Michael Bérubé
@michael-berube.bsky.social
Writer, teacher, ex-hockey player, occasional golfer, drummer, actor. All the opinions here are mine. Mine, I say!
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Fie on me for forgetting to tell all you Blue Sky people that Jamie has an Etsy shop and lots of artwork for sale! This is really the most important thing in the world right now.
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A lot of people don't know that the Heritage Foundation isn't actually a politically-minded organization but rather an association of guys who get together to watch sports.
The president of the Heritage Foundation, the think tank that oversaw Project 2025, claims that when he defended Tucker Carlson's softball interview with anti-semite Nick Fuentes, he didn't know who Fuentes was, because he doesn't watch much news but instead consumes “a lot of sports.”
Under Fire for Tucker Carlson Remarks, Think Tank Chief Pleads Ignorance
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November 14, 2025 at 3:54 PM
A lot of people don't know that the Heritage Foundation isn't actually a politically-minded organization but rather an association of guys who get together to watch sports.
That's because those Republicans are still so angry that Obama spent $1.7 trillion of their tax dollars to build a blackety black black basketball court and to paint the entire White House black, just like George Clinton told him to do.
Most Americans oppose the obliteration of a third of the White House. But most Republicans support it … and are more likely to support it if they’ve seen photos and videos of the destruction. www.pbump.net/o/yes-most-a...
Yes, most Americans oppose the East Wing demolition. But…
It's one of those sentences one can write about the second Trump administration that would have seemed ludicrously hyperbolic one year ago, but it is nonetheless true: The president of the United Stat...
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October 31, 2025 at 3:07 AM
That's because those Republicans are still so angry that Obama spent $1.7 trillion of their tax dollars to build a blackety black black basketball court and to paint the entire White House black, just like George Clinton told him to do.
New MAGA WaPo coming down hard on those irresponsible Democrats and their costly Obamacare subsidies
October 30, 2025 at 8:15 PM
New MAGA WaPo coming down hard on those irresponsible Democrats and their costly Obamacare subsidies
This will be a thing! Next Wednesday, Oct 22. Title: "Is There a Higher Education Crisis?" Answer: oh hell yes
We are getting excited for our event next week with @llassabe.bsky.social, @michael-berube.bsky.social, and @isaackamola.bsky.social!
Register at the link below to join us!
Register at the link below to join us!
Oct. 22 | Webinar: "Is There a Higher Education Crisis?”:
Amid government intervention, shifting finances and competing perspectives, America’s colleges campuses face a new era. How did we get here?
Learn with us: bit.ly/4gXHJzB
Amid government intervention, shifting finances and competing perspectives, America’s colleges campuses face a new era. How did we get here?
Learn with us: bit.ly/4gXHJzB
October 14, 2025 at 7:35 PM
This will be a thing! Next Wednesday, Oct 22. Title: "Is There a Higher Education Crisis?" Answer: oh hell yes
Following yesterday's spectacular success in his "grooming and violence" seminar, Secretary of Warcraft Hegseth plans a followup lecture to the brass. Part 1 will address communications security during military operations. Part 2 will be an extra manly demonstration of ax-throwing. tiny.cc/51bt001
Fox News host throws ax, hits drummer
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October 2, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Following yesterday's spectacular success in his "grooming and violence" seminar, Secretary of Warcraft Hegseth plans a followup lecture to the brass. Part 1 will address communications security during military operations. Part 2 will be an extra manly demonstration of ax-throwing. tiny.cc/51bt001
Though to be serious for a moment it really was kind of genius of Hegseth to summon a thousand admirals and generals to come to Quantico so that he could lecture them in person on grooming standards and blame them for losing wars
Pete Hegseth orders all US military personnel to look exactly like Pete Hegseth
Promises to transform the troops "from woke to bloke"
Promises to transform the troops "from woke to bloke"
September 30, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Though to be serious for a moment it really was kind of genius of Hegseth to summon a thousand admirals and generals to come to Quantico so that he could lecture them in person on grooming standards and blame them for losing wars
A nice review from ALH! And what a surprise to hear good news about something these days.
