continentaldivide.bsky.social @continentaldivide.bsky.social · 17/09/2026A lot of shit in the news today, but this is my favorite story because it suggests a tasty metaphor for the current leadership of the United States. 010
continentaldivide.bsky.social @continentaldivide.bsky.social · 14/09/2026back to 30 under par thanks to two deuces in six days, one clever work on my part and one just dumb luck, plus a couple of birdies and only one bogey. Whoever is picking words these days has moved a little away from the intentionally treacherous, it seems to me. Kill the bots! 020
continentaldivide.bsky.social @continentaldivide.bsky.social · 08/09/2026'arrest' and 'imprison' are popular demands here, but they are unlikely. He must be impeached. Slate is often frivolous, but here's a clear explanation of a category of high crime that would drive an impeachment. slate.com/news-and-pol...slate.comTrump Has Brutalized Blue States in His Second Term. There’s a Way for Democrats to Fight Back.The Trump administration has actively discriminated against “blue” states by systemically withholding money. That's not the worst part. 030
continentaldivide.bsky.social @continentaldivide.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Maybe the Canadians will lend us this song. It's an excellent metaphor for what has to happen around here. www.bing.com/videos/river... 020
continentaldivide.bsky.social @continentaldivide.bsky.social · 31/08/2026a birdie is a birdie. I'll take it. Wordle 1,899 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 030
continentaldivide.bsky.social @continentaldivide.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Just got my "Gulf of Mexico" t-shirt and now I get to order a "Lake Ontario" one. 020
continentaldivide.bsky.social @continentaldivide.bsky.social · 14/08/2026By the valuable Paul Campos: This is both correct and disheartening: expect few if any consequences for the wealthy people behind our woes. www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/08/junk...lawyersgunsmoneyblog.comJunk science a la mode - Lawyers, Guns & MoneyAndrew Gelman makes an important general observation in the context of the (essentially non-existent, which is the point) controversy over the Q-Collar. What is the Q-Collar? Is the Q-Collar effective... 020
continentaldivide.bsky.social @continentaldivide.bsky.social · 11/08/2026The Max Miller story is quite a story. I was sent to Prospect by the indispensable Lawyers, Guns, and Money so here's a link-shout. You got to read this! www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/08/mad-...lawyersgunsmoneyblog.comMad Max - Lawyers, Guns & MoneyThis great piece of reportage by Maureen Tkacik in the American Prospect really has to be read in full to be appreciated. One notable aspect of this story is that almost everything in it is public rec... 030
continentaldivide.bsky.social @continentaldivide.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Just want to let Donald Trump know that I just requested my mail-in ballot for November 3. My polling place is just up the street and I usually enjoy going there, but my district and state is reliably blue so, in order to maximize annoyance for the President, I'm going to mail it in. 251
continentaldivide.bsky.social @continentaldivide.bsky.social · 30/07/2026GOP senators went on and on about that poor mom getting arrested at a high school football game then suffering due process. Meanwhile they wholeheartedly support thousands of moms getting thrown in vehicles by masked men and just fucking disappeared. Another place for some side-by-side video ads. 030
continentaldivide.bsky.social @continentaldivide.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Rand Paul and Bernie Moreno were both vaccinated for COVID-19. 160
continentaldivide.bsky.social @continentaldivide.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Why is Trump trying to undermine my erection? 020
continentaldivide.bsky.social @continentaldivide.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Crazy this must be said: The Justice Department can't be 'weaponized' because it's already a weapon. It's a weapon the people wield against crime. That is how it was conceived, what it did (mostly) for its entire history, and what it needs to do now. The only argument is who gets aimed at. 063
continentaldivide.bsky.social @continentaldivide.bsky.social · 17/07/2026I went outside and coughed which triggered an episode of diarrhea. Does that make me a Republican? 000
