Travis Klempan
@travisklempan.bsky.social
Author of HAVE SNAKES, NEED BIRDS (Koehler Books) and HILLS HIDE MOUNTAINS (MilSpeak Books)
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Travis Klempan
@travisklempan.bsky.social
· Jan 21
Here’s a list of my writing and associated work…enjoy!
My second novel HILLS HIDE MOUNTAINS
My second novel HILLS HIDE MOUNTAINS
I got my first email in 2000, one I still use. I’ve had probably 20+ accounts through work, school, and personal use. I’ve easily sent 20,000+ emails.
You would not be able to cherry pick any that make me sound like one percent the criminal that a random Epstein email makes anyone involved sound.
You would not be able to cherry pick any that make me sound like one percent the criminal that a random Epstein email makes anyone involved sound.
November 13, 2025 at 3:55 AM
I got my first email in 2000, one I still use. I’ve had probably 20+ accounts through work, school, and personal use. I’ve easily sent 20,000+ emails.
You would not be able to cherry pick any that make me sound like one percent the criminal that a random Epstein email makes anyone involved sound.
You would not be able to cherry pick any that make me sound like one percent the criminal that a random Epstein email makes anyone involved sound.
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Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far.
So much work remains to be done.
So much work remains to be done.
November 12, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far.
So much work remains to be done.
So much work remains to be done.
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It’s all downstream of not hanging every officer above major in the Confederate army. The law demanded it. But Lincoln and Grant — with laudable but misguided mercy — let them go.
Lincoln was rewarded with a bullet to the brain, and Grant was gifted the exact guerrilla war he had tried to avoid.
Lincoln was rewarded with a bullet to the brain, and Grant was gifted the exact guerrilla war he had tried to avoid.
November 13, 2025 at 2:10 AM
It’s all downstream of not hanging every officer above major in the Confederate army. The law demanded it. But Lincoln and Grant — with laudable but misguided mercy — let them go.
Lincoln was rewarded with a bullet to the brain, and Grant was gifted the exact guerrilla war he had tried to avoid.
Lincoln was rewarded with a bullet to the brain, and Grant was gifted the exact guerrilla war he had tried to avoid.
“Once a Marine, always a Marine,” except for this a-hole.
JD Vance calls ibuprofen "useless medication" and implies it's not "necessary, safe and effective."
November 13, 2025 at 1:27 AM
“Once a Marine, always a Marine,” except for this a-hole.
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Can none of these millionaires sex criminals write in full sentences? Have you heard of paragraphs? Punctuation? No wonder ChatGPT sounds like a genius to these clowns.
November 13, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Can none of these millionaires sex criminals write in full sentences? Have you heard of paragraphs? Punctuation? No wonder ChatGPT sounds like a genius to these clowns.
Not the biggest story today but I’m two paragraphs into the article on the Army West Point Hudson University for Leadership’s special uniforms for the Army-Navy Game next month and they’ve thoroughly mucked it up.
November 12, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Not the biggest story today but I’m two paragraphs into the article on the Army West Point Hudson University for Leadership’s special uniforms for the Army-Navy Game next month and they’ve thoroughly mucked it up.
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From service to studio: How are veterans finding freedom in art?
With key programs suspended & jobs lost, veterans face mounting instability. Yet through painting, photography, & installation, they’re crafting new pathways toward healing—& accountability, Flor Franceschetti reports.
With key programs suspended & jobs lost, veterans face mounting instability. Yet through painting, photography, & installation, they’re crafting new pathways toward healing—& accountability, Flor Franceschetti reports.
From service to studio: How veterans are finding freedom in art
With key programs suspended and jobs lost, veterans face mounting instability. Yet through art, they’re crafting new pathways toward healing
prismreports.org
November 12, 2025 at 9:43 PM
From service to studio: How are veterans finding freedom in art?
With key programs suspended & jobs lost, veterans face mounting instability. Yet through painting, photography, & installation, they’re crafting new pathways toward healing—& accountability, Flor Franceschetti reports.
With key programs suspended & jobs lost, veterans face mounting instability. Yet through painting, photography, & installation, they’re crafting new pathways toward healing—& accountability, Flor Franceschetti reports.
