Jon Virtes
@jonvirtes.bsky.social
Social Media & Digital Marketing Strategist specializing in healthcare & technology.
Love games, music, culture & animals. Previously at Flipboard, Activision, Pandemic Studios, Liquid Grids
Love games, music, culture & animals. Previously at Flipboard, Activision, Pandemic Studios, Liquid Grids
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via The New Yorker, Ellis Rosen cartoon
December 23, 2025 at 5:31 AM
via The New Yorker, Ellis Rosen cartoon
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Had Bari Weiss just ran the story, it would have been seen by a couple million people tops. The bootleg has now gone viral, and may end up being the most-watched 60 Minutes segment ever. It might be time to rename the Streisand Effect.
BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment
I was sent the CECOT segment anonymously in a group chat.
www.muellershewrote.com
December 23, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Had Bari Weiss just ran the story, it would have been seen by a couple million people tops. The bootleg has now gone viral, and may end up being the most-watched 60 Minutes segment ever. It might be time to rename the Streisand Effect.
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How much worse can it get?
Way mo’!
Way mo’!
Around half of San Francisco is without power right now and something like 1/3rd of intersections I drove through had waymos stopped in the middle of them making a dangerous situation even worse.
Do not let Waymo into your city.
Do not let Waymo into your city.
December 21, 2025 at 7:31 AM
How much worse can it get?
Way mo’!
Way mo’!
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why not put count von count into various vampire scenes: thread
December 20, 2025 at 4:17 PM
why not put count von count into various vampire scenes: thread
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Me: I don’t see the appeal of boxing
TV: OK but what if it’s professional boxers savagely brutalizing influencers
Me:
TV: OK but what if it’s professional boxers savagely brutalizing influencers
Me:
December 20, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Me: I don’t see the appeal of boxing
TV: OK but what if it’s professional boxers savagely brutalizing influencers
Me:
TV: OK but what if it’s professional boxers savagely brutalizing influencers
Me:
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WATCH: CNN’s Daniel Dale fact checks Trump's unhinged "presidential" address tonight as only he can.
Dale can barely get through all the nonsense Trump spewed this evening.
Spread this far and wide.
#DonTheCon
Dale can barely get through all the nonsense Trump spewed this evening.
Spread this far and wide.
#DonTheCon
December 18, 2025 at 3:52 AM
WATCH: CNN’s Daniel Dale fact checks Trump's unhinged "presidential" address tonight as only he can.
Dale can barely get through all the nonsense Trump spewed this evening.
Spread this far and wide.
#DonTheCon
Dale can barely get through all the nonsense Trump spewed this evening.
Spread this far and wide.
#DonTheCon
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A story I found about Haiti:
In 1999, a group of Haitians were tired of political disorder and dreamed of a better life in the United States. So they built a small, 23-foot boat by hand using pine trees, scrap wood, and used nails. They called the boat "Believe in God."
In 1999, a group of Haitians were tired of political disorder and dreamed of a better life in the United States. So they built a small, 23-foot boat by hand using pine trees, scrap wood, and used nails. They called the boat "Believe in God."
December 18, 2025 at 2:43 AM
A story I found about Haiti:
In 1999, a group of Haitians were tired of political disorder and dreamed of a better life in the United States. So they built a small, 23-foot boat by hand using pine trees, scrap wood, and used nails. They called the boat "Believe in God."
In 1999, a group of Haitians were tired of political disorder and dreamed of a better life in the United States. So they built a small, 23-foot boat by hand using pine trees, scrap wood, and used nails. They called the boat "Believe in God."
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My sainted mother, who only has a Bluesky account to keep track of her son's nonsense, has responded for the first time in her entire time on the platform to clarify to one of you that no, Buck Rogers was not successful in his attempt, and I feel like I've unlocked a hidden achievement of some kind.
I've famously told this story on podcasts a number of times, but I met Gil Gerard as a kid at a celebrity tennis tournament and he tried to pick up my mom right in front of me. Was I mad? No. Buck Rogers tried to fuck my mom, which is the most Buck Rogers thing he could do. Lived up to the legend.
December 17, 2025 at 9:31 PM
My sainted mother, who only has a Bluesky account to keep track of her son's nonsense, has responded for the first time in her entire time on the platform to clarify to one of you that no, Buck Rogers was not successful in his attempt, and I feel like I've unlocked a hidden achievement of some kind.
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Dr Russell D. Moore is a theologian, pastor, and the editor in chief of Christianity Today.
December 15, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Dr Russell D. Moore is a theologian, pastor, and the editor in chief of Christianity Today.
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Seems like yesterday.
25 years ago today, SCOTUS elected George W Bush president of the United States by blocking completion of a voting canvass in Florida. A subsequent canvass by the Associated Press showed that Bush's rival, Al Gore, had won the race in Florida—and thus the contest for the presidency—by 700 votes.
