Eclectic Zeal
@eclecticzeal.bsky.social
A progressive living in Oregon. Supporter of keeping democracy. Interests: natural and Earth sciences, space, history, classic films, and film noir.
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this is so unimaginably fucked
October 27, 2025 at 4:20 AM
this is so unimaginably fucked
"The East Wing had known wartime and peacetime, tragedy and grace. It welcomed diplomats and astronauts, athletes and scholars. That corridor remembers the comfort of a First Lady's hand on a Gold Star mother's sleeve."
The East Wing Obscenity
This piece is on the free side of the paywall, and I have to admit that writing it made me more sad than I could have imagined. The ugly destruction isn’t just to a building, but to memory, history, and American grace.
open.substack.com/pub/therickw...
This piece is on the free side of the paywall, and I have to admit that writing it made me more sad than I could have imagined. The ugly destruction isn’t just to a building, but to memory, history, and American grace.
open.substack.com/pub/therickw...
The East Wing Obscenity
Trump's Ballroom Is a Tumor On The People's House
open.substack.com
October 25, 2025 at 3:46 PM
"The East Wing had known wartime and peacetime, tragedy and grace. It welcomed diplomats and astronauts, athletes and scholars. That corridor remembers the comfort of a First Lady's hand on a Gold Star mother's sleeve."
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October 25, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Get Jake Tapper on it ASAP.
"On Thursday morning, Trump signed one of his most scandalous pardons to date.
On Thursday afternoon, he couldn’t explain his actions from hours earlier..."
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
On Thursday afternoon, he couldn’t explain his actions from hours earlier..."
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
President Bystander stumped when asked about pardon he signed hours earlier
On Thursday morning, Trump signed one of his most scandalous pardons to date. On Thursday afternoon, he couldn’t explain his actions from hours earlier.
www.msnbc.com
October 24, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Get Jake Tapper on it ASAP.
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Donald Trump’s father destroyed Steeplechase Park, the iconic amusement palace of Coney Island. Before demolition, he hosted a party for his rich fuck friends where bikini clad waitresses gave them bricks to throw through Steeplechase’s famous stained glass windows
Donald Trump knocked down the White House East Wing without notice and before approvals —a developer move known as ‘anticipatory demolition,’ where you tear down a building before the preservationists can intervene. His dad did it too.
Trump Used His Dad’s Dirtiest Move on the East Wing
Donald Trump knocked down the White House East Wing without notice and before approvals —a developer move known as ‘anticipatory demolition,’ where you tear down a building before the preservationists can intervene. His dad did it too.
www.curbed.com
October 23, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Donald Trump’s father destroyed Steeplechase Park, the iconic amusement palace of Coney Island. Before demolition, he hosted a party for his rich fuck friends where bikini clad waitresses gave them bricks to throw through Steeplechase’s famous stained glass windows
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How getting the peace prize and getting into Heaven is working out:
Trump: "I don't think we're necessarily going to ask for a declaration of war, I think we're just gonna kill people that are bringing drugs into our country. We're going to kill them. They're going to be, like dead."
October 23, 2025 at 8:43 PM
How getting the peace prize and getting into Heaven is working out:
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Picture of the East Wing demolition of the White House taken on my flight out of DCA.
October 23, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Picture of the East Wing demolition of the White House taken on my flight out of DCA.
"...no room for any type of criminal behavior..." unless it's coming from the White House.
Kash Patel: "This is an operation that showcases to you that under President Trump's administration, there is no room for any type of criminal behavior, be in on the world's largest stage or in the back rooms of tiny parlors where card games were being played."
October 23, 2025 at 3:28 PM
"...no room for any type of criminal behavior..." unless it's coming from the White House.
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Versailles, if it sucked ass.
October 23, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Versailles, if it sucked ass.
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Not enough of you believe me right now, but "Rebuild The White House" is going to become one of the most popular slogans in American political history
October 22, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Not enough of you believe me right now, but "Rebuild The White House" is going to become one of the most popular slogans in American political history
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A little painting of Trump's White House.
