Johnny Calcagno
@morenoise.bsky.social
Seattle-based musician and audio engineer of mostly trad American and related genres.
Aquidneck Island native.
Descendant of immigrants arriving in boats in 1620 and 1909.
Solidarity with, and action for, marginalized people.
Fiery hatred for fascists.
Aquidneck Island native.
Descendant of immigrants arriving in boats in 1620 and 1909.
Solidarity with, and action for, marginalized people.
Fiery hatred for fascists.
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The president is a political cartoon of corruption come to life, a gaudy grifter who is selling off pardons and lining his pockets, building a golden ballroom and protecting his fellow sex predator elites, all the while regular Americans are suffering and struggling to make ends meet.
Run on *that*
Run on *that*
November 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The president is a political cartoon of corruption come to life, a gaudy grifter who is selling off pardons and lining his pockets, building a golden ballroom and protecting his fellow sex predator elites, all the while regular Americans are suffering and struggling to make ends meet.
Run on *that*
Run on *that*
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An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 29, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Northwestern and Columbia being famous for journalism and bending over for Trump seems a little too on the nose these days
This is the second largest payout from a private university to the Trump admin yet, second only to Columbia’s $200m
November 29, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Northwestern and Columbia being famous for journalism and bending over for Trump seems a little too on the nose these days
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People will die, and are currently dying, because RFK was granted one of the most powerful megaphones in the country. Two people who could have thrown barriers in front of his climb decided not to; there's a sex scandal here but it is not the biggest scandal.
November 26, 2025 at 11:30 PM
People will die, and are currently dying, because RFK was granted one of the most powerful megaphones in the country. Two people who could have thrown barriers in front of his climb decided not to; there's a sex scandal here but it is not the biggest scandal.
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anyway. conde naste should fire Nuzzi, fire the hack editor at vanity fair, reverse its gutting of teen vogue, and apologize to all of us for this nonsense.
November 27, 2025 at 12:17 AM
anyway. conde naste should fire Nuzzi, fire the hack editor at vanity fair, reverse its gutting of teen vogue, and apologize to all of us for this nonsense.
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Tatiana Schlossberg, the daughter of Caroline Kennedy, had just given birth when she was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia. She writes about her fear of adding another tragedy to her family’s life. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/CLpbsb
November 24, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Tatiana Schlossberg, the daughter of Caroline Kennedy, had just given birth when she was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia. She writes about her fear of adding another tragedy to her family’s life. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/CLpbsb
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If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
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"Attiah called balls and strikes & was shown the door; exiled, even. Meanwhile, Nuzzi was handed the keys to future fame & fortune in spite of proving the ease with which she deceives, and perhaps because of her alignment with right-wing figures. The locus of power has never been more clear..."
“There are some stories where there are no winners—only losers. This is one of those stories.”
Moral rot in elite journalism is killing the whole field
The Nuzzi/RFK Jr. mess and the revelation of Epstein’s journo pals lay bare a profound moral absence at the heart of our free press.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 23, 2025 at 4:51 AM
"Attiah called balls and strikes & was shown the door; exiled, even. Meanwhile, Nuzzi was handed the keys to future fame & fortune in spite of proving the ease with which she deceives, and perhaps because of her alignment with right-wing figures. The locus of power has never been more clear..."
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I actually thought I had shared this on here and I hadn't. But if you want to look at why Tehran has to move it's climate change, yes, but it's genuinely fascinating as a failure of long term planning/ not understanding water supplies.
you'd think the forced displacement of 10 million people from one of the oldest centres of civilisation in human history would get a little more news attention than beltway journalists writing essays on how Olivia Nuzzi is a genius because they want to bone her and you'd be wrong
'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain'
#Iran 🇮🇷
#Iran 🇮🇷
November 22, 2025 at 5:02 AM
I actually thought I had shared this on here and I hadn't. But if you want to look at why Tehran has to move it's climate change, yes, but it's genuinely fascinating as a failure of long term planning/ not understanding water supplies.
