John Erik Riley
@postpacific.bsky.social
Publisher, publishee. Photographer on the prowl. Managing editor for fiction and poetry at Cappelen Damm.
Det er sikkert stas med en kongefamilie som vinker fra balkongen og greier, men kongefamilien i Stoughton kan i tillegg hjelpe deg med selvangivelsen. Gratulerer med dagen. www.stoughtonfestivals.com/royalty
May 17, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Det er sikkert stas med en kongefamilie som vinker fra balkongen og greier, men kongefamilien i Stoughton kan i tillegg hjelpe deg med selvangivelsen. Gratulerer med dagen. www.stoughtonfestivals.com/royalty
Speaking as someone who is accustomed to chilly climes: What the frak is going on with this jacket? Did mommy dress him?
March 29, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Speaking as someone who is accustomed to chilly climes: What the frak is going on with this jacket? Did mommy dress him?
New Signal chat dropped:
Vance: Greenland next?
Hegseth: Fuck ye-aah!
Vance: Europe is dumb.
Hegseth: Europe is PATHETIC!
Vance: Is our operation operational then?
Hegseth: The operation is fully operational!
Vance: Let’s move!
Hegseth: 🔥🇺🇸🍆
Vance: Huh?
Hegseth: 🍸🦄✊
Vance: ?
Hegseth: 🏓🏄♂️🥁🎻🚌🗽🚽📭❤️🔥🧸🔫💰🎲🎪
Vance: Greenland next?
Hegseth: Fuck ye-aah!
Vance: Europe is dumb.
Hegseth: Europe is PATHETIC!
Vance: Is our operation operational then?
Hegseth: The operation is fully operational!
Vance: Let’s move!
Hegseth: 🔥🇺🇸🍆
Vance: Huh?
Hegseth: 🍸🦄✊
Vance: ?
Hegseth: 🏓🏄♂️🥁🎻🚌🗽🚽📭❤️🔥🧸🔫💰🎲🎪
March 26, 2025 at 3:55 PM
New Signal chat dropped:
Vance: Greenland next?
Hegseth: Fuck ye-aah!
Vance: Europe is dumb.
Hegseth: Europe is PATHETIC!
Vance: Is our operation operational then?
Hegseth: The operation is fully operational!
Vance: Let’s move!
Hegseth: 🔥🇺🇸🍆
Vance: Huh?
Hegseth: 🍸🦄✊
Vance: ?
Hegseth: 🏓🏄♂️🥁🎻🚌🗽🚽📭❤️🔥🧸🔫💰🎲🎪
Vance: Greenland next?
Hegseth: Fuck ye-aah!
Vance: Europe is dumb.
Hegseth: Europe is PATHETIC!
Vance: Is our operation operational then?
Hegseth: The operation is fully operational!
Vance: Let’s move!
Hegseth: 🔥🇺🇸🍆
Vance: Huh?
Hegseth: 🍸🦄✊
Vance: ?
Hegseth: 🏓🏄♂️🥁🎻🚌🗽🚽📭❤️🔥🧸🔫💰🎲🎪
The United States seems like a great tourist destination these days, especially if you want to catch the measles, have the contents of your phone scanned or shiver in a cage under a mylar blanket.
March 25, 2025 at 6:32 PM
The United States seems like a great tourist destination these days, especially if you want to catch the measles, have the contents of your phone scanned or shiver in a cage under a mylar blanket.
When I watch Hegseth’s first response, on the tarmac, to the security breach, I am reminded of some of the Midwestern jock heads that I grew up with – arrogant, vindictive, always deflecting responsibility. «That’s not my keg.» «She/he/they were asking for it.» «Nobody was texting war plans.»
March 25, 2025 at 1:29 PM
When I watch Hegseth’s first response, on the tarmac, to the security breach, I am reminded of some of the Midwestern jock heads that I grew up with – arrogant, vindictive, always deflecting responsibility. «That’s not my keg.» «She/he/they were asking for it.» «Nobody was texting war plans.»
It’s probably a tad more secure if you don’t toss prominent journalists into the chat.
It was revealed this week that the messaging app Signal was used by top members of Trump’s Cabinet to plan a recent U.S. government military operation.
