jkavanagh
@jkavanagh
Editor at New York magazine and Condé Nast in a previous life. Also at Shakespeare on Politics on that other platform and
“That was the mystery and tragedy of war: that one man should have the right to send another to his death.”
Happy birthday, George Orwell (born in 1903), here foretelling Trump’s MAGA cult:
“The old popes were keen on music, on art and statues and pictures of all kinds... Healthy too chanting, regular hours, then brew liqueurs. Benedictine. Green Chartreuse. Still, having eunuchs in their choir that was coming it a bit thick.” Happy Bloomsday!
“One of the most astonishing human traits that came to light at this time [Holocaust] was obedience…The extreme violence of totalitarian social systems proved able to paralyze the human spirit…”
Thank you, antifa, the Greatest Generation, including those courageous soldiers who died on this day in 1944. You know, the heroes Trump called “suckers” and “losers.”
Toady Blanche with Trump in the Oval Office. “See, he’s not sleeping. His eyes are open.”
“I’ve seen many bad people here, people who are greedy, dishonest, capable even of betrayal. We’ve got one terrible man, Epstein, who came here from some little town…” (You thought this was a description of Trump and his complicit party and MAGA base, didn’t you?)
The Empire State Building lit up in Columbia blue for today’s commencement. It’s called commencement because it marks the beginning of one’s education.
@nytpitchbot.bsky.social Hard to tell the real headlines from the satirical headlines
The subversion of the once-staunch Department of Justice by Trump and the craven, unprincipled sycophants in his party
“Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee calls back the lovely April of her prime.”
Happy Mother's Day! "I am a mother and my strength cannot be increased; I am a mother and my love cannot be added to." “The Crock of Gold," by James Stephens
“What should a man do but be merry? For look you how cheerfully my mother looks...” “O wonderful son, that can so ‘stonish a mother!” Happy Mother’s Day!
This is a parody, right? Trump toady celebrating Trump as first amendment championsl. It doesn’t take a mentalist to read the room: Ho hum. Another fake assassination attempt to portray Trump as victim.
“Care keeps his watch in every old man’s eye, and where care lodges, sleep will never lie; but where unbruised youth with unstuff'd brain doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign.” “Romeo and Juliet” Happy birthday, Shakespeare.
There is not one noble, courageous Hector in the entire GOP to say “No” to Trump
As France fears bankruptcy after Louis XIV’s disastrous wars, a revolutionary fervor grips the country. A plot is hatched wherein the king will be snatched, whisked away to prison, and secretly switch places with the titular figure in the novel. Has anyone in our state department suggested this?
During the course of an interview years ago, I asked the journalist David Halberstam if he had a pet peeve. He said this:
Question for the sanctimonious, photo-op-loving hypocrite Mike Lawler: Any comment on your beloved Trump’s vile reaction to the death of Robert Mueller?