Jamie Piscitelli
@jamie-piscitelli.bsky.social
Father. Husband. Son. Friend. Employed IT professional. Unemployable former DoD employee. Aspiring middle-aged something or other. Writer. Reader. History and Film Geek. Heavy Thinker and Occasional Drinker. Great Society Democrat, atheist, and hopeful.
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Yep so is CBS. They never had any good shows on it anyway.
December 23, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Yep so is CBS. They never had any good shows on it anyway.
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Incredible quote from Drive-By Truckers' Patterson Hood: “I said all along that he was a piece of shit!”
For @rollingstone.com, I wrote about the making of the myth of sheriff Buford Pusser, and how recent revelations that he was likely responsible for the 1967 murder of his wife, Pauline, undercuts that myth -- and begs for a new narrative about intimate partner violence and family trauma.
He Was a Legendary Sheriff Who Inspired a Movie. Did He Also Murder His Wife?
When Buford Pusser’s wife was killed, his grief turned into the movie ‘Walking Tall.’ But a new report from investigators suggests it was all a lie.
www.rollingstone.com
December 23, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Incredible quote from Drive-By Truckers' Patterson Hood: “I said all along that he was a piece of shit!”
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Bari Weiss' reporting experience is summed up by the time the NYT bizarrely gave her the cushiest possible assignment - go to Australia and hang out and write about it - and she produced a story so bad and so wrong about basic facts of Australian life that it became a running joke there.
December 22, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Bari Weiss' reporting experience is summed up by the time the NYT bizarrely gave her the cushiest possible assignment - go to Australia and hang out and write about it - and she produced a story so bad and so wrong about basic facts of Australian life that it became a running joke there.
All of this President's tweets should just be called Article 25s.
December 23, 2025 at 2:51 PM
All of this President's tweets should just be called Article 25s.
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TRUTH.
For example, finding an eye-witness account of the Burr-Hamilton duel that seemingly no one else has found…
I didn’t move for hours.
Made it into my dissertation.
Into my first book.
And into the Hamilton musical.
Research, man.
Nothing like putting the pieces together for the first time.
For example, finding an eye-witness account of the Burr-Hamilton duel that seemingly no one else has found…
I didn’t move for hours.
Made it into my dissertation.
Into my first book.
And into the Hamilton musical.
Research, man.
Nothing like putting the pieces together for the first time.
I don't have a specific story at the top of my head, but the experience of picking up a loose piece of paper and realizing when you get to the end of the page that you now know something about the past that literally no other living person knows?
Unbeatable.
Unbeatable.
I think we need a mega thread of everyone's craziest archive stories.
December 23, 2025 at 1:59 AM
TRUTH.
For example, finding an eye-witness account of the Burr-Hamilton duel that seemingly no one else has found…
I didn’t move for hours.
Made it into my dissertation.
Into my first book.
And into the Hamilton musical.
Research, man.
Nothing like putting the pieces together for the first time.
For example, finding an eye-witness account of the Burr-Hamilton duel that seemingly no one else has found…
I didn’t move for hours.
Made it into my dissertation.
Into my first book.
And into the Hamilton musical.
Research, man.
Nothing like putting the pieces together for the first time.
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Out now on the @crimewriterson.com Patreon feed🎄🎄🎅🏻🎅🏻
December 21, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Out now on the @crimewriterson.com Patreon feed🎄🎄🎅🏻🎅🏻
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The CBS 60 Minutes Doc confirms what we knew: The U.S. is currently using our tax dollars to imprison brown people with no criminal record in torture camps overseas.
It’s no wonder administration shill Bari Weiss pulled this off the air: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjY7...
It’s no wonder administration shill Bari Weiss pulled this off the air: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjY7...
CANCELLED 60 MINUTES CECOT DOC
YouTube video by eoin higgins
www.youtube.com
December 22, 2025 at 11:39 PM
The CBS 60 Minutes Doc confirms what we knew: The U.S. is currently using our tax dollars to imprison brown people with no criminal record in torture camps overseas.
