Big John

Big John

@dcbigjohn.bsky.social

Editor in Chief, Gambit Weekly. Formerly BuzzFeed, Roll Call, Nat Journal, Your Mom’s House. John Fetterman bit my style. Basically a DC bama livin in New Orleans

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only rich people believe regular people think Cheesecake Factory is fancy. We’re not blind. People living paycheck to paycheck or close to it see it as the “nicest thing I can afford,” but we all know goddamn well there’s fancier — cause we or our kin serve yalls out of touch asses at them spots.

Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis@jeffjarvis.bsky.social

I'm sure the Murdochs are regulars at the nearest Cheesecake Factory. Obama Goes Socialist, Scorns Cheesecake www.wsj.com/opinion/bara...

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It's really damning. The accusations are numerous and well-supported. But I was really struck by the descriptions of Trump's behavior -- the name dropping, strong-arming, and attempts to buy off silence. His gross rivalry with Epstein. It's all so familiar. It's shit he's been doing his entire life.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social

Beyond disgusted by even more rape allegations against the President of the United States. "In total, more than 25 different women...have independently accused Donald Trump of rape, sexual assault, or other sexual misconduct." Report w/ new details: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

New Rule 34 fetish just dropped

Brandon Moore, PhD@rando.insalubrio.us

Chinese mycologists described a new giant fungus named Dianjunus rex whose ancient family lineage dates back to just after the asteroid impact that killed the dinosaurs. Its upright fruiting bodies can grow up to 20 inches tall and weigh as much as 5 pounds! 🧪 www.frontiersin.org/journals/fun...

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The main negative response I've seen towards the excitement over this Louisiana US Senate race is "He WonT WIn AnYwAY!" I find it annoying because voters in this state haven't had much to be excited about in years, and change starts with people believing that change is possible in the first place!!

🚨NEW STORY🚨 Farmer Jamie Davis is closing the gap as he bids to be Louisiana’s first Black U.S. Senator since Reconstruction, leaving Julia Letlow without the sure victory Republicans had hoped for. "This is not going to be a slam dunk," a pollster warns. thelensnola.org/2026/10/23/j...

f you can’t say “my 10 year old kid is nice, likes art and also animals” on your own you are basically a stranger who has never met a normal goddamn 10 year old and can’t even make shit up on the fly

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They don’t want to confront the rank racism that lies at the heart of today’s Republican Party and pretending that black voters are drifting away from Democrats and flirting with the GOP is an essential part of that.

jamelle@jamellebouie.net

pundits are basically bored by the idea that these democratic candidates are not meaningfully behind with black voters and so are trying to conjure a controversy into existence

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Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted

Rafa Sales Ross@rafiews.com

We are watching a coup d’état attempt unfold in real time in Brazil. I’m consumed by desperation.

If you or somebody you know is Krewe du Vieux, are pissed about James Carville being named king, holla at me jstanton@gambitweekly.com

I can’t for the life of me understand why ole girl keeps Mickey Loomis around. It’s not like he’s on paper and can’t go within 1,000 yards of a school or some shit.

I just saw a recent picture of Alyson Hannigan and i had no idea they hired a real witch who’s achieved immortality to play a teen witch on Buffy

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His comments about the upcoming election are noted in the story. I'll just add that in 2024 he complained about "preachy females" hurting the Democrats and was sad that he could no longer take "coeds" out to dinner.

We’re at Dawn Richard’s record release party at Music Box Village, and ole girl is such a bad ass. She’s turned over the stage to Nola Collective, Ron Orleans and Winsley Melan to talk. That’s a move of somebody who is both confident about their shit AND a real advocate for her community. Love her

Like, taking he moment your people to come give you flowers to highlight others and have a talk on how to make our community better??? That’s real shit

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It remains one of the great mysteries how @brianbeutler.bsky.social and @chrislhayes.bsky.social stayed friends with this clown for so long. He’s got loathsome politics, lacks any moral center, is dumber than a barstool and has the personality of a soggy frozen burrito.

Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social

A helpfully clear exchange here Hasan: "So your argument is that [Minnesota ICE protesters] should stay at home because immigration is a salient issue for Donald Trump. Opposing ICE is only going to help Trump. Wait until we win the election in 2028." Yglesias: "Yes that is what I would have said"

The editors of this paper once wrote a whole op-ed complaining about my pool reports on Obama's 2016 trip to SXSW cause I kept making fun of it for being a giant mutual masturbation event for ultra rich tech bros and I've never felt more vindicated lol

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🚨NEW STORY🚨 Farmer Jamie Davis is closing the gap as he bids to be Louisiana’s first Black U.S. Senator since Reconstruction, leaving Julia Letlow without the sure victory Republicans had hoped for. "This is not going to be a slam dunk," a pollster warns. thelensnola.org/2026/10/23/j...

🚨🚨🚨 Just got info from the Jamie Davis (Louisiana US Dem candidate) campaign that a poll taken from 9/17 to 9/19 shows he's within 4 points of US Rep. Julia Letlow (the R senate candidate) in the Louisiana US senate race. Of note, Letlow's name recognition is double that of Davis. (82% vs. 41%)

I watch local news every morning and evening, so I've seen a ton of political ads. One interesting thing I've noticed is that Black candidates use words/ideas like community repeatedly in their pitches to voters. White candidates almost never use the word community and instead make their ads about

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on an individualist/prosperity-gospel world view, where everything is about the self and quality of life is measured by how much more stuff, money and control you have in comparison to others. Which is just such a sad, pathetic way of going through life thats absent of joy and, well, community.

But its an even worse, and far more dangerous, way to make political decisions. Because baked in to that view of the world is an opposition to spending any energy on the common good. Its like a MLM version of morality and civic discourse.

I watch local news every morning and evening, so I've seen a ton of political ads. One interesting thing I've noticed is that Black candidates use words/ideas like community repeatedly in their pitches to voters. White candidates almost never use the word community and instead make their ads about

what "I" (the politician) have/will got for "you" (the voter). This is obviously more true about non-attack ads, and probably is partially a result of living in Black city surrounded by VERY conservative white dominated suburban parishes. But i think its also a product of white America going all-in

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Louisiana early voting is starting to blow the last two midterms out of the water. I don't have historical breakdowns by party, Dems currently up 43-40.6 (gap shrunk slightly on day 2, may keep shrinking) but ancestral Dems makes it hard to make much sense of that IMO.

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My mother used to beat me with the horse whips she couldn’t bear to use on our actual horses in the pasture. Then she’d make me pray to her on my knees for forgiveness. Motherhood is not a position of infallibility. Fuck that old woman and her husband. And fuck Trump too.

PatriotTakes 🇺🇸@patriottakes.bsky.social

Trump praised Vivek Ramaswamy’s disgusting ad against Amy Acton and urged him to continue running it.

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