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John-Paul Pagano @johnpaulpagano.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

I don't want to blow wind into Right-wing sails, but why does the Obama Center look like a brutalist tooth with a cavity?

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John-Paul Pagano @johnpaulpagano.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Absolutely true, but it’s still worth pointing out that Trump would not likely have accepted this result, which makes him even more odious and dangerous.

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John-Paul Pagano @johnpaulpagano.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Dopamine Don is attending SCOTUS arguments like Frank Pentangeli’s brother. He will silently glare at the Justices, wearing a cord with two dangling red poms poms.

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John-Paul Pagano @johnpaulpagano.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

It’s also important not to get sidetracked. I understand the truth underneath the concern-trolling, which is 98% of the prompts to this debate, but if you’re anteing up this concern, you’ve helped obscure that an Antisemite tried to ram and shoot Jewish kids. That’s what’s fucking important.

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John-Paul Pagano @johnpaulpagano.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Ramming attack on Michigan synagogue. Rampager killed before taking victims. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

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Live Updates: Suspect Is Killed in Attack on Michigan Synagogue

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John-Paul Pagano @johnpaulpagano.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Regarding "'extreme' Judeopessimism": Michel de Montaigne, quoted in Norman Cohn's "Europe's Inner Demons"

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John-Paul Pagano @johnpaulpagano.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

If you want to understand the NYC housing market, this just went on sale for $1.99M.

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John-Paul Pagano @johnpaulpagano.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

I hope this disgusting bigot is severely punished. Obviously any hate crime is unacceptable, but when attackers focus on kids, a level of extravagant malice has been reached. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/n...

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Woman Charged With Assaulting 3 Muslims in Brooklyn, Including Girl, 12

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John-Paul Pagano @johnpaulpagano.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

It’s crazy that Chomsky exhibited such poor judgment viz Epstein. For decades he made balanced and cogent criticisms of America, Israel, NATO, Robert Faurisson, the Cambodian Genocide, Rwanda, the Balkan Wars, Antisemitism, 9/11, and countless other events and issues!

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John-Paul Pagano @johnpaulpagano.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Yes. To poach @adamserwer.bsky.social, the lack of training is the point.

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John-Paul Pagano @johnpaulpagano.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

The gun debate in this country was always stupid. One of its silly conceits was that an armed populace discourages tyranny. Well, tyranny is here. The federal government is killing us. And who, from the days of those debates, is using the guns? Not the patriots. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/us...

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Live Updates: Federal Agents Kill a 37-Year-Old Minneapolis Man

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John-Paul Pagano @johnpaulpagano.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

This is absolute correct, though it’s a far-Right racist paramilitary operating under the influence of paranoid mass delusion.

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John-Paul Pagano @johnpaulpagano.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

The dualistic shift in Jewish theodicy meant that not only God, but also His nemesis, the principle of evil incarnated in Satan, would be viewed—especially during times of duress—as a real-life historical actor. open.substack.com/pub/johnpaul...

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John-Paul Pagano @johnpaulpagano.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Conspiracism offers moral insight into the void where evil collides with meaninglessness. Read more: open.substack.com/pub/johnpaul...

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Understanding Conspiracism - Part I

A Genealogy of Symbols

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John-Paul Pagano @johnpaulpagano.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Conspiracism is a poor man’s cosmology. It distills the most potent elements of myth and religion to viral units that are biologically linked to the functioning of the human animal. From Part I of my series Understanding Conspiracism. open.substack.com/pub/johnpaul...

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Understanding Conspiracism - Part I

A Genealogy of Symbols

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John-Paul Pagano @johnpaulpagano.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

MAGA propagandists exploit post-textualism to launder the murder of Renee Good by ICE agent Jonathan Ross. johnpaulpagano.substack.com/p/post-textu...

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Post-Textualism and Social Decay

Texts no longer mean what they say.

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John-Paul Pagano @johnpaulpagano.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Opponents of IHRA virtually never do. The most charitable interpretation is they imagine a clean line separating criticism of Israel and hatred of Jews that simply doesn’t exist. But the motivating emotions underneath range from indifference to hostility to Israel and Jews.

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John-Paul Pagano @johnpaulpagano.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

After a conspicuous delay, Mamdani issues a statement about the Antisemitic protest of the synagogue in Queens by … denouncing support for a terrorist organization. Deft move: this way he avoids condemning both Antisemitism and anti-Zionism.

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John-Paul Pagano @johnpaulpagano.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

They know that: 1) A substantial fraction of Americans think anything less than immediate and obsequious compliance with law enforcement warrants being shot 2) A substantial fraction of Americans will interpret the video post-textually to justify the shooting, even when it clearly doesn’t

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John-Paul Pagano @johnpaulpagano.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Protection from being murdered by masked government agents is an American political value. Robust enforcement of immigration laws is a political priority. Bracketing them as “deeply American” is manufactured parity that signals the partisan compromise of CBS News.

