Jonny
@aploverplods.bsky.social
Librarian. Unionist. Reuben Sandwich Enthusiast.
I won't fight your stupid war.
I won't fight your stupid war.
Sometimes I just step back and remember that if you think of the US state as a homeowners association that facilitates multi-level marketing schemes with a huge military you can generally explain a lot of what happens.
February 11, 2026 at 2:53 PM
Sometimes I just step back and remember that if you think of the US state as a homeowners association that facilitates multi-level marketing schemes with a huge military you can generally explain a lot of what happens.
MAGA's "People's Capitalism" open.substack.com/pub/johnganz... "What if we did military Keynesianism but with the 'military' part directed at internal enemies and the 'Keynesian' part as blatant graft without any of the broader economic growth?"
MAGA's "People's Capitalism"
An Alliance of Bourgeoisie and Mob
open.substack.com
February 4, 2026 at 5:10 PM
MAGA's "People's Capitalism" open.substack.com/pub/johnganz... "What if we did military Keynesianism but with the 'military' part directed at internal enemies and the 'Keynesian' part as blatant graft without any of the broader economic growth?"
One of the kids started watching hockey again and I am struck by how every hockey coach gives cop. Is it just that they are a meathead in suit and tie? Is there something else I'm missing?
February 4, 2026 at 4:20 PM
One of the kids started watching hockey again and I am struck by how every hockey coach gives cop. Is it just that they are a meathead in suit and tie? Is there something else I'm missing?
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Something I've been trying to impart on people is that the ICE occupation in Minnesota is both an ethnic cleansing and an ideological terror campaign. It's clear that the second part has utterly failed; the community is not terrified. But ICE is now desperately trying to salvage the first part.
January 27, 2026 at 6:35 PM
Something I've been trying to impart on people is that the ICE occupation in Minnesota is both an ethnic cleansing and an ideological terror campaign. It's clear that the second part has utterly failed; the community is not terrified. But ICE is now desperately trying to salvage the first part.
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"The kind of man who wants to racially segregate a My Chemical Romance concert" lives in my head rent free now
This really gets to the core of what makes Vance such a detestable figure
January 22, 2026 at 8:26 PM
"The kind of man who wants to racially segregate a My Chemical Romance concert" lives in my head rent free now
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Minnesota is on the eve of a general strike in rejection of ICE. Hundreds of businesses are closing and 80+ solidarity actions are being held across the country. @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social talked to some of the strikers.
prospect.org/2026/01/22/i...
prospect.org/2026/01/22/i...
Minnesota On Strike - The American Prospect
Minnesota labor unions, faith leaders, community organizations, and businesses of all kinds are calling for what amounts to a statewide general strike tomorrow, in response to the ongoing federal immi...
prospect.org
January 22, 2026 at 2:38 PM
Minnesota is on the eve of a general strike in rejection of ICE. Hundreds of businesses are closing and 80+ solidarity actions are being held across the country. @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social talked to some of the strikers.
prospect.org/2026/01/22/i...
prospect.org/2026/01/22/i...
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Here is another org that can desperately use your help. If a non-citizen get kidnapped by ICE here, regardless of status, they are flying them out of the state as soon as the can. Legal representation can be the difference between seeing your family again, or, given conditions in TX, life and death.
I spoke to a friend on the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota board. They need financial donations to keep up with the heightened demand for their services: www.ilcm.org
ILCM is a nonprofit that provides free immigration legal representation to low-income immigrants and refugees in MN & ND
ILCM is a nonprofit that provides free immigration legal representation to low-income immigrants and refugees in MN & ND
Home - Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota
www.ilcm.org
January 20, 2026 at 4:03 PM
Here is another org that can desperately use your help. If a non-citizen get kidnapped by ICE here, regardless of status, they are flying them out of the state as soon as the can. Legal representation can be the difference between seeing your family again, or, given conditions in TX, life and death.
If you have connections to Minneapolis this is what people say.
A week ago I think I knew maybe 3 parents at my kid’s preschool, and now I know almost all of them, and have steeled myself to give my life for their kids and their teachers if I need to.
January 15, 2026 at 4:12 PM
If you have connections to Minneapolis this is what people say.
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I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand
You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen
*Everyone has stories like this*
You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen
*Everyone has stories like this*
January 13, 2026 at 6:06 PM
I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand
You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen
*Everyone has stories like this*
You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen
*Everyone has stories like this*
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Apparently ICE goons in multi-car caravans are circling Spanish immersion preschools in the city taunting and photographing the parents and neighbors who are patrolling the school perimeter to keep kids safe.
January 14, 2026 at 3:57 PM
Apparently ICE goons in multi-car caravans are circling Spanish immersion preschools in the city taunting and photographing the parents and neighbors who are patrolling the school perimeter to keep kids safe.
My family in Minneapolis is under armed fascist occupation. Don't really have anything to add except to note that.
January 12, 2026 at 4:24 PM
My family in Minneapolis is under armed fascist occupation. Don't really have anything to add except to note that.
youtu.be/CMX2lPum_pg?... Wait... this wasn't Arcade Fire?
Sum 41 - Fatlip
YouTube video by Sum41VEVO
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January 12, 2026 at 4:16 PM
youtu.be/CMX2lPum_pg?... Wait... this wasn't Arcade Fire?
The older I get the more I understand the religious impulse to believe in hell. It must provide great solace to believe that those who commit evil will suffer consequences for it.
January 9, 2026 at 3:02 PM
The older I get the more I understand the religious impulse to believe in hell. It must provide great solace to believe that those who commit evil will suffer consequences for it.
