JValinton
@jvalinton.bsky.social
Seattle sports fan, news junkie, poker aficionado.
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Frank Sinatra - P.S. I Love You
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December 12, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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The FACTS about January 6, 2021…
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December 8, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Went back to the history of the Sicilian Mafia to illustrate something obvious but worth stating explicitly: The Trump administration behaves like an organized crime syndicate running a protection racket, not a representative government www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
November 8, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Went back to the history of the Sicilian Mafia to illustrate something obvious but worth stating explicitly: The Trump administration behaves like an organized crime syndicate running a protection racket, not a representative government www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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The second edition of the new How To Read This Chart is out.
Demography, chart games and a map of the world’s kings. Dig in. www.howtoreadthisch.art/r/e0489c52?m...
Demography, chart games and a map of the world’s kings. Dig in. www.howtoreadthisch.art/r/e0489c52?m...
The ebbs and flows of the nation
Prologue
About that picture
As you are likely aware, this newsletter is the resurrection of one that I wrote for years while I was at The Washington Post. That means that I am adjusting my muscle mem...
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October 18, 2025 at 2:01 PM
The second edition of the new How To Read This Chart is out.
Demography, chart games and a map of the world’s kings. Dig in. www.howtoreadthisch.art/r/e0489c52?m...
Demography, chart games and a map of the world’s kings. Dig in. www.howtoreadthisch.art/r/e0489c52?m...
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If you’d like a more realistic assessment; I wrote about it today. www.pbump.net/o/dethawing-...
Thawing out ‘Arctic Frost’ and the new Biden-was-worse argument
A recent American presidency, you may be alarmed to hear, engaged in an action that was "arguably worse than Watergate" — an event still positioned in some circles as the gold-standard of presidential...
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October 9, 2025 at 12:48 AM
If you’d like a more realistic assessment; I wrote about it today. www.pbump.net/o/dethawing-...
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I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:
Live: Speaking on Trump, Musk, and America’s Moral Moment on the Senate Floor | Senator Cory Booker
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March 31, 2025 at 11:00 PM
I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:
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It’s amazing to me that politicians don’t commit to post first on @bsky.app and to engage with constituents here
THIS is more powerful than CNN , MSNBC, The Post will ever be.
You can broadcast for 9 mins on a declining medium, or engage here and start a real discussion.
Which is more powerful?
THIS is more powerful than CNN , MSNBC, The Post will ever be.
You can broadcast for 9 mins on a declining medium, or engage here and start a real discussion.
Which is more powerful?
January 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
It’s amazing to me that politicians don’t commit to post first on @bsky.app and to engage with constituents here
THIS is more powerful than CNN , MSNBC, The Post will ever be.
You can broadcast for 9 mins on a declining medium, or engage here and start a real discussion.
Which is more powerful?
THIS is more powerful than CNN , MSNBC, The Post will ever be.
You can broadcast for 9 mins on a declining medium, or engage here and start a real discussion.
Which is more powerful?
@drgurner.bsky.social Just signed up for your Substack. Looking forward to it!
December 7, 2024 at 7:21 PM
@drgurner.bsky.social Just signed up for your Substack. Looking forward to it!
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Twitter's principal utility (from a content curation perspective) is in journalists' willingness to post there; without it, Twitter quickly becomes 4chan. Journalists, make it happen. The only thing keeping you there is stasis. We can have nice things.
December 1, 2024 at 2:11 AM
Twitter's principal utility (from a content curation perspective) is in journalists' willingness to post there; without it, Twitter quickly becomes 4chan. Journalists, make it happen. The only thing keeping you there is stasis. We can have nice things.
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What Jon Hickman & Nick Spencer are doing w/ Mike Del Mundo & Mike Huddleston at @3w3m.bsky.social is nothing less than genius.
If you want to dive into their new universe, get the beautiful [ONE] collection by contributing to kck.st/4f41t2G before the campaign ends today!
If you want to dive into their new universe, get the beautiful [ONE] collection by contributing to kck.st/4f41t2G before the campaign ends today!
3W3M [ONE] • HICKMAN • HUDDLESTON • DEL MUNDO • SPENCER
The starting point to our new universe, featuring Jonathan Hickman, Mike del Mundo, Mike Huddleston, Nick Spencer, and many more!
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November 27, 2024 at 6:55 PM
What Jon Hickman & Nick Spencer are doing w/ Mike Del Mundo & Mike Huddleston at @3w3m.bsky.social is nothing less than genius.
If you want to dive into their new universe, get the beautiful [ONE] collection by contributing to kck.st/4f41t2G before the campaign ends today!
If you want to dive into their new universe, get the beautiful [ONE] collection by contributing to kck.st/4f41t2G before the campaign ends today!
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We're hosting a giveaway for the Closed Beta!
To enter the drawing:
🔞 Be +18 of age
🦋 Follow us on Bsky
🔁 Repost and like this message
📝 Complete the Beta Player survey
Winners will be contacted via DM next week.
Check our forum post for more information: forums.funcom.com/t/268073
To enter the drawing:
🔞 Be +18 of age
🦋 Follow us on Bsky
🔁 Repost and like this message
📝 Complete the Beta Player survey
Winners will be contacted via DM next week.
Check our forum post for more information: forums.funcom.com/t/268073
November 26, 2024 at 4:13 PM
We're hosting a giveaway for the Closed Beta!
To enter the drawing:
🔞 Be +18 of age
🦋 Follow us on Bsky
🔁 Repost and like this message
📝 Complete the Beta Player survey
Winners will be contacted via DM next week.
Check our forum post for more information: forums.funcom.com/t/268073
To enter the drawing:
🔞 Be +18 of age
🦋 Follow us on Bsky
🔁 Repost and like this message
📝 Complete the Beta Player survey
Winners will be contacted via DM next week.
Check our forum post for more information: forums.funcom.com/t/268073
@hunterw.bsky.social What are BlueSky posts called? Chirps? Flights? Airblasts?
November 25, 2024 at 11:12 PM
@hunterw.bsky.social What are BlueSky posts called? Chirps? Flights? Airblasts?
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Newsletter is out in 12ish hours. Is it election-related? Tangentially. Does it also address the emergence of humanity over a scale of hundreds of thousands of years? You bet it does.
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A weekly dive into the data behind the news, from national correspondent Philip Bump.
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November 9, 2024 at 3:25 AM
Newsletter is out in 12ish hours. Is it election-related? Tangentially. Does it also address the emergence of humanity over a scale of hundreds of thousands of years? You bet it does.
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