How secure is the app really? Experts weigh in👇
How secure is the app really? Experts weigh in👇
How secure is Signal? Cyber experts weigh in on Trump administration’s use of the encrypted app for war planning
Regardless of app security, experts say communicating the military plans of the U.S. government in a non-classified space creates a massive security vulnerability.
www.politico.com
March 25, 2025 at 1:20 PM
It’s probably a tad more secure if you don’t toss prominent journalists into the chat.
Maybe just ask Hegseth for them instead?
March 25, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Maybe just ask Hegseth for them instead?
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Zelensky cares more about Ukraine and Ukrainians, present and future, than about himself or what people say about him. This makes him incomprehensible to people like Trump and Musk, who care only about their personal power and image. He is a living rebuke and it’s one reason they despise him.
February 25, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Zelensky cares more about Ukraine and Ukrainians, present and future, than about himself or what people say about him. This makes him incomprehensible to people like Trump and Musk, who care only about their personal power and image. He is a living rebuke and it’s one reason they despise him.
We have now entered the «shadowy-police-force-and-or-militia-ejecting-people-from-public-meetings» phase of the authoritarian shift. newrepublic.com/article/1919...
This Shocking Moment at a GOP Town Hall in Idaho Is a Foreboding Sign
Private, unidentified security personnel dragged a woman out of the event. It raises questions not just about tolerance for dissent but about who gets deputized to do what.
newrepublic.com
February 26, 2025 at 11:19 AM
We have now entered the «shadowy-police-force-and-or-militia-ejecting-people-from-public-meetings» phase of the authoritarian shift. newrepublic.com/article/1919...
Is the USA just an offshoot of American Express now? Does the gold card give you access to free wine and a buffet at the VIP Border Lounge?
Trump: "We're gonna be selling a gold card. You have a green card, this is a gold card. We're gonna put a price on that card of about $5 million and that's going to give you green card privileges, plus. It's gonna be a route to citizenship, and wealthy people will be coming into our country."
February 26, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Is the USA just an offshoot of American Express now? Does the gold card give you access to free wine and a buffet at the VIP Border Lounge?
DOGE: Department of grifting everybody.
February 16, 2025 at 11:10 PM
DOGE: Department of grifting everybody.
Donald Trump just signed an executive order with a Sharpie enforcing that Sharpies are better than other markers and that Sharpies are the only writing utensil allowed in schools from now on.
February 10, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Donald Trump just signed an executive order with a Sharpie enforcing that Sharpies are better than other markers and that Sharpies are the only writing utensil allowed in schools from now on.
Når anledning først byr seg, Kk, hvorfor ikke bruke overskriften «Støre Større Størst»?
February 9, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Når anledning først byr seg, Kk, hvorfor ikke bruke overskriften «Støre Større Størst»?
I unearthed a bookmarked article from 2016 randomly when I was looking for something else. Nothing special about it, but it shows what we must remember: The anger, the bigotry, the villifying of the press, the bubbling will to violence – were there all along. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Watch Donald Trump supporters pushing and shoving young black woman
It came a day after black student protesters were removed from two Trump rallies at universities
www.independent.co.uk
February 9, 2025 at 11:12 AM
I unearthed a bookmarked article from 2016 randomly when I was looking for something else. Nothing special about it, but it shows what we must remember: The anger, the bigotry, the villifying of the press, the bubbling will to violence – were there all along. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
When you are a true genius at marketing you change the name of something to X and then end up with every media channel known to man still qualifying that name with «formerly known as Twitter» almost two years later.
February 7, 2025 at 8:28 PM
When you are a true genius at marketing you change the name of something to X and then end up with every media channel known to man still qualifying that name with «formerly known as Twitter» almost two years later.
Ettersom det er blitt så populært, innfører jeg herved toll på 25% på all vin som innføres av besøkende hjemme hos meg. Ekstra straffetoll hvis du liker trøffelolje eller ananas på pizza eller hawk sandwich. Alle som forstår sistnevnte referanse, får tollen redusert til 12,5%
February 7, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Ettersom det er blitt så populært, innfører jeg herved toll på 25% på all vin som innføres av besøkende hjemme hos meg. Ekstra straffetoll hvis du liker trøffelolje eller ananas på pizza eller hawk sandwich. Alle som forstår sistnevnte referanse, får tollen redusert til 12,5%
Reposted by John Erik Riley
Of course it’s a coup. Miss the obvious, lose your republic.
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
Of course it’s a coup
Miss the obvious, lose your republic
open.substack.com
February 5, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Of course it’s a coup. Miss the obvious, lose your republic.
