KrysMc

KrysMc

@krismcd.bsky.social

Shakespeare prof, historical fiction and SF/F reviewer, budding editor. Pro: knitting, books, cats, comedy, fat liberation, people standing up for each other. Miss my native South but glad to live in Blu(ish) Michigan. She/her/hers.

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Commenters are already rightfully incensed about this. Looks like the LLM feature will only work if you choose to apply it, and is mainly designed for subbing ingredients and scaling amounts for more/less servings. They claim it will NOT be used for writing recipes -- but yeah, super disappointing.

nytimes.comHow, and Why, We’re Adding A.I. Tools to NYT Cooking (Gift Article)New features can help home cooks customize thousands of New York Times recipes. But our human editors remain in charge.

The floods were last year and FEMA denied flood relief until just now when Texas' GOP Senate seat is in danger.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "At the request of Ken Paxton and Sen. Ted Cruz, I'm pleased to announce that I will be making available more FEMA relief funds from this year's floods in Texas Hill Country."

GOP voters please remember that your leaders hate you & think you are stupid.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "The worst part is that voters have about a 2 week lifespan of memory"

Thank you, VP Vance, I am fully in favor of judging people by their friends. RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Q: Is El-Sayed a jihadist like President Trump said yesterday? JD VANCE: Well look, he certainly has a lot of weird friends

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Average Trump scandal: many people dead after uncontroversial government program illegally cut by doge for nonexistent savings Average mamdani scandal: he’s playing BASKETBALL with his FRIENDS

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Major press failure: treating Jared Kushner taking foreign bribes and shaping US foreign policy as less relevant than Hunter Biden not taking bribes nor influencing policy. Covering Kushner accurately was considered partisan, biased. Lies about Hunter or his minor actions treated as more important.

If he was anywhere else besides the Trumpiverse, he’d be ridiculed and hounded out of public life, and possibly put into custodial care as mentally incompetent. That an adult human can publicly say such things without consequences …I just don’t know how we got here.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

All y’all in Mississippi who want to hear about DC elites eating in fancy restaurants, raise y’all’s hand.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump on DC: "Nobody wanted to eat out. They were afraid. Even if you were in the restaurant, people would walk in and like the Wild West, 'Hold it up!' Everybody is standing there. Can you imagine? A fancy restaurant. They were robbing the whole restaurant. It's crazy."

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Yes, yes, the renewed accusations that the president is a serial rapist and was an active participant in Epstein's pedophilia and sex trafficking would seem alarming, but it doesn't involve the Cheesecake Factory so ...

White racists will always default to the vicious lie that people of color are dirty and don't know how to take care of their homes.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump is BIG MAD about Obama saying the White House now looks like Saddam opened a Cheesecake Factory: "He's not a smart guy. He's not smart at all ... for you to say it's a Cheesecake Factory, that just shows why you were a lousy president"

These buttheads are so divorced from reality, they can't even hear themselves.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

Vance: "Remember in 2022, when Russia invaded Ukraine and gas prices skyrocketed. They skyrocketed, by the way, far higher than they are today...They skyrocket every time some tin pot dictator decides to throw a tantrum."

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Over 2,000 alumni from Vivek’s all-boys catholic high school in Cincinnati have signed and circulated a petition demanding that he pull the ad and issue a public apology for “ignoring the moral responsibilities” of his Jesuit education. I think he’s pretty cooked.

Micah@rincewind.run

chat I don’t think doubling down on this ad is working out real well for vivek

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I've donated to a few candidates before and so my name is on lists of folks who can be persuaded to open up their wallets for dems in close races. And it's true! I can! The magic words are "trans rights are human rights and I will not dignify weird creeps' obsession with teen girls' genitals."

Please, PBS -- "escalates rhetoric"???? "Spews racist lies" is simpler and more factual.

PBS News@pbsnews.org

President Donald Trump escalated his attacks against Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed on Sunday with rhetoric that questioned the Muslim candidate's loyalties to the U.S. and repeatedly tried to tie him to extremism, claims the Democrat has repeatedly denied. https://to.pbs.org/4iiD647

This is so infuriating. Believing that trans people deserve equal rights is not an "extreme" view. Shame on all "centrist" Dems who are throwing trans folk under the bus in an effort to appease transphobic voters. If you get elected, we expect you to make laws that support trans rights.

