Dennis D.
@dennisdoubleday.bsky.social
Retired software engineer, wanted to be a symphony musician but didn't make the cut. Love my dog, my spouse, my children, and my UU community (not in that order.)
Is this how any sane person would sum up the past year of Trump, @nytimes.com?
December 27, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Is this how any sane person would sum up the past year of Trump, @nytimes.com?
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Mark Cuban is a funny case of getting hit by the lucky stick. He sold his streaming company at the peak of the bubble and the company never amounted to anything in the long run. Bless his heart he made a crap ton of money but he doesn’t have any special insight that the average Joe doesn’t.
December 25, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Mark Cuban is a funny case of getting hit by the lucky stick. He sold his streaming company at the peak of the bubble and the company never amounted to anything in the long run. Bless his heart he made a crap ton of money but he doesn’t have any special insight that the average Joe doesn’t.
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Here's a particularly juicy nugget I found in my reporting . . .
December 24, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Here's a particularly juicy nugget I found in my reporting . . .
I knew that Colbert annual Christmas animated special would get him ranting. It was really funny, as usual, but perhaps a *little* more biting than even usual this year.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkEy...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkEy...
December 24, 2025 at 3:15 PM
I knew that Colbert annual Christmas animated special would get him ranting. It was really funny, as usual, but perhaps a *little* more biting than even usual this year.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkEy...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkEy...
Same, but without the SPY
Awhile back I moved almost all my money into cozy 4%+ CDs.
(I do have a chunk in SPY, which I buy on dips, then sell, then buy again.)
I’m not making massive gains, but I do make money… and I sleep well at night. 🙂
(I do have a chunk in SPY, which I buy on dips, then sell, then buy again.)
I’m not making massive gains, but I do make money… and I sleep well at night. 🙂
December 24, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Same, but without the SPY
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Probably not fair to group masturbators to call the Atlantic a circle jerk.
December 24, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Probably not fair to group masturbators to call the Atlantic a circle jerk.
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This is as easy a test of your belief in the American system as is conceivable: Should this be an acceptable argument from a president?
December 23, 2025 at 11:59 AM
This is as easy a test of your belief in the American system as is conceivable: Should this be an acceptable argument from a president?
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!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social:
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
December 22, 2025 at 10:39 PM
!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social:
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
Certainly an understatement!
December 22, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Certainly an understatement!
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Ok.
Fine.
But maybe next time don’t chose people who just a few months ago were fluffing MAHA disinformation agents.
There’s only about 10,000 of us out there to choose from.
Fine.
But maybe next time don’t chose people who just a few months ago were fluffing MAHA disinformation agents.
There’s only about 10,000 of us out there to choose from.
December 22, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Ok.
Fine.
But maybe next time don’t chose people who just a few months ago were fluffing MAHA disinformation agents.
There’s only about 10,000 of us out there to choose from.
Fine.
But maybe next time don’t chose people who just a few months ago were fluffing MAHA disinformation agents.
There’s only about 10,000 of us out there to choose from.
He's not taking sides because he believes all the MAGA factions have important bigotries, and that needs to be celebrated in a big tent.
This is NYT headline morning after JD’s grotesque hot blast of white supremacist nativism at Turning Point’s hate-fest?!
December 22, 2025 at 4:17 PM
He's not taking sides because he believes all the MAGA factions have important bigotries, and that needs to be celebrated in a big tent.
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Seems worth noting at this point that Weiss's internal critics at the Times were correct and her many apologists among elite pundits were wrong
December 22, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Seems worth noting at this point that Weiss's internal critics at the Times were correct and her many apologists among elite pundits were wrong
I thought Vance was just a dweeb, but man, he aspires to be Hitler.
JD Vance: "If you miss Charlie Kirk…do you promise to take the country back from the people who took his life?"
December 21, 2025 at 10:06 PM
I thought Vance was just a dweeb, but man, he aspires to be Hitler.
