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Gaza is a Genocide, fullstop.
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Gaza is a Genocide, fullstop.
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The Discomfort of Truth: Why the World Excuses Genocide in Palestine
JJ Hastings It is a damning indictment of the global conscience that, once again, the machinery of mass atrocity grinds forward, and the default international posture is not outrage or intervention…
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Spent 30 days writing a piece that will now likely get me put on one of Trump's gulag hit lists.
From Palestine to Rwanda to Armenia and beyond, the acknowledgement of genocide is often downplayed for the predictable comfort of meticulously crafted denial, and the financial comfort of control.
From Palestine to Rwanda to Armenia and beyond, the acknowledgement of genocide is often downplayed for the predictable comfort of meticulously crafted denial, and the financial comfort of control.
Sometimes all you can do is watch Earth Girls Are Easy for the 917th time.
December 23, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Sometimes all you can do is watch Earth Girls Are Easy for the 917th time.
Poor kids are cheaper; desperate kids are pliable.
They fill prisons, enlistment quotas, warehouses, and battlefields.
They become the disposable labor and war fodder that keeps the global elite comfortable and insulated from the consequences of their own policies.
An Essay.
They fill prisons, enlistment quotas, warehouses, and battlefields.
They become the disposable labor and war fodder that keeps the global elite comfortable and insulated from the consequences of their own policies.
An Essay.
P×ssies Don’t Pop for Authoritarians
You Can’t Breed Your Way Out of a Dumpster Fire. There is something revealing about a government that wants more babies but less healthcare, more births but fewer protections, more children but no …
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December 22, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Poor kids are cheaper; desperate kids are pliable.
They fill prisons, enlistment quotas, warehouses, and battlefields.
They become the disposable labor and war fodder that keeps the global elite comfortable and insulated from the consequences of their own policies.
An Essay.
They fill prisons, enlistment quotas, warehouses, and battlefields.
They become the disposable labor and war fodder that keeps the global elite comfortable and insulated from the consequences of their own policies.
An Essay.
Ready to give up on Bluesky. My first weekend here, got called "socialist cunt", added to over 100 blocks lists by some angry dude.
This account has never been successful; gets 0 engagement. Logging in here puts me in a depressed state.
I stay for @johncusack.bsky.social posts, that's it.
This account has never been successful; gets 0 engagement. Logging in here puts me in a depressed state.
I stay for @johncusack.bsky.social posts, that's it.
December 21, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Ready to give up on Bluesky. My first weekend here, got called "socialist cunt", added to over 100 blocks lists by some angry dude.
This account has never been successful; gets 0 engagement. Logging in here puts me in a depressed state.
I stay for @johncusack.bsky.social posts, that's it.
This account has never been successful; gets 0 engagement. Logging in here puts me in a depressed state.
I stay for @johncusack.bsky.social posts, that's it.
@laurafine4congress.bsky.social What's good!? Are you "distancing" yourself or not? The people of Illinois deserve transparency and clarity, period.
An Intercept reporter was turned away in the building’s front lobby. “The Intercept should not be here at all,” said a building security guard, relaying a message from fundraiser organizers.
AIPAC Head Hosts Fundraiser for House Candidate Who Swears AIPAC Isn’t Backing Her
Laura Fine has distanced herself from the Israel lobby, but AIPAC donors are pouring funding into her Illinois congressional campaign.
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December 20, 2025 at 10:24 PM
@laurafine4congress.bsky.social What's good!? Are you "distancing" yourself or not? The people of Illinois deserve transparency and clarity, period.
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NEW: U.S. Military Willing to Attack “Designated Terrorist Organizations” Within America, General Says
“That is one of the concerns with the administration asserting that the President essentially has a license to kill outside the law,” says expert.
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“That is one of the concerns with the administration asserting that the President essentially has a license to kill outside the law,” says expert.
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U.S. Military Willing to Attack “Designated Terrorist Organizations” Within America, General Says
“If I had no concerns and I was confident in the lawful order, I would definitely execute that order.”
theintercept.com
December 16, 2025 at 1:58 PM
NEW: U.S. Military Willing to Attack “Designated Terrorist Organizations” Within America, General Says
“That is one of the concerns with the administration asserting that the President essentially has a license to kill outside the law,” says expert.
