Kevin McFoy Dunn
@kevinmcfoydunn.bsky.social
Footnote-in-waiting (in re v.: music -- https://kevindunn.bandcamp.com/music; scribbling -- https://kevinmcfoydunn.substack.com/) and punter-grade bricoleur.
As so often haps with an Andrew O'Hehir piece, this reads to me like my brain contents on the topic transcribed. Quite gratifying that, of all available to rail at, the Epstein implicado he chose to lambast is the one I may hate the most. Now: favor us with a pasquinade on Ken Starr's "Hugs". (HUGS)
The left was right about Larry Summers all along. Democrats didn't listen - Salon.com
Long before the Epstein scandal, it was clear Summers was a viper. Clinton and Obama simply didn't want to know
www.salon.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:48 PM
As so often haps with an Andrew O'Hehir piece, this reads to me like my brain contents on the topic transcribed. Quite gratifying that, of all available to rail at, the Epstein implicado he chose to lambast is the one I may hate the most. Now: favor us with a pasquinade on Ken Starr's "Hugs". (HUGS)
Liminality, thy name is the ungrasped interim of now (must sound better in the original Tibetan). At this sliver riving All Saints' and All Souls' comes my cross-quarter Substack blurt: Fama's twin sackbuts wind lexicographical alarums, Elno is warned not to abet tyrannic tech, and Yijing is creepy.
Share/Ruly/Delibate : Pubis/Regular/Sample
Wurdz, shawty.
kevinmcfoydunn.substack.com
November 2, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Liminality, thy name is the ungrasped interim of now (must sound better in the original Tibetan). At this sliver riving All Saints' and All Souls' comes my cross-quarter Substack blurt: Fama's twin sackbuts wind lexicographical alarums, Elno is warned not to abet tyrannic tech, and Yijing is creepy.
18.x.2025: No Kings @ 33.90°N 83.38°W (+/-). L., staging at home pre-event; r., at the demo. Democratic action pneumatic in both theological and mechanical senses!
October 20, 2025 at 11:59 PM
18.x.2025: No Kings @ 33.90°N 83.38°W (+/-). L., staging at home pre-event; r., at the demo. Democratic action pneumatic in both theological and mechanical senses!
Sol breaching the wafty brane twixt Virgin and Scales, I call to witness respecting Libra, from Marston's Iacke Drums Entertainment (1601), the (possible) Shakespeare-avatar Planet: " ... like a paire of Ballance,/Thou wayest all sauing thy selfe." Out now & free to read: my Fall Equinox Substack.
The Death of Princes
The heavens themselves blaze them forth, you know
kevinmcfoydunn.substack.com
September 22, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Sol breaching the wafty brane twixt Virgin and Scales, I call to witness respecting Libra, from Marston's Iacke Drums Entertainment (1601), the (possible) Shakespeare-avatar Planet: " ... like a paire of Ballance,/Thou wayest all sauing thy selfe." Out now & free to read: my Fall Equinox Substack.
Found while researching vaiśyas ("Gammas" in Huxley) for a projected essay on Adam Smith's view that they, de- not prescriptively understood and in any culture, should never dominate government. Contested planetwide: originalisms affecting whether fraternity or cruelty will be repressed groups' lot.
Vaishya vs. Vaishya
Bobby Kunhu Since Amit Shah exclaimed on June 9th at Raipur, "Aur isi liye Mahatma Gandhi ne durandesi ke saath, bahut chatur baniya tha woh, usko maloom tha aage kya hone waala hai, usne azadi ke baa...
www.roundtableindia.co.in
September 17, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Found while researching vaiśyas ("Gammas" in Huxley) for a projected essay on Adam Smith's view that they, de- not prescriptively understood and in any culture, should never dominate government. Contested planetwide: originalisms affecting whether fraternity or cruelty will be repressed groups' lot.
Reprobating capital punishment, I no more want the legion MAGA scelerati executed after the trials and guilty verdicts than I do anybody else. But, for this alone, I DO want them under the jail, and by "jail" I mean a Supermax, and by "under" I mean beneath the subbasement. And in solitary. Forever.
This Is The Slavery Photo The Trump Administration Doesn't Want You To See
One history professor warned that the administration's moves show an "enormous increase in federal power and control."
www.huffpost.com
September 17, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Reprobating capital punishment, I no more want the legion MAGA scelerati executed after the trials and guilty verdicts than I do anybody else. But, for this alone, I DO want them under the jail, and by "jail" I mean a Supermax, and by "under" I mean beneath the subbasement. And in solitary. Forever.
