Vaughn Winchell
@orderforalex.bsky.social
Math teacher. Game show enthusiast. ✡️
We have met the enemy, and he is us.
We have met the enemy, and he is us.
Pinned
For decades, my favorite literary quotation has been, "If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture" (Oscar Wilde).
Today, and for the foreseeable future, I must embrace a new favorite: "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel" (Samuel Johnson).
Today, and for the foreseeable future, I must embrace a new favorite: "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel" (Samuel Johnson).
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Thank goodness Trump didn’t call half of Somalis something like “deplorable” else it would have been the biggest scandal ever
CURTIS: All of us need to wake up every morning & say, 'what am I doing to make immigrants feel welcome' regardless of an individual says
BASH: But he's not just an individual. He's the president calling an entire community garbage
C: We knew very well what we were electing. We wanted a disrupter
BASH: But he's not just an individual. He's the president calling an entire community garbage
C: We knew very well what we were electing. We wanted a disrupter
December 7, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Thank goodness Trump didn’t call half of Somalis something like “deplorable” else it would have been the biggest scandal ever
This year's #KennedyCenter Honors should be listed for all time with a Roger Maris-style asterisk.
apnews.com/article/kenn...
apnews.com/article/kenn...
Trump says he's hosting the Kennedy Center Honors recognizing Stallone, Kiss, Gaynor and others
Sylvester Stallone, Kiss, and Gloria Gaynor are among the luminaries being celebrated at the annual Kennedy Center Honors.
apnews.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:46 PM
This year's #KennedyCenter Honors should be listed for all time with a Roger Maris-style asterisk.
apnews.com/article/kenn...
apnews.com/article/kenn...
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The priorities of senior Trump Administration officials…
December 7, 2025 at 1:32 AM
The priorities of senior Trump Administration officials…
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Okay but WHY are the Kennedy Center Honors not being given out at the Kennedy Center? Did they cancel and move it to the Oval because ticket sales were non-existent?
December 7, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Okay but WHY are the Kennedy Center Honors not being given out at the Kennedy Center? Did they cancel and move it to the Oval because ticket sales were non-existent?
Well, it's a start.
Officer, if we're ever together face to face, dinner and drinks are on me.
Officer, if we're ever together face to face, dinner and drinks are on me.
December 6, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Well, it's a start.
Officer, if we're ever together face to face, dinner and drinks are on me.
Officer, if we're ever together face to face, dinner and drinks are on me.
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Sadism is the lifeblood of MAGA politics. Hard to overstate how disgusting and embarrassing for our country it is for the US Secretary of Defense to be doing this:
December 5, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Sadism is the lifeblood of MAGA politics. Hard to overstate how disgusting and embarrassing for our country it is for the US Secretary of Defense to be doing this:
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No one could’ve predicted that putting a lot of Opus Dei weirdos on the Supreme Court would end our democracy
December 4, 2025 at 11:52 PM
No one could’ve predicted that putting a lot of Opus Dei weirdos on the Supreme Court would end our democracy
It would have been excellent if the #FBI had caught this pipe bomber back during the days when I still trusted the FBI.
apnews.com/article/pipe...
apnews.com/article/pipe...
Man accused of planting pipe bombs before Jan. 6 attack on Capitol charged with explosives offense
A man arrested by the FBI in its investigation into who placed pipe bombs in Washington before the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S.
apnews.com
December 4, 2025 at 6:51 PM
It would have been excellent if the #FBI had caught this pipe bomber back during the days when I still trusted the FBI.
apnews.com/article/pipe...
apnews.com/article/pipe...
Alternate headline: "Old White Man from South Carolina Explains South America to Bishop from Peru."
#LindseyGraham
newrepublic.com/post/203901/...
#LindseyGraham
newrepublic.com/post/203901/...
Lindsey Graham Is Furious at the Pope for the Dumbest Reason
Graham urged the pope to stay on “the right side of history.”
newrepublic.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Alternate headline: "Old White Man from South Carolina Explains South America to Bishop from Peru."
#LindseyGraham
newrepublic.com/post/203901/...
#LindseyGraham
newrepublic.com/post/203901/...
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🚨 CNBC on latest jobs numbers: "A big miss on ADP payrolls. The private payroll company saying private payrolls shed 32,000 workers in Nov. That's the 4th negative number in past 6 months. The estimate was for +40,000, so the street was off ... this may be coming from being hammered by the tariffs"
December 3, 2025 at 1:25 PM
🚨 CNBC on latest jobs numbers: "A big miss on ADP payrolls. The private payroll company saying private payrolls shed 32,000 workers in Nov. That's the 4th negative number in past 6 months. The estimate was for +40,000, so the street was off ... this may be coming from being hammered by the tariffs"
I'm really disappointed in @reuters.com, putting trump lies in the headline.
