John Zimmerman
@zman1527.bsky.social
70 year old male Californian, semi-retired mineral exploration geologist.
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The damaging effect of this individual's obsession will be felt for a generation.
Stephen Miller is employing state terror in service of the open goal of shifting the ethnic mix of the country. In numerous ways he's doing this at the expense of public safety.
We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
Inside Stephen Miller’s Dark Plot to Build a MAGA Terror State
He is descended from Russian Jews—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable. Today, his project is to unleash government persecution of those he deems alien and u...
newrepublic.com
December 21, 2025 at 6:23 PM
The damaging effect of this individual's obsession will be felt for a generation.
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As a months-long hunger strike persists, calls for immediate government intervention grow louder.
Palestine Action hunger strikes: What are their demands?
As a months-long hunger strike persists, calls for immediate government intervention grow louder.
www.aljazeera.com
December 22, 2025 at 3:30 PM
As a months-long hunger strike persists, calls for immediate government intervention grow louder.
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NFC playoff picture
Division leaders
🏈Seahawks 12-3*
🏈Bears 11-4*
🏈Eagles 10-5*
🏈 Panthers 8-7
Wild cards
🏈Rams 11-4*
🏈49ers 10-4*
🏈Packers 9-5-1
*-Clinched playoffs
Also …
Lions 8-7
Buccaneers 7-8
Division leaders
🏈Seahawks 12-3*
🏈Bears 11-4*
🏈Eagles 10-5*
🏈 Panthers 8-7
Wild cards
🏈Rams 11-4*
🏈49ers 10-4*
🏈Packers 9-5-1
*-Clinched playoffs
Also …
Lions 8-7
Buccaneers 7-8
December 22, 2025 at 12:57 AM
NFC playoff picture
Division leaders
🏈Seahawks 12-3*
🏈Bears 11-4*
🏈Eagles 10-5*
🏈 Panthers 8-7
Wild cards
🏈Rams 11-4*
🏈49ers 10-4*
🏈Packers 9-5-1
*-Clinched playoffs
Also …
Lions 8-7
Buccaneers 7-8
Division leaders
🏈Seahawks 12-3*
🏈Bears 11-4*
🏈Eagles 10-5*
🏈 Panthers 8-7
Wild cards
🏈Rams 11-4*
🏈49ers 10-4*
🏈Packers 9-5-1
*-Clinched playoffs
Also …
Lions 8-7
Buccaneers 7-8
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Putin’s puppets.
Fascinating insights from @wsj.com re how Putin has manipulated Trump and Witkoff. U.S. billionaires who know nothing of Russia are easy marks for the wily former KGB officer. www.wsj.com/world/putin-...
December 20, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Putin’s puppets.
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[clears throat] [deep breath]: BYE FELICIA
Stefanik Quits Governor’s Race, Will Not Run for Reelection
The Republican explains why she’s leaving politics.
nymag.com
December 19, 2025 at 10:03 PM
[clears throat] [deep breath]: BYE FELICIA
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The most powerful force in American politics today is anti-establishment fury at a rigged economic system.
To counter Trump’s fake populism and his culture wars, progressives should mount a real battle against economic elites who have shafted America’s middle and working classes.
To counter Trump’s fake populism and his culture wars, progressives should mount a real battle against economic elites who have shafted America’s middle and working classes.
December 19, 2025 at 10:15 PM
The most powerful force in American politics today is anti-establishment fury at a rigged economic system.
To counter Trump’s fake populism and his culture wars, progressives should mount a real battle against economic elites who have shafted America’s middle and working classes.
To counter Trump’s fake populism and his culture wars, progressives should mount a real battle against economic elites who have shafted America’s middle and working classes.
Tell me that impeachment have been filed against Bondi and Blanche for blatantly violating the law, please.
December 20, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Tell me that impeachment have been filed against Bondi and Blanche for blatantly violating the law, please.
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Trump has now conducted 28 boat strikes, killing over 100 people.
Remember: no judge or jury has found these boats were trafficking drugs. We're simply taking Trump's word for it.
He’s unilaterally acting as judge, jury, and executioner.
This is a danger to us all.
Remember: no judge or jury has found these boats were trafficking drugs. We're simply taking Trump's word for it.
He’s unilaterally acting as judge, jury, and executioner.
This is a danger to us all.
December 19, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Trump has now conducted 28 boat strikes, killing over 100 people.
Remember: no judge or jury has found these boats were trafficking drugs. We're simply taking Trump's word for it.
