John Mone
@johnmone.bsky.social
Fmr. TV Correspondent, TX based, Scripps & AP alum. ArdMhachaAbu. Deanta in Eireann. Verstehe Deutsch. Español tambien. Si me matan, resucitare en mi pueblo. encrypted email: [email protected]
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This isn’t good news. Turning microplastics into nanoplastics likely accelerates its entry into food webs and tissues.
Adaptation ≠ remediation.
news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...
Adaptation ≠ remediation.
news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...
Fiddler crabs found to hoover up and break down microplastic particles
New research has found that Fiddler crabs are playing an unheralded role when it comes to hoovering up microplastics found in the world’s mangrove forests and salt marshes. Scientists studying a thriv...
news.exeter.ac.uk
December 20, 2025 at 5:48 PM
This isn’t good news. Turning microplastics into nanoplastics likely accelerates its entry into food webs and tissues.
Adaptation ≠ remediation.
news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...
Adaptation ≠ remediation.
news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...
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This is a surgical dismantling of yet another dumb Matt Yglesias argument by a former clean energy exec and current Representative. This is the sort of thing that should make people stop listening to people like Yglesias.
Read the whole thing.
Read the whole thing.
This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...
Opinion | Obama Supported It. The Left in Canada and Norway Does. Why Don’t Democrats?
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 6:14 PM
This is a surgical dismantling of yet another dumb Matt Yglesias argument by a former clean energy exec and current Representative. This is the sort of thing that should make people stop listening to people like Yglesias.
Read the whole thing.
Read the whole thing.
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“Politicians should do what wins elections” is asinine for moral reasons but also, no one knows what will win an election! Yglesias et al keep acting like there’s some obvious set of policies or words that will guarantee victory but Harris basically did what they wanted and she lost.
4. Yglesias instead seems to implicitly argue that politicians should only do what wins elections, virtue be damned. One wonders what he thinks of those foolish 1850s abolitionists. As Condleeza Rice once said, politics is the art of making the impossible inevitable. That ain't this.
December 20, 2025 at 4:26 PM
“Politicians should do what wins elections” is asinine for moral reasons but also, no one knows what will win an election! Yglesias et al keep acting like there’s some obvious set of policies or words that will guarantee victory but Harris basically did what they wanted and she lost.
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Does anyone wanna see a really good Getty image of Rita Moreno and Sam The Eagle having dinner in 1979?
December 20, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Does anyone wanna see a really good Getty image of Rita Moreno and Sam The Eagle having dinner in 1979?
Avengers: Sinecure War
oh no all the fake journalists funded by billionaires to divide the electorate and destroy informed consensus are now fighting with each other
Megyn Kelly Hits Back at ‘Coward’ Ben Shapiro, Says Bari Weiss Is ‘Afraid’ of Her
Megyn Kelly sparred with CBS News editor-in-chief Barri Weiss on Friday, calling her and Ben Shapiro "cowards" and accusing them of attacking her in public "without so much as a phone call."
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December 20, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Avengers: Sinecure War
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Woman comes to US at age 6. Graduates nursing school. Work permit. No criminal record. Snatched and imprisoned by ICE for 6 months now. About to be forced back to Honduras. A life destroyed and one less nurse. Merry Christmas.
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December 20, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Woman comes to US at age 6. Graduates nursing school. Work permit. No criminal record. Snatched and imprisoned by ICE for 6 months now. About to be forced back to Honduras. A life destroyed and one less nurse. Merry Christmas.
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That definitely calmed things down ….
Lawmakers Threaten Prosecution, Impeachment if DOJ Officials Blow Epstein Files Deadline talkingpointsmemo.com/news/impeach...
Lawmakers Threaten Prosecution, Impeachment if DOJ Officials Blow Epstein Files Deadline talkingpointsmemo.com/news/impeach...
Lawmakers Threaten Prosecution, Impeachment if DOJ Officials Blow Epstein Files Deadline
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said that the Justice Department is only...
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December 19, 2025 at 11:19 PM
That definitely calmed things down ….
Lawmakers Threaten Prosecution, Impeachment if DOJ Officials Blow Epstein Files Deadline talkingpointsmemo.com/news/impeach...
Lawmakers Threaten Prosecution, Impeachment if DOJ Officials Blow Epstein Files Deadline talkingpointsmemo.com/news/impeach...
I feel as if Joyce Carol Oates is writing an essay on an actual boxer knocking a loud mouth pretender the f out and the fall of the attention economy
December 20, 2025 at 11:37 AM
I feel as if Joyce Carol Oates is writing an essay on an actual boxer knocking a loud mouth pretender the f out and the fall of the attention economy
“Down goes the influencer, down goes the influencer”
Former heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua defeated social media star-turned boxer Jake Paul with a knockout in the sixth round of the pair's bout.
Anthony Joshua knocks out Jake Paul in the sixth round
The former unified heavyweight champion showed why he was the heavy favorite with a brutal finish late in the bout.
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December 20, 2025 at 10:22 AM
“Down goes the influencer, down goes the influencer”
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Excellent news: Paulina Borsook's "Cyberselfish"—which warned of toxic tech politics back in 2000—will be republished in 2026!
Will share full details when they become public.
You can support her work here: www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...
Will share full details when they become public.
You can support her work here: www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...
December 20, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Excellent news: Paulina Borsook's "Cyberselfish"—which warned of toxic tech politics back in 2000—will be republished in 2026!
Will share full details when they become public.
You can support her work here: www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...
Will share full details when they become public.
You can support her work here: www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...
Surprise surprise
December 19, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Surprise surprise
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the main reward you are likely to get for total loyalty to trump is the destruction of your career and your reputation www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...
