Sign in

Big John

@dcbigjohn.bsky.social
35K followers 1.1K following 3.5K posts

Editor in Chief, Gambit Weekly. Formerly BuzzFeed, Roll Call, Nat Journal, Your Mom’s House. John Fetterman bit my style. Basically a DC bama livin in New Orleans

PostsRepliesMedia
Big John @dcbigjohn.bsky.social · 13h
Holy shit Jim Bakker was alive this whole time? wtf is going on
2302
Big John @dcbigjohn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Jaysus
110
Big John @dcbigjohn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Bama yes! That line made me want to be a sports reporter for a hot minute in my early career
020
Big John @dcbigjohn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I so desperately want to hate the Mackel boys because of their lush, thick wonderful hair … and yet I cannot, for the same reason.
The Mackel brothers and their dumb, glorious hair
083
Big John @dcbigjohn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
You just know his drafts are so full of the n word
59913
Big John @dcbigjohn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Wait WUT
210
Big John @dcbigjohn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
But also I’m being very contrarian today. So
010
Big John @dcbigjohn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I mean, the scene where the one lady’s hands are on its face, her fingers were doing things no normal fingers can do unless the actress has been fighting bare knuckle since she was 6 and physics’ laws got real loose. So I don’t buy that wasn’t AI regardless of what ole boy says
100
Big John @dcbigjohn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Shoulda been jailed after he stole 6 people’s foreheads
3254
Reposted by Big John
Louisiana Illuminator @lailluminator.com · 05/10/2026
AI AMBIGUITY: Most Louisiana congressional candidates agree there should be some regulations placed on artificial intelligence. But they are providing few specifics about what limitations they would favor. @jsodonoghue.bsky.social & @eplunk.bsky.social report
lailluminator.com
AI apocalypse? Most Louisiana candidates for Congress stay vague on regulation • Louisiana Illuminator
Most candidates running for Congress in Louisiana agree there should be some federal regulations placed on artificial intelligence. But at this point they are mostly offering generalities, without pro...
086
Big John @dcbigjohn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Backrooms is on in the bar and at first I was like, oh cool I heard about this vaguely maybe it’s good … and then the goofy AI pirate shows up and now I hope everybody involved in this goofy monstrosity gets herpes. All the simplexes including the ones we don’t know about yet
120
Big John @dcbigjohn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
man if I ever catch one of them in these streets
000
Big John @dcbigjohn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Anyhoo WHODAT
static.klipy.com
cool sherman
ALT: cool sherman
1142
Big John @dcbigjohn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
an unrepentant racist and refused to integrate on the field and in the stands till the 70s. So, ya know, solid reason to have become a cowboys fan. Which got passed down, as fandom is want to do. But now as a saints fan, we’re just hating on a trash city Sherman didn’t finish the job on properly.
3121
Big John @dcbigjohn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I love the Saints Falcons rivalry. It’s a straight forward good guys vs shit bird fuck bois. Growing up in dc the whole Washington vs cowboys rivalry was fun but also kinda fraught with racism, since a ton of Black Washingtonians were cowboys fans cause the team’s owner before Jack Kent Cooke was
3172
Big John @dcbigjohn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
holy shit i assumed this guy was dead
181
Big John @dcbigjohn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Didn't Kent State Gunpoop Girl open for The Sword at the Rock n Roll hotel in 2011?
140
Big John @dcbigjohn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
this bartender I knew in Montana used to put it on the free popcorn on the bar. It's like crack that makes you real thirsty and need to buy more beers, lol. Ole girl was a genius
020
Big John @dcbigjohn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Crystal Hot Sauce is the best shit ever
7191
Reposted by Big John
Danielle Ryan (Lestat Era) @danirat.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Gavin newsom with a creepy dead eyed smilethe smiler from Transmetropolitan
562275421
Reposted by Big John
Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
🧵"Lasalle Corrections is the privately held prison company that has contracted with ICE" for new kids facility in Louisiana. "Hunterbrook Media describes Lasalle Corrections as a 'liability moat—a sprawling, multimillion dollar private prison enterprise hidden...'" www.nola.com/gambit/news/...
nola.com
‘Shrouded in secrecy’: Louisiana's new ICE facility raises more questions than answers
Under the Trump administration's deportation blitz, ICE's new 'staging center' in Alexandria, Louisiana is run by the operators of Lasalle Corrections, a private, for-profit company with a history of ...
21818
Reposted by Big John
jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026
pedocon theory is a theory like gravity is a theory www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/o...
nytimes.com
Dennis Hastert, Powerful Politician Disgraced by Child Sexual Abuse, Dies (Gift Article)
The longest-serving Republican speaker of the House admitted in 2016 to abusing teenage boys decades earlier. He was 84.
843463618
Reposted by Big John
Jeff Asher @jeffasher.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Guten tag! youtu.be/AyeRNZ8YRVk?...
youtu.be
Saints-Falcons, never forget: Shy Tuttle's stiff arm of Matt Ryan, in German!
YouTube video by New Orleans Saints on NOLA.com
1195
Big John @dcbigjohn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
that shit was crazy scary
020
Big John @dcbigjohn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Here's our election guide for this fall's election in New Orleans, including House and Senate candidate profiles and an explainer on the constitutional and home rule amendments that have been proposed www.nola.com/gambit/news/...
nola.com
Gambit's Election Guide Fall 2026
This fall’s elections are fast approaching. Early voting starts Oct. 20 and will run through Oct. 27 (excluding Sunday, Oct. 25), and Election Day is scheduled for Nov. 3.
0114
Big John @dcbigjohn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
lookin sharp youngin!
010
Big John @dcbigjohn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Trump regime is opening a new concentration camp for children in Alexandria, Louisiana that's operated by secretive private prison company Lasalle Corrections, which has a long history of human rights problems at its facilties. www.nola.com/gambit/news/...
