Paul S Kemp
@paulskemp.bsky.social
Regular Human Bartender, Author (Forgotten Realms, Star Wars, Egil and Nix), fan of whiskey and red heads. Paulskemp.net
Anytime Cotton comes up I feel obliged to remind folks that he held up the ambassadorship of a dying woman to spite Obama.
And bc he's a sociopath.
So this is par for the course.
And bc he's a sociopath.
So this is par for the course.
WELKER: Is there any hard evidence showing this particular boat was headed to the US?
TOM COTTON: That didn't come up in my briefing
WELKER: Are you comfortable having the US target a boat that you're not sure is heading to the US?
COTTON: I'm not just comfortable with it -- I want to continue it
TOM COTTON: That didn't come up in my briefing
WELKER: Are you comfortable having the US target a boat that you're not sure is heading to the US?
COTTON: I'm not just comfortable with it -- I want to continue it
December 7, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Anytime Cotton comes up I feel obliged to remind folks that he held up the ambassadorship of a dying woman to spite Obama.
And bc he's a sociopath.
So this is par for the course.
And bc he's a sociopath.
So this is par for the course.
I feel so bad for Ryan Day.
Kidding.
I do not.
Get it, Hoosiers.
Kidding.
I do not.
Get it, Hoosiers.
December 7, 2025 at 4:12 AM
I feel so bad for Ryan Day.
Kidding.
I do not.
Get it, Hoosiers.
Kidding.
I do not.
Get it, Hoosiers.
So that Facebook commercial is cyberstalking, no?
December 7, 2025 at 4:09 AM
So that Facebook commercial is cyberstalking, no?
I'll say that I thought Indiana was a soft #2.
Nope.
I'm a Michigan grad so go get it, Hoosiers.
Nope.
I'm a Michigan grad so go get it, Hoosiers.
December 7, 2025 at 3:22 AM
I'll say that I thought Indiana was a soft #2.
Nope.
I'm a Michigan grad so go get it, Hoosiers.
Nope.
I'm a Michigan grad so go get it, Hoosiers.
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If Virginia Democrats follow through with a new 10-1 congressional map and a couple of other Dem states make small changes, Trump's gambit to rig the 2026 maps will be remembered as an epic blunder.
December 6, 2025 at 2:43 PM
If Virginia Democrats follow through with a new 10-1 congressional map and a couple of other Dem states make small changes, Trump's gambit to rig the 2026 maps will be remembered as an epic blunder.
December 5, 2025 at 1:44 AM
It is very bad, notwithstanding sociopaths like Tom Cotton trying to run cover for murder.
NEWS --> Tons of fresh detail on what video of the strike shows: Rep Adam Smith says two men are sitting on capsized boat, drugs aren't visible. Rationale officials gave for killing is they *may* have been able to keep trafficking.
"It's bad," Smith says.
Read here:
newrepublic.com/article/2039...
"It's bad," Smith says.
Read here:
newrepublic.com/article/2039...
Hegseth Defense Collapses as Dems Reveal Horrific Video Strike Details
The ranking Democrat on the House Armed Services committee tells TNR after watching the video: “This is a big, big problem.”
newrepublic.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:51 PM
It is very bad, notwithstanding sociopaths like Tom Cotton trying to run cover for murder.
Trump continuing the fight against woke.
Trump dozes while Marco Rubio speaks to him directly next to him. Just insane optics.
December 2, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Trump continuing the fight against woke.
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Stay Tuned for Another World
Read this.
Please if you're in TN CD7 VOTE!
If you know someone in TN CD7 call them and insist they vote!
If they need a ride email: [email protected]
Now Let's go win this!!!
@aftynbehn.bsky.social
Read this.
Please if you're in TN CD7 VOTE!
If you know someone in TN CD7 call them and insist they vote!
If they need a ride email: [email protected]
Now Let's go win this!!!
@aftynbehn.bsky.social
Stay Tuned for Another World
Win or lose today, Tennessee has proved that another world is possible.
open.substack.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Stay Tuned for Another World
Read this.
Please if you're in TN CD7 VOTE!
If you know someone in TN CD7 call them and insist they vote!
If they need a ride email: [email protected]
Now Let's go win this!!!
@aftynbehn.bsky.social
Read this.
Please if you're in TN CD7 VOTE!
If you know someone in TN CD7 call them and insist they vote!
If they need a ride email: [email protected]
Now Let's go win this!!!
@aftynbehn.bsky.social
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The secretary of defense throwing a top military official under the bus to protect himself. A beacon of integrity.
December 2, 2025 at 1:35 AM
The secretary of defense throwing a top military official under the bus to protect himself. A beacon of integrity.
Pete's counting on a pardon but Pete, Pete -- the Big Mac is going to do its work all of a sudden and J.D. can't remember your name.
