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JohnMB

@thejohnmb.bsky.social
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Professional word wrangler and aspiring philtrum model. Neither brillig nor slithy.

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JohnMB @thejohnmb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Terrifying... www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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Is There Anything Kash Patel Won’t Do for Trump Before the Midterms?
“The president wants indictments. He wants people in handcuffs.”
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Exactly 3 months from today is the most important midterm election in our lifetime. Our opportunity to hold him accountable. Register to vote here: Iwillvote.com The stakes have never been higher. Show the world the majority of Americans are good, decent, honest people. #VoteBlue🗳️ #RejectMAGA 👎
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Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Private equity is buying America's hospitals and nursing homes. The playbook: pile on debt, sell the building, cut staff. The result, one landmark study found: patient deaths up about 11%. #news #information #privateequity
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
I can't believe I'm saying this and it's not a meme, but polls close at 7 in Illinois, so if you're in line to vote, STAY IN LINE. You can register TODAY with a piece of business mail and vote TODAY. Every vote counts. It's a sunnier, nicer day out than we all thought it would be! Get out there!
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
The Ellisons’ new Paramount/Warner Bros mega-media monopoly would never pass muster if America still had antitrust enforcers. So who can stop this? State attorneys general. Here's how. ⬇️ actionnetwork.org/letters/stop-para…
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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 01/02/2026
📣 #ILLINOIS Democrats need your help! --These are SWING districts (yes, even in a blue state) --Donations go directly to the candidates --Nothing donated via this page goes to me --You can opt out of sharing email/phone w/the campaigns Donate today! #Blue26 secure.actblue.com/donate/ilblu...
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Chip in!
Show your support with a contribution.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are a test for every MSM member with a platform. If you are not voicing your outrage at this blatant violation of the First Amendment, you are utterly discredited as a journalist.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 28/01/2026
If you work at DHS and know the identities of the CBP officers that murdered Alex Pretti, my Signal contact info is in my bio. I’ll keep you anonymous.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
MAGA politics is an ongoing triangulation between what crooks and bigots want and what the rest of us will tolerate. That's why you're seeing such a desperate pivot after Trump's thugs executed a man on a Minneapolis street. The MAGA pols don't oppose it – they just know it looks bad.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Filming the police is not obstruction. Filming the police is not resisting. Refusing to stop filming police is not resisting. Holding onto your phone is not resisting. Federal agents under this admin have zero respect for rights and liberties.
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JohnMB @thejohnmb.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
A handy reference for the next time someone calls you alarmist for making this now-obvious point: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Yes, It’s Fascism
Until recently, I thought it a term best avoided. But now, the resemblances are too many and too strong to deny.
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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Yeah, what protester would show up with a gun and ammunition? That's crazy. Only a lunatic lefty would bring a gun to a protest.
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JohnMB @thejohnmb.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Heartened to see that our top policy officials have taken stock of the many perils facing the country and concluded that the real threats are...Minnesota and Denmark.
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JohnMB @thejohnmb.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
This is horrifying. World order now hangs on the whims of a demented toddler. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Trump’s Letter to Norway Should Be the Last Straw
Will Republicans in Congress ever step in?
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 18/01/2026
We’re in a moral fight, and Democrats in Congress need to start acting like the opposition party on every 👏🏽 damn 👏🏽 thing 👏🏽 Opposition isn’t about polite press releases and sad cable hits. It’s about using every procedural tool available to slow, expose, and force accountability. 🧵
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
"Witnesses said a doctor was at the scene and tried to help the woman who had been shot, but the ICE agents refused to let the doctor in to help. Up to 15 minutes later, an ambulance arrived but was blocked by ICE vehicles that had occupied the street."
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Video shows Minneapolis ICE shooting that left woman dead
An ICE agent is claiming self-defense after shooting and killing a woman in Minneapolis. Eyewitnesses tell a different story.
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JohnMB @thejohnmb.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
The Atlantic doesn't always rise to the moment, but this is a pretty comprehensive indictment of the corrosive effects of Trumpism. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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MAGA’s Foundational Lie
The movement claims to stand with the police. Trump’s decision to pardon the cop-beaters of January 6 exposed his movement for what it is.
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JohnMB @thejohnmb.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
It occurs to me that no one makes the kind of fundamental, systemic changes that this admin has made unless they're planning to stick around and ensure it isn't all reversed by their successor. This seems at least mildly important.
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spooky scary renegade cut @renegadecut.com · 22/12/2025
60 minutes CECOT segment. Recorded through my browser. HD quality. Not phone. Spread it around. If you're press, it's yours. Go nuts. It's streaming on a Canadian website, but there is no telling for how long. www.filemail.com/d/wkcdttnacp...
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Banned 60 Minutes CECOT Segment - Filemail
Get it while it's hot.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Anyone who sees Bovino in Rogers Park, let us know. We’re doing ICE watch. Whistles out. Be on alert. Help protect our community.
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Rebecca Watson @skepchick.org · 15/12/2025
One way that the reaction to Rob Reiner's murder mirrors Charlie Kirk's is that the best way to eulogize each of them is to quote their words, and in both cases, doing so pisses off conservatives.
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JohnMB @thejohnmb.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
I realize the whole "flaunt/flout" distinction can be difficult for some, but et tu, @theatlantic.com? "...who are again demanding to know how some of his friends seem able to flaunt the rules while the rest of the country suffers."
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Congresswoman Chellie Pingree @pingree.house.gov · 15/11/2025
As the top Democrat overseeing the National Endowment for the Humanities, I’ve spent the past few months digging into the Administration’s unprecedented dismantling of the agency. What I found reveals a disturbing pattern of corruption.
