Guy Gavriel Kay
@guygavrielkay.bsky.social
Author, punster, baseball fan, whisky lover, cocktail maker. Limericks happen here. Written on the Dark now released, Canada, U.S., U.K. Print, ebook, audiobook.
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has anybody gotten confirmation yet from Mike Johnson that he hasn't seen the post?
February 6, 2026 at 6:55 PM
has anybody gotten confirmation yet from Mike Johnson that he hasn't seen the post?
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Just because good news is worth celebrating:
There is now a Prep medication that is an *every six month* injection.
HIV has, effectively, a vaccination.
There is now a Prep medication that is an *every six month* injection.
HIV has, effectively, a vaccination.
February 7, 2026 at 12:12 AM
Just because good news is worth celebrating:
There is now a Prep medication that is an *every six month* injection.
HIV has, effectively, a vaccination.
There is now a Prep medication that is an *every six month* injection.
HIV has, effectively, a vaccination.
Manutius is a bit of a personal hero, inspired the bookshop-in-Seressa aspect of my A Brightness Long Ago. He’s featured in Bound In Venice by Alessandro Magno, a strong non-fiction recommendation.
In praise of Aldus Manutius, who died OTD in 1515. I did not know or had forgotten that he was tutor to two nephews of Pico della Mirandola before he set up shop as a Venetian printer: www.lindahall.org/about/news/s... #MedievalSky #BookHistory
February 7, 2026 at 3:26 AM
Manutius is a bit of a personal hero, inspired the bookshop-in-Seressa aspect of my A Brightness Long Ago. He’s featured in Bound In Venice by Alessandro Magno, a strong non-fiction recommendation.
Extremely concur with this. Have also said for a long time that Trump would be, Trump IS, nothing if House and Senate were functioning sanely and with integrity.
The question isn't whether an evil man will be evil. It's what good people will do in the face of it. TOO MANY people still want to overlook the obvious. They find all kinds of ways to explain why he's not really evil. They are the problem.
1. It was not an accident.
2. It was not a staffer.
3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia.
4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares.
5. His base agrees with him.
6. He will do it again.
7. No one in power will hold him accountable.
2. It was not a staffer.
3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia.
4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares.
5. His base agrees with him.
6. He will do it again.
7. No one in power will hold him accountable.
February 6, 2026 at 9:29 PM
Extremely concur with this. Have also said for a long time that Trump would be, Trump IS, nothing if House and Senate were functioning sanely and with integrity.
This will count as another murder, really.
A man taken into custody in Rochester Thursday by federal immigration agents and now held at the Whipple Federal Building in the Twin Cities is a recent organ transplant recipient who is without his needed anti-rejection medication, state Rep. Kim Hicks tells MPR News.
Transplant recipient arrested by federal agents in Rochester needs medicine, state representative says
State Rep. Kim Hicks told MPR News she drove to the Whipple Federal Building near Ft. Snelling Thursday night to give the man his medication but authorities wouldn't take it without a doctor's note. S...
www.mprnews.org
February 6, 2026 at 9:25 PM
This will count as another murder, really.
‘I will be a gentleman whatsoever it costs me!’
— Ben Jonson, ‘Every Man Out of His Humour’
(Yes, am subtweeting Trumplandian bribes and bought pardons.)
(Is it no longer subtweeting if you say that? Probably isn’t, but…)
— Ben Jonson, ‘Every Man Out of His Humour’
(Yes, am subtweeting Trumplandian bribes and bought pardons.)
(Is it no longer subtweeting if you say that? Probably isn’t, but…)
February 6, 2026 at 9:01 PM
‘I will be a gentleman whatsoever it costs me!’
— Ben Jonson, ‘Every Man Out of His Humour’
(Yes, am subtweeting Trumplandian bribes and bought pardons.)
(Is it no longer subtweeting if you say that? Probably isn’t, but…)
— Ben Jonson, ‘Every Man Out of His Humour’
(Yes, am subtweeting Trumplandian bribes and bought pardons.)
(Is it no longer subtweeting if you say that? Probably isn’t, but…)
Yes. Plus underscores just how HARD it is to get good staffers these days!
Haven't seen this angle mentioned, but it's an extraordinary national security risk to have an anonymous "staffer" impersonating the president of the United States, posting racist memes, from his personal accounts, at 10 PM.
Live updates: White House blames 'staffer' for racist Obamas post shared by Trump
Trump administration live updates: New Jersey's special House primary too close to call
www.nbcnews.com
February 6, 2026 at 8:52 PM
Yes. Plus underscores just how HARD it is to get good staffers these days!
