John "Not That John Bolton" Bolton
@opus59films.bsky.social
Son & Brother & Uncle & Husband & Dad (chronologically)
Producer & Writer & Director @ Opus 59 Films
Vancouver, xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, səlilwətaɬ
Producer & Writer & Director @ Opus 59 Films
Vancouver, xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, səlilwətaɬ
"I understand that change is uncomfortable ... I say this as someone living next to a soon-to-be construction site myself. But that’s urban life, and discomfort with change is not the basis for good urban policy."
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Opinion: Why Vancouver's hotel shortage is driving our housing crisis | Urbanized
Vancouver's hotel shortage and the resulting demand for short-term rentals is driving our housing crisis, especially in downtown areas.
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February 17, 2026 at 4:49 PM
"I understand that change is uncomfortable ... I say this as someone living next to a soon-to-be construction site myself. But that’s urban life, and discomfort with change is not the basis for good urban policy."
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February 17, 2026 at 5:59 AM
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RIP Brian Wilson, you'd appreciate this
The Beach Boys - Wouldn't It Be Nice (Mario Paint)
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February 16, 2026 at 3:53 AM
RIP Brian Wilson, you'd appreciate this
“As the latest Epstein files reveal, the token female members of Edge were actively excluded from … the glittering events known as the Billionaires’ Dinners. Good policy. Otherwise, we might have struck up conversations with the anxious-looking teenage girls kept out of the photos.”
NEW: Read this terrific piece @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social for @thenerve.news in which she unpicks Edge.org, the hugely influential 'salon' funded by Epstein & threaded through with race science & eugenics.
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The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science
Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...
www.thenerve.news
February 15, 2026 at 12:53 PM
“As the latest Epstein files reveal, the token female members of Edge were actively excluded from … the glittering events known as the Billionaires’ Dinners. Good policy. Otherwise, we might have struck up conversations with the anxious-looking teenage girls kept out of the photos.”
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man I’m sorry to be all corny here but when I see a “the city is beautiful! There’s more to it than homeless people!” I gotta say you know who’s also beautiful? People who have no place to live & are trying to get by in a system that has turned its back on them & if you don’t see that that’s on you
February 8, 2026 at 4:42 AM
man I’m sorry to be all corny here but when I see a “the city is beautiful! There’s more to it than homeless people!” I gotta say you know who’s also beautiful? People who have no place to live & are trying to get by in a system that has turned its back on them & if you don’t see that that’s on you
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The Liberals won re-election largely by soft NDP voters going to Carney to stop Pierre Poilievre from becoming Prime Minister. And now Carney is stabbing his voters in the back to do a deal with the Conservatives. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Conservatives, Liberals working on behind-the-scenes deals as PM downplays election talk | CBC News
Liberals and Conservatives are working out a path that could keep the government in power, sources tell CBC News, while Prime Minister Mark Carney continues to downplay the likelihood of a spring elec...
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February 9, 2026 at 10:22 PM
The Liberals won re-election largely by soft NDP voters going to Carney to stop Pierre Poilievre from becoming Prime Minister. And now Carney is stabbing his voters in the back to do a deal with the Conservatives. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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SpaceX shifts focus from something that it will never do on Mars to something it will never do on the Moon.
February 9, 2026 at 3:32 AM
SpaceX shifts focus from something that it will never do on Mars to something it will never do on the Moon.
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So - Vancouverites - where were you at the evening of Monday, March 17, 2014? If you weren't at Blue Water Cafe, in the Oceans Room, then here's who you weren't having dinner with at the behest of Jeffrey Epstein:
February 4, 2026 at 7:07 AM
So - Vancouverites - where were you at the evening of Monday, March 17, 2014? If you weren't at Blue Water Cafe, in the Oceans Room, then here's who you weren't having dinner with at the behest of Jeffrey Epstein:
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This is unironically what I want to spend a year trying to change when I retire. It is egregious that Vancouver forbids hotels near a specialty hospital for the entire province and I think some sympathetic news coverage could fix that
In a big city where people live in apartments it’s not a frivolity that people can come visit and have a place to stay. As my friend @grids.reillywood.com has previously pointed out, an exceptionally egregious example is B.C. Women’s and Children’s Hospital
February 4, 2026 at 2:32 AM
This is unironically what I want to spend a year trying to change when I retire. It is egregious that Vancouver forbids hotels near a specialty hospital for the entire province and I think some sympathetic news coverage could fix that
An informed, personal, persuasive thread.
So it’s broadly recognized that Vancouver needs more hotel rooms, that high room rates driven by high occupancy are a drag on the local economy, that the city needs to facilitate the construction of more hotels. All of this is true
I want speak to the human importance of hotels
I want speak to the human importance of hotels
February 4, 2026 at 3:43 AM
An informed, personal, persuasive thread.
"Mayor Sim told Daily Hive Urbanized the London Drugs space ... could potentially become a Justice Institute of British Columbia dedicated training academy for police officers."
That fine line between policing a community, and a community of police officers.
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That fine line between policing a community, and a community of police officers.
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VPD opening Woodward's patrol hub, former London Drugs eyed for training facility | Urbanized
Vancouver Police is opening its District 5 headquarters at Woodward's, and considering turning London Drugs' space into a training academy.
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February 2, 2026 at 9:38 PM
"Mayor Sim told Daily Hive Urbanized the London Drugs space ... could potentially become a Justice Institute of British Columbia dedicated training academy for police officers."
