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.
This is not going to hold up too well in the war crime trials.
Rubio on former colleagues who say he's abandoned his principles: "There's things people can say do in private that they can't in public...but at the end of the day, the person the people elected POTUS is Donald J Trump. That's who they elected. My job is to implement the president's foreign policy"
December 19, 2025 at 8:29 PM
This is not going to hold up too well in the war crime trials.
Last time I checked, Venezuela was on another continent too….
Rubio on Russia-Ukraine: "It's not our war. It's a war on another continent."
December 19, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Last time I checked, Venezuela was on another continent too….
I'm an ENGLISH PROF and I understand this isn't how percentages work. And of course they're not that stupid -- they think WE'RE that stupid.
FOX: If you cut something by 100%, the cost goes down to 0. If you cut it by 600%, the drug companies are actually paying you
LUTNICK: What he's saying is if a drug was $100 and you bring it down to $13, it's down 7 times
F: Not a 600% cut
L: But it's 700% higher price before. It's down 700% now
LUTNICK: What he's saying is if a drug was $100 and you bring it down to $13, it's down 7 times
F: Not a 600% cut
L: But it's 700% higher price before. It's down 700% now
December 18, 2025 at 9:16 PM
I'm an ENGLISH PROF and I understand this isn't how percentages work. And of course they're not that stupid -- they think WE'RE that stupid.
Do they . . . think that President Kennedy is still alive? And also, 🤮
Kennedy Center to be renamed Trump-Kennedy Center —Karoline Leavitt x.com/PressSec/sta...
December 18, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Do they . . . think that President Kennedy is still alive? And also, 🤮
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This explains why so many Republican men are going without
Dr Oz: "The creation of a penis costs on average in America $150,000 per child ... if you add testicles, that's extra"
December 18, 2025 at 4:50 PM
This explains why so many Republican men are going without
The toddler-in-chief is gleefully defacing our most revered public monuments and no “conservative”will say a word against it.
December 17, 2025 at 9:25 PM
The toddler-in-chief is gleefully defacing our most revered public monuments and no “conservative”will say a word against it.
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Simon Tolkien’s Literary Journey:
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…
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December 17, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Simon Tolkien’s Literary Journey:
Welp, looks like Machine Gun Lips is the only toady who remains on his side on this particular issue, at least.
SORKIN: I'm going to ask you a question you won't love. Can you speak to the president's disparaging comments about Rob Reiner?
JOHNSON: Our prayers are with the Reiner family
S: What about the president's comments?
J: That's not the way I would have done it. I don't know what else I can say
JOHNSON: Our prayers are with the Reiner family
S: What about the president's comments?
J: That's not the way I would have done it. I don't know what else I can say
December 17, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Welp, looks like Machine Gun Lips is the only toady who remains on his side on this particular issue, at least.
"When the govt has to subsidize a program that benefits poor and non-white people, that means it's not working." Original quote edited for hypocrisy.
FOX: The ACA has never been more popular. Republicans are losing on this messaging. How do you talk to Americans who say the Republicans don't have a plan?
REP. BUDDY CARTER: You explain it by explaining it's not working. When the govt has to subsidize a program, that means it's not working
REP. BUDDY CARTER: You explain it by explaining it's not working. When the govt has to subsidize a program, that means it's not working
December 16, 2025 at 2:02 PM
"When the govt has to subsidize a program that benefits poor and non-white people, that means it's not working." Original quote edited for hypocrisy.
We have a president who gets so much joy from the horrible deaths of people he dislikes that sometimes he just gets impatient and murders them himself.
December 16, 2025 at 2:50 AM
We have a president who gets so much joy from the horrible deaths of people he dislikes that sometimes he just gets impatient and murders them himself.
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Armed Parkland police officers ran away
Armed Uvalde police officers refused to act
Unarmed Arab Muslim Ahmed el Ahmed took 2 bullets to protect Jewish neighbors & stopped the mass shooter with his bare hands
Never forget: A good guy w/o a gun had more courage than 100s of cops with unlimited guns
Armed Uvalde police officers refused to act
Unarmed Arab Muslim Ahmed el Ahmed took 2 bullets to protect Jewish neighbors & stopped the mass shooter with his bare hands
Never forget: A good guy w/o a gun had more courage than 100s of cops with unlimited guns
December 15, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Armed Parkland police officers ran away
Armed Uvalde police officers refused to act
Unarmed Arab Muslim Ahmed el Ahmed took 2 bullets to protect Jewish neighbors & stopped the mass shooter with his bare hands
Never forget: A good guy w/o a gun had more courage than 100s of cops with unlimited guns
Armed Uvalde police officers refused to act
Unarmed Arab Muslim Ahmed el Ahmed took 2 bullets to protect Jewish neighbors & stopped the mass shooter with his bare hands
Never forget: A good guy w/o a gun had more courage than 100s of cops with unlimited guns
A whole lot of good and innocent folks left the world violently and too soon these last couple of days, and now this loss, which will touch anyone who loved any of his many wonderful films. Their memories for a blessing; hold your loved ones close.
Rob Reiner, the legendary director and actor who rose to prominence in 'All in the Family' and went on to direct classics 'This Is Spinal Tap,' 'Stand by Me,' and 'The Princess Bride,' was found dead in his home alongside his wife.
Story: rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...
Story: rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...
December 15, 2025 at 4:25 AM
A whole lot of good and innocent folks left the world violently and too soon these last couple of days, and now this loss, which will touch anyone who loved any of his many wonderful films. Their memories for a blessing; hold your loved ones close.
20 for 20 baby! I’m a boomer! (For the record, I STILL have a physical check book. I only write 2-3 a year, but I keep it as a backup to my Quicken app.)
