Stately Plump Buck
@statelyplumpbuck.bsky.social
Retired High School English Teacher. Born in Seattle, living in Raleigh, summering at Crystal Lake. Married to whip-smart beautiful French woman with a wonderful and generous family. Father to two beautiful and outstanding daughters.
Nor a cat, either.
"...a good moral character is the first essential in a man...It is therefore highly important that you should endeavor not only to be learned but virtuous."
-- George Washington, who died #OTD 1799, letter to George Steptoe Washington, December 5, 1790
-- George Washington, who died #OTD 1799, letter to George Steptoe Washington, December 5, 1790
December 14, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Nor a cat, either.
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"...a good moral character is the first essential in a man...It is therefore highly important that you should endeavor not only to be learned but virtuous."
-- George Washington, who died #OTD 1799, letter to George Steptoe Washington, December 5, 1790
-- George Washington, who died #OTD 1799, letter to George Steptoe Washington, December 5, 1790
December 14, 2025 at 1:40 PM
"...a good moral character is the first essential in a man...It is therefore highly important that you should endeavor not only to be learned but virtuous."
-- George Washington, who died #OTD 1799, letter to George Steptoe Washington, December 5, 1790
-- George Washington, who died #OTD 1799, letter to George Steptoe Washington, December 5, 1790
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I am a student at Brown in communication with a friend at RIBC.
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Spread the word.
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December 13, 2025 at 11:55 PM
I am a student at Brown in communication with a friend at RIBC.
There is an urgent need for blood donations to support RI. Donations in NY, NJ, MN, NB, DE or NJ can help supply RI.
Spread the word.
www.ribc.org/donate-blood/
There is an urgent need for blood donations to support RI. Donations in NY, NJ, MN, NB, DE or NJ can help supply RI.
Spread the word.
www.ribc.org/donate-blood/
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Make Congress take action and unmask ICE!
Tell Congress: Require ICE to unmask and display clear identification
Contact Congress today!
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December 13, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Make Congress take action and unmask ICE!
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The RFK, jr effect.
December 13, 2025 at 9:40 PM
The RFK, jr effect.
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This is because Nate Silver has 300K subscribers on Substack and Heather Cox Richardson has 2.7M. Mediocre men CAN'T STAND successful women, and even blame them for their own failures. Pathetic.
December 14, 2025 at 12:32 AM
This is because Nate Silver has 300K subscribers on Substack and Heather Cox Richardson has 2.7M. Mediocre men CAN'T STAND successful women, and even blame them for their own failures. Pathetic.
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Indiana Hoosiers quarterback Fernando Mendoza and Vanderbilt Commodores quarterback Diego Pavia — the top candidates to receive the Heisman Trophy — are set to make history Saturday www.axios.com/2025/12/13/l...
2 Latino QBs are the top candidates for the Heisman and are set to make history
Mendoza or Pavia would be the third Latino player to win.
www.axios.com
December 13, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Indiana Hoosiers quarterback Fernando Mendoza and Vanderbilt Commodores quarterback Diego Pavia — the top candidates to receive the Heisman Trophy — are set to make history Saturday www.axios.com/2025/12/13/l...
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As always, we don’t yet know the identity of the shooter or the motivation for the massacre but we *do* know it involved one of the millions of guns that are drowning this country.
December 13, 2025 at 11:19 PM
As always, we don’t yet know the identity of the shooter or the motivation for the massacre but we *do* know it involved one of the millions of guns that are drowning this country.
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Don’t worry Brown University, Kash Patel is on the job once he’s finished his dinner at Tatiana.
December 13, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Don’t worry Brown University, Kash Patel is on the job once he’s finished his dinner at Tatiana.
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Best I can tell, Olivia signed a book deal for 300 pages, and ran out of steam before page 200. We’re just vamping the rest of the way, I suspect.
December 10, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Best I can tell, Olivia signed a book deal for 300 pages, and ran out of steam before page 200. We’re just vamping the rest of the way, I suspect.
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Can someone explain what the fuck “I have never cared for the energies of the East River” is supposed to mean?
December 9, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Can someone explain what the fuck “I have never cared for the energies of the East River” is supposed to mean?
