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Travis Klempan

@travisklempan.bsky.social

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Author of HAVE SNAKES, NEED BIRDS (Koehler Books) and HILLS HIDE MOUNTAINS (MilSpeak Books)

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Travis Klempan @travisklempan.bsky.social · Jan 21

Here’s a list of my writing and associated work…enjoy!

My second novel HILLS HIDE MOUNTAINS

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Travis Klempan @travisklempan.bsky.social · 6m

The mean boss. The corrupt politicians. The crude mother-in-law.

Man, DANTE’S PEAK (1997) does not spare any cliched villain in its march on humanity.

Travis Klempan @travisklempan.bsky.social · 11m

I, for one, am glad to see frogs getting reclaimed from that atrocious Pepe nonsense.

Travis Klempan @travisklempan.bsky.social · 12m

We have added the Orphan Crusher to your refrigerator, your email, and your garden hose.

Travis Klempan @travisklempan.bsky.social · 53m

Nextdoor folks having a nutty over the idea of “raising taxes”* to help feed schoolchildren.

*Not really raising taxes, just not refunding taxes because of our dumb Tabor amendment

Travis Klempan @travisklempan.bsky.social · 57m

WTF is the deal with Qatar.

Travis Klempan @travisklempan.bsky.social · 59m

Yeah that’s one we can all part ways with.

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Travis Klempan @travisklempan.bsky.social · 1h

“Hey, can I use every type of hyphen and dash?”
“Only if you use them inconsistently and incorrectly, Bari.”

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Travis Klempan @travisklempan.bsky.social · 1h

She sucks at typing, for one thing.

Travis Klempan @travisklempan.bsky.social · 1h

“Peter Thiel STFU For One Minute Challenge” 2025 failure

Travis Klempan @travisklempan.bsky.social · 2h

a man in a white tank top walks down a street with the words okay here we go again below him

ALT: a man in a white tank top walks down a street with the words okay here we go again below him

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Travis Klempan @travisklempan.bsky.social · 2h

Of note, the Trump campaign rally in Norfolk was not, in fact, the Navy’s actual celebration.

Travis Klempan @travisklempan.bsky.social · 2h

You can’t keep saying “unprecedented” especially when it’s not unprecedented.

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Travis Klempan @travisklempan.bsky.social · 2h

Whoever wrote the copy for the Navy’s 250th anniversary* website needs to lay off the crack and consult a thesaurus.

*Not a birthday. Organizations don’t have birthdays.

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Travis Klempan @travisklempan.bsky.social · 3h

The fact the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize is from Venezuela surely won’t mean that Trump will blow up more Venezuelan fishing boats, right?

Travis Klempan @travisklempan.bsky.social · 14h

They should definitely tell him he won. Then, we he comes to Oslo to pick up his prize, arrest him.

Bing bang boom.

James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 17h

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

Travis Klempan @travisklempan.bsky.social · 16h

(That’s what I’d ask them)

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Travis Klempan @travisklempan.bsky.social · 16h

Why did your dad stop hugging you?
When was the last time your mom said she was proud of you?
What do your kids tell their friends that you do for work?

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Travis Klempan @travisklempan.bsky.social · 16h

A pundit is a jack of no trades and a master of baiting.

Chris Cillizza, despite being unqualified for any real job, embodies the Platonic ideal of a pundit.

Chris Cillizza @chriscillizza.bsky.social · 21h

What if...Donald Trump actually deserves the Nobel Peace Prize?

Travis Klempan @travisklempan.bsky.social · 16h

My dog was more made for this moment and she can’t stop licking her own butthole.

Travis Klempan @travisklempan.bsky.social · 17h

I feel a little miffed. Most Cillizza posts have one or two comments talking about how much of a schmuck you are, and I’m the source of at least one of those comments.

Now, you’ve got 100s of people rightfully jumping up and down on you. But where were they when you said all the other dumb stuff?

Travis Klempan @travisklempan.bsky.social · 17h

What’s the weather like on Earth-2?

Travis Klempan @travisklempan.bsky.social · 17h

I’ve received one measly jury summons in my life and it was while I was deployed overseas. Do not turn down the opportunity to serve on a jury.

Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 1d

I teach in my undergrad class on the history of the US jury system that the institution's roots are in colonial juries serving as a counterweight to abuses of imperial power. The American jury has problems for sure but still can serve that roll. Don't blow off jury service.

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 1d

Jury Refuses To Indict Chicago ICE Protesters In Latest Revolt Against Trump Overreach talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...

Travis Klempan @travisklempan.bsky.social · 18h

Surely there’s a primer about how to apply primer

Travis Klempan @travisklempan.bsky.social · 18h

Would any career officer risk their pension or their reputation (or invite the MAGA harassment) if they refused to follow that order?

It’s kind of small potatoes, but also kind of not small at all.

Travis Klempan @travisklempan.bsky.social · 18h

What’s to stop him from ordering the superintendents of the academies not to accept any candidate nominated by a Democratic representative or senator?

The issue could get tied up in court, sure, but there’s a timeline to these things.

Who would stop him? Would an admiral or general say “no”?