Bryan Sorohan
@bsorohan.bsky.social
Retired professor until something interesting comes along
Just remembering how Bill Clinton attacked Al Qaeda bases in Afghanistan in 1998 after they bombed some of our embassies, and every smirking idiot out there started yapping, "Wag the Dog!"
Something to remember when Trump attacks Venezuela next week.
Something to remember when Trump attacks Venezuela next week.
November 14, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Just remembering how Bill Clinton attacked Al Qaeda bases in Afghanistan in 1998 after they bombed some of our embassies, and every smirking idiot out there started yapping, "Wag the Dog!"
Something to remember when Trump attacks Venezuela next week.
Something to remember when Trump attacks Venezuela next week.
I was reflecting on the likelihood that when Democrats regain power, we'll have a whole chorus of "Look forward not backward" from many of them, with few if any consequences for what Republicans have done. Before this week, I was starting to think maybe not. Now I think it will most likely happen.
November 12, 2025 at 4:02 PM
I was reflecting on the likelihood that when Democrats regain power, we'll have a whole chorus of "Look forward not backward" from many of them, with few if any consequences for what Republicans have done. Before this week, I was starting to think maybe not. Now I think it will most likely happen.
Man, I shudder to think of what we've become when we see somebody reading a book and think, "Fuck that performative asshole."
November 11, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Man, I shudder to think of what we've become when we see somebody reading a book and think, "Fuck that performative asshole."
Photo of a bordello in Storyville, New Orleans, ca. 1890's. Note the restrained decor in comparison.
November 11, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Photo of a bordello in Storyville, New Orleans, ca. 1890's. Note the restrained decor in comparison.
The time to deal with the people who kicked the chair out from under us is coming, next year or whenever they come up for re-election.
Now there really won't be any excuse not to release the Epstein files, and when Johnson tries to stonewall it again, that's the thing to direct anger towards.
Now there really won't be any excuse not to release the Epstein files, and when Johnson tries to stonewall it again, that's the thing to direct anger towards.
November 11, 2025 at 4:31 PM
The time to deal with the people who kicked the chair out from under us is coming, next year or whenever they come up for re-election.
Now there really won't be any excuse not to release the Epstein files, and when Johnson tries to stonewall it again, that's the thing to direct anger towards.
Now there really won't be any excuse not to release the Epstein files, and when Johnson tries to stonewall it again, that's the thing to direct anger towards.
If you need a pick-me-up today this ought to help.
November 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM
If you need a pick-me-up today this ought to help.
Oh, and thanks at least to my senators (Ossoff and Warnock) for holding the line.
November 10, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Oh, and thanks at least to my senators (Ossoff and Warnock) for holding the line.
At some point one of these people will ask you to send money so they can "fight for you." Don't.
Tim Kaine, Virginia
Catherine Cortez Masto, Nevada
John Fetterman, Pennsylvania
Maggie Hassan, New Hampshire
Dick Durbin, Illinois
Angus King, Maine
Jeanne Shaheen, New Hampshire
Jacky Rosen, Nevada
Tim Kaine, Virginia
Catherine Cortez Masto, Nevada
John Fetterman, Pennsylvania
Maggie Hassan, New Hampshire
Dick Durbin, Illinois
Angus King, Maine
Jeanne Shaheen, New Hampshire
Jacky Rosen, Nevada
November 10, 2025 at 2:47 PM
At some point one of these people will ask you to send money so they can "fight for you." Don't.
Tim Kaine, Virginia
Catherine Cortez Masto, Nevada
John Fetterman, Pennsylvania
Maggie Hassan, New Hampshire
Dick Durbin, Illinois
Angus King, Maine
Jeanne Shaheen, New Hampshire
Jacky Rosen, Nevada
Tim Kaine, Virginia
Catherine Cortez Masto, Nevada
John Fetterman, Pennsylvania
Maggie Hassan, New Hampshire
Dick Durbin, Illinois
Angus King, Maine
Jeanne Shaheen, New Hampshire
Jacky Rosen, Nevada
You know full well he was fuming about the scene not being a "good look."
When you're a sociopath and get angry that someone else's medical emergency, just four feet away, drew focus from your gloating and you forget which lie you were on.
November 6, 2025 at 10:17 PM
You know full well he was fuming about the scene not being a "good look."
So the lesson from all of this is that you should chew up a bite of your sandwich and open your mouth to show it to the ICE pricks to make them sick. I doubt that would stop all their whining, though.
November 6, 2025 at 10:03 PM
So the lesson from all of this is that you should chew up a bite of your sandwich and open your mouth to show it to the ICE pricks to make them sick. I doubt that would stop all their whining, though.
Somebody with an audience needs to start a countdown clock until the full SNAP benefits court-ordered to be paid are being received by the people who need them.
Thank goodness for the courts.
Thank goodness for the courts.
November 6, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Somebody with an audience needs to start a countdown clock until the full SNAP benefits court-ordered to be paid are being received by the people who need them.
