rustyeire
@rustyeire.bsky.social
Proud Dem. USAF Vet. Lawyer, Emeritus. #AT40. #TeamPete. #NoKings. Stevens-Eliot-Yeats-Heaney-Faulkner devotee. The music died when the Beatles stopped making it. ☘️Éire☘️. O merciful gods, smite the MAGA mutts! Republicans: Hamlet's "maggots in a dead dog."
This is the man ICE murdered in cold blood today. If you can tolerate this, if you can ignore this, if you're one of the incredible excuses for a human being that supports this‑‑one of the "deplorables" whom Hillary was so fucking right about‑‑you are not an American. Hell not even human. Period.
January 25, 2026 at 1:27 AM
This is the man ICE murdered in cold blood today. If you can tolerate this, if you can ignore this, if you're one of the incredible excuses for a human being that supports this‑‑one of the "deplorables" whom Hillary was so fucking right about‑‑you are not an American. Hell not even human. Period.
"They entered the city haggard and filthy and reeking with the blood of the citizenry for whose protection they had contracted."
A perfect metaphorical depiction of the ICE thugs to come, penned 40 years before they entered Minneapolis. . . .
~ Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian ~
A perfect metaphorical depiction of the ICE thugs to come, penned 40 years before they entered Minneapolis. . . .
~ Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian ~
January 12, 2026 at 12:30 AM
"They entered the city haggard and filthy and reeking with the blood of the citizenry for whose protection they had contracted."
A perfect metaphorical depiction of the ICE thugs to come, penned 40 years before they entered Minneapolis. . . .
~ Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian ~
A perfect metaphorical depiction of the ICE thugs to come, penned 40 years before they entered Minneapolis. . . .
~ Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian ~
From today's NYT announcement of Zohran Mamdani's nominee for head of NYC's Corporation Counsel's Office. Hey, Neal Katyal! How's things at Milbank LLP? Done any legal aid for Trump & Co. yet? Anyway. Compare & contrast. I'll go with "Mr. Banks" every time. He's what a real lawyer is all about.
December 31, 2025 at 4:26 AM
From today's NYT announcement of Zohran Mamdani's nominee for head of NYC's Corporation Counsel's Office. Hey, Neal Katyal! How's things at Milbank LLP? Done any legal aid for Trump & Co. yet? Anyway. Compare & contrast. I'll go with "Mr. Banks" every time. He's what a real lawyer is all about.
Yucking it up at SiriusXM's event for the Dolan replacement, Bishop Hicks (Thanks so much, Pope Leo). Sexual abuser & disgraced Today Show host Matt Lauer laughing it up with rotundly belly-laughing sexual abuse victims' judgment award denier Timothy Ho-Ho-Ho Dolan. Epstein/Dolan. Compare/Contrast.
December 23, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Yucking it up at SiriusXM's event for the Dolan replacement, Bishop Hicks (Thanks so much, Pope Leo). Sexual abuser & disgraced Today Show host Matt Lauer laughing it up with rotundly belly-laughing sexual abuse victims' judgment award denier Timothy Ho-Ho-Ho Dolan. Epstein/Dolan. Compare/Contrast.
Nailed it. Best magazine cover of the year, if not the decade.
November 19, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Nailed it. Best magazine cover of the year, if not the decade.
I admire "I'm a Lectern's" devotion to now meaningless distinctions, but I'm content to award 5 stars for what a cruel & vindictive retaliatory type would no doubt correctly term "pedantry." Me? I consider myself a kinder, gentler person, so will award those stars for "purism." Keep on lecterning!
October 31, 2025 at 5:51 PM
I admire "I'm a Lectern's" devotion to now meaningless distinctions, but I'm content to award 5 stars for what a cruel & vindictive retaliatory type would no doubt correctly term "pedantry." Me? I consider myself a kinder, gentler person, so will award those stars for "purism." Keep on lecterning!
1.] If you were dense enough, stupid enough, clueless enough, to not see what was happening when the corporate goons at CBS slit Stephen Colbert's throat, well maybe now you can open your eyes. All the feckin' MAGAts complaining about comparisons of their soulless, witless, vile selves to Nazis ...
September 18, 2025 at 1:09 AM
1.] If you were dense enough, stupid enough, clueless enough, to not see what was happening when the corporate goons at CBS slit Stephen Colbert's throat, well maybe now you can open your eyes. All the feckin' MAGAts complaining about comparisons of their soulless, witless, vile selves to Nazis ...
It's been a dozen years, Seamus. Miss you so. The world so desperately needs poetry, your poetry, any poetry, to dispel the awful cloud of darkness that envelops every one of us now. Would that we all could experience, if just for a moment, the epiphany you had that day in County Clare. #booksky
August 30, 2025 at 7:07 PM
It's been a dozen years, Seamus. Miss you so. The world so desperately needs poetry, your poetry, any poetry, to dispel the awful cloud of darkness that envelops every one of us now. Would that we all could experience, if just for a moment, the epiphany you had that day in County Clare. #booksky
As perfect a description of this maggot-ridden mound of manure, as I've read. This colossal POS, Vance, Miller, Noem, Rubio, the cadre of sycophant-psychopaths that daily kiss his oversized, diaper-rashed ass‑‑-an extraordinary portrait of a country that's not only "lost its soul" but revels in it.
