Stately Plump Buck
@statelyplumpbuck.bsky.social
Retired High School English Teacher. Born in Seattle, living in Raleigh, summering at Crystal Lake. Married to whip-smart beautiful French woman with a wonderful and generous family. Father to two beautiful and outstanding daughters.
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Communities need used-book shops.
As the trends in our world are increasingly standardized and entrenched by "predictive" technologies that stifle innovation and reduce human actions into economic categories...
We need a full range of possibilities for readers and communities to explore and share.
As the trends in our world are increasingly standardized and entrenched by "predictive" technologies that stifle innovation and reduce human actions into economic categories...
We need a full range of possibilities for readers and communities to explore and share.
November 27, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Communities need used-book shops.
As the trends in our world are increasingly standardized and entrenched by "predictive" technologies that stifle innovation and reduce human actions into economic categories...
We need a full range of possibilities for readers and communities to explore and share.
As the trends in our world are increasingly standardized and entrenched by "predictive" technologies that stifle innovation and reduce human actions into economic categories...
We need a full range of possibilities for readers and communities to explore and share.
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Surreal scenes from Orbán's visit in Moscow. Putin gives a big-picture overview of bilateral relations peppered with some numbers, while Orbán's interpreter keeps saying completely different things, vague formulations about cooperation and good relationship. Baffling.
telex.hu/video/2025/1...
telex.hu/video/2025/1...
Videón mutatjuk, hogyan fordította rosszul Orbán tolmácsa Putyin beszédét
A mai Putyin–Orbán-találkozó egyik legérdekesebb része az volt, amikor Orbán Viktor tolmácsa szinte végig rosszul fordította az orosz elnök köszöntő beszédét. A magyar tolmács fontos részleteket hagyo...
telex.hu
November 28, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Surreal scenes from Orbán's visit in Moscow. Putin gives a big-picture overview of bilateral relations peppered with some numbers, while Orbán's interpreter keeps saying completely different things, vague formulations about cooperation and good relationship. Baffling.
telex.hu/video/2025/1...
telex.hu/video/2025/1...
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Lindsey Graham sponsored the Afghan Adjustment Act: “This is the right thing to do. The people who were there with us in the fight who are here in America need to stay. This will be their new home. We have a moral obligation to these people and they will make great citizens.”
November 29, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Lindsey Graham sponsored the Afghan Adjustment Act: “This is the right thing to do. The people who were there with us in the fight who are here in America need to stay. This will be their new home. We have a moral obligation to these people and they will make great citizens.”
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The irony is rich.
November 28, 2025 at 7:39 PM
The irony is rich.
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I would call Pete Hegseth a war criminal, but we aren’t at war. He’s just a mass murderer.
November 28, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I would call Pete Hegseth a war criminal, but we aren’t at war. He’s just a mass murderer.
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What do these corporations have in common?
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
November 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
What do these corporations have in common?
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
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Part of this is that it doesn't take a weatherman to tell you what way the wind's blowing, and part of this is that a big chunk of the rich folks on the right are starting to realize that a complete Trump flameout could truly bring about Woke 2: The Wokening.
Interesting that Politico is running a ton of "Trump and MAGA in trouble" pieces all of a sudden. 🤔
November 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Part of this is that it doesn't take a weatherman to tell you what way the wind's blowing, and part of this is that a big chunk of the rich folks on the right are starting to realize that a complete Trump flameout could truly bring about Woke 2: The Wokening.
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I'm still *somewhat* confident that the balkanized US media landscape combined with Trump's personality cult mean we probably won't truly see the bottom get knocked out, but this is wild. Like this is 'not even the most insane gerrymanders imaginable will save your asses in the midterms' shit.
Gallup poll | 11/3-11/25
President Trump approval
Disapprove 60% (+6)
Approve 36% (-5)
news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
President Trump approval
Disapprove 60% (+6)
Approve 36% (-5)
news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
November 28, 2025 at 5:34 PM
I'm still *somewhat* confident that the balkanized US media landscape combined with Trump's personality cult mean we probably won't truly see the bottom get knocked out, but this is wild. Like this is 'not even the most insane gerrymanders imaginable will save your asses in the midterms' shit.
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this is just gutter racism
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 12:59 PM
this is just gutter racism
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This is quite funny but also brutal. From a softball interview it shines through that this l guy’s life is just as horrifying as you suspect it might be, and I love that for him.
November 27, 2025 at 12:22 AM
This is quite funny but also brutal. From a softball interview it shines through that this l guy’s life is just as horrifying as you suspect it might be, and I love that for him.
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Rumor is even GOP House members are sick of being treated like potted plants, with many more threatening early departure.
November 27, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Rumor is even GOP House members are sick of being treated like potted plants, with many more threatening early departure.
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I don't see how Tesla's Model 3 can survive if Benz can offer an alternative EV this cheap, with this kind of performance, on top of the 15% tariff that it's charged in the US.
Imagine what this model does to Tesla in Europe, where Benz pays no tariffs.
Imagine what this model does to Tesla in Europe, where Benz pays no tariffs.
November 26, 2025 at 11:15 PM
I don't see how Tesla's Model 3 can survive if Benz can offer an alternative EV this cheap, with this kind of performance, on top of the 15% tariff that it's charged in the US.
Imagine what this model does to Tesla in Europe, where Benz pays no tariffs.
Imagine what this model does to Tesla in Europe, where Benz pays no tariffs.
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Homeland Security doesn’t grasp the fact that the first Thanksgiving was about making “room at the table” for European “invaders.”
November 27, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Homeland Security doesn’t grasp the fact that the first Thanksgiving was about making “room at the table” for European “invaders.”
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Cognetti: We don’t want Joe Rogan or OAN talking about this district because we have a congressman who has become one of the most prolific stock traders—someone who dumped six figures’ worth of Medicaid provider stock a week before he trashed a trillion dollars of Medicaid.
November 27, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Cognetti: We don’t want Joe Rogan or OAN talking about this district because we have a congressman who has become one of the most prolific stock traders—someone who dumped six figures’ worth of Medicaid provider stock a week before he trashed a trillion dollars of Medicaid.
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Here’s a list of people that should be in jail.
November 27, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Here’s a list of people that should be in jail.
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Trump: “The big problem is the enemy within. We have some bad people … it should be easily handled … by the military” (2024)
Trump: “This is going to be the big thing [for the military] because it’s the enemy within, and we have to handle it before it gets out of control.” (To top generals, 2025)
Trump: “This is going to be the big thing [for the military] because it’s the enemy within, and we have to handle it before it gets out of control.” (To top generals, 2025)
November 25, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Trump: “The big problem is the enemy within. We have some bad people … it should be easily handled … by the military” (2024)
Trump: “This is going to be the big thing [for the military] because it’s the enemy within, and we have to handle it before it gets out of control.” (To top generals, 2025)
Trump: “This is going to be the big thing [for the military] because it’s the enemy within, and we have to handle it before it gets out of control.” (To top generals, 2025)