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John Jackson
@jpj.bsky.social
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Historian of scientific racism. Here's how to find all my stuff: https://www.johnpjacksonjr.com/
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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 16h
You'd think that after qualified prosecutors told Trump this was a no-go and he appointed a completely unqualified insurance lawyer to prosecute the case that a conviction would be a slam dunk! Who, besides everyone, could have predicted this?
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 16h
Prosecution of Comey looks headed to a dead end.

"Federal prosecutors ... determined that a central witness in their probe would ... likely prevent them from establishing their case to a jury."

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Central witness undermines case against James Comey, prosecutors concluded: Sources
Ex-FBI Director James Comey is set to be arraigned Wednesday, but prosecutors investigating him determined that a central witness would prove "problematic," sources say.
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 1d
Evolutionary psychologists have claimed that "humans evolved heightened sensitivity to harm directed at women." This excellent (albeit at times gruesome) post makes the point that the ethnographic evidence does not really support this narrative.
Did humans evolve to 'protect' women?
Ethnography complicates a convenient narrative
traditionsofconflict.substack.com
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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 2d
The declaration of war. On you and me. www.justsecurity.org/121940/trump...
Trump’s Outline of a Domestic War
Former Undersecretary of Navy discusses import of President Trump's remarks to active duty military leaders at Quantico.
www.justsecurity.org
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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 2d
My "Representative," Tom Barrett has long ago stopped answering my letters even though I check the box asking him to respond. Wonder why?

democracyandme.bearblog.dev/to-tom-barre...
To Tom Barrett, October 6, 2025
Tom Barrett's Letter to Constituents, October 6, 2025. "While I remain open to having a conversation about the soon-to-expire ACA Tax Credits that Democra...
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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 2d
Consistency is so important. We all should thank Pinker for remaining a pompous buffoon. archive.ph/Adl0n#select...
This is the kind of public intellectualism that makes the public hate intellectuals. Instead of showing what ideas have to teach us about life, Pinker holds a gun to life’s head and demands it conform to his thought experiments. And he does it with the patronizing tone of someone telling his readers what to think from on high. In one passage, prompting us to imagine increasingly higher-order levels of knowledge about knowledge, he virtually pats us on the head. “Now let’s try four layers,” he writes. After we’ve tackled four, he asks, encouragingly, “Think you can handle a fifth layer?”
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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 3d
I've never seen Saturday Night Fever. I've never seen Titanic.
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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 3d
A Trump-appointed judge eviscerates Trump's DOJ. www.lawdork.com/p/judge-bloc...
Federal judge blocks Trump's National Guard mobilization in Oregon
"The President’s determination" that the Guard was needed "was simply untethered to the facts," Judge Karin Immergut, a Trump appointee, found. DOJ is appealing.
www.lawdork.com
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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 4d
A sign for the Trump administration.
Black and white photograph of a sign in 1939 from a department store that reads, "Buy now, before the price rise."
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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 4d
You'd think that Trump only appointing people whose chief qualification is unflinching loyalty to Trump would guarantee a crack legal team but such appears not to be the case. www.justsecurity.org/121844/trump...
Legal Flaws in the Trump Administration’s Notice to Congress on “Armed Conflict” with Drug Cartels
Top legal expert analyzes the Trump administration's notice to Congress of an "armed conflict" with drug cartels.
www.justsecurity.org
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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 4d
Q Shaman is seriously in favor of Coco Puffs. www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/phoenix...
QAnon Shaman says he's rightful president, sues Trump for $40 trillion
In a rambling complaint, Jacob Chansley claims DJs are spies, that the NSA stole his work for a Batman movie and more.
www.phoenixnewtimes.com
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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 6d
Background on the $1.5 billion settlement. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
US judge preliminarily approves $1.5 billion Anthropic copyright settlement
A federal judge in California on Thursday preliminarily approved a landmark $1.5 billion settlement of a copyright class action brought by a group of authors against artificial intelligence company Anthropic, according to the authors' representatives.
www.reuters.com
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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 6d
If you are a writer, you can search for works Anthropic ripped off and if your work was you can join the class action suit against them. secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup
Submit a Claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com
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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 6d
My letter to my "Representative" Tom Barrett, aka Trump's Michigan lapdog. democracyandme.bearblog.dev/new-post-new/
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Excerpt from Rep. Tom Barrett's Newsletter, October 2, 2025: "Despite my vote to keep it open, the federal government shut down overnight after Senate Dem...
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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 8d
On the failures of censorship. theconversation.com/censorship-c...
Censorship campaigns can have a way of backfiring – look no further than the fate of America’s most prolific censor
Anthony Comstock’s decades-long censorship campaign ended up turning him into a laughingstock.
theconversation.com
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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 9d
An interchange between A. Philip Randolph, one of the most important Black leaders for civil rights in the twentieth-century and Senator Allen Ellender, a racist Louisianian who happened to be a US Senator in 1947. Ellender's incredulity at being expected to use "Mr." with a Black man is stunning.
Mr. RANDOLPH. Then I want to say to Senator Ellender that I don't know you too well to have you calling me Randolph... Senator ELLENDER: You wouldn't expect me to call you "Mr.Randolph"? Mr. RANDOLPH i. Nothing but that.
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 10d
ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards
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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 10d
International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science -- #HOPOS 2026
Ohio State University, Columbus (OH)
22 to 26 June 2026