"[A] refreshing and engaging analysis of continuing speculations on the future of humanity."
THE EX-HUMAN: SCIENCE FICTION & THE FATE OF OUR SPECIES, by Michael Bérubé, reviewed in American Literary History. tinyurl.com/5dz7tavv @columbiaup.bsky.social
THE EX-HUMAN: SCIENCE FICTION & THE FATE OF OUR SPECIES, by Michael Bérubé, reviewed in American Literary History. tinyurl.com/5dz7tavv @columbiaup.bsky.social
September 30, 2025 at 6:58 PM
A nice review from ALH! And what a surprise to hear good news about something these days.
Pete Hegseth orders all US military personnel to look exactly like Pete Hegseth
Promises to transform the troops "from woke to bloke"
Promises to transform the troops "from woke to bloke"
September 30, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Pete Hegseth orders all US military personnel to look exactly like Pete Hegseth
Promises to transform the troops "from woke to bloke"
Promises to transform the troops "from woke to bloke"
Remember, according to the Supreme Court it's not bribery unless the money comes in an envelope marked "bribe," and for Ilya Shapiro it's not government suppression of speech unless there are actual government fingerprints on the suppression-of-speech memorandum
This really is the final expression of "libertarianism" as it is practiced in the US today.
September 18, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Remember, according to the Supreme Court it's not bribery unless the money comes in an envelope marked "bribe," and for Ilya Shapiro it's not government suppression of speech unless there are actual government fingerprints on the suppression-of-speech memorandum
I am so old that I remember @jesseltaylor.bsky.social and Ezra from the early blogosphere days of Pandagon and let's just say that one of these guys turned out all right
I...I can't even with this
"Much of what I would describe as Kirk's worst moments were now just standard fair MAGA Republicanism. And the leader of MAGA Republicanism is the President of the United States...we are going to have to live here with each other believing what we believe. Disagreeing in the ways we disagree."
September 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I am so old that I remember @jesseltaylor.bsky.social and Ezra from the early blogosphere days of Pandagon and let's just say that one of these guys turned out all right
This might be a good time to reflect on the fact that one reason the MAGA right hates liberals and progressives-- I mean, really really hates, with the blazing fire of a thousand AR-15s-- is that we think American gun culture is profoundly warped and very very dangerous. Dangerous to everyone.
September 14, 2025 at 3:23 PM
This might be a good time to reflect on the fact that one reason the MAGA right hates liberals and progressives-- I mean, really really hates, with the blazing fire of a thousand AR-15s-- is that we think American gun culture is profoundly warped and very very dangerous. Dangerous to everyone.
Followup: Brian Kilmeade acknowledges possible "unsanitary" consequences to mass killings of mentally unstable homeless people, proposes that they prepare mass graves for themselves before their elimination.
Anyone who criticizes him will be deported. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
Anyone who criticizes him will be deported. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
Brian Kilmeade is a hero of free speech whose statue should be in the Capitol rotunda
Just to be clear: Brian Kilmeade *did not* endorse euthanizing homeless people. He advocated MURDERING over 700,000 of them.
And on a network that has been *beside itself* over the murder of just one man this week.
And on a network that has been *beside itself* over the murder of just one man this week.
September 14, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Followup: Brian Kilmeade acknowledges possible "unsanitary" consequences to mass killings of mentally unstable homeless people, proposes that they prepare mass graves for themselves before their elimination.
Anyone who criticizes him will be deported. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
Anyone who criticizes him will be deported. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
Brian Kilmeade is a hero of free speech whose statue should be in the Capitol rotunda
Just to be clear: Brian Kilmeade *did not* endorse euthanizing homeless people. He advocated MURDERING over 700,000 of them.
And on a network that has been *beside itself* over the murder of just one man this week.
And on a network that has been *beside itself* over the murder of just one man this week.