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com

Josh Turek of Iowa, Democrat, comes out with one of the worst anti-trans ads yet. Not only is it an anti-sports ad, it proposes a ban on federal funding for gender affirming care. That would hit all medicaid and medicare patients, and any ACA federally-subsidized plans as well. Horrific.

And once more for the ignorant folk in the back, when trans women play sports, they play women's sports because they are women. There are no men playing on (pro/college) women's sports teams. And vice versa, but the bigots never seem to worry about that.

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Any politician who’s willing to throw away one group’s rights is willing to throw away everyone’s rights. It’s that simple. Every single consultant, pundit and candidate who’s shown a willingness to abandon trans rights needs to be shunned from the party forever

BeshearStan@beshearstan.bsky.social

Kansas Dem Sen. nominee Adam Hamilton on trans rights: “I don’t think we should take a small group of people and bully them, pick on them, and hurt them. I understand one thing really clearly when it comes to transgender people, and that is Jesus told me I was to love my neighbor as I love myself”

real facts

Eric Columbus@ericcolumbus.bsky.social

Here’s the relevant language in the DOJ lawsuit. It asks for the election not to be certified if Peltola’s margin of victory is smaller than the number of votes cast for the third-party Sullivan. (I expect this to be laughed out of court.) storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

WELKER: Is a vote for you a vote for the Trump agenda? MIKE ROGERS: Um, I'm apologizing. I'm having some difficultly in my earpiece. But is a vote for you? I'm not sure. I'll tell you what a vote for me is. It's a great day for the state of Michigan

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Looks like he’s reading the words directly from the teleprompter. Which would indicate he’s not ad-libbing that line. Which would indicate that the aide who wrote it in must want the GOP to lose this fall. (Also did he call it the “Hormone Strait?”)

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "While oil prices are temporarily high ... the United States oil and gas business is making hundreds of billions of dollars"

Good question, but a better one would be, “If the Republican wins, will you still claim there was confusion?”

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

BASH: If there were 2 Democratic Dan Sullivans on the ballot and they were potentially canceling each other out, would you be filing the same lawsuit? BLANCHE: Absolutely! Of course

2026 is the year the Leader of the Free World spent every other waking minute fantasizing about large muscular men punching each other, and the other half of his time fantasizing about decorating his house.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "Now our soldiers are allowed to be strong people ... they are the best looking people you've ever seen. And they stand in the streets. And they walk up to a gang and they beat the shit out of them."

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"So when they tell me, 'but his name is Abdul.' I'll remind them, 'His name was Barack.' We stand on the shoulders of giants."

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El-Sayed: "Don't get it twisted. I love America. I'm so grateful I get to raise my 2 daughters here in America. I just love America enough to call on her to be America for all of her kids."

It's OK for shows -- especially satirical ones -- to be silly! I'm an unashamed Gleek/HS drama nerd looking forward to the reboot.

Many have referred to the news of Glee’s return as a “threat” and liken the slushy-stained halls of McKinley High to “hell.” Have you all forgotten that Glee was actually good?

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Total respect for NBC's Monica Alba, who asked Trump exactly the question he needs to answer. By refusing to answer, and attacking her, he has effectively told the world that no, sexual abuse allegations do no mean a thing to him. Imagine if she wasn't there. We'd be the poorer for it.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

😳 WOMAN REPORTER: Do sexual abuse allegations mean nothing to you, sir? TRUMP: Wait. Wait! Wait wait wait. Slow down. Who are you with? REPORTER: NBC, sir. But they are very serious sex abuse allegations TRUMP: Quiet! Isn't she a fresh person? You're a horrible little reporter, aren't you?

The Slanderer-in-Chief engaging in some especially intense slandering today. Looking forward to the lawsuits.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump on El-Sayed: "We can't him in the United States-- we can't have him in the United States Senate. I look so forward to Michigan. I think it's gonna be wild. Because he's a total phony. He's a little phony. He's a jihadist. He's a vicious, violent jihadist."

