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John Gorman

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Potbellied insomniac with a borderline personality, but in the good way. Stay at home dad, writer, songwriter, musician, live show enthusiast, recovering sports freak. Teams: Bucks, Arsenal, Ohio State football. Milwaukee by choice, Ohio by blood.

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John Gorman @jpgorman.bsky.social · Feb 20

We've had Presidents who had poisonous metal in their mouths 24 hrs a day and Presidents who boozed all day every day their entire life and Presidents who thought a big skull meant you were smart and also George W. Bush yet somehow in 2025 we ended up with the dog shit stupidest one who ever lived.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 2h

MAGA and its agenda are *wildly* unpopular, and media are hugely out of touch for not saying so. Politicians who tap into this reality will thrive, and media outlets that reflect this truth will earn enormous audiences.

G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 14h

A majority of adults oppose Trump’s use of the National Guard in America cities www.gelliottmorris.com/p/a-majority...

A majority of Americans oppose Trump sending the National Guard to Democratic-run cities

The president is defying the will of the people, federal judges, and the Constitution

www.gelliottmorris.com

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John Gorman @jpgorman.bsky.social · 1h

Big part of this too is 1) PDL had Adam Sandler in his first big dramatic role in it and 2) both it and Boogie Nights, in addition to being much more fun than Magnolia, had very cool bespoke DVD sets lots of arty kids coming up at the turn of the millennium wanted to own to show how cool they were.

John Gorman @jpgorman.bsky.social · 1h

To be clear and fair, I don't think it implicates our times. OBAA is nearly three hours long and movies are expensive.

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John Gorman @jpgorman.bsky.social · 1h

Punch Drunk Love was huge among people I hung out with in college (2001-05, arty and writer kids) and Boogie Nights was basically Millennial Pulp Fiction. No one cared much about Magnolia or Hard Eight.

PTA wasn't Wes Anderson, but he definitely was a big deal. This was also over 20 years ago.

DJ Boozy Brunch @griph.bsky.social · 1h

I see a post floating around about college students not knowing One Battle After Another exists and how that Implicates Our Times which sure fine but are you telling me eight years ago you would’ve asked them about Phantom Thread and couldn’t get them to shut up about Reynolds Woodcock for ten mins

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moonchildjs.bsky.social @moonchildjs.bsky.social · 22h

Spotify is now running ICE recruitment advertisements.

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 2h

Or maybe we're finally dealing with the truth of it, like should have happened starting in 1974 and every single year since

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 2h

It may be—for now—a mild form of fascism. Political opponents aren’t being jailed or shot, entire opposition media outlets aren’t being shuttered, and books aren’t being burned.

But from Chicago to Portland, James Comey to Letitia James, and so much else—this is no longer America. trib.al/a0i8hTE

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John Gorman @jpgorman.bsky.social · 2h

As opposed to fifty-something white guys wearing cowboy hats and sunglasses indoors at night in front of a picture of an eagle with American flag bunting for wings, you mean?

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2h

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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John Gorman @jpgorman.bsky.social · 2h

Fuck this shit and fuck anyone who's trying to downplay consequences for, for instance, the two meathead fuckjobs that held that lady down today with their knees in her back to cuff her and then crashed into a civilian's vehicle speeding off. New door has opened and we have all been pushed through.

John Gorman @jpgorman.bsky.social · 2h

If the national leaders don't want the smoke, I think we've seen that plenty of normal people will happily get after it, I'm not even sort of kidding. Whatever violence comes after the next election is going to first come from the bad guys, same way it's gone the last few, except this time, we know.

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Wendigo Wires 👻 @joparkerbear.bsky.social · 22h

Got really high and realized this is actually about the Democratic Party

Wendigo Wires 👻 @joparkerbear.bsky.social · Jul 14

In every single episode, the Scooby Doo gang discover a human is behind the mystery, not ghosts or mummies or whatever. Yet they begin each new case believing the villain is a supernatural being. Every time. Not once do they say “maybe it’s an old man like last time”

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2h

This man is being Gorilla Channel'd with a rotating selection of AI slop riot porn by several known white supremacists who are secretly running the government.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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John Gorman @jpgorman.bsky.social · 2h

We are waaaaaaaaay past done dooming about this, these motherfuckers are going to lose and pay or the whole thing goes down trying to make them, end of fucking story.

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John Gorman @jpgorman.bsky.social · 2h

I don't think this last part is even theoretically possible anymore. We are going to have elections, these guys are going to lose, and the thugs in the streets either stand down and go home to face prosecution for their crimes or they try to fight a hot war and die/hang/go to prison, their choice.

Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 2h

It's maddening to know that, let's say elections actually happen and Republicans lose and this entire coup is self-thwarted, all these politicians and lobbyists and media talking heads etc etc will all still have jobs. And that all these ICE thugs won't be in jail.

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John Gorman @jpgorman.bsky.social · 4h

They also think Brooklyn is a neighborhood full of white non-binary hipster post-college dropouts and not what would be the fifth-biggest and perhaps single most-diverse city in the United States if it were its own place.

John Gorman @jpgorman.bsky.social · 4h

Oh, very cool. Have to keep my eyes peeled for that one, thanks!

John Gorman @jpgorman.bsky.social · 7h

It's about the fall of Saigon now.

John Gorman @jpgorman.bsky.social · 7h

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER
SINNERS
EDDINGTON

*Twenty feet of easy-draining gravel*

SUPERMAN

*Several miles of mud, shit, piss, clay, and whatever else*

Every other movie this year so far

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 7h

People are still doing “there aren’t going to be midterms” posts as we see these people struggle to handle a guy in a frog costume

Steve Buscemi as Nikita Khrushchev saying “You are accused of doomer behavior. The court finds you guilty and sentences you to be shot.”

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 8h

chat, do we think republicans are winning when democrats are getting headlines like this out of politico

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Good Boy @goodboy.bsky.social · 2d

It felt like Aziz Nasari was mostly free of his MeToo rep but then he does Riyadh it's so funny it's like he got used to be being cancelled and couldn't live without it like Brooks on the outside in Shawshank Redemption lol

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J. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 7h

a) if you interpret "fix" in a veterinary sense, every word of this is, strictly, accurate

b) i can't get over how he literally can't make it through even this without that little simpering smirk finding its way onto his face

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Mike Johnson: "Let me look right into the camera and tell you very clearly: Republicans are the ones concerned about healthcare. Republicans are the party working around the clock everyday to fix healthcare. This is not talking points for us: we've done it."

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 8h

“We refuse to pay the troops and also we’re doing indiscriminate firings of people for no reason”

I’ve never seen an administration so faithfully committed to self-immolation in my entire life

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John Gorman @jpgorman.bsky.social · 7h

"I Got a Feeling," and everybody at the party is drinking Four Loko

John Gorman @jpgorman.bsky.social · 7h

Great optics, fellas! Way to not look like psychotic loser pussies.

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 8h

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 8h

“we are telling you right now that we do not intend to honor anything we agree to” is certainly a negotiating position one can take

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Q: Rescission are something Dems have said is a reason for a lack of trust. What rescissions are you discussing?

JOHNSON: We have more than $37t in debt. We're doing everything we can to get us back to sound fiscal responsibility. What does that include? A rescission package is part of our process

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