Benjamin Dreyer

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abstruse in the sense of recondite

author of the New York Times/IndieBound bestseller Dreyer's English and Stet! (the game!) • America's Copy Editor® • retired Random House copy chief • he/him/his

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These chodes can't even work a semicolon.

They’re already doing the birtherism again. Lol

If you'll excuse me, I'm making a list of people here in whose homes I will never eat anything except directly out of its packaging.

*extreme Dame Edith Evans voice* Then it would be perhaps wiser neither to be a child nor to have one.

it’s for when kids are sick. they don’t always have enough warning from their bodies before stuff starts coming out. or adults, when they are too sick to get out of bed and to the bathroom in time. since most people don’t have a chamber pot, a large bowl serves this purpose.

The Bates Motel is only fifteen miles from Fairvale, and it stops raining almost as soon as Marion checks in.

“Twelve cabins, twelve vacancies.” It’s such a good script.

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Sometimes my scroll gets it right.

I'd rather have a blatz primary.

“Twelve cabins, twelve vacancies.” It’s such a good script.

a little Psycho revisit in honor of the birthday girl 1. The opening music is always much faster than I remember. 2. She's billed as Pat, not Patricia. 3. We need to make December 11 a national holiday like June 27. 4. "Are you unhappy?" "Not inordinately." 🔥

Happy Pat Hitchcock's birthday!

Apropos of absolutely nothing, I think that the weird break in Compromise is hilarious.

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Yet again, we see the loudest yelps of “1776 BAYBEE!!!” from Christian Patriots who don’t know the first fucking thing about the history of the country over which they claim to have exclusive ownership. 2 out of 8 ain’t bad, I guess.

In June Truman's secretary of state...

@bcdreyer.bsky.social Thank you for sustaining me while I was editing my book, #AmericasColdWarrior! (Out 7/15) www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501... (Btw, in no month of June did a secretary of state during the Truman administration fly to Moscow.) history.state.gov/departmenthi...

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Any Democrat in these states who doesn’t lean on this hard shouldn’t be in office. It’s a gift.

The opting out is especially wild Like, Republican governors are being actively presented with money to feed kids and affirmatively saying 'I would like children to starve actually' (Also, if I'm a Dem campaigner, I'm making some ads and placing some op eds about this immediately)

on the one hand, sure, engage in all the yesbutting you like otoh, don't do it in my mentions

*in numbers not seen in decades*

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So voting is better than *not* voting when it comes to getting what you want? Huh.

Cue Eileen Brennan and Peter Falk launching into “Deep Purple.”

Taking political inspiration from the French. Ye gods and little fishes.

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She looks very low. A sort of sub-Marine

Here's some fashy tears for your Sunday.

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Away with her, And pen her up.

*in numbers not seen in decades*

BREAKING NEWS: Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which instead came in third in initial results as polling stations closed.

Projections in France's election show voters rejecting the far rightwww.npr.org Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which ...

*puts on eyeglasses* Oh, *crop*!

Donald Trump’s increasingly theatrical process of choosing a running mate has fostered a new crop of rising stars inside the Republican party.

In Choosing a V.P., Trump Is Elevating the Next Generation of Republicanswww.nytimes.com The process of choosing a running mate has created a new roster of rising Republicans with the potential to lead the ticket in 2028.

TFW you’re seeking a fascist running mate who’s both complementary and complimentary

Donald Trump’s increasingly theatrical process of choosing a running mate has fostered a new crop of rising stars inside the Republican party.

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What news from France?

you can’t fill an oubliette without busting a few yeggs post skeet

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yes, and...?

good for the frenchies

One day I'll be able to remember the difference between lèse-majesté and noblesse oblige without hesitation (or looking them up), but today is not that day.

napping dog

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My thoughts and wishes bend again toward France

"Alonzo, every telephone call isn't for you."

I can only explain this so many times. See if you can get a small child to walk you through it. Or — here’s a radical idea — shrug at a joke you don’t get and carry the fuck on with your life. The rest of us do it all the time. It’s pretty easy