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Michael Bérubé @michael-berube.bsky.social · 7d

Following yesterday's spectacular success in his "grooming and violence" seminar, Secretary of Warcraft Hegseth plans a followup lecture to the brass. Part 1 will address communications security during military operations. Part 2 will be an extra manly demonstration of ax-throwing. tiny.cc/51bt001

Fox News host throws ax, hits drummer

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Michael Bérubé @michael-berube.bsky.social · 7d

Trans Portation is unconstitutional DEI because there are only two genders in the Constitution

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Michael Bérubé @michael-berube.bsky.social · 8d

Though to be serious for a moment it really was kind of genius of Hegseth to summon a thousand admirals and generals to come to Quantico so that he could lecture them in person on grooming standards and blame them for losing wars

Michael Bérubé @michael-berube.bsky.social · 8d

Pete Hegseth orders all US military personnel to look exactly like Pete Hegseth

Promises to transform the troops "from woke to bloke"

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Michael Bérubé @michael-berube.bsky.social · 8d

A nice review from ALH! And what a surprise to hear good news about something these days.

Philip Leventhal @philipleventhal.bsky.social · 12d

"[A] refreshing and engaging analysis of continuing speculations on the future of humanity."

THE EX-HUMAN: SCIENCE FICTION & THE FATE OF OUR SPECIES, by Michael Bérubé, reviewed in American Literary History. tinyurl.com/5dz7tavv @columbiaup.bsky.social

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Michael Bérubé @michael-berube.bsky.social · 8d

Pete Hegseth orders all US military personnel to look exactly like Pete Hegseth

Promises to transform the troops "from woke to bloke"

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Michael Bérubé @michael-berube.bsky.social · 20d

Remember, according to the Supreme Court it's not bribery unless the money comes in an envelope marked "bribe," and for Ilya Shapiro it's not government suppression of speech unless there are actual government fingerprints on the suppression-of-speech memorandum

Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 20d

This really is the final expression of "libertarianism" as it is practiced in the US today.

Tweet from Ilya Shapiro: "Wait, is it the government that makes hiring/firing decisions at ABC?"
responding to Chris Hayes saying: "This is the most straightforward attack on free speech from state actors I've ever seen in my life and it's not even close."

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Michael Bérubé @michael-berube.bsky.social · 20d

I am so old that I remember @jesseltaylor.bsky.social and Ezra from the early blogosphere days of Pandagon and let's just say that one of these guys turned out all right

spooky mental haunted house @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 21d

I...I can't even with this

Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · 21d

"Much of what I would describe as Kirk's worst moments were now just standard fair MAGA Republicanism. And the leader of MAGA Republicanism is the President of the United States...we are going to have to live here with each other believing what we believe. Disagreeing in the ways we disagree."

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Michael Bérubé @michael-berube.bsky.social · 24d

This might be a good time to reflect on the fact that one reason the MAGA right hates liberals and progressives-- I mean, really really hates, with the blazing fire of a thousand AR-15s-- is that we think American gun culture is profoundly warped and very very dangerous. Dangerous to everyone.

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Michael Bérubé @michael-berube.bsky.social · 24d

You are going to learn that the lessons of this particular time for the country will depend on Americans themselves and what kind of a nation they want it to be. That is an insight you can get nowhere else and you should be grateful for its incisive insightfulness.

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Michael Bérubé @michael-berube.bsky.social · 24d

Followup: Brian Kilmeade acknowledges possible "unsanitary" consequences to mass killings of mentally unstable homeless people, proposes that they prepare mass graves for themselves before their elimination.

Anyone who criticizes him will be deported. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

Michael Bérubé @michael-berube.bsky.social · 25d

Brian Kilmeade is a hero of free speech whose statue should be in the Capitol rotunda

Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 25d

Just to be clear: Brian Kilmeade *did not* endorse euthanizing homeless people. He advocated MURDERING over 700,000 of them.

And on a network that has been *beside itself* over the murder of just one man this week.

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Michael Bérubé @michael-berube.bsky.social · 25d

You need to practice more civil discourse

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Michael Bérubé @michael-berube.bsky.social · 25d

Brian Kilmeade is a hero of free speech whose statue should be in the Capitol rotunda

Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 25d

Just to be clear: Brian Kilmeade *did not* endorse euthanizing homeless people. He advocated MURDERING over 700,000 of them.

And on a network that has been *beside itself* over the murder of just one man this week.

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Michael Bérubé @michael-berube.bsky.social · Jul 27

Perhaps these "hospitals" will in fact be detention centers. Detention centers are really hot right now.

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Michael Bérubé @michael-berube.bsky.social · Jul 25

Trump Administration announces new initiative, Willowbrook II: Willowbrook With a Vengeance

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Trump order pushes forcible hospitalization of homeless people

Trump’s executive order could increase hospitalization of homeless individuals with mental health and substance use disorders.

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Michael Bérubé @michael-berube.bsky.social · Jul 13

New deluxe streaming service TrumpTV will televise Everglades Immigrant Internment Camp inmates being eaten by alligators beginning August 1. $49/month, bitcoin preferred.

Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · Jul 12

I just left the Everglades Immigrant Interment Camp. No, I’m not using their ridiculous name. It was a very tough to witness humans in those cages. Every Floridian should be ashamed that our taxpayer money is being used for this.

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Michael Bérubé @michael-berube.bsky.social · Jul 8

I keep returning to the fact that these are the atrocities MAGA world absolutely *loves*

AdotSad @adotsad.bsky.social · Jul 7

So is this guy just stuck in a foreign gulag ... forever?
www.cnn.com/2025/05/28/a...

He left Venezuela for the US, dreaming of a career in cosmetics. He was deported to a Salvadoran prison | CNN

A year ago, Andry José Hernández Romero left Venezuela to seek a better future in the United States.

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Michael Bérubé @michael-berube.bsky.social · Jun 30

The back of the T-shirt reads "work sets you free"

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Michael Bérubé @michael-berube.bsky.social · Jun 24

Sending proleptic thoughts and prayers to the families of all the children in Texas who will be killed by their state government's lurid gun fetish

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Texas bans red-flag laws that allow guns to be taken from owners in crisis

Texas has banned red-flag laws that allow guns to be temporarily taken from people in crisis and made it easier to own sawed-off shotguns.

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Michael Bérubé @michael-berube.bsky.social · Jun 24

Trump furious with Netanyahu, says "he promised me this would be just the tip of the spear"

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Michael Bérubé @michael-berube.bsky.social · Jun 23

I'm on the fence about Andrew Cuomo until he earns Anthony Weiner's endorsement

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Michael Bérubé @michael-berube.bsky.social · Jun 23

Farce me once, shame on me. Farce me twice ... won't get farced again!

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Michael Bérubé @michael-berube.bsky.social · Jun 22

Trump planning dramatic landing on USS Abraham Lincoln later this week, piloting his gold-plated Qatari Boeing 747-8

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Michael Bérubé @michael-berube.bsky.social · Jun 21

Pretty sure Obama called this one 14 years ago

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · Jun 21

Not content with desecrating the Oval Office with his tacky, gold spray-painted bric-a-brac, Donald is now paving over the Rose Garden to turn it into a Mar-a-Lago-style patio. Wherever Trump goes, he leaves behind a trail of vulgarity.

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Michael Bérubé @michael-berube.bsky.social · Jun 20

Juneteenth is a day of mourning for the White House. Next year they hope to replace it with Make America a Slave State Again, or MASSA.

Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · Jun 20

Juneteenth went uncelebrated by the White House. That alone says everything you need to know about this regime.

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