Jay Jackson
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here's today's post: "wishcasting our merry way to hell: how the press utterly failed us in 2025" — what the hell do they imagine they’re doing?
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wishcasting our merry way to hell: how the press utterly failed us in 2025
what the hell do they imagine they’re doing?
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December 28, 2025 at 4:01 PM
here's today's post: "wishcasting our merry way to hell: how the press utterly failed us in 2025" — what the hell do they imagine they’re doing?
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I'd say it was before that -- I'm old enough to remember how, after 9/11, traditional media handled W with kid gloves lest they appear unpatriotic. He and his cronies took advantage of this, and now we have a press corp more interested in proximity to power than holding that power to account
It probably isn't possible to pinpoint when traditional journalism went off the rails (though I might look very closely at 2016) but this should be the kind of thing that galvanizes resistance from journalists, not something that passes with a shrug.
I mean, look, I'm not a reporter, so who am I to talk?
But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.
But that's just me
But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.
But that's just me
November 19, 2025 at 5:45 AM
I'd say it was before that -- I'm old enough to remember how, after 9/11, traditional media handled W with kid gloves lest they appear unpatriotic. He and his cronies took advantage of this, and now we have a press corp more interested in proximity to power than holding that power to account
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I mean, look, I'm not a reporter, so who am I to talk?
But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.
But that's just me
But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.
But that's just me
November 18, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I mean, look, I'm not a reporter, so who am I to talk?
But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.
But that's just me
But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.
But that's just me
Without downloading new pics, what's it like dating you?
October 23, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Without downloading new pics, what's it like dating you?
I just want to point out that it's been over 20 years since Firefly premiered and Morena Baccarin hasn't aged a single day
October 13, 2025 at 9:29 PM
I just want to point out that it's been over 20 years since Firefly premiered and Morena Baccarin hasn't aged a single day
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A long time ago, things were getting pretty serious between me and my SO. I was planning on proposing, and after a quiet homemade lunch and setting up for a movie night, I steeled myself to pop the question.
October 12, 2025 at 10:46 AM
A long time ago, things were getting pretty serious between me and my SO. I was planning on proposing, and after a quiet homemade lunch and setting up for a movie night, I steeled myself to pop the question.
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A man is driving down the road and breaks down near a monastery. He goes to the monastery, knocks on the door, and says, “My car broke down. Do you think I could stay the night?”
October 12, 2025 at 1:44 PM
A man is driving down the road and breaks down near a monastery. He goes to the monastery, knocks on the door, and says, “My car broke down. Do you think I could stay the night?”
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Good people need to start outing their ICE family members, neighbors, and community members.
They need to be made into pariahs in the places decent Americans gather.
They need to be made into pariahs in the places decent Americans gather.
October 12, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Good people need to start outing their ICE family members, neighbors, and community members.
They need to be made into pariahs in the places decent Americans gather.
They need to be made into pariahs in the places decent Americans gather.
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DISNEY: "OK, we are putting Jimmy Kimmel back on the air. You can resubscribe now."
ME: "I unsubscribed because you immorally bowed to fascism. I'm not going to resubscribe because you immorally bowed to finances."
ME: "I unsubscribed because you immorally bowed to fascism. I'm not going to resubscribe because you immorally bowed to finances."
September 22, 2025 at 9:14 PM
DISNEY: "OK, we are putting Jimmy Kimmel back on the air. You can resubscribe now."
ME: "I unsubscribed because you immorally bowed to fascism. I'm not going to resubscribe because you immorally bowed to finances."
ME: "I unsubscribed because you immorally bowed to fascism. I'm not going to resubscribe because you immorally bowed to finances."
My friend took pictures of me in Pittsburgh and I think they look pretty rad 💙
September 16, 2025 at 4:29 PM
My friend took pictures of me in Pittsburgh and I think they look pretty rad 💙
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Sorry, can’t get over how easily the “words aren’t violence” crowd pivot to “white is a slur” “cis is a slur” or “rape accusations ruin lives “
I’m so fucking tired of you yokels.
I’m so fucking tired of you yokels.
September 13, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Sorry, can’t get over how easily the “words aren’t violence” crowd pivot to “white is a slur” “cis is a slur” or “rape accusations ruin lives “
I’m so fucking tired of you yokels.
I’m so fucking tired of you yokels.
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The only way you genuinely believe Kirk never harmed anyone is if you're cis, white, and think human rights are an academic exercise.
