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Agnostic, scholar & gentleman, language fiend. Tao / Stoicism Formerly catholic, quasihindu, paralegal, overgrown teenager, Constitutional law fan Favorite Movies - […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ mas.to/@RevPudDudley, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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RevPudDudley @revpuddudley.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 4h

"Experiencing a certain blankness" is what I considered saying; thought of this. It's sad, what happens to the rat. #Stories #Literature www.classicshorts.com/stories/door.…

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The Door--E. B. White (1899-1985)

This Web site is dedicated to the wonderful world of the short story and to all who enjoy reading shorts stories as I do. I will try to add a few short stories every month.

RevPudDudley @revpuddudley.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Oh darn it, mysterious incidence of plague, at the plague lab, in Russia [where else?] I'm thinking of a town in China, with two virology labs both working with bat viruses -- what? and a wet market -- what are you fussing about ? Maybe everything in life is just coincidence or some clever […]

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RevPudDudley @revpuddudley.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

If you rigorously embargoed news, or you were blessedly beyond the reach of it for the weekend, you missed: 1. the unPresident's goons terrorized his schools [we knew that in 2016] to *bury academic records for good reason*: IQ of 73, the poor man 2 after burbling 2 min. about aspirin he […]

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RevPudDudley @revpuddudley.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

To say that it's all really tiresome is giving too much credit somehow

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RevPudDudley @revpuddudley.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

America.gov ? I haven't even got the broad outlines. Just feels like they clearly needed to do it in an awful hurry. It's something like when you heard a V-1 up above, then heard the engine cut out [no, did not experience that myself] #Fascism #Resist

RevPudDudley @revpuddudley.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Am Public Radio's "Marketplace" If the Dow is off only 150 points, they don't play 'Stormy Weather" anymore, because 150's not a big move anymore mm-hmm, why worry, it's fine Down 258 at the moment

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RevPudDudley @revpuddudley.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

Senility Poster-Boy offered to sell arms to China ? [once again, quite illegal ? Textbook treason?] Special exemption, it's good for business... Were we selling to both sides, early part of WW I ? & now our marvelous F-35 technology is just kind of out there. I begin to wonder when America was […]

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RevPudDudley @revpuddudley.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

"A Distant Mirror" was very good -- about similarities of our era to the 14th century -- just partly about an aristo who died on a crusade [Forever wars?]... #Books

RevPudDudley @revpuddudley.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

in Fuss-Budget News -- today on front page of NYT Arts section, the words "shined a light" appeared. An error I would be disappointed for AI to commit. "Shone" ! and -- I know you've been wondering -- the present tense of "wrought" is "wreak" (Robert Benchley addressed that about 100 years ago)

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RevPudDudley @revpuddudley.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

Have you ever happened upon FOX Weather? — all these testosteroni guys with high & tight haircuts — but they do talk sophisticated meteorology, in their tightly-wound manner — weather going apeshit all over the US every day, “never seen anything like this” — but never, never referring in any way […]

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RevPudDudley @revpuddudley.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

Take a story mostly contrived years later, turn it into a worldwide force for genocide, physical & mental slavery, wasting human lives in every possible way, and … well, anyway: [per a story about new art exhibition] The Vatican in 1969 made it clear ! Mary Magdalen […] [Original post on mas.to]

"Penitent Magdalene" by Georges de la Tour, not doing much to reinforce my point

RevPudDudley @revpuddudley.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Postulate a President who says, "I will not take AF-1, two 8000-lb Cadillacs, dozens or hundreds of SS vehicles to any college football games, golfing or wrestling whatsoever, nor appearing for politicians competing for a 2-year seat (whether US House or City Council), on the US gov't's credit […]

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RevPudDudley @revpuddudley.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

"It's awful, Madam First Lady, but things can get a great deal worse"

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RevPudDudley @revpuddudley.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

RE: flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/117326… I hope it goes down just like that. Shall we be missing anything ? More than once, Trump talked for hours with his ass-master Putin, in private, destrroyed the translators' notes... Why worry ?

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RevPudDudley @revpuddudley.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

(A few) WORDS FOR TODAY You’ve seen dysfunctional, you wonder if this is dystopia— How about dysPresident ? we’ve had unPresident (TM), how about anti-President, like something in physics ? (Notice that we do not say “The gang-leader ‘presides’ over his murderers […] [Original post on mas.to]

"Fake or no fake". Drumpf in clown makeup

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RevPudDudley @revpuddudley.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

No WH press pool cameras at the UN today? Chants of "Fuck Trump!" in all different languages will be unreported? Imagine in 1945, or rather, they never imagined, that one day they could regret locating the UN in NYC. It's been a great location for parking spies from […] [Original post on mas.to]

Photo of UN Headquarters, NYC

RevPudDudley @revpuddudley.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

RE: beige.party/@Lana/117305584584312129 Waiting for some real asshole announcements this afternoon, but what ?

