Ann Getty

Ann Getty

@anngetty.bsky.social

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Librarian (retired), Mets fan, TFF enjoyer, insufferable wench (sometimes). Tá cúpla focal Gaeilge agam.

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Welp, lunchtime is over now! 🤢

Maybe the fanciest medieval eel recipe was the French "reversed eel." How do you make it? Well... First, you skin & debone the eel. Then, sew it back together inside out, stuffed with bread crumbs, meats & spices. Then, cook it in red wine. Kind of a super-fancy eel hot pocket! 🗃️🧪

Oopsie, it was Jon Stewart, not Stephen Colbert, who said it. But they’re practically the same person, right? (Thanks to @missmoonlight.bsky.social) for pointing out the error in a nice way.)

Stephen Colbert, from one of his monologues earlier this week: JD Vance looks like the actor hired to play Don Jr. in a Trump biopic.

😂😂🤣

Eric Trump always looks like someone dipped an accountant in Vaseline

Stephen Colbert, from one of his monologues earlier this week: JD Vance looks like the actor hired to play Don Jr. in a Trump biopic.

Sitting next to Eric and Don Jr., JD Vance looks like a new child actor they added to a show when the older kids hit puberty.

This would probably be very effective.

The Democrats should just slice out random minutes from this speech and run them as their own ads, with the tag line "Do you really want to listen to this shit every single day for four more years?"

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Something to keep in mind as takes on that speech emerge: Media covers Biden as a human being. It covers Trump like the weather. For one there is endless assessment of frailty, pride, capability, limitations. For the other there is nothing to say but “Wow, that was quite a storm.”

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This really is quite remarkable. Even Palin seems to have gotten the cold shoulder!

The pre-Trump GOP has been memory-holed

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Psst: Project 2025 is terrifying for a lot of reasons but also because on page 5 it calls for teachers and librarians who grant access to books that are maligned as pornography (which just means anything LGBTQ) to be registered as sex offenders. Pass it on.

A bit of sanity in the midst of all the crazy. If you’re not signed up for the good professor’s Substack, you need to fix that.

Some thoughts on the frenetic firehose that is the 2024 presidential race at CAMPAIGN TRAILS. open.substack.com/pub/kevinmkr...

Conventional Wisdomopen.substack.com I’m on the road this week, taking my daughter to visit some colleges, but given this week’s insane flurry of activity in the presidential campaign, I’ll try to post when I can. First and foremost, let...

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This should be the first question every reporter asks Vance

Pray tell why Donald Trump isn't using the VP he had when he was in office...

Oh, this isn’t disturbing at all…

More from WIRED: Armed militias in the US are using Facebook to recruit in the wake of the weekend's events, despite Meta claiming to ban this activity. Meta did not respond to a request for comment.

Militias Are Recruiting Off of the Trump Shootingwww.wired.com “You can sit and enjoy the show,” wrote the leader of a Kentucky militia. “Or you can join it. There will come a time, you will have no choice!”

I concur, with a very disgruntled Jesus Heckin’ Roosevelt Christ.

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It was so popular that they actually renamed the original The End of History: A New Hope and put out several sequels that continue the story of history

Why’s that, Francis? Did something happen?

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The Parable of the Sowing

just watched a presser with Milwaukee cops explaining that Wisconsin is an open carry state so they can't do anything about it if somebody's walking around the soft perimeter with an AR

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Hey wow as someone with a stutter y’all are not kind At all Do you know what happens when you have the kind of stutter where you swap words? Your brain makes an association in a split second and you go “no, not that”, especially when nervous, and it just blorts out of your mouth.

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pretty strong chyron

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New from the New York Times Editorial Board: Donald Trump is unfit to lead (gift link)

Opinion | Donald Trump Is Unfit to Leadwww.nytimes.com He failed the tests of leadership and betrayed America. Voters must stand up to him in November.

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the editor of the New York Times reacting to a potential Trump second term with “fasten your seatbelts” is so deeply vile i can’t wrap my mind around it. these people have detached themselves so completely from the things they cover that the rise of fascism becomes just something exciting to watch

I'm no ivy league fail upward brunchlord news professional, but I feel it's generous to call conspiratorial fascism (managed by a sociopathic manbaby with a fourth grade reading level) "disruptive" that's kind of like saying nuclear annihilation is "modifying"

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He against whom you fight, if he prevail, Will straight inthrone himself in tyranny, Makes slaves of you, and with a heavy hand Curtail and curb your sweetest liberty.

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OMG.

Today’s weather report:

Hot, hot, and moist.

This is a real lesson in “don’t vote for the right just because you don’t like what the left is doing.” If they tell you they’re going to do awful things, believe them.

I know the latest NZ election outcome was less than good, but jesus.

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I’ve never in my life been more on an animal’s side

Important penguin news

God’s sakes, yes. In addition to being a convicted felon, a traitor, and just plain evil, he can’t handle the job. He was a shitty president the first time around, he’ll be even worse the second time around.

"Executive Time" fell out of the coverage of Donald Trump in the most incredible way. Nobody writing about his quest to become president again ever mentions the fact that he hated the job when he had it and he couldn't and wouldn't really do it!

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I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:

Oh yeah, this. Why is the American media devoting so much energy to kicking Biden to the curb when the other candidate is a demented criminal and A FUCKING TRAITOR who should spend the rest of his miserable existence in prison?

This is really good. Rebecca Solnit. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Why is the pundit class so desperate to push Biden out of the race? | Rebecca Solnitwww.theguardian.com Yes, Biden had a bad debate – but so did Trump. The media is once again repeating the mistakes of 2016

He should start referring to his presumptive opponent as “that feckin’ eejit.”

BREAKING: Aides report that Biden is increasingly showing signs of Irishness

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The increasingly brazen endorsement of political violence by the GOP is a tremendously dangerous development that warrants high-profile media coverage.

NEWS --> Mark Robinson, the MAGA extremist GOP nominee for governor in North Carolina, appeared to endorse political violence against unnamed foes in a recent speech. "Some folks need killing!" he shouted. "It's a matter of necessity!" Video and story here: newrepublic.com/article/1834...

MAGA Gov Candidate’s Ugly, Hateful Rant: “Some Folks Need Killing!”newrepublic.com Mark Robinson, the GOP nominee for governor in North Carolina, has a long history of incendiary comments. But he may have topped himself this time.

Oh THAT’S why their necks are so long.

can we PLEASE take a moment to talk about how giraffes use their own butts as pillows when they sleep