John Canavan
jmjc.bsky.social
John Canavan
@jmjc.bsky.social
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I spoke with Cleveland Fed leader Beth Hammack after her New York speech today. Her hawkish stance on central bank monetary policy does not lead her to think rates need to go up, despite her inflation concerns.
www.reuters.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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hehehe the baseball sky community has been building all season, it’s sort of beautiful that tonight’s insane game 7 has also been all of us sickos coming together to experience this
All the thinkpieces about Bluesky don't account for the fact that it's occasionally 100% wall-to-wall baseball on here
November 2, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.
September 15, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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I am just going to keep posting that the TX governor recently pardoned a political murderer.

The dude texted "I'm going to shoot protestors", then went and shot a Black Lives Matter protester. He was convicted in a jury trial.

Hard to find a more blatant example of celebrating political violence.
Gov. Greg Abbott pardons Daniel Perry, veteran who killed police brutality protester in 2020
A Travis County jury sentenced Perry to 25 years in prison last year, prompting Abbott to ask the state parole board to review his case.
www.texastribune.org
September 15, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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September 15, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend
Opinion | Charlie Kirk Didn’t Shy Away From Who He Was. We Shouldn’t Either.
www.nytimes.com
September 13, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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The Ezra piece was dumb and deserved all the dunking. Strongly encourage you to read this excellent @anamariecox.bsky.social piece instead. newrepublic.com/article/2003...
Charlie Kirk and the Empathy Trap
Democrats will never be as cruel as Republicans after a political assassination. That’s to their credit. But it may not be to their advantage.
newrepublic.com
September 11, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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August 31, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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August 31, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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I can
August 30, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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I’ve wanted to write for a while about how obvious gamblers with a different sort of investment in the outcome can change the atmosphere at a tennis match, but I’ve never before seen a player react to the phenomenon like Leandro Riedi did at the US Open:

www.benrothenberg.com/p/tennis-bet...
Against the Odds
As sports betting proliferates at tennis tournaments, one player at the U.S. Open wanted no support from a boisterous bettor.
www.benrothenberg.com
August 29, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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My play-by-play of the hearing on Lisa Cook’s request for a temporary restraining order, now up on our site:

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what...
August 29, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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This story has it all: aquaculture, Black Flag, Bernie Sanders, Star Trek as policy, John Hodgman, male tears, and a candidate citing Luthen’s monologue from Andor.

Meet Graham Platner, the Maine oysterman trying to crack the senate. @grahamformaine.bsky.social

newrepublic.com/article/1996...
The Political Awakening of the Oyster Farmer Gunning for Susan Collins
Graham Platner’s campaign launch has been a sudden sensation. But what he’s building now is rooted in the work of a lifetime.
newrepublic.com
August 29, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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This, from the Quakers, is a pretty good example of how to resist pressure from bigot lobbying groups. Effectively “we legally can allow trans people to use the loo, we morally should, and we tried it and nothing bad happened”
www.quaker.org.uk
August 28, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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Imagine if they’d had sandwiches. 🥪
August 15, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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The official voice of the U.S. government draws from 4chan trolls, explicitly white nationalist phrases and talking points, and radicalizing, dehumanizing, desensitizing language for its targets. I talked to propaganda experts about what it’s doing to us:
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The official voice of the US government Is cruel, gross, and weird. What is that doing to us?
Joking memes about imprisonment, deportation, and death by alligator are designed to radicalize and desensitize.
www.motherjones.com
August 15, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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BOUIE: “.. Trump needs a crisis to govern — or rather, to rule. And if the actual conditions of reality will not give him a state of exception, he’ll create one himself.”

@jamellebouie.net @nytopinion.nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/o...
August 13, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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i will never not be amused by how the conservative world is governed by the kind of “affirmative action” they say happens in mainstream institutions. totally unqualified dipshits are handed the keys to institutions because they say the right thing and have the right look.
An "economist" so dumb I had to explain to him how the import price index works last month will now lead the BLS, kill me
August 11, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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Timeline cleanse: Insta video of Allen Dershowitz being told by Martha's Vineyard police to stop harassing vendors or be charged with trespassing after three different sellers refused him service. 1/3

www.instagram.com/reel/DMvVG1S...
August 2, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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It has been the honor of my life to serve as Commissioner of BLS alongside the many dedicated civil servants tasked with measuring a vast and dynamic economy. It is vital and important work and I thank them for their service to this nation.
August 2, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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The premise of this article — that Bluesky needs hypergrowth — is exactly the problem.

The idea that internet companies should grow infinitely and monopolize their space, fattened on VC cash driven by optimistic valuations, is exactly what ruined the internet. www.piratewires.com/p/bluesky-is...
Bluesky Is Trapped in a Doom Loop
once hailed as the future of decentralized ("nontoxic") social media, bluesky is shedding users and realizing
www.piratewires.com
August 1, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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On top of being a screenshot of a tweet, this post is spreading disinformation and you shouldn’t engage with it except to correct.

But since people are, I guess I need to do a thread explaining what imputation is. Everything I’m going to discuss here comes from one of two sources.
‘1984’ is upon us
July 31, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Right, right ... nothing to see here.
July 30, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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Motherfucking wind farms…
July 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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The Dropkick Murphys are rock heroes.
Iconic Punk Band Rips 'First-Class Loser' Trump With Absolutely Vicious Live Performance
The Dropkick Murphys also showed off pics of Trump with Jeffrey Epstein during the song.
www.huffpost.com
July 30, 2025 at 10:04 PM