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Call me old-fashioned, but I kind of think the jilted ex-fiancé gets to say things like “she cheated on me with the leather-faced vaccine-denying falconer grandpa, and that’s why our coauthored book project has been scrapped.”
Ryan Lizza is trash, but this ain’t one of the reasons why.
Ryan Lizza is trash, but this ain’t one of the reasons why.
December 9, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Call me old-fashioned, but I kind of think the jilted ex-fiancé gets to say things like “she cheated on me with the leather-faced vaccine-denying falconer grandpa, and that’s why our coauthored book project has been scrapped.”
Ryan Lizza is trash, but this ain’t one of the reasons why.
Ryan Lizza is trash, but this ain’t one of the reasons why.
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Asked how she feels about the whole affair, she insists she feels *nothing.* And then she free-associates her way into a rabbit hole about guns in America and politicians and the worm in Bobby’s brain.
It’s faux-profundity, masking the lack of anything to say.
It’s faux-profundity, masking the lack of anything to say.
December 9, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Asked how she feels about the whole affair, she insists she feels *nothing.* And then she free-associates her way into a rabbit hole about guns in America and politicians and the worm in Bobby’s brain.
It’s faux-profundity, masking the lack of anything to say.
It’s faux-profundity, masking the lack of anything to say.
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I would like to know what Olivia is trying to accomplish with this paragraph. How does it fit into the broader piece? What is it meant to tell us about her, or the country, or the moment, or the human condition?
Just, literally, what are we doing here?
JFC.
Just, literally, what are we doing here?
JFC.
December 9, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I would like to know what Olivia is trying to accomplish with this paragraph. How does it fit into the broader piece? What is it meant to tell us about her, or the country, or the moment, or the human condition?
Just, literally, what are we doing here?
JFC.
Just, literally, what are we doing here?
JFC.
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I think I could teach an hourlong seminar on how much I hate this paragraph.
(Paraphrasing) “I love driving. So American, right? I once had a panic attack in a hotel room. I saw a Trump casino. I resolved to get it together, to become a citizen of my country, and that’s why I love driving.”
(Paraphrasing) “I love driving. So American, right? I once had a panic attack in a hotel room. I saw a Trump casino. I resolved to get it together, to become a citizen of my country, and that’s why I love driving.”
December 9, 2025 at 2:20 PM
I think I could teach an hourlong seminar on how much I hate this paragraph.
(Paraphrasing) “I love driving. So American, right? I once had a panic attack in a hotel room. I saw a Trump casino. I resolved to get it together, to become a citizen of my country, and that’s why I love driving.”
(Paraphrasing) “I love driving. So American, right? I once had a panic attack in a hotel room. I saw a Trump casino. I resolved to get it together, to become a citizen of my country, and that’s why I love driving.”
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And look, Ryan Lizza seems like a huge creep.
I am not on Team Lizza here.
But Olivia was cheating on her fiance with the famous presidential candidate (also a huge creep). And everyone in their peer network knew about it. And then the fiance, what, didn’t help her cover that shit up?
Come on.
I am not on Team Lizza here.
But Olivia was cheating on her fiance with the famous presidential candidate (also a huge creep). And everyone in their peer network knew about it. And then the fiance, what, didn’t help her cover that shit up?
Come on.
December 9, 2025 at 4:51 AM
And look, Ryan Lizza seems like a huge creep.
I am not on Team Lizza here.
But Olivia was cheating on her fiance with the famous presidential candidate (also a huge creep). And everyone in their peer network knew about it. And then the fiance, what, didn’t help her cover that shit up?
Come on.
I am not on Team Lizza here.
But Olivia was cheating on her fiance with the famous presidential candidate (also a huge creep). And everyone in their peer network knew about it. And then the fiance, what, didn’t help her cover that shit up?
Come on.
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All this, mind you, in a memoir where she discusses being in love with RFK Jr, and discusses advising him on political strategy.
It signals that she thinks she is one of the special people -- the people who get to feel their feelings and do whatever they want, who the rules simply don't apply to.