That fine line between policing a community, and a community of police officers.
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That fine line between policing a community, and a community of police officers.
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The good news here is that we already have detention centers that they're very familiar with.
Even under a best case scenario — Dems take the WH in 2028, ICE and BP are abolished or rebuilt from scratch — we’re still going to have thousands of angry, unemployed, well-armed, MAGA loyalist former immigration cops who have been told for 3-4 years that they’re above the law.
February 2, 2026 at 1:22 AM
The good news here is that we already have detention centers that they're very familiar with.
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The best 5 words about the USA ever
Country run by Leland Palmers
September 9, 2025 at 5:11 PM
The best 5 words about the USA ever
“BC Liquor Stores aren’t restaurants” only maybe makes the top 3 of the list of the funniest things about this sign.
February 1, 2026 at 6:50 AM
“BC Liquor Stores aren’t restaurants” only maybe makes the top 3 of the list of the funniest things about this sign.
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At least that fucking abusive cult leader in Albany liked volleyball.
Apparently Epstein didn't have a single other hobby? Not one person was like, "Happy Birthday Jeff! Looking forward to playing some badminton!"
January 31, 2026 at 9:48 PM
At least that fucking abusive cult leader in Albany liked volleyball.
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A new heartland economy based on ICE warehouses and AI data farms.
January 30, 2026 at 6:20 PM
A new heartland economy based on ICE warehouses and AI data farms.
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Oh yeah, that's the stuff
Melania Trump is a scowling void of pure nothingness in her ghastly film – review
Hitting cinemas as the streets of America remain filled with the angry and grieving, the vulgar, gilded lifestyle of the Trumps makes them look like Marie Antoinette skulking in her cake-filled chatea...
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January 30, 2026 at 5:36 PM
Oh yeah, that's the stuff
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please enjoy my ken sim bitcoin podcast collage
January 29, 2026 at 7:25 PM
please enjoy my ken sim bitcoin podcast collage
"We should never rule Mr. Poilievre out completely, of course ... There is a significant appetite in some parts of Canada for the MAGA meadow muffins he regularly peddles."
#MAGAmeadowmuffins
#MAGAmeadowmuffins
January 29, 2026 at 7:42 PM
"We should never rule Mr. Poilievre out completely, of course ... There is a significant appetite in some parts of Canada for the MAGA meadow muffins he regularly peddles."
#MAGAmeadowmuffins
#MAGAmeadowmuffins
"the technoligarchy ... bankrolled Trump’s campaign, demolished regulators, installed themselves in positions to write policy for industries where they hold significant financial interests, and actively encouraged the destruction or defanging of any institution that might limit presidential power"
“WAGMI” — we're all gonna make it — was crypto's 2021 rallying cry. But those with wealth and power knew it was a lie, and that “all” just meant them. My latest traces the last five years from hype to technoligarchy — and why they're not all gonna make it either.
The year of technoligarchy
In 2025, Trump brought tech executives into power to dismantle regulators and write their own rules. But the instabilities they’re creating may be their downfall.
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January 29, 2026 at 7:12 PM
"the technoligarchy ... bankrolled Trump’s campaign, demolished regulators, installed themselves in positions to write policy for industries where they hold significant financial interests, and actively encouraged the destruction or defanging of any institution that might limit presidential power"
“The logic of MAGA … is racial authoritarianism. It is white supremacy. But the murders of Pretti and Good should be a stark warning that whiteness ceases to offer protection as soon as a person opposes this regime and its program of racial terror.”
Nick Fuentes called Alex Pretti a “race traitor” for opposing ICE.
I argue that sentiment is actually widespread on the MAGA right.
My latest for @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/after-alex-p...
I argue that sentiment is actually widespread on the MAGA right.
My latest for @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/after-alex-p...
After Alex Pretti’s Murder, it’s Clear That MAGA Media Views White Liberals as Race Traitors
MAGA is committed to the belief that the people ICE is pursuing are inherently bad and that therefore opposing ICE is standing with criminals and rapists against the American people.
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January 29, 2026 at 2:25 PM
“The logic of MAGA … is racial authoritarianism. It is white supremacy. But the murders of Pretti and Good should be a stark warning that whiteness ceases to offer protection as soon as a person opposes this regime and its program of racial terror.”
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Scrolling through the photos of Pam Bondi's "Minnesota rioters," it's just hero after hero. Every photo includes a cowardly DHS agent with their back to the camera.
Bondi thinks she's going to win the propaganda war with this shit, but it's never been more clear that they're losing.
Bondi thinks she's going to win the propaganda war with this shit, but it's never been more clear that they're losing.
January 28, 2026 at 8:40 PM
Scrolling through the photos of Pam Bondi's "Minnesota rioters," it's just hero after hero. Every photo includes a cowardly DHS agent with their back to the camera.
Bondi thinks she's going to win the propaganda war with this shit, but it's never been more clear that they're losing.
Bondi thinks she's going to win the propaganda war with this shit, but it's never been more clear that they're losing.
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These companies want to take everything that is required for people to communicate with one another and exercise our capacity to operate in a democracy and sell it back to us as automated algorithmic decision making that will ultimately penalize us for reasons we’re prevented from seeing.
January 29, 2026 at 1:45 PM
These companies want to take everything that is required for people to communicate with one another and exercise our capacity to operate in a democracy and sell it back to us as automated algorithmic decision making that will ultimately penalize us for reasons we’re prevented from seeing.