Genuine Realist

'Wurtenbaugh's account is stunningly original...' - Kirkus Reviews. A Prophet Without Honor. amzn.to/2tGCAHC

@jpodhoretz I do not like to dis commentators I like as much as JP and NF, but to conclude anything about the size of a movement on the basis of its presence in social media is astonishingly native.

easily the most depressing essay I've read since yesterday's most depressing essay I've ever read,which outdistanced the one from the day before. Things are depressing, is what I'm saying

@CaitlinPacific We're in show trial country here. What is interesting to is how a seasoned professional can feel so pressed so is how a seasoned professional can feel so pressed socially that he feels compelled to make a fool of himself, knowing full well that's what he's doing.

Middle-aged, well-educated man understands that this weird incantation is necessary for career success. He’s a chew toy.

@kruptminz @FoxNews @AmyCBSCOTUS You haven't the slightest idea what you're talking about.

@FoxNews Awww @AmyCBSCOTUS knows how it feels to be an average American now. Her choices are now bleeding into her personal life and it’s news? Wake the fuck up lady. We’ve been living this nightmare for decades. Welcome to the party.

NEW: Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett details the chilling threats her family has faced, revealing the terrifying moment her 12-year-old son discovered a bulletproof vest in her bedroom during the fallout of the Dobbs leak. Barrett also recounted a recent "swatting" incident at her home and receiving threatening anonymous deliveries, warning that while federal judges continue to do their jobs without fear or favor, the current threat level is "really high." "I didn't expect that performing this service was going to put me in the position of explaining to my children what a bulletproof vest was, and why I had to wear one."

@TAFORU @FoxNews Talk about whataboutism gone mad.

The sad trombones are playing for Amy Coney Barrett as she tells the woeful tale of her child learning what a bullet proof vest is after Barrett donned such a vest in the wake of the SCOTUS leak that preceded the Dobbs decision — oh and she’s been swatted - womp womp. Of course the MAGA Multiverse has crawled out of the woodwork to decry the “Violence of The Left”. Political violence is wrong. Full stop. Amy Coney Barrett shouldn’t be swatted, threatened, or forced to wear a bulletproof vest. But the selective amnesia here is breathtaking. The same people now declaring a national emergency over threats to one conservative justice spent years shrugging as Democratic officials faced bomb threats, swatting, arson, assassination attempts — and, in Minnesota, the assassination of Melissa Hortman. Josh Shapiro’s home was set on fire. Pete Buttigieg was swatted and separated from his children during the police response. Let’s also address the baldfaced hypocrisy of the conservative justices who lied about overturning settled law, and constitute an illegitimate majority as a result of Mitch McConnell’s actions to deny court appointments by Democrat Presidents! And never forget this illegitimate majority has been a major factor in creating the state of hyper-polarization and rot of American democracy with their documented corruption and bestowal to the mad king Donald Trump his unlimited power and immunity.

@JoJoFromJerz @FoxNews Oh, please. Trump is responsible for a lot, but the crazies on the Left were there a long time before Trump.

@FoxNews She can thank Donald Trump for that. I didn’t expect someone to call my house after sending me photos of it, while promising to “Paul Pelosi me next.” This is what Donald Trump has done to our country.

@4thOfJuly365 What inventions?

Take your savage behavior with you 👋🏻

@CaitlinPacific It is somewhat amazing to me how often Musk is challenged on the site he owns, and tolerates it in service of the free speech principle. Hats off.

Jilted lover discourse

@CaitlinPacific A verse from the New Testament about motes in your neighbor:s eye and beams in your own comes to mind.

Miss Congeniality

The Real Triumph of American Idealism; or, Why I Am An Arendtist, by @fdberry open.substack.com/pub/genuinerea…

@CaitlinPacific John Profumo resign from Parliament the day the scandal crested, contacted Toynbee Hall, a charitable settlement house in London's East End, and spent the next 40 years doing janitorial work there. Never spoke in public again. That's a mensch.

If a duly elected member of government goes missing, whether because of illness, death, l’amour fou, or foul play, that government shall inform his or her constituents in a timely fashion, perhaps via a system of national communication similar to the Amber Alert.

@CaitlinPacific L'Amour fou - you might remember the obit mark steyn wrote for profumo. A great piece. Making the Best of a Sticky Wicket - The Atlantic share.google/Gk5HMM5Cz9VLHN…

@CaitlinPacific Curious whether anyone in your applied the phrase 'balloon up' to any family member who had gained three ounces, whether it's an Irishism or just my kin. A horrible, horrible verb, so much so it became a family joke.

@nova31990 Odd. I thought he did it to himself, by invading a tent where he didn't belong, refusing to leave when asked, and then sticking a knife into an unarmed boy. Have I got it wrong?

Karmelo Anthony remains a victim of white supremacy.

@Alinavisoo_life Bye.

Somali Man says “If you are kicking out Somalis, you have to kick out every one of us. I'm speaking for all of my brothers and sisters. All of us, we all leave together." What’s your response to him ??

@CaitlinPacific @nytimes Whoever it is should run on the Rodney King platform - can't we all just get along?

Needed: blazer, “mad as Hell” attitude, blueberry -picking experience. nytimes.com/2026/07/09/us/… via @NYTimes

@CaitlinPacific The angry but basically good natured guys and gals we used to produce in abundance are still around, if only they can fight through the jungle noise of social media.

He’s an angry guy. That’s what gave him the national appeal.

@CaitlinPacific And dance?

The Romans are going to have to face the music.

@CaitlinPacific The pillow talk in that household must be very interesting.

The very bad two weeks: The Crown won’t pay for family security so has to go alone. Asked to stay at Buckingham Palace but replies too late. It’s a no. (!) Loses Daily Mail lawsuit for $$$ Ventura Highway in the summertime… newsnationnow.com/entertainment-…

@AbeGreenwald @windyneoneocon Quite seriously, I'm not sure the Democratic Party exists anymore. The US desperately needs a moderate liberal party, but I'm expecting the GOP to go through some sort of mitosis in the next decade, as the Democrats disappear.

@windyneoneocon Dinosaurs dominated too.

Natural selection applies in politics as elsewhere. Anti-Semites are unfit for survival.

@CaitlinPacific Lol. ,"The tiny ice floe whether RBG spends eternity." Rich, congrats. But her myopia brought us Amy CB, so, blessings my child, all is forgiven. Open up the pearly gates for our newest saint.