It’s no wonder administration shill Bari Weiss pulled this off the air: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjY7...
It’s no wonder administration shill Bari Weiss pulled this off the air: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjY7...
Even some white people who fear actual equality and parity with all their fellow citizens with a depth of dread that arachnophobes usually reserve for tarantulas are souring on the DJT Fascist Follies.
WOW. Trump's approval rating is now 36%. And I don't remember ever seeing him underwater with white people.
December 22, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Even some white people who fear actual equality and parity with all their fellow citizens with a depth of dread that arachnophobes usually reserve for tarantulas are souring on the DJT Fascist Follies.
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And by viewers she means Trump
NEW: Bari Weiss addresses her decision to hold last night's CECOT story on the CBS News morning editorial call: "Our viewers come first, not a listing schedule or anything else..."
December 22, 2025 at 2:59 PM
And by viewers she means Trump
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It all started in 1955 with a misprint in a Colorado newspaper and a call to Col. Harry Shoup's secret military hotline. Shoup played along with the tiny voice who called, and a tradition was born. From the NPR archives.
NORAD's Santa Tracker began with a typo and a good sport
It all started in 1955 with a misprint in a Colorado newspaper and a call to Col. Harry Shoup's secret military hotline. Shoup played along with the tiny voice who called, and a tradition was born.
n.pr
December 21, 2025 at 12:41 AM
It all started in 1955 with a misprint in a Colorado newspaper and a call to Col. Harry Shoup's secret military hotline. Shoup played along with the tiny voice who called, and a tradition was born. From the NPR archives.
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Separation of Church and Hate
A Sane Person's Guide to Taking Back the Bible from Fundamentalists, Fascists, and Flock-Fleecing Frauds www.simonandschuster.com/books/Separa...
A Sane Person's Guide to Taking Back the Bible from Fundamentalists, Fascists, and Flock-Fleecing Frauds www.simonandschuster.com/books/Separa...
December 21, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Separation of Church and Hate
A Sane Person's Guide to Taking Back the Bible from Fundamentalists, Fascists, and Flock-Fleecing Frauds www.simonandschuster.com/books/Separa...
A Sane Person's Guide to Taking Back the Bible from Fundamentalists, Fascists, and Flock-Fleecing Frauds www.simonandschuster.com/books/Separa...
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Gotta love YouTube. The range of accents across 3 successive presidents amazes me. TR’s evolved into the WASP Manhattanite accent of George Plimpton: clenched teeth, “Broad-WAY,” etc. I knew others with it; Thurston Howell III parodied it. It disappeared in my lifetime. But McKinley! What the hell?
3 successive presidential voices:
1/3
William Howard Taft in 1909 sounds outdated, sure, but more familiar than voices of actors in early talkies.
You could even say Taft marks the end of a transition in the American standard accent, to something recognizably modern.
youtu.be/_zV885ePYRE?...
1/3
William Howard Taft in 1909 sounds outdated, sure, but more familiar than voices of actors in early talkies.
You could even say Taft marks the end of a transition in the American standard accent, to something recognizably modern.
youtu.be/_zV885ePYRE?...
William Howard Taft "Peace" 1909 Victor 78
YouTube video by wickedmessenger1
youtu.be
December 20, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Gotta love YouTube. The range of accents across 3 successive presidents amazes me. TR’s evolved into the WASP Manhattanite accent of George Plimpton: clenched teeth, “Broad-WAY,” etc. I knew others with it; Thurston Howell III parodied it. It disappeared in my lifetime. But McKinley! What the hell?
Is 2/3rds of Russia still using pirated copies of all Microsoft everything? That's the one thing they do that I actually do kind of approve of.
December 20, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Is 2/3rds of Russia still using pirated copies of all Microsoft everything? That's the one thing they do that I actually do kind of approve of.
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Chanukah sure hits different during a prolonged power outage.
Shabbat shalom.
Shabbat shalom.
December 20, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Chanukah sure hits different during a prolonged power outage.
Shabbat shalom.
Shabbat shalom.