continentaldivide.bsky.social @continentaldivide.bsky.social · 14/07/2026A guy I like, an important guy, told me that urban data centers in northern cities are a good use of empty office space. Aside from the general notion that we don't want or need AI--seems a little late to stop that--what about this? Experts, please tell me how much of this is bullshit. 010
continentaldivide.bsky.social @continentaldivide.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Midterms are the chance for voters to express their wishes. Democrats see in Trump II fuckups, own-goals, and knee-jerk stupidity. Maybe Republicans and swing voters see it differently? But preventing or delaying a vote is not an option. Make Republicans understand that we won't tolerate it. 040
continentaldivide.bsky.social @continentaldivide.bsky.social · 08/07/2026I spoke to Mitch McConnel today for a while, maybe 20 minutes or so. We talked about a variety of subjects but then it turned out I was talking to my cat. So sorry I have nothing to contribute to this issue. Plus I don't have a cat. 110
continentaldivide.bsky.social @continentaldivide.bsky.social · 23/06/2026The start of my novel Sixes 000
continentaldivide.bsky.social @continentaldivide.bsky.social · 23/06/2026From the start of my novel Sandfall 000
continentaldivide.bsky.social @continentaldivide.bsky.social · 23/06/2026From my fly fishing short story collection 'Holdovers and Other Stories' available via Kindle 000
continentaldivide.bsky.social @continentaldivide.bsky.social · 22/06/2026The quality of insight, humor, and prose on posts in my feed jumps dramatically Monday morning. This is worth study but I'm too busy at work right now to do it. 020
continentaldivide.bsky.social @continentaldivide.bsky.social · 24/05/2026It is useful—it serves his people by feeding the Political Vices: Greed, Bigotry, Resentment, Paranoia, False Nostalgia, Coercive Religion, Revenge, Revision of Loss, and Apocalypticism. The tribe lives on combinations of these and the leaders’s gestures provide them. 010
continentaldivide.bsky.social @continentaldivide.bsky.social · 23/05/2026The DOJ is already a weapon against crime. If the defendant did it and the prosecution is consistent, that’s not weaponization. The January 6 guys did it. We saw them do it. They were tried and convicted by a jury. Pardons don’t change that; a pardon in that case is just another crime. They did it. 020
continentaldivide.bsky.social @continentaldivide.bsky.social · 23/05/2026Trump‘s people don’t actually make videos of him being a hero. They make videos of him bullying people. In fact, bullying—usually fellow Americans—is the central policy position of Trump‘s Republican Party. That’s all he does. That’s all his people want him to do. 010
continentaldivide.bsky.social @continentaldivide.bsky.social · 23/05/2026THEY DID IT. The DOJ is a political entity. It exists to prosecute federal crimes, among other things. It is a WEAPON AGAINST CRIME. The J6 people DID FEDERAL CRIMES. DOJ functioned as intended—as a crime weapon. Investigated. (Easy—watch the video). Indicted. Convicted. Sentenced. THEY DID IT. 020
continentaldivide.bsky.social @continentaldivide.bsky.social · 09/05/2026This piece by Fred Clark neatly and clearly aligns the arguments against ICE warehouses with a moral and ethical theory of leadership if you live in a place dominated by Trump supporters: www.patheos.com/blogs/slackt...patheos.comDarkness On The Edge Of Town“I can very vigorously argue about the humanitarian side of why this is wrong … but with some people, that argument has no sway." 000
continentaldivide.bsky.social @continentaldivide.bsky.social · 07/05/2026All DOJ personnel who take part in investigations intended to intimidate political opponents must be fired immediately, even if they were ordered to do so. As sworn federal agents they are obliged to give any and all information on these investigations to the public. They cannot continue to serve. 011
continentaldivide.bsky.social @continentaldivide.bsky.social · 07/05/2026the Penguin Lessons is a pretty good movie and a nicely oblique indictment of this time and place. It's on Netlix. 000
continentaldivide.bsky.social @continentaldivide.bsky.social · 24/04/2026CD’s Constitutional Amendment: The sitting president may pardon himself for any reason or purpose only upon resignation and only before midnight on the last day of October in a presidential election year. 000