August 30, 2025 at 6:19 PM
As perfect a description of this maggot-ridden mound of manure, as I've read. This colossal POS, Vance, Miller, Noem, Rubio, the cadre of sycophant-psychopaths that daily kiss his oversized, diaper-rashed ass‑‑-an extraordinary portrait of a country that's not only "lost its soul" but revels in it.
Kudos to @adamkinzinger.substack.com (for the added red oval) & to this photographer for perfectly timing the shutter & taking a photo that captures Trump's disastrous, bogus, Nobel Prize-craving PR event gone wrong. Deserves a Pulitzer in the "Political Relevance" category, if there is one. . . .
August 16, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Kudos to @adamkinzinger.substack.com (for the added red oval) & to this photographer for perfectly timing the shutter & taking a photo that captures Trump's disastrous, bogus, Nobel Prize-craving PR event gone wrong. Deserves a Pulitzer in the "Political Relevance" category, if there is one. . . .
@sctndp.bsky.social Crucial fact to chase down, Sullivan Co. journalists: how many "rural community" family voters routinely vote for Republicans? What? You DO vote Republican?!? Y'know what? When you lose that job funded by Medicaid & your hospital goes belly up, do me a large favor, please. STFU.
August 16, 2025 at 6:48 PM
@sctndp.bsky.social Crucial fact to chase down, Sullivan Co. journalists: how many "rural community" family voters routinely vote for Republicans? What? You DO vote Republican?!? Y'know what? When you lose that job funded by Medicaid & your hospital goes belly up, do me a large favor, please. STFU.
[1] This is what passes for humor from Trump/MAGA, DHS, Go-Go Boot DeSantis, Kristi "Puppy-Killer" Noem, Tom Inhuman Homan, and the masked Jan. 6th-affiliated Gestapo thugs systematically disappearing citizens and non-citizens (both protected by 14th Amendment due process, citizens or . . . [more]
June 29, 2025 at 7:30 PM
[1] This is what passes for humor from Trump/MAGA, DHS, Go-Go Boot DeSantis, Kristi "Puppy-Killer" Noem, Tom Inhuman Homan, and the masked Jan. 6th-affiliated Gestapo thugs systematically disappearing citizens and non-citizens (both protected by 14th Amendment due process, citizens or . . . [more]
Jaysus, but politicians are the lowest form of critter crawling on the earth. Just waiting now for Maine's Susan Collins to wail about how "concerned" she is about her constituents after voting for it. The poor & the middle class (except for fishermen & SNAP recipients in Alaska) are royally fucked.
June 29, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Jaysus, but politicians are the lowest form of critter crawling on the earth. Just waiting now for Maine's Susan Collins to wail about how "concerned" she is about her constituents after voting for it. The poor & the middle class (except for fishermen & SNAP recipients in Alaska) are royally fucked.
(1) It amazes me to see so many in our country roll over for this capitulation from all across the 4th estate. Our country is dying before our eyes, but . . . the NFL season is coming, & the Knicks need a new coach, & we have 3 and a half years to right the ship of state. I'm too . . . [more]
June 9, 2025 at 10:04 PM
(1) It amazes me to see so many in our country roll over for this capitulation from all across the 4th estate. Our country is dying before our eyes, but . . . the NFL season is coming, & the Knicks need a new coach, & we have 3 and a half years to right the ship of state. I'm too . . . [more]
It struck me today, amidst the news of Francis's death, that he bore an uncanny resemblance to Jonathan Pryce. Even as an atheist with a view of the clergy that rarely rises above the dubious, I've got to say that Francis was a good & beneficent man in an age that lacks them. No "High Sparrow," he.
April 21, 2025 at 4:59 PM
It struck me today, amidst the news of Francis's death, that he bore an uncanny resemblance to Jonathan Pryce. Even as an atheist with a view of the clergy that rarely rises above the dubious, I've got to say that Francis was a good & beneficent man in an age that lacks them. No "High Sparrow," he.
Why would anyone in their right mind hire gutless lawyers from a shitbag law firm, no matter its "prominence," who are so ignorant, so naive, so craven, so incompetent, that they did not see this coming from miles away?
April 16, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Why would anyone in their right mind hire gutless lawyers from a shitbag law firm, no matter its "prominence," who are so ignorant, so naive, so craven, so incompetent, that they did not see this coming from miles away?
Are you feckin' kidding me?!? They're giving Musk access to US/China Top Secret WAR PLANS and the feckin' New York Times notes an "expansion of his role" and "conflicts of interest"?? Those are the essential, newsworthy points?? NYT‑‑-the Chuck Schumer of mainstream media. Worthless hacks, all.
March 21, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Are you feckin' kidding me?!? They're giving Musk access to US/China Top Secret WAR PLANS and the feckin' New York Times notes an "expansion of his role" and "conflicts of interest"?? Those are the essential, newsworthy points?? NYT‑‑-the Chuck Schumer of mainstream media. Worthless hacks, all.
