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John Marc
@johnmarc.bsky.social
Somerville, MA politics, urabanisim, art and tech. Roboticist at RAI.
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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...
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Driving drunk, by itself, is a sign of incredibly poor judgement. Driving drunk (allegedly) within the last few weeks of being a candidate in a high-profile statewide campaign is unimaginably bad judgement that I actually struggle to fathom www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/18/m...
"If you wanna be happy" by Jimmy Soul youtu.be/fom-dlLjAEo?...
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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.
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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At the close of trading today, exchange rates: 1 Scaramucci = 2.2 Zacharias Or 1 Zacharia = 0.4545 Scaramuccis www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/u...
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Enjoy. bsky.app/profile/ab21...
WATCH: Andy Harris has a crash out after his constituents laugh at him for trying to blame higher gas prices on... Democrats. "You are rude!" #MD01
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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.
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.
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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
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.
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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Replying to @chrislhayes.bsky.social
Btw, as @annielowrey.bsky.social chronicles in her latest book, this “time tax” is particularly onerous for low income folks and benefit recipients.
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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?
“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.
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
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.
Collins needs to step down.
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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"Off The Hook" is on tonight at 7 pm EDT on WBAI 99.5 FM in New York City and on wbai.org online! "Overtime" follows at 8 pm EDT at www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fgr...
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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.
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.
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