He’s unilaterally acting as judge, jury, and executioner.
This is a danger to us all.
Remember: no judge or jury has found these boats were trafficking drugs. We're simply taking Trump's word for it.
He’s unilaterally acting as judge, jury, and executioner.
This is a danger to us all.
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Wirecutter | Looking for some last minute gifts? Here are four cryptocurrencies that shouldn’t lose more than 80% of their value within a year of purchase.
December 19, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Wirecutter | Looking for some last minute gifts? Here are four cryptocurrencies that shouldn’t lose more than 80% of their value within a year of purchase.
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Notice that the parts of Trump's economic program that help working and middle class Americans — DOGE checks, tariff rebates, and warrior dividends — are popular, progressive, and non-existent. Tax cuts for the rich are unpopular, regressive and very very real.
December 18, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Notice that the parts of Trump's economic program that help working and middle class Americans — DOGE checks, tariff rebates, and warrior dividends — are popular, progressive, and non-existent. Tax cuts for the rich are unpopular, regressive and very very real.
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*Chris Rufo* warns X is making the right too conspiratorial:
"Americans can stick to...empirical reality or...follow conspiracy theories... For the Right, the danger is that an increasingly large fraction of our political coalition is choosing the second path"
christopherrufo.com/p/how-the-me...
"Americans can stick to...empirical reality or...follow conspiracy theories... For the Right, the danger is that an increasingly large fraction of our political coalition is choosing the second path"
christopherrufo.com/p/how-the-me...
December 17, 2025 at 3:52 PM
*Chris Rufo* warns X is making the right too conspiratorial:
"Americans can stick to...empirical reality or...follow conspiracy theories... For the Right, the danger is that an increasingly large fraction of our political coalition is choosing the second path"
christopherrufo.com/p/how-the-me...
"Americans can stick to...empirical reality or...follow conspiracy theories... For the Right, the danger is that an increasingly large fraction of our political coalition is choosing the second path"
christopherrufo.com/p/how-the-me...
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There are books with names like “The closing of the western mind” that document how nearly two millennia ago an empire drove away science and learning to bring on the dark ages.
Years from now people may have reason to write similarly about the world Vought wrought. But we can organize to stop it.
Years from now people may have reason to write similarly about the world Vought wrought. But we can organize to stop it.
An absolute bedrock institution for understanding how the planet works, just civilization-scaled vandalism by the most incurious morons on Earth
December 17, 2025 at 6:05 AM
There are books with names like “The closing of the western mind” that document how nearly two millennia ago an empire drove away science and learning to bring on the dark ages.
Years from now people may have reason to write similarly about the world Vought wrought. But we can organize to stop it.
Years from now people may have reason to write similarly about the world Vought wrought. But we can organize to stop it.
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A true must read from the great @gregsargent.bsky.social.....
Stephen Miller is employing state terror in service of the open goal of shifting the ethnic mix of the country. In numerous ways he's doing this at the expense of public safety.
We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
Inside Stephen Miller’s Dark Plot to Build a MAGA Terror State
He is descended from Russian Jews—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable. Today, his project is to unleash government persecution of those he deems alien and u...
newrepublic.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:49 PM
A true must read from the great @gregsargent.bsky.social.....
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Whose Inflation Is This?
The president in March 2020 had to make an impossible choice: sky-high inflation, or surging unemployment.
I believe the proper choice was made.
Wharton Professor Jeremy Siegel saw this coming in real time. See the full story….
ritholtz.com/2025/12/whos...
The president in March 2020 had to make an impossible choice: sky-high inflation, or surging unemployment.
I believe the proper choice was made.
Wharton Professor Jeremy Siegel saw this coming in real time. See the full story….
ritholtz.com/2025/12/whos...
Whose Inflation Is This? - The Big Picture
Perhaps the most overlooked element in the “affordability hoax” is the president’s own role in it. Before we get into the details, a few preliminary caveats. First, as COVID-19 ran wild, lockdowns wer...
ritholtz.com
December 11, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Whose Inflation Is This?
The president in March 2020 had to make an impossible choice: sky-high inflation, or surging unemployment.
I believe the proper choice was made.
Wharton Professor Jeremy Siegel saw this coming in real time. See the full story….
ritholtz.com/2025/12/whos...
The president in March 2020 had to make an impossible choice: sky-high inflation, or surging unemployment.
I believe the proper choice was made.