I don't generally recommend listening to anything That Man says, but you really have to watch him loudly angrily insisting that the abusive mother is the believable one in Ramaswamy's slanderous ad against Amy Acton. Disgusting.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Q: Now that you know the backstory about Amy Acton and her stepfather and why she hasn't talked to her mom in so long -- her stepfather was indicted for rape -- do you change your mind about the ad? TRUMP: No. No. It's a mother speaking badly against Amy Acton. You don't know anything.

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The fact that the president's doctors are giving him the dementia test over and over again -- tracking his decline, most likely -- and that the president keeps bragging about having to take that test should be a five-alarm fire.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "You know, the first question -- they have a lion, a snake, a giraffe, and a bear. And they say 'which is the snake?' ... by the time you get to number five a lot of people are left out on the road ... I get no credit for it."

Between this fool and Rep. Omar, there’s only one convicted criminal who should leave, and it’s not Rep. Omar.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump calls for Ilhan Omar to immediately resign & says, "please inform our great Speaker, James Michael Johnson that the Democrat Party has conceded her seat ... she will not be allowed to me a member of that body any longer" Trump's crowd in Iowa then starts chanting "Lock her up! Lock her up!"

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El-Sayed: "We had a little debate. Or I had a debate and he just pointed at me and said, 'He's Muslim.'"

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Remember when Pete Hegseth's mom wrote him a letter telling him he was a misogynistic POS?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "Ramaswamy put up a very powerful Ad about a mother saying that her daughter, Acton, is a liar, and much worse. The Press is trying to get him to 'take down the Ad.' Frankly, anybody whose mother spoke about daughter that way would normally lead to the daughter being precluded from serving"

PREACH

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

AOC: "As AI begins to encroach in our society, their goal is to take your cognition away from you. AI's goal is to take your thoughts away from you, your ability to think away from you, so that you become dependent on a machine ... reading books is active resistance"

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AOC: "What the Trump administration is doing in targeting trans people is to get everyone on board with supporting defunding their own civil rights ... understand that when they attack trans girls in sports, they're also attacking all women's ability to stand up against their abusers"

One thing you can count on, sure as the sun rises in the east, is that Trump will ALWAYS praise and defend a child abuser who supports him politically.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "Ramaswamy put up a very powerful Ad about a mother saying that her daughter, Acton, is a liar, and much worse. The Press is trying to get him to 'take down the Ad.' Frankly, anybody whose mother spoke about daughter that way would normally lead to the daughter being precluded from serving"

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TRUMP: We gave nothing in exchange for Stephen. We never give anything in exchange for hostages. TRUMP LITERALLY MOMENTS LATER: If I implemented sanctions on Russia, Steven wouldn't be coming out right now.

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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

JD Vance: "Now the media and the Democrats in the state of Ohio are obsessed because Vivek Ramaswamy had the audacity to run a TV commercial which calls it out like it is and call Amy Acton a liar"

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Vance is in Ohio to support the Ramaswamy campaign, which is in hot water for an ad in which they promote a woman who sided with her husband after he was arrested for raping her 12-year-old daughter. For his intro song, they chose ... Jerry Lee Lewis, who famously married his 13-year-old cousin.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

LMAO JD Vance's speech in Ohio is off to a great start

Whenever they're heckled, Trump/Vance make a pitiful joke about how the protestor is fat &/or dirty &/or lives with their parents, & wait for a big laugh that never comes. That's all they've got, folks -- they totally lack imagination or a sense of humor. They think "Dumocrat " is a sick burn.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

wow -- a protester right behind Vance spikes his MAGA hat and start yelling at Vance before getting hauled out. Vance smears him for allegedly looking like he hasn't washed his hair.

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TRUMP: The United States, out of respect for President Trump, was not required to give anything in return - an unprecedented situation for Russia TRUMP MOMENTS LATER: If sanctions would have been placed, certainly those negotiations would have come to a complete and total halt

"We're not going to try people in the court of public opinion" says the man who admitted to lying about accusing Haitian refugees of eating dogs and cats. They have literally no shame.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

JD Vance: "There is no person who hates the idea of people enriching themselves fraudulent over access to the government than Donald J Trump"