Jon Pfautz
@jonpfautz.bsky.social
Transformation, liberation, decolonization in progress.
Humane Tech, Buddhism, exvangelical, Men’s Work, Climate, peace, eldership.
He/him
Humane Tech, Buddhism, exvangelical, Men’s Work, Climate, peace, eldership.
He/him
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Some of us independent journalists and newsletter writers were talking about the devastating Post layoffs and were thinking-- would folks find it useful at all if we held a little information session on the ins and outs of going indy, starting + running a newsletter or website, etc?
February 4, 2026 at 11:36 PM
Some of us independent journalists and newsletter writers were talking about the devastating Post layoffs and were thinking-- would folks find it useful at all if we held a little information session on the ins and outs of going indy, starting + running a newsletter or website, etc?
The Reframe is so great, so consistently. Don’t miss @juliusgoat.bsky.social on the latest document drop
Today I wrote about the Epstein files, the abusiveness intrinsic to the billionaire mindset, and our culture's enabling instinct to permit depravity as a privilege of power.
"Where does it all end?" That's what's often asked. Rarely asked is "how do we end it?"
www.the-reframe.com/where-it-ends/
"Where does it all end?" That's what's often asked. Rarely asked is "how do we end it?"
www.the-reframe.com/where-it-ends/
Where It Ends
Answering the enabler's constant question, and contemplating the depraved depths of the billionaire mindset.
www.the-reframe.com
February 1, 2026 at 4:25 PM
The Reframe is so great, so consistently. Don’t miss @juliusgoat.bsky.social on the latest document drop
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Literally everyone who even vaguely knew what a tariff was said this when they were introduced! You don’t need a team of economists to analyze the situation — no one who lives in reality was confused by this!
“Foreign exporters absorbed only 4% of last year’s U.S. tariff increases by lowering prices, while American consumers and importers absorbed 96%.
“Rather than acting as a tax on foreign producers, the tariffs functioned as a consumption tax on Americans.”
www.wsj.com/economy/trad...
“Rather than acting as a tax on foreign producers, the tariffs functioned as a consumption tax on Americans.”
www.wsj.com/economy/trad...
Americans Are the Ones Paying for Tariffs, Study Finds
New research contradicts President Trump’s claim that foreigners are footing the bill.
www.wsj.com
January 20, 2026 at 2:07 AM
Literally everyone who even vaguely knew what a tariff was said this when they were introduced! You don’t need a team of economists to analyze the situation — no one who lives in reality was confused by this!
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Posting this to X, Threads, and Bluesky as an experiment
January 20, 2026 at 1:04 AM
Posting this to X, Threads, and Bluesky as an experiment
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A decade ago, when Trump one the first time, I and other Black writers tried to make us see that racism — both explicit and deeply seeded — was at the root of Trump’s rise. We were dismissed even as late as last year as people attributed economic anxieties to Trump’s wins.
DO YOU BELIEVE US NOW?
DO YOU BELIEVE US NOW?
January 12, 2026 at 9:05 PM
A decade ago, when Trump one the first time, I and other Black writers tried to make us see that racism — both explicit and deeply seeded — was at the root of Trump’s rise. We were dismissed even as late as last year as people attributed economic anxieties to Trump’s wins.
DO YOU BELIEVE US NOW?
DO YOU BELIEVE US NOW?
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This is a thread of major media outlets falsely anthropomorphising the "Grok" chatbot program and in doing so, actively and directly removing responsibility and accountability from individual people working at X who created a child pornography generator (Elon Musk, Nikita Bier etc)
#1: Reuters
#1: Reuters
January 2, 2026 at 8:02 PM
This is a thread of major media outlets falsely anthropomorphising the "Grok" chatbot program and in doing so, actively and directly removing responsibility and accountability from individual people working at X who created a child pornography generator (Elon Musk, Nikita Bier etc)
#1: Reuters
#1: Reuters
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It starts with knowing the truth. Don’t allow yourselves to be gaslit into believing this is a real question.
