John Elliott
@velcroski.bsky.social
Refugee of sorts.
Picture shows actual Tower of Sauron.
Picture shows actual Tower of Sauron.
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Wow — White House Chief of staff Susie Wiles did not hold back. 👀
Start the clock! ⏰
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...
Start the clock! ⏰
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...
December 16, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Wow — White House Chief of staff Susie Wiles did not hold back. 👀
Start the clock! ⏰
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...
Start the clock! ⏰
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...
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PUBLISH IT IN THE TIMES, COWARDS
I don't know, Aaron. I think we need to take this seriously. In fact, after surveying hundreds of years of history in the past few days, I've written an article assessing the originalist case here:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
December 16, 2025 at 2:42 PM
PUBLISH IT IN THE TIMES, COWARDS
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New Standing Room Only! Today's excerpt is about why Candace Owens won't stop with the Charlie Kirk conspiracies.
Read and subscribe! salon-standingroomonly.beehiiv.com/p/candace-ow...
Music by the Juliana Hatfield Three.
Read and subscribe! salon-standingroomonly.beehiiv.com/p/candace-ow...
Music by the Juliana Hatfield Three.
December 16, 2025 at 12:22 PM
New Standing Room Only! Today's excerpt is about why Candace Owens won't stop with the Charlie Kirk conspiracies.
Read and subscribe! salon-standingroomonly.beehiiv.com/p/candace-ow...
Music by the Juliana Hatfield Three.
Read and subscribe! salon-standingroomonly.beehiiv.com/p/candace-ow...
Music by the Juliana Hatfield Three.
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Not sure there's a clearer way to say any security guarantees the US is offering Ukraine are toilet paper than to shutdown EUCOM while offering them.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
December 16, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Not sure there's a clearer way to say any security guarantees the US is offering Ukraine are toilet paper than to shutdown EUCOM while offering them.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Nvidia serves as the backbone to this 2K-word, palpably ambivalent WSJ story about Trump's "state capitalism."
But the story never tells the reader that China issued guidance to avoid the Nvidia chips after Trump approved the sale.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
But the story never tells the reader that China issued guidance to avoid the Nvidia chips after Trump approved the sale.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
December 16, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Nvidia serves as the backbone to this 2K-word, palpably ambivalent WSJ story about Trump's "state capitalism."
But the story never tells the reader that China issued guidance to avoid the Nvidia chips after Trump approved the sale.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
But the story never tells the reader that China issued guidance to avoid the Nvidia chips after Trump approved the sale.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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If I have brain cells left over from the 2nd book that almost killed me, the 3rd book about the memory of immigration in the US. Why does everyone know Ellis Island and few know Gadsden's Wharf and Angel Island? What about America's other gateway cities and what does it say about migration?
I was just in Charleston, SC to begin thinking about my 3rd book. Visited the International African American Museum which is built on Gadsden's Wharf, where between 1670 - 1808, where nearly 1K cargoes of enslaved Africans arrived. iaamuseum.org/about/
December 16, 2025 at 12:03 PM
If I have brain cells left over from the 2nd book that almost killed me, the 3rd book about the memory of immigration in the US. Why does everyone know Ellis Island and few know Gadsden's Wharf and Angel Island? What about America's other gateway cities and what does it say about migration?
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For people who haven't written books & wonder what it's like to close out a big book project after a decade, it's intense. The last few months, all you can think, eat, breathe, sleep, is that blasted manuscript. It consumes you. And you got the rest of your work and care duties. Congrats, Rachel.
Shout out to @jdmortenson.bsky.social and @jgienapp.bsky.social for some last-minute reads & encouragement!
And appreciate seeing @gauthamrao.bsky.social @unlawfulentries.bsky.social @johngmarks.com going through this process earlier this year—it helped get me to the finish line.
And appreciate seeing @gauthamrao.bsky.social @unlawfulentries.bsky.social @johngmarks.com going through this process earlier this year—it helped get me to the finish line.
