Mark Scarbrough

20 Jan 2025

Hey! Introduction. Ex Am lit prof. (Diss: rewriting history by the body in pain.) Now: cookbook author (36+ titles with my chef husband). Memoirist, too. Pod: deep dive into Dante’s Comedy. Many lit seminars at CT/MA libraries. Looking to connect: #booksky, leftists, creatives, artists, compatriots.

25 Sept 2025

See also: “quisling.”

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

BARTIROMO: Do you think at some point companies will stop eating the tariffs and start passing it on to consumers? KEVIN HASSETT: I don't worry about that at all

15 Sept 2025

Yep.

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social

If the right *truly* believed Charlie Kirk was a defender of free speech and someone who was fine with dissenting opinions, they wouldn't be engaged in a massive campaign to punish anyone who didn't "mourn him properly." They clearly know all of that is bullshit. Only the media was conned.

14 Sept 2025

The seven last words of Jesus.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Kristi Noem: "The last thing Charlie had texted me about, about a day or two before he passed away, was about those mayors and governors. He wanted them to be held accountable for how dangerous they were making the situation for their people that had to live in those cities."

14 Sept 2025

Charlie turned me an others like me into talking points. We weren’t humans. We were debates.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Spencer Cox: "Charlie said some very inflammatory things, and in some corners of the web that's all that people have heard"

11 Sept 2025

Matthew 26:52: Those who take up the sword die by the sword.

10 Sept 2025

Home.

9 Sept 2025

No notes.

Andrea Junker@strandjunker.com

If Bill Clinton raped girls within Jeffrey Epstein’s child sex trafficking ring, he should rot in prison. If Donald Trump raped girls within Jeffrey Epstein’s child sex trafficking ring, he should rot in prison. That wasn’t so difficult, was it?

9 Sept 2025

Hydrangea and helenium = the start of autumn.

Big pot of roots for chicken stew on a chilly evening.

When I was a kid, I had to endure this exact talk about Reagan. And history has hardly been kind to him.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Rep. Ashley Hinson on Trump: "I think he's going to go down as the best president in our history."

Native-born. They can’t use the word they want to use. Yet.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

HASSETT: Most of jobs created in the US are for native-born workers BRENNAN: How do you prove that? HASSETT: We have a survey. Now, maybe we don't trust the surveys, right?

Fried left-over steel-cut oats. Save leftovers in a buttered baking dish, then fry the next morning in butter until crisp (whole or in squares). Break out the maple syrup or the strawberry jam!

My phone logged no government alert today. I have never been to a gender reveal party. I feel these things must form a connection.

Love the typo. Wish it were true.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

TAPPER: Should we expect action in Chicago this week? HOMAN: Absolutely. You can except action in most sanctuary cities across the country.

Four years ago, my father went over a cliff and pulled me with him.

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6 Sept 2025

Truly, truly dystopian. It’s hard to believe his handlers allow this … until you remember their utopian tech-bro hope for a “post-human” world.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

This is frankly one of the worst things Donald Trump has ever posted, which is really saying something

6 Sept 2025

The morons think the morons are morons.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Kevin Hassett makes a case that today’s jobs report would be good if the numbers were just revised up

This is the beginning of how you do it.

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social

Ossoff: He never should have been confirmed by the senate and he needs to resign. It is one thing to be a skeptic or a reformer. It is quite another to be a fool…

And yet the market rises. Deck chairs, the Titanic.

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com

BRUTAL JOBS REPORT: Just 22,000 jobs added in August. Unemployment rises to 4.3%. Broader jobless rate jumps to 8.1%. Slowest 4-month growth since 2020. Plus, downward revisions for June and July of -21,000. Yikes.

thenation.comRFK Jr., American PsychoHe needs to go. Now.

I don’t believe in judging people by their looks but in this case….

Jenna Norton@jenna-m-norton.bsky.social

We all deserve better than RFK Jr. Great piece from @gregggonsalves.bsky.social www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Anyone see the “no more wars” President? This guy doesn’t seem on board.

4 Sept 2025

So clever, so quippy. Just what we want in a senator.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Ted Cruz: "I don't want to get between JB Pritzker and the Dominos Pizza line, but I'll tell you what I am willing to get between -- him and his open doors for every human trafficker ... "

4 Sept 2025

RFK gives morons a bad name.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social

SEN. CASSIDY (R) : “Do you agree Trump deserves the Nobel Prize for Operation Warp speed?” RFK JR.: “Absolutely.” SEN. CASSIDY: “But you just told Senator Bennet the COVID vaccine killed more people than COVID.” RFK JR.: “….”😬 🤷🏻‍♂️

2 Sept 2025

Light in the morning: slant, clarity, precision, hope.

1 Sept 2025

Today’s vibe.

justsecurity.orgDismantling the Foreign Malign Influence CenterTulsi Gabbard is dismantling the last U.S. government organ dedicated to tracking State-sponsored efforts to interfere in U.S. institutions.

1 Sept 2025

Every day, it’s worse than I imagined.

Georgia DiPirro 📎@georgiadipirro.bsky.social

“By shutting down the Foreign Malign Influence Center, Gabbard stripped away America’s shield against foreign meddling. Moscow and Beijing couldn’t ask for a bigger gift.” Robert Morton #NationalSecurity #ForeignInterference #counterespionage

Is it wrong to wish for Marty’s DeLorean right about now?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump on deploying the National Guard to Chicago: "I have the right to do anything I want to do. I'm the president of the United States."

