John Weeks
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- Reposted by John Weeksremember those 3 weeks last year when they were loudly called weird creeps and the weird creeps lost their fucking minds and melted down, the whole thing was funny & it was *working* then of course the Dem leadership/consultant class put a STOP to all that because they have a public failure kink
- the centrist “identity politics is bad” argument, sneering at leftists over pronouns - like we’re fixated on arcane academic concepts and you need a PhD in gender studies just to express an opinion - falls apart pretty fast when you reframe this as Normal Humans vs. Creeps Spying On Strangers Peeing
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- Reposted by John WeeksPam Bondi lobbied for Qatar & a private prison company, got paid $115K/month, then failed to disclose it during her AG confirmation. Now she’s gutted foreign lobbying enforcement under FARA and signed off on $400m planes. The corruption isn’t even subtle anymore.
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- Reposted by John WeeksSorry to be fifteen years old but there’s only one reason for an opposition party to do nothing and that’s because they don’t oppose what’s happening
- Reposted by John WeeksCrazy how long this conversation has been going on
- @dexdigi.bsky.social Found the 2014 Max LeRoy mixtape on an old hard drive last week, been vibing to it. It's almost as if it never existed, now. There's a Soundcloud for the project but I guess I'll track down the contributors, see what they've gotten up to. www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2014...
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- Reposted by John WeeksSociety: look, you follow the rules, get a good education and a nice job, it’ll all work out Society: well, it’s great that you did all that but we’re really more into white criminals
- Reposted by John WeeksFBI was stopping by the homes of climate change scientists and protesters in Boston yesterday. www.wbur.org/news/2025/05...
- Reposted by John WeeksAnother Navy jet falls into sea, marking fourth major mishap in months wapo.st/4dlyTda
- Reposted by John WeeksThey're firing black people from the federal government. That's it. There's no nuance to this. It's just racism straight up.
- This makes me want to vomit. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/u...
- Today I learned there is a Survivor Israel tv show and apparently there have been many seasons of it
- Reposted by John WeeksNEW: See the dramatic moment when Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, a gubernatorial candidate in New Jersey, was arrested Friday at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility on trespassing charges.
- Reposted by John WeeksPlease spread the correct information about Mayor Baraka's arrest. He had apparently been trying for a few days to visit the ICE prison and was rebuffed. Then the members of Congress tried to visit today and were made to wait in the waiting area for 90 minutes. Then 20 ICE Gestapo showed up...
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- Reposted by John WeeksWhat we witnessed was a political kidnapping of an elected official and I don't know what more to say than that.
- Reposted by John WeeksAny day is a good day to repost this reminder that Marc Andreessen's view of South Asia is that he, explicitly, wants to colonize it. Fortunately, Indian activists were able to stop Facebook. In Myanmar, they weren't so lucky, and Facebook enabled a genocide almost immediately upon its arrival.
- Reposted by John Weeks“In the first three months, the Trump family has become $3 billion wealthier, so that’s a billion dollars a month.”
- Reposted by John WeeksI'll just take this moment to point out that the US Institute of Peace, just a few weeks ago, contained one of the finest concentrations of US expertise on India and Pakistan, and crisis management in South Asia.
- Reposted by John WeeksThis is the kind of public leadership we need. If you step up, if you say NO to the Trump administration from a position of power and put your body on the line, millions of people are ready to stand with you.
- Reposted by John WeeksRas Baraka elevated in 1 day for standing up to fascism. Democrats, learn from this.
- Newark Mayor Ras Baraka has been released after he was arrested for allegedly trespassing at an ICE facility in New Jersey pix11.com/news/local-n...
- Reposted by John WeeksI first interviewed Alan Moore in 2009, and one of the things he said then has reverberated in my head louder and louder over the last ten years. He was reading the entrails of the 20th century long before the shit hit the fan.
- Alan Moore from a new interview. alanmooreworld.blogspot.com/2025/05/long...
