Kris McDermott
@krismcd.bsky.social
Shakespeare prof, historical fiction and SF/F reviewer, budding editor. Pro: knitting, books, cats, comedy, fat liberation, people standing up for each other. Miss my native South but glad to live in Blu(ish) Michigan. She/her/hers.
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I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here
November 15, 2025 at 1:14 AM
I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here
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Say what you will about social media, but there was no other point in history where you got to read thousands of people trying to explain Catholicism directly to the Pope
November 14, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Say what you will about social media, but there was no other point in history where you got to read thousands of people trying to explain Catholicism directly to the Pope
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Why read past headlines: I use Mace's idiocy to unpack the lies most Republican women tell themselves to justify backing Trump.
They want to believe the threats are immigrants and trans women.
But the real predators tend to look like Trump.
www.salon.com/2025/11/14/s...
They want to believe the threats are immigrants and trans women.
But the real predators tend to look like Trump.
www.salon.com/2025/11/14/s...
Sorry, Nancy Mace. Donald Trump hasn’t “protected women”
The congresswoman’s Epstein dilemma is a problem for all Republican women
www.salon.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Why read past headlines: I use Mace's idiocy to unpack the lies most Republican women tell themselves to justify backing Trump.
They want to believe the threats are immigrants and trans women.
But the real predators tend to look like Trump.
www.salon.com/2025/11/14/s...
They want to believe the threats are immigrants and trans women.
But the real predators tend to look like Trump.
www.salon.com/2025/11/14/s...
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He looks so happy when he lies. Like every time he lies a christofascist angel gets its wings.
Mike Johnson accuses Democrats of "trying to manufacture some sort of hoax that the president something to do with Epstein. It is absurd ... they have Trump derangement syndrome."
November 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
He looks so happy when he lies. Like every time he lies a christofascist angel gets its wings.
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I personally know a spiritual leader, @selenafoxnews.bsky.social, who has spent much of her career lobbying (successfully!) to get military recognition, including headstones in VA cemeteries, for Pagan enlisted folks. It's an official religion! So sorry you can't grow a beard, Pete.
Hegseth: "We don't need to be a military of beardos anymore. Do you know how many troops claim to be Nordic Pagan? No, suddenly it's become this real fake religious affiliation inside the Pentagon where troops came to be Nordic Pagan so they can grow a beard and nobody challenges them on it."
November 12, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I personally know a spiritual leader, @selenafoxnews.bsky.social, who has spent much of her career lobbying (successfully!) to get military recognition, including headstones in VA cemeteries, for Pagan enlisted folks. It's an official religion! So sorry you can't grow a beard, Pete.
A friend attending the Commanders game just sent a video of the crowd loudly booing Dear Leader and I love my fellow Americans.
November 9, 2025 at 11:21 PM
A friend attending the Commanders game just sent a video of the crowd loudly booing Dear Leader and I love my fellow Americans.
Y’all, when you call your senators IT DOES MATTER! Thanks for listening to us, @slotkin.senate.gov
November 9, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Y’all, when you call your senators IT DOES MATTER! Thanks for listening to us, @slotkin.senate.gov
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The real choice, no matter how much Senators wish it weren't:
"Unfortunately, making things better for the American people coming out of this shutdown is probably not an option. Either Trump makes things worse with Democratic affirmation, or Trump makes things worse despite Democratic opposition."
"Unfortunately, making things better for the American people coming out of this shutdown is probably not an option. Either Trump makes things worse with Democratic affirmation, or Trump makes things worse despite Democratic opposition."
Opinion | Democrats shouldn’t bail out Trump as the shutdown drags on
The best time for the opposition to take a stand, rather than settle for untrustworthy promises, is right now.
www.msnbc.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:52 PM
The real choice, no matter how much Senators wish it weren't:
"Unfortunately, making things better for the American people coming out of this shutdown is probably not an option. Either Trump makes things worse with Democratic affirmation, or Trump makes things worse despite Democratic opposition."