December 14, 2025 at 4:23 AM
20 for 20 baby! I’m a boomer! (For the record, I STILL have a physical check book. I only write 2-3 a year, but I keep it as a backup to my Quicken app.)
I am totally with all the commenters who recommend taking all but $5 of every billionaire's cash and dumping them in the Amazon and on top of the Himalayas and into the jungles of the Congo. Maybe a few into the middle of Antarctica just for fun.
Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.
December 13, 2025 at 8:06 PM
I am totally with all the commenters who recommend taking all but $5 of every billionaire's cash and dumping them in the Amazon and on top of the Himalayas and into the jungles of the Congo. Maybe a few into the middle of Antarctica just for fun.
Thanks to @scalzi.com for a lesson plan for next semester’s first-year composition class!
Today in "Don't Trust AI to Tell You Facts": How several different "AI" programs messed up the simple fact of to whom I dedicated a book, and what that means for how much you should trust "AI" to tell you the truth about things (spoiler: not much at all):
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“AI”: A Dedicated Fact-Failing Machine, or, Yet Another Reason Not to Trust It For Anything
I search my name on a regular basis, not only because I am an ego monster (although I try not to pretend that I’m not) but because it’s a good way for me to find reviews, end-of-the-yea…
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December 13, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Thanks to @scalzi.com for a lesson plan for next semester’s first-year composition class!
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I hope people understand that if Trump gets his way America will soon be part of the global axis of evil if we aren't already. You see it in the Caribbean, you see it in Ukraine, and you see it with Trump trying to buddy up to Xi. We are a malevolent force.
December 10, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I hope people understand that if Trump gets his way America will soon be part of the global axis of evil if we aren't already. You see it in the Caribbean, you see it in Ukraine, and you see it with Trump trying to buddy up to Xi. We are a malevolent force.
Hello, Congress? Any comment on the war your Dear Leader is starting without your approval?
Trump: "It's been an interesting day from the standpoint of news. As you probably know, we've just seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela. Largest one ever seized actually. And other things are happening."
December 10, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Hello, Congress? Any comment on the war your Dear Leader is starting without your approval?
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Reminder that Trump denied calling nations with lots of Black and brown people "shit holes," but now he admits it. So he lied.
December 10, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Reminder that Trump denied calling nations with lots of Black and brown people "shit holes," but now he admits it. So he lied.
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something you have to understand about Trump & his weird comments about the economy is that the dude hasn't paid for anything like a normal person in decades - never pumps gas, never buys groceries - so he's completely & utterly out of touch with what life is like for most of us
December 9, 2025 at 5:46 PM
something you have to understand about Trump & his weird comments about the economy is that the dude hasn't paid for anything like a normal person in decades - never pumps gas, never buys groceries - so he's completely & utterly out of touch with what life is like for most of us
I promise to subscribe the first major news media outlet that headlines this, "President Trump promises to increase infant deaths very substantially."
Q: Would you support ending federal vaccine mandates and just making those recommendations for schools?
TRUMP: We're looking at a lot of things having to do with vaccines. We're going to be reducing it very substantially
TRUMP: We're looking at a lot of things having to do with vaccines. We're going to be reducing it very substantially
December 8, 2025 at 9:47 PM
I promise to subscribe the first major news media outlet that headlines this, "President Trump promises to increase infant deaths very substantially."
Even HE admits that his name is synonymous with "lies."
Trump: "I say that our soybeans -- I told this to President Xi -- our soybeans are more nutritious than competitors. Somebody said, 'Is that a Trump statement, or is that real?' You know who asked me that question? President Xi. But that's what I hear."
December 8, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Even HE admits that his name is synonymous with "lies."
This is going to make quite a dent in the alleged pile of money sitting on the "tariff shelf."
Trump administration announcing $12 billion in one-time payments to farmers n.pr/3KyYPrO
Trump administration announcing $12 billion in one-time payments to farmers
Trump administration announcing $12 billion in one-time payments to farmers
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December 8, 2025 at 7:41 PM
This is going to make quite a dent in the alleged pile of money sitting on the "tariff shelf."
Schmitt defends his boss' war crimes by saying over 100,000 Americans a year are killed by fentanyl. 127,00 are killed/injured by American guns -- should we bomb our own gun dealerships and factories?
STEPHANOPOULOS: Do you support the pardon of the former Honduran president?
SCHMITT: I'm not familiar w/ the facts or circumstances
S: What do you mean you're not familiar? It's been front page news
SCHMITT: You spew Democrat talking points every single week, which is why your ratings are so bad
SCHMITT: I'm not familiar w/ the facts or circumstances
S: What do you mean you're not familiar? It's been front page news
SCHMITT: You spew Democrat talking points every single week, which is why your ratings are so bad
December 7, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Schmitt defends his boss' war crimes by saying over 100,000 Americans a year are killed by fentanyl. 127,00 are killed/injured by American guns -- should we bomb our own gun dealerships and factories?
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TRUMP: *calls Somalis "garbage"*
OMAR: The president is a bigot
NEWSMAX:
OMAR: The president is a bigot
NEWSMAX:
December 7, 2025 at 2:28 PM
TRUMP: *calls Somalis "garbage"*
OMAR: The president is a bigot
NEWSMAX:
OMAR: The president is a bigot
NEWSMAX:
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Note how the Kennedy Center ribbons are blue, instead of the traditional rainbow colors. Because the Trump administration never gets too preoccupied with its racism to overlook its homophobia.
December 7, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Note how the Kennedy Center ribbons are blue, instead of the traditional rainbow colors. Because the Trump administration never gets too preoccupied with its racism to overlook its homophobia.