Thank goodness for the courts.
Thank goodness for the courts.
Had Bill Wither's "Lovely Day" in my head all day yesterday.
November 6, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Had Bill Wither's "Lovely Day" in my head all day yesterday.
Anybody want to start a pool on when the New York Times starts complaining when Mamdani hasn't implemented all of his promises? My money says two weeks from his first day.
November 5, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Anybody want to start a pool on when the New York Times starts complaining when Mamdani hasn't implemented all of his promises? My money says two weeks from his first day.
Whether the Republicans end the filibuster or not, the first thing the Democrats need to do when they retake power, before they even sit down at their desks, is to end it immediately. I do not want to hear a damned peep about "comity" or "precedent" or "norms." Republicans have forfeited all that.
November 4, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Whether the Republicans end the filibuster or not, the first thing the Democrats need to do when they retake power, before they even sit down at their desks, is to end it immediately. I do not want to hear a damned peep about "comity" or "precedent" or "norms." Republicans have forfeited all that.
The only thing on the ballot here today was two openings on the Public Service Commission, but I drove Mom up there and we damned well voted for the Democrats in the race.
November 4, 2025 at 10:32 PM
The only thing on the ballot here today was two openings on the Public Service Commission, but I drove Mom up there and we damned well voted for the Democrats in the race.
I was remembering how George W, Bush and Dick Cheney were both residents of Texas but the VP couldn't be from the same state as the President, so they claimed Cheney was from Wyoming instead.
And I realized that was a quaint homage to norms and rules that we would never see today.
And I realized that was a quaint homage to norms and rules that we would never see today.
November 4, 2025 at 3:30 PM
I was remembering how George W, Bush and Dick Cheney were both residents of Texas but the VP couldn't be from the same state as the President, so they claimed Cheney was from Wyoming instead.
And I realized that was a quaint homage to norms and rules that we would never see today.
And I realized that was a quaint homage to norms and rules that we would never see today.
Just trying to keep track, when Mike or Markwayne or whichever MAGA bootlicker is being interviewed says "I know nothing" about some Trump atrocity, has a single press interviewer ever followed up with, "Why don't you know about something that important?"
November 4, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Just trying to keep track, when Mike or Markwayne or whichever MAGA bootlicker is being interviewed says "I know nothing" about some Trump atrocity, has a single press interviewer ever followed up with, "Why don't you know about something that important?"
Reposted by Bryan Sorohan
This should be the response to any fucking thing about Biden not knowing about things that were signed with the autopen.
O'DONNELL: Why did you pardon Changpeng Zhao?
TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is
O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.
TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it
TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is
O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.
TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it
November 3, 2025 at 2:21 PM
This should be the response to any fucking thing about Biden not knowing about things that were signed with the autopen.
I don't have a say in who New York elects as mayor, and no real dog in the hunt about it, but I do hope they don't elect a corrupt sexual predator.
November 3, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I don't have a say in who New York elects as mayor, and no real dog in the hunt about it, but I do hope they don't elect a corrupt sexual predator.
I realize this is a deeply controversial topic about which many people have strong feelings, but to be clear, what we are on right now is "Standard Time."
"Daylight Savings Time" is when we lose an hour this Spring and the freeways become a Mad Max dystopia in the mornings for at least 10 days.
"Daylight Savings Time" is when we lose an hour this Spring and the freeways become a Mad Max dystopia in the mornings for at least 10 days.
November 2, 2025 at 11:01 PM
I realize this is a deeply controversial topic about which many people have strong feelings, but to be clear, what we are on right now is "Standard Time."
"Daylight Savings Time" is when we lose an hour this Spring and the freeways become a Mad Max dystopia in the mornings for at least 10 days.
"Daylight Savings Time" is when we lose an hour this Spring and the freeways become a Mad Max dystopia in the mornings for at least 10 days.
The time change to Standard Time always gets overshadowed by the change at midnight on October 31st when the TV stations abruptly shift from horror movies and ads to jolly Christmas movies and ads.
November 2, 2025 at 4:52 PM
The time change to Standard Time always gets overshadowed by the change at midnight on October 31st when the TV stations abruptly shift from horror movies and ads to jolly Christmas movies and ads.
If the President who has sent troops to occupy Los Angeles has the temerity to congratulate the Dodgers, I would hope the entire city would tell him to piss up a rope.
November 2, 2025 at 4:44 PM
If the President who has sent troops to occupy Los Angeles has the temerity to congratulate the Dodgers, I would hope the entire city would tell him to piss up a rope.
Got so many compliments on my vampire costume Friday night that I'm thinking about wearing it every time I go out now.
November 2, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Got so many compliments on my vampire costume Friday night that I'm thinking about wearing it every time I go out now.
Only silver lining about the Series is that my favorite player, Freddie Freeman, got another championship.
November 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Only silver lining about the Series is that my favorite player, Freddie Freeman, got another championship.