@deptofwar.bsky.social, be sure to tell Petey to rest well tonight.
Good times ahead.
@deptofwar.bsky.social, be sure to tell Petey to rest well tonight.
Good times ahead.
Hegseth throwing soldiers under the bus is entirely on brand (adding, ANY soldier killing helpless guys clinging to wreckage deserve what's coming to them).
@deptofwar.bsky.social any comment from "war fighter" Pete fightin' them wars as a war fighter?
Whisky Pete feelin' good tonight or nah?
@deptofwar.bsky.social any comment from "war fighter" Pete fightin' them wars as a war fighter?
Whisky Pete feelin' good tonight or nah?
December 2, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Pete's counting on a pardon but Pete, Pete -- the Big Mac is going to do its work all of a sudden and J.D. can't remember your name.
@deptofwar.bsky.social, be sure to tell Petey to rest well tonight.
Good times ahead.
@deptofwar.bsky.social, be sure to tell Petey to rest well tonight.
Good times ahead.
Hegseth throwing soldiers under the bus is entirely on brand (adding, ANY soldier killing helpless guys clinging to wreckage deserve what's coming to them).
@deptofwar.bsky.social any comment from "war fighter" Pete fightin' them wars as a war fighter?
Whisky Pete feelin' good tonight or nah?
@deptofwar.bsky.social any comment from "war fighter" Pete fightin' them wars as a war fighter?
Whisky Pete feelin' good tonight or nah?
December 2, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Hegseth throwing soldiers under the bus is entirely on brand (adding, ANY soldier killing helpless guys clinging to wreckage deserve what's coming to them).
@deptofwar.bsky.social any comment from "war fighter" Pete fightin' them wars as a war fighter?
Whisky Pete feelin' good tonight or nah?
@deptofwar.bsky.social any comment from "war fighter" Pete fightin' them wars as a war fighter?
Whisky Pete feelin' good tonight or nah?
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VOTE FOR THE CANDIDATE THAT WILL WORK TO EARN YOUR VOTE
Tomorrow is election day, TN-7, and I'm humbly asking for your vote. I promise to be accessible and only beholden to the voters of the district, never donors or special interests. Polls open at 7 AM & close at 7 PM. Let's go out and win this!
Tomorrow is election day, TN-7, and I'm humbly asking for your vote. I promise to be accessible and only beholden to the voters of the district, never donors or special interests. Polls open at 7 AM & close at 7 PM. Let's go out and win this!
December 1, 2025 at 11:49 PM
VOTE FOR THE CANDIDATE THAT WILL WORK TO EARN YOUR VOTE
Tomorrow is election day, TN-7, and I'm humbly asking for your vote. I promise to be accessible and only beholden to the voters of the district, never donors or special interests. Polls open at 7 AM & close at 7 PM. Let's go out and win this!
Tomorrow is election day, TN-7, and I'm humbly asking for your vote. I promise to be accessible and only beholden to the voters of the district, never donors or special interests. Polls open at 7 AM & close at 7 PM. Let's go out and win this!
It was lawful because it was lawful.
Man. The profound stupidity and evil of these people is exhausting.
Man. The profound stupidity and evil of these people is exhausting.
FOX: You said the follow up strike was lawful. What law is it that allows no survivors?
LEAVITT: The strike was conducted in self defense to protect Americans
LEAVITT: The strike was conducted in self defense to protect Americans
December 2, 2025 at 3:00 AM
It was lawful because it was lawful.
Man. The profound stupidity and evil of these people is exhausting.
Man. The profound stupidity and evil of these people is exhausting.
Breaking: Sen. Jacky Rosen of the Foreign Relations Cmte. says, if reports are true, "Hegseth likely committed a war crime when he gave an illegal order that led to the killing of incapacitated survivors of the U.S. strike in the Caribbean."
Rosen adds: "He should resign immediately."
Rosen adds: "He should resign immediately."
December 2, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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If @aftynbehn.bsky.social wins tomorrow’s special election in Tennessee’s #TN07, it will send SHOCK WAVES throughout the Republican Party from coast to coast. It’s a heavily gerrymandered district, but Aftyn has a real shot at winning!!
Please share and follow — and donate if you can! 💙
#VoteBlue
Please share and follow — and donate if you can! 💙
#VoteBlue
THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!
We knocked 13,000 doors yesterday and learned that hasn’t happened since Harold Ford Jr.’s 2006 Senate campaign! We’ve got 48 hours left to get out the vote and MAKE HISTORY.
Sign up to volunteer via the link in our BIO!
We knocked 13,000 doors yesterday and learned that hasn’t happened since Harold Ford Jr.’s 2006 Senate campaign! We’ve got 48 hours left to get out the vote and MAKE HISTORY.
Sign up to volunteer via the link in our BIO!