December 6, 2025 at 2:44 PM
It starts with knowing the truth. Don’t allow yourselves to be gaslit into believing this is a real question.
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It turns out the “culture war” was the point all along, just like Black people said it was.
December 6, 2025 at 5:08 PM
It turns out the “culture war” was the point all along, just like Black people said it was.
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i hope this is how you find out about dick cheney
November 4, 2025 at 11:44 AM
i hope this is how you find out about dick cheney
The city was abuzz with measured enthusiasm! 🇨🇦
At Yonge & Dundas Jays fans are obeying the pedestrian scramble, as is the custom & returning to sidewalk each light cycle.
October 21, 2025 at 2:37 PM
The city was abuzz with measured enthusiasm! 🇨🇦
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I suspect the MAGA government decided to launch all these Bluesky accounts tonight to try to bait people in advance of No Kings.
These people have incurable 4chan brain and this is how they operate.
Block them. Do not engage. Do not give them what they want.
These people have incurable 4chan brain and this is how they operate.
Block them. Do not engage. Do not give them what they want.
October 17, 2025 at 11:15 PM
I suspect the MAGA government decided to launch all these Bluesky accounts tonight to try to bait people in advance of No Kings.
These people have incurable 4chan brain and this is how they operate.
Block them. Do not engage. Do not give them what they want.
These people have incurable 4chan brain and this is how they operate.
Block them. Do not engage. Do not give them what they want.
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Pay people you like on the internet folks, it’s going to be rough out there
Over half of all articles on the Internet are now written by AI
(via Axios)
(via Axios)
October 15, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Pay people you like on the internet folks, it’s going to be rough out there
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Want a fast and easy way to make your Indigenous Peoples Day impactful for years to come?
I made this list of 100+ Indigenous Voices who post daily about our lives, our truths, and our fight. Easily auto-follow all 🪶
Come honor these beautiful Native voices!
I made this list of 100+ Indigenous Voices who post daily about our lives, our truths, and our fight. Easily auto-follow all 🪶
Come honor these beautiful Native voices!
October 13, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Want a fast and easy way to make your Indigenous Peoples Day impactful for years to come?
I made this list of 100+ Indigenous Voices who post daily about our lives, our truths, and our fight. Easily auto-follow all 🪶
Come honor these beautiful Native voices!
I made this list of 100+ Indigenous Voices who post daily about our lives, our truths, and our fight. Easily auto-follow all 🪶
Come honor these beautiful Native voices!
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They're talking about killing leftist activists. They're talking about murdering people organizing in defense of immigrant communities, doing mutual aid work, and protesting their violence. They are talking about murdering people like me and my friends. We must do more than acknowledge it's fascism.
My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."
October 11, 2025 at 2:04 PM
They're talking about killing leftist activists. They're talking about murdering people organizing in defense of immigrant communities, doing mutual aid work, and protesting their violence. They are talking about murdering people like me and my friends. We must do more than acknowledge it's fascism.
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This was a word AND he cussed 😂
September 14, 2025 at 11:47 PM
This was a word AND he cussed 😂
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this is an OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT petition. We're lucky to have these, here.
Canadians: please sign this, because it never just stops at whatever some random corporation arbitrarily decides they don't want to support, when none of us have a choice whether to use it or not
Canadians: please sign this, because it never just stops at whatever some random corporation arbitrarily decides they don't want to support, when none of us have a choice whether to use it or not
Canadians! There is a petition to sign to protest Mastercard and Visa's control over the purchase of legal adult content. This is specifically about the Steam & itchio situation, but language protects adult creators.
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
#nsfw #censorship #canpoli
@acvalens.net
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
#nsfw #censorship #canpoli
@acvalens.net
Petition e-6695 - Petitions
www.ourcommons.ca
September 3, 2025 at 10:04 PM
this is an OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT petition. We're lucky to have these, here.
