Carter's Dad
@johnmckendry.bsky.social
Old hippie, bewildered socialist, math, old music, grows apples. A harmless drudge.
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I bet if you blow the dust of the DEPARTMENT OF WAR sign it’d reveal the word CRIMES right after that
November 29, 2025 at 1:41 AM
I bet if you blow the dust of the DEPARTMENT OF WAR sign it’d reveal the word CRIMES right after that
I know you've probably seen this already, but just in case, I want everyone to know the central legal and moral issues so we don't get distracted. The international community gets to express its opinion about this in ways that the NYT and WaPo will find hard to distort.
a lot of words, none of them denying that Hegseth gave an order to kill helpless people who were stranded at sea after he blew up their boats
November 29, 2025 at 3:10 AM
I know you've probably seen this already, but just in case, I want everyone to know the central legal and moral issues so we don't get distracted. The international community gets to express its opinion about this in ways that the NYT and WaPo will find hard to distort.
Honestly hadn't thought about it all that much, but he's got a good point.
cannot abide inflatable christmas lawn ornaments. they defy the spirit of the season. decorating for christmas should, like the birth of our lord, be historically brutish and vexing. cheap inflatables are an offense to his gospel.
November 29, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Honestly hadn't thought about it all that much, but he's got a good point.
Ignore Pirro, she is just noise. Trump and Miller and Hegseth put the National Guard out there so that some fed-up rando would shoot one of them, and sure enough it worked. They want to invoke the Insurrection Act so bad they can taste it.
Pirro: "These Guardsmen and all who are here to protect the District are the line that separates a civilized society from a barbaric one."
November 28, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Ignore Pirro, she is just noise. Trump and Miller and Hegseth put the National Guard out there so that some fed-up rando would shoot one of them, and sure enough it worked. They want to invoke the Insurrection Act so bad they can taste it.
Oh, good, I haven't mocked and ridiculed a Cybertruck in a long time. I wonder who's taking this picture and why.
Cybertrucks when there's an inch of snow. 😆 #Cyberstuck
November 28, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Oh, good, I haven't mocked and ridiculed a Cybertruck in a long time. I wonder who's taking this picture and why.
I love stumbling into threads where I have no preconceived notions to go on.
it's the disgust over shetland @orkneylibrary.bsky.social
Is it "miles and miles of bugger all"?
November 28, 2025 at 1:00 AM
I love stumbling into threads where I have no preconceived notions to go on.
Hello #medievalsky,
I am listening to a lot of I think late medieval music, say Machaut though Ockeghem, and it got be wondering how well the audiences for these works knew Latin. Was it foreign language that they had memorized parts of by ear, the way I learned the Pledge Allegiance 1/3
I am listening to a lot of I think late medieval music, say Machaut though Ockeghem, and it got be wondering how well the audiences for these works knew Latin. Was it foreign language that they had memorized parts of by ear, the way I learned the Pledge Allegiance 1/3
November 28, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Hello #medievalsky,
I am listening to a lot of I think late medieval music, say Machaut though Ockeghem, and it got be wondering how well the audiences for these works knew Latin. Was it foreign language that they had memorized parts of by ear, the way I learned the Pledge Allegiance 1/3
I am listening to a lot of I think late medieval music, say Machaut though Ockeghem, and it got be wondering how well the audiences for these works knew Latin. Was it foreign language that they had memorized parts of by ear, the way I learned the Pledge Allegiance 1/3
This is so cool. Just imagine the logistics it takes to do this.
They did it again! NYC subway Thanksgiving 2025, via @scootercaster.com!
November 27, 2025 at 9:48 PM
This is so cool. Just imagine the logistics it takes to do this.
I kind of had a feeling early on that they put women in these close-to-the-ground positions because women are expendable when the need arises. Noem, Bondi, Gabbard, Habba, Pirro, let them perform the visible perjury and contempt of court. Still think so.
NEW: DOJ said tonight that it was DHS Secretary Kristi Noem who made the call to proceed with the deportation of more than 100 Venezuelan men to El Salvador, despite a judge's order seeking to block the transfer.
w/ @joshgerstein
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
w/ @joshgerstein
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 26, 2025 at 3:41 AM
I kind of had a feeling early on that they put women in these close-to-the-ground positions because women are expendable when the need arises. Noem, Bondi, Gabbard, Habba, Pirro, let them perform the visible perjury and contempt of court. Still think so.
He seems to be building up a coalition of all sorts of poor or marginalized, underrepresented, and disrespected people, which is a pretty large constituency when you think about it. That describes most of the people I know who do useful work.
I'm getting echoes of Debs, or at least La Guardia.
I'm getting echoes of Debs, or at least La Guardia.
Nice to hear a leader valuing human art and artists instead of asking AI to make a video where he literally shits on us from a jet. I don’t mean to be controversial but I think this is better.
New York City helped my mother become the artist she is today. The next generation deserves a City Hall that lifts up tomorrow's artists as well.
November 26, 2025 at 3:30 AM
He seems to be building up a coalition of all sorts of poor or marginalized, underrepresented, and disrespected people, which is a pretty large constituency when you think about it. That describes most of the people I know who do useful work.
I'm getting echoes of Debs, or at least La Guardia.
