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Ask Your Doctor If the Trans Ideology Is Right For You

John Mendelssohn (thee / thou) @johnmendelssohn.bsky.social · 1d

If it worked for Caitlyn Jenner, it might work for you too!
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I hate when people refer to movies as flicks — a lethal combination of flippancy and cuteness — but not quite as much as when they refer to writers as scribblers.

Ask Your Doctor If the Trans Ideology Is Right For You

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John Mendelssohn (thee / thou) @johnmendelssohn.bsky.social · 1d

If it worked for Caitlyn Jenner, it might work for you too!
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I hate when people refer to movies as flicks — a lethal combination of flippancy and cuteness — but not quite as much as when they refer to writers as scribblers.

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John Mendelssohn (thee / thou) @johnmendelssohn.bsky.social · 1d

Huh?

John Mendelssohn (thee / thou) @johnmendelssohn.bsky.social · 2d

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John Mendelssohn (thee / thou) @johnmendelssohn.bsky.social · 2d

John Mendelssohn (thee / thou) @johnmendelssohn.bsky.social · 2d

Not every book one reads is authoritative, madam.

John Mendelssohn (thee / thou) @johnmendelssohn.bsky.social · 2d

Hard to say, Sally, as I've spent something like 48 hours back in my native USA in the last 10 years. I do suspect the inflated lips and huge false eyelash things are much more popular here in the UK.

John Mendelssohn (thee / thou) @johnmendelssohn.bsky.social · 2d

How do you know what I have or haven't read, darling?

John Mendelssohn (thee / thou) @johnmendelssohn.bsky.social · 3d

Treat yourself to a brief respite from the accelerating horror! You deserve it! You are SUCH a good person deep down! I mean, sure, not everybody “gets” you. But those of us who do? OMG! johnmendelssohn.substack.com/p/i-learn-th...

I Learn the Language of the Deportees, Years Ahead of Time!

At Orville Wright Junior High School in the early ‘60s, one had to study a foreign language.

John Mendelssohn (thee / thou) @johnmendelssohn.bsky.social · 3d

P.S. Let me take you away from all this.

I Learn the Language of the Deportees, Years Ahead of Time!

John Mendelssohn (thee / thou) @johnmendelssohn.bsky.social · 3d

Congratulations to you, madam. They say that Elvis's Graceland is a poor person's idea of a rich person's home. I have never been. In the meantime, johnmendelssohn.substack.com/p/i-learn-th...

At Orville Wright Junior High School in the early ‘60s, one had to study a foreign language.

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John Mendelssohn (thee / thou) @johnmendelssohn.bsky.social · 4d

Our warlords and congressmen need to choose — right NOW!

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John Mendelssohn (thee / thou) @johnmendelssohn.bsky.social · 4d

Our warlords and congressmen need to choose — right NOW!

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John Mendelssohn (thee / thou) @johnmendelssohn.bsky.social · 4d

Our warlords and congressmen need to choose — right NOW!

John Mendelssohn (thee / thou) @johnmendelssohn.bsky.social · 4d

John Mendelssohn (thee / thou) @johnmendelssohn.bsky.social · 4d

No sarcasm today. Today: heartfelt.
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Our warlords and congressmen need to choose — right NOW!

The World Is Full of Beauty and of Horror

John Mendelssohn (thee / thou) @johnmendelssohn.bsky.social · 5d

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Listen up, you!

At Play Among the Jew-Haters

John Mendelssohn (thee / thou) @johnmendelssohn.bsky.social · 6d

We have our hands in everything!
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As God's Chosen, we have our hands in everything!

Nigel, Can We Meet You in Your Forest?

John Mendelssohn (thee / thou) @johnmendelssohn.bsky.social · 8d

open.substack.com/pub/johnmend... Nigel (Trump Lite) Farage is the subject of this windsome folk air.

I live in the United Kingdom, in which the newish political party led by Mr.

This sort of thing shouldn't be aloud!

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John Mendelssohn (thee / thou) @johnmendelssohn.bsky.social · 9d

AMTIFA sucks!
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ANTIFA Sucks!

The Happiest Day in Recent American History!

John Mendelssohn (thee / thou) @johnmendelssohn.bsky.social · 10d

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The military’s standing up to President Don Sr. yesterday brought literal tears of joy to these old eyes.

Thank you for your service, you craven careerists

A Ballad of Pained Self-Recognition

John Mendelssohn (thee / thou) @johnmendelssohn.bsky.social · 11d

In her sublime essay about Kamala, the sublime Guardian political essayist Nesrine Malik speaks of the importance of knowing oneself.

At last, a box I can tick!
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Try to dance to it. Just try.