Canadians: please sign this, because it never just stops at whatever some random corporation arbitrarily decides they don't want to support, when none of us have a choice whether to use it or not
Canadians: please sign this, because it never just stops at whatever some random corporation arbitrarily decides they don't want to support, when none of us have a choice whether to use it or not
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reposted this today because the inverse is also true:
if you abandon trans people right now, you are abandoning civil rights period.
if you can't stand up for trans people when it matters, no one should, or will, ever trust you when the bullseye moves to the next target.
if you abandon trans people right now, you are abandoning civil rights period.
if you can't stand up for trans people when it matters, no one should, or will, ever trust you when the bullseye moves to the next target.
the thing about trans rights is that we fight the civil rights issues of our time. nazi chuds have made this the issue of our time.
it's not more *important* than other civil rights issues, but it is the battleground of the moment, and we have to meet the moment to support everyone's rights.
it's not more *important* than other civil rights issues, but it is the battleground of the moment, and we have to meet the moment to support everyone's rights.
Centrists bigots and right wingers have this all backward. YOU are the ones constantly bringing up trans issues. I would be happy to not think about this shit every day of my life unless I was talking to or reading something by one of my trans friends and thought of it in passing. SHUT THE FUCK UP
August 23, 2025 at 10:50 PM
reposted this today because the inverse is also true:
if you abandon trans people right now, you are abandoning civil rights period.
if you can't stand up for trans people when it matters, no one should, or will, ever trust you when the bullseye moves to the next target.
if you abandon trans people right now, you are abandoning civil rights period.
if you can't stand up for trans people when it matters, no one should, or will, ever trust you when the bullseye moves to the next target.
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Like watching someone dunk Prometheus's flame in a lake.
Over 120 mRNA cancer trials are now at risk as the Trump admin cuts funding & tells researchers to scrub “mRNA” from grant proposals.
What started as COVID fearmongering is now derailing life-saving cancer research.
Hope remains - but scientists say time is running out.
zurl.co/YBGNy
What started as COVID fearmongering is now derailing life-saving cancer research.
Hope remains - but scientists say time is running out.
zurl.co/YBGNy
‘Tremendous uncertainty’ for cancer research as US officials target mRNA vaccines
Amid Trump cuts and state-level backlash, experts worry that progress in messenger RNA vaccines could stall
zurl.co
July 15, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Like watching someone dunk Prometheus's flame in a lake.
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Bye forever, WeTransfer.
July 14, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Bye forever, WeTransfer.
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The thing about "winning the middle" in order to make a big tent is that it fails, not only in practical reality, but as a metaphor.
Think of a big round carnival tent, like in Bugs Bunny cartoons. Picture it from the top. Big circle. Got it?
www.the-reframe.com/winning-the-...
Think of a big round carnival tent, like in Bugs Bunny cartoons. Picture it from the top. Big circle. Got it?
www.the-reframe.com/winning-the-...
Winning the Middle
What makes for a purity test? What makes for a big tent? Unpacking the apparently pragmatic demand that we Speak Low about fascists to beat fascism.
www.the-reframe.com
June 12, 2025 at 10:53 AM
The thing about "winning the middle" in order to make a big tent is that it fails, not only in practical reality, but as a metaphor.
Think of a big round carnival tent, like in Bugs Bunny cartoons. Picture it from the top. Big circle. Got it?
www.the-reframe.com/winning-the-...
Think of a big round carnival tent, like in Bugs Bunny cartoons. Picture it from the top. Big circle. Got it?
www.the-reframe.com/winning-the-...
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If you are arrested during a protest or action against ICE or CPD in Chicago, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at [email protected].
(This is an offer for criminal defense; I unfortunately don't do immigration law.)
(This is an offer for criminal defense; I unfortunately don't do immigration law.)
June 7, 2025 at 10:54 PM
If you are arrested during a protest or action against ICE or CPD in Chicago, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at [email protected].
(This is an offer for criminal defense; I unfortunately don't do immigration law.)
(This is an offer for criminal defense; I unfortunately don't do immigration law.)