John Rogers
@johnrogers.bsky.social
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TV, comics and film writer. LEVERAGE, JACKIE CHAN ADVENTURES, BLUE BEETLE, MARRY ME, a couple other things. Free newsletter of reviews, recommendations, and general oddities at https://buttondown.email/kungfumonkey
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johnrogers.bsky.social
The constant struggle between my anti-carceral beliefs and this country’s need to chase down white collar crime like CBS cops chasing a straggly serial killer who leaves rhyming clues and just offed beloved number 4 on the call sheet.
thenvindy.com
Nevada could’ve fined Elon Musk’s Boring Co. more than $3 million, but regulators are seeking a reduced penalty of $242,800, citing an “extraordinary number of violations.”

Via ProPublica: thenevadaindependent.com/article/elon...
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darthbluesky.bsky.social
the president of the united states who has access to unprecedented levels of intel and up to the minute daily briefings is instead making statements based on fox news broadcasts from 2020 that his staff has convinced him is happening right now
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jakelahut.writes.news
That @swin24.bsky.social is on his game over at Zeteo.

The public release of NSPM-7 partially served "as a way to apply additional pressure on Attorney General Pam Bondi to ramp up arrests and prosecutions to a level that would satisfy people like Stephen Miller." zeteo.com/p/inside-tru...
Inside Trump’s Plot To Terrorize Chicago
Sources in the administration tell Zeteo that Trump is also seriously discussing invoking the Insurrection Act with his top advisers.
zeteo.com
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jondoesnotexist.bsky.social
“Everyone who is rich enough or close enough to reactionary politics is effectively in a cult with beliefs loonier than the median Heaven’s Gate member” is a relatively straightforward description of the current moment. I don’t know how we live like this
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emaenoiaen.bsky.social
Peter Thiel says Antichrist ‘Wants a Nobel Peace Prize.‘
Leaked Highlights from Tech Billionaire's Secret Antichrist Lectures

“Am I a genius or an insane person?” asked Thiel in his fourth lecture. Of course, the two are not mutually exclusive...
www.thenerdreich.com/peter-thiel-...
Peter Thiel says Antichrist ‘Wants a Nobel Peace Prize.‘
Leaked Highlights from Tech Billionaire's Secret Antichrist Lectures
www.thenerdreich.com
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cwebbonline.com
Federal agents aren’t trying to keep the peace. They want violence to escalate so that Trump can declare martial law.

They shot a reverend in the head with pepper balls while he was praying in front of an ICE facility. If that doesn’t tell you where we are as a country, nothing will.
johnrogers.bsky.social
Mutual aid posts, folks.
shengokai.blacksky.app
Since Link is banned, his mutual aid Fridays have gone with him. This was one of the most altruistic things I’ve seen anyone on this site do.

In light of this, I’m gonna try to fill the gap.

Drop your mutual aid requests under this thread and I will repost them for as long as I can.
johnrogers.bsky.social
🧵 from the always invaluable Dr. Taber.
sarahtaber.bsky.social
Farm bankruptcies are back in the news, so it's time to pull this chart out again.

Hey look they kept rising during Trump's first term. Then they went way down under Biden.

Now they're up again? So weird. Thanks Farm Bureau for the graphic
Screenshot from Farm Bureau article on farm bankruptcies. It shows farm bankruptcies climbing steadily 2014-2020, falling by half in 2021, & continuing to fall through 2023.
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donmoyn.bsky.social
We live in a country where the government honors insurrectionists who sacked the Capitol, and defines peaceful protest, even before it occurs, to be terrorism.
They know their position is weak, they know they are unpopular, which is why they are seeking to stamp out dissent.
atrupar.com
Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "
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olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
pavisuri.bsky.social
Lots of ways to understand the contemporary moment but one is the role of owners of immobile assets - oil, gas, coal and land- who want to ensure they can continue to extract rents (and pollute) and who prefer an authoritarian set up to do so. Their threat perception rises with every new eco tech
joshchafetz.bsky.social
This is a hell of a contrast to news that BLM has canceled a solar project in Nevada that would have delivered 6.2 GW of power. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/b...
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olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
an important update re: convo on the convergence of interest between fossil capital as such and state managers (especially but not exclusively of petrostates) that @bostonreview.bsky.social hosted. if we can't break that then that might be the ballgame

www.bostonreview.net/forum/climat...
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jamellebouie.net
they can see the polling
aawayne.bsky.social
“Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

The Republican chair of the National Governors Association breaks with Trump.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...
Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes National Guard Deployment in Chicago
www.nytimes.com
johnrogers.bsky.social
A billion dollars is the socio-political equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work as ruthlessly and diligently to prevent the acquisition of the former as we do the latter.
liberalcurrents.com
“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”
Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money
Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.
www.liberalcurrents.com
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climatejusticeyyj.bsky.social
"As late as 1975, General Motors was blaming the Endangered Species Act for transmission problems in the cars it sold. The automatic transmission fluid had been made of sperm whale oil, and the company saw no easy alternative." #climatesky
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docrevan.bsky.social
It takes 67 Senators to impeach a SCOTUS justice but only 51 with sufficient will to add 6 more justices
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aclu.org
ACLU @aclu.org · 1d
All servicewomen serving in combat roles already have to meet stringent gender-neutral physical standards.

But Secretary Hegseth is intent on smearing those women as unqualified — and pushing all women out of military service.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Moves to Push Women Out of the Military
From eliminating the Pentagon’s gender advisory committee to misrepresenting women’s combat readiness, Hegseth’s record shows a clear campaign against women in uniform.
www.aclu.org
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theradr.bsky.social
Portland sure put a bird on it!!! 👏🦄💪🦖🐥
thedailyshow.com
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
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adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com
Read @aselrod.bsky.social today on how there’s no amount of real crime fighting that will win a political battle over fake crime
liberalcurrents.com
“There is no degree of acquiescence to Trumpism that will satisfy this administration or MAGA at large. All there is is a choice between offering a faint echo of the false reality they’re selling and creating dissonance by speaking the reality of the situation to the public.”
All In Our Heads: On Losing Our Democracy and Life Beyond Our Imaginations
Our language has to meet the moment, and we have to be relentless about dispelling the fiction MAGA is selling.
www.liberalcurrents.com