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I think I'll title my memoir: "South of Coxsackie"
December 20, 2025 at 11:00 PM
I think I'll title my memoir: "South of Coxsackie"
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Oh no, I'm having that dream again
December 20, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Oh no, I'm having that dream again
"I live in a family of freaking clowns!" - My 13-year-old daughter.
December 20, 2025 at 6:28 PM
"I live in a family of freaking clowns!" - My 13-year-old daughter.
This here United States Government (the elected and appointed people, not the GS and other government workers who are still hanging on, delivering for us all) is the most enormous pile of incompetent, bigoted, racist, corrupt bullshit I've ever lived through. The apex of conservatism looks awful.
December 20, 2025 at 6:21 PM
This here United States Government (the elected and appointed people, not the GS and other government workers who are still hanging on, delivering for us all) is the most enormous pile of incompetent, bigoted, racist, corrupt bullshit I've ever lived through. The apex of conservatism looks awful.
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When they wanted to release the files early this year, they paid $1M in overtime and put 1000 people on it - until they realized what was in the files. Now they’re slow walking the release.
December 19, 2025 at 4:41 PM
When they wanted to release the files early this year, they paid $1M in overtime and put 1000 people on it - until they realized what was in the files. Now they’re slow walking the release.
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FFS!
Now Trump's gonna re-do the golf course at Joint Base Andrews
Add that to ripping out the rose garden, revamping a Qatari 747, building a HUGE gilded WH ballroom, renaming Kennedy Center, building a WH tennis pavilion, gilding the Oval Office, etc, etc, etc
www.military.com/daily-news/2...
Now Trump's gonna re-do the golf course at Joint Base Andrews
Add that to ripping out the rose garden, revamping a Qatari 747, building a HUGE gilded WH ballroom, renaming Kennedy Center, building a WH tennis pavilion, gilding the Oval Office, etc, etc, etc
www.military.com/daily-news/2...
Trump Teaming up With Jack Nicklaus to Revamp 'President's Golf Course' at Joint Base Andrews
The president took an aerial tour of the Courses at Joint Base Andrews aboard Marine One.
www.military.com
December 19, 2025 at 11:55 AM
FFS!
Now Trump's gonna re-do the golf course at Joint Base Andrews
Add that to ripping out the rose garden, revamping a Qatari 747, building a HUGE gilded WH ballroom, renaming Kennedy Center, building a WH tennis pavilion, gilding the Oval Office, etc, etc, etc
www.military.com/daily-news/2...
Now Trump's gonna re-do the golf course at Joint Base Andrews
Add that to ripping out the rose garden, revamping a Qatari 747, building a HUGE gilded WH ballroom, renaming Kennedy Center, building a WH tennis pavilion, gilding the Oval Office, etc, etc, etc
www.military.com/daily-news/2...
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"Has feminism failed women brought to you by bank of america" is my MKULTRA sleeper agent activation phrase
December 19, 2025 at 3:30 PM
"Has feminism failed women brought to you by bank of america" is my MKULTRA sleeper agent activation phrase
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#ResistanceRoots
Ossie Davis was born on this day in 1917 in Cogdell, Ga. He was a highly acclaimed actor, director and writer known for his commanding presence and deep voice. He was also a prominent civil rights activist who used his platform to advocate for human dignity and social justice. /1
Ossie Davis was born on this day in 1917 in Cogdell, Ga. He was a highly acclaimed actor, director and writer known for his commanding presence and deep voice. He was also a prominent civil rights activist who used his platform to advocate for human dignity and social justice. /1
December 19, 2025 at 1:56 AM
#ResistanceRoots
Ossie Davis was born on this day in 1917 in Cogdell, Ga. He was a highly acclaimed actor, director and writer known for his commanding presence and deep voice. He was also a prominent civil rights activist who used his platform to advocate for human dignity and social justice. /1
Ossie Davis was born on this day in 1917 in Cogdell, Ga. He was a highly acclaimed actor, director and writer known for his commanding presence and deep voice. He was also a prominent civil rights activist who used his platform to advocate for human dignity and social justice. /1
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