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20002ist@thepit.social

Musings on DC, ancient Greek, depressingly overweening (in every possible sense) US fascism. Erstwhile Jeopardy! champion; Twitter escapee; just the beer light to guide you.Lawful in the streets, chaotic in the … toots?? (Relative newcomer to Mastodon & still fumbling toward Masto competence.) William Hung and snow-white tan. Ἕν οἶδα, ὅτι οὐδὲν οἶδα.

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Post #4387725
Missouri’s Republican legislators: Voters, howzabout you permanently cripple your ability to effect grass-roots change through ballot initiatives? Missouri voters: LOL, no. GTFO.
Post #4175921
Awesome. New “60 Minutes” Executive Producer Nick Bilton, who has zero experience in broadcast news, hires Ross Douthat — who not only has no broadcast news chops but isn’t even a journalist — as a correspondent. CBS News under Bari Weiss is a bad joke. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/business/media/60-minutes-ross-douthat.html
Post #4097412
Just fuckin great: setting fire to a mountain of cash because the Dingbat in Chief likes the idea of camo-clad soldiers marching around in the Union Station shopping mall and Metro stations doing jack shit. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/us/politics/national-guard-troop-housing-dc-trump.html
Post #3960686
RE: https://mastodon.social/@luckytran/116950306136025871 I have a bad feeling in my guts.
Post #3847588
It’s so adorable how The Times pretends there’s any dramatic tension here. GOP senators will cower and cave the way they have consistently for the past 18 months. That’s not going to change on a big-ticket item like this that’s so important to the Narcissist in Chief. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/15/us/politics/todd-blanche-attorney-general-confirmation.html
Post #3606073
Attacked by AQI-da.
Post #3571881
Which one of you spectacular bastards did this? EDIT: The author, it seems. https://bsky.app/profile/rockymntnmike.bsky.social/post/3mpiybeiifc26
Post #3561259
RE: https://mstdn.social/@Holberg/116854246045560987 When you misunderstood the assignment: set up a dunk tank.
Post #3449934
When you forget that US passports are issued to US citizens, not to foreigners visiting the US.
Post #3342959
Isaac Chotiner has got it goin’ on. https://bsky.app/profile/keeganleech.co.za/post/3mocz6onm5s2p
Post #3083512
Kevin Hassett would be prettier if he smiled less.
Post #2851807
Apple keyboard just auto-corrected a text I was writing from “ass-kissers” to “ass-kaisers” and I’m not even mad.
Post #2414312
Seen in the Bay Area by a family member. The website is comedy gold (intentionally so).
Post #2414308
I blame bike lanes. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/motorcycle-dangling-from-traffic-light-after-crash-9.7194201
Post #2414305
RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/116558392601376822 Note that Alito’s recent opinion in the Louisiana case (Callais) *specifically distinguished the prior SCOTUS decision involving these Alabama districts.* The cynicism and hypocrisy is off the charts.
Post #1724860
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@metacurity/116478061973350172 @mattblaze@federate.social Bat signal! (Or, in your case, Matt signal.)
Post #1096578
This thread from Will Stancil — about how ICE agents spilled their guts with operational details of raids, video clips, etc., to Minneapolis women on Tinder pretending to be into them — is a Thing of Beauty. https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:7umvpuxe2vbrc3zrzuquzniu/post/3mj3wpkd7zc2d
Post #1044624
From SNL S2E2 (9/25/1976), I give you the “Snakehandling O’Sheas” sketch, with Jane Curtin, Laraine Newman (as a nun), John Belushi, and Dan Aykroyd, with setup by Norman Lear. https://xcancel.com/RightSandy/status/1732523589293805691
Post #927516
Dipshit Maryland driver runs red light, crashing into bus, which goes through the front window of Ambar restaurant. Please tell me more about how bikes and electric scooters are the biggest transportation safety problem.
Post #846633
RE: https://phire.place/@middleclasstool/116313375216342356 LOL of course everything the Trump White House does is a jumbo-sized flaming bag of dog shit.
Post #659967
“FIFA Peace Prize Winner Removes Symbol of Peace from US Coins” https://fortune.com/2026/03/12/us-mint-drops-olive-branch-dime-peace-war/
Post #659964
Ministry of Truth Social https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/world/middleeast/fcc-broadcasters-iran-war.html
Post #634178
Pathetic chickenshit. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/us/politics/trump-civilian-deaths-iran-war.html
Post #505620
Von Cloudedwits: “We have tremendous amounts of ammunition. You know, we have ammunition stored all over the world in different countries.” https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/us/politics/trump-iran-war-interview.html
Post #505619
going great https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/world/middleeast/iran-kuwait-us-attack-planes.html
Post #431714
Have begun referring to the pre-Musk-acquisition social-media platform as “Weimar Twitter.”
Post #383028
Cake x ICE ICE Baby https://www.youtube.com/shorts/kUDCVnHRMuk
Post #383025
RE: https://flipboard.com/@newyorktimes/politics-dp69e5lqz/-/a-t_F07N-_SOSL2mhPu3sbHA%3Aa%3A3195393-%2F0 Trump Lies as Freely as Pigeons Shit
Post #321277
To racist fuckwits like this Trump nominee for a high-level State Dep’t post, “white culture” means exactly two things: • the right to adjudicate, however arbitrarily, who is “white” • the right of the arbitrarily designated “white” people to steal from, suppress the votes of, beat, rape, or murder non-“whites” To call this brutish, Hobbesian tribalism is a euphemism. God bless Chris Murphy for publicly dragging his dumb ass. https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:y77n77kdqzhbg647blkfypyr/post/3me...
Post #321276
Yikes. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/science/tortoises-island-sex-cliff.html