John Brooks
@johnbrooks.bsky.social
Pod Only Knows: https://bit.ly/447CUOH
1999 the Podcast: http://bit.ly/3I211ql
Religious studies person
Abolish ICE, DHS, and golf
BLM
Anti-fascism forever
Trans rights are human rights
Red Sox and Crystal Palace diehard
He/Him
1999 the Podcast: http://bit.ly/3I211ql
Religious studies person
Abolish ICE, DHS, and golf
BLM
Anti-fascism forever
Trans rights are human rights
Red Sox and Crystal Palace diehard
He/Him
Pinned
Rerelease: Unraveling the Thanksgiving Myth - with Dr. David J. Silverman (11/2023)
open.spotify.com
Happy Thanksgiving!
Enjoy this edited re-release of our 2023 episode about the myth of Thanksgiving
Enjoy this edited re-release of our 2023 episode about the myth of Thanksgiving
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Making things cost more has raised consumer prices, says study by genius economics guys
There's 'overwhelming evidence' tariffs have raised consumer prices, says Bank of America
The analysts wrote in a note on Friday that consumers have covered about 50% to 70% of the cost of tariffs to date.
www.businessinsider.com
November 30, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Making things cost more has raised consumer prices, says study by genius economics guys
Getting a zero because you didn't do the actual assignment is woke oppression now I guess.
Here’s the TPUSA version of events at OU.
Not surprisingly, they lie about what happened — she wasn’t flunked for quoting the Bible; she never even quoted it — and accuse the instructor, whom they name, as being “mentally ill”
Not surprisingly, they lie about what happened — she wasn’t flunked for quoting the Bible; she never even quoted it — and accuse the instructor, whom they name, as being “mentally ill”
November 30, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Getting a zero because you didn't do the actual assignment is woke oppression now I guess.
Stop CEOs
Stop interviewing CEOs
Stop interviewing CEOs about AI.
November 30, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Stop CEOs
Biblically accurate nativity scene
November 30, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Biblically accurate nativity scene
Strong floor, no ceiling, never worn
November 30, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Strong floor, no ceiling, never worn
Seventy.
Five.
Percent.
Five.
Percent.
PBS: “A poll from the journal "Nature" found 75% of researchers are considering leaving 🇺🇸— including a man dubbed the Mozart of Math… a scientific brain drain.”
The Trump Effect. The opposite of Making America Great Again. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
The Trump Effect. The opposite of Making America Great Again. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
November 30, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Seventy.
Five.
Percent.
Five.
Percent.
"Oh, AI is useless? Then explain how it has finally found a use for poetry!"
"You can get ChatGPT to help you build a nuclear bomb if you simply design the prompt in the form of a poem, according to a new study from researchers in Europe. "
www.wired.com/story/poems-...
www.wired.com/story/poems-...
Poems Can Trick AI Into Helping You Make a Nuclear Weapon
It turns out all the guardrails in the world won’t protect a chatbot from meter and rhyme.
www.wired.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:21 PM
"Oh, AI is useless? Then explain how it has finally found a use for poetry!"
The news you're reading in the present will be the context you'll read in the future when the next, far worse 9/11 happens.
November 30, 2025 at 2:12 PM
The news you're reading in the present will be the context you'll read in the future when the next, far worse 9/11 happens.
Good. Fuck Robert Moses.
Mamdani hires car-hating activist Ben Furnas to transportation team: ‘war on drivers’
Mamdani hires car-hating activist Ben Furnas to transportation team: ‘war on drivers’
Car-hating Transportation Alternatives boss Ben Furnas has been appointed to Mamdani's transition team for transportation, climate and infrastructure – and his agenda is a nightmare for the city's drivers.
nypost.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Good. Fuck Robert Moses.
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They're not hiding it, folks—straight up neo-Nazi advertising, from the font to the language to the 11 stars for the Confederacy. Then you have the DHS openly using white nationalist language of "remigrate", which means ethnic cleansing.
This is who MAGA is now.
This is who MAGA is now.
November 30, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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The finale of volume 1 of Stranger Things 5 is very, very satisfying
November 30, 2025 at 2:40 AM
The finale of volume 1 of Stranger Things 5 is very, very satisfying
Actually we expect them to offer remorse and to shut the fuck up forever and get a new job, but sure your thing too I guess
When a cancelled performer reënters the culture, we expect them to offer us a great work, channelling their newfound clarity into the finest art they’ve ever made. With his new comedy show and début novel, has Louis C.K. met the bar?
www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
Louis C.K.’s Next Chapter
In a new standup special, and a début novel, the comedian navigates murky, post-#MeToo terrain: not quite exiled, not quite welcomed back.
www.newyorker.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Actually we expect them to offer remorse and to shut the fuck up forever and get a new job, but sure your thing too I guess
The Era of Elite Impunity is all of Western history
Epstein and the economy—these are the twin albatrosses around Trump’s neck. trib.al/0b3tDik
The question, however, is whether Democrats will have the stomach and the sense to exploit both avenues to Trump’s ruin.
The question, however, is whether Democrats will have the stomach and the sense to exploit both avenues to Trump’s ruin.
November 30, 2025 at 12:33 AM
The Era of Elite Impunity is all of Western history
Nothing neo about it
Oh, so this is why the Department of Labor decided to deploy the term bizarre term "Americanism" in its winking neo-Nazi post today
November 29, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Nothing neo about it
Death by Lightning
Relevant and immediate in ways it shouldn't be.
Relevant and immediate in ways it shouldn't be.
November 29, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Death by Lightning
Relevant and immediate in ways it shouldn't be.
Relevant and immediate in ways it shouldn't be.
My favorite Ken Burns trope is
"(Peter Coyote voiceover narrating a brief anecdote that is inconsistent with and/or not well known about a vary famous historical person)
His name...
(dramatic pause)
was (surprising name of very famous historical person!)"
"(Peter Coyote voiceover narrating a brief anecdote that is inconsistent with and/or not well known about a vary famous historical person)
His name...
(dramatic pause)
was (surprising name of very famous historical person!)"
November 29, 2025 at 4:21 PM
My favorite Ken Burns trope is
"(Peter Coyote voiceover narrating a brief anecdote that is inconsistent with and/or not well known about a vary famous historical person)
His name...
(dramatic pause)
was (surprising name of very famous historical person!)"
"(Peter Coyote voiceover narrating a brief anecdote that is inconsistent with and/or not well known about a vary famous historical person)
His name...
(dramatic pause)
was (surprising name of very famous historical person!)"
Well has he considered letting A.I. do it?
“Tech oligarchs will pass the blame to the poor, as they grift every last cent until collapse. I don’t want to run. Everyone else is dumb & weak.” - Hart ‘28 Dem Pursuing.com 🇺🇸🙏
November 29, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Well has he considered letting A.I. do it?
Well, you have to understand, people tell him he was treated very unfairly
trump: “no see we HAVE to blow up those boats in the caribbean, they could be carrying drugs!”
also trump:
also trump:
November 29, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Well, you have to understand, people tell him he was treated very unfairly
I still think the 1999 version with Patrick Stewart as Scrooge is the most faithful (without being slavishly so) to the letter and spirit of the text.
Superb performances all around, perfectly cast, and Dominic West's Fred has no equal.
Superb performances all around, perfectly cast, and Dominic West's Fred has no equal.
November 28, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I still think the 1999 version with Patrick Stewart as Scrooge is the most faithful (without being slavishly so) to the letter and spirit of the text.
Superb performances all around, perfectly cast, and Dominic West's Fred has no equal.
Superb performances all around, perfectly cast, and Dominic West's Fred has no equal.
My only football opinion is that the NFL missed a major marketing opportunity by not making the 6 Thanksgiving teams exclusively the bird teams!
November 28, 2025 at 3:33 PM
My only football opinion is that the NFL missed a major marketing opportunity by not making the 6 Thanksgiving teams exclusively the bird teams!
Late to the party but Death by Lightning is very very very good
November 28, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Late to the party but Death by Lightning is very very very good
I've literally never found the process of paying for stuff in any way inconvenient
November 28, 2025 at 3:10 PM
I've literally never found the process of paying for stuff in any way inconvenient
According to the Bible breath is life and therefore popping a balloon is murder
November 28, 2025 at 2:57 PM
According to the Bible breath is life and therefore popping a balloon is murder