John
@jplcalifornia.bsky.social
Social Studies Teacher Resident, 25-26
BA, Political Science
Masters of Education (In Progress)
BA, Political Science
Masters of Education (In Progress)
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man as a journalist this is the kind of thing you might childishly fantasize about while mowing the lawn or waking up from a dream
In 25 years of covering national security, I’ve never seen a story like this: Senior Trump officials discussed planning for the U.S. attack on Yemen in a Signal group--and inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
www.theatlantic.com
March 24, 2025 at 4:40 PM
man as a journalist this is the kind of thing you might childishly fantasize about while mowing the lawn or waking up from a dream
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As Trump tries to dismantle the Department of Education, remember that his plan to cut the corporate tax rate to 15% would give the 100 largest corporations a tax cut larger than the entire department's K-12 budget.
Really think about how twisted this all is.
Really think about how twisted this all is.
March 6, 2025 at 8:45 PM
As Trump tries to dismantle the Department of Education, remember that his plan to cut the corporate tax rate to 15% would give the 100 largest corporations a tax cut larger than the entire department's K-12 budget.
Really think about how twisted this all is.
Really think about how twisted this all is.
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Trump berates Zelensky, the leader of a democratic country courageously fighting Russian imperialism, while he allies himself with Putin, a dictator who started the bloodiest European war in 80 years.
Sorry, President Trump. We believe in democracy, not authoritarianism.
Sorry, President Trump. We believe in democracy, not authoritarianism.
February 28, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Trump berates Zelensky, the leader of a democratic country courageously fighting Russian imperialism, while he allies himself with Putin, a dictator who started the bloodiest European war in 80 years.
Sorry, President Trump. We believe in democracy, not authoritarianism.
Sorry, President Trump. We believe in democracy, not authoritarianism.
I hadn't considered them physically purging our archives like this. Terrifying. If they did it would be (another) direct link to N@zis and 1933.
How long until the Library of Congress faces a purge? Should historians be getting what resources they can now? I'm imagining anything related to the civil rights movement, anti-fascism, and even public health could be gone soon.
February 13, 2025 at 8:47 PM
I hadn't considered them physically purging our archives like this. Terrifying. If they did it would be (another) direct link to N@zis and 1933.
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Sassoon was a member in good standing of the Federalist Society and clerked for Antonin Scalia, if you want a sense of just how beyond the pale this is to get someone like her to resign
Danielle R. Sassoon, Manhattan’s acting U.S. attorney, resigned on Thursday rather than obey a Justice Department order that she drop a corruption case against New York City’s mayor, Eric Adams, that she had championed, according to three people with knowledge of the matter.
Manhattan’s Federal Prosecutor Quits After Adams Case Is Ordered Dropped (Gift Article)
Danielle R. Sassoon, the interim U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, quit after the Justice Department told her to withdraw corruption charges against Mayor Eric Adams.
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Sassoon was a member in good standing of the Federalist Society and clerked for Antonin Scalia, if you want a sense of just how beyond the pale this is to get someone like her to resign
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Reposting as Sagan is so prescient from 30 years ago.
February 10, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Reposting as Sagan is so prescient from 30 years ago.
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folks really need to accept that "lawful" and "lawless" don't matter, what matters is being able to marshal and deploy force (force of capital, the force of arms, the force of a crowd...) none of the people running the country right now give a good goddamn about the law
February 8, 2025 at 12:30 AM
folks really need to accept that "lawful" and "lawless" don't matter, what matters is being able to marshal and deploy force (force of capital, the force of arms, the force of a crowd...) none of the people running the country right now give a good goddamn about the law
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NEW YORK—YOU’RE UP NEXT.
NY-21’s special election is coming SOON. Stefanik is out, and this seat is WIDE OPEN. Winning this means we STOP the GOP’s destruction in Congress. Get ready. Be prepared. We CANNOT afford to lose this one
NY-21’s special election is coming SOON. Stefanik is out, and this seat is WIDE OPEN. Winning this means we STOP the GOP’s destruction in Congress. Get ready. Be prepared. We CANNOT afford to lose this one
February 6, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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THIS IS IT. The special general elections for Florida’s 1st & 6th Congressional Districts are on APRIL 1, 2025. If we flip these seats, we can STOP Project 2025. No excuses! Mark your calendars! Show up!
February 6, 2025 at 12:03 PM
THIS IS IT. The special general elections for Florida’s 1st & 6th Congressional Districts are on APRIL 1, 2025. If we flip these seats, we can STOP Project 2025. No excuses! Mark your calendars! Show up!
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As has been pointed out, GOP oversaw the worst national security (9/11), foreign policy (Iraq), disaster response (Katrina), economic (2008 crash) and public health (COVID) crises of our lifetimes. Voters would have to be absolutely nuts to repeatedly put that party back in power, right?
Lots of people out there saying, "at least by fucking everything up they're showing how incompetent they are, which will turn voters against them."
I just wonder where in the world people get this hope. America made it all the way through the election in near-total ignorance. Why would that change?
I just wonder where in the world people get this hope. America made it all the way through the election in near-total ignorance. Why would that change?
February 5, 2025 at 4:58 AM
As has been pointed out, GOP oversaw the worst national security (9/11), foreign policy (Iraq), disaster response (Katrina), economic (2008 crash) and public health (COVID) crises of our lifetimes. Voters would have to be absolutely nuts to repeatedly put that party back in power, right?
@iwriteok.bsky.social What's the Robert Evan's political philosophy/political history must read list? Haven't read political philosophy since undergrad and my views have shifted since then.
February 3, 2025 at 6:59 PM
@iwriteok.bsky.social What's the Robert Evan's political philosophy/political history must read list? Haven't read political philosophy since undergrad and my views have shifted since then.
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One thing about me is that I will fight Nazis until I’m six feet in the ground.
January 24, 2025 at 1:24 AM
One thing about me is that I will fight Nazis until I’m six feet in the ground.