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Kevin McFoy Dunn

@kevinmcfoydunn.bsky.social
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Footnote-in-waiting (v.: music -- kevindunn.bandcamp.com/music; scribbling -- kevinmcfoydunn.substack.com), punter-grade bricoleur. Cis-het septuagenarian. [Bluesky doubles as my dating app, hence those last data & my recent-photo avatar.]

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Kevin McFoy Dunn @kevinmcfoydunn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A1! As SecEd Grandma Wrestlemania* once tagged the lovely LLMs. My Substack for the fall equinox, leaning in on the nostalgie du futur angle, initiates a series on the imminent ascendancy (nope) of our robot bosses (lol). __________________ * As Wonkette's Evan Hurst has on occasion yclept McMahon.
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AI and I [Pt. 1]: Present at a Creation
“You think I could love a machine?” “Did you?”
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Kevin McFoy Dunn @kevinmcfoydunn.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
For 11.ix.2001 and the quarter-century since. Lamentations indeed.
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Locke: How Doth the City Sit Solitary
YouTube video by Edward Higginbottom - Topic
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Kevin McFoy Dunn @kevinmcfoydunn.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Anent the Coxson klaxon, Nate Soares, philosophy-free morosoph with a BS and MIRI prexy: “AIs have everything they need to wipe humanity out already … They have the _motive_ [ital mine] and they have the opportunity … The only thing they’re missing is the means.” “Motive”? Formed on what basis? Usw.
huffpost.com
A Terrifying Viral Tweet Warns That AI Will Kill Off Humanity — So We Asked An AI Risk Expert For The Unvarnished Truth
“The AIs have everything they need except the intelligence, and the AI companies are racing to make them more intelligent.”
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Kevin McFoy Dunn @kevinmcfoydunn.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Witkoff to Putin: “[W]hen we retire, we’ll have all these incredible stories, and incredible memories, and yours will be right at the top of it all.” Trump cabalistas can glaze war criminals so glibly because (a.) they work for one and (b.) their group shot illustrates "parvenu" in the dictionary.
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Witkoff and Kushner to take US peace push to Kyiv after meeting Putin in Moscow | CNN
US negotiators are set to travel to Kyiv on Sunday after concluding intensive talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, as Washington renews its push to end the war in Ukraine.
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Kevin McFoy Dunn @kevinmcfoydunn.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Moon’s cloud-screened eclipse: twinned invisibilities, hidden hiddenness.
Image: an early 18th-c. emblem of the moon in Earth's shadow; accompanied by the Latin lemma ALTERIUS UMBRA (Eng., "In the shadow of another"). From Jacob Bosch's Symbolographia (Augsburg, 1702).
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Kevin McFoy Dunn @kevinmcfoydunn.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
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Kevin McFoy Dunn @kevinmcfoydunn.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I do dearly fancy indulgence in porphyrically-political rhetoricizing, but short and sweet here: Jefferies must needs be removed as House minority leader at the earliest moment possible. Why is he meeting with that inane bladder of vility? Shame!
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Jeffries And Kushner Reportedly Met In Private To Discuss Common Ground
The meeting, first reported by The New York Times, suggests Trump’s allies foresee Democrats retaking the House in the midterm elections.
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Kevin McFoy Dunn @kevinmcfoydunn.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Just found online: myself in Atl. w/Unresponsive in Malibu @ the Wax 'n Facts* 50th anniversary show, Variety Playhouse, 19.vii.26. [Hat bequeathed me by the late Harry DeMille; photo courtesy John Underwood.] ______________________ * And does anybody really know where the apostrophe[s] should go?!
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Kevin McFoy Dunn @kevinmcfoydunn.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
"Describe your musical taste in three artists, no genres[.]" Huh. Okay: Robert Fripp Paula Chateauneuf Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Revox B77 MkIAllegory of Music, Laurent de La Hyre, 1649Harmonium typically used to accompany qawwali performances
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Kevin McFoy Dunn @kevinmcfoydunn.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
ONE NEAT TRICK to calm down normie Dems stroking out over DSA and socialist-adjacent WINNERS! (Dunno if it'll work: in my orbit all are, to use a pithy bit of Cold War opprobriation, comsymps or further à gauche & don't need it.) Try this: Democratic Socialists:Social Democrats :: Soccer:Football
theguardian.com
Abdul El-Sayed offers a template for Democrats to defeat Trumpism | Peter Beinart
The candidate has crafted a progressive nationalism and shown his party how to turn Republicans’ financial advantage against them
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Kevin McFoy Dunn @kevinmcfoydunn.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
That our indispensable pals in the family Formicidae are drawn irresistibly to the electrical field emanating from the AC component known as a contactor has led to the trashing of one such part by the said ants and the reducing of this heat-stupefied writer's think-piece + some woo to just woo. Woo.
