Ted Pastrick
@splendidsplinter.bsky.social
Cat and dog lover, physical therapist, not an explainer of current events. Democracy first. Tennis player. Founding member of The Bronze Party, whose prime directive is to do unto others as they do unto you after you've given them the benefit of the doubt.
"Make America Good Again." I don't have context for this person but the answer to the last question in the interview is intriguing. bsky.app/profile/theb...
@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social joins 'Deseret Voices' with @mckaycoppins.bsky.social to discuss how the GOP changed, why Trumpism broke the party, and what she calls the “Republican triangle of doom.”
‘Deseret Voices’ — A political strategist’s take on Trump voters: They aren’t all MAGA
Sarah Longwell, founder and publisher of The Bulwark, on why voters picked Donald Trump.
lnk.thebulwark.com
December 19, 2025 at 1:54 AM
"Make America Good Again." I don't have context for this person but the answer to the last question in the interview is intriguing. bsky.app/profile/theb...
This is him. youtu.be/CjWYbcbpiWA?...
Opulence, I has it - DirecTV commercial
YouTube video by lordbaenre
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December 9, 2025 at 12:33 AM
This is him. youtu.be/CjWYbcbpiWA?...
Kellerman can be full of himself, for sure, but he's got a very logical mind and brought that to his radio show with Marcus Wiley in LA prior to moving in with SA Smith. He wasn't a shouter. SA brought out the worst in him. Plus, he had some very bad takes about things. bsky.app/profile/tysc...
i did literal competitive debate and knew i was hot shit—in high school. i cannot imagine being seven years older than i am now and talking like this about my sports-yelling ability
December 6, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Kellerman can be full of himself, for sure, but he's got a very logical mind and brought that to his radio show with Marcus Wiley in LA prior to moving in with SA Smith. He wasn't a shouter. SA brought out the worst in him. Plus, he had some very bad takes about things. bsky.app/profile/tysc...
The Mamdani Trump event is possibly Trump's attempt to appear to support the "populist" agenda that MAGA was vaguely thinking he might be (hah!) way back when. He's tanking hard and getting desperate. In any case, he's always self-serving and never not so.
November 22, 2025 at 1:34 AM
The Mamdani Trump event is possibly Trump's attempt to appear to support the "populist" agenda that MAGA was vaguely thinking he might be (hah!) way back when. He's tanking hard and getting desperate. In any case, he's always self-serving and never not so.
Called Schiff, mailbox full.
November 10, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Called Schiff, mailbox full.
Gamblers on a "cooler" tend to double down, seeking to recoup losses. They refuse to accept defeat. That's what we have to prepare for following Tuesday's beatdown of Trumpism. Past is prelude.
November 6, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Gamblers on a "cooler" tend to double down, seeking to recoup losses. They refuse to accept defeat. That's what we have to prepare for following Tuesday's beatdown of Trumpism. Past is prelude.
The cost of a bad of coffee in our SoCal supermarket has gone up nearly 100%.
September 26, 2025 at 1:43 AM
The cost of a bad of coffee in our SoCal supermarket has gone up nearly 100%.
Are the Democrats on TV talking to the team (us) or are they talking to the media peeps? I think the GOP, like football coaches often do, use media to talk past the media during interviews. That's what Kash and RFK are doing, I think. They sound idiotic to me, but they're not talking to me.
September 17, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Are the Democrats on TV talking to the team (us) or are they talking to the media peeps? I think the GOP, like football coaches often do, use media to talk past the media during interviews. That's what Kash and RFK are doing, I think. They sound idiotic to me, but they're not talking to me.
Weren't 2 elected officials in Minnesota recently murdered without receiving any outcry from MAGA?
September 11, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Weren't 2 elected officials in Minnesota recently murdered without receiving any outcry from MAGA?
Whenever he sheds his mortal coil, the media will over-do coverage of it and for months and years afterwards there will be posts here asserting, like that old SNL skit about Generalissimo Franco, that he remains dead. Something to look forward to...
August 31, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Whenever he sheds his mortal coil, the media will over-do coverage of it and for months and years afterwards there will be posts here asserting, like that old SNL skit about Generalissimo Franco, that he remains dead. Something to look forward to...
Note to the Cleveland Browns: Shedeur get off the pot.™
August 24, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Note to the Cleveland Browns: Shedeur get off the pot.™
I live in Los Angeles. I just visited my brother in West Seneca, a leafy suburb of Buffalo. I'd grown up there. I was shocked when I was told that ICE had pulled up to a neighbor's yard and abducted one of the yard workers. It's happening everywhere!
August 17, 2025 at 2:16 PM
I live in Los Angeles. I just visited my brother in West Seneca, a leafy suburb of Buffalo. I'd grown up there. I was shocked when I was told that ICE had pulled up to a neighbor's yard and abducted one of the yard workers. It's happening everywhere!
Don't know how lucky you are, boy! Back in the US, back in the US, back in the USSR! - The Beatles bsky.app/profile/mark...
Trump is pushing U.S. media toward the fictional world in which Iraq’s Baghdad Bob declared victory and North Korea claimed its leader shot 11 holes-in-one in his first-ever round of golf.
How soon until real journalism becomes impossible in this country?
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How soon until real journalism becomes impossible in this country?
My Stop the Presses newsletter.
Will journalism become impossible in the U.S.?
Trump’s war on the free press follows foreign dictators’ playbook
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August 4, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Don't know how lucky you are, boy! Back in the US, back in the US, back in the USSR! - The Beatles bsky.app/profile/mark...