nola.com
‘Shrouded in secrecy’: Louisiana's new ICE facility raises more questions than answers
Under the Trump administration's deportation blitz, ICE's new 'staging center' in Alexandria, Louisiana is run by the operators of Lasalle Corrections, a private, for-profit company with a history of ...
12927
Big John @dcbigjohn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
ICE is opening a concentration camp for children in Alexandria, Louisiana run by a private company with a horrendous human rights record. Because of significant opposition, the local government and ICE are doing everything they can to keep what's happening a secret www.nola.com/gambit/news/...
nola.com
‘Shrouded in secrecy’: Louisiana's new ICE facility raises more questions than answers
Under the Trump administration's deportation blitz, ICE's new 'staging center' in Alexandria, Louisiana is run by the operators of Lasalle Corrections, a private, for-profit company with a history of ...
66966
Big John @dcbigjohn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Shockingly I didn’t have to leave the 504! There’s a new place here called Tacos Diva and Aaron it is the best thing to happen to my mouth in a long time
110
Big John @dcbigjohn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
For the first time since I stayed at the Woodner in DC I’ve got papusas — really good ones at that! — within walking distance and I am so, so SO EXCITED
2131
Big John @dcbigjohn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Oh fuck
020
Big John @dcbigjohn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Based on this photo I’m assuming theres a white person named ‘Role Model’ who looks like a sentient unsalted saltine?
391
Big John @dcbigjohn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
normally. Does any of this ring bells? Or is my admittedly LSD addled brain fuckin with me?
210
Big John @dcbigjohn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Hey so a couple years ago I was reading … something, from … somewhere that had a reprinted travelers guide to New Orleans from around this time. It described the climate as being MUCH different, like summer as hot but not fuck you in the eyehole hot. And winter as being much cooler than we get
110
Big John @dcbigjohn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If you’re a journalist in New Orleans and tell your editor you can’t find a story on any given day, you need to find a new profession or a boss that’ll let you take a mental health day. Cause you either lyin or about to collapse from writing about all the crazy shit we got goin
072
Big John @dcbigjohn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It is in fact the same Anne breaud!
371
Big John @dcbigjohn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The owner of popular French Quarter gay bars Cafe Lafitte in Exile, Rawhide and Good Friends ends nearly decade long HIV testing partnership www.nola.com/gambit/news/...
nola.com
Management of 3 French Quarter gay bars ends free HIV testing events by CrescentCare
Woods Enterprises, which owns Lafitte in Exile and two other popular French Quarter gay bars, has abruptly ended its relationship with CrescentCare, a nonprofit that has held free HIV testing and othe...
3104
Reposted by Big John
Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Announcing the merger with Titanic footage is an incredible bit
David Ellison • @ellisonskyd... 2h
What once was the peak, is now just the beginning.
Paramount and Warner Bros. shaped over a century of culture. By combining them, we aren't rewriting history — we're equipping these iconic studios with a more powerful engine. Together, we are Skydance: a creative-first ho Show
464142722849
Reposted by Big John
Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Scoop: Podcaster Benny Johnson is being sued for defamation over his ICE ride-along videos calling protesters "terrorists." www.ms.now/news/benny-j...
ms.now
MAGA podcaster Benny Johnson sued for defamation over ICE ride-along videos calling protesters ‘terrorists’
Johnson accompanied top DHS officials last year to an ICE protest, where he pointed out “left-wing terrorists” for his millions of followers across social media.
662049407
Reposted by Big John
Marta Jewson @martajewson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The intention to let L.B. Landry High School's contract expire was set in motion on Sept. 3. But parents, students, teachers and neighbors didn't learn about the potential closure until late last month. www.lamplighter.news/p/three-week...
lamplighter.news
Three weeks prior to board vote, Algiers Charter told NOLA Public Schools it would not run L.B. Landry High School beyond 2027
On Sept. 3, three weeks before the charter board’s public vote, Algiers Charter told NOLA Public Schools it did not intend to run L.B. Landry High School past the 2026-27 school year.
084
Reposted by Big John
Night Of The Living Biffs @b1ffy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Arnold Schwarzenegger Santa >>> Tim Allen Santa
151
Reposted by Big John
Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
why does the WaPo print headline on the botched TN execution read like The Onion
Drugs Fail to Kill Woman
622231295
Big John @dcbigjohn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Oh hell yeah Arnold Schwarzenegger and Alan Ritchson in a Christmas movie, complete with a classic Santa at the bar making merry scene? Sign me the fuuuuuuuck up www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lyzt...
youtube.com
The Man with the Bag - Official Teaser | Prime Video
YouTube video by Prime Video
392
Big John @dcbigjohn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The thing about jobs unemployment numbers released by the government is that because they've been juked so often and so hard to make things look better than they are, their only real utility is as a "oh shit things are so bad even the government can't hide it" metric
2167
Big John @dcbigjohn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
yessssssssssssss i'll get bail money ready
111
Reposted by Big John
Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Come off it.
523032
Big John @dcbigjohn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Bruh
020
Big John @dcbigjohn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If ya need, I am very very good at making people leave, what with being 6 foot 7 and all
110
Big John @dcbigjohn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
What’s treasonous are those terrible shoes
7264
Big John @dcbigjohn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There’s sex stuff happening.
110