"Unfortunately, making things better for the American people coming out of this shutdown is probably not an option. Either Trump makes things worse with Democratic affirmation, or Trump makes things worse despite Democratic opposition."
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Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
This just in: Donald Trump has ordered state governments to starve babies.
JUST IN: The Trump administration late Saturday directed states that they must "immediately undo" any actions they have made to provide benefits to low-income families via SNAP.
Trump tells states to 'immediately undo' steps to fund November SNAP benefits
The Trump administration late Saturday directed states that they must "immediately undo" any actions they have made to provide benefits to low-income families via SNAP.
n.pr
November 9, 2025 at 6:04 PM
This just in: Donald Trump has ordered state governments to starve babies.
I had the great pleasure of interviewing Simon Tolkien (grandson of JRRT) about his latest book, "The Room of Lost Steps," an engrossing coming-of-age story set during the Spanish Civil War. Thanks to @histnovsoc.bsky.social for the opportunity! #historicalnovels #tolkien
A Haunted Past: Simon Tolkien's Literary Journey - Historical Novel Society
WRITTEN BY KRISTEN MCDERMOTT If there’s one author with a personal knowledge of the weight of the past, it’s Simon Tolkien. Reflecting on the journey that has brought him to his latest novel, The Room...
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November 9, 2025 at 4:04 AM
I had the great pleasure of interviewing Simon Tolkien (grandson of JRRT) about his latest book, "The Room of Lost Steps," an engrossing coming-of-age story set during the Spanish Civil War. Thanks to @histnovsoc.bsky.social for the opportunity! #historicalnovels #tolkien
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It’s unfair that Trump gets to sleep through his presidency and the rest of us have to be awake for it
November 9, 2025 at 3:40 AM
It’s unfair that Trump gets to sleep through his presidency and the rest of us have to be awake for it
Since the average hospital visit can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, is that what he's planning to send each of us? Cool! Or -- bear with me on this -- is he proposing to HAVE THE GOVERNMENT REIMBURSE US FOR ALL OUR HEALTHCARE? Even cooler! Welcome to socialized medicine, Mr. Prez!
Trump: "I am recommending to Senate Republicans that the Hundreds of Billions of Dollars currently being sent to money sucking Insurance Companies in order to save the bad Healthcare provided by ObamaCare, BE SENT DIRECTLY TO THE PEOPLE SO THAT THEY CAN PURCHASE THEIR OWN, MUCH BETTER, HEALTHCARE."
November 8, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Since the average hospital visit can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, is that what he's planning to send each of us? Cool! Or -- bear with me on this -- is he proposing to HAVE THE GOVERNMENT REIMBURSE US FOR ALL OUR HEALTHCARE? Even cooler! Welcome to socialized medicine, Mr. Prez!
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Trump: "I am recommending to Senate Republicans that the Hundreds of Billions of Dollars currently being sent to money sucking Insurance Companies in order to save the bad Healthcare provided by ObamaCare, BE SENT DIRECTLY TO THE PEOPLE SO THAT THEY CAN PURCHASE THEIR OWN, MUCH BETTER, HEALTHCARE."
November 8, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Trump: "I am recommending to Senate Republicans that the Hundreds of Billions of Dollars currently being sent to money sucking Insurance Companies in order to save the bad Healthcare provided by ObamaCare, BE SENT DIRECTLY TO THE PEOPLE SO THAT THEY CAN PURCHASE THEIR OWN, MUCH BETTER, HEALTHCARE."
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still hasn't figured out what dogs do
November 8, 2025 at 6:37 PM
still hasn't figured out what dogs do
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BREAKING: SCOTUS issues emergency order temporarily blocking full SNAP food aid payments.
Trump is the most cruel & barbaric man imaginable. He is claiming the government will be permanently harmed by ensuing hungry Americans are fed.
This will kill low income people. This is structural eugenics.
Trump is the most cruel & barbaric man imaginable. He is claiming the government will be permanently harmed by ensuing hungry Americans are fed.
This will kill low income people. This is structural eugenics.