I've observed from an intimate vantage the corrosion that the Calle Ocho Revanchistas' acid efflux can work in even the most liberal (in a Plutarchan sense) nature, even one yoked to a luminous intellect. So this deracinated cipher could never have been anything but wet for some substitute Batista.
Should Marco Rubio Get To Seize Your Passport For Donating To Democrats, Other Terrorist Organizations?
Boy, we're all so hysterical, right?
www.wonkette.com
September 16, 2025 at 9:02 PM
I've observed from an intimate vantage the corrosion that the Calle Ocho Revanchistas' acid efflux can work in even the most liberal (in a Plutarchan sense) nature, even one yoked to a luminous intellect. So this deracinated cipher could never have been anything but wet for some substitute Batista.
I'm sorry Charlie Kirk's dead to the extent that I wanted him, along with the other masters and movers of MAGA misrule, alive to face trial if the fascists are swept away. (Fat chance of that: of the 70% of the electorate not aligned with ethnonationalist-falangist memelords, over half don't vote.)
Charlie Kirk suspect is a gun-loving Trump supporter
From what we know so far, the suspect seems to be part of the 'groyper' movement of far-right online agitators
www.thecanary.co
September 13, 2025 at 8:27 AM
I'm sorry Charlie Kirk's dead to the extent that I wanted him, along with the other masters and movers of MAGA misrule, alive to face trial if the fascists are swept away. (Fat chance of that: of the 70% of the electorate not aligned with ethnonationalist-falangist memelords, over half don't vote.)
birth schoolwork* work work work work work work work work work work work work work work work work work work work work work work work work work work work work work work retirement* sickness death
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* Nature and duration subject to arbitrary class/gender/race factors.
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* Nature and duration subject to arbitrary class/gender/race factors.
Labo[u]r's Love's Lost
Hell, yeah, nobody wants to work. Also: the clouded joys of accurate scrying.
kevinmcfoydunn.substack.com
September 2, 2025 at 12:45 AM
birth schoolwork* work work work work work work work work work work work work work work work work work work work work work work work work work work work work work work retirement* sickness death
_____________________________
* Nature and duration subject to arbitrary class/gender/race factors.
_____________________________
* Nature and duration subject to arbitrary class/gender/race factors.
Now our definitive Horst Wessel. MAGA's vexillosexual version of the Blutfahne ceremony manifests in Trump's occasional lubricious flag-grind, so check that off your Fascism Bingo card. Luckily, they so far trip over their own braindead decadence whenever they try to gin up a Reichstag fire. So far.
Jan. 6 Rioter Ashli Babbitt Was Killed Storming The Capitol. She Will Now Receive Military Funeral Honors.
The Babbitt family also received a settlement of $5 million earlier this year.
www.huffpost.com
August 28, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Now our definitive Horst Wessel. MAGA's vexillosexual version of the Blutfahne ceremony manifests in Trump's occasional lubricious flag-grind, so check that off your Fascism Bingo card. Luckily, they so far trip over their own braindead decadence whenever they try to gin up a Reichstag fire. So far.
@jimmy-jim-james.bsky.social : #6 « — mon semblable, — mon frère! » AMIRITE? Cheers!
The strangest David Lynch facts – ranked!
Ahead of a new biography of the late director (whose favourite number was seven), we rundown some of the most offbeat things about this most mysterious modern genius
www.theguardian.com
August 21, 2025 at 6:02 PM
@jimmy-jim-james.bsky.social : #6 « — mon semblable, — mon frère! » AMIRITE? Cheers!
My Lúnasa '25 Substack increment goes on and on about capitalism, the conceit monachic. Private substance is A thing, likewise deploying it in capitalization of commercial enterprises; «il est interdit d'interdire» and all that. But framing that ensemble as THE thing? «Non.» (Also: fortunetelling!)
Mad Monks v. Queen Money
Get 'em on the job before the Gulf Stream's gone, k?
kevinmcfoydunn.substack.com
August 2, 2025 at 5:24 AM
My Lúnasa '25 Substack increment goes on and on about capitalism, the conceit monachic. Private substance is A thing, likewise deploying it in capitalization of commercial enterprises; «il est interdit d'interdire» and all that. But framing that ensemble as THE thing? «Non.» (Also: fortunetelling!)
