Writer, teacher, ex-hockey player, occasional golfer, drummer, actor. All the opinions here are mine. Mine, I say!https://bsky.app/profile/michael-berube.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/michael-berube.bsky.social/post/3mjndzg7wks23Pete Hegseth's next prayer will be from the Book of Armaments, chapter 2, verses 9-21. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ashgP4YMdJw16 Apr 2026 21:27 +0000at://did:plc:boaml3nti2qkd4glouvcdwe3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjndzg7wks23https://bsky.app/profile/michael-berube.bsky.social/post/3mh7chfahzk2bI would sit down with my granddaughter for six hours and teach her how to use the can opener [contains quote post or other embedded content]16 Mar 2026 20:31 +0000at://did:plc:boaml3nti2qkd4glouvcdwe3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mh7chfahzk2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/michael-berube.bsky.social/post/3mguoncavyc2sThis is judiciously phrased [contains quote post or other embedded content]12 Mar 2026 15:10 +0000at://did:plc:boaml3nti2qkd4glouvcdwe3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mguoncavyc2shttps://bsky.app/profile/michael-berube.bsky.social/post/3mgslncbplc2kRug-on-Face-Man trying to compete with Dinesh D'Souza's famous line, "The American slave *was* treated like property, which is to say, pretty well." It's a high bar to clear. [contains quote post or other embedded content]11 Mar 2026 19:11 +0000at://did:plc:boaml3nti2qkd4glouvcdwe3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgslncbplc2khttps://bsky.app/profile/michael-berube.bsky.social/post/3mgskvwhd4k2kWatching "The Secret Agent" and remembering watching "I'm Still Here" and wondering whether we will have to wait 40 years for movies to be made about what ICE and DHS are doing right now11 Mar 2026 18:58 +0000at://did:plc:boaml3nti2qkd4glouvcdwe3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgskvwhd4k2khttps://bsky.app/profile/michael-berube.bsky.social/post/3mgpth3wqks25Good to know we cancelled all those wasteful NEH grants and USAID so that the money could go to 5% of a missile aimed at a girls' school10 Mar 2026 16:53 +0000at://did:plc:boaml3nti2qkd4glouvcdwe3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgpth3wqks25https://bsky.app/profile/michael-berube.bsky.social/post/3mgn2ku5tdk23Pretty sure that Timothée Chamalet made that remark about opera and ballet simply to distract us from the fact that he did a Willy Wonka movie that can be watched for twenty minutes max09 Mar 2026 14:22 +0000at://did:plc:boaml3nti2qkd4glouvcdwe3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgn2ku5tdk23https://bsky.app/profile/michael-berube.bsky.social/post/3mgauvjnwvs2eMany thanks to @publicbooks.bsky.social for publishing this piece, in which Urmila Seshagiri and I discuss (a) del Toro's idiosyncratic (to put it kindly) adaptation of "Frankenstein," (b) adaptations of "Frankenstein" in general, and even (c) adaptations in general. All in under 3000 words! [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 Mar 2026 18:09 +0000at://did:plc:boaml3nti2qkd4glouvcdwe3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgauvjnwvs2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/michael-berube.bsky.social/post/3mfrmta36i225Finally a law that will protect girls from having to compete with trans women driving cars tiny.cc/9wiz001 http://tiny.cc/9wiz00126 Feb 2026 16:34 +0000at://did:plc:boaml3nti2qkd4glouvcdwe3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfrmta36i225https://bsky.app/profile/michael-berube.bsky.social/post/3mfkhj3b4sk2hNot the worst thing about this video but just gotta say that OF COURSE it's Matthew Tkachuk putting that medal on Patel [contains quote post or other embedded content]23 Feb 2026 20:10 +0000at://did:plc:boaml3nti2qkd4glouvcdwe3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfkhj3b4sk2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/michael-berube.bsky.social/post/3mfcyuq5mlk2nHive mind question: does anyone have contact info for Kathryn Allan, the writer on disability and science fiction, who used to tweet as @BleedingChrome?20 Feb 2026 21:00 +0000at://did:plc:boaml3nti2qkd4glouvcdwe3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfcyuq5mlk2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/michael-berube.bsky.social/post/3mf5xwdadrs2cJust as Donald Trump tempts us to be nostalgic for the wisdom and eloquence of Dan Quayle, and Pam Bondi tempts us to be nostalgic for the sagacity of Alberto Gonzales or the rectitude of John Mitchell, the culture vacuum on the American right is almost enough to make us nostalgic for Allan Bloom. [contains quote post or other embedded content]18 Feb 2026 20:59 +0000at://did:plc:boaml3nti2qkd4glouvcdwe3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mf5xwdadrs2chttps://bsky.app/profile/michael-berube.bsky.social/post/3mf3fgvnlps24It's almost as if Bari Weiss's "free speech" thing was a grift from start to finish [contains quote post or other embedded content]17 Feb 2026 20:23 +0000at://did:plc:boaml3nti2qkd4glouvcdwe3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mf3fgvnlps24https://bsky.app/profile/michael-berube.bsky.social/post/3mf3ferawmc24Seems odd that the dudes who want to smash the administrative state are also the dudes who want to build concentration camps throughout the US17 Feb 2026 20:22 +0000at://did:plc:boaml3nti2qkd4glouvcdwe3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mf3ferawmc24https://bsky.app/profile/michael-berube.bsky.social/post/3meqnf6pgh22mSteven