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“That is one of the concerns with the administration asserting that the President essentially has a license to kill outside the law,” says expert.
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Please download this full PDF yourself in case it "disappears" off the website like Trump's photo.
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Please download this full PDF yourself in case it "disappears" off the website like Trump's photo.
The #Epstein Filing that Mentions Donald Trump
YouTube video by JJ Hastings
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December 20, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Please download this full PDF yourself in case it "disappears" off the website like Trump's photo.
Source: www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...
Please download this full PDF yourself in case it "disappears" off the website like Trump's photo.
Powerful systems of corruption that use the American #justice system to hold their hands over the mouths of victims.
This isn't fodder for content.
These are human beings.
These are children.
Many of whom couldn't hold on a moment longer with hope one day justice would come
#epstein #video
This isn't fodder for content.
These are human beings.
These are children.
Many of whom couldn't hold on a moment longer with hope one day justice would come
#epstein #video
December 20, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Holiday party
A wonderful time at the Worker's Center year-end holiday party, and a surprise recognition that really touched my heart.
A wonderful time at the Worker's Center year-end holiday party, and a surprise recognition that really touched my heart.
Holiday party
A wonderful time at the Worker's Center year-end holiday party, and a surprise recognition that really touched my heart.
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December 19, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Holiday party
A wonderful time at the Worker's Center year-end holiday party, and a surprise recognition that really touched my heart.
A wonderful time at the Worker's Center year-end holiday party, and a surprise recognition that really touched my heart.
A lot of people in my life with naturalized parents wanted to call me "negative", "reactionary", "a vibe killer" because I expressed to them my concern for their parents in the spring when power switched over. People actually ended relationships with me bc they were "tired of hearing" about it. SMH
The Trump administration is reportedly seeking to denaturalize 100 to 200 U.S. citizens per month.
“Terror & Fear”: Trump Moves to Denaturalize Citizens, End Birthright Citizenship, Halt Visa Lottery
The Trump administration is ramping up efforts to strip more naturalized immigrants of their U.S. citizenship, with The New York Times reporting that officials are seeking 100 to 200 cases per month. ...
www.democracynow.org
December 19, 2025 at 4:21 PM
A lot of people in my life with naturalized parents wanted to call me "negative", "reactionary", "a vibe killer" because I expressed to them my concern for their parents in the spring when power switched over. People actually ended relationships with me bc they were "tired of hearing" about it. SMH
So humbled and honored. Love my @c4racialjustice.bsky.social family. 😭♥️✊🏻
December 19, 2025 at 2:46 AM
So humbled and honored. Love my @c4racialjustice.bsky.social family. 😭♥️✊🏻
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New FREE article at The Shatterpoint!
As we launch our series digging into the role of legislative branch, an introduction to what Congress actually is.
*Every civics article on the Shatterpoint is written for adults who read at a junior high level so all can participate. Your gift funds my work.
As we launch our series digging into the role of legislative branch, an introduction to what Congress actually is.
*Every civics article on the Shatterpoint is written for adults who read at a junior high level so all can participate. Your gift funds my work.
December 18, 2025 at 9:38 PM
New FREE article at The Shatterpoint!
As we launch our series digging into the role of legislative branch, an introduction to what Congress actually is.
*Every civics article on the Shatterpoint is written for adults who read at a junior high level so all can participate. Your gift funds my work.
As we launch our series digging into the role of legislative branch, an introduction to what Congress actually is.
*Every civics article on the Shatterpoint is written for adults who read at a junior high level so all can participate. Your gift funds my work.
Some of my recent articles, if you've missed them. I also recently did a total redesign of my website, and would love you to check it out. ♥️🙏🏻
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The Discomfort of Truth: Why the World Excuses Genocide in Palestine
JJ Hastings It is a damning indictment of the global conscience that, once again, the machinery of mass atrocity grinds forward, and the default international posture is not outrage or intervention…
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December 18, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Some of my recent articles, if you've missed them. I also recently did a total redesign of my website, and would love you to check it out. ♥️🙏🏻
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Within 15 minutes today, I got two back-to-back notifications of deaths at ICE facilities.
