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John Poulos

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

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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 4h
This gets my vote for the best thing I've seen on the Internet today:
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John Poulos @jpoulos.bsky.social · 2h
Frosted Minis rule tho.
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John Poulos @jpoulos.bsky.social · 3h
The man is craven.
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John Poulos @jpoulos.bsky.social · 4h
Literally doesn't know how to play second base.
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John Poulos @jpoulos.bsky.social · 4h
Jazz Chisholm is an embarrassment
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John Poulos @jpoulos.bsky.social · 4h
The TV ad my processed-meat company is running about how safe my company is is raising questions already answered by my TV ad.
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John Poulos @jpoulos.bsky.social · 4h
We were all a little wacky in May of 2020
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 6h
Me when my parents rented DEEP IMPACT from Blockbuster
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 8h
Holy shit.
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Pissedoffpundit @pissedoffpundant.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
No shit🤔💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This should be so obvious that it doesn’t need to be said, but given what kind of weekend it’s been on here, apparently it does: If you don’t want old rapists running the world, in office, in the board room, making decisions for all of us get comfortable with “ruining” young rapists’ lives
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If you have $100 million to spend on ads saying you shouldn’t be taxed you’re not being taxed enough Google cofounder Sergey Brin has spent $102 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses fortune.com/article/how-...
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Google co-founder Sergey Brin has now spent $100 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses | Fortune
The state’s ultrawealthy, including Larry Page and Peter Thiel, have similarly donated to efforts opposing the wealth tax.
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John Poulos @jpoulos.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Biggest ground rule robbery in postseason history?
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John Poulos @jpoulos.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
That new Tom Cruise movie looks ugly AF. Everything about it is ugly. The set design, makeup and hair, even the photography and color grading are washed out, drab and ugly. I'm sure that's the filmmaker's point & it might be a great film. I love some ugly movies. But it's not going to draw crowds.
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John Poulos @jpoulos.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A few years ago I kinda liked a few of the guys on the Yankees. It made it harder to hate the team, which is my duty as a Red Sox fan. I'm glad I don't have that problem anymore.
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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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John Poulos @jpoulos.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It's on his bucket list.
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John Poulos @jpoulos.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I barely know her!
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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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John Poulos @jpoulos.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I can smell the must.
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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
Yes @rogrtheshrubber.shrubberies.org this is sour grapes (fknyankees) but the point stands.
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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
I always thought that ethnic cleansing included relocation of the ethnic group (or even, maybe, annihilation of language/culture without removal of the ethnic group? I may be wrong there.) while genocide required mass murder. Thanks for making me aware of this side of it.
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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
I don't care to hear the show but I'm looking forward to tiktoks from the crowd, or whatever.
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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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John Poulos @jpoulos.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Jesus Christ who cares
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John Poulos @jpoulos.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Selling your kids is expensive.
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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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John Poulos @jpoulos.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I've seen the trailer and it looks like the ugliest film i've seen in years. The sets, costume and makeup are all ugly, and the characters seem pretty nasty too. I like ugly, but it was clear to me from the trailer that people were not going to want to see it.
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John Poulos @jpoulos.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Look at this nonsense.
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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
We have been saved by Option C multiple times, tbh.
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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
I'm a big fan of the Gaddafi Method.
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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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John Poulos @jpoulos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Wait, a document?! This changes everything.
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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

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this is also not normal im sorry
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John Poulos @jpoulos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I could not agree more.
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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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