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📚 John McAndrew 🌏🇺🇦

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Current favorite word: apophenia. Similar to pareidolia, but broader. Richer than Elon Musk: unlike him, I have enough. We know so much, but do so little. I review books: https://johnjmcandrew.substack.com

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📚 John McAndrew 🌏🇺🇦 @phidipdbq.bsky.social · Sep 8

Tired of learned helplessness? Of watching as services to our neighbors are cut? This piece by Christopher Armitage alerts us that there are things many of us can do RIGHT NOW, even in many red states. This is the long game. We can start it right now. Thanks, @jnshaumeyer.bsky.social, for the link.

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This is kind of amazing. Thanks to my friend Jeff for forwarding. 26 states, and many cities, have citizen initiative processes which have been used to make the GOP majority in those states irrelevan...

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📚 John McAndrew 🌏🇺🇦 @phidipdbq.bsky.social · 7h

Tomorrow, I’m going to see Mary Chapin Carpenter in Madison, Wisconsin. I’ve seen her a number of times before. Her music is one of the main soundtracks of my life. Can’t wait.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 4d

I'm sorry, but what's wrong with giving health care to immigrants? Republicans don't even want to give health care to citizens, but I don't understand the argument against keeping people who contribute billions of dollars to the economy healthy. It's also less expensive in the long run.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 8h

We're spending $20B to bail out Argentina, but they cut USAID down to the bone, causing deaths around the world. The entire budget of USAID, the whole agency, was $21B last year. Shameful.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 9h

The Trump administration confirmed that the U.S. bailed out Argentina.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said he had directly bought Argentine pesos in global currency markets in a bid to relieve pressure on the nation’s embattled President Javier Milei, a supporter of President Trump.

The U.S. just bailed out Argentina, Treasury Secretary confirms

The US Treasury has finalized a $20 billion financial rescue of Argentina, including a currency swap arrangement with the country's central bank.

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📚 John McAndrew 🌏🇺🇦 @phidipdbq.bsky.social · 8h

Craven and despicable. Ubisoft joins Columbia University, ABC, CBS, NBC, Disney . . . ad nauseum.

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

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📚 John McAndrew 🌏🇺🇦 @phidipdbq.bsky.social · 8h

This seems like a BFD. Oklahoma!

📚 John McAndrew 🌏🇺🇦 @phidipdbq.bsky.social · 8h

This seems like a BFD.

📚 John McAndrew 🌏🇺🇦 @phidipdbq.bsky.social · 8h

20+ years ago, in Costa Rica, I got an infection. Went to a clinic. They gave me penicillin and painkillers, said to come back for surgery, which I did. They remedied the problem. A week later, I went in to have the bandage changed.

Total cost: $110. Benefit: felt cared for.

Do unto others.

John B Des Moines @john-b-des-moines.bsky.social · 8h

A tiny proportion of 0.4% of all Medicaid/Medicare money is spent on the undocumented, and even this is the bare minimum to keep them from dying in the ER.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21h

Context matters

📚 John McAndrew 🌏🇺🇦 @phidipdbq.bsky.social · 8h

Ohh, you get a gold medal for that one!

a coin with a laurel wreath on it

ALT: a coin with a laurel wreath on it

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📚 John McAndrew 🌏🇺🇦 @phidipdbq.bsky.social · 8h

Those ellipses are VERY hard-working, and very clear.

Good writing is like alchemy.

📚 John McAndrew 🌏🇺🇦 @phidipdbq.bsky.social · 8h

This is a helluva statement by AG James. Her delivery couldn't have been more powerful if she'd been coached by Lin-Manuel Miranda.

📚 John McAndrew 🌏🇺🇦 @phidipdbq.bsky.social · 8h

This is a helluva statement by AG James. Her delivery couldn't have been more powerful if she'd been coached by Lin-Manuel Miranda.

New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 14h

This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

I am not fearful — I am fearless.

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..

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📚 John McAndrew 🌏🇺🇦 @phidipdbq.bsky.social · 8h

Johnny Cash has ALWAYS been a legend. Always. Nice of Mr. Fasman to acknowledge that fact, however belatedly. Funny that he thinks he isn't the last one to board the train.

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 14h

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, country-music legend Johnny Cash can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength, writes Jon Fasman.

Essay | Can We Finally Give Johnny Cash His Due?

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, the country-music legend can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength.

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📚 John McAndrew 🌏🇺🇦 @phidipdbq.bsky.social · 8h

Johnny Cash has ALWAYS been a legend. Always. Nice of Mr. Fasman to acknowledge that fact, however belatedly. Funny that he thinks he isn't the last one to board the train.

📚 John McAndrew 🌏🇺🇦 @phidipdbq.bsky.social · 8h

Wishing you peace, justice (however long delayed), safety, and joy in your new home. Tapas and sangria, too. See Guernica, El Greco, and Gaudi. And Toledo. GREAT country, wonderful, warm people.

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Melissa Ryan @melissaryan.bsky.social · 9h

After Pritzker and Newsom threatened to leave the NGA, the Republican Chair breaks with Trump. Pressure works. Keep it up!

Alex Wayne @aawayne.bsky.social · 18h

“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

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 10h

The Republican shutdown continues.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10h

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 10h

Trump admin on Thu began airing video at airports across the country that blames Dems for gov shutdown. 13K air traffic controllers and 50K TSA officers must still turn up for work without being paid. They are set to get a partial paycheck next week for work performed before the shutdown.

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📚 John McAndrew 🌏🇺🇦 @phidipdbq.bsky.social · 11h

I'll look into your complaints when I get back home . . . from the Cayman Islands. (It's really nice here!)

📚 John McAndrew 🌏🇺🇦 @phidipdbq.bsky.social · 11h

Big hearted, outraged @adamkinzinger.substack.com, giving voice to what many of us feel and have difficulty saying

Emergency Video: Chicago
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Emergency Video: Chicago

So I don’t want to do an article yet, because I’m beyond furious.

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📚 John McAndrew 🌏🇺🇦 @phidipdbq.bsky.social · 15h

Pope Leo could do the most courageous thing right now, and go back to his hometown to stand in solidarity with immigrants in #Chicago.

a man wearing a black suit and a white collar with a star

Alt: Pope Leo reacting to something.

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📚 John McAndrew 🌏🇺🇦 @phidipdbq.bsky.social · 15h

Jesus had a whip.

Leo wields a bat.

MaAAAAAAARGH 🧟‍♂️ Reeve @cmraman.geek.org · 19h

Listen up.

Pope Leo is holding a black baseball bat, like he’s going to introduce you to the Chicago Way.

📚 John McAndrew 🌏🇺🇦 @phidipdbq.bsky.social · 15h

Pope Leo is right. I want to read.the entire hundred page document. There is merit, however, in the cynical comments pointing out the wealth of the Catholic Church itself. Pope Leo is right, but repentance begins at home. I hope reforms are forthcoming.

📚 John McAndrew 🌏🇺🇦 @phidipdbq.bsky.social · 15h

Leo’s statement is excellent. I want to read the entire hundred page document.

There is merit, however, in the cynical comments pointing out the wealth of the Catholic Church itself. Pope Leo is right, but repentance begins at home. I hope reforms are forthcoming.

Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 22h

Pope Leo is spitting.

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