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Jon Pennington @jonpennington.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

"Get in, losers. We're going to the terrorist social media platform."

The "get in, losers" photo from Mean Girls of Regina George (Rachel McAdams), Gretchen Wieners (Lacy Chabert), and Karen Smith (Amanda Seyfreid) in an open silver convertible

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Jon Pennington @jonpennington.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

God must be getting into Depeche Mode lately.

Monochromatic yellow square with black trim & with text: Depeche Mode, Blasphemous Rumors (extended Support mix)

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Jon Pennington @jonpennington.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Why it's as brilliant as Homer Simpson the horse whisperer!

Still from a Simpsons TV episode depicting Homer Simpson in a wide-brimmed hat & white polo shirt whispering into a white horse's ear. The caption reads, "When the race starts, run really fast."

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Jon Pennington @jonpennington.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Stanley was actually channeling his former mentor as a photographer, Diane Arbus.

Diane Arbus photo titled Identical Twins, Roselle, N.J., 1966. The photo depicts two young twin girls, both with black dresses with white collars and cuffs. They wear identical headbands and stand next to each other shoulder to shoulder like the Grady Twins in The Shining.

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Jon Pennington @jonpennington.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Like this meme but for originalism...

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Jon Pennington @jonpennington.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

This saying literally comes from a 1960s satirical comic strip about a stupid, tyrannical king ruling over a kingdom full of idiot subjects.

Cover of The Wizard of ID #4, Remember the Golden Rule!

A peasant says, "What's that?" referring to "the golden rule." Another peasant says, "Whoever has the gold, makes the rules!"

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Jon Pennington @jonpennington.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Here's Joshua Haldeman dressed as a "soothsayer" in a publicity stunt claiming that Social Credit will win the 1947 elections in Saskatchewan. The symbol in the photo is a "sun cross," a symbol then associated with the Norwegian pro-fascist government of Vidkun Quisling. /12

Elon Musk's fascist granddad, Joshua N. Haldeman, in a publicity stunt that depicts him with a fake turban and staring into a crystal ball. There is a pennant below him with a Nazi sun cross symbol and the words Social Credit, partially cut off by the photo. A caption under the photo says, "I predict a Social Credit victory." The headline below the caption says, "Soothsayer Haldeman."

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Jon Pennington @jonpennington.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

I see your banger and I raise you another banger.

Tweet by IRA leader Gerry Adams: This house is like Santa's Grotto. Takes half an hour to switch off fairy lights and assorted Yule illuminations. Feel like a grinch now.

Tweet by Eddie Izzard's Beret: @GerryAdamsSF Surely you know someone who can fit a timer.

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Jon Pennington @jonpennington.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

This woman from the crowd in Ned Braden's striptease scene was supposedly the mother of one of my high school English teachers. I was told she was reacting to something completely different than the actual striptease.

Still photo of older woman with green jacket and thick cat's eye glasses taken from the movie Slapshot

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Jon Pennington @jonpennington.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

The poster doesn't even try to link the Charlottesville Unite the Right rally with Confederate statues. The poster art is taken from old Soviet poster art for the Leninist youth organization Komsomol. They're clearly reappropriating vanguardist imagery for the far right.

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Jon Pennington @jonpennington.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

In the run-up to the election, energy prices had actually gone down 5%, when compared to previous year.

Bar chart of 12-month percentage change, Consumer Price Index, selected categories, October 2024, not seasonally adjusted. From left to right, "All items" increased by about 2.5%, "Food" increased by about 2%, "Energy" decreased by about 5%, and "All items less food and energy" increased by about 3.5%.

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Jon Pennington @jonpennington.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I did a graph of total apprehensions by Border Patrol at the southern border from FY1960 to FY2024. There was a dip in 2020 due to COVID, but a huge spike in 2022-3. Biden reduced apprehensions 25% in FY2024 so that apprehensions were still high but lower than the total in 1986 or 2000

Line graph of Total Apprehensions of Migrants by Border Patrol at U.S.-Mexico Border by Fiscal Year with peaks in total apprehensions at 1986, 2000, and 2022.

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Jon Pennington @jonpennington.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

How do you explain that there were more Border Patrol encounters with migrants crossing the border in 2022 when Democrats historically overperformed, but fewer Border Patrol encounters in 2024 when Dems lost? Border Patrol interceptions of migrants in Oct. 2024 were ~25% of the level in Oct. 2022.

Line graph titled "Encounters with migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border peaked in December 2023 but have plummeted since then." The graph shows a spike in migrant encounters between 2021 and 2023, then a sharp decrease in 2024.

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Jon Pennington @jonpennington.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

This graph uses data I got from Google Trends. Google Trends has an index from 0-100 that measures relative volume of searches over time. Searches for "what is mass deportation" peaked the day after Election Day & searches for "what is a tariff" and "what is inflation" peaked 2 days after.

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Jon Pennington @jonpennington.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

This is a very good sign for Harris in Pennsylvania. I grew up in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania when it used to be a lot redder. A shift like this in Cumberland County is a big deal! And this hasn't even factored in the mail-in vote, which is likely to skew Democratic.

Screen shot of Cumberland County Pennsylvania, Democratic vs. Republican vote totals.

Estimated 44.5% counted

2020 Election: 44% Dem, 54% GOP
2024 Election: 53% Dem, 46% GOP

Margin swings from R +11 to D+6. A shift of D +17

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Jon Pennington @jonpennington.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #207,731!

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Jon Pennington @jonpennington.bsky.social · 17/08/2024

Time to lay off the edibles, Maureen.

New York Times Opinion column by Maureen Dowd

The Dems Are Delighted. But a Coup Is Still a Coup.

August 17, 2024

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Jon Pennington @jonpennington.bsky.social · 17/08/2024

Here's an infographic done by Jane Addams at the turn of the century, who was also a sociologist. The white men who dominated the qualitative "Chicago school" of urban ethnography used to mock Addams' infographics for being rooted in a feminine fear of doing the dirty work of ethnography.

Colorful infographic from the turn of the 20th century done by pioneering sociologist and founder of Hull House, Jane Addams

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Jon Pennington @jonpennington.bsky.social · 07/08/2024

Here's a tweet of what Walz purchased at the Electric Fetus, a record store here in Minneapolis. "Could this be any more Dad rock? And the answer is none, there is none more Dad rock."