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Lúnasa Meltdown!; or, Ants Ate the Contactor
A no-brainer article because no brain
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Kevin McFoy Dunn @kevinmcfoydunn.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Walküretagsgrüße 2026! The electoral demolition of our homegrown fascists begins this November!
Monumental swastika at the Zeppelinfeld in Nürnberg demolished with explosives by occupying Allied troops.
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Kevin McFoy Dunn @kevinmcfoydunn.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
l. always puts me in mind of r. idkw?//?/
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Kevin McFoy Dunn @kevinmcfoydunn.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
C. Nolan's The Odyssey -- I've of course not yet seen it -- is at present the cynosure of all cinema-critical eyes (MAGAt captiousness per imaginary people's haplogroup disregarded). I have form for art about the peregrinatory Ithacan -- see the first video here, for my song "Fails of Grave Ulixes".
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I [Didn't Really] Want My MTV
But here we are; also (for some reason) politics, and prognostication
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Kevin McFoy Dunn @kevinmcfoydunn.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
19 JULY/IN ATLANTA'S LITTLE 5 POINTS/ WAX'S 50th @ the VARIETY PLAYHOUSE/ DEBUTING MY OTHER BAND -- UNRESPONSIVE IN MALIBU -- WITH A MIX OF ITS REPERTORY AND MINE/ OPENING THE SHOW AT 6:30 PM EDT SHARP (18h30 for the Euro-affected)/PLEASE CLAP 🤣
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Kevin McFoy Dunn @kevinmcfoydunn.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
+VÆ·VÆ·VÆ·HABITANTIBVS·IN·TERRA+
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Kevin McFoy Dunn @kevinmcfoydunn.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Who always just links to/reposts content (even the leftmost) and never writes a headnote is not followed back by me. Hobsbawm- or Winstanley-grade prose not looked for; sporadic posting okay(-ish). If only rarely, further the discourse by assembling some of those 300 characters into your own voice.
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Kevin McFoy Dunn @kevinmcfoydunn.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
A bad King Crimson-adjacent joke at House minority leader Jeffries' expense: clueless, the vibe AIPAC. (I SAID it was bad.) So who should be making conciliatory overtures to whom? Seems as if he in this puckeringly snitty pronunciamento has that relation exactly inverted. Get over yourself, Hakeem.
huffpost.com
Sour Jeffries Says Mamdani Has 'Work To Do' After His Candidates Oust House Incumbents
The House minority leader told CNN the mayor is going to have to patch things up with congressional Democrats follow Tuesday's primary upsets.
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Kevin McFoy Dunn @kevinmcfoydunn.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Comes the æstival solstice and so my new Substack yawp, its topic the Very Cool Thing in the hed that some people, some taken by large swaths of press and public as substantial enough to pilot our nat'l gov't through the Strurm und Drang of the 2nd quarter of the 21st c., are pretty exercised about.
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Space Demons!; or, "The Very Sad Light-Years", Recurr'd To
They are soooo close to getting it.
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Kevin McFoy Dunn @kevinmcfoydunn.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Ted Turner's WTCG, UHF broadcast channel 17 in '70's Atlanta, furnished this YA lit major/acid aficionado, in Noo Yawk Art Scene b&w (because our TVs were), with wee-hours visual stimuli of unparalleled weird-/cheesiness, and for that and what CNN once, however imperfect it was, was, I am grateful.
theguardian.com
Ted Turner, CNN founder who reshaped global news, dies aged 87
The death of the media mogul who transformed TV news was confirmed by his family and reported by CNN
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Kevin McFoy Dunn @kevinmcfoydunn.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Beltane, and my new Substack ejaculation (it does mean something else, you know). Some modern häxor fold Hekate, a numen of the liminal, into cross-quarter rituals. Pretty sure the lady of crossroads hates rape, so she'll approve this message. Also: Yijing, asking: when's lunch? And good governance?