I'm getting echoes of Debs, or at least La Guardia.
Something I especially like about this one is that it's lots of smaller donations, meaning it's a lot of people who are not wealthy by the usual measure but who understand how a team effort works.
November 26, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Something I especially like about this one is that it's lots of smaller donations, meaning it's a lot of people who are not wealthy by the usual measure but who understand how a team effort works.
Hegseth is so totally unfit for this.
November 25, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Hegseth is so totally unfit for this.
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A package hasn't "shipped" if you've only "created the label"
November 25, 2025 at 3:02 PM
A package hasn't "shipped" if you've only "created the label"
Thread on how to cut through the noise and talk about the right question.
The correct answer to MAGA outrage over the Dem video is this: Are you effing kidding me? Of course it's reasonable to warn that Trump might be giving illegal orders.
The evidence is strong that he actually is giving illegal orders! I went through that evidence here:
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
The evidence is strong that he actually is giving illegal orders! I went through that evidence here:
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
Is Trump Giving Illegal Orders? Dems Just Blew That Question Wide Open
From the boat bombings to deportations to prosecutions, the evidence mounts. And the speaker of the House could get to the bottom of it if he wanted to. Yeah, right.
newrepublic.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Thread on how to cut through the noise and talk about the right question.
Reposting the one with ALT-text. To this list of things that DOGE destroyed I would add every American's sense of personal privacy, because adolescent sociopaths with tech skills were handed admin access to all the Government's data about us, and Elon works for Palantir (probably not literally).
November 25, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Reposting the one with ALT-text. To this list of things that DOGE destroyed I would add every American's sense of personal privacy, because adolescent sociopaths with tech skills were handed admin access to all the Government's data about us, and Elon works for Palantir (probably not literally).
Oh, this could be fun.
JUST IN: Judge Chutkan orders expedited processing of a FOIA request for files related to DOJ's handling of the Epstein files. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
November 25, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Oh, this could be fun.
I think maybe I heard about this on "Wait Wait" but seeing this headline in print is a whole different experience.
November 24, 2025 at 11:43 PM
I think maybe I heard about this on "Wait Wait" but seeing this headline in print is a whole different experience.
"Controversial" is such a weasel word for this operation.
November 24, 2025 at 11:36 PM
"Controversial" is such a weasel word for this operation.
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Hang onto these pictures because Hegseth will have the offending sign removed as soon as he sobers up today.
November 23, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Hang onto these pictures because Hegseth will have the offending sign removed as soon as he sobers up today.
MTG waiting for her pension to vest is not worth the outrage it is causing. It's not "her Congressional salary for life"; that whole canard has been floating around the internet for many years, but it's not true. Snopes and Politifact and those places have covered it in detail. Focus elsewhere.
November 24, 2025 at 4:20 PM
MTG waiting for her pension to vest is not worth the outrage it is causing. It's not "her Congressional salary for life"; that whole canard has been floating around the internet for many years, but it's not true. Snopes and Politifact and those places have covered it in detail. Focus elsewhere.
Trump posted this on Truth Social. Looking forward to Karoline Leavitt's explanation of what it means.
Trump didn’t read before posting:
“OUR AMERICAN CODE OF MILITARY OBEDIENCE REQUIRES THAT, SHOULD ORDERS AND THE LAW EVER CONFLICT, OUR OFFICERS MUST OBEY THE LAW.”
“OUR AMERICAN CODE OF MILITARY OBEDIENCE REQUIRES THAT, SHOULD ORDERS AND THE LAW EVER CONFLICT, OUR OFFICERS MUST OBEY THE LAW.”
November 24, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Trump posted this on Truth Social. Looking forward to Karoline Leavitt's explanation of what it means.
Sound on.
Can't. Too busy watching cute pigs hunt for cheerios 💖
We’re always asking for Cheerios so we thought we’d show you one of the many ways we use them: ENRICHMENT! Mental stimulation is incredibly important for our residents to be as healthy and happy as possible.
November 22, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Sound on.
This is really what it feels like, the whole fabric of the space-time continuum coming apart at the seams, streams of raw improbability emerging from nowhere and flapping around like an untethered firehose.
Sorry guys universe is splitting open starting today
BREAKING: Marjorie Taylor Greene says she's resigning from Congress — effective January 5, 2026.
November 22, 2025 at 4:57 AM
This is really what it feels like, the whole fabric of the space-time continuum coming apart at the seams, streams of raw improbability emerging from nowhere and flapping around like an untethered firehose.
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Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…
November 22, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…
I saw someone predict this yesterday but I didn't save it, and apparently at least a few other people called it correctly, so I guess it's not vanishingly improbable, but still if there really are infinite multiverses we sure ended up in one of the weirder ones. This somehow became real.
Zohran Mamdani standing beside the President of the United States just said that the US is funding Israel's genocide and yet can't take care of its own unhoused children on live television.
I never thought I'd see something like that in my lifetime
I never thought I'd see something like that in my lifetime
November 22, 2025 at 2:05 AM
I saw someone predict this yesterday but I didn't save it, and apparently at least a few other people called it correctly, so I guess it's not vanishingly improbable, but still if there really are infinite multiverses we sure ended up in one of the weirder ones. This somehow became real.