JohnMB
@thejohnmb.bsky.social
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JohnMB
@thejohnmb.bsky.social
· Feb 6
Henceforth, I will exclusively be referring to DOGE as the "Incel Clown Posse."
I realize the whole "flaunt/flout" distinction can be difficult for some, but et tu, @theatlantic.com?
"...who are again demanding to know how some of his friends seem able to flaunt the rules while the rest of the country suffers."
"...who are again demanding to know how some of his friends seem able to flaunt the rules while the rest of the country suffers."
November 21, 2025 at 5:44 PM
I realize the whole "flaunt/flout" distinction can be difficult for some, but et tu, @theatlantic.com?
"...who are again demanding to know how some of his friends seem able to flaunt the rules while the rest of the country suffers."
"...who are again demanding to know how some of his friends seem able to flaunt the rules while the rest of the country suffers."
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As the top Democrat overseeing the National Endowment for the Humanities, I’ve spent the past few months digging into the Administration’s unprecedented dismantling of the agency.
What I found reveals a disturbing pattern of corruption.
What I found reveals a disturbing pattern of corruption.
Fired Scholars and Big Grants to Favored Projects: Inside Trump’s N.E.H.
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:22 PM
As the top Democrat overseeing the National Endowment for the Humanities, I’ve spent the past few months digging into the Administration’s unprecedented dismantling of the agency.
What I found reveals a disturbing pattern of corruption.
What I found reveals a disturbing pattern of corruption.
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Head to a protest today. I can almost promise you will feel less hopeless. That's exactly what they don't want. There are more of us than there are of them.
October 18, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Head to a protest today. I can almost promise you will feel less hopeless. That's exactly what they don't want. There are more of us than there are of them.
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If you're in DC, ICE has set up a checkpoint on F street and H street.
October 14, 2025 at 9:23 PM
If you're in DC, ICE has set up a checkpoint on F street and H street.
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To everyone who says, "But this won't matter": *MAKE IT MATTER.*
You have that power! This is not inside baseball and your friends and neighbors will likely be appalled. And if they're *not* appalled, don't be cynical yourself. Take the lead, give the cue.
You have that power! This is not inside baseball and your friends and neighbors will likely be appalled. And if they're *not* appalled, don't be cynical yourself. Take the lead, give the cue.
EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.
Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇
Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
www.politico.com
October 14, 2025 at 9:16 PM
To everyone who says, "But this won't matter": *MAKE IT MATTER.*
You have that power! This is not inside baseball and your friends and neighbors will likely be appalled. And if they're *not* appalled, don't be cynical yourself. Take the lead, give the cue.
You have that power! This is not inside baseball and your friends and neighbors will likely be appalled. And if they're *not* appalled, don't be cynical yourself. Take the lead, give the cue.
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New, from me:
Trump's 3 step plan to create a military omniforce
1. Purge - those deemed disloyal
2. Merge - different parts of law enforcement/military
3. Surge - impose the omniforce on Dem cities; instigate unrest; assert dominance; silence dissent
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...
Trump's 3 step plan to create a military omniforce
1. Purge - those deemed disloyal
2. Merge - different parts of law enforcement/military
3. Surge - impose the omniforce on Dem cities; instigate unrest; assert dominance; silence dissent
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...
Purge, Merge, and Surge
Trump is creating a omniforce of armed loyalists to establish his police state
donmoynihan.substack.com
October 12, 2025 at 2:28 PM
New, from me:
Trump's 3 step plan to create a military omniforce
1. Purge - those deemed disloyal
2. Merge - different parts of law enforcement/military
3. Surge - impose the omniforce on Dem cities; instigate unrest; assert dominance; silence dissent
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...
Trump's 3 step plan to create a military omniforce
1. Purge - those deemed disloyal
2. Merge - different parts of law enforcement/military
3. Surge - impose the omniforce on Dem cities; instigate unrest; assert dominance; silence dissent
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...
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Federal workers: If you were impacted by the Trump administration's just-announced mass layoffs, our reporters are here to listen.
We understand you may be taking a risk in contacting us, and we take your privacy seriously.
Here's how to get in touch securely 👇
We understand you may be taking a risk in contacting us, and we take your privacy seriously.