December 12, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Seems like yesterday.
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December 8, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announces another boat strike in response to a request/wish from Turning Point USA’s Andrew Kolvet.
December 5, 2025 at 2:28 AM
They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.
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There's a new Gallup poll out today, and wow, Americans have really soured on Donald Trump.
December 2, 2025 at 3:22 AM
There's a new Gallup poll out today, and wow, Americans have really soured on Donald Trump.
Post Malone’s stylist getting him ready for his halftime performance…
November 27, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Post Malone’s stylist getting him ready for his halftime performance…
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i was going through my X archives and found this by @superpodsaga.com, which I qrt'd at some point years ago
so, let me bring the question back: what is the most useless piece of video game knowledge you know?
so, let me bring the question back: what is the most useless piece of video game knowledge you know?
July 4, 2025 at 8:59 PM
i was going through my X archives and found this by @superpodsaga.com, which I qrt'd at some point years ago
so, let me bring the question back: what is the most useless piece of video game knowledge you know?
so, let me bring the question back: what is the most useless piece of video game knowledge you know?
I’m getting too old for this shit, Charlie Brown.
I'm not even supposed to be here today, Charlie Brown!
Strange Things are Afoot at the Circle K, Charlie Brown
November 24, 2025 at 2:22 AM
I’m getting too old for this shit, Charlie Brown.
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congratulations everyone. having met our "enough Internet for the day" quotas within moments of logging on, we're all free now
November 22, 2025 at 3:36 PM
congratulations everyone. having met our "enough Internet for the day" quotas within moments of logging on, we're all free now
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This is an extraordinary thread. Please read every word.
THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
November 21, 2025 at 5:43 AM
This is an extraordinary thread. Please read every word.
California needs a fighter and protector. I’m running for Governor.
November 21, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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I'm so stoked that my favorite Congressional Rep is running for governor of California!
If you're excited about this, too, I wanna follow you!
Use hashtag #Swalwell4Governor today & tomorrow & I will follow you.
If you're excited about this, too, I wanna follow you!
Use hashtag #Swalwell4Governor today & tomorrow & I will follow you.
November 21, 2025 at 6:54 AM
I'm so stoked that my favorite Congressional Rep is running for governor of California!
If you're excited about this, too, I wanna follow you!
Use hashtag #Swalwell4Governor today & tomorrow & I will follow you.
If you're excited about this, too, I wanna follow you!
Use hashtag #Swalwell4Governor today & tomorrow & I will follow you.
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Whoa, this is wild.
Either Thune played Johnson or Johnson tried to play us and failed. Either way, Johnson looks like a fool and Trump has lost his grip on Congress.
@lawrenceodonnelljr.bsky.social just blew it open 🔥
Either Thune played Johnson or Johnson tried to play us and failed. Either way, Johnson looks like a fool and Trump has lost his grip on Congress.
@lawrenceodonnelljr.bsky.social just blew it open 🔥
November 19, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Whoa, this is wild.
Either Thune played Johnson or Johnson tried to play us and failed. Either way, Johnson looks like a fool and Trump has lost his grip on Congress.
@lawrenceodonnelljr.bsky.social just blew it open 🔥
Either Thune played Johnson or Johnson tried to play us and failed. Either way, Johnson looks like a fool and Trump has lost his grip on Congress.
@lawrenceodonnelljr.bsky.social just blew it open 🔥
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Powerful.
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Powerful.
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I wanted to share probably the most important sermon I’ve given and it’s while I’m being arrested. It’s torture pure and simple what happens at #Broadview. I’m ok, though I was thrown to the ground and choked with my pectoral cross. A review of the video shows I was peaceful - did I deserve this?
November 15, 2025 at 5:57 AM
I wanted to share probably the most important sermon I’ve given and it’s while I’m being arrested. It’s torture pure and simple what happens at #Broadview. I’m ok, though I was thrown to the ground and choked with my pectoral cross. A review of the video shows I was peaceful - did I deserve this?
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For any other president this would be heralded as the disastrous policy failure of a floundering and indecisive chief executive
So let me get this right, Trump’s plan was:
1. Tariff everything to help the economy (it didn’t)
2. Claim consumers aren’t paying tariffs (we are)
3. Panic & roll back food tariffs b/c you created an affordability crisis (we told you)
Arsonist claiming to be a firefighter.
1. Tariff everything to help the economy (it didn’t)
2. Claim consumers aren’t paying tariffs (we are)
3. Panic & roll back food tariffs b/c you created an affordability crisis (we told you)
Arsonist claiming to be a firefighter.
Trump Implements Major Rollback of Food Tariffs
The president moved to lower duties on beef, coffee and dozens of other goods, as he looks for ways to address Americans’ concerns about the cost of living.
www.wsj.com
November 15, 2025 at 1:48 AM
For any other president this would be heralded as the disastrous policy failure of a floundering and indecisive chief executive