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Historian of scientific racism. Here's how to find all my stuff: www.johnpjacksonjr.com

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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 5h
Not that it will make a bit of difference, but big-time sports are a boondoggle for cities. theconversation.com/cities-keep-...
Text reading: "In an analysis of the economic impacts of sports stadiums over four decades, through the early 2020s, researchers found little to no economic benefits for taxpayers or communities, including per capita income. Other research has concluded that effects on job growth have similarly been negligible."
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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Bit of interesting news from my town.
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Such a great opportunity. We are offering scholars the chance to spend a year at the Foreign Office through one of our Innovation Fellowships. The priority themes are outlined below. We offer up to £120k for the fellowship. Please help spread the word! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
The Academy and the FCDO invite applications for Fellowships in any of the following areas:
1. Applied History
2. Critical Infrastructure and European
Warfare
3. South Asia Geopolitics and Regional
Security
4. The UK-France Relationship in 2027 and
Beyond
5. UK National Security Strategy
Scheme opens date: 22 September 2026
Application Deadline: 18 November 2026,
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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
What kind of worms? Tell me, WHAT KIND OF WORMS? How can I become immortal if I'm eating the wrong kind of worms, you monster!!!
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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
statuskuo.substack.com/p/an-order-a...
A color picture of a taco. A line drawing of a chicken.
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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I've watched 16 of these, but only 1 in the top 10 (30 Rock). I have zero interest in watching the other 84. One of my goals is to be the sole remaining person on the planet to not watch Breaking Bad.
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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Authoritarianism is failing across the globe, not so much in the USA. November can't come soon enough. crookedtimber.org/2026/09/25/n...
crookedtimber.org
NY Times should look across the Hudson, not across the Atlantic — Crooked Timber
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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The fraud of "voter fraud." newrepublic.com/post/215840/...
newrepublic.com
DHS Witch Hunt Falls Apart as It Can’t Name a Single Noncitizen Voter
The Department of Homeland Security said it found 16,000 noncitizen voters in one state—but didn’t get a single name right.
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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Due Process is still a thing. A Constitutional thing, actually. theconversation.com/how-due-proc...
theconversation.com
How due process, not the First Amendment, got the White House ban on reporters blocked in court
A judge has sided with the three news organizations President Donald Trump barred from the White House – for now.
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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Having my kids grown and gone and my grandkids on the other side of the Atlantic, I'm only vaguely aware of Ms. Rachel other than the bigots hate her. She seems cool, however. www.jezebel.com/ms-rachels-s...
jezebel.com
Ms. Rachel’s SubwayTakes is Kind of My Superbowl
As a pro-puppet barista with a pigeon tattoo, I’m here for it. I’m here for all of it.
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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Shitty human remains unapologetically shitty. He will continue to be unapologetically shitty in prison for the next 15 years. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
nbcnews.com
Harvey Weinstein sentenced to 15 years on New York sex crime conviction
The former film producer pleaded not guilty and denies all allegations of nonconsensual sex.
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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Mike Rogers, who is running for Senate here in MI thinks that asking hospitals to tell patients how much stuff costs counts as lowering those costs. He also promises to take on Big Pharma in whose pocket he lives. What a joke. bridgemi.com/michigan-gov...
bridgemi.com
Could healthcare price transparency lower costs? Mike Rogers thinks so - Bridge Michigan
As healthcare costs grow ever higher, Michigan GOP US Senate candidate Mike Rogers argues that better consumer awareness of how much the services they need cost will help bring prices down.
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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
" I discovered that in the term that ended in 2025, the justices issued more substantive decisions on their emergency docket than in cases argued in open court. Experts told me this was likely the first time this has happened in the court’s modern history." www.propublica.org/article/supr...
propublica.org
Watch: The New Supreme Court
For likely the first time in modern history, the Supreme Court decided more cases in fast-tracked, secretive proceedings than in open court. We break down how a once-rare emergency process became the ...
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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I thought space operas were supposed to be fun. Instead the first space opera advocates genocide. What. The. Hell? readinggutenberg.bearblog.dev/ee-doc-smith...
readinggutenberg.bearblog.dev
E.E. "Doc" Smith and  Lee Hawkins Garby, The Skylark of Space, 1928
amazbuck-7a2c40 Skylark of Space was first published as a serial in Amazing Stories edited by Hugo Gernsbeck, for whom the Hugo Award is named. The book i...
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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It is so rare that I actually get excited to vote for someone. This is a time when I am.
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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Steven Pinker remains a hypocritical fraud pushing racism and sexism as "science." He's a despicable anti-intellectual buffoon. www.thenerve.news/p/steven-pin...
thenerve.news
From celebrity intellectual to anti-woke outlaw: how Steven Pinker lost his way
The pop psycholgist’s new book seems to betray a lurking fear of others’ criticism – about his Epstein links, his manosphere admirers and his discredited former field of study, writes Virginia Heffern...
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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
'But then, the point is not to “save money for Americans.” TrumpRx is built on coziness with Big Pharma, hucksterism, and hostility to the social contract. It’s a phony solution to a real problem, the latest in a long history of American healthcare scams.' www.thenation.com/article/poli...
thenation.com
Meet TrumpRx
A Big Pharma bait-and-switch.
