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Tom Coyle
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Work at home husband and dad
I’m thinking that all those folks who walked about waving their pocket Constitution left it in their pocket when they washed their shirt.
January 9, 2026 at 2:17 PM
The parade of hate continues apace.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/h...
Trump Moves to End Access to Gender-Related Care for Minors
www.nytimes.com
December 18, 2025 at 5:04 PM
DOJ box score for this at bat:
December 11, 2025 at 9:29 PM
I think it is really nice of FIFA to give the poor old man a participation trophy.
December 6, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Love him or hate him you can’t deny his influence.

Frank O. Gehry, Titan of Architecture, Is Dead at 96 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/a...
Frank O. Gehry, Titan of Architecture, Is Dead at 96
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December 5, 2025 at 8:03 PM
An exclusive picture of a Mar A Lago after party:
November 25, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Money quote from the Comey hearing today:

“So Ms. Halligan was the stalking horse or to a different word — a puppet — for the president?” Judge Nachmanoff asked.

Pretty sure the judge referring to the prosecutor as a puppet is not a good thing.
November 19, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Local hero goes free after depriving administration of wedge issues. Lawyer says the verdict wraps up this case that put his client through a grinder.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
Jurors Find Sandwich Hurler Not Guilty of Assault
www.nytimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Now that all the members of the Fine Arts Commission have been fired I suspect that we will be seeing more urban planning for DC.
October 29, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Not sure policy inspiration from Tom Clancy novels is a good idea.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/u...
Trump Directs Military to Target Foreign Drug Cartels
www.nytimes.com
August 8, 2025 at 4:19 PM
What circle of hell will be reserved for the administration lackeys that caused this.

500 tons of emergency food in a U.S. warehouse are about to expire and are slated for the incinerator, @hanamkiros reports. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food
Federal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste.
www.theatlantic.com
July 15, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Meanwhile in MAGA world.
July 14, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Happy Wednesday!
April 23, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Time for a new government agency. I humbly suggest it be called the Ministry of Truth.

www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
Amid anti-DEI push, National Park Service rewrites history of Underground Railroad
Since Trump took office, the park service, an agency charged with preserving American history, has changed how its website describes key moments from slavery to Jim Crow
www.washingtonpost.com
April 6, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Liberation Day +2

The word of the day is: Juche

The political ideology of North Korea, which aims to achieve national autonomy through the rule of a single leader, the maintenance of a strong military, and the pursuit of economic self-sufficiency.
April 5, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Exclusive image of the residents of McDonald's Island learning of the imposition of tariffs by the Trump administration.
April 3, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Brandolini's Law:
The bullshit asymmetry: the amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.

Yep

sketchplanations.com/the-bs-asymm...
The BS asymmetry principle
Also known as Brandolini’s Law, this is the simple observation that it’s far easier to produce and spread BS, misinformation and nonsense than it is to refute it. In fact, the iSchool at University of...
sketchplanations.com
March 7, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Today is the anniversary of the ratification of the 22nd Amendment (1951). It is also the anniversary of the Reichstag fire (1933).

We have choices to make and things we can do to continue this experiment called America.
February 27, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Good lord what a train wreck of a press conference. I’m sure the cult members will eat it up.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=zBhP...
LIVE: President Donald J. Trump Holds a Press Briefing on D.C. Aviation Disaster - 1/30/25
YouTube video by Right Side Broadcasting Network
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January 30, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Even though I am a goy through and through I have a deep appreciation for the sheer volume of words in Yiddish that can be used to describe situations or people that I find distasteful. I do believe that one word will rise above the rest these next few years and that word is gonif.
December 17, 2024 at 3:57 PM
What is the appropriate metaphor for TFG's proposed cabinet? I have struggled. Ikea - nope an insult to our Scandinavian friends. Junk drawer - potential, but even a junk drawer contains useful items. I have settled on Grand-Guignol. It's French and somewhat obscure and I like it.
December 4, 2024 at 3:42 AM
I run hot and cold on David Brooks. Today is one of the warmer days.

www.nytimes.com/2024/11/28/o...
Opinion | The Moral Challenge of Trumpism (Gift Article)
Trumpism represents an alternative value system. The people I regard as upright and admirable MAGA regards as morally disgraceful.
www.nytimes.com
December 3, 2024 at 4:03 AM