Elise Stefanik Drops Out of N.Y. Governor’s Race and Will Leave Congress
www.nytimes.com
December 19, 2025 at 9:19 PM
the main reward you are likely to get for total loyalty to trump is the destruction of your career and your reputation www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...
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In last night’s Presidential address, Donald Trump promised financial presents in the New Year. “The speech had a whiff of desperation about it,” @sbg1.bsky.social writes. Does he secretly know that America isn’t buying what he’s selling? newyorkermag.visitlink.me/C45yqs
Merry Christmas, America! The Checks Are in the Mail!
On Donald Trump’s insaaaane holiday message to the nation.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
December 19, 2025 at 1:30 AM
In last night’s Presidential address, Donald Trump promised financial presents in the New Year. “The speech had a whiff of desperation about it,” @sbg1.bsky.social writes. Does he secretly know that America isn’t buying what he’s selling? newyorkermag.visitlink.me/C45yqs
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incredible that the oldest scam in the book — “look away from the greed and poor leadership that destroy your chance to make a career, it is the [blanks] that stole your job!” — still works
December 17, 2025 at 10:01 PM
incredible that the oldest scam in the book — “look away from the greed and poor leadership that destroy your chance to make a career, it is the [blanks] that stole your job!” — still works
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Absolutely. And this should be required reading 👇 www.propublica.org/article/russ...
Russell Vought, Trump’s Shadow President
From the wholesale gutting of federal agencies to the ongoing government shutdown, Russell Vought has drawn the road map for Trump’s second term. Vought has consolidated power to an extent that inside...
www.propublica.org
December 17, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Absolutely. And this should be required reading 👇 www.propublica.org/article/russ...
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LUHAN: Is the FCC an independent agency?
CARR: I think th---
L: Yes or no
C: There's a test for this in the la---
L: It's yes or no, Brendan! On your website, it simply says, man, 'the FCC is independent.' This isn't a trick question
C: The FCC is not
L: So is your website lying?
C: Possibly
CARR: I think th---
L: Yes or no
C: There's a test for this in the la---
L: It's yes or no, Brendan! On your website, it simply says, man, 'the FCC is independent.' This isn't a trick question
C: The FCC is not
L: So is your website lying?
C: Possibly
December 17, 2025 at 4:54 PM
LUHAN: Is the FCC an independent agency?
CARR: I think th---
L: Yes or no
C: There's a test for this in the la---
L: It's yes or no, Brendan! On your website, it simply says, man, 'the FCC is independent.' This isn't a trick question
C: The FCC is not
L: So is your website lying?
C: Possibly
CARR: I think th---
L: Yes or no
C: There's a test for this in the la---
L: It's yes or no, Brendan! On your website, it simply says, man, 'the FCC is independent.' This isn't a trick question
C: The FCC is not
L: So is your website lying?
C: Possibly
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Jake and Romy Reiner, children of Rob and Michele Reiner and siblings of Nick:
“We now ask for respect and privacy, for speculation to be tempered with compassion and humanity, and for our parents to be remembered for the incredible lives they lived and the love they gave.”
“We now ask for respect and privacy, for speculation to be tempered with compassion and humanity, and for our parents to be remembered for the incredible lives they lived and the love they gave.”
December 17, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Jake and Romy Reiner, children of Rob and Michele Reiner and siblings of Nick:
“We now ask for respect and privacy, for speculation to be tempered with compassion and humanity, and for our parents to be remembered for the incredible lives they lived and the love they gave.”
“We now ask for respect and privacy, for speculation to be tempered with compassion and humanity, and for our parents to be remembered for the incredible lives they lived and the love they gave.”
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The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story.
Holy. Shit.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
Holy. Shit.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
December 17, 2025 at 8:34 PM
The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story.
Holy. Shit.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
Holy. Shit.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
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Following the news of the murder of Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele, on his flailing social media platform, Trump issued an ugly rant.
This foul and hate-driven conduct is nothing new. But his post about Rob suggests that he might be losing the ability to restrain himself.
This foul and hate-driven conduct is nothing new. But his post about Rob suggests that he might be losing the ability to restrain himself.
Rob Reiner was a mensch. In death, he showed us Trump’s a schmuck.
The president's remarks about the murder of the filmmaker and his wife cast Trump as petty and callous.
www.motherjones.com
December 16, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Following the news of the murder of Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele, on his flailing social media platform, Trump issued an ugly rant.
This foul and hate-driven conduct is nothing new. But his post about Rob suggests that he might be losing the ability to restrain himself.
This foul and hate-driven conduct is nothing new. But his post about Rob suggests that he might be losing the ability to restrain himself.
Is anyone even surprised? CBSNewsMax.
December 16, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Is anyone even surprised? CBSNewsMax.
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I’m sorry, but that’s not how this works.
December 16, 2025 at 7:44 PM
I’m sorry, but that’s not how this works.
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Why did Donald Trump pardon a former president who was convicted of trafficking hundreds of tons of cocaine and taking millions of dollars in bribes?
Follow the tech bros.
Follow the tech bros.
December 16, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Why did Donald Trump pardon a former president who was convicted of trafficking hundreds of tons of cocaine and taking millions of dollars in bribes?
Follow the tech bros.
Follow the tech bros.
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Underground Legal Clinics Offer a Lifeline to Migrants Facing Mass Deportation talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/unde...
Underground Legal Clinics Offer a Lifeline to Migrants Facing Mass Deportation
At his clinic, John Sirabella is a hard man to talk to. ...
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December 15, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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When you've lost Marjorie Taylor Green on human decency...
December 15, 2025 at 8:01 PM
When you've lost Marjorie Taylor Green on human decency...