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John Poulos

@jpoulos.bsky.social
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Leftist. Cat dad. Very tired.

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Keynote Speaker at the Annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in March, folks.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 06/09/2026
We remember Botham Jean. It’s been 6 years to this day when he was killed while sitting on his couch eating ice cream.
A picture of Botham Jean in a suit and tie
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
There is a reason civilized countries don’t carry out capital punishment and most legitimate medical professionals refuse to participate in lethal injections.
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.
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John Poulos @jpoulos.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A three-game series is too short for baseball. Cut back to 156 games and make the postseason comfortable for a 30-team (soon to be 32-team) league.
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John Poulos @jpoulos.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This really should be the official image for the "Yep, that's me..." meme.
Senator Katie Britt, in a hearing, looking stunned as her colleague dog-walked himself trying to gotcha Jack Smith.
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John Poulos @jpoulos.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Dublin's gonna be lit y'all
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pretty clear to me there’s a very good case against this man for mass murder, and I’m saying that in as measured a fashion as I can. He’s order the killing of 234 people under no plausible war or legal justification. I am skeptical he will ever face legal accountability for til his but he should.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
realizing the cliff ended and you’re running mid air
Katie Britt looking astonished by how bad questioning went
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John Poulos @jpoulos.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Sites like Kalshi say their users make "trades", not "bets". That says more about the legit stock market than kalshi, tbh. Our whole economy is driven by speculative markets (plus, of course, the sweat of the workers).
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John Poulos @jpoulos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Screw that. A Salvadoran prison. No trial.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The funniest thing about the Schmitt rake stomp is that if it'd been a Dem we'd have a week of think pieces about how Dems lack of hoops literacy was alienating them from real America.
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
"Do you bet on sports games regularly?" needs to be a mandatory first date question for you single ladies out here.
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
@ddeaen

iphones ruined an entire generation's tech literacy because i regularly see 14+ year olds asking how to make a desktop shortcut or duplicate a File

@inkballpro

i was literally figuring out virtual machines and basic linux at like 6 lol

@ddeaen

this is also not normal im sorry
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erin alyce @herooine.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
well well well
the John Daly meme of him staring at tiger woods on a golf course and smoking a cigar. The text over tiger woods says "1-2 Rams" the text over John Daly says "1-2 Packers"
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm…
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John Poulos @jpoulos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When do we get an HP Lovecraft biopic starring Ben Affleck?
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026
lol if the conservatives want to take away my ADHD medication, I refuse to be held responsible for all the incredibly dumb things that will happen next
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Cage @ridiculouscage.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"why would I deceive you?"
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I bet insurance companies are thrilled with the Trump administration‘s message to policyholders that they need to file claims on every policy they have or they might risk losing it.
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John Poulos @jpoulos.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It always bugged me that the Tauntaun froze to death before the humans. They're presumably native to Hoth, right?
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John Poulos @jpoulos.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This hurts.
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ceej @ceej.online · 24/09/2026
impeach them all. fuck em. why should they get to fly around on our dime and hurt people? “they’ll never actually removed from office” who gives a shit? I want them miserable every day for the rest of the term. I hope they have nightmares. air their dirty laundry. make em sweat
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
SHACKLE HIM
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John Poulos @jpoulos.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Desi Lyden called POTUS a "thirsty attention slut" on the Daily Show. 🤣 I propose a General Troll Strike, where every media outlet actively tries to antagonize the president.
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Erika Ishii @erikaishii.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Pray they don’t alter it any further…
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Blue Oleta @blue-oleta.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 20/09/2026
things could be worse. at least we're not de facto ruled by a sex cult of guys who worship the computer and think its going to make them immortal if they feed enough poor people to it
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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Alex Karp of Palantir says the AI industry must be nationalized to protect it from lawsuits if it accidentally destroys the world. More likely, he sees the bubble about to burst and he wants to be bought out with our tax dollars before that happens.
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John Poulos @jpoulos.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
We're redirecting NASA to finally solve the question of where do the turtles end, or do they go all the way down?
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John Poulos @jpoulos.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
JFC 😳
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John Poulos @jpoulos.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Holy crap pca
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John Poulos @jpoulos.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Why is Blake Shelton so judgemental of his neighbors?
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DrArchivalGenomics @ehekkala.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
It might be hard for young people to know where we were before the Endangered Soecies Act (ESA) but we would have no whales, turtles, eagles, pandas, tigers, wolves etc without it. 🧪🌏 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/c...
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Trump Administration Moves to Gut a Core Endangered Species Protection
An internal memo reinterprets the law so that only the intentional killing of animals, not collateral harm, is illegal.
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John Poulos @jpoulos.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Someone should go to jail for this McConnell bullshit. We saw it with Feinstein a couple of years ago. It's abuse. And it's unfair to the country.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A minor detail is missing from the headline.
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John Poulos @jpoulos.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Does Will Shortz get a kickback from Nabisco for plugging Oreo in what feels like every third crossword puzzle?
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John Poulos @jpoulos.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Someone should go to jail for this McConnell bullshit. We saw it with Feinstein a couple of years ago. It's abuse. And it's unfair to the country.
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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
She’s an Emmy winner!!!
@katiedippold tweet:

TBT to Halloween when I dressed as the babadook but my friend's house had more of a grown ups drinking wine vibe

(Image of Katie in full babadook costume and makeup surrounded by people in casual clothes)
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
reporters werent “barred” from recording, the powerful people they are covering asked them not to record and they immediately complied and hid whats happening from their audience
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Norm Ornstein @normornstein.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Remind them that the statute of limitations will not run out before 2029
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John Poulos @jpoulos.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
My part of the state appears to be having an outbreak of some sort of gnats, or something. I thought they were fruitflies but they're not. My friend 3 towns away has them. Her sister too, in her $3mil house 2 towns away from there. I blame climate change. More specifically, I blame this fckn guy:
A still from C-SPAN. Senator James Inhofe holds a snowball on the US Senate floor in order to mock the concept of what was then called "global warming".
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John Poulos @jpoulos.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Did 60 Minutes really go with here's a guide to the Dutch indie comedy scene? Big things keep falling down.
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John Poulos @jpoulos.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
When you think about it Data is a pretty terrible name for a sentient machine. Idle tech speak could lead to some terrible accidents.
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John Poulos @jpoulos.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This was the end for me. After 40 years of voting Democrat, I won't do it again unless they nominate an actual lefty. This guy has to go.
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John Poulos @jpoulos.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This guy is the most punchable of them all. More than Stephen Miller even.
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Suzen @rebel-librarian.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Weijia Jiang & Trump chatting it up at the White House Correspondents dinner. That’s it. That’s my entire post.
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John Poulos @jpoulos.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Dammit, sports drink company, all IVs are Liquid.
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