28 people have died in ICE custody since Trump took office. These facilities are overcrowded & are putting their own profits over health and safety. We need oversight & accountability NOW.
28 people have died in ICE custody since Trump took office. These facilities are overcrowded & are putting their own profits over health and safety. We need oversight & accountability NOW.
December 18, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Within 15 minutes today, I got two back-to-back notifications of deaths at ICE facilities.
28 people have died in ICE custody since Trump took office. These facilities are overcrowded & are putting their own profits over health and safety. We need oversight & accountability NOW.
28 people have died in ICE custody since Trump took office. These facilities are overcrowded & are putting their own profits over health and safety. We need oversight & accountability NOW.
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Trump is taking money out their housing allowances approved by Congress and giving it to them in a “bonus” so it looks like it came from him. It’s just a shell game with military pay from the ultimate con man
December 18, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Trump is taking money out their housing allowances approved by Congress and giving it to them in a “bonus” so it looks like it came from him. It’s just a shell game with military pay from the ultimate con man
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Voters in Washington, D.C., decided last year to switch their local elections to ranked-choice voting.
The new voting procedure will be implemented for the first time in the 2026 primaries, the D.C. council voted this week.
The new voting procedure will be implemented for the first time in the 2026 primaries, the D.C. council voted this week.
DC's June primary will use ranked choice voting, DC Council vote decides
June’s primary is now the first time ranked choice voting will be in place in Washington, D.C.’s local elections, after the D.C. Council cleared the way with a Tuesday vote.
www.nbcwashington.com
December 17, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Voters in Washington, D.C., decided last year to switch their local elections to ranked-choice voting.
The new voting procedure will be implemented for the first time in the 2026 primaries, the D.C. council voted this week.
The new voting procedure will be implemented for the first time in the 2026 primaries, the D.C. council voted this week.
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The U.S. Senate voted to extend a program giving Alaska Native veterans of the Vietnam era a chance to receive allotments in Alaska up to 160 acres.
Congress extends chance for Alaska Native Vietnam veterans to receive allotments
The program provides the opportunity to veterans who missed out when Native allotment rights were extinguished in 1971.
www.adn.com
December 17, 2025 at 11:06 PM
The U.S. Senate voted to extend a program giving Alaska Native veterans of the Vietnam era a chance to receive allotments in Alaska up to 160 acres.
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The discharge petition to force a vote on extending ACA tax credits has received the necessary 218 signatures.
We are demanding an immediate vote in the House to extend these tax credits before December 31. Congress should not leave for the holidays without stopping premiums from skyrocketing.
We are demanding an immediate vote in the House to extend these tax credits before December 31. Congress should not leave for the holidays without stopping premiums from skyrocketing.
December 17, 2025 at 11:16 PM
The discharge petition to force a vote on extending ACA tax credits has received the necessary 218 signatures.
We are demanding an immediate vote in the House to extend these tax credits before December 31. Congress should not leave for the holidays without stopping premiums from skyrocketing.
We are demanding an immediate vote in the House to extend these tax credits before December 31. Congress should not leave for the holidays without stopping premiums from skyrocketing.
JANE DOE v. DONALD J. TRUMP and JEFFREY E. EPSTEIN.
"COMPLAINT FOR RAPE, SEXUAL MISCONDUCT, CRIMINAL SEXUAL ACTS, SEXUAL ABUSE, FORCIBLE TOUCHING, ASSAULT, BATTERY, INTENTIONAL AND RECKLESS INFLICTION OF EMOTIONAL DISTRESS, DURESS, FALSE IMPRISONMENT, AND DEFAMATION"
Filed 09/30/16
Full filing.
"COMPLAINT FOR RAPE, SEXUAL MISCONDUCT, CRIMINAL SEXUAL ACTS, SEXUAL ABUSE, FORCIBLE TOUCHING, ASSAULT, BATTERY, INTENTIONAL AND RECKLESS INFLICTION OF EMOTIONAL DISTRESS, DURESS, FALSE IMPRISONMENT, AND DEFAMATION"
Filed 09/30/16
Full filing.
www.politico.com
December 17, 2025 at 10:25 PM
JANE DOE v. DONALD J. TRUMP and JEFFREY E. EPSTEIN.
