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bjkeefe @bjkeefe.bsky.social · 4h

Just curious why your main site does not mention him, even once. www.google.com/search?q=sit...

Screenshot of Google search results for
site:vcinfodocs.com duran

result:
Your search - site:vcinfodocs.com duran - did not match any documents.

Suggestions:

Make sure all words are spelled correctly.
Try different keywords.
Try more general keywords.
Try fewer keywords.

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bjkeefe @bjkeefe.bsky.social · 6h

Okay, but what about printers?

NinaGerling
@NinaGerling
Tech enthusiasts: My entire house is smart.

Tech workers: The only piece of technology in my house is a printer and I keep a gun next to it so I can shoot it if it makes a noise I don't recognize.

(Source: Pranay Pathole) https://x.com/MajorThrill/status/1468000441090953216)

src of the imaged tweet:
https://x.com/NinaGerling/status/1468505269055467525

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bjkeefe @bjkeefe.bsky.social · 9h

Clearly, the investigation is a crock. Even Fox admits that. See attached. Quite apart from that, if it's not obvious to you that this is just one more instance of the Trump regime demonizing Muslims, and specifically, Somalis, then I advise you to pull your head out of your ass.

bjkeefe @bjkeefe
A bit more on the harassment of Ilhan Omar:

"The news outlet reported that the raid followed a criminal fraud investigation into the Minnesota lawmaker's paperwork, filled ‌out by her late father ⁠when she was a child."

Filled ‌out by her late father ⁠when she was a child. /1
9:09 AM · Oct 12, 2026 · 107 Views

bjkeefe @bjkeefe · 7m
2/2 The news outlet is Fox News Digital. Source:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/us-launches-immigration-raid-democratic-122922617.html

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bjkeefe @bjkeefe.bsky.social · 10h

Yes it is. And, as usual, lots of brownshirts marching in lockstep.

bjkeefe @bjkeefe
The regime's messaging network in action: @GuntherEagleman, @EricLDaugh, and @bennyjohnson are right at the top of the search for "Ilhan Omar".

Omar's house was searched by DHS, according to the AP, and no other details are known. But the Nazis forget all about innocent 1/2
8:52 AM · Oct 12, 2026
bjkeefe @bjkeefe · 47s
2/2 until proven guilty, don't they? And to back up a step, they don't even consider how this is obviously an attempt by the Trumpists to intimidate a political opponent, plus another attempt to demonize a minority, b/c they know they can't win an honest election.

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bjkeefe @bjkeefe.bsky.social · 11h

39th time's the charm "The word [redacted] has appeared in exactly one solution set, according to data going back to May 9, 2018: That day was today! My sternly-worded emails worked! "This word was also disallowed from 38 puzzles, most recently on June 24, 2026" Tom and Ray would be proud. 1/2

NYT Spelling Bee for 12 Oct 2026. Center letter E is in yellow, other six letters, in gray, arranged in a hexagon around it, are M, T, A, P, H, Y.

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bjkeefe @bjkeefe.bsky.social · 19h

Your comments seem worthwhile, but about the article you linked to: that site is (now) owned by Brown Brothers Media. BBM owns gobs of sites, and they are all almost entirely AI-generated. I just ran the first part of that article through Pangram:

Pangram score for some text from a scienceblog.com article I pasted in: 100% AI.

Full screen screenshot showing Pangram score and the beginning of the text I ran through the analyzer. This was for some text from a scienceblog.com article I pasted in. Score: 100% AI.

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bjkeefe @bjkeefe.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

(This replaces an earlier post -- slight redaction to image) Anyone else seeing this? Lately, when I do a Google search from a private browser window, I get stopped by one of these challenges. Sometimes I even have to solve one of those stupid "find all the pictures of Xs". [1/2]

A Google reCAPTCHA

I'm not a robot
reCAPTCHA
About this page
Our systems have detected unusual traffic from your computer network. This page checks to see if it's really you sending the requests, and not a robot. Why did this happen?
IP address: [redacted]
Time: 2026-10-11T21:17:44Z
URL: https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=Dell+XP S+Googlebook&sei=9_zLap6MEc-z5NoP0sfT0Qg

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bjkeefe @bjkeefe.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

"minimum dead salmon artifact" Move over,

Cover of Trout Mask Replica, an album by Captain Beefheart
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trout_Mask_Replica

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bjkeefe @bjkeefe.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Consecutive posts in my feed. I can hear the ancient Wide World of Sports tagline going through my mind. cc @bettycrackerfl.bsky.social @dandrezner.bsky.social

Two skeets showing the final score of the Jacksonville Jaguars - New Your Jets game. Jax won in the last seconds 19-17. Top picture, from Betty, who lives in FL, shows kicker leaping into the stands after nailing the game-winning field goal. Bottom picture from Dan shows a distraught little boy in an Eagles jersey sobbing into his father's stomach while his older sister is looking at the field with a mostly composed but tightly-pressed-lips face. Dan's fan affiliation is unknown.