Wharton Professor Jeremy Siegel saw this coming in real time. See the full story….
ritholtz.com/2025/12/whos...
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BREAKING: The U.S. has seized a sanctioned oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela in a major escalation between the two countries (Bloomberg)
December 10, 2025 at 6:55 PM
BREAKING: The U.S. has seized a sanctioned oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela in a major escalation between the two countries (Bloomberg)
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This is more or less how the right wing justices reach decisions bsky.app/profile/righ...
Oh good, Glenn Beck has created an AI George Washington. You will be shocked to learn that the AI George Washington created by Glenn Beck sounds exactly like what would happen if Glenn Beck built an AI George Washington to sound exactly like Glenn Beck.
December 9, 2025 at 9:14 PM
This is more or less how the right wing justices reach decisions bsky.app/profile/righ...
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Reveals the lie at the heart of MQD. MQD lets SCOTUS kill a thing by saying "well, see, this power properly belongs to Congress, they can revise it" on the covert assumption Congress /won't/ revise it. But here kav says it out loud that Congress won't do its job, and that's bad for accountability
December 8, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Reveals the lie at the heart of MQD. MQD lets SCOTUS kill a thing by saying "well, see, this power properly belongs to Congress, they can revise it" on the covert assumption Congress /won't/ revise it. But here kav says it out loud that Congress won't do its job, and that's bad for accountability
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Hiding the crazy is their key to power.
It's so interesting to me how Makary conspiracy code switches when he talks to podcasters vs national news. This is the kind of stuff MAHA hears from the FDA Commissioner.
December 8, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Hiding the crazy is their key to power.
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Trump state capitalism update, as the nation drifts further and further away from free markets.
Trump-branded industrial parks...
Built on federal lands...
And owned by the federal government?
Yikes. www.wsj.com/tech/trump-s...
Built on federal lands...
And owned by the federal government?
Yikes. www.wsj.com/tech/trump-s...
December 8, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Trump state capitalism update, as the nation drifts further and further away from free markets.
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Syrian president accuses Israel of fabricating threats to justify militarism and divert attention from Gaza massacres.
Syria’s al-Sharaa accuses Israel of ‘exporting crises’ across region
Syrian president accuses Israel of fabricating threats to justify militarism and divert attention from Gaza massacres.
bit.ly
December 6, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Syrian president accuses Israel of fabricating threats to justify militarism and divert attention from Gaza massacres.
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My morning WFH reads:
Brexit is an unmitigated economic failure, Office-to-Residential Conversions Are Booming, Bean Soup Theory, Data on Self-Driving Cars, Mass Surveillance Recordings, Noah ❤️ AI, Ukraine’s Drone Battle and Time for Pete Hegseth to Go
ritholtz.com/2025/12/10-t...
Brexit is an unmitigated economic failure, Office-to-Residential Conversions Are Booming, Bean Soup Theory, Data on Self-Driving Cars, Mass Surveillance Recordings, Noah ❤️ AI, Ukraine’s Drone Battle and Time for Pete Hegseth to Go
ritholtz.com/2025/12/10-t...
10 Thursday AM Reads - The Big Picture
My morning train WFH reads: • Time to admit the truth: Brexit has been an unmitigated economic failure: Leaving the EU has reduced Britain’s GDP by up to 8pc, according to a devastating US study. GDP ...
ritholtz.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:57 PM
My morning WFH reads:
Brexit is an unmitigated economic failure, Office-to-Residential Conversions Are Booming, Bean Soup Theory, Data on Self-Driving Cars, Mass Surveillance Recordings, Noah ❤️ AI, Ukraine’s Drone Battle and Time for Pete Hegseth to Go
ritholtz.com/2025/12/10-t...
Brexit is an unmitigated economic failure, Office-to-Residential Conversions Are Booming, Bean Soup Theory, Data on Self-Driving Cars, Mass Surveillance Recordings, Noah ❤️ AI, Ukraine’s Drone Battle and Time for Pete Hegseth to Go
ritholtz.com/2025/12/10-t...
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This is murder. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
November 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
This is murder. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Reuters has done some really great investigative reporting on the impacts of Trump's retribution campaigns
Reuters reached out to everyone that Trump or his subordinates singled out publicly for retribution, and reviewed hundreds of official orders, directives and public records. The result: the most comprehensive accounting yet of his campaign of payback.
www.reuters.com/investigates...
www.reuters.com/investigates...
November 28, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Reuters has done some really great investigative reporting on the impacts of Trump's retribution campaigns