John @1-john.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Whatever you think of Hemingway, he was a staunch anti-fascist and unlikely to condone the (mis)use of his words by the fascists in power today. 020
John @1-john.bsky.social · 05/10/2026If there's a know-it-all here, it seems to be you. Maybe what you know doesn't apply everywhere. When my own insurance co tells me they used drones, I tend to believe them. Btw... Putting "Certified California Hater" in your profile seems to me an incredibly perverse thing to do. 010
John @1-john.bsky.social · 05/10/2026As I was saying... www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/...cbsnews.comInsurance companies using drones to inspect homes without alerting owners. Here's what you should know.Insurance companies are using drones to inspect properties without alerting homeowners. In some cases, policies have been canceled. 131
John @1-john.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I'm telling you what my insurance agent told me. They use drones. I've had neighbors say the same. With fire liability a big issue in So Cal, companies use drones to assess risk. Google Earth satellite images don't show our shed. It's new. 120
John @1-john.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Actually not. They told us they use drones to inspect properties. 040
John @1-john.bsky.social · 05/10/2026We switched our home insurance this year. Soon after, our agent called with questions about our backyard shed. How'd they know about it? Drones. 280
John @1-john.bsky.social · 03/10/2026You seem to want me to agree that choosing the bear is a worthy choice. Sorry I cannot oblige. I don't question your experience or your fear. But I can't agree the random man is more dangerous than the bear. It's late & I'm off soon for a night out with my lovely wife. All the best to you. 100
John @1-john.bsky.social · 02/10/2026You're expressing how you feel. I hear the pain and suffering that you've experienced. I've said nothing to deny that. I didn't introduce the hypothetical. That was the question in the original video. I believe we should choose what's best for our well-being. On what's wise or sad we don't agree. 100
John @1-john.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Two roads diverged in a yellow wood. Down one is a random man. (Not known to be a rapist or killer, just a man.) Down the other road, a bear. Which do you take? In real life, this would not be a hard decision. If you were walking along with a child, would that make the point clearer? 200
John @1-john.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Just bc this is the internet doesn't mean you have to be an idiot. 100
John @1-john.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I'm about to bow out. I'm sorry to hear the pain that you've experienced. I hope that you find the healing and peace that you seek. We may see some things differently. Fair enough. Be well, and have a good day. 000
John @1-john.bsky.social · 02/10/2026That would be true except... The chance that a bear could be dangerous is 100%. The chance that a man could be dangerous is nothing close to that. 000
John @1-john.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Absolutely. And I do. At a cost sometimes. Not easy at age 17. But no one college age or older has an excuse for not speaking up. Too many men take a 'not my business' attitude. But it is our business, and women and men would all be better off if men were more vocal. 000
John @1-john.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Maybe you don't hear it bc you're not a man? I hear the fear of women. I also hear that most women "on the internet" would rather take their chances with A) a bear "that would just fucking rip me apart" over B) a random man. Doesn't sound like a wise choice. Nor a solid assessment of most men. 400
John @1-john.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The feelings of women are understandable. The words are provocative tho. Where do they lead? To sympathy with women, or disgust with men? Depends on the audience. In my experience, most men would condemn the behaviors described but reject the woman's blanket condemnation of their identity. 400
John @1-john.bsky.social · 02/10/2026As a joke, this is (sort of) funny. Point made. Men can be awful. No argument. But as a serious point, as the reader seems to take it, it's rather ridiculous and hardly helpful. In 2026, slanderous putdowns of entire groups (gender, race, religion, etc.) is what we ought to be moving away from. 211
John @1-john.bsky.social · 01/10/2026That's a brilliant essay, a clear and important read on where we are. Thanks for the link. 010
John @1-john.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Pick his most serious crimes & abuses and impeach. Congress has a duty to do what it can to rein in a rogue criminal Executuve. GOP failed its duty. Dems must folllw through (or they are no better). 010
John @1-john.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This is good. We do need an FDR/Lincoln type of leader with imagination and drive to create a new future for the country. And more. Dems need an international vision. The most pressing issues are global: climate change, AI, immigration. The old regime is dead. We need a new multilateral framework. 010
John @1-john.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Yeah, but when Trump makes claims about a deal with China, I do want to hear the news announcers say... "He said Xi said..." 010
John @1-john.bsky.social · 27/09/2026McClatchy once did great work, winning Pulitzers (Panama Papers, et al). A360media operates to silence the truth and target political enemies (Karen McDougall catch-and-kill, Bezos affairs). When a360 bought McClatchy in Dec '24 it was all over. RIP, good journalism. A model for CBS, CNN. 010