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
Headlines on just another Wednesday during the dismantling of the United States government.
February 5, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Headlines on just another Wednesday during the dismantling of the United States government.
An AI industry bleeding money and potentially in need of fresh capital/customers when a tyrant is amassing funds/gearing up for mass surveillance in accordance with his ongoing purges seems like a perfect storm of awful, to say the least.
January 29, 2025 at 6:06 PM
An AI industry bleeding money and potentially in need of fresh capital/customers when a tyrant is amassing funds/gearing up for mass surveillance in accordance with his ongoing purges seems like a perfect storm of awful, to say the least.
– I wonder what Musk was trying to convey when he raised his arm like that.
– What a strange and awkward gesture.
– His arm in the air was very ambiguous, almost indecipherable.
– We’ll never grasp the arm’s true meaning.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
– What a strange and awkward gesture.
– His arm in the air was very ambiguous, almost indecipherable.
– We’ll never grasp the arm’s true meaning.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Elon Musk makes surprise appearance at AfD event in eastern Germany
Tycoon tells 4,500 people at campaign event in Halle to be proud of German culture in speech via video link
www.theguardian.com
January 25, 2025 at 9:50 PM
– I wonder what Musk was trying to convey when he raised his arm like that.
– What a strange and awkward gesture.
– His arm in the air was very ambiguous, almost indecipherable.
– We’ll never grasp the arm’s true meaning.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
– What a strange and awkward gesture.
– His arm in the air was very ambiguous, almost indecipherable.
– We’ll never grasp the arm’s true meaning.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Illiberal forces cultivate and alter the perception of the past to seize hold of and control the present. One of the grave dangers today is forgetting what happened before, ignoring the dots on the timeline. We need constant reminders, like this piece here: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/o...
Opinion | I Prosecuted the Capitol Rioters. I Know Why Trump Pardoned Them. (Gift Article)
Trump’s pardons will encourage more violence.
www.nytimes.com
January 25, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Illiberal forces cultivate and alter the perception of the past to seize hold of and control the present. One of the grave dangers today is forgetting what happened before, ignoring the dots on the timeline. We need constant reminders, like this piece here: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/o...
«Det er på tide at folk slutter å falle for denne typen blunk-blunk-radikalisme. Kamuflasjen av ironi og forvirring begynner å bli fryktelig blass. Kodene er knekt for lengst.» www.morgenbladet.no/aktuelt/komm...
På tide at folk slutter å falle for blunk-blunk-ekstremisme
Kamuflasjen av ironi og forvirring begynner å bli fryktelig blass. Kodene er knekt for lengst. Dette er ikke et uskyldig spill, det er blodig alvor, skriver Lasse Josephsen.
www.morgenbladet.no
January 25, 2025 at 10:03 AM
«Det er på tide at folk slutter å falle for denne typen blunk-blunk-radikalisme. Kamuflasjen av ironi og forvirring begynner å bli fryktelig blass. Kodene er knekt for lengst.» www.morgenbladet.no/aktuelt/komm...
På Gran Canaria er det et turmål som heter Norskeplassen, og på vei dit treffer man bare nordmenn som hilser med hei og et nikk som om de befant seg i Nordmarka. Dette er det mest eksotiske jeg har opplevd på lang tid.
January 23, 2025 at 8:59 PM
På Gran Canaria er det et turmål som heter Norskeplassen, og på vei dit treffer man bare nordmenn som hilser med hei og et nikk som om de befant seg i Nordmarka. Dette er det mest eksotiske jeg har opplevd på lang tid.
Reposted by John Erik Riley
BREAKING: A federal judge temporarily blocked President Trump's executive order ending birthright citizenship.
We will keep fighting until this order is blocked for good.
We will keep fighting until this order is blocked for good.
January 23, 2025 at 7:26 PM
BREAKING: A federal judge temporarily blocked President Trump's executive order ending birthright citizenship.
We will keep fighting until this order is blocked for good.
We will keep fighting until this order is blocked for good.
Reposted by John Erik Riley
Dressing up in my emotional support Hugo Boss uniform with my favorite Hindu good luck charm to go make some autistic throw my heart to the crowd movements in the town square. Hope no one does ableism against me
January 21, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Dressing up in my emotional support Hugo Boss uniform with my favorite Hindu good luck charm to go make some autistic throw my heart to the crowd movements in the town square. Hope no one does ableism against me