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bjkeefe @bjkeefe.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

mOsT tRaNsPaReNt AdMiNiStRaTiOn EVAR!!!1!

The episode shows how the Trump administration and its allies selectively disclose government files, omitting context to discredit investigations that led to Mr. Trump’s federal indictment and that anger his supporters. As the midterm elections approach, it also shows how a grievance narrative can be manufactured and inserted into national political discourse.

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bjkeefe @bjkeefe.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

TFW you see a hed saying the exact same thing you've been saying for this entire past year Remember that old Tw account, "... and the New York Times is on it!" In fairness, they make a more rigorous case, which I could never be arsed to do. (Too obvs.) gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/11/u...

[NYT hed and dek] In the Senate, Collins Often Defies Trump but Rarely Stops Him

A New York Times analysis of Senator Susan Collins’s voting record shows that she frequently breaks with Republicans but more seldom changes an outcome.

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bjkeefe @bjkeefe.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Heraldic hatching?! Mind-blowingly #TIL en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinctur...

A table titled "Heraldic tinctures (excluding furs)" which shows the correspondence between tinctures (colors, basically) and monochromatic hatching. Yellow is a regular pattern of dots, green is closely spaced vertical lines, blue is horizontal, black is a mesh, and so on.

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bjkeefe @bjkeefe.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

On that knows-too-much idea, this just in, fwiw. Here's the X link: x.com/OMGrisham/st... src for text in image: bsky.app/profile/paul...

Some former Trump officials expressed skepticism that Guilfoyle would face consequences. Stephanie Grisham, first lady Melania Trump’s former spokeswoman, wrote in a post on X: “She knows far too much about the Trump family/inner circle & I imagine they like her as far away as possible. An angry KG stateside would not be a good thing for Trumpworld.”

the x link: https://x.com/OMGrisham/status/2108290609031036992

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bjkeefe @bjkeefe.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Cold hard numbers, well-presented in a short essay. Here's a piece:

As we approach the two-year mark since Donald Trump’s second election victory, it’s a good time to do a little economic scorekeeping. Before getting into where the economy is and where it’s going, it’s worth a little reminder of where it was before the election.

This is important because Trump and the Republicans continuously spew utter nonsense about an economic disaster that only exists in their imagination. By literally every standard measure, the economy was doing extremely well just before the election. The unemployment rate was hovering near 4.0%, and nominal wages were growing at roughly a 4.0% annual rate.

Inflation had slowed sharply, with the year-over-year rate at 2.6% in October of 2024. This translated into real wage growth of close to 1.5%. Inflation was expected to continue to slow, with most projections having inflation coming in very close to the Fed’s 2.0% target by the end of 2025.

There had been a massive surge in the number of people able to work from home as a result of the pandemic, with that figure still being close to 20% by the end of 2024. These people were saving hundreds of hours a year in commuting time and thousands of dollars annually in commuting-related costs. There also had been an unprecedented explosion in factory construction, with real spending in 2024 more than double the pre-pandemic level in 2019.

Growth for the year was 2.5%, and it was expected to be above 2.0% for the near future. This story was the basis for The Economist’s famous cover story about the U.S. economy: The Envy of the World.
Trump Takes Over: The Story Darkens

Virtually without exception, the data have gotten worse under Trump. Inflation has risen; nominal wage growth has slowed. Factory construction has plummeted. The

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bjkeefe @bjkeefe.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Another! via bsky.app/profile/dcei... h/t @mikethemadbiol.bsky.social

Harmeet Dhillon looking daggers at the camera, lips pursed. A stray lock of hair has crept away from the rest and is in front of her right eye.

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bjkeefe @bjkeefe.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Man, you click one joke link to Amazon, and one week later ...

"Recommended based on your shopping trends" at the bottom of an Amazon page for a book that I just bought. Five of the six items are "portable urinals", the sixth is the flush handle assembly for a urinal you'd see in a public bathroom.

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bjkeefe @bjkeefe.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

@thewritertype.bsky.social Just looked up one of your books. Whoa! What did you add to the e-book? www.amazon.com/Dead-Writers...

Amazon listing for "Dead Writers in Rehab" by Paul Bassett Davies. Price for Kindle edition: $9.99. Price for paperback: $6.99.

