John Marc

John Marc

@johnmarc.bsky.social

Somerville, MA politics, urabanisim, art and tech. Roboticist at RAI.

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Homophobia. People forget how normalized anti gay rhetoric was through the 90s.

Social media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?

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My brain cannot process this level of corruption. She was being paid $50 million to engineer a pardon from Trump *while working at the Justice Department* as a "Special Government Employee." And it worked. He got the pardon, and she got the money. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u...

nytimes.comA Billionaire Wanted a Trump Pardon. His Family Gave Alina Habba a $50 Million Deal. (Gift Article)Julio Herrera Velutini, a prominent Venezuelan, was seeking clemency. He got it not long after his daughter gave Ms. Habba, a lawyer close to President Trump, an extraordinarily lucrative job.

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i’m just so fucking sorry that my muslim friends have to be hit with this despicable racism every single day. it’s not ok and you should not have to tolerate it. this country belongs to all of us.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump on El-Sayed: "His name is actually Abduladadalalalala. It's Adulbabababababa Mohammed Al-Sayed. So his middle name is Mohammed. So I was right. He's a jihadist."

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🤔 What the hell is wrong with Trump? 🤔 Trump gave a bonkers speech in Georgia that included Islamophobic bigotry, oddly sexual comments about men, crazed lies about teachers secretly trans-ing kids, and a variety of other insane rants Here's the lowlight reel:

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An attempted attack on a Hindu temple came amid a weeks-long right-wing frenzy over "The Indian Question"; police found a manifesto from the alleged shooter "containing statements expressing white supremacist and extremist ideologies."

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Doing a very quick scan of the status of this race it doesn't look like there are any recent polls and two months ago Harris was up by a comfortable margin.

Baltimore Banner@thebaltimorebanner.com

Republican Rep. Andy Harris incorrectly told a reporter they were breaking the law as the reporter and others recorded an exchange with him last night. Harris had just wrapped up a debate with Democratic challenger Dan Schwartz.

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Tech worker: *gestures wildly in all directions*

Joe Uchill@joeuchill.bsky.social

Interviewer: can you explain this gap in your resume? Adult graduate student: not to my own satisfaction.

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The misogyny in this letter is appalling and if Bessent had ever sent something like this to a woman colleague in the private sector he’d have been sued for gender discrimination and fired. What an asshole

David Gura@davidgura.bsky.social

A letter from Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who is the ranking Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee, and a member of the Senate Finance Committee:

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Things got more insane just about as soon as I posted this last night. DHS is now arguing that we cannot even put the names of ICE officers in our lawsuit against those officers. Their position is that, if a defendant works for DHS, they cannot be named in a lawsuit. Never seen anything like it.

Jared@jaredmcclain.bsky.social

It's been a struggle for reporters to get DHS to provide the names of officers who violate people's civil rights. Now, in our case against DHS's construction-site raids, the government is arguing in court that its employees names are "confidential" and should not be made public during litigation.

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No reasonable law enforcement agency would ever fire a hail of bullets into a car that presents no safety threat … with a five-year-old in the backseat. We need an independent investigation. We need Oscar to be released from custody immediately. And we need ICE to get the hell out of our city.

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El-Sayed: "I was a junior in HS on 9/11, sitting in my chemistry class. I watched as people started to point to people of my faith & say exactly the kinds of things that Rogers was saying. If that's his entire campaign strategy, you have to imagine how small minded he thinks Michiganders are."

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SUSAN COLLINS: I was successful in getting road salt removed from the Canada tariff list TROY JACKSON: What about everything else? We can't eat road salt

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this guy just fucking sucks, man

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Hegseth: "It's worth saying again so the fake news understands it. We are no longer the woke department or the weak department. Simple translation of that -- no fatties no trannies no beardos no weirdos no wimps no radicals. Just warriors."

What if we did the same thing to O'Brien's daughter but she actually ages and goes feral? What if O'Brien's wife was a Pah-Wraith? What if a leprechaun showed up and fucked with O'Brien?

Gory Thing@korybing.bsky.social

“What if OBrien was in a VR prison for 20 years but in real life it was like only a couple hours, would that be fucked up or what”

As previously stated I always bring an iced coffee to an interview, but I'd be embarrassed to bring that example from the WSJ.

mcc@dryad.technology

Why is billionaire-owned media suddenly coming all at once with pieces against drinking fluids. What is this manufacturing consent for. Is it building toward something. Should I be afraid

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to people who are concerned that this suggests that 'Kavanaugh is not smart,' as opposed to 'Kavanaugh is evil,' I want you to rest assured that these things are not in opposition he is both evil and a dumbass

Jay Willis@jaywillis.net

There have been lots of malevolent Supreme Court justices, but there's not really a precedent for a Supreme Court justice who is as *dumb* as Brett Kavanaugh. A complete rube. Shows his ass every time he tries to write down more than two sentences of original thought.

Guy who got a DUI manslaughter conviction and was doing his court ordered community service. Insisted over and over again how he had only crossed the double yellow line by 18" and if he hadn't been drunk he'd have faced no consequences.

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Collins needs to step down.

Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social

NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.

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Also, I think many people have a completely screwed up idea of what intelligence is, which, when combined with the fact that AI is supposed to have enormous intelligence, creates … problems. Consider how many people, when thinking about animals, confuse intelligence with tractability.

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Never would have occurred to me without this, but Hot Fuzz and The Wicker Man (1970s) would make a lovely little revival house double feature.

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They hate the Bill of Rights because freedom is a threat to people in government who want to hide the truth about what they are doing from the American people. So they behave like tyrants because that is what they are. Vote this party out of power.

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More people are out of work now than they were before Trump took office in 2025. And families are being crushed by rising costs due to Trump's reckless tariffs, illegal Iran war, and irresponsible fiscal policies. Secretary Scott Bessent has no one to blame but himself & Donald Trump.

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Four Somerville households lost their homes in Tuesday's fire on Dartmouth Street. Everyone is safe, but they're starting over with nothing. Clothes, medicine, groceries, a place to sleep. Give what you can to the Homeless Coalition's Emergency Fund: secure.qgiv.com/for/emerfun

The funniest possible target of this right now would be Bob Kraft.

Noah Shachtman@noahshachtman.bsky.social

Maybe this a sign of something. Maybe it isn't. But the Justice Department published a "mysterious" notice as Politico put it, that people must “register as foreign agents when they act in the US at the direction or control of a foreign government [or] face civil and criminal liability. ” 🤔🤔🤔

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Replying to @marisakabas.bsky.social

the modern republican party is a white supremacist, nazi-aligned organization. full stop.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social

a million pieces/segments sneering at hasan piker and the co-chair of the DSA, meanwhile a republican congressional candidate in upstate new york named peter oberacker is the grandson of an actual nazi germany soldier and his former staffer was part of the 'i love hitler' young GOP group chat