It signals that she thinks she is one of the special people -- the people who get to feel their feelings and do whatever they want, who the rules simply don't apply to.
December 9, 2025 at 4:26 AM
All this, mind you, in a memoir where she discusses being in love with RFK Jr, and discusses advising him on political strategy.
It signals that she thinks she is one of the special people -- the people who get to feel their feelings and do whatever they want, who the rules simply don't apply to.
It signals that she thinks she is one of the special people -- the people who get to feel their feelings and do whatever they want, who the rules simply don't apply to.
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She remains in complete denial.
*Technically* (she insists) they never slept together, so she didn't do anything wrong!
NYMag only fired her because of the "bad optics," which was unfair since *both sides* had complained about her reporting!
And it was really the fault of whoever told her boss!
*Technically* (she insists) they never slept together, so she didn't do anything wrong!
NYMag only fired her because of the "bad optics," which was unfair since *both sides* had complained about her reporting!
And it was really the fault of whoever told her boss!
December 9, 2025 at 4:22 AM
She remains in complete denial.
*Technically* (she insists) they never slept together, so she didn't do anything wrong!
NYMag only fired her because of the "bad optics," which was unfair since *both sides* had complained about her reporting!
And it was really the fault of whoever told her boss!
*Technically* (she insists) they never slept together, so she didn't do anything wrong!
NYMag only fired her because of the "bad optics," which was unfair since *both sides* had complained about her reporting!
And it was really the fault of whoever told her boss!
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If Nuzzi is a post-truth antivaxxer, she should say so.
If she isn’t, she should say so.
But you don’t get to work hard to elevate RFK Jr and then just gloss over what he has done.
Certainly not in your memoir that is purportedly about what you learned from the whole ideal.
If she isn’t, she should say so.
But you don’t get to work hard to elevate RFK Jr and then just gloss over what he has done.
Certainly not in your memoir that is purportedly about what you learned from the whole ideal.
December 9, 2025 at 2:04 AM
If Nuzzi is a post-truth antivaxxer, she should say so.
If she isn’t, she should say so.
But you don’t get to work hard to elevate RFK Jr and then just gloss over what he has done.
Certainly not in your memoir that is purportedly about what you learned from the whole ideal.
If she isn’t, she should say so.
But you don’t get to work hard to elevate RFK Jr and then just gloss over what he has done.
Certainly not in your memoir that is purportedly about what you learned from the whole ideal.
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The whole “aw shucks we’re so polarized and post-truth, who can tell what to believe now” schtick also hits different when the guy you torched your career for is the antivaxxer who burned down the NIH.
“There exists no agreed-upon neutral arbiter of facts.” …Gee, Olivia, who might we blame?
“There exists no agreed-upon neutral arbiter of facts.” …Gee, Olivia, who might we blame?
December 9, 2025 at 2:01 AM
The whole “aw shucks we’re so polarized and post-truth, who can tell what to believe now” schtick also hits different when the guy you torched your career for is the antivaxxer who burned down the NIH.
“There exists no agreed-upon neutral arbiter of facts.” …Gee, Olivia, who might we blame?
“There exists no agreed-upon neutral arbiter of facts.” …Gee, Olivia, who might we blame?
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You are under no obligation to explain or defend your private sexual peccadillos to anyone.
But you are also under no obligation to sell and market a memoir about the time you burned your life down.
And the one sort of requires the other.
But you are also under no obligation to sell and market a memoir about the time you burned your life down.
And the one sort of requires the other.
December 9, 2025 at 12:22 AM
You are under no obligation to explain or defend your private sexual peccadillos to anyone.
But you are also under no obligation to sell and market a memoir about the time you burned your life down.
And the one sort of requires the other.
But you are also under no obligation to sell and market a memoir about the time you burned your life down.
And the one sort of requires the other.
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Only 17 pages in and I am winded.
This passage, folks… Don’t ever write like this. Just don’t do it.
This passage, folks… Don’t ever write like this. Just don’t do it.
December 8, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Only 17 pages in and I am winded.
This passage, folks… Don’t ever write like this. Just don’t do it.
This passage, folks… Don’t ever write like this. Just don’t do it.
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