Donald Mengay
@nukuheva.bsky.social
Author of The Eldorado Trilogy: The Lede to Our Undoing, Ojo, and Bare Life; website: www.donaldmengay.com. Post-humanist and veg. Queer before birth.
This is so f'ing wrong
January 3, 2026 at 5:11 PM
This is so f'ing wrong
Check out my latest blog post! About the dynamics of up and down, insider and outsider.
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Directions to Heaven and Hell
For decades I used to ask my students where heaven was, then hell, and predictably they responded as one might expect, up and down respectively. Occasionally one would remark that there is no heaven o...
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December 16, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Check out my latest blog post! About the dynamics of up and down, insider and outsider.
www.donaldmengay.com/post/directi...
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Check out my latest blog post, on the dynamics of the dinner plate, written after a half-century-plus of cooking for a giant army of eaters, dinner party after dinner party.
www.donaldmengay.com/post/eaters
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Eaters
My husband and I have been entertaining guests since we were first together, going on forty-five years. I did the cooking during that time primarily, for many hundreds of guests by now, preparing no d...
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December 8, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Check out my latest blog post, on the dynamics of the dinner plate, written after a half-century-plus of cooking for a giant army of eaters, dinner party after dinner party.
www.donaldmengay.com/post/eaters
www.donaldmengay.com/post/eaters
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@newyorkstateag.bsky.social Standing with you proudly!! So thankful for all you've done. Don't give in to bullies and bigots; the corrupt who abuse power.
October 9, 2025 at 9:29 PM
@newyorkstateag.bsky.social Standing with you proudly!! So thankful for all you've done. Don't give in to bullies and bigots; the corrupt who abuse power.
Actually the country going to hell is the US. When are congressional Republicans gonna grow a spine and stand up to Trump?
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‘Your Countries Are Going to Hell’: Trump Airs His Grievances at the U.N.
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September 23, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Actually the country going to hell is the US. When are congressional Republicans gonna grow a spine and stand up to Trump?
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Check out my latest blog post, on the christian will to absolute political power.
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Caesar's Portion
If anyone needs proof of the way christian writers lifted passages, including from each other, they might take a look at the biblical episode on the Caesarean tax. The pharisees are out to trip up the...
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September 20, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Check out my latest blog post, on the christian will to absolute political power.
www.donaldmengay.com/post/caesar-...
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The Smithsonian caved. The cowards!! What is art that doesn't push boundaries?
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Amy Sherald Cancels Her Smithsonian Show, Citing Censorship
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July 24, 2025 at 5:09 PM
The Smithsonian caved. The cowards!! What is art that doesn't push boundaries?
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Canadians got that right, among other things.
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Opinion | ‘He’s Nuts, Your Trump.’ Canada Unites Against America.
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July 13, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Canadians got that right, among other things.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/o...
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Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government.
No one has heard from you in 111 days.
As vigil, I’m posting a photo or video of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.
No one has heard from you in 111 days.
As vigil, I’m posting a photo or video of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.
July 4, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government.
No one has heard from you in 111 days.
As vigil, I’m posting a photo or video of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.
No one has heard from you in 111 days.
As vigil, I’m posting a photo or video of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.
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Nothing at all new here. What's new in my lifetime is that the majority in the legistlative branch could care less about the president's many crimes.
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Opinion | Could the Third Time Be the Charm on Impeachment?
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June 17, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Nothing at all new here. What's new in my lifetime is that the majority in the legistlative branch could care less about the president's many crimes.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/o...
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Masked agents in unmarked cars disappearing people from the street and shipping them to a dictator’s prison. Executive branch officials blowing off federal court orders, wrestling members of Congress to the ground and handcuffing them for asking a question. Smells like fascism.
June 14, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Masked agents in unmarked cars disappearing people from the street and shipping them to a dictator’s prison. Executive branch officials blowing off federal court orders, wrestling members of Congress to the ground and handcuffing them for asking a question. Smells like fascism.
Apparently people who storm the capital are heroes, but people who protest peacefully against a police state are criminals.
June 10, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Apparently people who storm the capital are heroes, but people who protest peacefully against a police state are criminals.
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"It is up to us to get him back. It is up to us to free him because the US is a government still, for this moment, of by and for the people!"
Watch @timmiller.bsky.social's speech from the Supreme Court demanding that Andry is freed now.
Donate to help at freeandry.org
Watch @timmiller.bsky.social's speech from the Supreme Court demanding that Andry is freed now.
Donate to help at freeandry.org
June 7, 2025 at 3:19 PM
"It is up to us to get him back. It is up to us to free him because the US is a government still, for this moment, of by and for the people!"
Watch @timmiller.bsky.social's speech from the Supreme Court demanding that Andry is freed now.
Donate to help at freeandry.org
Watch @timmiller.bsky.social's speech from the Supreme Court demanding that Andry is freed now.
Donate to help at freeandry.org
Unlike others on the Court Justice Coney Barrett knew when it was right to recuse. I don't know how she would have voted, but at least the wall between church and state holds slightly firmer--though who knows how long.
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US supreme court blocks religious charter school in split ruling
Case’s 4-4 ruling leaves intact lower court’s decision that blocked establishment of Oklahoma school
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May 22, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Unlike others on the Court Justice Coney Barrett knew when it was right to recuse. I don't know how she would have voted, but at least the wall between church and state holds slightly firmer--though who knows how long.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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I couldn't agree with this more. Know when to retire! Bravo Justice Souter. You had a life outside the Court.
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Opinion | The Man Who Knew When to Step Down
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May 22, 2025 at 3:34 PM
I couldn't agree with this more. Know when to retire! Bravo Justice Souter. You had a life outside the Court.
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