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📚 John McAndrew 🌏🇺🇦

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Current favorite word: apophenia. Similar to pareidolia, but broader. Richer than Elon Musk: unlike him, I have enough. We know so much, but do so little. I review books: https://johnjmcandrew.substack.com

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📚 John McAndrew 🌏🇺🇦 @phidipdbq.bsky.social · Sep 8

Tired of learned helplessness? Of watching as services to our neighbors are cut? This piece by Christopher Armitage alerts us that there are things many of us can do RIGHT NOW, even in many red states. This is the long game. We can start it right now. Thanks, @jnshaumeyer.bsky.social, for the link.

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This is kind of amazing. Thanks to my friend Jeff for forwarding. 26 states, and many cities, have citizen initiative processes which have been used to make the GOP majority in those states irrelevan...

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📚 John McAndrew 🌏🇺🇦 @phidipdbq.bsky.social · 8h

Stop waiting for conversions that are not likely to happen. We should have learned this lesson from climate change intransigence. We need Trump opponents to show TF up during elections. ALL elections. Midterms. Primaries. Referenda. Dog catcher.

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History Says Most Trump Supporters Will Never Turn On Him. No Matter What.

I remember the moment in a psychology course when my professor described the Soviet famine of the 1930s with a detail that has never left me.

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📚 John McAndrew 🌏🇺🇦 @phidipdbq.bsky.social · 11h

Bill Clinton, the Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island Dem Parties, Ned Lamont, David Patterson, Jim Clyburn, a number of US Reps from NY . . .

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📚 John McAndrew 🌏🇺🇦 @phidipdbq.bsky.social · 18h

You weren’t bitten, Greg? So sorry that Chance had to go through that because of an irresponsible dog owner/manager.

📚 John McAndrew 🌏🇺🇦 @phidipdbq.bsky.social · 20h

"The NBC Crackers Division was unaffected by the cuts."

📚 John McAndrew 🌏🇺🇦 @phidipdbq.bsky.social · 20h

"The NBC Crackers Division was unaffected by the cuts."

📚 John McAndrew 🌏🇺🇦 @phidipdbq.bsky.social · 20h

I wonder if they asked Bernie and AOC WTF Dem leadership was thinking when they endorsed sex pest Cuomo over Mamdani.

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 23h

Mike Johnson called us back from July 4 recess on 7/3 so he could gut Americans’ healthcare in the Big Ugly bill. Since then, he has only had the House in session for 19 of the subsequent 104 days. That’s how we ended up here.

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📚 John McAndrew 🌏🇺🇦 @phidipdbq.bsky.social · 22h

Speaking of GOP Nazis . . . www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Capitol Police called to investigate swastika in GOP congressional office

An American flag altered to include an image of a swastika was found in Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.

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📚 John McAndrew 🌏🇺🇦 @phidipdbq.bsky.social · 22h

Rep. Dave Taylor of Ohio. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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📚 John McAndrew 🌏🇺🇦 @phidipdbq.bsky.social · 22h

Rep. Dave Taylor, of Ohio. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Capitol Police called to investigate swastika in GOP congressional office

An American flag altered to include an image of a swastika was found in Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.

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📚 John McAndrew 🌏🇺🇦 @phidipdbq.bsky.social · 22h

This must actually make financial sense for these companies. Some people are willing to pay double the price of a theatre ticket to rent a film once on their home video setup (or laptop or phone), or $30 to buy it.

I'm eager, but I'll wait. Kind of like those $3.50 chocolate bars in the stores.

screenshot showing this year's Fantastic Four movie renting online for $25 or selling for $30.

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📚 John McAndrew 🌏🇺🇦 @phidipdbq.bsky.social · 23h

. . . Living in their parents' basements, but still. In their 30's!

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

now the Court is spinning a giant wheel of racist excuses to kill off the Voting Rights Act

idk which one it'll land on, but they all have the same intended result: forcing people of color out of the political process, leaving a government by and for white people
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The Conservative Justices Have So Many Ideas For How to Kill the Voting Rights Act

The Republican justices already know where they’re going. They just have to figure out which route they’re going to take to get there.

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📚 John McAndrew 🌏🇺🇦 @phidipdbq.bsky.social · 23h

I AM anti-fascist, yes.

Mike isn't?

📚 John McAndrew 🌏🇺🇦 @phidipdbq.bsky.social · 1d

“…the president was treated as a respected figure but also slightly comic, like your grandma who occasionally says racist things and raises tariffs when she’s mad.”

Scary stuff, delightfully written.

Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 1d

This is very well written and extremely troubling and you should take some time to read it.

em cassel @biketrouble.bsky.social · 1d

"enjoyed" is not exactly the right word, but i did... devour this piece by @usefulnoise.bsky.social, who spent a day at the big christian MAHA convention in alexandria this weekend:

📚 John McAndrew 🌏🇺🇦 @phidipdbq.bsky.social · 1d

Every journalist thereafter should have asked the same question.

Is there no solidarity in this profession? A female colleague was creeped on by POTUS the other day, and they all acted like nothing happened.

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📚 John McAndrew 🌏🇺🇦 @phidipdbq.bsky.social · 1d

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 1d

worth 4 mins of your time to watch this:

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Now is the Time to Speak up for Justice

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 1d

What the fuck are we doing?

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📚 John McAndrew 🌏🇺🇦 @phidipdbq.bsky.social · 1d

It's because our foundation documents are suffused with racism, Pete. We need another "new birth of freedom." This unsettling, outstanding book explains the rot at our core. Highly recommended for those who want a better future for this country's people. We can, and should, do so much better.

Cover of Kermit Roosevelt III's book, The Nation That Never Was.

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📚 John McAndrew 🌏🇺🇦 @phidipdbq.bsky.social · 1d

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

Cartoon by @bagleycartoons.bsky.social.

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📚 John McAndrew 🌏🇺🇦 @phidipdbq.bsky.social · 1d

Everybody wear yellow!

📚 John McAndrew 🌏🇺🇦 @phidipdbq.bsky.social · 1d

Is this what the Young (Nazi-adjacent) Republicans call "getting canceled"?

I look forward to them speaking out in defense of this man's first amendment rights.

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 1d

ICE arrested comedian Robby Roadsteamer for singing a parody of Rod Stewart’s “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy” in a Jeffrey Epstein the Giraffe costume outside their facility.

He sings “If you hate brown people / and you are a Nazi” and ICE thugs grab him and drag him into detention. No violence—just speech.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 1d

Honestly if we were a real country anymore this video would start an armed revolution

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 1d

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📚 John McAndrew 🌏🇺🇦 @phidipdbq.bsky.social · 1d

Sued into penury. Good.

Alex Jones shouldn't be the last to face that karmic blowback.

Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 1d

Alex Jones is a vicious turd who, if there was justice in this world, should die penniless in the gutter