continentaldivide.bsky.social @continentaldivide.bsky.social · 13/04/2026The Attorney General of the Vatican, Cardinal Meure Moricathy, just attacked the Bishop of Canterbury on X, calling him 'weak on the Trinity' and 'a slob.' 221
continentaldivide.bsky.social @continentaldivide.bsky.social · 28/03/2026I have some journalism experience, I'm old and otherwise useless, and I'm shameless. Release the Epstein files to me and I'll make sure they are distributed to thoughtful journalists, correctly redacted to protect victims, and arranged to land with maximum effect. 031
continentaldivide.bsky.social @continentaldivide.bsky.social · 18/03/2026Wilhoit's Law American conservatives believe that there must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect." 041
continentaldivide.bsky.social @continentaldivide.bsky.social · 17/03/2026I avoid participial phrases, which I consider a lazy shortcut. As I read, I cheered Spufford for avoiding them. Then I reread and found a couple. For each, I could not supply a better adjective. I am forced to accept defeat and drop my crochety absolute. Good writers can use PP's; I can't. 030
continentaldivide.bsky.social @continentaldivide.bsky.social · 17/03/2026"Nonesuch" by Francis Spufford--it's been a long time since I've read a novel that combines stylistic depth with intense character and a real sense of place and action. It took me a while to get my head around it. Back to the joy of relishing sentences instead of compromising with them. 030
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continentaldivide.bsky.social @continentaldivide.bsky.social · 11/03/2026It’s gritty and conservative and REAL, man! Beer flavored beer! None of this woke crap. Now in Lite and Lime. 010
continentaldivide.bsky.social @continentaldivide.bsky.social · 09/03/2026Check out this video, "playing the nazi card English" share.google/bnxHuSceNpA8...share.googleIt's easy to play the 'Nazi card' 001
continentaldivide.bsky.social @continentaldivide.bsky.social · 25/02/20267 This summer I will fan the nation’s flame of discontent And make a list of all who dare express a bit of sharp dissent We’ll laugh about the places Jeff and Ghislaine went And shrug away the fate of all those ballroom dollars spent 011
continentaldivide.bsky.social @continentaldivide.bsky.social · 25/02/20266 I’ll stumble into regulations, norms, and rules to circumvent And ratfuck all the ways to make my presidency permanent. And so in terms of arrogance and vanity and permanence I am the very model for the modern fascist presidents. 010
continentaldivide.bsky.social @continentaldivide.bsky.social · 25/02/20265 It makes me happy to decree my policies by Twitter vent And double down on ignoramus uses of the word ‘percent’ Tomorrow I will abrogate the pact of Ghent, And change the voting rules at will without a state’s consent. 000
continentaldivide.bsky.social @continentaldivide.bsky.social · 25/02/20264 Though Susan Collins will be briefly hesitant I’m still deporting every Latin immigrant and resident. So you can see from every secretary’s testament: I am the very model of a modern fascist president. 000
continentaldivide.bsky.social @continentaldivide.bsky.social · 25/02/20263 I'm blithely idiotic too in matters scientifical I fail at grasping all the least statistics difficult, My ego wallows in conspiracies all myfical, My Biden complex verges on the visibly terrifical. 010
continentaldivide.bsky.social @continentaldivide.bsky.social · 25/02/20262 To help me Sam Alito pisses on the constitution’s precedents And Kennedy revives for me the greatest hits of pestilence, And so in terms of arrogance and vanity and permanence I am the very model for the modern fascist presidents. 031
continentaldivide.bsky.social @continentaldivide.bsky.social · 25/02/2026This wasn’t my idea but I worked on some rhymes 1 I am the very model of a modern fascist president My leadership is bullying, erratic and incompetent I doubt the Constitution’s definition of the government, And smile whenever I am aromatically incontinent. 032
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continentaldivide.bsky.social @continentaldivide.bsky.social · 04/02/2026all you fascists bound to lose youtu.be/VwcKwGS7OSQyoutu.beWoody Guthrie~ All You Fascists Bound To LoseYouTube video by UnAmericanBandstand 022
continentaldivide.bsky.social @continentaldivide.bsky.social · 01/02/2026Quietly accumulate Epstien oppo on this Warsh character so that when he's confirmed to the Fed we can dictate monetary policy. Numerous positives there, not least is Trump's fury. 131
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