Burning the flag = political speech. Political speech = the first amendment. This isn’t hard.

I ran from high school at sixteen to get away from these morons. Yet I am now ruled by them.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

RFK Jr claims that windmills are "wiping out the whale population" in the Atlantic

I posted a short reel about my husband this morning. I was swarmed with horrible homophobia. I have never had to block so many accounts.

When you start to reread Dostoevsky’s short stories and find a picture from when you married him in 1999 as a bookmark in just the right place.

25 Aug 2025

Change is life.

25 Aug 2025

The doddery, rambling, wobbly man did not write this. It’s as if he’s been licensed without a fee. Bad business move.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Mobster president

24 Aug 2025

My husband’s crazy obsession with regional Chinese cooking continues. Not that I’m complaining.

Summer dinner on the porch: pork loin off the grill, local corn, and spiced plums (from our new book, COLD CANNING!).

levernews.comPragerU Is Moving Into Sesame StreetAmid PBS funding cuts, right-wing agitprop Prager University aims for the head of the class.

Some days, I yearn for Sleepy Joe.

David Sirota@davidsirota.com

👀 NEWS: IRS documents show conservative propaganda machine PragerU spent $650,000 on a gala at Mar-A-Lago - and soon after Trump targeted PBS for elimination, setting up PragerU to fill the educational void in schools across the country America. www.levernews.com/prageru-is-m...

politico.comThe blacklist of words Democrats should avoidA new memo of 45 words and phrases for Democrats to avoid, alleging the terms turn voters off. They span six categories — from “therapy speak” to “explaining away crime.”

Deck chairs, Titanic. You know the math.

Politico@politico.com

A new memo of 45 words and phrases for Democrats to avoid, alleging the terms turn voters off. They span six categories — from “therapy speak” to “explaining away crime.”

cp24.comHealth Canada approves updated Pfizer, Moderna COVID-19 vaccines for fallHealth Canada has authorized updated COVID-19 vaccines by Pfizer and BioNTech and by Moderna for use this respiratory virus season.

And yet in our death cult…

Andrew Young 🇨🇦@young.me

Good news: Health Canada has authorized updated Pfizer and Moderna mRNA vaccines targeting the LP.8.1 variant for the upcoming respiratory virus season - www.cp24.com/news/canada/... I'll keep an eye on availability in the next month or two and update young.me/vax/ accordingly. #covid19 #covid19ca

They have managed to turn me into a raving free-market zealot. There is no end to the indignities.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Chairman Mao touts his state-run economy

I grew up in the South. I was taken to the battlefields where my kin fell. When my mother did genealogical research and discovered her “noble” kin had deserted to the Union, she stopped talking about the Lost Cause. The unreconstructed remain unreconstructed.

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social

Edmund Pettus -- the Confederate for whom the famous bridge leading out of Selma, Alabama, is named -- was captured four different times during the Civil War. All of the slave-defending traitors were losers in the grandest sense, but some of them *really* embraced losing as a way of life.

I fear there will be blood.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

That was one of the most batshit press conferences of Trump's public life. He brandished a photo of Putin and promised to deploy the US military to occupy Chicago, New York, and San Francisco. A sane country would be moving toward impeachment and removal right now.

21 Aug 2025

Just saw this after listening to the three-episode @theatlantic.com podcast on homelessness, “No Easy Fix,” which broke my soul for the afternoon. These cruel bastards need to get off of our goddamn grass.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

JD Vance on homelessness: "I don't know why we accepted that it was reasonable to have crazy people yelling at our kids. You should not have to cross the street in downtown Atlanta to avoid a crazy person yelling at your family. Those are your streets."

This is pure desperation.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

why doesn't the Smithsonian talk more about how the upsides of slavery?

Finally got brave enough to watch Fellow Travelers. As a gay guy who survived the plague, I was—as expected—wrecked.

What happens when you dial back the Nazification of Grok by ten percent.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "A lot of people were killed last week for whatever reason. A big number. A lot of soldiers. On both sides ... I believe Vladimir Putin wants to see it ended."

independent.co.ukJordan Peterson ‘taking time off everything’ after mold exposure, daughter saysMikhaila Peterson claims her father is experiencing a ‘severe’ flare-up of symptoms linked with chronic inflammatory response syndrome

I wouldn’t think mold would save us, yet here we are.

Tabatha Southey🇨🇦@tabathasouthey.bsky.social

Beautiful end to the Jordan Peterson story. Unable to slay the Chaos Dragon in his own home, he’s become the virgin trapped in his daughter’s wellness grift. Hailed as “the most influential public intellectual in the Western World,”in truth, the mould broke him. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

I hate the way he mispronounces “enshittification.”

jae holzman@jael.bsky.social

“the beautification will begin”

Always Be Closing.

Drew Harwell@drewharwell.com

Showing the endangered leader of an invaded country my hats

comicsands.comElon Musk Gets Blistering Reminder After Ranting About The Sun Destroying Life On Earth

Better start prepping. Only 7.5 billion years to go. Still time to clean the base boards.

George Takei@georgetakei.bsky.social

Seriously, Elon?