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La Calisto
Women (and nymphs) beware women, and men, and deities, and ...
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Kevin McFoy Dunn @kevinmcfoydunn.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
And now yee know what withholdeth, that hee might bee reuealed in his time. For the mysterie of iniquitie doth alreadie worke: onely he who now letteth, will let, vntill he be taken out of the way. ++++++++++++[2 Thessalonians II: 6-7]++++++++++++
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Kevin McFoy Dunn @kevinmcfoydunn.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Humane Nature, emblematis'd & epitomiz'd; or, Aum ah hum, y'all.
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Kevin McFoy Dunn @kevinmcfoydunn.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Ausonius limns Echo; also 90% of our æon's influencers/podcasters: Æris et Linguæ sum filia, mater inanis indicii, vocem quæ sine mente gero. My gender-neutral paraphrase: "Offspring am I of Air and Speech, And parent of vacant yatter, Bringing, whether I coo or screech, No mind unto the matter."
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Kevin McFoy Dunn @kevinmcfoydunn.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Spring's sprung, like a meter out of Hopkins, and many subheds litter my vernal-station Substack's lawn: implicit contempt for usage standards from Epstein and other antisocial plutocrats; how and how not to save "classical" music; George Sandys on "Palestine"; fashy outerwear; and, as ever, Yijing.
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Nuntii & Hinc & Illinc
For Vernal Equinox '26, odds' ends.
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Kevin McFoy Dunn @kevinmcfoydunn.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Inadvertently, bien sûr, peradventure the most mordantly/grimly-hilarious utterance in the history of our gov't's (putatively) official remarks on a war: “The only thing prohibiting transit in the straits [sic] right now is Iran shooting at shipping. It is open for transit, should Iran not do that.”
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Hegseth Claims Strait Of Hormuz 'Is Open' And Doesn't 'Worry' About It
In a particularly unhinged appearance, the former Fox News host said the strait was open but that Iran kept attacking shipping, and there was no need to worry about it.
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Kevin McFoy Dunn @kevinmcfoydunn.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
So here they are in full cry, the neoterick contingent of Fifth Monarchy Roundheads that we were always certain infested the Merkin armed services. Did general and flag officers ever gainsay Trump and his fellow diabolists, frothing NCO sectarians might well instigate a MAGA-XPian mutiny from below.
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Soldier Details Chilling Messaging From Higher-Ups About ‘God’s Plan’ In Iran: ‘It Shocked Many Of Us’
One commander had a “big grin” on his face while saying Donald Trump “has been anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran," a service member said.
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Kevin McFoy Dunn @kevinmcfoydunn.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
The Fans, the Atl. band I was guitarist for in the '70s (and whose live demo for A&M is soon to issued by GA Music Hall of Famer Danny Beard), opened for Talking Heads there in Jan. 1977. Image, next AM: as snow fell, we eyeing the NYT review over coffee in rock scribe Trixie A. Balm's downtown apt.
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‘The bathrooms were rank, but we didn’t care’: how the grimy-but-great CBGB changed rock for ever
Half a century ago, the famed New York venue run by a former marine and folk singer was ground zero for the punk and new wave scenes. Now the bands who played there are being celebrated on a 101-track...
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Kevin McFoy Dunn @kevinmcfoydunn.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
But for invincible pig-ignorance and/or psychosocial/-emotional pathology, the 60% of the US's active white electorate persistingly allegiant to the orange gobbet of fæx would liquefy in shame for their cretinous contempt of the language of Cervantes, Lope, Góngora, Covarrubias Orozco, etc., etc.
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Why has Maga lost its mind over Bad Bunny? | Moustafa Bayoumi
It’s not virtue signaling. It’s vitriol signaling about their own perceived persecution
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Kevin McFoy Dunn @kevinmcfoydunn.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
My Substack hiccup for the wooziest cross-quarter day, St. Brigid's feast — we all bloated yet in mind & metabolism from solstice sybaritism, leerily eyeing Carnival & its Lenten freight — seeks a focus, glances fecklessly off one, fetches up at the sepulture of rationalism personified. Also Yijing.
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The Devil and David Hume; or, the Jerkish Manimals'* Insertion
Some sidelong engagement with the Guillotine and the Fork
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Kevin McFoy Dunn @kevinmcfoydunn.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
In his 1615 travelogue, George Sandys inserts between two pairs of lines of Juvenal on Xerxes ordering 300 lashes be dealt the Hellespont (its waves having wrecked his pontoon bridge across it) the seething expostulation "O the dog-like rage and arrogant folly of Ideots advanced to Empire!" Indeed.
