from yesterday out of my head. It’s because he was a familiar face, the horror of seeing someone you “know” die that way.

I know it’s not his fault and there are more legit reasons to despise him but it is physically painful for me to listen to him speak.

This is so sad. In abduction cases you want to believe the perpetrators were just desperate to be parents and would care for, raise and love the child they stole.

Am I the only fatty still unwilling to try Ozempic or similar? All my friends are getting skinny and I’m struggling and hungry 😤😩.

A must-read piece from @wvesquiress.bsky.social up at @ordinarytimes.bsky.social that gets real personal about a subject most folks don't want to talk about, but far too many have to live through What's a grown child to do with their aging, non-compliant parents? ordinary-times.com/2025/06/27/p...

Great read

Got a little personal today over @ordinarytimes.bsky.social about dealing with aging and maddeningly stubborn parents who refuse to take care of themselves.

Yep. I’ve said this many times. It’s the motivation behind “welfare reform” advocates, anti-student loan forgiveness, even derision of GLP-1s for weight loss.

@four4thefire.bsky.social @wvesquiress.bsky.social Happy West Virginia Day! The best thing to come out of Virginia since 1863!

Everything is awful, but Sam Alito is really mad, so there's that.

Spending my days finding new and more creative ways to insult the “unpaid toll” scammers who text. Not sure there’s anyone on the other end getting my reply but it makes me feel better.

When Amy Coney Barrett was up for confirmation, @wvesquiress.bsky.social did a four part series @ordinarytimes.bsky.social deep diving the future SCOTUS justice's legal worldview, writings, & rulings. So Em is perfect person to check in with now that MAGA is big mad at her for ruling against Trump

Went to this tonight. If it comes to your area, I highly, HIGHLY recommend it. They do offer mocktails if that’s your preference. This was amazing, especially for a Poe fan like me.

Yes, it's personal. I am 1/4 Ukrainian Jew. But it's also personal because I'm an American and have taken pride my entire life in our how our nation approaches the world. Yes, we've done bad things but they are far outweighed by the good. To see Trump reduce us to another thugocracy is enraging.

We really are the bad guys now. This breaks my heart.

At long last, I’m thrilled to announce that my new book, WITHOUT CONSENT: A Landmark Case and the Decades-Long Struggle To Make Spousal Rape a Crime, will be published on November 11, 2025 and is available for pre-order wherever books are sold! www.sarahweinman.com/book/without...

The Supreme Court rules that the prosecution violated its obligation to correct false testimony in Richard Glossip's case and sends the case back for a new trial. Glossip has maintained that he was not involved in the Oklahoma City murder for which he was sentenced to death.

From @wvesquiress.bsky.social "After a decade of listening, I can definitively say that most of it is utter garbage. But I have developed a pretty solid rotation of quality shows, so I thought I’d break down my top five for anyone who might be interested but overwhelmed, wondering where to start"

So much reaping and sowing going on right now.

They do not, in fact, work for Trump. They work for the public. Public servants, not Trump’s servants.

Of course not. There are no programs labeled "fraud". Sniffing it out takes skill and expertise. You know, like in the inspectors general you guys just fired or the Medicaid Fraud units you're ignoring. www.publicnotice.co/p/despite-th...

Would anyone be interested in a write up of my top 5 true-crime podcasts?

Since I made meatballs and sauce yesterday, here’s a little backstory to go with: ordinary-times.com/2020/10/29/b...

Is it just my phone or do videos usually not work for everyone on BlueSky? They just load and load and never start.

How I’m spending my Saturday. I am my grandma and it makes me so happy 😊

Today would have been Rue McClanahan's 91st birthday. To celebrate her life, I'll feature Blanche quotes today. #RueMcClanahan #GoldenGirls

Started this like two years ago but stopped at the arms and legs because they were boring and hard to do. Finally finished it today after much begging from my son. Meet “Mooson.”

Some digital artwork from my little artist. It’s him, drawing his favorite Sonic characters, while several other of his fave characters watch. The two moose characters in the back are his own creations, and the clothes he’s wearing are clothes he actually owns.

Maga votes are the cheapest. You don't have actually do anything to benefit them, you just need to punch libs on TV and say you are destroying Washington, who they have been taught is the enemy.

Trump done went and pissed off my kid 🤣 (cartography is his hobby.)

I asked ChatGPT to write me a Kid Rock anthem about Lauren Boebert and it didn't disappoint.

Yale Law has a lot of fucking explaining to do.

I’m on an unfollowing spree at the other place. I’m too set in my ways to leave completely, but the days of letting trash into my timeline just because it’s from people I had a cordial exchange or two with are over.

This is insane. It's essentially nuking the world's greatest medical research system, and the only reason it's being done, at the cost of all of the obvious public good, is to further enrich venture capitalists. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/white...

I come from the right. It’s the cruelty. For the right, the cruelty is the point. The cruelty sells.

Please remember something: if you had said a year ago that Trump would do even a fraction of these things, you would have been mocked, belittled, accused of “Trump derangement syndrome,” and dismissed by certain people. Identify those people and block and shun them.

Overturning Sullivan has at least two votes on the Supreme Court — Thomas and Alito. Maybe more. I can’t overstate how catastrophic that would be for free expression in America in an environment where political and performative defamation litigation are common.

Youngest asked hubby, what’s the difference between Dr. Pepper and Mr. Pibb? Oldest pipes up “one of them has a PhD.”