NEW Submission Deadline: 15 October 2025, 11:59 (PT) & remote option for scholars unable to travel to US
hopos2026.dryfta.com.
#HPS #philsky 🗃️
HOPOS 2026
Paper and symposium proposals for HOPOS 2026 can now be submitted through this web site. For detailed instructions, plea
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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 11d
The delicious incompetence of the Trump administration. They are fascists who can't even get the trains to run on time. www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/26/w...
Will Ted Cruz Go to Prison for the Lies He Told as Part of the Jim Comey Indictment? - emptywheel
According to the public record, Jim Comey didn't lie in an exchange with Ted Cruz on September 30, 2020. Ted Cruz did.
www.emptywheel.net
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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 12d
No one did anything? 5000 FBI agents got 1500 insurrectionist to federal court and about 2/4ths of them were convicted. That is something. Enough? No, but don't say it was nothing.
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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 12d
If anyone is wondering, yes, this is how our news accurately reports how Michiganders talk about our roads.
Whitmer: We have a deal Michigan has a budget deal, sparing the possibility of a government shutdown next week and setting aside more than $1.5 billion to help finally fix the damn roads, state officials announced Thursday night.
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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 12d
One can only speculate as to the reason for that. But imagine that you just started a brand new job. Imagine you didn’t know what you’re doing, and your relevant experience was non-existent. Imagine that all of your employees have counseled against the course you are taking. But imagine as well that you have no choice because the only reason you have the job is that you agreed to pursue this indictment. Imagine that your predecessor lost the job you now have because he would not do this particular piece of dirty work. Imagine you have been warned that the evidence just isn’t there to proceed with the case.
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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 12d
Out of the closet at last. www.rawstory.com/alex-jones-2...
Alex Jones sports Hitler mustache in shocking broadcast: 'It had a wild effect on women'
Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones said he was conducting a "social experiment" by sporting a mustache in the style of Adolf Hitler — and claimed that it made him more attractive to women.Jones opened his...
www.rawstory.com
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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 12d
Next big headline will be: "Pete Hesgeth calls for arrest of Dustin Hoffman for his role in Little Big Man."
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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 13d
"The danger to all of this is one basic thing: the world is learning –again — not to listen to the United States." www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/24/w...
What Trump's UNGA Speech Tells the World - emptywheel
In one speech, Donald Trump gave the world a lot to think about, and none of it was good.
www.emptywheel.net
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John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 14d
I'm sure this is all the fault of the liberals and leftists who forced them to do this stuff.
Paxton, Robert O. 2004. The Anatomy of Fascism. Knopf: p. 218. "Fascism may be defined as a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victimoiod and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion."
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