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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 · 12m

“The standard you walk past is the standard you accept.” Vance is a Nazi sympathizer and enabler.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1h

Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching."

He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.

‘College Group Chat’: JD Vance Dismisses ‘Pearl Clutching’ Over Young Republicans Leak to Attack Jay Jones

Liberals hit back at Vance's blunt dismissal of racist, antisemitic and misogynistic messages leaked from a Young Republicans group chat.

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📚 John McAndrew 🌏🇺🇦 @phidipdbq.bsky.social · 12m

“The standard you walk past is the standard you accept.” Vance is a Nazi sympathizer and enabler.

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

"I think they’re also in a lot of trouble in [traditionally Democratic] states like NY, for example, where they have not much to say to ordinary people."

Bernie describing what is usually thought of as a Dem stronghold. thenationmagazine.substack.com/p/people-are...

People Are Furious With Democrats. Bernie Sanders Knows Why.

We talk to Senator Bernie Sanders about the out-of-touch Democratic Party leadership and the way forward for the Left.

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📚 John McAndrew 🌏🇺🇦 @phidipdbq.bsky.social · 2h

We need such a visionary now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4dk...

FDR vs the Billionaire Class: How the New Deal Saved America

YouTube video by Taken for Granted

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📚 John McAndrew 🌏🇺🇦 @phidipdbq.bsky.social · 14h

Was wondering when this would happen.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 15h

NEW: Pentagon officials are forcing staff to watch Pete Hegseth's "Warrior" speech he forced generals to listen to.

Officials are even "testing" staff to see if they watched — and are threatening consequences if they lie about watching it or if they mock it, sources tell @swin24.bsky.social and I.

The Pentagon Is Ordering Staff to Watch Hegseth’s ‘MAGA Garbage’ Speech… Or Else

Defense Department sources tell Zeteo that staff have been warned that if they don’t watch or read the speech, or if they speak negatively of it, they could face severe consequences.

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Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 23h

🔥MEDICARE ADVANTAGE PLANS UPDATE🔥

1) Some MA Providers are leaving marketplace.
2) No auto-enrollment if YOUR plan is dropped, you'll have until 12/31 to sign-up OR in 2026 have 80% Medicare Coverage & NO RX PLAN!
3) 1M+ which is an estimated 3% on MA will LOSE their plans.

PLEASE REPOST & SHARE!🔥

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📚 John McAndrew 🌏🇺🇦 @phidipdbq.bsky.social · 15h

It's Kristi Noem's agency, all right.

October 18 is beginning to look like a prescient choice of dates for a national protest.

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 15h

Lmao

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 16h

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet"

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

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📚 John McAndrew 🌏🇺🇦 @phidipdbq.bsky.social · 15h

October 18 is looking like almost providential timing for a protest.

📚 John McAndrew 🌏🇺🇦 @phidipdbq.bsky.social · 15h

These are the people Trumbo wrote about in Night of the Aurochs. Rise of the Bully class.

📚 John McAndrew 🌏🇺🇦 @phidipdbq.bsky.social · 15h

These are the people Trumbo wrote about in Night of the Aurochs. Rise of the Bully class.

📚 John McAndrew 🌏🇺🇦 @phidipdbq.bsky.social · 15h

These are the people Trumbo wrote about in Night of the Aurochs.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 15h

Greg Bovino, Kristi Noem, and DHS need to answer for their unchecked attacks on Chicago residents.

ICE is an out-of-control danger to our peaceful communities.

The images from the Sun-Times today speak for themselves.

An ICE agent throws a tear gas canister at protesters at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

Federal immigration enforcement agents detain a protester during a skirmish at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent points a crowd control weapon at a protester Tuesday at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in the East Side neighborhood.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

A Chicago Police Department officer washes his face after being exposed to tear gas during a protest at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

📚 John McAndrew 🌏🇺🇦 @phidipdbq.bsky.social · 15h

Lost Door Dash delivery? 😬

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 18h

It's really not about politics anymore. The apparatus of the Republican Party has simply become a haven for bad people.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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📚 John McAndrew 🌏🇺🇦 @phidipdbq.bsky.social · 15h

Dude REALLY believes in a social contract. LOVE him.

Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 15h

"Chatbot, show me something that is the *opposite* of what a Republican would do to help the disadvantaged?"

Positive Black Content @miiriya.com · 16h

A man named Nicky Crawford transformed a school bus into a mobile laundry service for the homeless called “Flowing with Blessings” He teamed up with Georgia Tech engineering students and created the bus, which provides free laundry, showers, haircuts & meals for the homelessness

📚 John McAndrew 🌏🇺🇦 @phidipdbq.bsky.social · 15h

Hey, guys! Saw a post purportedly from you about a dog named Chop. Didn't see it here on your feed. Wanted to ask if it's legit. If so, wondering why you wouldn't post it here. Not criticizing, to be clear: just wondering.

📚 John McAndrew 🌏🇺🇦 @phidipdbq.bsky.social · 15h

Thanks. I also looked for it here and didn't find it.

📚 John McAndrew 🌏🇺🇦 @phidipdbq.bsky.social · 15h

Dear Iowa farmers, N.B. 👇

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16h

If you can’t sell your soybeans because of Trump’s tariffs after Argentina stepped in and took your customers, you can take solace that the guy you voted for also just gave $20 billion of your tax dollars to the country that is bankrupting you.

📚 John McAndrew 🌏🇺🇦 @phidipdbq.bsky.social · 15h

Has ANY GOP elected official or media personality condemned it?

📚 John McAndrew 🌏🇺🇦 @phidipdbq.bsky.social · 15h

Here we have a POTUS who likely was blackmailed by both Putin and Epstein – fairly high-profile cases, so should be on people's radar – and people are just, willy-nilly, gonna share fantasies and kinks with a COMPANY that makes money from selling users' personal info. Targeted ads will be R+ rated.

📚 John McAndrew 🌏🇺🇦 @phidipdbq.bsky.social · 16h

"2 plant-based protein powders contained enough lead that our experts advise against consuming them." Naked Nutrition and Huel.

"2 other powders contained lead between 400 and 600 percent of CR’s level of concern." Garden of Life & Momentous.

Other companies are also listed by name.

REGULATE!

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

📚 John McAndrew 🌏🇺🇦 @phidipdbq.bsky.social · 16h

Russia meddles in US and UK elections.

Then the US President meddles in Argentina's elections.

Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.

My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:

Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?

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📚 John McAndrew 🌏🇺🇦 @phidipdbq.bsky.social · 16h

I.e., election interference by the US.

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📚 John McAndrew 🌏🇺🇦 @phidipdbq.bsky.social · 16h

We should just wait for GOP members of Congress to condemn these cretinous troglodytes in no uncertain terms.

And if they don't, EVERY media person who talks with them should ask for a comment. "The standard you walk past is the standard you accept."

Condemn it, or endorse it.

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