Here's how to get in touch securely 👇
How to Contact ProPublica or Send a Tip Securely — ProPublica
Our job is to hold people and institutions accountable. To do that, we need evidence.
propublica.org
October 10, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Federal workers: If you were impacted by the Trump administration's just-announced mass layoffs, our reporters are here to listen.
We understand you may be taking a risk in contacting us, and we take your privacy seriously.
Here's how to get in touch securely 👇
We understand you may be taking a risk in contacting us, and we take your privacy seriously.
Here's how to get in touch securely 👇
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So cool that whenever someone asks the president, “did you eat the Lindbergh baby” he’s like, “no but I’d be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later”
October 8, 2025 at 8:07 PM
So cool that whenever someone asks the president, “did you eat the Lindbergh baby” he’s like, “no but I’d be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later”
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I don’t mean to overreact or anything, but this is the commander-in-chief telling military personnel that Democrats are a problem to be dealt with.
Trump to the Navy: "We have to take care of this little gnat that's on our shoulder called the Democrats."
October 5, 2025 at 9:17 PM
I don’t mean to overreact or anything, but this is the commander-in-chief telling military personnel that Democrats are a problem to be dealt with.
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One path to a successful career as a columnist is to be repeatedly wrong. Not to have unique takes on matters of opinion, but confident declarations proven wrong by events. If you can condescend to people proven right no matter how often you are wrong, the most prominent media would like to pay you.
October 4, 2025 at 11:17 AM
One path to a successful career as a columnist is to be repeatedly wrong. Not to have unique takes on matters of opinion, but confident declarations proven wrong by events. If you can condescend to people proven right no matter how often you are wrong, the most prominent media would like to pay you.
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Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere.
Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.
Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj
Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.
Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj
October 1, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere.
Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.
Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj
Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.
Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj
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they're gonna turn every remaining facet of government interface into a manosphere podcast, ie, a dumb white guy telling everyone who ostensibly works for him that they're gross pieces of shit who deserve all the bad stuff in their lives because they jack off too much
September 30, 2025 at 3:43 PM
they're gonna turn every remaining facet of government interface into a manosphere podcast, ie, a dumb white guy telling everyone who ostensibly works for him that they're gross pieces of shit who deserve all the bad stuff in their lives because they jack off too much
I fear this philosophy is going to be the defining characteristic of Republican politics going forward.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Charlie Kirk and the ‘Third Great Awakening’
MAGA is embracing the language of a rising Christian movement.
www.theatlantic.com
September 27, 2025 at 4:32 PM
I fear this philosophy is going to be the defining characteristic of Republican politics going forward.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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If I have any credibility with you from 20 years of reporting on rightwing & fascist movements, please listen when I beg you not to celebrate Charlie Kirk getting shot. Leave aside morality: this isn’t a match in dry grass, it’s a torch. We do not want what this could ignite & we would not win.
September 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
If I have any credibility with you from 20 years of reporting on rightwing & fascist movements, please listen when I beg you not to celebrate Charlie Kirk getting shot. Leave aside morality: this isn’t a match in dry grass, it’s a torch. We do not want what this could ignite & we would not win.
What shade of magenta signifies that RFK is on the verge of spontaneously bursting into flames? Because I think we're close.
September 4, 2025 at 8:05 PM
What shade of magenta signifies that RFK is on the verge of spontaneously bursting into flames? Because I think we're close.
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September 1, 2025 at 7:37 PM
If you're a journalist and find yourself uncritically writing the phrase "Trump's crime crackdown," please consider another career.
August 30, 2025 at 2:14 PM
If you're a journalist and find yourself uncritically writing the phrase "Trump's crime crackdown," please consider another career.
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She was paying $479 a month for her ACA health insurance.
Next year she will be paying *$2,800* a month for the same plan.
And it's all because Republicans decided to end ACA subsidies.
Expect to hear stories like this all across the country very soon.
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
Next year she will be paying *$2,800* a month for the same plan.
And it's all because Republicans decided to end ACA subsidies.
Expect to hear stories like this all across the country very soon.
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
She's bracing and saving to pay $2,800 a month for ACA health insurance next year
Raiding retirement savings. Pondering job changes or even marriage. People who buy their own health insurance are strategizing ahead of major price hikes in 2026. Open enrollment starts Nov. 1.
www.npr.org
August 23, 2025 at 4:13 PM
She was paying $479 a month for her ACA health insurance.
Next year she will be paying *$2,800* a month for the same plan.