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"That is why I will sign the discharge petition right now to release the Epstein files" -- Rep. Grijalva
November 12, 2025 at 9:24 PM
"That is why I will sign the discharge petition right now to release the Epstein files" -- Rep. Grijalva
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Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
November 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
Not sure I have a favorite movie (what would that even mean?) but two are right up there are Jaws and The Good, the Bad & the Ugly.
November 12, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Not sure I have a favorite movie (what would that even mean?) but two are right up there are Jaws and The Good, the Bad & the Ugly.
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Being a poet is tough work, and being a war poet is even tougher. People often don't want to listen, or feel confused by anything more complicated that "support the troopz"! Even around Veterans Day. Especially around Veterans Day.
I'm in awe of fellow poets like Jessi.
I'm in awe of fellow poets like Jessi.
Congratulations to U.S. Army veteran, war poet, and Twin Cities psychiatric nurse practitioner Jessi M. Atherton on her Veterans Day reading at Iowa’s University of Dubuque!
“The Time War Takes: Poems”
- Kindle: amzn.to/3E4pUfI
- Print: amzn.to/40Mx69s
#warpoet #veteransday #middlewestpress
“The Time War Takes: Poems”
- Kindle: amzn.to/3E4pUfI
- Print: amzn.to/40Mx69s
#warpoet #veteransday #middlewestpress
November 12, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Being a poet is tough work, and being a war poet is even tougher. People often don't want to listen, or feel confused by anything more complicated that "support the troopz"! Even around Veterans Day. Especially around Veterans Day.
I'm in awe of fellow poets like Jessi.
I'm in awe of fellow poets like Jessi.
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Congratulations to U.S. Army veteran, war poet, and Twin Cities psychiatric nurse practitioner Jessi M. Atherton on her Veterans Day reading at Iowa’s University of Dubuque!
“The Time War Takes: Poems”
- Kindle: amzn.to/3E4pUfI
- Print: amzn.to/40Mx69s
#warpoet #veteransday #middlewestpress
“The Time War Takes: Poems”
- Kindle: amzn.to/3E4pUfI
- Print: amzn.to/40Mx69s
#warpoet #veteransday #middlewestpress
November 12, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Congratulations to U.S. Army veteran, war poet, and Twin Cities psychiatric nurse practitioner Jessi M. Atherton on her Veterans Day reading at Iowa’s University of Dubuque!
“The Time War Takes: Poems”
- Kindle: amzn.to/3E4pUfI
- Print: amzn.to/40Mx69s
#warpoet #veteransday #middlewestpress
“The Time War Takes: Poems”
- Kindle: amzn.to/3E4pUfI
- Print: amzn.to/40Mx69s
#warpoet #veteransday #middlewestpress
Side note: WTF is the Northeast Indiana Defense Summit and also why?
Hegseth: "I don't want my son serving alongside troops that are fat and out of shape, or in combat units with females who can't meet the same combat arms physical standards as men in their units."
November 12, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Side note: WTF is the Northeast Indiana Defense Summit and also why?
A most timely and apt update from the past, considering the work in “war lit” that has been done since Jan 2016. Also meat to see a quick snapshot of Brian Van Reet, whose essay on “red and blue war lit” was still years away. (That essay continues to inform my writing.)
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"Riffing on the latent implications of 'unmanned' in the phrase 'unmanned aerial devices,' Huber inquired what it meant for war fiction when its heroes are displaced from the battlefield to drone command centers 1000s of miles away." From Jan 17, 2016. acolytesofwar.com/2016/01/17/c...
Contemporary Literature of the Forever Wars: MLA 2016
At the recent Modern Language Association (MLA) conference in Austin, Texas, six of us convened a panel titled “Contemporary Literature of the Forever Wars” to discuss the memoirs, fic…
acolytesofwar.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:49 PM
A most timely and apt update from the past, considering the work in “war lit” that has been done since Jan 2016. Also meat to see a quick snapshot of Brian Van Reet, whose essay on “red and blue war lit” was still years away. (That essay continues to inform my writing.)
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The article starts on a faulty premise (war with China is at most two years away) but then totally punts on addressing that premise.
And as for the meat of the article…well, to paraphrase bell hooks, you can’t fix the house using the tools you used to build it.
cimsec.org/bring-out-th...
And as for the meat of the article…well, to paraphrase bell hooks, you can’t fix the house using the tools you used to build it.
cimsec.org/bring-out-th...