Walküretagsgrüße!
July 20, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Walküretagsgrüße!
Git 'im, Whoopi. While you're at it, give Hakeem Jeffries some wholly-warranted grief for being a snitty priss about Zohran Mamdani.
Y'know, I'm just as sorry as can be that the neoliberalism-infected Dem leadership is so fucking butthurt about burgeoning social-democratic trends in the party. Not.
Y'know, I'm just as sorry as can be that the neoliberalism-infected Dem leadership is so fucking butthurt about burgeoning social-democratic trends in the party. Not.
Whoopi Goldberg Isn’t Here for Obama’s Swipe at Democrats — And She Lets Him Hear It
The co-host of “The View” had pointed words for the former president.
www.huffpost.com
July 17, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Git 'im, Whoopi. While you're at it, give Hakeem Jeffries some wholly-warranted grief for being a snitty priss about Zohran Mamdani.
Y'know, I'm just as sorry as can be that the neoliberalism-infected Dem leadership is so fucking butthurt about burgeoning social-democratic trends in the party. Not.
Y'know, I'm just as sorry as can be that the neoliberalism-infected Dem leadership is so fucking butthurt about burgeoning social-democratic trends in the party. Not.
Come now and let us reason together: Ghislaine Maxwell was immured for helping scratch the ephebophilic itch of moneyed XYs (maybe XXs too?) whose names would have appeared on the putatively nonexistent Epstein list. If really guilty, she IS the list. Wonder how many towels are stored near her cell.
Why House Republicans voted for the Epstein cover-up
Republican leaders support Trump's efforts to hide the truth. How much of the MAGA base will follow suit?
www.salon.com
July 16, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Come now and let us reason together: Ghislaine Maxwell was immured for helping scratch the ephebophilic itch of moneyed XYs (maybe XXs too?) whose names would have appeared on the putatively nonexistent Epstein list. If really guilty, she IS the list. Wonder how many towels are stored near her cell.
Like living inside my head's political compartment; also, illustrative of why I despair of writing the like, and at the length, because (after Horace’s formula), in striving towards the concatenatedly comprehensive, he did and (in prose more baroque (it always is)) I would become sluggishly prolix.
The Weird Pathologies of the Right-Wing Mind
How Intelligent People Convinced Themselves That Superman Is More Dangerous Than Oligarchy
www.notesfromthecircus.com
July 15, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Like living inside my head's political compartment; also, illustrative of why I despair of writing the like, and at the length, because (after Horace’s formula), in striving towards the concatenatedly comprehensive, he did and (in prose more baroque (it always is)) I would become sluggishly prolix.
Le quatorze juillet. It seems this image documents an actual ephemeral statue (in papier-mâché?) put up outside les Invalides for la Fête de la Fraternité of 10 August 1793; the engraver, sans prénom (as far as I can tell), one Citoyen Villeneuve. Les aristos à la lanterne et à bas les Fédéralistes!
July 14, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Le quatorze juillet. It seems this image documents an actual ephemeral statue (in papier-mâché?) put up outside les Invalides for la Fête de la Fraternité of 10 August 1793; the engraver, sans prénom (as far as I can tell), one Citoyen Villeneuve. Les aristos à la lanterne et à bas les Fédéralistes!
This photo: to deploy in helplessness a hypershopworn locution, I can't even. More unoriginality: it's the lead photo for a parody in The Onion, it's a frame from Idiocracy; but real. (Apologies! The nausea hinders more nuanced expression.)
Surely the Void's karmic weighting impends.
As you were.
Surely the Void's karmic weighting impends.
As you were.
July 10, 2025 at 5:42 PM
This photo: to deploy in helplessness a hypershopworn locution, I can't even. More unoriginality: it's the lead photo for a parody in The Onion, it's a frame from Idiocracy; but real. (Apologies! The nausea hinders more nuanced expression.)
Surely the Void's karmic weighting impends.
As you were.
Surely the Void's karmic weighting impends.
As you were.
Indulging a wan but long-simmering access of pique, I just unfollowed some dozen wights. Chiefly people I know +/- personally who never reciprocally followed me after I initiated contact -- not all under the rubric, but most. They won't miss me. [Emblem from Paradin, Devises heroïqves (Lyon, 1557).]
