John M. Cunningham @jmcunning.bsky.social · 9hQuite an about-face from 2015, when Emmer said he "wholeheartedly" supported "immigrant populations who are in this country legally" and that Somalis are "some of the fastest-assimilating populations that we've had." www.thisamericanlife.org/600/transcript 010
John M. Cunningham @jmcunning.bsky.social · 10hHer book club is maybe the only one to have read both Rainer Maria Rilke and Colleen Hoover. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeaTime...en.wikipedia.orgTeaTime Book Club - Wikipedia 000
John M. Cunningham @jmcunning.bsky.social · 17hBut the way it's talked about seems to assume that everyone's experience of making reservations is calling the maitre d' to request a specific table to entertain a business client. 020
John M. Cunningham @jmcunning.bsky.social · 17hIt's strange because most of the time making a dinner reservation through Resy or OpenTable takes like 2 minutes. One exception might be very popular places where reservations open at midnight for 30 days out and are nabbed immediately. I guess I can see an AI agent being useful for that. 120
John M. Cunningham @jmcunning.bsky.social · 18hDoes the Nobel committee secretly install surveillance cameras in laureates' houses or 190
John M. Cunningham @jmcunning.bsky.social · 19hAnd we're sure she didn't have Warren Zevon going in the headphones? 020
John M. Cunningham @jmcunning.bsky.social · 08/10/2026And, like, Abdul is already an obviously Arabic name. Is Mohamed supposed to be scarier? 130
John M. Cunningham @jmcunning.bsky.social · 08/10/2026A24 is pushing her in supporting (which I think makes sense): a24awards.com/primetimea24awards.comPrimetime | A24 AwardsThe company behind Everything Everywhere All At Once, Talk to Me, Uncut Gems, Midsommar, Lady Bird, Moonlight, HBO's Euphoria, Netflix's Beef, & more. 010
John M. Cunningham @jmcunning.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Mine says I have 1 adult, which I assumed to mean my wife, but hers says she has 2 adults! 210
John M. Cunningham @jmcunning.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I'd like if he self-expelled from the pages of The Atlantic 040
John M. Cunningham @jmcunning.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Agreed. I've never bought the argument that the mainstream media is in the tank for Trump. Some editors/execs might be, but I think fear of appearing too activist/partisan plays a bigger role in coverage. They don't want to get ahead of things. But if it can be framed as an existing debate? Sure! 000
John M. Cunningham @jmcunning.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I was researching something for work today and landed on this EPA page. www.epa.gov/emergency-re...epa.govSI in Disaster Preparedness, Response, and Recovery | US EPAThe EPA's ORD offers free public webinars on recent research results. Watch a pre-recorded webinar showcases real-world applications of SI and its future potential in disaster preparedness and recover... 030
John M. Cunningham @jmcunning.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I didn't love After the Hunt but thought Garfield was terrific in it 000
John M. Cunningham @jmcunning.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Oh haha I didn't know anything about them. Just came across that book cover and was bemused. 000
John M. Cunningham @jmcunning.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I do think it's fun that all of the food vendors at Apple Fest (must?) have apple in at least one menu item, even if it's just like a chicken sandwich with apple slaw. 000
John M. Cunningham @jmcunning.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I don't think the story hinges too much on that detail, though. He voted for Trump in 2024. It doesn't matter who he voted for or how he identified before that. 100
John M. Cunningham @jmcunning.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Yes, and he has never actually voted in a primary election, according to Ohio records, so he is officially unaffiliated. 000
John M. Cunningham @jmcunning.bsky.social · 06/10/20261. Public records indicate that he voted in 2016 and 2024 but not in 2020. 2. One thing I noticed about his worse recent posts is that a bunch of them link to TikToks. 110
John M. Cunningham @jmcunning.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I did appreciate that everyone (including Nigella) put Paul in his place said he thought miso was an unusual cookie ingredient 020
John M. Cunningham @jmcunning.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The Lederman post sums it up well, but it's partially paraphrased. Worth reading Alito's (utterly deranged) words in full. 150
John M. Cunningham @jmcunning.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Was there on Saturday morning. It was crowded but not insanely so. Helps to go early! 010
John M. Cunningham @jmcunning.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Public records show that he did not vote at all in 2020, and that the only elections he has voted in were Nov 2016 and Nov 2024. I think it's possible that 2024 was the first time he voted for Trump if, say, he voted Libertarian in 2016. But I would not call him a "lifelong Democrat." 1192
John M. Cunningham @jmcunning.bsky.social · 05/10/2026He didn't vote in 2020. The Ross County voter file shows that he first registered in August 2016 and has only voted in two elections: Nov 2016 and Nov 2024. 060
John M. Cunningham @jmcunning.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Yes, I have seen those. And he even shared a pro-Trump video as early as 2019. But before that, he has only one post that even references a politician. 030
John M. Cunningham @jmcunning.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Well, we don't know for sure who he voted for in 2016. The article would have us believe that 2024 was the first time he voted for Trump. But hard for me to believe that he registered for the first time to vote for Clinton. Maybe he was a Gary Johnson guy? 120
John M. Cunningham @jmcunning.bsky.social · 04/10/2026My read of his Facebook feed is that he's a low-info / low-trust guy rather than a strong partisan. He clearly preferred Trump to Biden but also posted stuff like this. 020
John M. Cunningham @jmcunning.bsky.social · 04/10/2026A guy with a Louisiana accent solving crimes in Cabot Cove? That's what I call Maine Justice. 020
John M. Cunningham @jmcunning.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Yeah, he shared a pro-Trump video as early as 2019 and made pro-Trump comments after January 6. Some other posts suggest he has low institutional trust and is skeptical of both parties. So I think he is more of a Trump fan than a die-hard Republican (esp. with his sparse voting record). 020
John M. Cunningham @jmcunning.bsky.social · 04/10/2026"You hear less about" is such weak, lazy writing. Who is "you"? Under what circumstances are "you" hearing or not hearing? I suppose what he means is that *he* hears less about it, but he has to make it sound impersonal, even though he doesn't cite any empirical evidence. 010
John M. Cunningham @jmcunning.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I looked up her Facebook page, just an endless stream of awful right-wing shit going back years 110
John M. Cunningham @jmcunning.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The article actually says "lifelong Democrat." It does not say "voter," which may be because he has only actually voted twice in his life, according to the county voter file. I am still skeptical about "lifelong Democrat," but it's possible he loosely considered himself a Democrat at some point. 230
John M. Cunningham @jmcunning.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Seems like a paradigmatic low info/low trust voter. 020
John M. Cunningham @jmcunning.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The Ross County voter file shows that he first registered to vote in August 2016 and has voted only twice: in the Nov. 2016 and Nov. 2024 general elections. 2340
John M. Cunningham @jmcunning.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Yeah the only charitable explanation I can come up with is that he may have loosely considered himself a Dem at some point (maybe in his 20s when Obama was first elected), but he has certainly not been a committed Dem voter. 050
John M. Cunningham @jmcunning.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I checked the county voter file. He has never voted in a primary. The only elections he has voted in are the 2016 and 2024 general elections. 1130
John M. Cunningham @jmcunning.bsky.social · 04/10/2026One might think so, but the article does say that he voted for Trump for the first time in 2024. Either he's lying to the reporter, or he voted for Clinton and then later became a Trump fan. Although he didn't vote in 2020, he certainly preferred Trump to Biden in early 2021. 210
John M. Cunningham @jmcunning.bsky.social · 04/10/2026(That said, he may well have considered himself a Democrat, even if he was not a committed voter.) 051