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bjkeefe @bjkeefe.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

And now, here it is, your moment of Peak Bluesky. (hint: it's the one I didn't Like)

[1] Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk
Today is World Mental Health Day.

I know that the rising cost of living and the pressures of everyday life can have a real impact on our mental health. Yet too many Londoners still suffer in silence. 1/2
5:00 AM · Oct 10, 2026

[2] Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 6h
There is no shame in asking for help - today and every day.

Help is available. Visit Thrive for support:
https://thriveldn.co.uk/help-yourself-and-others/

[3] Carla Kuiken @carlak.bsky.social · 5h
Try 'asking for help is the smart thing to do'. Don't bring up shame.

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bjkeefe @bjkeefe.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Getting the following on Firefox and DuckDuckGo's browser, respectively. I can browse using the latter browser. I can browse with Edge, with just a warning in the address bar. If I disable HTTPS-Only Mode in Firefox, I can access your site. I don't have Chrome on this machine, so I can't 1/2

Secure Connection Failed

The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified.
What can you do about it?

The issue is most likely with the website, and there is nothing you can do to resolve it. You can notify the website’s administrator about the problem.

Error Code: PR_CONNECT_RESET_ERROR

Protections are ON for this site
Report a problem with this site
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scripting.com
This site is not secure and may compromise any information you send on this page.
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bjkeefe @bjkeefe.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Couldn't resist swiping this one from an earlier issue ... paulnoth.substack.com/p/caption-co... ... for this, our beloved social media site.

One of Paul Noth's unfinished sketches from his Substack. Three kids at the blackboard, working arithmetic problems. One has turned to face the teacher. The problem on the board reads "37 x 4" and her answer is "41". She is saying to the teacher, "How can it be wrong if it's getting the most engagement?"

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bjkeefe @bjkeefe.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

There are larger points to @mobute.bsky.social's essay, but the opening is just such wonderful writing that I wanted to call it out for itself. www.truthdig.com/articles/big...

Look, I’ve been around the block. I know what it means when a feature of my life is suddenly appended with words like -coded and -core. It means the things about myself that I can’t or don’t want to change are being sold back to me as a lifestyle choice, or worse, a movement. It means I’ve become real in the realest way possible: in the eyes of marketers and assignment editors running on fumes.

I knew what the dad-bod trendlet amounted to. As with nerdcore, the hard sound of the last part did not cancel out the dweebness of the first. It was a cheap attempt to aestheticize the mundane, to apply a layer of hip gloss on the utility of nobler, truer, Britisher words like paunchy. Which is to say, I know my role. It’s to tell you that Costco is real.

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bjkeefe @bjkeefe.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Please don't repost AltNPS. They are scammers and plagiarists. When they post a link from a database like this, it's ~100% they swiped it from someone else's actual reporting. Latest example: just about a direct steal, from The Center for Western Priorities. Links in comments.

Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social

The Trump admin announced that winter oil and gas exploration in Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve will be exempt from environmental reviews. That includes seismic surveys, building temporary roads, and drilling exploration wells. Our public lands keep paying the price…

https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-20763.pdf

public-inspection.federalregister.gov
9:23 AM · Oct 9, 2026 Everybody can reply

The Trump administration announced on Thursday that it will exempt winter oil and gas drilling in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska from the environmental reviews normally required by the National Environmental Policy Act. The Interior department is using a categorical exclusion, which is supposed to be used for activities that have no significant impact on the environment.

The categorical exclusion will apply to seismic surveys, temporary road construction, and exploratory well drilling—activities “whose environmental consequences are well understood,” according to the Interior department’s notice in the Federal Register. The move follows an announcement in September that the administration was fast-tracking approvals of oil drilling projects in the NPR-A.
["announcement" in last sentence is a link]

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bjkeefe @bjkeefe.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Given that his salary is now $150K and has been much lower in the past, we can only conclude ... Must be a great businessman! gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/u...

Since his first election to public office in 2002, Mr. Paxton has grown his wealth through business investments and real estate purchases into a personal fortune with a reported value of up to $23 million. His assets now include multiple mutual funds, a cellphone tower and 15 properties across six states.

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bjkeefe @bjkeefe.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Austria was my first guess. (After I got another country, first shot, that is out of the frame of the screenshot above.)