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Fired Scholars and Big Grants to Favored Projects: Inside Trump’s N.E.H.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Head to a protest today. I can almost promise you will feel less hopeless. That's exactly what they don't want. There are more of us than there are of them.
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R. Souissi @rsouissivibes.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
If you're in DC, ICE has set up a checkpoint on F street and H street.
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 14/10/2025
To everyone who says, "But this won't matter": *MAKE IT MATTER.* You have that power! This is not inside baseball and your friends and neighbors will likely be appalled. And if they're *not* appalled, don't be cynical yourself. Take the lead, give the cue.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
New, from me: Trump's 3 step plan to create a military omniforce 1. Purge - those deemed disloyal 2. Merge - different parts of law enforcement/military 3. Surge - impose the omniforce on Dem cities; instigate unrest; assert dominance; silence dissent donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...
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Purge, Merge, and Surge
Trump is creating a omniforce of armed loyalists to establish his police state
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 10/10/2025
Federal workers: If you were impacted by the Trump administration's just-announced mass layoffs, our reporters are here to listen. We understand you may be taking a risk in contacting us, and we take your privacy seriously. Here's how to get in touch securely 👇
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How to Contact ProPublica or Send a Tip Securely — ProPublica
Our job is to hold people and institutions accountable. To do that, we need evidence.
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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
So cool that whenever someone asks the president, “did you eat the Lindbergh baby” he’s like, “no but I’d be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later”
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 05/10/2025
I don’t mean to overreact or anything, but this is the commander-in-chief telling military personnel that Democrats are a problem to be dealt with.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
One path to a successful career as a columnist is to be repeatedly wrong. Not to have unique takes on matters of opinion, but confident declarations proven wrong by events. If you can condescend to people proven right no matter how often you are wrong, the most prominent media would like to pay you.
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NPR @npr.org · 01/10/2025
Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere. Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself. Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj
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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
they're gonna turn every remaining facet of government interface into a manosphere podcast, ie, a dumb white guy telling everyone who ostensibly works for him that they're gross pieces of shit who deserve all the bad stuff in their lives because they jack off too much
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JohnMB @thejohnmb.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
I fear this philosophy is going to be the defining characteristic of Republican politics going forward. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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Charlie Kirk and the ‘Third Great Awakening’
MAGA is embracing the language of a rising Christian movement.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
If I have any credibility with you from 20 years of reporting on rightwing & fascist movements, please listen when I beg you not to celebrate Charlie Kirk getting shot. Leave aside morality: this isn’t a match in dry grass, it’s a torch. We do not want what this could ignite & we would not win.
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JohnMB @thejohnmb.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
What shade of magenta signifies that RFK is on the verge of spontaneously bursting into flames? Because I think we're close.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Gonna keep reposting this @timdickinson.bsky.social / me item: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Trump Thinks It Was 'Stupid' Not to Cash in Harder on His First Term. He's Making Up for It
Trump seeks crypto profits, foreign luxury gifts, as he wields the public office of the presidency for his private enrichment
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JohnMB @thejohnmb.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
If you're a journalist and find yourself uncritically writing the phrase "Trump's crime crackdown," please consider another career.
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TrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com · 23/08/2025
She was paying $479 a month for her ACA health insurance. Next year she will be paying *$2,800* a month for the same plan. And it's all because Republicans decided to end ACA subsidies. Expect to hear stories like this all across the country very soon. www.npr.org/sections/sho...
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She's bracing and saving to pay $2,800 a month for ACA health insurance next year
Raiding retirement savings. Pondering job changes or even marriage. People who buy their own health insurance are strategizing ahead of major price hikes in 2026. Open enrollment starts Nov. 1.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
In Ohio diner, Bolton still means Michael. But they do know this: if a man doesn’t love a woman enough to vote for Kamala Harris he deserves to be put in jail by Donald Trump
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
“Dormant cancer cells are like the embers left in an abandoned campfire, and respiratory viruses are like a strong wind that reignites the flames” Very accessible explainer of what some might consider a good reason to keep investing in vaccines for flu and Covid 🤦🏻‍♀️
nih.gov
Respiratory viruses may trigger dormant cancers
A study in mice showed how respiratory viruses could awaken dormant cancer cells.
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Every single Democrat needs to internalize this: ICE is a politicized operation that our tax dollars are paying for. If Dem leaders don’t use every single legislative tool in their disposal to rein this in (ie shutting down this govt over funding) they aren’t doing their jobs.
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JohnMB @thejohnmb.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
If the DNC can't message around the image of US troops *literally rolling out the red carpet for a war criminal*, what are we even doing?
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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
The racial & gender biases of our elite national media are on full display in how they covered our hard-working Black woman VP, @kamalaharris.com, vs. how they’re covering lazy white man VP JD Vance. It’s not an overstatement to say the racism & misogyny of the Beltway press is on full display.
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Elizabeth Warren @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
It’s no secret why the Trump administration went after Direct File, a free, easy-to-use tax filing program: it threatens the tax prep companies’ bottom line. Trump’s tax policy makes life richer for billionaires and harder for just about everyone else.
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JohnMB @thejohnmb.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Have the heavily armed 2A enthusiasts risen up against the tyrannical government yet?
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NPR @npr.org · 03/08/2025
When public media disappears, so do the stories that bring us together. With federal funding eliminated, millions may lose their last trusted source of news and connection. If that matters to you, now’s the time to act. Donate: n.pr/458sOhq
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