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John Petty

@johnpetty.bsky.social
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Proud liberal living in regressive Texas. Professor of Film at Dallas College. Lifelong collector of comic books, original art, books, movie posters, pocket watches, coins and whatever else seems interesting. Living with dogs, cats, and Judy. Ex X-er.

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John Petty @johnpetty.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Yeah, we'll see. The FBI doesn't exactly have a great track record when it comes to identifying the shooter. This could all just be "Oopsie #3."
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John Petty @johnpetty.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
So all those who are praising and sanctifying Kirk for his commitment to "Free speech" are now threatening and punishing others for exercising that same right? Typical - hypocritical - MAGAt response.
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John Petty @johnpetty.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
So all those that are praising and sanctifying Kirk for his commitment to "Free speech" are memorializing him by denying that same right to others? Typical hypocritical MAGAt response.
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John Petty @johnpetty.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
It seems that cowardice, this time on the part of the Smithsonian, is contagious. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/a...
nytimes.com
Amy Sherald Cancels Her Smithsonian Show, Citing Censorship
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John Petty @johnpetty.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Finally, a pro-Trump message I can get behind. But please don't share this widely. Donald would hate that. youtu.be/Afetnw70S04?...
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The PSA contains synthetic media
YouTube video by South Park Studios
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John Petty @johnpetty.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
The blood of 50+ people, including children, in Texas is fully on the hands of Elon Musk and Donald Trump, and we should never let them forget it. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/u...
nytimes.com
As Floods Hit, Key Roles Were Vacant at Weather Service Offices in Texas
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John Petty @johnpetty.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
This is truly disturbing. If AI is now outputting its own music, how long will it be before most, or all, of creative content is developed algorithmically? We need to oppose this now if we value art at all. www.wired.com/story/from-s...
wired.com
From Sensual Butt Songs to Santa’s Alleged Coke Habit: AI Slop Music Is Getting Harder to Avoid
Even listeners who hate the idea of AI music are getting served tracks like “Taste My Ass” and “I Caught Santa Claus Sniffing Cocaine” on Spotify and other streamers.
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John Petty @johnpetty.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
And this is what happens when your country is run by a bunch of ignorant idiots. bigthink.com/starts-with-...
bigthink.com
American science to soon face its largest brain drain in history
Over the first half of 2025, the USA has cut science as never before. This disaster for American science is a gift to the rest of the world.
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John Petty @johnpetty.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Auschwitz had showers, too, and look how that turned out.
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John Petty @johnpetty.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Brain Worm Bobby is going to go down as one of the most notorious mass killers of the 21st Century, and the spineless Republicans who supported him will be entirely to blame.
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John Petty @johnpetty.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
This is a great article about TACO Trump's malignant narcissism and how that mental illness drives everything he does, specifically his recent unprovoked and illegal attack on Iran. It's an insightful look at our most cognitively deranged president. www.salon.com/2025/06/22/w...
salon.com
With strikes on Iran, Trump has chosen a path of insanity
It's time to ask: Is a mental condition driving his foreign policy?
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John Petty @johnpetty.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Leave it to Christo-Fascist Greg Abbott...
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John Petty @johnpetty.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Great. So now, thanks to the TACO-in-Chief, we can all start looking over our shoulders for the terrorist attacks that are sure to come as reprisals for bombing Iran (for which we are at fault). And what, exactly, was the point?
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John Petty @johnpetty.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Isn't that an intentional distress signal, like flying the flag upside down? Is he begging to be rescued?
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John Petty @johnpetty.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
I'm glad someone from the Reich-wing finally gets the point.
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John Petty @johnpetty.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
It's very simple: Johnson is a lying sack of sh*t, an embarrassment to this country and to the "religion" he claims to practice.
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John Petty @johnpetty.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Go, Canada! Shoe the rest of the world how this loathsome felon deserves to be treated!
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John Petty @johnpetty.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
It's not a distraction, it's another step towards the imposition of a police state and the creation of an authoritarian/fascist government. Don't minimize this by calling it a "distraction;" it's much more serious than that and we can't lose sight of that fact. Trump wants power, no matter the cost.
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John Petty @johnpetty.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
What a shock. A Democratic, Hispanic senator roughed up by TACO Trump's Gestapo for daring to question Kristi "Puppy Killer" Noem. Just imagine the Reich-wing outrage of those RepubliKKKans who childishly heckled Biden during his SOTU speech (MTG) were treated this way.Not a good look, brown shirts.
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John Petty @johnpetty.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
I prefer the terms "kidnapping" or "abducting."
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John Petty @johnpetty.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
I use that one all the time.
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John Petty @johnpetty.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
I find this hard to take seriously from Vance, the guy who knowingly and deliberately spread vicious, hateful lies about Haitians eating pets in Springfield, OH.
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John Petty @johnpetty.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
It's time to check in with Star Wars Kid again...
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John Petty @johnpetty.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Practicing his slap-fighting for the day he gets involved in a life-or-death brawl with a 12-year-old girl. What a man.
