BarbaraPittman ☕️💬

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• Academic Failure • PhD in English • INTJ • Former Dir. of InstructionalTechnology • Retired • Atheist •

Profile photo is Stony Lake, Canada 🇨🇦

OxfordComma 👍

I support the existence of Israel 🇮🇱, Ukraine🇺🇦, Europe 🇪🇺, and Canada 🇨🇦

Curriculum Vitaehttps://pittmancv.com/archives/
The Letters Projecthttps://pittmanlettersproject.com/site-map/
Kitchen Portfoliohttps://kitchenportfolio.blog/about/
Wandering: A Second Life Bloghttps://grinnsworld.wordpress.com/about-grinn/

“what’s that thing P.J. O’Rourke used to say? oh right:

‘Republicans are the party that says government doesn’t work, and then they get elected and prove it.’”

https://open.substack.com/pub/jefftiedrich/p/old-man-yells-at-country?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

old man yells at country

scenes from a batshit speech

everyone is entitled to my own opinion
Report: Fenway Sports Group to sell Penguins to Chicago-based investment group led by businessman David Hoffmann

Fenway Sports Group has agreed to sell primary control of the Penguins to a new ownership group led by businessman David Hoffmann, according to a report...

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Walking in a winter wonderland.
If we can't even identify our enemies then how can we fight them? Trump's National Security Strategy is the longest suicide note in American history www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

The Longest Suicide Note in Am...
The Longest Suicide Note in American History

The Trump administration’s new National Security Strategy targets liberal democracy itself.

The Atlantic

Alex Kleytman, an 87-year-old Ukrainian immigrant from Odesa and Holocaust survivor, was killed during a Hanukkah festival at Bondi Beach in Sydney on 14 December

He had also survived Russian terror in Siberia. He died while trying to protect his wife, Larisa Kleytman https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/12/15/he-survived-holocaust-and-soviet-terror-at-87-ukrainian-immigrant-was-killed-protecting-his-wife-from-antisemitic-attack-in-sydney/

He survived Holocaust and Soviet terror. At 87, Ukrainian immigrant was killed protecting his wife from antisemitic attack in Sydney - Euromaidan Press

Hatred found him again after 80 years.

Euromaidan Press

Your casual reminder that the The American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5) outlines specific criteria and factors related to Narcissistic Personality Disorder. There are nine criteria and a diagnosis requires as least 5.

A certain leader's recent tweet hits all nine like clarion bells.

Inside Stephen Miller’s Dark Plot to Build a MAGA Terror State

He is descended from Russian Jews—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable. Today, his project is to unleash government persecution of those he deems alien and unassimilable. How far will Miller’s sadistic designs go?

The New Republic
Rubio calls this font too 'woke' for the State Department

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has ordered diplomatic correspondence to stop using the Calibri font and return to the more traditional Times New Roman. The move that takes effect Wednesday reverses a Biden administration shift to the less formal typeface that Rubio calls wasteful, confusing and unbefitting the dignity of U.S. government documents. In a cable sent to all U.S. embassies and consulates abroad Tuesday, Rubio said the 2023 shift to the sans serif Calibri font was the result of misguided diversity, equity and inclusion policies pursued by his predecessor. The cable says it “was promised to mitigate accessibility issues for individuals with disabilities.” It asserts that the change had cost the State Department $145,000 but offered no evidence.

AP News
Deportivas de marca compradas en el mercadillo a mitad de precio.....😲