September 13, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Brian Kilmeade is a hero of free speech whose statue should be in the Capitol rotunda
Trump Administration announces new initiative, Willowbrook II: Willowbrook With a Vengeance
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Trump order pushes forcible hospitalization of homeless people
Trump’s executive order could increase hospitalization of homeless individuals with mental health and substance use disorders.
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July 25, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Trump Administration announces new initiative, Willowbrook II: Willowbrook With a Vengeance
tiny.cc/vs9q001
tiny.cc/vs9q001
New deluxe streaming service TrumpTV will televise Everglades Immigrant Internment Camp inmates being eaten by alligators beginning August 1. $49/month, bitcoin preferred.
I just left the Everglades Immigrant Interment Camp. No, I’m not using their ridiculous name. It was a very tough to witness humans in those cages. Every Floridian should be ashamed that our taxpayer money is being used for this.
July 13, 2025 at 7:41 PM
New deluxe streaming service TrumpTV will televise Everglades Immigrant Internment Camp inmates being eaten by alligators beginning August 1. $49/month, bitcoin preferred.
I keep returning to the fact that these are the atrocities MAGA world absolutely *loves*
So is this guy just stuck in a foreign gulag ... forever?
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He left Venezuela for the US, dreaming of a career in cosmetics. He was deported to a Salvadoran prison | CNN
A year ago, Andry José Hernández Romero left Venezuela to seek a better future in the United States.
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July 8, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I keep returning to the fact that these are the atrocities MAGA world absolutely *loves*
Sending proleptic thoughts and prayers to the families of all the children in Texas who will be killed by their state government's lurid gun fetish
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Texas bans red-flag laws that allow guns to be taken from owners in crisis
Texas has banned red-flag laws that allow guns to be temporarily taken from people in crisis and made it easier to own sawed-off shotguns.
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June 24, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Sending proleptic thoughts and prayers to the families of all the children in Texas who will be killed by their state government's lurid gun fetish
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
Trump furious with Netanyahu, says "he promised me this would be just the tip of the spear"
June 24, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Trump furious with Netanyahu, says "he promised me this would be just the tip of the spear"
I'm on the fence about Andrew Cuomo until he earns Anthony Weiner's endorsement
June 23, 2025 at 2:08 PM
I'm on the fence about Andrew Cuomo until he earns Anthony Weiner's endorsement
Trump planning dramatic landing on USS Abraham Lincoln later this week, piloting his gold-plated Qatari Boeing 747-8
June 22, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Trump planning dramatic landing on USS Abraham Lincoln later this week, piloting his gold-plated Qatari Boeing 747-8
Pretty sure Obama called this one 14 years ago
June 21, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Pretty sure Obama called this one 14 years ago
Reposted by Michael Bérubé
Not content with desecrating the Oval Office with his tacky, gold spray-painted bric-a-brac, Donald is now paving over the Rose Garden to turn it into a Mar-a-Lago-style patio. Wherever Trump goes, he leaves behind a trail of vulgarity.
June 21, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Not content with desecrating the Oval Office with his tacky, gold spray-painted bric-a-brac, Donald is now paving over the Rose Garden to turn it into a Mar-a-Lago-style patio. Wherever Trump goes, he leaves behind a trail of vulgarity.
Juneteenth is a day of mourning for the White House. Next year they hope to replace it with Make America a Slave State Again, or MASSA.
Juneteenth went uncelebrated by the White House. That alone says everything you need to know about this regime.
June 20, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Juneteenth is a day of mourning for the White House. Next year they hope to replace it with Make America a Slave State Again, or MASSA.
While this is true, I have a different take. Eventually we'll learn that Elon Musk : Donald Trump :: Andy Kaufman : Jerry Lawler.
the right is SO laser focused on other people’s genitalia
June 6, 2025 at 12:19 PM
While this is true, I have a different take. Eventually we'll learn that Elon Musk : Donald Trump :: Andy Kaufman : Jerry Lawler.