rustyeire
@rustyeire.bsky.social
Proud Dem. USAF Vet. Lawyer, Emeritus. #AT40. #TeamPete. #NoKings. Stevens-Eliot-Yeats-Heaney-Faulkner devotee. The music died when the Beatles stopped making it. ☘️Éire☘️. O merciful gods, smite the MAGA mutts! Republicans: Hamlet's "maggots in a dead dog."
Nailed it. Best magazine cover of the year, if not the decade.
November 19, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Nailed it. Best magazine cover of the year, if not the decade.
I admire "I'm a Lectern's" devotion to now meaningless distinctions, but I'm content to award 5 stars for what a cruel & vindictive retaliatory type would no doubt correctly term "pedantry." Me? I consider myself a kinder, gentler person, so will award those stars for "purism." Keep on lecterning!
October 31, 2025 at 5:51 PM
I admire "I'm a Lectern's" devotion to now meaningless distinctions, but I'm content to award 5 stars for what a cruel & vindictive retaliatory type would no doubt correctly term "pedantry." Me? I consider myself a kinder, gentler person, so will award those stars for "purism." Keep on lecterning!
1.] If you were dense enough, stupid enough, clueless enough, to not see what was happening when the corporate goons at CBS slit Stephen Colbert's throat, well maybe now you can open your eyes. All the feckin' MAGAts complaining about comparisons of their soulless, witless, vile selves to Nazis ...
September 18, 2025 at 1:09 AM
1.] If you were dense enough, stupid enough, clueless enough, to not see what was happening when the corporate goons at CBS slit Stephen Colbert's throat, well maybe now you can open your eyes. All the feckin' MAGAts complaining about comparisons of their soulless, witless, vile selves to Nazis ...
It's been a dozen years, Seamus. Miss you so. The world so desperately needs poetry, your poetry, any poetry, to dispel the awful cloud of darkness that envelops every one of us now. Would that we all could experience, if just for a moment, the epiphany you had that day in County Clare. #booksky
August 30, 2025 at 7:07 PM
It's been a dozen years, Seamus. Miss you so. The world so desperately needs poetry, your poetry, any poetry, to dispel the awful cloud of darkness that envelops every one of us now. Would that we all could experience, if just for a moment, the epiphany you had that day in County Clare. #booksky
As perfect a description of this maggot-ridden mound of manure, as I've read. This colossal POS, Vance, Miller, Noem, Rubio, the cadre of sycophant-psychopaths that daily kiss his oversized, diaper-rashed ass‑‑-an extraordinary portrait of a country that's not only "lost its soul" but revels in it.
August 30, 2025 at 6:19 PM
As perfect a description of this maggot-ridden mound of manure, as I've read. This colossal POS, Vance, Miller, Noem, Rubio, the cadre of sycophant-psychopaths that daily kiss his oversized, diaper-rashed ass‑‑-an extraordinary portrait of a country that's not only "lost its soul" but revels in it.
Kudos to @adamkinzinger.substack.com (for the added red oval) & to this photographer for perfectly timing the shutter & taking a photo that captures Trump's disastrous, bogus, Nobel Prize-craving PR event gone wrong. Deserves a Pulitzer in the "Political Relevance" category, if there is one. . . .
August 16, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Kudos to @adamkinzinger.substack.com (for the added red oval) & to this photographer for perfectly timing the shutter & taking a photo that captures Trump's disastrous, bogus, Nobel Prize-craving PR event gone wrong. Deserves a Pulitzer in the "Political Relevance" category, if there is one. . . .
@sctndp.bsky.social Crucial fact to chase down, Sullivan Co. journalists: how many "rural community" family voters routinely vote for Republicans? What? You DO vote Republican?!? Y'know what? When you lose that job funded by Medicaid & your hospital goes belly up, do me a large favor, please. STFU.
August 16, 2025 at 6:48 PM
@sctndp.bsky.social Crucial fact to chase down, Sullivan Co. journalists: how many "rural community" family voters routinely vote for Republicans? What? You DO vote Republican?!? Y'know what? When you lose that job funded by Medicaid & your hospital goes belly up, do me a large favor, please. STFU.
[1] This is what passes for humor from Trump/MAGA, DHS, Go-Go Boot DeSantis, Kristi "Puppy-Killer" Noem, Tom Inhuman Homan, and the masked Jan. 6th-affiliated Gestapo thugs systematically disappearing citizens and non-citizens (both protected by 14th Amendment due process, citizens or . . . [more]
June 29, 2025 at 7:30 PM
[1] This is what passes for humor from Trump/MAGA, DHS, Go-Go Boot DeSantis, Kristi "Puppy-Killer" Noem, Tom Inhuman Homan, and the masked Jan. 6th-affiliated Gestapo thugs systematically disappearing citizens and non-citizens (both protected by 14th Amendment due process, citizens or . . . [more]
Jaysus, but politicians are the lowest form of critter crawling on the earth. Just waiting now for Maine's Susan Collins to wail about how "concerned" she is about her constituents after voting for it. The poor & the middle class (except for fishermen & SNAP recipients in Alaska) are royally fucked.