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John-Paul Pagano @johnpaulpagano.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

One of the most wondrous features of extremism is the degree to which its perpetrators embody the chimera that is boiling in their imaginations.

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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

A masked, unidentified agent of the state shot an unarmed woman in the face. His fellow officers denied her emergency medical care. Then they fled an active crime scene, contaminating it before police even arrived to investigate. This is America.

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John-Paul Pagano @johnpaulpagano.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

This sort of paranoid and evidence-free declaration about "Zionists"--structurally indistinct from classic rhetorical Antisemitism--is the type of hate speech the IHRA definition attempts to capture, as opposed to "shutting down legitimate criticism" of Israel. www.middleeasteye.net/news/venezue...

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Venezuela’s acting president says US attack had 'Zionist undertones'

Delcy Rodriguez says those who 'promoted armed aggression' against Venezuela will pay

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John-Paul Pagano @johnpaulpagano.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Yes. The NYC site of Maduro's comeuppance will provide a measure of Mamdani's American Corbynism. So far as I know, he has emphasized Venezuela's "sovereignty" and that's good. But we'll see if Mamdani is able to acknowledge Maduro's illegitimacy.

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John-Paul Pagano @johnpaulpagano.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Someone do a wellness check on Abby Martin.

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John-Paul Pagano @johnpaulpagano.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

It sets new policy, beginning with the Mayor’s Office to Combat Antisemitism, that asserts an artificial distinction between Antisemitism and anti-Zionism that is exploitable by those who express Antisemitism in the idiom of anti-Zionism.

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John-Paul Pagano @johnpaulpagano.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

A self-indulgent reduction, eagerly reinforced by Mamdani’s cheerleaders, that opens the stable wide for Antisemitism, expressed in the idiom of anti-Zionism, to gush forth.

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John-Paul Pagano @johnpaulpagano.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Canary leaves coal mine, plays fanfare on trombone.

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John-Paul Pagano @johnpaulpagano.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Neither crime nor hate crimes against Jews, but education will be where Chairman Maodummy has the worst impact. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/n...

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Mamdani Reverses Call to End Mayoral Control of Public Schools

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John-Paul Pagano @johnpaulpagano.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

You could fill several slop buckets with legitimate criticism of Israel’s conduct in the Gaza war. There’s simply no reason to deny mass rape unless yours is a maximalist project of violent hatred.

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John-Paul Pagano @johnpaulpagano.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Bari Weiss' career is the fire temple sequence from Midsommar, except she sewed herself into the bear carcass and lit the match.

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John-Paul Pagano @johnpaulpagano.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Yes, "Mamdani is an Antisemite" is reductive, but using carefully curated symbols like the Satmar and shrieking Genocide Zadie to signal "Jews, sure, but cleansed of Israel," falls short of signaling solidarity in today's political climate.

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John-Paul Pagano @johnpaulpagano.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

This is true. Mamdani, for example, did this, though more subtly than most. I felt this way too, but look, if someone sheds blood saving Jews from massacre, then to my mind he deserves a shout out. And it’s worth remembering that Antisemitism is the religion we’re at war with.

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John-Paul Pagano @johnpaulpagano.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

California man yells, “F*ck the Jews!” and sprays 20 bullets at a home with Hanukkah decorations, day after 15 Hanukkah celebrants are gunned down in Australia.

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John-Paul Pagano @johnpaulpagano.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

It’s worth watching this video of a mass-murdering terrorist being disarmed by a fruit vendor. It exposes the silver lining that if this attack was state-sponsored by Iran, they aren’t sending their best. Or they are.

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John-Paul Pagano @johnpaulpagano.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Amoral coward green lights cooperation of low clergy and medieval magicians to kill children.

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John-Paul Pagano @johnpaulpagano.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Yes. Rather than tweet about it, as he has done today about trans rights and racism (Coast Guard), Mamdani dispatched a spokesperson to "discourage" Antisemitism while equally highlighting Jewish settlement activity. The synagogue wasn't hosting a West Bank auction! American Corbynism is here.

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John-Paul Pagano @johnpaulpagano.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

This is the main grounds on which Mamdani's commitment to Jewish safety will be tested. The protesters have the anti-Israel imprimatur of opposing settlement activity, but racist menace is immanent. This is a deliberate, strategic move to establish a permission structure. nypost.com/2025/11/20/u...

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Antisemitic mob descends on historic NYC synagogue — urging the ‘resistance’ to ‘take another settler out’

A hateful mob of anti-Israel protesters descended on a prominent New York City synagogue Wednesday night, chanting “globalize the intifada” and sinisterly urging the “resistance” to &#8…

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John-Paul Pagano @johnpaulpagano.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

I don’t know if it’s a setback for Tesla to lose the guy who oversaw the program to productize Elon Musk’s misshapen torso in the form of a truck.

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John-Paul Pagano @johnpaulpagano.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Zohran Mamdani is the dumbest guy in Zuccotti Park. Literally.

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John-Paul Pagano @johnpaulpagano.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

I guess the Jews don’t actually control the government.

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