October 22, 2025 at 11:52 AM
A little painting of Trump's White House.
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You guys I’m really sorry but I am never going to forgive him for ripping a side off the White House and I am never going to forgive all the people who could have stopped him but just kept going along to get along.
October 21, 2025 at 12:01 AM
You guys I’m really sorry but I am never going to forgive him for ripping a side off the White House and I am never going to forgive all the people who could have stopped him but just kept going along to get along.
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His bullshit is so thick.
Johnson on Epstein: We want maximum transparency. That is exactly what the American people are getting right now.
October 21, 2025 at 7:01 PM
His bullshit is so thick.
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In 1998, David Broder said of Clinton, “He came in here and he trashed the place — and it’s not his place.”
Trump is now
- demolishing the East Wing
- paving the Rose Garden
- adding gold throughout the Oval Office
- building a ballroom
- installing a flagpole
- tearing apart the Lincoln bathroom
Trump is now
- demolishing the East Wing
- paving the Rose Garden
- adding gold throughout the Oval Office
- building a ballroom
- installing a flagpole
- tearing apart the Lincoln bathroom
At the White House, Trump's destructive impulses take a literal turn
Trump’s critics have long accused him of being responsible for making a mess at the White House. Those assessments have now become literal.
www.msnbc.com
October 21, 2025 at 1:05 PM
In 1998, David Broder said of Clinton, “He came in here and he trashed the place — and it’s not his place.”
Trump is now
- demolishing the East Wing
- paving the Rose Garden
- adding gold throughout the Oval Office
- building a ballroom
- installing a flagpole
- tearing apart the Lincoln bathroom
Trump is now
- demolishing the East Wing
- paving the Rose Garden
- adding gold throughout the Oval Office
- building a ballroom
- installing a flagpole
- tearing apart the Lincoln bathroom
Republicans can do the positive spin. Every. Single. Time.
Q: What does it say that president released a video of him pooping on the American people?
MIKE JOHNSON: You can argue he's probably the most effective person who has ever used social media. He's using satire to make a point. He's not calling for the murder of his political opponents.
MIKE JOHNSON: You can argue he's probably the most effective person who has ever used social media. He's using satire to make a point. He's not calling for the murder of his political opponents.
October 20, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Republicans can do the positive spin. Every. Single. Time.
"every single rally (including in the small towns) was bigger than the surrounding police force available."
There are more of us than them.
There are more of us than them.
October 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
"every single rally (including in the small towns) was bigger than the surrounding police force available."
There are more of us than them.
There are more of us than them.
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Debris hit onto the cockpit windshield of a United flight headed west out of Denver at 36,000 feet: avbrief.com/united-max-h... .
The impact rate onto a plane by ~1 cm meteorites is once per couple of decades: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Hitting a plane's windshield is much less likely.
The impact rate onto a plane by ~1 cm meteorites is once per couple of decades: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Hitting a plane's windshield is much less likely.
United MAX Hit by Falling Object at 36,000 Feet - AvBrief.com
'Space debris' was suggested in the extremely rare event.
avbrief.com
October 19, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Debris hit onto the cockpit windshield of a United flight headed west out of Denver at 36,000 feet: avbrief.com/united-max-h... .
The impact rate onto a plane by ~1 cm meteorites is once per couple of decades: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Hitting a plane's windshield is much less likely.
The impact rate onto a plane by ~1 cm meteorites is once per couple of decades: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Hitting a plane's windshield is much less likely.
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Friz Freleng’s fantastically funny Foney Fables (1942)
October 20, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Friz Freleng’s fantastically funny Foney Fables (1942)
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🤣 Eric's an idiot 🤣
October 20, 2025 at 4:20 AM
🤣 Eric's an idiot 🤣
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Trump shitting on America is probably the truest thing he’s ever posted
October 19, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Trump shitting on America is probably the truest thing he’s ever posted
It sounds like Trump had another meltdown while Meeting with President Zelenskyy.
October 19, 2025 at 8:31 PM
It sounds like Trump had another meltdown while Meeting with President Zelenskyy.