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💙🪄 Keep Rising 🪄💙 @keeprising.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
♥️ epic animal rescue ♥️♥️♥️ grateful to @murrietafire ♥️🔥
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Jose A. Cañada @joseacanada.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Happy to announce a 3-year #postdoc opening in our research group on Aquatic #STS at the University of @oulu.fi Position is linked to the amazing SAFIRE interdisciplinary research programme. Get in touch if you have any question! Deadline 30.09.26. oulunyliopisto.varbi.com/what:job/job...
oulunyliopisto.varbi.com
Postdoctoral Researcher, Science and Technology Studies (STS) and aquatic restoration in the Nordic and Arctic regions
We are looking to hire highly motivated Postdoctoral Researcher to join the Department of Anthropology, in the History, Culture and Communications Unit at the Faculty of Humanities, the University of
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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"Kash Patel, a figurative pig fucker, welcomes actual pig fuckers into the FBI." Actual NYT headline that I just made up now.
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Pieter T. L. Beck @ptrbck.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A longread on why Cofnas is doing pseudoscience, by yours truly. Many thanks to @forbetterscience.bsky.social for hosting the text!
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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Those who had "ecstasy pills molded in the shape of Muammar Gaddafi" on their Bingo cards can come to the front desk and claim their winnings. open.substack.com/pub/boingboi...
open.substack.com
Cops seize 100,000 ecstasy pills molded in the shape of Muammar Gaddafi
Customs officers intercepted the shipment in Tripoli after a tip-off that a gang planned to move the drugs by sea.
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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I thought this was interesting: it argues that AI companies' warnings about "extinction" are not only overblown, but actually a tactic to solidify corporate power over smaller companies developing AI: bylinetimes.com/2026/09/15/b...
bylinetimes.com
Behind the AI ‘Extinction’ Power Bid: Soaring Costs Could Hit 10% of World GDP
AI firms are invoking unproven extinction warnings to justify restrictions on developments by their smaller rivals whilst seeking greater influence over regulation
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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
When Trump said he could shoot someone on 5th Ave. and his supporters would still back him, he was talking about Alito and Thomas, some of the scummiest scumbags to walk the planet. theconversation.com/why-the-supr...
theconversation.com
Why the Supreme Court blocked Trump and the Postal Service from restricting mail-in voting for the midterms
An election law scholar explains the president’s effort to dramatically limit mail voting ahead of the midterm elections – and why the court decided to block it.
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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
crookedtimber.org/2026/09/13/t...
But the US is not a serious country. Over the past decade, at least 40 per cent of US voters (including sustained majorities of white men, the dominant identity group) have shown themselves willing to vote for a corrupt and deranged clown, while another third of the population hasn’t even bothered to vote.
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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Not even the Roberts Court is shitty enough deny the stay in the USPS case, right? RIGHT? www.justsecurity.org/156963/usps-...
justsecurity.org
What’s Conspicuously Missing from the Government’s Supreme Court Reply Brief in the Mail Ballots Case
Marty Lederman on the Solicitor General's reply brief in the USPS mail-in ballot case before the Supreme Court.
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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Is it still bribery is he has no intention of paying? theconversation.com/how-anti-bri...
theconversation.com
How anti-bribery laws apply to Trump’s promise of $5,000 payments if Republicans keep control of Congress
Bribery involves offering money to a particular person, but Trump did not make his $5,000 offer to any single voter or set of voters.
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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
What is the connection between Mary Roberts Rinehart, mystery writer and World War I correspondent and Christopher Nolan? Read this and find out! Bonus: Agnes Moorhead and Vincent Price! readinggutenberg.bearblog.dev/mary-roberts...
readinggutenberg.bearblog.dev
Mary Roberts Rinehart, The Circular Staircase, 1908
Rinehart(1908)TheCircularStaircase_0000 The Circular Staircase is the first novel written by Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876-1958), who was often considered t...
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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Just in case you thought you had a crappy job, some poor slob has to fact-check Trump. www.factcheck.org/2026/09/fact...
factcheck.org
FactChecking Trump's Midterm Convention Speech - FactCheck.org
In a nearly two-hour speech at the first Republican midterm convention, President Donald Trump promised to pay Americans if Republicans won, and he repeatedly said communists could take over Congress ...
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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I don't understand the scenarios in which AI kills us all. How does this happen, exactly? Does it launch all the nukes? Does it release a bioweapon worse than smallpox? In short, what the hell is he talking about? xcancel.com/hilbertspaes...
xcancel.com
Jacob Coxon (@hilbertspaess)
I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving...
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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
www.snopes.com/fact-check/v...
snopes.com
Elon Musk's VoteSafe.org shares users' personal information. Here's how we know
Musk's America PAC funds the online voter registration hub.