🧵hoo boy
I am by no means a prominent public intellectual, but my inbox is increasingly filled with messages from people who have been convinced by sycophantic chatbots that they have discovered revolutionary theories that entirely upend our scientific understanding of the universe.
November 21, 2025 at 6:23 AM
🧵hoo boy
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Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
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His entire wealth is supported by a self-driving fraud that has killed tens of Americans, on top of countless other crimes.
He is the face of the elite impunity that is destroying this country.
His freedom is one of the most important political issues of our time.
He is the face of the elite impunity that is destroying this country.
His freedom is one of the most important political issues of our time.
Again, it is unbelievable that this man is permitted to walk free after causing the deaths of potentially millions of people. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...
Musk Is Back in Politics. Does He Want to Stay a While?
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:38 AM
His entire wealth is supported by a self-driving fraud that has killed tens of Americans, on top of countless other crimes.
He is the face of the elite impunity that is destroying this country.
His freedom is one of the most important political issues of our time.
He is the face of the elite impunity that is destroying this country.
His freedom is one of the most important political issues of our time.
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Infuriating to think that in just two months, Conde Nast's Vanity Fair hired Nuzzi while Conde Nast's Vogue absorbed and neutered Teen Vogue, laying off a number of talented writers who can write, and think, circles around Nuzzi.
November 17, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Infuriating to think that in just two months, Conde Nast's Vanity Fair hired Nuzzi while Conde Nast's Vogue absorbed and neutered Teen Vogue, laying off a number of talented writers who can write, and think, circles around Nuzzi.
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relatedly, ralph nader deserves to be remembered for the rest of time as someone who voluntarily assisted in a critical attack on american democracy, the importance of which far outweighs any of his consumer advocacy
bush v gore is the hinge upon which basically everything awful from the last quarter century swings on
i don't think that bush v. gore is the *worst* ruling in the history of the supreme court, but i do think it is the most openly *corrupt* ruling in its history. a real disgrace.
November 17, 2025 at 4:35 AM
relatedly, ralph nader deserves to be remembered for the rest of time as someone who voluntarily assisted in a critical attack on american democracy, the importance of which far outweighs any of his consumer advocacy
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Trump living it up, bedazzling everything, lining his pockets, freeing his criminal allies while out on the streets his goons terrorize entire communities feels like something from dystopian fiction.
November 16, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Trump living it up, bedazzling everything, lining his pockets, freeing his criminal allies while out on the streets his goons terrorize entire communities feels like something from dystopian fiction.
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Nuzzi's fawning coverage of the sociopathic conspiracy crank she was having an affair with aided his rise to political power, which he is using to perpetrate the worst intentional public health catastrophe of our unnecessarily shortened lifetimes, and THAT is the STORY.
November 15, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Nuzzi's fawning coverage of the sociopathic conspiracy crank she was having an affair with aided his rise to political power, which he is using to perpetrate the worst intentional public health catastrophe of our unnecessarily shortened lifetimes, and THAT is the STORY.
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I cannot begin to properly articulate how upsetting it is to have had people baselessly accuse trans people of being groomers and pedophiles only for it to come out that they were deliberately doing this as part of a project to provide cover to actual groomers and pedophiles in positions of power
November 13, 2025 at 9:22 PM
I cannot begin to properly articulate how upsetting it is to have had people baselessly accuse trans people of being groomers and pedophiles only for it to come out that they were deliberately doing this as part of a project to provide cover to actual groomers and pedophiles in positions of power
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“How did we get here?"
“This isn’t who we are?"
“I never thought I’d live in a country where…”
All kind of falls flat when you know how the prison system works here.
“This isn’t who we are?"
“I never thought I’d live in a country where…”
All kind of falls flat when you know how the prison system works here.