Miller is going to appear under a banner reading "Mission Accomplished" [contains quote post or other embedded content]13 Feb 2026 13:46 +0000at://did:plc:boaml3nti2qkd4glouvcdwe3/app.bsky.feed.post/3meqnf6pgh22mhttps://bsky.app/profile/michael-berube.bsky.social/post/3me7jmiact22uOh look the President of the United States did another racism https://media.tenor.com/ElPuUjC-WDYAAAAC/jabba-the-hutt-star-wars.gif?hh=197&ww=49806 Feb 2026 18:24 +0000at://did:plc:boaml3nti2qkd4glouvcdwe3/app.bsky.feed.post/3me7jmiact22uhttps://bsky.app/profile/michael-berube.bsky.social/post/3me3hs6hwbc25Everyone who fluffed this little monster-wannabe, beginning with that pathetic Rod Dreher, has committed a crime against humanity [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 Feb 2026 03:40 +0000at://did:plc:boaml3nti2qkd4glouvcdwe3/app.bsky.feed.post/3me3hs6hwbc25https://bsky.app/profile/michael-berube.bsky.social/post/3mdsmrlimuc23I am so old I remember Arthur Schlesinger Jr. getting all het up and panicky about the term "gorgeous mosaic" because it wasn't "melting pot." Ah, the enduring legacy of reasonable centrism. [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Feb 2026 15:16 +0000at://did:plc:boaml3nti2qkd4glouvcdwe3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdsmrlimuc23https://bsky.app/profile/michael-berube.bsky.social/post/3mdnsp2nfqk2dI'll take "completely predictable things" for $800, Ken [contains quote post or other embedded content]30 Jan 2026 17:18 +0000at://did:plc:boaml3nti2qkd4glouvcdwe3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdnsp2nfqk2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/michael-berube.bsky.social/post/3mdniie7wls2dTrump now readying the bone saws for journalists who hurt his feelings30 Jan 2026 14:15 +0000at://did:plc:boaml3nti2qkd4glouvcdwe3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdniie7wls2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/michael-berube.bsky.social/post/3mdkzrrkeck2dI am aware of all internet traditions and therefore know that you do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to them," but it's still pretty impressive that they managed to find a #2 who is as much of a bleeding pustule of a human being as his master [contains quote post or other embedded content]29 Jan 2026 14:47 +0000at://did:plc:boaml3nti2qkd4glouvcdwe3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdkzrrkeck2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/michael-berube.bsky.social/post/3mcval2qjqc2rApparently ICE isn't from the Gestapo region of Germany so it's just sparkling secret police [contains quote post or other embedded content]20 Jan 2026 22:50 +0000at://did:plc:boaml3nti2qkd4glouvcdwe3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcval2qjqc2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/michael-berube.bsky.social/post/3mbacnyys422xI sometimes wonder if people like Peter Brimelow and John Derbyshire are pissed that they were cancelled by their colleagues on the right for their virulent racism thirty years ago and now we're in the timeline where their virulent racism is a requirement for membership in conservative America [contains quote post or other embedded content]30 Dec 2025 21:36 +0000at://did:plc:boaml3nti2qkd4glouvcdwe3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbacnyys422xhttps://bsky.app/profile/michael-berube.bsky.social/post/3maejtjmzps2hI'm sure there's a perfectly good, innocent reason for this [contains quote post or other embedded content]19 Dec 2025 20:30 +0000at://did:plc:boaml3nti2qkd4glouvcdwe3/app.bsky.feed.post/3maejtjmzps2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/michael-berube.bsky.social/post/3ma4vrh4lgc2tKatie Miller is OK with the president calling for the death of US senators but is outraged, outraged at an entirely accurate rendering of her husband illustrating @gregsargent.bsky.social's entirely accurate account of her husband's vision of an ethnically cleansed United States tiny.cc/wgiw001 https://newrepublic.com/article/204191/stephen-miller-maga-terror-state-dark-plot16 Dec 2025 19:42 +0000at://did:plc:boaml3nti2qkd4glouvcdwe3/app.bsky.feed.post/3ma4vrh4lgc2thttps://bsky.app/profile/michael-berube.bsky.social/post/3m5z7nhi6222r I remember Matt from the early blogosphere and did not realize that he was actually pro-Love Canal [contains quote post or other embedded content]19 Nov 2025 21:38 +0000at://did:plc:boaml3nti2qkd4glouvcdwe3/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5z7nhi6222rhttps://bsky.app/profile/michael-berube.bsky.social/post/3m5z6r4w4qs2rThis is objectively true and requires no viewpoint diversity [contains quote post or other embedded content]19 Nov 2025 21:22 +0000at://did:plc:boaml3nti2qkd4glouvcdwe3/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5z6r4w4qs2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/michael-berube.bsky.social/post/3m5m22xlr6c26A lot of people don't know that the Heritage Foundation isn't actually a politically-minded organization but rather an association of guys who get together to watch sports. [contains quote post or other embedded content]14 Nov 2025 15:54 +0000at://did:plc:boaml3nti2qkd4glouvcdwe3/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5m22xlr6c26https://bsky.app/profile/michael-berube.bsky.social/post/3m5jpnldb7c2d@ryanlcooper.com FTW [contains quote post or other embedded content]13 Nov 2025 17:42 +0000at://did:plc:boaml3nti2qkd4glouvcdwe3/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5jpnldb7c2d