July 8, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Indulging a wan but long-simmering access of pique, I just unfollowed some dozen wights. Chiefly people I know +/- personally who never reciprocally followed me after I initiated contact -- not all under the rubric, but most. They won't miss me. [Emblem from Paradin, Devises heroïqves (Lyon, 1557).]
Your filthy luste you colour vnder a courtly colour of loue, iniuries abroad vnder the title of pollicies at home, and secrete malice creepeth vnder the name of publick iustice.
[Diogenes upbraiding the populace of Athens in John Lyly's court play Campaspe (1583). Print by Pierre Brébiette, 1620s.]
[Diogenes upbraiding the populace of Athens in John Lyly's court play Campaspe (1583). Print by Pierre Brébiette, 1620s.]
July 7, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Your filthy luste you colour vnder a courtly colour of loue, iniuries abroad vnder the title of pollicies at home, and secrete malice creepeth vnder the name of publick iustice.
[Diogenes upbraiding the populace of Athens in John Lyly's court play Campaspe (1583). Print by Pierre Brébiette, 1620s.]
[Diogenes upbraiding the populace of Athens in John Lyly's court play Campaspe (1583). Print by Pierre Brébiette, 1620s.]
Imbedded in this piece on ethnonationalist spasms elicited by Mamdani's rise: a video (with titanic actress+ Madhur Jaffrey!) for a tune of his issued under the nom du son Mr. Cardamom. Matter aside, its mere existence sets up a direct sociopolitical agon with the said risibly-yawping bigots. Good.
It’s Good How Much Zohran Mamdani Scares White MAGA Losers
They should be scared of him. He's everything that they aren't.
www.wonkette.com
June 26, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Imbedded in this piece on ethnonationalist spasms elicited by Mamdani's rise: a video (with titanic actress+ Madhur Jaffrey!) for a tune of his issued under the nom du son Mr. Cardamom. Matter aside, its mere existence sets up a direct sociopolitical agon with the said risibly-yawping bigots. Good.
"Centrism", falsely opposing left/collectivism-right/individualism, coerces putative contrarieties towards a zero point at which they arrive denuded of all but their limpest beliefs. Most hate the jejune result. Normies: "That proves it's great!" This strain + Yijing = my solstice squib on Substack.
Wherein I Fail of Politicks
I just ran out of the stuff. (Temporarily.)
kevinmcfoydunn.substack.com
June 22, 2025 at 2:34 AM
"Centrism", falsely opposing left/collectivism-right/individualism, coerces putative contrarieties towards a zero point at which they arrive denuded of all but their limpest beliefs. Most hate the jejune result. Normies: "That proves it's great!" This strain + Yijing = my solstice squib on Substack.
To up the ante on her we’re-all-gonna-die blurt by impertinently (in both senses) prescribing her (and my!) Lord and Savior to people who want to live not eternally but just, like, maybe to 80 indicates that she has no fucking idea as to the appropriate bases of policy in a secular republic. Asshat.
GOP Senator Doubles Down On 'We All Are Going To Die' Comment In Wild Non-Apology
After her flippant reply to constituents' worries about health care and food assistance cuts, Sen. Joni Ernst followed up with a brazen video filmed in a cemetery.
www.huffpost.com
June 3, 2025 at 3:54 PM
To up the ante on her we’re-all-gonna-die blurt by impertinently (in both senses) prescribing her (and my!) Lord and Savior to people who want to live not eternally but just, like, maybe to 80 indicates that she has no fucking idea as to the appropriate bases of policy in a secular republic. Asshat.
Aided by the white supremacist Trump, a minuscule pod of the inveterate-if-not-congenital down-punchers that are racist Afrikaners (is that redundant?) essay, in simulating being punched down on, to pull off some major ingannation, but fail to cozen my denomination's leadership. +Deus vult, ECUSA!+
Episcopal Church Draws Red Line on Trump’s White Afrikaner “Refugees”
The Episcopal Church is refusing to work with the government, citing its commitment to racial justice.
newrepublic.com
May 13, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Aided by the white supremacist Trump, a minuscule pod of the inveterate-if-not-congenital down-punchers that are racist Afrikaners (is that redundant?) essay, in simulating being punched down on, to pull off some major ingannation, but fail to cozen my denomination's leadership. +Deus vult, ECUSA!+