And it's all because Republicans decided to end ACA subsidies.
Expect to hear stories like this all across the country very soon.
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
Next year she will be paying *$2,800* a month for the same plan.
And it's all because Republicans decided to end ACA subsidies.
Expect to hear stories like this all across the country very soon.
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
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In Ohio diner, Bolton still means Michael. But they do know this: if a man doesn’t love a woman enough to vote for Kamala Harris he deserves to be put in jail by Donald Trump
August 22, 2025 at 3:31 PM
In Ohio diner, Bolton still means Michael. But they do know this: if a man doesn’t love a woman enough to vote for Kamala Harris he deserves to be put in jail by Donald Trump
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“Dormant cancer cells are like the embers left in an abandoned campfire, and respiratory viruses are like a strong wind that reignites the flames”
Very accessible explainer of what some might consider a good reason to keep investing in vaccines for flu and Covid 🤦🏻♀️
Very accessible explainer of what some might consider a good reason to keep investing in vaccines for flu and Covid 🤦🏻♀️
Respiratory viruses may trigger dormant cancers
A study in mice showed how respiratory viruses could awaken dormant cancer cells.
www.nih.gov
August 19, 2025 at 7:47 PM
“Dormant cancer cells are like the embers left in an abandoned campfire, and respiratory viruses are like a strong wind that reignites the flames”
Very accessible explainer of what some might consider a good reason to keep investing in vaccines for flu and Covid 🤦🏻♀️
Very accessible explainer of what some might consider a good reason to keep investing in vaccines for flu and Covid 🤦🏻♀️
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Every single Democrat needs to internalize this:
ICE is a politicized operation that our tax dollars are paying for.
If Dem leaders don’t use every single legislative tool in their disposal to rein this in (ie shutting down this govt over funding) they aren’t doing their jobs.
ICE is a politicized operation that our tax dollars are paying for.
If Dem leaders don’t use every single legislative tool in their disposal to rein this in (ie shutting down this govt over funding) they aren’t doing their jobs.
While masked agents were violently attacking a delivery worker this morning, bystanders repeatedly asked to see their badge numbers but they refused.
Bystander: You guys are ruining this country, you know that, right?
Agent: Liberals already ruined it.
Bystander: You guys are ruining this country, you know that, right?
Agent: Liberals already ruined it.
August 16, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Every single Democrat needs to internalize this:
ICE is a politicized operation that our tax dollars are paying for.
If Dem leaders don’t use every single legislative tool in their disposal to rein this in (ie shutting down this govt over funding) they aren’t doing their jobs.
ICE is a politicized operation that our tax dollars are paying for.
If Dem leaders don’t use every single legislative tool in their disposal to rein this in (ie shutting down this govt over funding) they aren’t doing their jobs.
If the DNC can't message around the image of US troops *literally rolling out the red carpet for a war criminal*, what are we even doing?
August 16, 2025 at 3:11 AM
If the DNC can't message around the image of US troops *literally rolling out the red carpet for a war criminal*, what are we even doing?
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The racial & gender biases of our elite national media are on full display in how they covered our hard-working Black woman VP, @kamalaharris.com, vs. how they’re covering lazy white man VP JD Vance. It’s not an overstatement to say the racism & misogyny of the Beltway press is on full display.
August 15, 2025 at 4:15 PM
The racial & gender biases of our elite national media are on full display in how they covered our hard-working Black woman VP, @kamalaharris.com, vs. how they’re covering lazy white man VP JD Vance. It’s not an overstatement to say the racism & misogyny of the Beltway press is on full display.
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It’s no secret why the Trump administration went after Direct File, a free, easy-to-use tax filing program: it threatens the tax prep companies’ bottom line.
Trump’s tax policy makes life richer for billionaires and harder for just about everyone else.
Trump’s tax policy makes life richer for billionaires and harder for just about everyone else.
August 15, 2025 at 1:58 PM
It’s no secret why the Trump administration went after Direct File, a free, easy-to-use tax filing program: it threatens the tax prep companies’ bottom line.
Trump’s tax policy makes life richer for billionaires and harder for just about everyone else.
Trump’s tax policy makes life richer for billionaires and harder for just about everyone else.
Have the heavily armed 2A enthusiasts risen up against the tyrannical government yet?
August 12, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Have the heavily armed 2A enthusiasts risen up against the tyrannical government yet?