TV shows mentioned in Black Flag's "TV Party" ranked.
1. Saturday Night Live
2. Hill Street Blues
3. Fridays
4. Jeffersons
5. Monday Night Football
6. Dallas
7. That's Incredible
8. Vegas
1. Saturday Night Live
2. Hill Street Blues
3. Fridays
4. Jeffersons
5. Monday Night Football
6. Dallas
7. That's Incredible
8. Vegas
January 7, 2026 at 2:28 PM
TV shows mentioned in Black Flag's "TV Party" ranked.
1. Saturday Night Live
2. Hill Street Blues
3. Fridays
4. Jeffersons
5. Monday Night Football
6. Dallas
7. That's Incredible
8. Vegas
1. Saturday Night Live
2. Hill Street Blues
3. Fridays
4. Jeffersons
5. Monday Night Football
6. Dallas
7. That's Incredible
8. Vegas
Everyone! Congratulate @zealousidler.bsky.social for passing her test and becoming a licensed ham radio operator!
December 23, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Everyone! Congratulate @zealousidler.bsky.social for passing her test and becoming a licensed ham radio operator!
AI produces inhuman garbage and is an affront to most people's basic moral sensibilities. A lot of the stuff about the environment and labor--while being correct--elide this basic moral intuition. This pod about religion gets to this goodbye.substack.com/p/finding-go...
Time To Say Goodbye | Substack
A newsletter and podcast for all the good kids. Click to read Time To Say Goodbye, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
goodbye.substack.com
December 17, 2025 at 2:36 PM
AI produces inhuman garbage and is an affront to most people's basic moral sensibilities. A lot of the stuff about the environment and labor--while being correct--elide this basic moral intuition. This pod about religion gets to this goodbye.substack.com/p/finding-go...
Genuinely don't understand the love the CDs are getting from some music nerds. Yeah they are physical media and they sound better than streaming. It's just I spent the 90s lugging around giant books of them and never developed a reverence for the format.
December 12, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Genuinely don't understand the love the CDs are getting from some music nerds. Yeah they are physical media and they sound better than streaming. It's just I spent the 90s lugging around giant books of them and never developed a reverence for the format.
Hey! It's your tomorrow
(Right now)
Come on, it's everything
(Right now)
Catch your magic moment
Do it right here and now
It means everything
(Right now)
Come on, it's everything
(Right now)
Catch your magic moment
Do it right here and now
It means everything
December 12, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Hey! It's your tomorrow
(Right now)
Come on, it's everything
(Right now)
Catch your magic moment
Do it right here and now
It means everything
(Right now)
Come on, it's everything
(Right now)
Catch your magic moment
Do it right here and now
It means everything
The US spends more on healthcare--and gets worse results in terms of care delivered--than pretty much any other nation on earth. Market fundamentalism is literally killing us. Another example of why billionaires should not exist.
For all Universal HC/Single Payer/M4A advocates.
What do the biggest, expensive hospital chains do. Do they opt out and only serve the rich ?
Who in the USA gov runs the program?
R U ok with having to see a primary care doc before you can see a specialist ?
What do the biggest, expensive hospital chains do. Do they opt out and only serve the rich ?
Who in the USA gov runs the program?
R U ok with having to see a primary care doc before you can see a specialist ?
December 12, 2025 at 3:15 PM
The US spends more on healthcare--and gets worse results in terms of care delivered--than pretty much any other nation on earth. Market fundamentalism is literally killing us. Another example of why billionaires should not exist.
My profound insight is that people talking about at thing online doesn't mean they want to buy it.
“American Canto,” one of the most hyped political books of the year, flopped in bookstores.
Olivia Nuzzi’s ‘Canto’ Sells Just 1,200 Print Copies In First Week
“American Canto,” one of the most hyped political books of the year, flopped in bookstores.
www.forbes.com
December 11, 2025 at 4:25 PM
My profound insight is that people talking about at thing online doesn't mean they want to buy it.
I will be making my spicy Cincinnati-style chili with beans again at some point.
everyone is posting pictures of their delicious chili!!!! that’s it i’m making some this weekend!!
December 11, 2025 at 4:14 PM
I will be making my spicy Cincinnati-style chili with beans again at some point.
Watching Mighty Ducks with the kid. I want to create the origin story movie for the driver guy who mysteriously starts rocking a leather jacket after Gordon gets fired from the law firm that has him as a roadie present for the first Replacements gig at Jay's Longhorn
December 10, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Watching Mighty Ducks with the kid. I want to create the origin story movie for the driver guy who mysteriously starts rocking a leather jacket after Gordon gets fired from the law firm that has him as a roadie present for the first Replacements gig at Jay's Longhorn
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being smart is available to anyone, you just need to read and be willing to not understand at first
December 5, 2025 at 1:46 PM
being smart is available to anyone, you just need to read and be willing to not understand at first
"Remember all those cool thrash metal songs about acid rain in the 80s? What if we slashed all emissions standards and issued hockey jerseys and Jackson guitars to all the alienated young men? Teach them pentatonic guitar scales! New enviro dystopic thrash metal would abound!"
Sean Duffy on slashing fuel economy standards: "This rule will actually allow you to bring back the 1970s station wagon. Maybe a little wood paneling on the side. We can bring back choice to consumers."
December 4, 2025 at 7:45 PM
"Remember all those cool thrash metal songs about acid rain in the 80s? What if we slashed all emissions standards and issued hockey jerseys and Jackson guitars to all the alienated young men? Teach them pentatonic guitar scales! New enviro dystopic thrash metal would abound!"