2. Austria
3. Hungary
4. Czechia
5. Slovakia

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bjkeefe @bjkeefe.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Circling, circling ... 🗺️ October 8, 2026 4/5 countries in 10/13 guesses 🟢🟢🟢🔵⚪ whereabouts.earth/daily/ #Whereabouts

Screenshot from https://whereabouts.earth/daily/ for 8 Oct 2026 showing three red (incorrectly guessed) and one green (finally correctly guessed) small countries. The pin is almost on the border of all four, like that Four Courners place in the US. Errors distance for the three incorrect: 53 km, 47 km, and 52 km.

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bjkeefe @bjkeefe.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

FWIW, I can see at least a four places where text is garbled on the box, despite what the article says in the intro about that problem having been sorted. Details in the ALT text for each image.

The black text MODE, then ... ? Also, the white text beginning with A.

The large digits to the right of the QR code, esp after the hyphen.

What's that say under the wine glass icon?

Not the line with LG but the other -- all or almost all garbled.

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bjkeefe @bjkeefe.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Aaaaaay, Donnie from Queens, Mr. "Authenticity" himself.

An AI poster of Trump wearing a coonskin cap doing the lifted chin firm jaw gaze into the distance pose, above a rendering of the Alamo, which bizarrely shows Texans streaming out, on the attack (MAGAt history!). I have replaced the original slogan with a thought bubble that says, "My new wig looks so natural, perhaps more natural than anyone has ever seen. I bet no one will even know!" "Except Natalie, of course, since she helped me put it on."

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bjkeefe @bjkeefe.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

@mike10010100.com >> Oh yeah, it’s super interesting! Sadly, blocked by OP. Here is the link to the PDF. I thought you could see that, based on your earlier comments, but just in case not: fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf If you meant you wanted to see what the OP said, here:

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bjkeefe @bjkeefe.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Huh. @mattyglesias.bsky.social has concerns. About "thought leaders on the left engaging in honest discourse policing". WHAT ARE THE ODDS? cc @ddayen.bsky.social

I don’t particularly mind A.O.C. saying something wild and untrue in the context of a fundraiser. But I do worry that every time I see this discourse shoot around, I don’t see any intellectuals or thought leaders on the left engaging in honest discourse policing around this subject.

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bjkeefe @bjkeefe.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

While he's saying dumb shit into microphones, let's not lose sight of some of the more important things. Here's a nice summary from Paul Krugman. "The Trump Administration is a Cesspit of Corruption" paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-trump-...

The level of corruption that Trump has engaged in and enabled in others is completely unprecedented – self-dealing that, as Trump would say, is like nothing anybody has ever seen before. America currently has a Republican president who, along with his family, has raked in billions, possibly close to $10 billion in personal gain from office in less than two years. He has effectively sold criminal pardons to scammers, invalidating the legal claims of their victims for restitution. His son-in-law Jared Kushner has become a billionaire running an investment fund for Gulf petro-state autocrats despite having no discernible investment skills. The Times just reported that Kristi Noem paid hundreds of millions over the reasonable price for 5 aircraft – one of which contains a marble bathroom and luxury bedroom – that were ostensibly for deportations but are instead sitting on the runway. And then there’s Trump’s Secretary of the Commerce, Howard Lutnick, whose family has doubled its net worth to over $7 billion, largely through its investments in Tether, the crypto-currency of choice by Iran, terrorists and rogue states.

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bjkeefe @bjkeefe.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is basically the free square on your Bingo card

[Twitter ad tweet] The Free Press @TheFP
"Women know that fraternity houses are dangerous places—and yet they go anyway."
[image of a building, possibly the frat house although it looks way big, with overlaid text "What Was Jane Doe Looking For at Cornell's Chi Phi? By Caitlin Flanagan"]

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bjkeefe @bjkeefe.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It's funny that Jeff Bezos doesn't like the word "artificial". I wonder why that could be ... cc @stevemnomoremister.bsky.social

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bjkeefe @bjkeefe.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

There is a line that Liz quotes in her essay that just ...

bjkeefe bjkeefe just now

>> their clothing line — it “exists to forge elite-level resilience in the warriors who defend, serve, and sacrifice, and in those who stand with them, by building strength in body, mind, and spirit.”

I am reading the first of the Jack Carr books now, based on recommendations from a couple of conservative friends. These books are amazingly popular. So far, every page reads like that line above.

The book was blurbed -- gushingly -- by, among others, Sean Parnell, Katie Pavlich, The Washington Times, Kurt Schlichter, Bernard Kerik, and Oliver North.

Sorry. Just had to let that out.

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bjkeefe @bjkeefe.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I don't use any Adobe apps (Paint.NET suffices for me) but in light of Adobe's ongoing terrible corporate behavior, I want to help make this known: open-source clean-room reimplementation of Photoshop, Lightroom, Premier Pro, etc. Work in progress, as I understand, but still. github.com/storytold

Screenshot of the home page for ArtCraft on GitHub, showing six repositories, billed as reimplementations of Adobe products like Photoshop, Lightroom, and Premier Pro.