June 29, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Jaysus, but politicians are the lowest form of critter crawling on the earth. Just waiting now for Maine's Susan Collins to wail about how "concerned" she is about her constituents after voting for it. The poor & the middle class (except for fishermen & SNAP recipients in Alaska) are royally fucked.
(1) It amazes me to see so many in our country roll over for this capitulation from all across the 4th estate. Our country is dying before our eyes, but . . . the NFL season is coming, & the Knicks need a new coach, & we have 3 and a half years to right the ship of state. I'm too . . . [more]
June 9, 2025 at 10:04 PM
(1) It amazes me to see so many in our country roll over for this capitulation from all across the 4th estate. Our country is dying before our eyes, but . . . the NFL season is coming, & the Knicks need a new coach, & we have 3 and a half years to right the ship of state. I'm too . . . [more]
It struck me today, amidst the news of Francis's death, that he bore an uncanny resemblance to Jonathan Pryce. Even as an atheist with a view of the clergy that rarely rises above the dubious, I've got to say that Francis was a good & beneficent man in an age that lacks them. No "High Sparrow," he.
April 21, 2025 at 4:59 PM
It struck me today, amidst the news of Francis's death, that he bore an uncanny resemblance to Jonathan Pryce. Even as an atheist with a view of the clergy that rarely rises above the dubious, I've got to say that Francis was a good & beneficent man in an age that lacks them. No "High Sparrow," he.
Why would anyone in their right mind hire gutless lawyers from a shitbag law firm, no matter its "prominence," who are so ignorant, so naive, so craven, so incompetent, that they did not see this coming from miles away?
April 16, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Why would anyone in their right mind hire gutless lawyers from a shitbag law firm, no matter its "prominence," who are so ignorant, so naive, so craven, so incompetent, that they did not see this coming from miles away?
Are you feckin' kidding me?!? They're giving Musk access to US/China Top Secret WAR PLANS and the feckin' New York Times notes an "expansion of his role" and "conflicts of interest"?? Those are the essential, newsworthy points?? NYT‑‑-the Chuck Schumer of mainstream media. Worthless hacks, all.
March 21, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Are you feckin' kidding me?!? They're giving Musk access to US/China Top Secret WAR PLANS and the feckin' New York Times notes an "expansion of his role" and "conflicts of interest"?? Those are the essential, newsworthy points?? NYT‑‑-the Chuck Schumer of mainstream media. Worthless hacks, all.
Friday. March 14th. 12 noon. Veterans march in protest of VA cuts and Project 2025. In Washington, D.C. and every one of the 50 State Capitals. I'll be marching in Albany, NY. Join us in protest against what Trump, Musk, MAGA, & craven GOP sycophants are doing to vets in this country. 🇺🇸
March 9, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Friday. March 14th. 12 noon. Veterans march in protest of VA cuts and Project 2025. In Washington, D.C. and every one of the 50 State Capitals. I'll be marching in Albany, NY. Join us in protest against what Trump, Musk, MAGA, & craven GOP sycophants are doing to vets in this country. 🇺🇸
(1) You just KNOW Jared's salivating in the shadows. Trump & Kushner Golf Resorts on the Eastern Mediterranean. Mar-a-Lagos-a-Gaza. The colossal extent of the grift is utterly breathtaking. The MAGAts are too stupid or indoctrinated or both to absorb it. The entirety of the GOP are too feckin' ....
February 5, 2025 at 2:38 AM
(1) You just KNOW Jared's salivating in the shadows. Trump & Kushner Golf Resorts on the Eastern Mediterranean. Mar-a-Lagos-a-Gaza. The colossal extent of the grift is utterly breathtaking. The MAGAts are too stupid or indoctrinated or both to absorb it. The entirety of the GOP are too feckin' ....
Trump's imaginary "Deep State" is now the "MAGA Clown State." Hoping to be in Ireland again before I die, maybe buy a place there, & after I sidle up to the bar in the local, order my Green Spot, neat, with a Guinness chaser, & the freastalaí beáir asks where I'm from? Canada. Most decidedly Canada.
February 4, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Trump's imaginary "Deep State" is now the "MAGA Clown State." Hoping to be in Ireland again before I die, maybe buy a place there, & after I sidle up to the bar in the local, order my Green Spot, neat, with a Guinness chaser, & the freastalaí beáir asks where I'm from? Canada. Most decidedly Canada.
FBI is fighting back. Someone needs to give Chuck Feckin' Schumer a long vacation & replace him with a real LEADER. Cory Booker. Adam Schiff. Chris Murphy. Sheldon Whitehouse. Even feckin’ 83-year-old Bernie Sanders, ferchrissakes. Anyone but Schumer. Someone who can FIGHT, dirty if necessary.
February 4, 2025 at 8:11 PM
FBI is fighting back. Someone needs to give Chuck Feckin' Schumer a long vacation & replace him with a real LEADER. Cory Booker. Adam Schiff. Chris Murphy. Sheldon Whitehouse. Even feckin’ 83-year-old Bernie Sanders, ferchrissakes. Anyone but Schumer. Someone who can FIGHT, dirty if necessary.