Trump says he's terminating any Biden pardons signed with autopen reut.rs/3MB5hPn
Trump says he's terminating any Biden pardons signed with autopen
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he is terminating all documents, including pardons, that he said his predecessor Joe Biden had signed using an autopen, a move that legal experts doubted would hold up in court.
reut.rs
December 3, 2025 at 3:25 AM
I'm really disappointed in @reuters.com, putting trump lies in the headline.
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There is no other way to describe this than calling it what it is: pure unmitigated racism.
here's Trump's full racist rant about MN's Somali community: "Somalians ripped off that state for billions. And they contribute nothing... Ilhan Omar is garbage. She's garbage. Her friends are garbage. These aren't people that work... They come from hell & do nothing but bitch. We don't want them"
December 2, 2025 at 11:24 PM
There is no other way to describe this than calling it what it is: pure unmitigated racism.
Can you really invoke "fog of war" when you're in a conference room in Arlington, VA, watching a video feed from a drone that's 2000+ miles away? And you can just get up and leave the room?
#Hegseth
apnews.com/article/hegs...
#Hegseth
apnews.com/article/hegs...
Hegseth cites 'fog of war' in defending follow-on strike on alleged drug boat
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth cited the “fog of war” in defending a follow-up strike on an alleged drug-carrying boat in the Caribbean Sea earlier this year.
apnews.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Can you really invoke "fog of war" when you're in a conference room in Arlington, VA, watching a video feed from a drone that's 2000+ miles away? And you can just get up and leave the room?
#Hegseth
apnews.com/article/hegs...
#Hegseth
apnews.com/article/hegs...
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Hey cable news -- the White House press secretary is lying. You don't have to take this live.
December 1, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Hey cable news -- the White House press secretary is lying. You don't have to take this live.
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As a son of Appalachia, I understand the opioid crisis better than anyone. That's why I'm proud to stand with the Honduran president who delivered drugs to needy Americans with such efficiency.
by JD Vance
by JD Vance
November 29, 2025 at 5:35 AM
As a son of Appalachia, I understand the opioid crisis better than anyone. That's why I'm proud to stand with the Honduran president who delivered drugs to needy Americans with such efficiency.
by JD Vance
by JD Vance
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Stephen Miller says Afghan immigrant Rahmanullah Lakanwal was incapable of assimilating to American culture. But a factcheck shows that Lakanwal used a gun to assault and kill multiple innocent people. Four Pinocchios.
November 29, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Stephen Miller says Afghan immigrant Rahmanullah Lakanwal was incapable of assimilating to American culture. But a factcheck shows that Lakanwal used a gun to assault and kill multiple innocent people. Four Pinocchios.
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HOW @nytimes.com?
How did the @nytimes.com editors let this sentence appear?
"Critics have likened Mr. Trump’s approach to extortion, while others have chalked it up as a cost of doing business with this administration."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
"Critics have likened Mr. Trump’s approach to extortion, while others have chalked it up as a cost of doing business with this administration."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Northwestern University Nears Deal to Resolve Its Conflict With the White House
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:28 AM
HOW @nytimes.com?
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When a politician says: we’ll deregulate health insurance and send you a “freedom account” check, ask: freedom to buy what? If insurers don’t offer real policies or can cherry-pick only healthy people, that money is a coupon for a store that’s not open.
November 28, 2025 at 12:52 PM
When a politician says: we’ll deregulate health insurance and send you a “freedom account” check, ask: freedom to buy what? If insurers don’t offer real policies or can cherry-pick only healthy people, that money is a coupon for a store that’s not open.
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Well said ✅
Mark Kelly asks military members to be honorable.
Hegseth, having no honor, takes that as a personal affront.
Hegseth, having no honor, takes that as a personal affront.
November 24, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Well said ✅
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One other point I didn't make here: Allies like Britain believe the US is carrying out illegal bombings. Who are we effing kidding? Of course its reasonable to think Trump is issuing illegal orders! Why is this being treated as such a controversial suggestion?
Oddly enough, in media coverage of Dems' video warning against carrying out illegal orders, there's very little discussion of *whether it's actually reasonable to fear Trump is giving illegal commands or not.*
The evidence is strong that he is. Media should say so:
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
The evidence is strong that he is. Media should say so:
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
November 23, 2025 at 3:39 PM
One other point I didn't make here: Allies like Britain believe the US is carrying out illegal bombings. Who are we effing kidding? Of course its reasonable to think Trump is issuing illegal orders! Why is this being treated as such a controversial suggestion?
November 22, 2025 at 8:18 PM
#HarvardFootball FINALLY starting to look like a team that's won 9 games this season! #TheGame #BeatYale #GoCrimson
November 22, 2025 at 6:18 PM
#HarvardFootball FINALLY starting to look like a team that's won 9 games this season! #TheGame #BeatYale #GoCrimson
November 22, 2025 at 6:09 PM