December 16, 2025 at 12:11 PM
For people who haven't written books & wonder what it's like to close out a big book project after a decade, it's intense. The last few months, all you can think, eat, breathe, sleep, is that blasted manuscript. It consumes you. And you got the rest of your work and care duties. Congrats, Rachel.
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Incidentally (bc this matters), one of the people convicted of seditious conspiracy WAS pardoned: Enrique Tarrio (he claimed prosecutors asked him to flip on Trump).
December 16, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Incidentally (bc this matters), one of the people convicted of seditious conspiracy WAS pardoned: Enrique Tarrio (he claimed prosecutors asked him to flip on Trump).
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The unemployment numbers are so bad, Trump might hold off on firing Wiles just to avoid adding a single new one
December 16, 2025 at 2:29 PM
The unemployment numbers are so bad, Trump might hold off on firing Wiles just to avoid adding a single new one
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This is extremely important
December 16, 2025 at 12:48 PM
This is extremely important
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Federal law requires the government’s files to be released by Dec. 19.
Epstein Files May Finally Come Out This Week—But Could Be Missing Details On High-Profile Friends
Federal law requires the government’s files to be released by Dec. 19.
www.forbes.com
December 15, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Federal law requires the government’s files to be released by Dec. 19.
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A large CBP presence is back in Chicago this morning, with sightings and arrests reported across the southwest side and Cicero. Bovino is also here.
December 16, 2025 at 2:27 PM
A large CBP presence is back in Chicago this morning, with sightings and arrests reported across the southwest side and Cicero. Bovino is also here.
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as I've been saying youtu.be/MqiTec0oq6s...
Donald Trump Is Destroying American Manufacturing
YouTube video by The American Prospect
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December 16, 2025 at 2:24 PM
as I've been saying youtu.be/MqiTec0oq6s...
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Wow — White House Chief of staff Susie Wiles did not hold back. 👀
Start the clock! ⏰
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...
Start the clock! ⏰
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...
December 16, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Biden brought American manufacturing back but Trump is strangling it once again
The US continues to lose manufacturing jobs—payrolls are down 81k over the last year, & another 5k jobs were lost in November
Transportation (especially auto manufacturing), wood & electronics/electrical manufacturing are the biggest losers, but few subsectors are doing well
Transportation (especially auto manufacturing), wood & electronics/electrical manufacturing are the biggest losers, but few subsectors are doing well
December 16, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Biden brought American manufacturing back but Trump is strangling it once again
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Steelers fan sure love them a rapist, huh.
December 16, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Steelers fan sure love them a rapist, huh.
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The Jeffrey Epstein story is about the moral rot endemic among our elite. Time to go Carrie Nation on them www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/m...
Scams, Schemes, Ruthless Cons: The Untold Story of How Jeffrey Epstein Got Rich
www.nytimes.com
December 16, 2025 at 2:21 PM
The Jeffrey Epstein story is about the moral rot endemic among our elite. Time to go Carrie Nation on them www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/m...
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Oh we see it. It’s the GOP not honoring their oaths but instead backing lunatic Nazis.
After friday’s EPSTEIN dump he will not resign. Nor will the party tell him to because they’d have to get past Miller and Vought.
We cannot have a serial rapist pedophile in the WH any longer.
After friday’s EPSTEIN dump he will not resign. Nor will the party tell him to because they’d have to get past Miller and Vought.
We cannot have a serial rapist pedophile in the WH any longer.
December 16, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Oh we see it. It’s the GOP not honoring their oaths but instead backing lunatic Nazis.
After friday’s EPSTEIN dump he will not resign. Nor will the party tell him to because they’d have to get past Miller and Vought.
We cannot have a serial rapist pedophile in the WH any longer.
After friday’s EPSTEIN dump he will not resign. Nor will the party tell him to because they’d have to get past Miller and Vought.
We cannot have a serial rapist pedophile in the WH any longer.
