Don Sergent
@desergent.bsky.social
Grandpa is my job description.
Merry Christmas everyone!
a merry christmas eve message with a snowman in a cup
ALT: a merry christmas eve message with a snowman in a cup
media.tenor.com
December 24, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Merry Christmas everyone!
Reposted by Don Sergent
An hour after this was posted, Johnson shut down the vote on the ACA funding early before all Democrats could vote, so it failed by 1. Lmao, nice try, Mike. Just making it all worse.
The battering rams are coming for him. His time is up.
The battering rams are coming for him. His time is up.
Mike Johnson insists he hasn't lost control of the House as members defect to Democrats on a key vote. If you have to shout it that desperately, everyone knows the opposite is true.
Mike Johnson roasted for swearing he hasn't lost control of House: 'If you have to say it'
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) faced a massive blow to his leadership on Wednesday after four House Republicans crossed over to support Democrats' discharge petition for a three-year extension of enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies — and immediately faced questions from reporters over his lead...
www.rawstory.com
December 18, 2025 at 12:15 AM
An hour after this was posted, Johnson shut down the vote on the ACA funding early before all Democrats could vote, so it failed by 1. Lmao, nice try, Mike. Just making it all worse.
The battering rams are coming for him. His time is up.
The battering rams are coming for him. His time is up.
Reposted by Don Sergent
More than 2,900 attorneys quit the Justice Department or were fired during the first 10 months of this year -- about triple the number who depart in a typical year. personnel records obtained by Reuters show.
December 17, 2025 at 11:45 AM
More than 2,900 attorneys quit the Justice Department or were fired during the first 10 months of this year -- about triple the number who depart in a typical year. personnel records obtained by Reuters show.
My latest Alphabet Seeds blog post, “Messing with the algorithm.” I hope you like it. ifederalist.wordpress.com
donsergent's Blog
Home of Alphabet Seeds, a blog by a retired journalist who refuses to stop writing about the world as he sees it..
ifederalist.wordpress.com
December 16, 2025 at 7:13 PM
My latest Alphabet Seeds blog post, “Messing with the algorithm.” I hope you like it. ifederalist.wordpress.com
My latest Alphabet Seeds blog post. Help me make it trendy. ifederalist.wordpress.com/2025/11/24/w...
#trending #19thamendment
#trending #19thamendment
What’s trending? Not the truth
I’m not trending, and that’s OK. What’s not OK is what I see trending when I bother to look. First, a disclaimer: I don’t even understand trending and what it means. Oh, I understand trends. We had…
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November 24, 2025 at 11:18 PM
My latest Alphabet Seeds blog post. Help me make it trendy. ifederalist.wordpress.com/2025/11/24/w...
#trending #19thamendment
#trending #19thamendment
Two tickets to the November 21 University of Kentucky men’s basketball game vs. Loyola (Maryland) in Rupp Arena. Upper arena, section 215. Are you interested? Asking $110 (face value) for the pair.
November 14, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Two tickets to the November 21 University of Kentucky men’s basketball game vs. Loyola (Maryland) in Rupp Arena. Upper arena, section 215. Are you interested? Asking $110 (face value) for the pair.
My latest Alphabet Seeds blog post. It’s not for giggles. ifederalist.wordpress.com/2025/11/01/d...
Don’t laugh at the laughable
It’s not funny anymore. Sure, watching the leader of the free world embarrass himself and our country with incoherent, contentious, fallacious tirades at the United Nations and on social media can …
ifederalist.wordpress.com
November 2, 2025 at 2:16 AM
My latest Alphabet Seeds blog post. It’s not for giggles. ifederalist.wordpress.com/2025/11/01/d...
Reposted by Don Sergent
This is, I think, the third time I've posted it since I happened to hear it live in July, but here's historian/author @vermontgmg.bsky.social predicting with chilling accuracy what would happen as ICE quickly ramped up its recruiting.
www.kqed.org/forum/201010...
www.kqed.org/forum/201010...
ICE’s Budget Just Tripled. What’s Next? | KQED
We talk to Garrett Graff about the implications of a radically expanded ICE.
www.kqed.org
October 24, 2025 at 6:32 PM
This is, I think, the third time I've posted it since I happened to hear it live in July, but here's historian/author @vermontgmg.bsky.social predicting with chilling accuracy what would happen as ICE quickly ramped up its recruiting.
www.kqed.org/forum/201010...
www.kqed.org/forum/201010...