Bring Out the Knives: A Programmatic Night Court for the Surface Navy | Center for International Maritime Security
By Chris Rielage Time is our critical resource now. The Navy knows that we have a few scant years before we face major risk for an invasion of Taiwan. In the Naval Surface and Mine Warfighting Develop...
cimsec.org
November 12, 2025 at 2:51 PM
The article starts on a faulty premise (war with China is at most two years away) but then totally punts on addressing that premise.
And as for the meat of the article…well, to paraphrase bell hooks, you can’t fix the house using the tools you used to build it.
cimsec.org/bring-out-th...
And as for the meat of the article…well, to paraphrase bell hooks, you can’t fix the house using the tools you used to build it.
cimsec.org/bring-out-th...
We just had parent-teacher conferences for our 4yo and he got lots of good marks all around. We were thrilled to hear that he loves reading, writing, and math.
The fact that he navigates social interactions and has friends and is curious matters more than that he can count to whatever number.
The fact that he navigates social interactions and has friends and is curious matters more than that he can count to whatever number.
I think the belief by the powerful that "people will put up with many things if you are excellent at math" is incredibly revealing in terms of understanding How We Got Here
November 12, 2025 at 2:14 PM
We just had parent-teacher conferences for our 4yo and he got lots of good marks all around. We were thrilled to hear that he loves reading, writing, and math.
The fact that he navigates social interactions and has friends and is curious matters more than that he can count to whatever number.
The fact that he navigates social interactions and has friends and is curious matters more than that he can count to whatever number.
Our 4yo is starting to read and I tell him it’s one of the most powerful things he can do (that and care for and about others).
performative reading, lack of reading skills, nobody's reading anymore -- NO!
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
November 12, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Our 4yo is starting to read and I tell him it’s one of the most powerful things he can do (that and care for and about others).
Gillette CEO but evil
The Flex Loan, a new type of payday loan pioneered by Advance Financial in Tennessee, allows residents to borrow up to $4,000 at a 279.5% interest rate.
It has burdened low-income borrowers while generating huge profits for lenders.
(Published May with @tennesseelookout.com)
It has burdened low-income borrowers while generating huge profits for lenders.
(Published May with @tennesseelookout.com)
This Lender Said Its Loans Would Help Tennesseans. It Has Sued More Than 110,000 of Them.
The Flex Loan, a type of payday loan pioneered by Advance Financial, has burdened low-income borrowers while generating huge profits for lenders. Tennessee lawmakers declined to rein in the lending bu...
www.propublica.org
November 12, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Gillette CEO but evil
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I believe I'm contractually obligated to promote my novel today. Sorry, I don't make the rules.
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
tortoisebooks.com/store/thesurge
www.amazon.com/Surge-Adam-K...
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
tortoisebooks.com/store/thesurge
www.amazon.com/Surge-Adam-K...
November 11, 2025 at 9:35 PM
I believe I'm contractually obligated to promote my novel today. Sorry, I don't make the rules.
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
tortoisebooks.com/store/thesurge
www.amazon.com/Surge-Adam-K...
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
tortoisebooks.com/store/thesurge
www.amazon.com/Surge-Adam-K...
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My last word on the matter
November 11, 2025 at 2:27 PM
My last word on the matter
If I said shit this stupid they would (and should) fire me.
in a long life filled with saying stupid shit this is may be the stupidest shit he's ever said
November 11, 2025 at 7:37 PM
If I said shit this stupid they would (and should) fire me.
Oh no the craven nitwits of Nextdoor have discovered AI photo and video generators.
November 11, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Oh no the craven nitwits of Nextdoor have discovered AI photo and video generators.
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This is how they treated that kid who would send people to the corn field when displeased
Pirro: "Mr President, there is in this room a group of people who love you, who believe in you, and who are so proud to be in this Oval Office and to be part of this amazing day because you have changed the course of America."
November 11, 2025 at 1:56 PM
This is how they treated that kid who would send people to the corn field when displeased
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Trading places with Elon would be like waking up as a cockroach and the worst part is that you would have traded away your knowledge of Kafka and the literary grounding to make sense of said experience.
November 11, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Trading places with Elon would be like waking up as a cockroach and the worst part is that you would have traded away your knowledge of Kafka and the literary grounding to make sense of said experience.
Maybe in addition to a “No Kings” protest we need to do a “No Clowns” protest.
November 11, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Maybe in addition to a “No Kings” protest we need to do a “No Clowns” protest.