September 12, 2025 at 12:49 AM
The only way you genuinely believe Kirk never harmed anyone is if you're cis, white, and think human rights are an academic exercise.
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Charlie Kirk advocated for and promoted political violence every day of his life, and his work is a large part of why we are where we are.
Do not weep for Nazis.
Do not weep for Nazis.
This is so tragic. The endless horror of gun violence in this country should be unacceptable to all of us. And there can be no tolerance for political violence in America. I’m pulling for Mr. Kirk and thinking of his family and the survivors.
A person is in custody after Charlie Kirk was shot at an event at Utah Valley University.
Follow live updates: https://cnn.it/469MXDi
Follow live updates: https://cnn.it/469MXDi
September 10, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Charlie Kirk advocated for and promoted political violence every day of his life, and his work is a large part of why we are where we are.
Do not weep for Nazis.
Do not weep for Nazis.
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Some in Congress can’t muster maturity when they have a transgender colleague. But members of the U.S. Armed Forces can—and have.
My NDAA amendments repeal Trump’s cruel trans military ban & restore retirement benefits to trans veterans forced out of service.
My NDAA amendments repeal Trump’s cruel trans military ban & restore retirement benefits to trans veterans forced out of service.
September 9, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Some in Congress can’t muster maturity when they have a transgender colleague. But members of the U.S. Armed Forces can—and have.
My NDAA amendments repeal Trump’s cruel trans military ban & restore retirement benefits to trans veterans forced out of service.
My NDAA amendments repeal Trump’s cruel trans military ban & restore retirement benefits to trans veterans forced out of service.
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I’m 41. In my life, every single professed value of the right has turned out to be a bad faith lie they said to amass power: small government? ICE raids & book bans. Free market? Kleptocracy & mercantilist tariffs. Free speech? Arresting protesters and firing professors. It was always a lie.
September 10, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I’m 41. In my life, every single professed value of the right has turned out to be a bad faith lie they said to amass power: small government? ICE raids & book bans. Free market? Kleptocracy & mercantilist tariffs. Free speech? Arresting protesters and firing professors. It was always a lie.
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Any tech experts here? My laptop stops working when I pour soup all over it. Slamming it repeatedly in the fridge door doesn't help. Software issue?
September 5, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Any tech experts here? My laptop stops working when I pour soup all over it. Slamming it repeatedly in the fridge door doesn't help. Software issue?
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When I was in the Army, we had a term for a soldier whom everyone else despised.
We called them "That Guy."
That Guy could be any rank: private, sergeant, lieutenant, colonel.
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We called them "That Guy."
That Guy could be any rank: private, sergeant, lieutenant, colonel.
(thread)
September 6, 2025 at 2:57 AM
When I was in the Army, we had a term for a soldier whom everyone else despised.
We called them "That Guy."
That Guy could be any rank: private, sergeant, lieutenant, colonel.
(thread)
We called them "That Guy."
That Guy could be any rank: private, sergeant, lieutenant, colonel.
(thread)
Ngl, spiralling pretty hard, pretty fast, out of nowhere
September 3, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Ngl, spiralling pretty hard, pretty fast, out of nowhere
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On gerrymandering and the looming electoral arms race
August 19, 2025 at 10:47 PM
On gerrymandering and the looming electoral arms race
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Sharing this again for no particular reason.
#StarTrek #BellRiots @trekculture.bsky.social
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#StarTrek #BellRiots @trekculture.bsky.social
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Star Trek: 10 Things You Didn't Know About The Bell Riots
YouTube video by TrekCulture
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August 11, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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#StarTrek #BellRiots @trekculture.bsky.social
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If the leaders aren’t leading make them do something else. Fire them all.
August 7, 2025 at 9:43 PM
If the leaders aren’t leading make them do something else. Fire them all.
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In 1950, Adorno argues that the authoritarian personality is in part a result of the US treating the news as entertainment.
He says here politics looks boring in comparison to sport, which encourages apathy. Implied is the fact that "entertaining" news is part of authoritarian projects.
He says here politics looks boring in comparison to sport, which encourages apathy. Implied is the fact that "entertaining" news is part of authoritarian projects.
July 30, 2025 at 5:35 PM
In 1950, Adorno argues that the authoritarian personality is in part a result of the US treating the news as entertainment.
He says here politics looks boring in comparison to sport, which encourages apathy. Implied is the fact that "entertaining" news is part of authoritarian projects.
He says here politics looks boring in comparison to sport, which encourages apathy. Implied is the fact that "entertaining" news is part of authoritarian projects.