John Robinson

John Robinson

@hannibalv.bsky.social

Same screaming, different void. He/him; lamentably, cishet. Suburban Chicago. Co-host/Lead Theatrical Film Critic for The Neon Movie Bunker, available wherever you get your podcasts. https://www.neonmoviebunker.com Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/6DkUL

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I've mentioned it elsewhere today, so, just to cover all bases: I'm done keeping this particular cat in-bag: I'm in the autism spectrum. Diagnosed a number of years ago, but kept underhat for reasons. Some of you already know. Some are probably unsurprised. Some won't care. Happy to answer ?s.

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hunter s. thompson showed up at all of these places and would say "the parties are fancy and it is a mask for monsters" and these people can't stop praising the fine cheeses on offer

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NEW: "Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s," per new House Judiciary Dem report. Report has new allegation that Trump raped a 24-year-old and then promised the victim a visa & NYU admission, demanding she stay quiet.

I recorded myself reading this and am trying to put together a YouTube clip of my reading over the various slides. Maybe putting that here will get me to finish the project. Fingers crossed.

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Just been such a revolution in my worldview to realise that people like Musk actually believe this, this isn't just the nonsense they feed the rubes so they can do coldly rational mercantile calculations in smokey rooms among themselves. No. It's rubes all the way down, they're that stupid.

Toby Buckle@polphilpod.bsky.social

i don't think we can come to a reasonable compromise with this

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"genAI is basically a Dunning-Kruger Device." Possibly the best, truest sentence I'll read in 2026.

Ghostly Bree@mostlybree.kitrocha.com

It is hard for me to understand why people think these emails are well-written or effective, but that's really it, isn't it? genAI is basically a Dunning–Kruger Device. Folks really think they sound amazing because they don't have the skill to know they sound freakishly off-putting.

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Thank you to everyone who stood with me over the years. It’s been a scary journey but I have always been grounded in my work and ability to provide exemplary service to my constituents. Trump and his administration have been after me since I arrived in Congress.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social

BREAKING WaPo: Trump officials scrutinized Rep. Ilhan Omar in 2019. They didn't find citizenship issues. 
The earlier review of Omar's immigration records looked at many of the same issues being investigated now.

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Replying to @murshedz.bsky.social

After last 10 years it’s evident that massive chunk of legal/political/media elites still haven’t grappled with the threat to US democracy. Still not sensing the urgency after what we experienced on Jan 6 or through Trump vs US.

Doug Lindner@douglindner.bsky.social

We can’t lawyer our way around a SCOTUS majority that wields power in bad faith to aggrandize their own power and their own faction. Power in America does not work the way it used to. Fascism has come and it’s not going away. We do not have the luxury of responding with patient incrementalism.

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This was a tweet from Michael Hobbes a while back and I’ve seen nothing to contradict it yet: “I think we'll look back on the last decade as a time when social media gave previously marginalized groups the ability to speak directly to elites and, as a result, elites lost their minds.”

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Hard not to notice that Democrats who are doing the best are the ones who are leaving this whole civility-and-norms, we-go-high, we-need-a-strong-Republican-Party bullshit behind and are simply giving Republicans exactly what they all ought to get at all times, which is undisguised contempt.

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I am entirely serious when I say that this should be seen as a moderate position. It specifically and surgically dismantles institutions that did not exist pre-9/11 and assigns their functions much as they were assigned pre-9/11.

Truthout@truthout.org

Rep. Delia C. Ramirez has introduced a bill that would abolish not just ICE, but the DHS altogether, repealing the 2002 law establishing the agency and replacing it with one focused on protecting civil and human rights.

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This bill would abolish ICE, DHS, and CBP, transferring legitimate customs duties to other departments. It would sunset Section 219 of the INA close the Guantánamo Bay detention facility and shutter all immigration detention centers. You have my sword, milady.

Truthout@truthout.org

Rep. Delia C. Ramirez has introduced a bill that would abolish not just ICE, but the DHS altogether, repealing the 2002 law establishing the agency and replacing it with one focused on protecting civil and human rights.

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In 2011, I presented on students w/ criminal records & campus crime to a conference of university chiefs/LEOs. I made an offhand remark that if universities were actually serious about relationship & sexual violence, they'd ban frats. One said, "We would if we could," & every other chief agreed.

Nicole Bedera@nbedera.bsky.social

We’ve seen schools do this before. If this one-year party suspension doesn’t turn into a permanent ban, then it’s just a message to fraternities that they have true impunity. That even the worst, most violent behavior will result in a temporary slap on the wrist.

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🎃 Killy Witches 👻@tillybridges.bsky.social

Welcome to #TransTuesday! There is NO ethical consumption of Harry Potter Not the books, movies, or tv show. Not licensed games or merch. Not fanfic. Not even pirated. EVERY bit keeps the franchise alive and enables JKR's transphobia If you truly care about trans people, you need to let it die

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its very convenient when people admit their crimes like this, if only there were actually going to be consequences, its a shame crime is legal

RoseMarie@rosesbloom24.bsky.social

Stephen Miller’s podcaster wife had to double back after overplaying her hand. Katie Miller quickly deleted a post on X gloating over the ICE raid on Minnesota Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Washington, D.C., home on Monday, (cont.) www.thedailybeast.com/katie-miller...

It's a day that ends in Y, so it's a fine day to say "Get fucked, Gavin Newsom"!

CalMatters@calmatters.org

Gavin Newsom backs measure to kill the billionaire tax and ban future wealth taxes Gov. Gavin Newsom isn't just fighting the billionaire tax. He's backing Prop. 42, which would ban future wealth taxes in California, too.