John Slocum
@jslocum.bsky.social
Executive Director, Refugee Council USA. Nonresident Senior Fellow, Chicago Council on Foreign Affairs. For now, also on X as @JohnSlocum2. Posts are my own.
Where did all those ludicrously giant hood heights come from all of a sudden - and why?
November 26, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Where did all those ludicrously giant hood heights come from all of a sudden - and why?
We will need a truth commission for all this.
November 25, 2025 at 11:11 PM
We will need a truth commission for all this.
How did my grandparents ever get away with hoarding this device for decades?
November 25, 2025 at 7:06 PM
How did my grandparents ever get away with hoarding this device for decades?
This administration seems either unable or unwilling to cease from heaping shame upon itself in its pursuit of a wildly immoral and frequently illegal immigration policy agenda.
November 25, 2025 at 1:43 PM
This administration seems either unable or unwilling to cease from heaping shame upon itself in its pursuit of a wildly immoral and frequently illegal immigration policy agenda.
Under this administration, refugee policy keeps going deeper into a hateful Stephen Miller death spiral.
November 25, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Under this administration, refugee policy keeps going deeper into a hateful Stephen Miller death spiral.
[Discussing the effects of the Genesis torpedo]
McCoy: Dear Lord . . . what if this thing were used where life already exists?
Spock: It would destroy such life in favor of its new matrix.
McCoy: Dear Lord . . . what if this thing were used where life already exists?
Spock: It would destroy such life in favor of its new matrix.
November 25, 2025 at 1:22 AM
[Discussing the effects of the Genesis torpedo]
McCoy: Dear Lord . . . what if this thing were used where life already exists?
Spock: It would destroy such life in favor of its new matrix.
McCoy: Dear Lord . . . what if this thing were used where life already exists?
Spock: It would destroy such life in favor of its new matrix.
Going back to Appomattox, at least
November 24, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Going back to Appomattox, at least
Wishing that social norms made it acceptable to request that a fellow air passenger who keeps coughing to mask up. Realizing there are reasons one might cough without having anything contagious.
November 24, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Wishing that social norms made it acceptable to request that a fellow air passenger who keeps coughing to mask up. Realizing there are reasons one might cough without having anything contagious.
The world needs to boycott this World Cup
November 23, 2025 at 2:22 AM
The world needs to boycott this World Cup
We hear a lot of blather from ICE about the "worst of the worst" but clearly they should be pointing that finger at themselves.
November 23, 2025 at 1:31 AM
We hear a lot of blather from ICE about the "worst of the worst" but clearly they should be pointing that finger at themselves.
This list is the reductio ad absurdum of scapegoating immigrants and blaming them for problems obviously & unequivocably not of their making. As I read the list quickly, I actually read "car" as "cat" and honestly it would make just as much sense to blame immigrants for why "I can't afford a cat."
November 20, 2025 at 8:04 PM
This list is the reductio ad absurdum of scapegoating immigrants and blaming them for problems obviously & unequivocably not of their making. As I read the list quickly, I actually read "car" as "cat" and honestly it would make just as much sense to blame immigrants for why "I can't afford a cat."
Sadly it's not smelt season.
November 20, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Sadly it's not smelt season.
Bay of Quiet Piggies
November 19, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Bay of Quiet Piggies
Yeah comparison shopping doesn't work real well for ambulance service
November 19, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Yeah comparison shopping doesn't work real well for ambulance service
Some hero needs to leak it all
November 18, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Some hero needs to leak it all
I seem to recall a national party convention with such signs
November 18, 2025 at 10:32 PM
I seem to recall a national party convention with such signs
It's an evergreen complaint, that's for sure.
November 18, 2025 at 7:26 PM
It's an evergreen complaint, that's for sure.
“Dead country”? It’s like someone with a very limited vocabulary playing MAGA Mad Libs
November 15, 2025 at 1:57 AM
“Dead country”? It’s like someone with a very limited vocabulary playing MAGA Mad Libs
At some point he simply needs to be ridiculed for this nonsense
November 15, 2025 at 1:55 AM
At some point he simply needs to be ridiculed for this nonsense