"Dead" Center?! His publisher is clueless if that's the title they chose. bsky.app/profile/atru...
of all the books i won't read, this is the book i won't read the most
I seriously do not know how this title got through even a single launch meeting.
July 29, 2025 at 5:13 PM
"Dead" Center?! His publisher is clueless if that's the title they chose. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Years ago, George W Bush said that the Constitution was "just a piece of paper." You might expect an Authoritarian type to hold this belief. The surprise is that 6 members of the Supreme Court hold it as well.
July 24, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Years ago, George W Bush said that the Constitution was "just a piece of paper." You might expect an Authoritarian type to hold this belief. The surprise is that 6 members of the Supreme Court hold it as well.
Make America Broke Again.
July 20, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Make America Broke Again.
In the early 80s I waited on Tommy Lee Jones in an Upper East Side joint. He was performing at the Public at that time. I asked him how he looked NYC. His words: I hate it.
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July 19, 2025 at 12:51 AM
In the early 80s I waited on Tommy Lee Jones in an Upper East Side joint. He was performing at the Public at that time. I asked him how he looked NYC. His words: I hate it.
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Mom's Meals? No additives, but possibly some multiplicatives. Is anyone surprised? www.techdirt.com/2025/07/17/r...
RFK Jr. Promotes Meal Delivery Company That Serves Ultra-Processed Food
Nobody who has read any of my posts about RFK Jr., particularly since his vulgar appointment as Secretary of Health and Human Services, will be under any misunderstandings about my opinion of the m…
www.techdirt.com
July 18, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Mom's Meals? No additives, but possibly some multiplicatives. Is anyone surprised? www.techdirt.com/2025/07/17/r...
They don't. He won't. J6 was a harbinger. bsky.app/profile/davi...
I wrote about the implications of the Trumped GOP funding the massive expansion of a militarized, violent and lawless federal police force - with its own, growing, network of concentration camps - answerable to their Leader.
The emerging coup
Lawless authoritarian regimes don't give up power willingly.
www.publicnotice.co
July 18, 2025 at 1:25 PM
They don't. He won't. J6 was a harbinger. bsky.app/profile/davi...
ICE will now have access to facial recognition that links to Medicaid data and IRS data in addition to who knows what else. Bye bye Miss America pie. In a completely unintentional way, Harris was right. "We're not going back."
July 18, 2025 at 12:58 AM
ICE will now have access to facial recognition that links to Medicaid data and IRS data in addition to who knows what else. Bye bye Miss America pie. In a completely unintentional way, Harris was right. "We're not going back."
This is right out of monty Python's skit about the Piranha brothers! bsky.app/profile/nyti...
President Trump said Tuesday that he had struck a trade agreement with Indonesia, calling it a "great deal for everybody" on social media. Under the deal, U.S. exports to Indonesia would face no tariffs, while Indonesian goods would be charged a tariff of 19% when shipped to the U.S.
Trump Announces ‘Great Deal’ on Trade With Indonesia
Details are still scarce on the agreement, which the president said will partly walk back some of the steep tariffs he threatened on the country last week.
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July 16, 2025 at 11:32 PM
This is right out of monty Python's skit about the Piranha brothers! bsky.app/profile/nyti...
Jonathan Swift to MAGA: "Remove me from this land of slaves, where all are fools and all are knaves; where every fool and knave is bought, yet kindly sells himself for naught."
July 16, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Jonathan Swift to MAGA: "Remove me from this land of slaves, where all are fools and all are knaves; where every fool and knave is bought, yet kindly sells himself for naught."
Someone else posted the "novel" idea of going on existing shows -Joe Rogan seems fed up with DJT- and talking to his audience like, you know, a person talks. bsky.app/profile/webr...
In a way, it's good to see these floundering fools so we can finally put away these tools for capital and concentrate on policy progress for exciting and enticing a majority of voters for the Democratic Party as demonstrated by Zohran Mamdani.
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literally everyone left of center: liberals need to invest in media infrastructure
this guy, who got his ass beat by lindsey fucking graham and led the dnc to lose the presidency, house, senate: how about this podcast that literally nobody will listen to? www.semafor.com/article/07/1...
this guy, who got his ass beat by lindsey fucking graham and led the dnc to lose the presidency, house, senate: how about this podcast that literally nobody will listen to? www.semafor.com/article/07/1...
July 16, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Someone else posted the "novel" idea of going on existing shows -Joe Rogan seems fed up with DJT- and talking to his audience like, you know, a person talks. bsky.app/profile/webr...
As a long-suffering Buffalo Braves (LA Clippers) fan, I'm hoping this works out for Beal and the Clips! bsky.app/profile/sham...
FROM SHAMS:
Full ESPN story on three-time All-Star Bradley Beal agreeing to a contract buyout with the Phoenix Suns to join the Los Angeles Clippers after extensive meetings with a host of suitors: https://t.co/j1C8568BQc
Full ESPN story on three-time All-Star Bradley Beal agreeing to a contract buyout with the Phoenix Suns to join the Los Angeles Clippers after extensive meetings with a host of suitors: https://t.co/j1C8568BQc
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FROM SHAMS:
Full ESPN story on three-time All-Star Bradley Beal agreeing to a contract buyout with the Phoenix Suns to join the Los Angeles Clippers after extensive meetings with a host of suitors: https://t.co/j1C8568BQc
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July 16, 2025 at 6:05 PM
As a long-suffering Buffalo Braves (LA Clippers) fan, I'm hoping this works out for Beal and the Clips! bsky.app/profile/sham...