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RevPudDudley @revpuddudley.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

This is really too good: top-grade military installation cleverly concealed in trump Arch ? and I thought, "OK with steel walls it will be not as easily torn down" BUT: packed with drones, snipers, lg amount of sniper ammo ! he says Secret basements for special handling of detainees too, I […]

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RevPudDudley @revpuddudley.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

If this was a movie, we'd say the writers are really overdoing it, uniquely ominous confluence of hackers in our systems, AI going wild, climate crazy nutso, evil ass-clown in the White House, Fascists anxious about the election; what next, Ebola? --and September-October traditionaly good […]

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RevPudDudley @revpuddudley.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

"I wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then" -- Bob Seeger Too much information ! but not what we need. What world-shattering matter is in Epstein files that other nations' last enforcement can't see ? What recourse ? [that's another good one] How is the diaper bag (even the disper […]

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RevPudDudley @revpuddudley.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

Are you guilty of the 'ad hominem' argument ? "Don't listen to this half-a-man, he lies for fun, for no rational reason, rat-fucks everyone, bankrupted casinos, can't do enough for the forces of evil..." But no, that doesn't address the value of his ideas. Rather […] [Original post on mas.to]

"left blank to suppress photo of odious individual"

RevPudDudley @revpuddudley.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

Remember the horror of it - 2016 RNC?- coming onstage out of lit-up chemical fog ... and now-- Beginning of the End: like in a nightmare, “Raise your right hand …” and after five seconds, obviously impossible to repeat after him, THEY ALL LOWER THEIR HANDS, he loses the thread of the sentence […]

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RevPudDudley @revpuddudley.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

RE: mas.to/@RevPudDudley/11723866536744… NEVER FORGET what Saudia Arabia did to make 9-11 possible

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RevPudDudley @revpuddudley.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

Let's suppose that Roy Cohn cared about America, being harmed by traitors, Communists ... How would he feel if his disciple Drumpf has been dancing to Putin's tune all these years ? Can't worry about him. It is for us, the living, to be ready for the Gotterdammerung […] [Original post on mas.to]

photo of Roy Cohn with Sen. Jos. McCarthy

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RevPudDudley @revpuddudley.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

If I sent my daughter to school, as a good Iranian dad should do, and she got crushed, incinerated by the whims of the unPresident -- well, I'd never have to think about another thing, only that, until I make someone very sorry How many Iranians feel that way now, who had no particular […]

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RevPudDudley @revpuddudley.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

$5,000 per adult? Add that to the indictment, Joe ! If a few thousand $ would even register with you, then you remember a couple such promises that were utter horseshit. If $5,000 is derisory to you, coffee-money, it would be a shocking waste of money the gov't has to borrow, no ? On the same […]

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RevPudDudley @revpuddudley.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

We were reminded this week that REAGAN SECRETLY promised MISSILES to IRAN, if they would retain our hostages thru the 1980 election. Reagan's election: we went to bed for our Long National Nightmare (stench of Nixon not even gone yet). Wouldn't it be a hoot if Iran should say now, "We can get […]

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2 Spoopy 4 You @jcrabapple.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

If you see ads pointing you to votesafe.org to check your voter registration, read this first. VoteSafe is run by America PAC, Elon Musk's super PAC. It is not a government site. Its own footer says "Paid for by America PAC." It also doesn't register anyone. The flow ends by telling you to […]

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RevPudDudley @revpuddudley.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

that moment when you open the container to feed some worms to the lizard, and just for an instant they know, "Well, so this is what it was all for" #EternalRest

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RevPudDudley @revpuddudley.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

Compare Drumpf’s mental health with Hitler’s (a much younger man, at that) He would never have talked nonsense like gas price going to $2-3 a gallon As for cocktails of strange new drugs, who knows? Also, the wonder-weapons are coming! #GROFAZ #DerDicke

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RevPudDudley @revpuddudley.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

"LIV Golf has filed for bankruptcy protection as it attempts to restructure after Saudi Arabia withdrew its multibillion dollar funding..." I want to laugh, but really fantastic amounts of money must have been vaporized along the way the Fat Man got his, most likely

RevPudDudley @revpuddudley.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

RE: mas.to/@carnage4life/11706315994471… to say nothing of Twatter, and the proliferating satellites falling on us ...