"COMPLAINT FOR RAPE, SEXUAL MISCONDUCT, CRIMINAL SEXUAL ACTS, SEXUAL ABUSE, FORCIBLE TOUCHING, ASSAULT, BATTERY, INTENTIONAL AND RECKLESS INFLICTION OF EMOTIONAL DISTRESS, DURESS, FALSE IMPRISONMENT, AND DEFAMATION"
Filed 09/30/16
Full filing.
"COMPLAINT FOR RAPE, SEXUAL MISCONDUCT, CRIMINAL SEXUAL ACTS, SEXUAL ABUSE, FORCIBLE TOUCHING, ASSAULT, BATTERY, INTENTIONAL AND RECKLESS INFLICTION OF EMOTIONAL DISTRESS, DURESS, FALSE IMPRISONMENT, AND DEFAMATION"
Filed 09/30/16
Full filing.
I never should have had to understand any of it; no child should have to peel apart why a man's need to ejaculate is worth more than a human life.
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The Letters In the Drawer: A Memoir About Suicide
Notes from the Wreckage, Ed. 14 This piece speaks plainly about suicidal ideation, attempts, and self-harm. If you are reading this while actively struggling, please take care of yourself and step …
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December 17, 2025 at 10:06 PM
I never should have had to understand any of it; no child should have to peel apart why a man's need to ejaculate is worth more than a human life.
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Somewhere Ben Affleck ia smoking a cigarette, hoping they can clear a Jack Smith script before he ages out of the roll.
December 17, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Somewhere Ben Affleck ia smoking a cigarette, hoping they can clear a Jack Smith script before he ages out of the roll.
This week's Notes from the Wreckage is deeply personal, and it talks about what it is like to live with suicidal depression and suicidal thoughts. If this topic is too sensitive for you, please rejoin me for our next edition. Be safe, and be loved. JJ
The Letters In the Drawer: A Memoir About Suicide
Notes from the Wreckage, Ed. 14 This piece speaks plainly about suicidal ideation, attempts, and self-harm. If you are reading this while actively struggling, please take care of yourself and step away if you need to. You can find resources at the end of this article. For fourteen years, I have not touched a blade to my skin. For fourteen years, I have not swallowed the pills or tied the knot.
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December 17, 2025 at 7:10 PM
This week's Notes from the Wreckage is deeply personal, and it talks about what it is like to live with suicidal depression and suicidal thoughts. If this topic is too sensitive for you, please rejoin me for our next edition. Be safe, and be loved. JJ
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Republicans want to give ICE the power to strip-search immigrant children to look for so-called “gang tattoos” and send them to prison-like facilities.
Yes, the same ICE that sent men to El Salvador for soccer and autism awareness tattoos.
Yes, the same ICE that sent men to El Salvador for soccer and autism awareness tattoos.
December 17, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Republicans want to give ICE the power to strip-search immigrant children to look for so-called “gang tattoos” and send them to prison-like facilities.
Yes, the same ICE that sent men to El Salvador for soccer and autism awareness tattoos.
Yes, the same ICE that sent men to El Salvador for soccer and autism awareness tattoos.
On December 9, 2025, government-sanctioned Lagos bulldozers flattened thousands of homes in Oworonshoki, leaving nearly 10,000 people homeless...despite a court injunction meant to protect them.
Displacement like this is invisible because it’s stripped of meaning.
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Displacement like this is invisible because it’s stripped of meaning.
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Bulldozers and Denial
How Lagos Is Manufacturing Displacement Without Calling It a Crisis It is easier to call it “development” than what it is. On December 9, 2025, bulldozers tore through the riverside community of Ow…
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December 17, 2025 at 2:14 AM
On December 9, 2025, government-sanctioned Lagos bulldozers flattened thousands of homes in Oworonshoki, leaving nearly 10,000 people homeless...despite a court injunction meant to protect them.
Displacement like this is invisible because it’s stripped of meaning.
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Displacement like this is invisible because it’s stripped of meaning.
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