December 1, 2025 at 2:02 PM
If @aftynbehn.bsky.social wins tomorrow’s special election in Tennessee’s #TN07, it will send SHOCK WAVES throughout the Republican Party from coast to coast. It’s a heavily gerrymandered district, but Aftyn has a real shot at winning!!
Please share and follow — and donate if you can! 💙
#VoteBlue
Please share and follow — and donate if you can! 💙
#VoteBlue
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Thank you to all the volunteers! Rep. Aftyn Behn reported that more than 600 volunteers turned out and knocked on 13,000 doors. Let’s flip TN’s 7th District! And if you’ve got time, they still need help!
aftyn4tn | Instagram, Facebook, TikTok | Linktree
running for Congress in TN-7 to feed kids, fix roads, and fund hospitals
✨LET'S FLIP THIS SEAT DEC. 2ND✨
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December 1, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Thank you to all the volunteers! Rep. Aftyn Behn reported that more than 600 volunteers turned out and knocked on 13,000 doors. Let’s flip TN’s 7th District! And if you’ve got time, they still need help!
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All available evidence suggests that the Trump administration’s lethal strikes in the Caribbean constitute murder, plain and simple.
US ordered 2nd attack to kill survivors of Caribbean boat strike: report
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth allegedly issued an order to leave no survivors in a strike on a suspected drug-carrying vessel in the Caribbean, prompting a second attack.
www.nydailynews.com
November 29, 2025 at 8:28 PM
All available evidence suggests that the Trump administration’s lethal strikes in the Caribbean constitute murder, plain and simple.
Freshman QB v #1 team in the country going about as expected, alas.
November 29, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Freshman QB v #1 team in the country going about as expected, alas.
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There are specific reasons Trumpists want war on Venezuela, but there‘s a generic one: they crave power to make war on anyone, any time, for completely fabricated reasons, and then to use the guise of war to increase violence and repression everywhere, including home.
They are lawless bestial scum.
They are lawless bestial scum.
November 29, 2025 at 6:28 PM
There are specific reasons Trumpists want war on Venezuela, but there‘s a generic one: they crave power to make war on anyone, any time, for completely fabricated reasons, and then to use the guise of war to increase violence and repression everywhere, including home.
They are lawless bestial scum.
They are lawless bestial scum.
@deptofwar.bsky.social How's Whiskey Pete doing this morning, kids?
Someone should probably tell him there are no hair stylists in prison.
Someone should probably tell him there are no hair stylists in prison.
November 29, 2025 at 1:17 PM
@deptofwar.bsky.social How's Whiskey Pete doing this morning, kids?
Someone should probably tell him there are no hair stylists in prison.
Someone should probably tell him there are no hair stylists in prison.
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This would be a war crime even if there were an actual war and these people were actual combatants, which there isn't and they weren't.
It's unquestionably an unlawful homicide under any form of law you wish to apply: military or civilian, domestic or international, federal or state. ...
It's unquestionably an unlawful homicide under any form of law you wish to apply: military or civilian, domestic or international, federal or state. ...
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:12 PM
This would be a war crime even if there were an actual war and these people were actual combatants, which there isn't and they weren't.
It's unquestionably an unlawful homicide under any form of law you wish to apply: military or civilian, domestic or international, federal or state. ...
It's unquestionably an unlawful homicide under any form of law you wish to apply: military or civilian, domestic or international, federal or state. ...
While I'm pleased that Bohacek reached this decision, Trump has been saying degrading, dehumanizing things about lots of different groups of people. Bohacek was fine with all that, it seems, and broke ranks only when it affected him personally.
November 29, 2025 at 12:40 AM
While I'm pleased that Bohacek reached this decision, Trump has been saying degrading, dehumanizing things about lots of different groups of people. Bohacek was fine with all that, it seems, and broke ranks only when it affected him personally.
Prison for lil Pete when all is said and done.
Maybe he, Homan, and Noem can share a cell.
Maybe he, Homan, and Noem can share a cell.
“The order was to kill everybody,” said a source with direct knowledge of the situation.
'Kill everybody': Bombshell Pete Hegseth order blasted by lawmakers as 'blatantly illegal'
www.rawstory.com/pete-hegseth...
'Kill everybody': Bombshell Pete Hegseth order blasted by lawmakers as 'blatantly illegal'
www.rawstory.com/pete-hegseth...
'Kill everybody': Bombshell Pete Hegseth order blasted by lawmakers as 'blatantly illegal'
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reportedly delivered an order in the first attack on a suspected drug boat that lawmakers have blasted as excessive and "blatantly illegal."President Donald Trump's Pent...
www.rawstory.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Prison for lil Pete when all is said and done.
Maybe he, Homan, and Noem can share a cell.
Maybe he, Homan, and Noem can share a cell.