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RevPudDudley @revpuddudley.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

NBC News: Tesla says first responders may need to push new Cybercab with no steering wheel Tesla’s emergency guidance tells first responders the robotaxi “can be quickly pushed” to clear a lane but warns that doing it incorrectly risks electric shock and overheating the motor. ************** […]

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RevPudDudley @revpuddudley.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

RE: mastodon.world/@paninid/11723131286… MIDTERM ELECTION, 1986: this shit came out over the summer. We began to hear that poor old Reagan was out to lunch, had been for years. I thought, "That's it for the GOP" But America said "Duh", went back to sleep. Just like in 1972. What […]

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RevPudDudley @revpuddudley.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

Strange resonances: Nepal disaster affects pilgrims to Mt Kailas? The home of Lord Shiva, my favorite god when I still had one. The Destroyer of Illusion, he does his dance of immolation when the cycle of Time runs out. One hands gestures, "Do not be afraid" Death […] [Original post on mas.to]

well-known idol of Shiva Nataraja

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RevPudDudley @revpuddudley.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

Man Who Would Have Been King: [take your mind off of things] Victoria's grandson Albert Victor (d. 1892), inside the Family, was called Uncle Eddie Collar-and-Cuffs, because just his accoutrements suggested that he was insane, among many interesting quirks. Also considered a possible for Jack […]

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RevPudDudley @revpuddudley.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

New uniforms for Space Force, in fascist chic ? I especially wonder about the high black boots. You expect them to be in climate -controlled environments, not goose-stepping, not climbing over bodies in execution pits or something. And, we own the Moon -- all mankind does ? Maybe that's what […]

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RevPudDudley @revpuddudley.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

"Renowned bible-thumping pinhead Amb. Huckabee: "I've been very clear in public statements that when someone takes over another person's home, if there are squatters that put up their own flags and take possession of something that does not belong to them ... that's a criminal act." Wow this […]

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RevPudDudley @revpuddudley.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

Sen Bernie Sanders is fire-breathing enough for me, long may he run "When Congress reconvenes" he says, good god when will that be? He means to introduce a bill to pause advancedd AI development, because it is indeed forming into 1 sinister force. You will concede, I think, that it's moving […]

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RevPudDudley @revpuddudley.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

As we hear Niagara Falls getting closer --from the deathless B Kliban:

"Lil pulls Bill's Bull 'Pal's' tail". Two persons outside the fence watching, expressionless

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RevPudDudley @revpuddudley.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

mas.to/@RevPudDudley/11132801501599…

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RevPudDudley @revpuddudley.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

One is willing to recognize a glimmer of hope -- Gov't shutdown fight is deferred to December, post-election. THUS, Congress members who lose their seats in November can do what's right for the Nation, rather than self-interest *Assuming* no tanks in the streets, 24-hour curfew enforced by robot […]

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RevPudDudley @revpuddudley.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

ICE will be at polling places *only* in specific scenarios ? Markwayne Mullin, Minister fur Heimatschutz, sagt. If threats were made, you see: Speaking to reporters in New York, Mullin said: "ICE isn't there to patrol the polling places. We're there to enforce specific threats." People who […]

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RevPudDudley @revpuddudley.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

What is better than being wealthy? When you can always hear 235 episodes of "The Gargle" with Alice Fraser ! Podcast ! Not-entirely current events ! Almost no politics ! Guest comics from all over ! What more do you want? You could listen to 365+ episodes of The Last Post. You can't thank me […]

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RevPudDudley @revpuddudley.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

RE: mas.corq.co/@rogue_corq/11719398416… The cool kids, having a laugh about trump. Left out K-Y, K-J, what's-his-name, from DPRK

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RevPudDudley @revpuddudley.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

When we first heard of the Beatles, it was *possible* to be taxed 91% by IRS . 1981-82 it went from 69 to 50%. Lowest, 28% in 1988. Presently, 37% if you don't deploy your army of tax lawyers et al. "Reagan wasn't so bad" we are told. But you can see how some of the worst people have been […]

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RevPudDudley @revpuddudley.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@xs4me2/11716928363… Wouldn't this be a beautiful moment to admit Americans seeking asylum ?

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RevPudDudley @revpuddudley.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 26/07/2026

What does Netanyahu have in common with Drumpf & Putin ? 1 Widely viewed as war criminal 2 If ever out of power, will shortly be in prison, or dead body dragged thru the streets 3 Has nuclear weapons

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RevPudDudley @revpuddudley.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

Suppose for a moment that Russia/DPRK/China/Iran started screwing around in all our systems JUST for 1 afternoon: water, power, nuclear, comms, internet etc etc. because, let's say, the Unutterable Asshole said something insufferable yet again. [and suddenly, without a cute name, big press […]

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RevPudDudley @revpuddudley.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

Over 150 tweets (?) on Jan. 6 Sounds like ? not the Porkster, he was "busy". It was the Harpster, that sad soul. Oh and was it she who came up with the Obamas-primate-image? You have here two people not enjoying good mental health who shouldn't be allowed in the White House even on a tour. If I […]

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