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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The death cult of "pro-life." www.propublica.org/article/ecto...
propublica.org
Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
An excellent treatment about Trump trying to stop mail-in voting. www.justsecurity.org/156487/the-s...
justsecurity.org
The Simplest Way for the Supreme Court to Rule in the USPS Mail Ballots Case
Marty Lederman outlines the easiest and most straightforward way for SCOTUS to decide the USPS mail-in ballot case.
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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
@ellecordova.bsky.social is brilliant like the surface of the sun.
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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The libertarians should be celebrating this achievement of the free market as consumers consume listeria.
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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
College football. Not quite as corrupt as the Trump administration, but damn close. www.jezebel.com/does-college...
College football’s coaches, administrators, and broadcast partners are consistently revealing these days that college football is run by fundamentally unserious people who have proven they are not up to the task of properly running a multi-billion dollar sport. They are children playing with toys and demanding to be taken seriously when they royally fuck up in front of the entire world. It’s just one big cash grab, and no one running this sport has proven they care one iota more about the fans or players than the next dollar they see over the horizon. It’s insulting that they still try to keep up that charade in light of the now weekly indignities suffered by college football fans trying to argue that this sport is not degenerating into professional wrestling.
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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
What the fuck is wrong with these people? open.substack.com/pub/boingboi...
open.substack.com
The White House built five Trump-themed video games, and they're bleak
The official White House Arcade hosts a Tetris clone about deporting a "zombie horde" and a game where you play border czar Tom Homan.
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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
"But what you will never find, across decades of interviews and mountains of correspondence, is a single instance of Noam Chomsky admitting he was ever wrong about anything at all." I've never been a Chomsky fan because of his overt genocide denial. strangematters.coop/noam-chomsky...
strangematters.coop
Chomsky After Epstein - Strange Matters
Noam Chomsky – friend of Epstein, defender of dictatorships – was no model anti-imperialist. Can we do better?
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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
McConnell is alive. It isn't like the hospital is going to ignore their legal obligations to report a death that occurs in their care. Unless you are willing to entertain a VERY far-reaching conspiracy in which NO ONE betrays the cover up, which seems absurd. law.justia.com/codes/kentuc...
law.justia.com
2025 Kentucky Revised Statutes :: Chapter 72 - Coroners, inquests, and medical examinations :: 72.020 Duty of person, hospital, or institution finding or possessing dead body -- Duties of coroner, law...
Justia Free Databases of U.S. Laws, Codes & Statutes
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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
thank you lesbian tractor witch
image with swirling green background of the lesbian tractor witch it says: congratulations if you are seeing this you have been chosen by the lesbian tractor witch, she has removed all curses have a wonderful day
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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
aeon.co/essays/why-w...
aeon.co
Why Western democracy is ailing and how to fix it | Aeon Essays
Neoliberal policies have hollowed out democracies and spawned unchecked oligarchs. Grasping their structure points to a fix
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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Hey, Giant Corporation. How about I update MY terms of service, huh? How's does that feel? Stings, don't it?
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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Anti-trans bigots do not really care about girls' and womens' sports. If they did, they'd do something about this rather than push for leering adults to demand children show them their genitals. www.propublica.org/getinvolved/...
propublica.org
Help Us Investigate Abusive Coaches in Youth Sports
We’re continuing to report on abusive youth sports coaches and the gaps in the system that allow them to continue working with kids. If you have something to share on this topic, we want to hear from ...
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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Just got my royalty statement for my two books with NYU Press. The only important sentence: "Since your royalty balance is below the threshold, no payment is due at this time." I guess Tiny Tim goes another year without his operation.
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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Canada strikes back! Never corner a beaver! youtu.be/mE6VIfTBL0U?...
youtu.be
Every Canadian Right Now
YouTube video by Julie Nolke
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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
For a guy who supposedly "purged" the respectable right of antisemitism, William F. Buckley, Jr. sure exchanged a lot of cordial letters with one of the most notorious antisemites in the postwar US. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_...
en.wikipedia.org
Gerald L. K. Smith - Wikipedia
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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
It is simple racism. There is simply no defense for these shitty people. www.mediamatters.org/ben-shapiro/...
mediamatters.org
Ben Shapiro claims Abdul El-Sayed, Zohran Mamdani, Hasan Piker, and Cenk Uygur shouldn't be in the country
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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
MAGA racists are all mad that ICE rounded up a white man. Fuck them and fuck ICE. www.jezebel.com/milo-yiannop...
jezebel.com
It Only Took One Conservative Grifter Being Nabbed by ICE to Convince MAGA It Hates Deportation
Former Trump favorite Milo Yiannopoulos found himself arrested by ICE, and MAGA is very unsure how they're supposed to feel.
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Devang Mehta🌱🧬 @mehta-lab.com · 29/08/2026
I suspected this was the case, good to see it backed by data.
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Jay Joseph @jayjoseph22.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
NEW POST: “The IQ Hereditarian Ship Is Sinking (Along with the Race Science Ship)” IQ hereditarianism and “race science” are in the news these days. I took a close look at the body of IQ heritability research. What I found will surprise most people. jayjoseph22.substack.com/p/the-iq-her...
jayjoseph22.substack.com
The IQ Hereditarian Ship Is Sinking
(Along with the Race Science Ship)
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