A nice piece by Cathal on why Sidney Crosby (38, but always ‘The Kid’) is so admired. I link him as one of those in my thesis about how happy we are when truly great athletes (or performers, yes) are also really good people. He’s captaining Team Canada and, really, who else could it be?
February 6, 2026 at 8:46 PM
A nice piece by Cathal on why Sidney Crosby (38, but always ‘The Kid’) is so admired. I link him as one of those in my thesis about how happy we are when truly great athletes (or performers, yes) are also really good people. He’s captaining Team Canada and, really, who else could it be?
This … this is magnificent.
the Spectator accidentally recycled a subhed from a previous day’s article about Tehran
February 6, 2026 at 7:45 PM
This … this is magnificent.
This falls squarely into the category of UNFAIR QUESTION!
Also…
Apologize? APOLOGIZE??
Also…
Apologize? APOLOGIZE??
Why didn’t Karoline Leavitt initially say the video was wrong, was posted by a staffer, and apologize?
She did none of those things.
She just blamed Democrats for “fake outrage.”
She did none of those things.
She just blamed Democrats for “fake outrage.”
February 6, 2026 at 6:56 PM
This falls squarely into the category of UNFAIR QUESTION!
Also…
Apologize? APOLOGIZE??
Also…
Apologize? APOLOGIZE??
Removing, even after Scott’s ‘prayers’, and under pressure, would not remove the stench of his pure racist trash.
Sen. Tim Scott, the only Black Republican in the Senate, had this to say:
February 6, 2026 at 5:03 PM
Removing, even after Scott’s ‘prayers’, and under pressure, would not remove the stench of his pure racist trash.
I think, grimly, this is true. The discounting, the ignoring of his racism and hatred (‘Oh, it’s just him joking!’) is a dangerous failure.
Trump referring to the first Black President and First Lady in the history of the USA as apes is not a distraction. It is a major news story once again emphasizing how fundamental racism is to this administration and the Republican Party and conservative movement.
And right now media is ignoring.
And right now media is ignoring.
February 6, 2026 at 4:51 PM
I think, grimly, this is true. The discounting, the ignoring of his racism and hatred (‘Oh, it’s just him joking!’) is a dangerous failure.
Quiet, lucid, devastating.
February 6, 2026 at 2:53 PM
Quiet, lucid, devastating.
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The murder of Medgar Evers was an act of racial terror. That fact is not partisan. It is historical. Calling it anything else is not “restoring truth.” It is erasing it.
Civil rights activist Medgar Evers was shot in the back by a Klansman in 1963.
The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from Evers' museum and reportedly plans to remove references that call his murderer a “racist"
The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from Evers' museum and reportedly plans to remove references that call his murderer a “racist"
Medgar Evers’ killer was a Klansman, but Trump administration says stop calling him a racist - Mississippi Today
Among anticipated changes to a new visitor brochure for the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument is no longer using "racist" to describe the killer of the civil rights leader.
mississippitoday.org
February 5, 2026 at 5:53 PM
The murder of Medgar Evers was an act of racial terror. That fact is not partisan. It is historical. Calling it anything else is not “restoring truth.” It is erasing it.
Every time I think of Trump declaring ‘they mutilized’ (this morning, at Prayer Breakfast, in context of ‘mutilated’) I feel more stupidized.
When will it stoppize?
When will it stoppize?
February 5, 2026 at 8:08 PM
Every time I think of Trump declaring ‘they mutilized’ (this morning, at Prayer Breakfast, in context of ‘mutilated’) I feel more stupidized.
When will it stoppize?
When will it stoppize?
There is much in this speech that is agonizingly cringe, but ‘they mutilized’ from a man elected President of the United States, and currently destroying it, has flattened me.
Trump at the National Prayer Breakfast: "I stopped the mutilation of children. The mutilation. The word is mutilation. They mutilized, you know, mutilation of children."
February 5, 2026 at 3:24 PM
There is much in this speech that is agonizingly cringe, but ‘they mutilized’ from a man elected President of the United States, and currently destroying it, has flattened me.
Youngest bro often quotes a prof of his from long ago:
‘Shakespeare. Every time I re-read him it’s like he knows everything that’s happened to me since I read him last.’
‘Shakespeare. Every time I re-read him it’s like he knows everything that’s happened to me since I read him last.’
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 1:52 PM
Youngest bro often quotes a prof of his from long ago:
‘Shakespeare. Every time I re-read him it’s like he knows everything that’s happened to me since I read him last.’
‘Shakespeare. Every time I re-read him it’s like he knows everything that’s happened to me since I read him last.’