After over 500 hearings, lawyer Douglas Jennings quit representing clients before the South Carolina Parole Board, citing the board's consistent rejections. "I just couldn’t justify taking somebody’s money," he told Bolts last year.
Parole Plunges in South Carolina as Governor-Appointed Board Issues Denial After Denial
People familiar with South Carolina’s parole process describe a secretive panel that downplays rehabilitative efforts and ignores applicants’ attempts to correct their files.
boltsmag.org
November 13, 2025 at 2:02 PM
“How did we get here?"
“This isn’t who we are?"
“I never thought I’d live in a country where…”
All kind of falls flat when you know how the prison system works here.
“This isn’t who we are?"
“I never thought I’d live in a country where…”
All kind of falls flat when you know how the prison system works here.
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turns out the emails we should have been reading in 2016 were from the NYT
November 12, 2025 at 10:34 PM
turns out the emails we should have been reading in 2016 were from the NYT
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The Trump administration’s systematic targeting of US knowledge infrastructure spans the entire production chain, from soup to nuts. Without reliable statistics, research funding, or accessible data, information asymmetries will surely increase, writes Amelia Acker.
Week After Week, The US is Dismantling Knowledge Infrastructure | TechPolicy.Press
Without reliable statistics, research funding, or accessible data, information asymmetries will surely increase, writes Amelia Acker.
www.techpolicy.press
November 11, 2025 at 4:18 PM
The Trump administration’s systematic targeting of US knowledge infrastructure spans the entire production chain, from soup to nuts. Without reliable statistics, research funding, or accessible data, information asymmetries will surely increase, writes Amelia Acker.
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Literally every dem should be shouting from the rooftops that republicans are giving Americans two choices: die from starvation or from a lack of affordable healthcare.
USDA orders states to stop paying full SNAP benefits and "immediately undo" steps taken to issue them for November. Follow live updates.
https://cnn.it/47LOq3z
https://cnn.it/47LOq3z
November 9, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Literally every dem should be shouting from the rooftops that republicans are giving Americans two choices: die from starvation or from a lack of affordable healthcare.
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If we want to stop the kidnappings and these agents require anonymity to commit these actions, then we must remove the masks.
So long as we allow masked law enforcement to terrorize people, we cannot be a democracy.
So long as we allow masked law enforcement to terrorize people, we cannot be a democracy.
I’ve come to believe that we need to gather considerable forces and a campaign to demand the removal of face masks by ICE, Border Patrol, FBI and police.
It is a practice in conflict with the principles of transparency & accountability that are central to the concept of democracy.
It is a practice in conflict with the principles of transparency & accountability that are central to the concept of democracy.
Video on social media shows an immigration agent pulling a gun in Little Village and holding it to the side — which is not an appropriate or safe way to hold a gun. (Among other issues.)
November 9, 2025 at 1:56 PM
If we want to stop the kidnappings and these agents require anonymity to commit these actions, then we must remove the masks.
So long as we allow masked law enforcement to terrorize people, we cannot be a democracy.
So long as we allow masked law enforcement to terrorize people, we cannot be a democracy.
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I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
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So immigration agents drove off in a citizen’s car with a toddler in the back.
**Then DHS refused to answer questions about it.**
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
**Then DHS refused to answer questions about it.**
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
November 8, 2025 at 2:14 AM
So immigration agents drove off in a citizen’s car with a toddler in the back.
**Then DHS refused to answer questions about it.**
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
**Then DHS refused to answer questions about it.**
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
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It’s hard not to notice the double standard. Refugees who fled the Cold War are remembered as heroes (and rightly so), but those escaping today’s wars and famines are treated like threats. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Experience: I escaped East Berlin in the boot of a car
‘Tonight or never,’ the men helping me said. ‘Meet us in the alley. Eight-thirty’
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:42 PM
It’s hard not to notice the double standard. Refugees who fled the Cold War are remembered as heroes (and rightly so), but those escaping today’s wars and famines are treated like threats. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...