My latest Alphabet Seeds post. I hope you enjoy it. Like, share, and subscribe if you’re so inclined. ifederalist.wordpress.com/2025/10/23/c...
Cue the tanks. It’s halftime.
Chalk this up to my senior-citizen hearing loss. I was excited when I heard who was headlining the Super Bowl LX halftime show. I imagined a life-size Bugs Bunny outwitting Elmer Fudd and Yosemite …
ifederalist.wordpress.com
October 23, 2025 at 8:41 PM
My latest Alphabet Seeds post. I hope you enjoy it. Like, share, and subscribe if you’re so inclined. ifederalist.wordpress.com/2025/10/23/c...
My latest post on my “Alphabet Seeds” blog. I hope you like it. ifederalist.wordpress.com/2025/10/18/h...
How much is enough?
We’ll call her Yolanda, but the name isn’t as important as her words and actions. A sixty-ish woman whose ragged clothing and unkempt hair attested to her need, she came to the food pantry where I …
ifederalist.wordpress.com
October 18, 2025 at 4:25 PM
My latest post on my “Alphabet Seeds” blog. I hope you like it. ifederalist.wordpress.com/2025/10/18/h...
Hakeem Jeffries Says Leavitt Is Either “Demented” or “Stone Cold Liar”
Source: The New Republic
Source: The New Republic
October 17, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Hakeem Jeffries Says Leavitt Is Either “Demented” or “Stone Cold Liar”
Source: The New Republic
Source: The New Republic
My latest blog post is out of this world. Read it here: ifederalist.wordpress.com/2025/10/08/u...
Undocumented alien phones home
News of an interstellar object in our solar system shifted my brain’s right hemisphere into hyperdrive. This is the unfortunate result. My close encounter of the third kind started innocently enoug…
ifederalist.wordpress.com
October 9, 2025 at 2:14 AM
My latest blog post is out of this world. Read it here: ifederalist.wordpress.com/2025/10/08/u...
My latest blog post. I hope you enjoy it. ifederalist.wordpress.com/2025/09/22/s...
Strolling through dystopia
Fog hangs over the soybean field near my home as I head out for a walk. It’s so early the streets are quiet and even the robins and wrens aren’t fully awake. It’s my perfect time, full of promise a…
ifederalist.wordpress.com
September 22, 2025 at 4:18 PM
My latest blog post. I hope you enjoy it. ifederalist.wordpress.com/2025/09/22/s...
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Moose musings
A momma moose gave me pause as she paused in a shallow Wyoming creek. All this second cousin to a deer wanted to do was munch on water lilies and aspen branches and perhaps cool her hooves in the m…
ifederalist.wordpress.com
September 15, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Beauty is all around us. Seek it out.
September 11, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Beauty is all around us. Seek it out.
Love and protect our natural beauty.
September 4, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Love and protect our natural beauty.
Take time to enjoy the beauty around you.
August 30, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Take time to enjoy the beauty around you.
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"Kennedy’s decision to oust Susan Monarez as director of the CDC over disagreements on vaccine policy proves that no one will provide an effective check on Kennedy — not Republican senators, not thoughtful leaders at HHS and certainly not President Donald Trump."
From the Editorial Board:
From the Editorial Board:
Opinion | RFK Jr. cannot be contained
The ouster of Susan Monarez from the CDC is an ominous sign for American public health.
wapo.st
August 28, 2025 at 9:05 PM
"Kennedy’s decision to oust Susan Monarez as director of the CDC over disagreements on vaccine policy proves that no one will provide an effective check on Kennedy — not Republican senators, not thoughtful leaders at HHS and certainly not President Donald Trump."
From the Editorial Board:
From the Editorial Board:
Enjoy the beauty around you.
August 27, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Enjoy the beauty around you.
A creative nonfiction piece for my latest blog post. I hope you enjoy it. ifederalist.wordpress.com/2025/08/25/m...
Memories of fudge
You park your walker near the stove in your tiny kitchen, checking on some cornbread you insist on baking simply because you have company. I breathe in the familiar aroma, and yet I see and smell a…
ifederalist.wordpress.com
August 26, 2025 at 2:06 AM
A creative nonfiction piece for my latest blog post. I hope you enjoy it. ifederalist.wordpress.com/2025/08/25/m...