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Kevin McFoy Dunn @kevinmcfoydunn.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Though I've no particular brief for Plato (a colloquy for elsewhen), this tracks. Certes, such action would definitively end the republic, but: WHEN will the military intervene to depose him and arrest the criminals? Extraconstitutionality can in extremis be countered only by extraconstitutionality.
salon.com
Trump is something worse than a fascist
We've been using the wrong word to describe the president and his approach to ruling
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Kevin McFoy Dunn @kevinmcfoydunn.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Winter drifted past at 10h03 ET today, thus necessitating bloviation, whereof I am as constant readers know a past and present master. In this Substack increment: Epstein's two words' worth of the Joycean; a defunct Podhoretz as revenant from 1953; portentously recurring patterns emergent in Yijing.
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"mara lago"
shiv and gun, brast Steve and Adam's ...
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Kevin McFoy Dunn @kevinmcfoydunn.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Mariah Carey has her seasonal thing, I have mine; here, in its sophomore Yule apparition, the latter. Listen/download gratis! NOTE: Per my totally made-up tradition, the track will only be available 13 Dec.-5 Jan. Download it now if you want it for your XPmas-in-July do. Happy excess and license!
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"Bless the Beasts and the Children"/ft. ◦ D ◦ A ◦ N ◦ A ◦, by Kevin Dunn
track by Kevin Dunn
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Kevin McFoy Dunn @kevinmcfoydunn.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
As so often haps with an Andrew O'Hehir piece, this reads to me like my brain contents on the topic transcribed. Quite gratifying that, of all available to rail at, the Epstein implicado he chose to lambast is the one I may hate the most. Now: favor us with a pasquinade on Ken Starr's "Hugs". (HUGS)
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The left was right about Larry Summers all along. Democrats didn't listen - Salon.com
Long before the Epstein scandal, it was clear Summers was a viper. Clinton and Obama simply didn't want to know
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Kevin McFoy Dunn @kevinmcfoydunn.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Liminality, thy name is the ungrasped interim of now (must sound better in the original Tibetan). At this sliver riving All Saints' and All Souls' comes my cross-quarter Substack blurt: Fama's twin sackbuts wind lexicographical alarums, Elno is warned not to abet tyrannic tech, and Yijing is creepy.
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Share/Ruly/Delibate : Pubis/Regular/Sample
Wurdz, shawty.
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Kevin McFoy Dunn @kevinmcfoydunn.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
18.x.2025: No Kings @ 33.90°N 83.38°W (+/-). L., staging at home pre-event; r., at the demo. Democratic action pneumatic in both theological and mechanical senses!
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Kevin McFoy Dunn @kevinmcfoydunn.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Sol breaching the wafty brane twixt Virgin and Scales, I call to witness respecting Libra, from Marston's Iacke Drums Entertainment (1601), the (possible) Shakespeare-avatar Planet: " ... like a paire of Ballance,/Thou wayest all sauing thy selfe." Out now & free to read: my Fall Equinox Substack.
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The Death of Princes
The heavens themselves blaze them forth, you know
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Kevin McFoy Dunn @kevinmcfoydunn.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Found while researching vaiśyas ("Gammas" in Huxley) for a projected essay on Adam Smith's view that they, de- not prescriptively understood and in any culture, should never dominate government. Contested planetwide: originalisms affecting whether fraternity or cruelty will be repressed groups' lot.
roundtableindia.co.in
Vaishya vs. Vaishya
Bobby Kunhu Since Amit Shah exclaimed on June 9th at Raipur, "Aur isi liye Mahatma Gandhi ne durandesi ke saath, bahut chatur baniya tha woh, usko maloom tha aage kya hone waala hai, usne azadi ke baa...
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Kevin McFoy Dunn @kevinmcfoydunn.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Reprobating capital punishment, I no more want the legion MAGA scelerati executed after the trials and guilty verdicts than I do anybody else. But, for this alone, I DO want them under the jail, and by "jail" I mean a Supermax, and by "under" I mean beneath the subbasement. And in solitary. Forever.
huffpost.com
This Is The Slavery Photo The Trump Administration Doesn't Want You To See
One history professor warned that the administration's moves show an "enormous increase in federal power and control."