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the vice president is a klansman
JD Vance: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore"
December 21, 2025 at 8:22 PM
the vice president is a klansman
"Back when I was a kid, a loaf of bread was 25 cents! And you could git it for 15 cents if you bought the day-old!"
LANKFORD: In 2010, before Obamacare kicked in, the normal healthcare premium was $215.
HUNT: Right. But insurance companies could refuse to cover you for a preexisting condition
LANKFORD: That's true.
HUNT: Right. But insurance companies could refuse to cover you for a preexisting condition
LANKFORD: That's true.
December 21, 2025 at 4:34 PM
"Back when I was a kid, a loaf of bread was 25 cents! And you could git it for 15 cents if you bought the day-old!"
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Question: When the head of the DOJ’s Civil Rights division tweets out a false statement about an individual that results in them being barraged with death threats based on their religion and ethnicity, which governmental agency would look into whether that student’s Civil Rights had been infringed?
December 20, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Question: When the head of the DOJ’s Civil Rights division tweets out a false statement about an individual that results in them being barraged with death threats based on their religion and ethnicity, which governmental agency would look into whether that student’s Civil Rights had been infringed?
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Interesting to consider that if you were to go and deface the Kennedy center by removing Trump’s name, you’d be arrested and charged with a crime, but your act would be no more unlawful than what they’re doing right now.
NEWS: They're adding Trump's name to the Kennedy Center building right now. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Kennedy Center adds Trump’s name to building
The signage change follows a vote by the board of trustees to rename the performing arts complex the Trump Kennedy Center.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 19, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Interesting to consider that if you were to go and deface the Kennedy center by removing Trump’s name, you’d be arrested and charged with a crime, but your act would be no more unlawful than what they’re doing right now.
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I am taking the opportunity to once again remind you of the time Naomi Wolf thought Apple invented time machines run by vaccines
December 19, 2025 at 2:18 PM
I am taking the opportunity to once again remind you of the time Naomi Wolf thought Apple invented time machines run by vaccines
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this is the unspoken but absolutely clear argument at hand.
That’s the thing man. If they are to be taken at their word the only takeaway is that there should be no black people in any job any other white person wants. One quick Google search for any of these jobs would show there are usually one or two minorities are best in a unit of 20 or 30 or more.
UAlbany, one of those, NY state universities, has been hovering around 4 percent tenure track Black faculty since ever. I am THE Black tenure track political scientists. These folks are just little liars.
December 19, 2025 at 11:49 AM
this is the unspoken but absolutely clear argument at hand.
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Turns out he was right after all.
December 18, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Turns out he was right after all.
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possibly relevant:
December 18, 2025 at 5:24 PM
possibly relevant:
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Courtesy of the most influential source of fossil fuel industry propaganda in the U.S.
December 18, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Courtesy of the most influential source of fossil fuel industry propaganda in the U.S.
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What’s especially funny about it is that she’s doing it at a time where there’s an avalanche of lurid scandal and shocking malfeasance. She could simply cover the news!
This lineup is so depressingly bad that I'm starting to wonder if there's some sort of "Major League" plot here where they're actively trying to depress their viewer numbers.
December 18, 2025 at 3:02 PM
What’s especially funny about it is that she’s doing it at a time where there’s an avalanche of lurid scandal and shocking malfeasance. She could simply cover the news!
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CHARLIE BROWN: There’s a culture war?
LUCY: There is if you open your eyes to the truth.
LUCY: There is if you open your eyes to the truth.
Bari Weiss’s A Charlie Brown Christmas
Sixty years ago, A Charlie Brown Christmas made its debut on CBS. Today, as part of CBS’s new initiative to modernize content, CBS Editor-in-Chief ...
buff.ly
December 17, 2025 at 2:02 PM
CHARLIE BROWN: There’s a culture war?
LUCY: There is if you open your eyes to the truth.
LUCY: There is if you open your eyes to the truth.
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One of the biggest moments of my career:
USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!
USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!
December 16, 2025 at 3:21 PM
One of the biggest moments of my career:
USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!
USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!