- Reposted by John WeeksI don't think it can be overstated how much things are what they are because elites had their brains exposed to criticism on the internet and responded with this (which applies to them, not you, of course. you are a pig person who should shut up ). www.nytimes.com/2022/03/18/o...
- Reposted by John WeeksCybertrucks are piling up -- apparently no one wants to buy them -- but they can't stop making them, b/c shutting the factory down is too expensive. Great work all around.
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- Reposted by John Weeks[if Chuck Schumer replaced Liam Neeson in Taken] CHUCK SCHUMER: [on phone] I don’t know who you are or what you want, but I will find you and I will help you kill my daughter
- Reposted by John Weeks1/ The US government has ordered the Swedish city of Stockholm to end its diversity, inclusivity and equality (DEI) programmes within 10 days. The city authorities say the demand is "bizarre" and they won't be complying. ⬇️
- Reposted by John WeeksPhilly lost $10.2 million in AmeriCorps funding from DOGE cuts, nearly all of which was for literacy, college readiness, and education programs that work alongside or within the city's schools. Some volunteers were pulled from schools immediately. Others don't know if they can return next year.
- Reposted by John WeeksAndor ended on such a perfect note. The moment when Andor turned to the camera and said ‘I am a communist now’ and then specified hes the exact kind of communist i am was particularly brilliant
- Reposted by John Weeks‘They’ll have to go home’: Trump’s World Cup taskforce dismisses fears but warns visitors
- Reposted by John WeeksFor The Nation, I wrote about how the crypto industry conquered electoral politics, helped Republicans win big in 2024, and is now competing for rewards with the shitcoiner-in-chief. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
- Reposted by John Weekswow, looks like their aim really was to depopulate that country! - wow, looks like they really were a far-right party! - wow, looks like that ceo really was a fascist! look at us, forever surprised by the utterly obvious and avoidable emergence of existential threats! we came we saw we gawped!
- Reposted by John Weeksimagine if someone told you in 2003 that Dave Matthews would have better politics than Radiohead
- Democrats, really bought into their mission of fighting for basic human rights
- Reposted by John WeeksWe can’t afford healthcare for everyone because we need to spend that money dropping planes into the sea
- Another US fighter jet falls into sea from Truman aircraft carrier, US officials say reut.rs/3GJnYxF
- Reposted by John WeeksSince Trump took office, his family has made $2.9 billion in crypto. Again, this is a level of corruption so cartoonish, so obvious & on the surface, that it seems to have stunned everyone to silence.
- Reposted by John WeeksI know people hate that GTA is so America-centric, but if you're going to tell a story about unchecked capitalism, institutionalized corruption, and criminal mayhem, this country is a perfect backdrop.
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- Reposted by John WeeksThis picture of you is cool as fuck
- Reposted by John WeeksWell, I had an interesting Sunday night, how 'bout you?
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- It was supposed to be a joke, could be all too real
- Reposted by John Weeks“Do not stop donating to the white woman who said the N word until we make her a millionaire.”
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- Reposted by John WeeksArguing that USAID funding shouldn’t be restored because it’s “US propaganda” or “imperialist” despite the projected death toll in the millions is like arguing that running through a hospital pulling the plug on every patient you can find is a protest against for-profit healthcare.
- Reposted by John WeeksTexas conservatives who've championed book bans & anti-LGBT policies suffered big losses tonight in school board races. And They seem to have lost their working majorities to pass their policies in big school boards. I tracked these results in FOUR boards tonight. So a 🧵 on each ICYMI.
- Reposted by John Weeksit will never stop being crazy that conservatives have brain poisoned people to the extent that we now have to care deeply about the results of school board elections in places where we don’t live
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- Reposted by John WeeksIs there a better summary of the American ethos than “It is illegal to not buy things.”
- Reposted by John WeeksRubio publicly criticizing an ally for cracking down on right-wing extremism. And Germany hitting back. We are in a new world
- Reposted by John WeeksSpent an hour on the phone last night with someone who's wage was paid by Americorps funding. Absolutely devastating. 90%+ of their departments were cut loose or put in some weird furlough. No one is talking about it.