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Kevin McFoy Dunn @kevinmcfoydunn.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
I've observed from an intimate vantage the corrosion that the Calle Ocho Revanchistas' acid efflux can work in even the most liberal (in a Plutarchan sense) nature, even one yoked to a luminous intellect. So this deracinated cipher could never have been anything but wet for some substitute Batista.
wonkette.com
Should Marco Rubio Get To Seize Your Passport For Donating To Democrats, Other Terrorist Organizations?
Boy, we're all so hysterical, right?
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Kevin McFoy Dunn @kevinmcfoydunn.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
I'm sorry Charlie Kirk's dead to the extent that I wanted him, along with the other masters and movers of MAGA misrule, alive to face trial if the fascists are swept away. (Fat chance of that: of the 70% of the electorate not aligned with ethnonationalist-falangist memelords, over half don't vote.)
thecanary.co
Charlie Kirk suspect is a gun-loving Trump supporter
From what we know so far, the suspect seems to be part of the 'groyper' movement of far-right online agitators
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Kevin McFoy Dunn @kevinmcfoydunn.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
birth schoolwork* work work work work work work work work work work work work work work work work work work work work work work work work work work work work work work retirement* sickness death _____________________________ * Nature and duration subject to arbitrary class/gender/race factors.
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Labo[u]r's Love's Lost
Hell, yeah, nobody wants to work. Also: the clouded joys of accurate scrying.
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Kevin McFoy Dunn @kevinmcfoydunn.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Now our definitive Horst Wessel. MAGA's vexillosexual version of the Blutfahne ceremony manifests in Trump's occasional lubricious flag-grind, so check that off your Fascism Bingo card. Luckily, they so far trip over their own braindead decadence whenever they try to gin up a Reichstag fire. So far.
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Jan. 6 Rioter Ashli Babbitt Was Killed Storming The Capitol. She Will Now Receive Military Funeral Honors.
The Babbitt family also received a settlement of $5 million earlier this year.
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Kevin McFoy Dunn @kevinmcfoydunn.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
@jimmy-jim-james.bsky.social : #6 « — mon semblable, — mon frère! » AMIRITE? Cheers!
theguardian.com
The strangest David Lynch facts – ranked!
Ahead of a new biography of the late director (whose favourite number was seven), we rundown some of the most offbeat things about this most mysterious modern genius
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Kevin McFoy Dunn @kevinmcfoydunn.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
My Lúnasa '25 Substack increment goes on and on about capitalism, the conceit monachic. Private substance is A thing, likewise deploying it in capitalization of commercial enterprises; «il est interdit d'interdire» and all that. But framing that ensemble as THE thing? «Non.» (Also: fortunetelling!)
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Mad Monks v. Queen Money
Get 'em on the job before the Gulf Stream's gone, k?
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Kevin McFoy Dunn @kevinmcfoydunn.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Walküretagsgrüße!
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Jimmy Jim James @jimmy-jim-james.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
This is our most esteemed symbol of gratitude. It is being awarded to @kevinmcfoydunn.bsky.social for bravery, for smartness and sexy efforts to advance our silly cause ! The efforts of Kevin will be recorded in the archives forever or until they unplug Bluesky.app
in the throne room with Kev Mc F [ALL] Dunn
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Kevin McFoy Dunn @kevinmcfoydunn.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Git 'im, Whoopi. While you're at it, give Hakeem Jeffries some wholly-warranted grief for being a snitty priss about Zohran Mamdani. Y'know, I'm just as sorry as can be that the neoliberalism-infected Dem leadership is so fucking butthurt about burgeoning social-democratic trends in the party. Not.
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Whoopi Goldberg Isn’t Here for Obama’s Swipe at Democrats — And She Lets Him Hear It
The co-host of “The View” had pointed words for the former president.
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Kevin McFoy Dunn @kevinmcfoydunn.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Come now and let us reason together: Ghislaine Maxwell was immured for helping scratch the ephebophilic itch of moneyed XYs (maybe XXs too?) whose names would have appeared on the putatively nonexistent Epstein list. If really guilty, she IS the list. Wonder how many towels are stored near her cell.
salon.com
Why House Republicans voted for the Epstein cover-up
Republican leaders support Trump's efforts to hide the truth. How much of the MAGA base will follow suit?
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