Allowed a sports note, amid all?
The last several minutes of the Raptors game last night were as clunky, sloppy, and unfocused as I can remember seeing the team. They are, in fact, a decent-to-good basketball team. Didn’t look it, late.
The last several minutes of the Raptors game last night were as clunky, sloppy, and unfocused as I can remember seeing the team. They are, in fact, a decent-to-good basketball team. Didn’t look it, late.
February 5, 2026 at 1:03 PM
Allowed a sports note, amid all?
The last several minutes of the Raptors game last night were as clunky, sloppy, and unfocused as I can remember seeing the team. They are, in fact, a decent-to-good basketball team. Didn’t look it, late.
The last several minutes of the Raptors game last night were as clunky, sloppy, and unfocused as I can remember seeing the team. They are, in fact, a decent-to-good basketball team. Didn’t look it, late.
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This is what leadership looks like.
February 5, 2026 at 10:49 AM
This is what leadership looks like.
Part of what is ‘unfathomable’ in this, and horrific, is that the (non-white) AUSA speaking *on behalf of* Bondi, Noem, and the US Government also says that she’s aware HER family are at risk in this surge.
What has Trump done to America and the world? What have his cohort done?
What has Trump done to America and the world? What have his cohort done?
From Judge Blackwell: "If the Government undertakes an enforcement operation of this scale, one that results in the detention of large numbers of people, including individuals who are lawfully present in the United States, then the Government assumes a corresponding obligation to ensure that....
February 5, 2026 at 12:50 PM
Part of what is ‘unfathomable’ in this, and horrific, is that the (non-white) AUSA speaking *on behalf of* Bondi, Noem, and the US Government also says that she’s aware HER family are at risk in this surge.
What has Trump done to America and the world? What have his cohort done?
What has Trump done to America and the world? What have his cohort done?
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Thread:
So on this day when one of the oligarchs of our digitized and dystopic world is emptying one of America's greatest newsrooms of trained and committed journalists, I thought I would regale you all with a wonderful little anecdote about our world to come. It involves two of the finest...
So on this day when one of the oligarchs of our digitized and dystopic world is emptying one of America's greatest newsrooms of trained and committed journalists, I thought I would regale you all with a wonderful little anecdote about our world to come. It involves two of the finest...
February 5, 2026 at 2:28 AM
Thread:
So on this day when one of the oligarchs of our digitized and dystopic world is emptying one of America's greatest newsrooms of trained and committed journalists, I thought I would regale you all with a wonderful little anecdote about our world to come. It involves two of the finest...
So on this day when one of the oligarchs of our digitized and dystopic world is emptying one of America's greatest newsrooms of trained and committed journalists, I thought I would regale you all with a wonderful little anecdote about our world to come. It involves two of the finest...
Oh?
Moscow’s girlfriend (as declared by state media there)? Surely not so!
Moscow’s girlfriend (as declared by state media there)? Surely not so!
When a whistleblower’s lawyer gives you a deadline and cites the statute, that is not posturing. That is the last stop before Congress. And they just pulled the trigger.
February 4, 2026 at 11:29 PM
Oh?
Moscow’s girlfriend (as declared by state media there)? Surely not so!
Moscow’s girlfriend (as declared by state media there)? Surely not so!
Soros is in the House!
Schmitt: "Your words that don’t mean anything aren't going to stop what’s coming, and I want you to take that back to Soros and all these ridiculous funders you have. Because justice is coming. And by the way, if I have it my way, we will be denaturalize all these fraudsters and send them home."
February 4, 2026 at 9:40 PM
Soros is in the House!
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INBOX: Robert McCartney, who worked for 39 years at The Washington Post, including as a Metro columnist and editor, before retiring in 2021, claims on X that he has heard the Post has laid off *all* its photojournalists.
February 4, 2026 at 9:05 PM
INBOX: Robert McCartney, who worked for 39 years at The Washington Post, including as a Metro columnist and editor, before retiring in 2021, claims on X that he has heard the Post has laid off *all* its photojournalists.
Thread. If the lawyer(s) involved don’t know what to make of it, the rest of us can’t. Yet. But this looks very bad, on the face of it.
I'm not sure what to make of it, but every Somali I represent in immigration court currently (8 of them) have today had their hearings cancelled and their judges reassigned. They're now all assigned to a video judge from Louisiana and scheduled for court hearing in one month. 🧵
February 4, 2026 at 9:16 PM
Thread. If the lawyer(s) involved don’t know what to make of it, the rest of us can’t. Yet. But this looks very bad, on the face of it.