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bjkeefe @bjkeefe.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Gaze upon the visage of your evil new boss and despair. link in comments

Harmeet Dhillon, the head of the "civil rights" division in the Trump regime, looking like the evil within is just bubbling up through her face.

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bjkeefe @bjkeefe.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Boosting my engagement on the Somethings app!

[tweet] bjkeefe @bjkeefe · 1h
>> Maine US Senate candidate Troy Jackson (D) just said he wants NO VOTER ID nationwide

If he didn't already have my vote, that would guarantee he gets it.

Remember that "voter fraud" is a myth. What's real is voter suppression, and that's what MAGAts and GOP are all about.

[reply tweet] Ihatehotweather @pro_democracy24
voter fraud is a myth, yet ur dumb vaccinated ass is terrified of id.
eat shit u vaccinated fuck
10:13 PM · Oct 6, 2026 · 3 Views

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bjkeefe @bjkeefe.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I have taken some preemptive steps. bsky.app/profile/bjke...

bjkeefe @bjkeefe.bsky.social
I am already planning to squat on jerry.bsky and jerryno.bsky.

[quote]
Toni Schneider @toni.bsky.team · 1d
A little scoop before Oct 7, when ICANN publishes 1,000+ applications for new top-level domains: one of them is .bsky! It's a long road (18 to 24 months), but if it goes through, handles like alice.bsky become possible.

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bjkeefe @bjkeefe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

In response to Trump's recent slur of the Democratic candidate, Annie Andrews: [2/3]

Before going on to explain Trump’s sudden interest in the South Carolina contest, I do want to note that his bigotry is of course revolting. In a civilized era, it would be shocking to see it coming from a president of the United States. But we do not live in a civilized era. In a non-cowardly era, the slur would be denounced by Republicans as well as Democrats. But we do not live in a non-cowardly era. In a better era, Andrews’s Republican opponent, Sen. Darline Graham, would step up to criticize a supporter for using the term. But we do not live in a better era.

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bjkeefe @bjkeefe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I do love me some Woke Bill Kristol [1/3]

[Bulwark hed] Grandpa Trump Is Getting Desperate

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bjkeefe @bjkeefe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

On left: seen over there, posted in reply to yet another Tom Cotton tweet demanding Voter ID. I added my old fave to that same thread.

Cartoon by Sack (Star Tribune). Elephant in suit saying "Oops". He is holding a big protest sign that was supposed to say "STOP VOTER FRAUD", only the last word turns out to be a taped-over sign, which is falling and revealing the original word underneath: TURNOUT.

Two astronauts meme: one saying, "I just heard the real problem isn't fraud, but voter suppression." The other, behind him, pointing a gun, has "GOP" on his helmet and is saying, "Always has been."

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bjkeefe @bjkeefe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

He's got those David Miscavige proportions.

David Miscavige, big head, small body, non-existent morals

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bjkeefe @bjkeefe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Agonizing narrowing it down, so I decided to start with just non-fiction. h/t @moultano.bsky.social Make one for your own self here: myninebooks.com

Grid titled "My Nine Books | The 9 books I'll never forget" (The "the" is not at all accurate)
Row 1
1. Title: Oranges
Author: John McPhee
2. Title: The Boys of Summer: A Classic Sports Memoir of Jackie Robinson and the Brooklyn Dodgers
Author: Roger Kahn
3. Title: Disturbing the Universe
Author: Freeman Dyson
Row 2
4. Title: The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage
Author: Cliff Stoll
5. Title: "What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character
Author: Richard P. Feynman
6. Title: The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Author: Richard Rhodes
Row 3
7. Title: The C Programming Language (2nd Edition)
Author: Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie
8. Title: Calculus with Analytic Geometry
Author: John B. Fraleigh
9. Title: Men of Mathematics
Author: E.T. Bell

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bjkeefe @bjkeefe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Recognize it -- quite familiar, even. But I could not have told you what it means, nor did I get the feeling of "Oh, I should have remembered that" when I looked it up just now. I don't think I ever knew. Just read over it, back when I encountered it. en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shanks%... Also:

Screenshot of Google Books Ngram Viewer for shanks' mare, shanks mare, and shank's mare. Last isn't found at all. First is more common, both fairly rapidly peak around 1940 and decline soon after.
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=shanks%27+mare%2Cshanks+mare%2Cshank%27s+mare&year_start=1800&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=3

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