John @1-john.bsky.social · 27/09/2026That single speck of red in all of Texas happens to be Dallas County. 000
John @1-john.bsky.social · 26/09/2026From the same people who are trying to make "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen" a reality. 020
John @1-john.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Imagine thinking a non-citizen would risk their status here during a mass deportation program by registering illegally for a 1-in-a-zillion chance to cast the deciding vote in an election. One reason we don't have a voter fraud issue with non-citizens, who are clearly smarter than Republicans. 010
John @1-john.bsky.social · 23/09/2026"The largest transactions were July 20 sales of between $5 million and $25 million each of Microsoft and Amazon..." Not a good day to sell MSFT. Price went from $400 to $500+ in the next 3 weeks. A $25M holding would've been worth $31M+ if he'd held on. Corrupt, but dumb (with a b). 000
John @1-john.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Anyone can run. But should she win the nom? 1. It's a must-win election. Dems lost 2 must-win elections running women. It's not sexist to note apparent sexism in the electorate & risk for Dem chances. 2. AOC is 36. She seems v young. If you don't think so, you're likely v young too. 020
John @1-john.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Hiltzik is a national treasure. Hard to say a Pulitzer winner is underappreciated, but he is. He is as good a columnist in any paper and the writer we need for our times. 010
John @1-john.bsky.social · 19/09/2026To Die For (1995): an excellent film with an excellent Nicole Kidman. 120
John @1-john.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Let's not worry our pretty little heads over global depression. Let's look at the bright side! We can bring back the horse and buggy ... and save the planet! 100
John @1-john.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Her message: "You can be for immigration what Lincoln was for slavery and Reagan was for communism. I'm not talking about giving them amnesty. I'm talking about giving them a dignified life in this promised land." Gibberish. That makes absolutely no sense. For a paid ad, that's something. 010
John @1-john.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Famous last words. I'd guess most people today associate those words with movie. This was 1968. 290
John @1-john.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Dolly Parton didn't talk about politics. But she never would have let a venue owner decide who she played with. She'd have told Robert Kraft to take a hike. 120
John @1-john.bsky.social · 13/09/2026$736MM ...per DAY! Americans use ~375 million gallons of gas per day. That's additional $22 BILLION per MONTH, or $265 BILLION per YEAR. 032
John @1-john.bsky.social · 13/09/2026The man is right. This needs to be the default Dem position in campaigns ahead. 030
John @1-john.bsky.social · 11/09/2026The 25 yrs since 9/11 has been a descent into madness. What anyone could say of this country then isn't possible today. We squandered so much, one of history's great tragedies. May people in 25 yrs look back on today & say: This was the bottom, when the people at last found a better way forward. 000
John @1-john.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Ad placed by a Republican business group. Not exactly Hoover, but attributed to him. 011
John @1-john.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Famous last words. John Fetterman, 2016: "Why am I here?" James Stockdale, 1992: "Why am I here?" youtu.be/hk53qOhq40M?...youtu.be1992: 'Who am I? Why am I here?'YouTube video by CNN 001
John @1-john.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Dems need to use this opportunity to remind voters of all his broken promises. (There are many!) Attack! It's open season on lying con men. We have an election to win. 010
John @1-john.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Forget Piker. We're going to need a new round of Democrats disavowing members of the coalition who are standing in solidarity with the fascists. Legacy journos should be all over this. 030
John @1-john.bsky.social · 08/09/2026S&P 500 is up 2.25X in 6 years (since Labor Day 2020). Sounds like underperformance. 001
John @1-john.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Wage growth slow, corporate profits high. An economy good for management, not workers. 000
John @1-john.bsky.social · 05/09/2026stalemate? quagmire? zugzwang? Which word to use? If the Daily News hadn't been out of high-scoring Scrabble tiles, they might have gone with one of the others. 100
John @1-john.bsky.social · 04/09/2026It's nonsense, but he seems to believe it. Where did he get these ideas? He didn't dream them up himself. Someone schooled him (& not his advisers). My guess "the miseducation of DJT" has been a project for years. With foreign policy, I'd guess the source is Russian. Economics, idk. 000
John @1-john.bsky.social · 02/09/2026The total loss from street property crime is about $15 billion per year. For white collar crime, it's anywhere from $300 or $400 billion to $1.7 trillion per year. Nobody is doing insider trading, accounting fraud, embezzling funds, cybercrime, etc., because they can't put food on the table. 1150
John @1-john.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Early in his career, Hunter S. Thompson (supposedly) typed the text of "The Great Gatsby," apparently to get the sense of what writing it was like. At least he had no intention of publishing it. 030
