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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 · 11h
A sexual predator and deeply corrupt? Dennis Hastert really does embody the modern GOP. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
thenation.com
The Picture of Dennis Hastert
The disgraced former congressman was a better representative of the GOP than the party would like to admit.
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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 14h
Today in No Shit Sherlock. www.justsecurity.org/159770/aucti...
In promising that he would pay every adult citizen of the United States a “dividend” of $5,000 if the Republican Party retains control of the Senate and House in the 2026 mid-term elections, President Donald Trump potentially has violated multiple federal criminal statutes that criminalize buying or coercing votes. He has done so, moreover, in his unofficial, political capacity, and thus cannot claim immunity under Trump v. United States if that promise was unlawful. Given the stakes for American democracy, Trump’s $5,000 promise deserves careful analysis, rather than being swiftly dismissed as just normal political speech.
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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 15h
Fuck Trump. Fuck ICE. Fuck their Republican enablers. projects.propublica.org/american-cit...
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Apparently the right-wing nuts are trying to resurrect Nixon. The guy who established the EPA, put in wage-and-price controls, and established relations with Communist China. But they don't care/know about that, they just love his corruption. digbysblog.net/2026/10/05/h...
digbysblog.net
He’s Still The One - Digby's Hullabaloo
WikiCommons I suppose a Richard Nixon revival was inevitable. After all, the 37th president was the modern model of the corrupt, abusive presidency that is currently being perfected by Donald Trump an...
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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I think the nation needs a Third Reconstruction. This might help get us there. emptywheel.net/2026/10/04/c...
emptywheel.net
Christopher Rufo Whines about Being Named as the Propagandist Who Rationalized Alleged Klan Act Violence - emptywheel
The lawsuit by Renee Good's family likens the mask Jonathan Ross wore the day he killed Renee Good to hooded Klan terrorism prohibited by the Klan Act.
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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
At least Tucker didn't say anything that would cost his employer nearly a billion dollars this time, so I bet he counts this as a win.
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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The nutjobs are calling each other nutjobs. Ya love to see it. www.mediamatters.org/candace-owen...
mediamatters.org
Podcast Wars: “Worthless” Candace Owens, “wicked and evil” Tucker Carlson, and “foreign spy” Ben Shapiro
Welcome to Media Matters’ regular debrief on the Podcast Wars. This week, Candace Owens and her continued “investigation” into Charlie Kirk’s assassination remained central in a number of vicious, per...
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Casey Schmitt @csschmitt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Hey historians! Check out this incredible CFP and please share!🗃️ atlanticexchanges.wm.edu/home-2/2027-...
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2027 Workshop Call for Proposals - Atlantic Exchanges Workshop
Atlantic Exchanges 2027 Slavery and the Commercial Machinery of Empires The Atlantic Exchanges Workshop invites proposals for its second edition, […]
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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Woke up angry. Staying angry. I'm angry. www.propublica.org/article/idah...
propublica.org
Four Kids in One Faith-Healing Family Died. Authorities Could Do Nothing.
An exemption in Idaho law shields faith-healing parents from criminal prosecution for conduct that otherwise would be charged as neglect. It also keeps police and social workers from stepping in to pr...
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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I want them gone. I just want them out of power and gone from our lives. They are repulsive monsters. www.jezebel.com/dr-oz-really...
jezebel.com
Dr. Oz Really Seemed to Enjoy a Joke About Consent From an Alleged Rapist!
Russell Brand took the stage with Oz at a MAHA conference on Tuesday
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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I guess it all depends on WITCH trial you get called for (get it? get it? Har!)
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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Wow. He does the bare minimum necessary to be kind of ethical. I guess there's a first for everything.
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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This point was established pretty well as far back as 1928 with Otto Klineberg's study of IQ testing in the Yakima Nation. The Yakima had no need for speed in finishing the tests and nothing could incentivize them to speed up. If there was no time limit, their IQ scores were just fine.
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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
Do not believe Elders when they speak of the "good old days." It is always a lie. It has always been a lie.
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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
George Carlin had a whole routine about "Flammable, inflammable, non-inflammable. Why are there three? Either the thing flams or it doesn't!"
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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
Voting has already begun in many states. Lots and lots of Republicans are running for office and want the election to go forward. Trump is utterly incapable of enacting any sort of "martial law" should he even try. I'm not saying relax, but let's keep it realistic.
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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
If Roy Batty ever visited New England, he'd talk like this.
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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
"Dominica is looking pretty threatening! Better safe than sorry!"
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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A classic on this theme. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/ruth-...
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More Work For Mother
In this classic work of women's history (winner of the 1984 Dexter Prize from the Society for the History of Technology), Ruth Schwartz Cowan shows how and w...
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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
Oh, that isn't realistic. Pinker never responds to critics. Every time he publishes a trash book (all of them), real experts dismantle everything in it. He ignores them. Anti-intellectualism at its finest.
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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
I'm American and loved those books as a kid. It was only as a teenager that someone told me about the allegorical nature of the books. I was surprised! No one ever said I was quick on the uptake, though.
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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"Not been thoroughly studied." Right, that century of trying to prove that link exists just isn't enough.
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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Just in case anyone still thinks Jensen was an apolitical researchers, a few years before this, Jensen published interviews and articles in neo-Nazi journals. archive.org/details/1973...
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1973 Jensen Benoist
Alain de Benoist and Arthur Jensen, “Ist Die Wahrheit Verwerflich? Ein Gespräch von Alain de Benoist Mit Arthur R. Jensen,” Neue Anthropologie, 1973, 24–25.Arthur Jensen, “Rasse Und Begabung,” Nation ...
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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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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"A molar is worth less than an incisor, sweetheart. It is all spelled out in the EULA agreement for your mouth that you signed without reading."
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💙🪄 Keep Rising 🪄💙 @keeprising.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
♥️ epic animal rescue ♥️♥️♥️ grateful to @murrietafire ♥️🔥
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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I got an AI-generated email about publicity for DARWINISM, DEMOCRACY, AND RACE also published in 2018. Twinsies!!
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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
When you really look at the long list of doofuses who've been awarded the Nobel prize, it makes a compelling case of eliminating the Nobel prize. At least for scientists who then become they know everything about everything because they are scientists.
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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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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
You cannot seriously claim you cannot differentiate between Nazi Germany and the United States.
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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"Don't work" as well as..... what? Dictatorships? Monarchies?
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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
I cannot possibly listen to Sheeran and Pink less than I already do since I don't think I've ever heard one of those songs. I'm lucky to live in a district where my Dem. Rep. and Senate candidates refuse AIPAC money already.
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