NGMcClernan
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NGMcClernan
@nmcclernan.bsky.social
Writer.
And New Yorker.
https://ngmcclernan.com
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This guy rules he's like what if a smart charismatic socialist gameshow host became mayor
Soon small businesses won’t have to wait for Small Business Saturday to get attention from their Mayor.

Some changes that they can look forward to:
November 29, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Donald Trump hates me, and the feeling is mutual.

I believe he is a criminal and an authoritarian who is trying to destroy our democracy and the rule of law. I spend a considerable amount of my time fighting against him and his enablers in court and in public discourse.
Trump Sued Me. I Fought and Won.
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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Attention any Blueskyers who are also writers.

(This is from my non-Pinker related website.)

NYCPlaywrights seeks monologues ~ the theme is "Black Woman Genius."

www.nycplaywrights.org/2025/11/nycp...
NYCPlaywrights seeks monologues ~ the theme is "Black Woman Genius."
NYCPlaywrights provides script submission opportunities and other theatre resources and information. Playwriting format and template available.
www.nycplaywrights.org
November 30, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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There are many kinds of responsibility, and editorial boards should not ignore them. Driven by hatred, racism, and contempt, Trump and his team created the conditions that put National Guard reservists--as well as entire urban populations--at risk. And now a young woman they used as a prop is dead.
November 28, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Jesus.
November 28, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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November 28, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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I don't wish this job on anyone, but someone should do a history of how Trump's social-media pronouncements get particularly rageful/hateful/insane on holiday weekends. Maybe there's something about being alone while others celebrate, or vague, in-and-out awareness that he's waning and hated, etc.
November 29, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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Cheung is literally only hired because he's an odious toad everyone hates. That's his whole gig.
November 27, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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The spirit of Thanksgiving has infused the White House press office today, bringing us together in a blessed moment of harmony and goodwill.
November 27, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Dept. of your politics are political but our politics are apolitical (which goes all the way up to "our gender ideology is not a gender ideology but yours is").
The spirit of Thanksgiving has infused the White House press office today, bringing us together in a blessed moment of harmony and goodwill.
November 27, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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I can’t believe people in the room don’t push back. It doesn’t matter if he’s the president, part of holding him accountable is standing up to his bullying— especially if he’s doing it right in front of your face
“You’re a stupid person” — Trump lashes out at a reporter who presses him on the fact that the suspected DC shooter was actually thoroughly vetted before he was let in the US from Afghanistan
November 28, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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There's a weird collective self-justification among reporters on this beat that their job is not to push back but to be stoic in order to observe an endlessly fascinating natural phenomenon. It's all nonsense. He is a public servant. Demand decency, and slap back hard and fast when you don't get it.
I can’t believe people in the room don’t push back. It doesn’t matter if he’s the president, part of holding him accountable is standing up to his bullying— especially if he’s doing it right in front of your face
“You’re a stupid person” — Trump lashes out at a reporter who presses him on the fact that the suspected DC shooter was actually thoroughly vetted before he was let in the US from Afghanistan
November 28, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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Important to do this press conference about a mass shooting from behind a comic book convention’s folding table inside the hotel from The Shining.
“You’re a stupid person” — Trump lashes out at a reporter who presses him on the fact that the suspected DC shooter was actually thoroughly vetted before he was let in the US from Afghanistan
November 28, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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I can't stop watching it.
Keep the vision board simple and fun.
November 26, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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I spent one summer in an apartment where I couldn't understand how mosquitos were getting, in since I had screens. Then suddenly they stopped. I finally realized there was a thin gap between one window frame and the wall - and a spider had built a web right in front of it.

Thank you Charlotte!
November 26, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Keep the vision board simple and fun.
November 26, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Hard to believe. Then again, this play warps time, so I have no idea what time it is at any given point.
godotbroadway.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Caring about and remembering other human beings is just too woke for the GOP, which, not coincidentally, did its very best to usher them into the grave.
SCOOP: The Trump administration has instructed employees and grantees not to use U.S. funds to commemorate World AIDS Day — because the observance was started by the World Health Organization.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
Trump Administration Cancels U.S. Observance of World AIDS Day
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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TPUBLICAN is perfect if the "T" stands for TRAITOR.
November 26, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Why "in outburst"? Is that supposed to be a sort of excuse?
November 21, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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The thing about Trump stories is that they always have that extra layer of stupidity that you’re not expecting. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
November 26, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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I regret to tell you that Donald Trump is a practitioner of huanjing bunao in order that women do not steal his vital energy.
The thing about Trump stories is that they always have that extra layer of stupidity that you’re not expecting. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
November 26, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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"Sounds crazy but Trump boasted to reporters about seeing Bolsonaro “in the very near future” before learning the convicted former Brazilian leader had just been arrested after the escape plot was foiled

www.signorile.com/p/was-trump-...
Was Trump plotting to help Bolsonaro escape and give him asylum in the U.S?
Sounds crazy but Trump boasted to reporters about seeing Bolsonaro “in the very near future” before learning the convicted former Brazilian leader had just been arrested after escape plot was foiled.
www.signorile.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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Great interview about Murderbot:

Bifurcating Character with Incisive and Witty Inner Monologue: a Masterclass with ‘Murderbot’ Co-Showrunners Paul Weitz and Spirit Awards Winner Chris Weitz

www.filmindependent.org/blog/bifurca...
Bifurcating Character with Incisive and Witty Inner Monologue: a Masterclass with ‘Murderbot’ Co-Showrunners Paul Weitz and Spirit Awards Winner Chris Weitz - Film Independent
One of the most delightful series to premiere this summer, Murderbot is a witty, quirky sci-fi dramedy that explores thought-provoking themes under the
www.filmindependent.org
November 25, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Highly specific siren: Nick Cave and Rod Dreher hung out
November 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM