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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 1d

Wine snobbery is one of the world's biggest con jobs. substack.com/home/post/p-...

The Myth of the Sommelier

Is there an art to wine tasting? Do the best tasters really know best?

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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 6d

You'd think that after qualified prosecutors told Trump this was a no-go and he appointed a completely unqualified insurance lawyer to prosecute the case that a conviction would be a slam dunk! Who, besides everyone, could have predicted this?

Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 6d

Prosecution of Comey looks headed to a dead end.

"Federal prosecutors ... determined that a central witness in their probe would ... likely prevent them from establishing their case to a jury."

abcnews.go.com/US/central-w...

Central witness undermines case against James Comey, prosecutors concluded: Sources

Ex-FBI Director James Comey is set to be arraigned Wednesday, but prosecutors investigating him determined that a central witness would prove "problematic," sources say.

abcnews.go.com

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 7d

Evolutionary psychologists have claimed that "humans evolved heightened sensitivity to harm directed at women." This excellent (albeit at times gruesome) post makes the point that the ethnographic evidence does not really support this narrative.

Did humans evolve to 'protect' women?

Ethnography complicates a convenient narrative

traditionsofconflict.substack.com

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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 8d

The declaration of war. On you and me. www.justsecurity.org/121940/trump...

Trump’s Outline of a Domestic War

Former Undersecretary of Navy discusses import of President Trump's remarks to active duty military leaders at Quantico.

www.justsecurity.org

John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 8d

My "Representative," Tom Barrett has long ago stopped answering my letters even though I check the box asking him to respond. Wonder why?

democracyandme.bearblog.dev/to-tom-barre...

To Tom Barrett, October 6, 2025

Tom Barrett's Letter to Constituents, October 6, 2025. "While I remain open to having a conversation about the soon-to-expire ACA Tax Credits that Democra...

democracyandme.bearblog.dev

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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 8d

Consistency is so important. We all should thank Pinker for remaining a pompous buffoon. archive.ph/Adl0n#select...

This is the kind of public intellectualism that makes the public hate intellectuals. Instead of showing what ideas have to teach us about life, Pinker holds a gun to life’s head and demands it conform to his thought experiments. And he does it with the patronizing tone of someone telling his readers what to think from on high. In one passage, prompting us to imagine increasingly higher-order levels of knowledge about knowledge, he virtually pats us on the head. “Now let’s try four layers,” he writes. After we’ve tackled four, he asks, encouragingly, “Think you can handle a fifth layer?”

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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 9d

I've never seen Saturday Night Fever. I've never seen Titanic.

John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 9d

A Trump-appointed judge eviscerates Trump's DOJ. www.lawdork.com/p/judge-bloc...

Federal judge blocks Trump's National Guard mobilization in Oregon

"The President’s determination" that the Guard was needed "was simply untethered to the facts," Judge Karin Immergut, a Trump appointee, found. DOJ is appealing.

www.lawdork.com

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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 10d

A sign for the Trump administration.

Black and white photograph of a sign in 1939 from a department store that reads, "Buy now, before the price rise."

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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 10d

You'd think that Trump only appointing people whose chief qualification is unflinching loyalty to Trump would guarantee a crack legal team but such appears not to be the case. www.justsecurity.org/121844/trump...

Legal Flaws in the Trump Administration’s Notice to Congress on “Armed Conflict” with Drug Cartels

Top legal expert analyzes the Trump administration's notice to Congress of an "armed conflict" with drug cartels.

www.justsecurity.org

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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 10d

Q Shaman is seriously in favor of Coco Puffs. www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/phoenix...

QAnon Shaman says he's rightful president, sues Trump for $40 trillion

In a rambling complaint, Jacob Chansley claims DJs are spies, that the NSA stole his work for a Batman movie and more.

www.phoenixnewtimes.com

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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 12d

Background on the $1.5 billion settlement. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

US judge preliminarily approves $1.5 billion Anthropic copyright settlement

A federal judge in California on Thursday preliminarily approved a landmark $1.5 billion settlement of a copyright class action brought by a group of authors against artificial intelligence company Anthropic, according to the authors' representatives.

www.reuters.com

John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 12d

If you are a writer, you can search for works Anthropic ripped off and if your work was you can join the class action suit against them. secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup

Submit a Claim

secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 12d

My letter to my "Representative" Tom Barrett, aka Trump's Michigan lapdog. democracyandme.bearblog.dev/new-post-new/

New post

Excerpt from Rep. Tom Barrett's Newsletter, October 2, 2025: "Despite my vote to keep it open, the federal government shut down overnight after Senate Dem...

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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 14d

On the failures of censorship. theconversation.com/censorship-c...

Censorship campaigns can have a way of backfiring – look no further than the fate of America’s most prolific censor

Anthony Comstock’s decades-long censorship campaign ended up turning him into a laughingstock.

theconversation.com

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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 15d

An interchange between A. Philip Randolph, one of the most important Black leaders for civil rights in the twentieth-century and Senator Allen Ellender, a racist Louisianian who happened to be a US Senator in 1947. Ellender's incredulity at being expected to use "Mr." with a Black man is stunning.

Mr. RANDOLPH. Then I want to say to Senator Ellender that I don't know you too well to have you calling me Randolph...
Senator ELLENDER: You wouldn't expect me to call you "Mr.Randolph"?
Mr. RANDOLPH i. Nothing but that.

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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 15d

ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards

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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 16d

International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science -- #HOPOS 2026
Ohio State University, Columbus (OH)
22 to 26 June 2026

NEW Submission Deadline: 15 October 2025, 11:59 (PT) & remote option for scholars unable to travel to US
hopos2026.dryfta.com.
#HPS #philsky 🗃️

HOPOS 2026

Paper and symposium proposals for HOPOS 2026 can now be submitted through this web site. For detailed instructions, plea

hopos2026.dryfta.com

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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 17d

The delicious incompetence of the Trump administration. They are fascists who can't even get the trains to run on time. www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/26/w...

Will Ted Cruz Go to Prison for the Lies He Told as Part of the Jim Comey Indictment? - emptywheel

According to the public record, Jim Comey didn't lie in an exchange with Ted Cruz on September 30, 2020. Ted Cruz did.

www.emptywheel.net

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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 18d

No one did anything? 5000 FBI agents got 1500 insurrectionist to federal court and about 2/4ths of them were convicted. That is something. Enough? No, but don't say it was nothing.

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