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Governors nation wide should send word to the State and Local Police to arrest ICE on sight. If they resist, then their National Guard should be mobilized to bring this terrorist Gestapo under control. American Communities should be protected.
December 16, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Governors nation wide should send word to the State and Local Police to arrest ICE on sight. If they resist, then their National Guard should be mobilized to bring this terrorist Gestapo under control. American Communities should be protected.
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"One unsolved mystery of the Epstein era is what exactly Wexner got out of their relationship."
I think we all know what Wexner got out of it. Eventually, everyone in Columbus who has pretended otherwise for the past couple of decades will admit it and act like they knew better.
I think we all know what Wexner got out of it. Eventually, everyone in Columbus who has pretended otherwise for the past couple of decades will admit it and act like they knew better.
December 16, 2025 at 1:13 PM
"One unsolved mystery of the Epstein era is what exactly Wexner got out of their relationship."
I think we all know what Wexner got out of it. Eventually, everyone in Columbus who has pretended otherwise for the past couple of decades will admit it and act like they knew better.
I think we all know what Wexner got out of it. Eventually, everyone in Columbus who has pretended otherwise for the past couple of decades will admit it and act like they knew better.
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From The New York Times investigation "The Untold Story of How Jeffrey Epstein got rich." This is under the heading "A confidence man meets his most significant mark." That "mark" continues to have his name plastered on university buildings all over Ohio. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/m...
December 16, 2025 at 1:11 PM
From The New York Times investigation "The Untold Story of How Jeffrey Epstein got rich." This is under the heading "A confidence man meets his most significant mark." That "mark" continues to have his name plastered on university buildings all over Ohio. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/m...
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Pulte’s involvement with a memecoin backed by a recently indicted scammer is particularly notable given his role as the head regulator of two publicly traded entities key to the US economy, mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Bill Pulte promoted a memecoin run by an influencer facing fraud charges
“Getting involved in that space,” said one expert, “is not the best sign of sound financial judgment.”
www.motherjones.com
December 16, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Pulte’s involvement with a memecoin backed by a recently indicted scammer is particularly notable given his role as the head regulator of two publicly traded entities key to the US economy, mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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If your elected officials won’t vote to protect your kids & family from gun violence, then you shouldn’t support them. It’s that simple.
December 15, 2025 at 8:08 PM
If your elected officials won’t vote to protect your kids & family from gun violence, then you shouldn’t support them. It’s that simple.
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Can Dutchmen not do English history?
December 16, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Can Dutchmen not do English history?
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Third night of Chanukah tonight!
So of course watch Chanukah season movie number three-Deliverance!
Ten Best Chanukah films:
Total Recall
Body Double
Deliverance
Paths of Glory
Johnny Got His Gun
Leaving Las Vegas
Requiem for a Dream
Last Exit to Brooklyn
Best Yrs of Our Lives
Mrs Doubtfire
So of course watch Chanukah season movie number three-Deliverance!
Ten Best Chanukah films:
Total Recall
Body Double
Deliverance
Paths of Glory
Johnny Got His Gun
Leaving Las Vegas
Requiem for a Dream
Last Exit to Brooklyn
Best Yrs of Our Lives
Mrs Doubtfire
December 16, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Third night of Chanukah tonight!
So of course watch Chanukah season movie number three-Deliverance!
Ten Best Chanukah films:
Total Recall
Body Double
Deliverance
Paths of Glory
Johnny Got His Gun
Leaving Las Vegas
Requiem for a Dream
Last Exit to Brooklyn
Best Yrs of Our Lives
Mrs Doubtfire
So of course watch Chanukah season movie number three-Deliverance!
Ten Best Chanukah films:
Total Recall
Body Double
Deliverance
Paths of Glory
Johnny Got His Gun
Leaving Las Vegas
Requiem for a Dream
Last Exit to Brooklyn
Best Yrs of Our Lives
Mrs Doubtfire