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John Wallach

@jmwallach.bsky.social

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When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. (PfP defaced sign from Seattle in 2000s stick figure man with claw hand and caption "Stop for me it's the claw" where the original sign had no claw on figure and said law. Banner is early ARPA map.) He/him

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John Wallach @jmwallach.bsky.social · 4d

I demand we make America great like when my relatives arrived and there were open borders.

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Gautham Rao @gauthamrao.bsky.social · 1m

As Publius famously opined in The Federalist, "Ye minion Americans, prostrate thyself before thy king, bestow upon him emoluments, and then thy shall get thy bag maybe"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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John Wallach @jmwallach.bsky.social · 1m

Not an insult. US made Black people citizens on paper in 1860s then refused to acknowledge it for a hundred years.

John Wallach @jmwallach.bsky.social · 5m

It wasn't a big thing for white people cause it was more acceptable.

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Grant Lorrell @grantlorrell.bsky.social · 7m

Yeah, as one who watched a white HS classmate come to school in blackface and receive absolutely no discipline from school administration (this was in 2005), I have many thoughts about this whole "Racism wasn't as big a deal in the 00's" talk.

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 20m

I don’t know how to approach “Republicans weren’t racist in the early aughts” as someone who went to Texas during the early aughts and had to debate whether or not Black students were “stealing” people’s spots in class.

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John Wallach @jmwallach.bsky.social · 10m

When did Gastarbeiters get citizenship in Germany?

John Wallach @jmwallach.bsky.social · 11m

Took 30 years of vacuum after the foil disappeared.

John Wallach @jmwallach.bsky.social · 28m

I see. I am very behind because limited exposure to German speaking countries news in US.

Last time I was in Vienna, 2006, I got accosted by a Turkish guy near Bahnhof and then the police came down hard on him...

John Wallach @jmwallach.bsky.social · 31m

It is certainly not how it worked out but it felt like an attempt.

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Nom de Plume Brett @maverickbrett.bsky.social · 39m

This feels like important legal maneuvering, but also the last time this thought occurred to an absolute–monarchist in the American legal tradition he had his head removed so I don’t know where it is going.

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 1h

U.S. TSY SECY BESSENT: TARIFFS ARE A SURCHARGE, NOT A TAX

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John Wallach @jmwallach.bsky.social · 33m

But they're explicitly not dogmatic Marxists?

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John Wallach @jmwallach.bsky.social · 33m

Her fiancee?

John Wallach @jmwallach.bsky.social · 34m

I feel like it was shame starting to apply to powerful people rather than an end of it.

John Wallach @jmwallach.bsky.social · 35m

These people need to be ridiculed for the rest of time.

John Wallach @jmwallach.bsky.social · 36m

I3the best promotion for protest.

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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 39m

PragerU now entering the Erich von Däniken phase of its evolution.

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John Wallach @jmwallach.bsky.social · 36m

About banks?

John Wallach @jmwallach.bsky.social · 38m

Journalists are too important for ethics.

John Wallach @jmwallach.bsky.social · 4h

Free speech (for white people defending the administration!)

Cosgrove_Outdoors @dermotncosgrove.bsky.social · 5h

US revokes visas for six foreigners over Charlie Kirk-related speech.
www.newarab.com/news/us-revo...

US revokes visas for 6 foreigners over Kirk-related speech

The nationals who’ve had their US visas revoked over Charlie Kirk-related comments were from Brazil, Argentina, South Africa, Germany, Mexico, and Paraguay.

www.newarab.com

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Ewamore, Quoth the Raven @ewacat.bsky.social · 1d

love that this "resilience engineering" is basically: write things on paper www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Have plans on paper in case of cyber-attack, firms told

Prepare to switch to offline systems in the event of a cyber-attack, firms are being advised.

www.bbc.co.uk

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John Wallach @jmwallach.bsky.social · 6h

A great ad?

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Larisa Aitch @llarisah.bsky.social · 13h

“We emailed several Media School administrators Monday, asking them for more clarity behind the order and requesting they rescind their directive.

Instead of a clear response, they fired a faculty member.”

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 14h

And here's a link to a letter from the IDS editors about the firing of the student newspaper director.

www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

LETTER FROM THE EDITORS: IU fires student media director after he refused to censor the IDS

Indiana University directed the IDS to stop printing news.

www.idsnews.com

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Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 9h

Here is the Vice President defending adults who said they love Hitler, want to rape their enemies, put their political opponents in gas chambers, and that Black people are monkeys. Just to name a few.

Are these those Christian values JD Vance talks about?

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piper @roodypatooti.bsky.social · 1d

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 20h

i'm sorry but i'm so goddamn tired of all these old weird tech twitter/postrat etc people getting random sinecures for what is nothing more than dressing up fascists as lurid and fascinating individuals who, half of the time, they're openly friends with.

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Michael Ian Black @michaelianblack.bsky.social · 12h

Old enough to remember when scenes like this would have been unthinkable in America. (It was 9 months ago)

PritzkerPosting @pritzkerposting.bsky.social · 13h

Chicago: Zero Regard for Safety, ICE Escalation in Chicago Leaves Baby in Harm’s Way

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