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John Petty @johnpetty.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Musk took himself out of the role of "private citizen" when he joined the administration to head up DOGE. not to mention his acceptance of massive government contracts. He is entirely bound up in the fabric of the current fascist regime, and deserves whatever he gets.
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John Petty @johnpetty.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
I hope they're including Marco Rubio and Kristi "Puppy Killer" Noem in this suit. For a party that regularly brags about how much they care about children, RepubliKKKans constantly prove otherwise by their actions.
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John Petty @johnpetty.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
The authoritarian regime advances. This is one small step away from a loyalty oath in which government employees will have to swear fealty not to the country, not to the Constitution, but to TACO Trump himself. Democracy is doomed. www.newsweek.com/trump-admini...
newsweek.com
New federal employees must now write essays praising Trump's policies
A new "merit hiring plan" from the Office of Personnel Management asks candidates how they will advance Trump's policy agenda.
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John Petty @johnpetty.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
But it's OK to starve it, to rape it, and to arbitrarily dismantle its government in order to eliminate all the federal entities investigating him? All Elon wants is to line his own pockets, nothing else. He couldn't care less about America.
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John Petty @johnpetty.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
What would the Ketamine Kid know about "the 80% in the middle?" He was born a rich, privileged, entitled white child, and has become the leader of the oligarch class. He knows as much about "the 80% in the middle" as I know about life on Neptune.
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John Petty @johnpetty.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Exactly.
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John Petty @johnpetty.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Here's a suggestion: When someone bans a book, go right out, get a copy, and read it to find out what they want to hide from you. getpocket.com/explore/item...
getpocket.com
10 Controversial Classic Books That Have Been Banned
From the obscene ‘Ulysses’ to the satanic ‘Harry Potter’.
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John Petty @johnpetty.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
I agree with the Buffalo victims that the problem isn't so much that people post bad things, but that social media algorithms spread those bad things far beyond their natural reach. In this sense, even if the platform isn't responsible for the initial content, they are responsible for spreading it.
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John Petty @johnpetty.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
An entirely ignorant and uneducated individual in charge of American education. The kakistocracy in action in pursuit of idiocracy.
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John Petty @johnpetty.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
TRAITOROUS murderous worthless clown. Let's keep this going.
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John Petty @johnpetty.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
I prefer TACO Trump, Diaper Don, 34 Felonies, or Dementia Don. Much more descriptive and accurate.
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John Petty @johnpetty.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
The answer to this is to freeze all of Musk's assets, suspend his passport, and file the charges - and any more that can be supported - that you reference. It can be done, but it requires the courage and the will to do it, with reps who are more concerned with their country than with reelection.
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John Petty @johnpetty.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
With any luck, Joni will take the lead and show is all how it's done. #SoonerRatherThanLater
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John Petty @johnpetty.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
This sounds like a pitch for a bad SyFy Channel movie.
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John Petty @johnpetty.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Once again proving that TACO Trump isn't very bright.
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John Petty @johnpetty.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Why is anyone surprised? Trump continues to show himself as a low-IQ individual with his inability to speak coherently, his limited vocabulary, his lack of understanding of basic concepts like tariffs, and more. He succeeds because he appeals to a base with the same - or even lower - IQ.
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John Petty @johnpetty.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Sure. He's all for discrimination based on sex and race until it's inevitably turned against him. Then watch him cry and moan like a 2-year-old who doesn't get their binky and demand his "rights.".
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John Petty @johnpetty.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
So where are all the proud Second Amendment supporters protecting us all against these bad guys with guns?
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John Petty @johnpetty.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Exactly, although I'm not sure the intent is to dilute the word as much as to redefine it so that they can gleefully engage in the same anti-Semitism they've always been accustomed to.
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John Petty @johnpetty.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
It's absolutely adorable when Miss Lindsey pretends to have a spine.
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John Petty @johnpetty.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
"Anti-Semitic" seems to be the new catch-phrase for anything this administration doesn't like, replacing the former "communist" in the RepubliKKKan lexicon. It's hard to take such criticism seriously, though, when the president sits down with known Nazis and praises "fine people" at a Nazi protest.
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John Petty @johnpetty.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
This report of terrifying and deserves to be much more widely circulated as RepubliKKKans become more adept at successfully blocking the votes of POC and others suspected of voting for Democrats. They must be stopped, and elections returned to the people! hartmannreport.com/p/trump-lost...
hartmannreport.com
TRUMP LOST. Vote Suppression Won.
Here are the numbers from investigative reporter Greg Palast...
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John Petty @johnpetty.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Clearly, the RepubliKKKans are flying in future voters who will support their racist policies.
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John Petty @johnpetty.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
What does Trump care about National Security? He appointed a Russian asset as the Director of National Intelligence, a FOX News talking head who carries out classified meetings on unsecured channels, and he himself has shared classified information with random people. He's an intelligence nightmare.
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John Petty @johnpetty.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
And she has the kneepads to prove it!
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John Petty @johnpetty.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
He's turning the US over to Russia? He's relocating the White House to Mars? He's declaring immigrant children an acceptable food source for the wealthy? He's announcing that the Papal Conclave was rigged, and that he's appointing himself Pope Big Mac I? I await with bated breath.
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