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dmenthe.bsky.social
Sausage-maker, father of two, last guardian of the English subjunctive.
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After MAGA, we can't just restore the old constitutional order. We need will need a new birth of freedom.

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Kershaw Day!!

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Dodgers snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Yeesh.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Your reminder that there is nothing "moderate" about the view that women cannot be leaders and that being gay is "fundamentally disordered."

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Trying to imagine if Trump told America, "Maybe you don't need 30 guns, maybe 2 guns."

submitted 30 days ago • 49 comments

One of the leading contenders for pope is an Italian with the last name of Pizzaballa.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Women are fit to preach the gospel. LGBT people are made in the image of God. I'm waiting.

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

I do not know how I can forgive those who voted for a man who sent a mob into the people's Capitol building in an effort to illegally remain in power.

submitted 57 days ago • 1 comment

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

submitted 70 days ago • 1904 comments

I stumbled on a FB post with people talking casually about how food items on a plate must be separated, not touching because eww. Grownups should be past this phase.

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

A propos of nothing, this is a cyrllic smartphone keyboard.

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

Circling back on this…

submitted 72 days ago • 2003 comments

Baffled by people who wear sunglasses inside.

submitted 73 days ago • 1 comment

Trump is a con man. People who voted for him got conned. The problem is that most people who get conned like this will do anything to pretend it isn't true.

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

For those of us who grew up in the Reagan 80s, when the spectres of Stalin, Mao & Castro were invoked as terms of harshest condemnation by the GOP, it is almost unimaginably disorienting to find ourselves in a right-wing dystopia led by people who apparently view Stalin, Mao & Castro as role models.

submitted 74 days ago • 16 comments

Careful.

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

I don't express often enough how much I enjoy buttermilk.

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

Opinion | My entire career is based on pretending to be from Appalachia. Here’s why we must end DEI.

submitted 82 days ago • 27 comments

Almost two months into the Trump nightmare and the Dems in DC don't have a plan to do anything except send me fundraising emails. Figure it out, people. You knew this budget vote was coming and your strategy was to hope the GOP blew itself up again? Pick the battle and win.

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

So it turns out that I probably shouldn't try eating Indian lime pickle out of the jar.

submitted 87 days ago • 1 comment