November 8, 2025 at 2:44 AM
BREAKING: SCOTUS issues emergency order temporarily blocking full SNAP food aid payments.
Trump is the most cruel & barbaric man imaginable. He is claiming the government will be permanently harmed by ensuing hungry Americans are fed.
This will kill low income people. This is structural eugenics.
Trump is the most cruel & barbaric man imaginable. He is claiming the government will be permanently harmed by ensuing hungry Americans are fed.
This will kill low income people. This is structural eugenics.
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Trump arrives in FL for another weekend of parties and golf while his attorneys fight in the Supreme Court to deny food to SNAP beneficiaries despite a court order.
November 8, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Trump arrives in FL for another weekend of parties and golf while his attorneys fight in the Supreme Court to deny food to SNAP beneficiaries despite a court order.
He could easily have complied with the court order & continued blaming Democrats for the shutdown, but he went BACK to BEG to be allowed to take food away from moms & babies. He WANTS to do that. HE wants to do that. Can his followers see what trash he is NOW?
Trump administration asks Supreme Court to block full SNAP payments
Trump administration asks Supreme Court to block full SNAP payments
The 1st Circuit Court of Appeals denied the Trump administration's emergency request for a stay of a lower court's order to pay full food stamp benefits during the government shutdown.
dlvr.it
November 8, 2025 at 2:23 AM
He could easily have complied with the court order & continued blaming Democrats for the shutdown, but he went BACK to BEG to be allowed to take food away from moms & babies. He WANTS to do that. HE wants to do that. Can his followers see what trash he is NOW?
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I understand why we shut down American airspace for a few days after 9-11 to avoid a repeat attack but imagine shutting down American airspace to avoid releasing the Epstein files.
November 7, 2025 at 11:03 PM
I understand why we shut down American airspace for a few days after 9-11 to avoid a repeat attack but imagine shutting down American airspace to avoid releasing the Epstein files.
@katemanne.bsky.social perfectly encapsulates why these people keep doing things that most of us find incomprehensible.
Let Them Eat Nothing
A White House press conference that defied parody—and reveals something much deeper about the Trump administration.
open.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:29 PM
@katemanne.bsky.social perfectly encapsulates why these people keep doing things that most of us find incomprehensible.
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How it started.
vs.
How it's going.
vs.
How it's going.
November 6, 2025 at 7:19 PM
How it started.
vs.
How it's going.
vs.
How it's going.
@histnovsoc.bsky.social November edition of Historical Novels Review is out! I reviewed this charming adaptation of Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, set in Depression-era Wisconsin. #booksky #historicalfiction #austen
Uncovered in Merriweather - Historical Novel Society
In her Jane Austen in Wisconsin series, Cox plans to incorporate the plots of five of Austen’s novels into the adventures of the quiet fictional community of Merriweather, Wisconsin, in the time betwe...
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November 6, 2025 at 5:24 PM
@histnovsoc.bsky.social November edition of Historical Novels Review is out! I reviewed this charming adaptation of Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, set in Depression-era Wisconsin. #booksky #historicalfiction #austen
@histnovsoc.bsky.social November edition of Historical Novels Review is out! I reviewed Victoria Redel's engrossing study of two women artists in 17th-c Amsterdam and their passionate relationship. #booksky #historicalfiction
I Am You - Historical Novel Society
Historical fiction detailing the poorly documented life of women artists is in vogue now, and this novel presents a rich and sensual narrative of the life and work of Maria van Oosterwijck, the Dutch ...
historicalnovelsociety.org
November 6, 2025 at 5:21 PM
@histnovsoc.bsky.social November edition of Historical Novels Review is out! I reviewed Victoria Redel's engrossing study of two women artists in 17th-c Amsterdam and their passionate relationship. #booksky #historicalfiction
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Trump taking a victory lap because Walmart made their Thanksgiving meal smaller and crappier (and hence cheaper) is such a perfect encapsulation of his hucksterism
November 6, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Trump taking a victory lap because Walmart made their Thanksgiving meal smaller and crappier (and hence cheaper) is such a perfect encapsulation of his hucksterism