Jonathan

Jonathan

@realjonbock.bsky.social

Keep a good head and always carry a lightbulb.

389 Followers 736 Following 2 Posts Joined Nov 2024
1 month ago
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Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
Watched by Branson Reese 28 Apr 2022

Abrams isn't a man so much as he's an avatar of cultural entropy. If you make something popular enough eventually you will die or sell it off and and a person in thick rimmed glasses whose main artistic vision is that he loves to have meetings will take it and sandblast it until it's nothing. I hate to see this happen here but maybe it's good that this happened. Maybe every franchise should collapse into a version of itself that makes shareholders nod and shake each others' hands. We should learn to speak in a language that rich people who don't dream can't comprehend.

i often think about this review

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2 months ago

The reactionary centrist logic is simple: if the left does something bad it’s the left’s fault, and if the right does something bad, it’s also the left’s fault for making them do it. It’s a simple formula and once you see it every one of their arguments is the same

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4 months ago
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Building a ballroom while SNAP & WIC payments are about to get cut off and health insurance premiums skyrocket is crazy.

If Dems aren’t running ads by Wednesday….

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5 months ago
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Mamdani: "Trump ran on 3 promises - punishment of his political enemies, easing cost of living crisis, & mass deportation. It's that second promise that brought so many to his campaign. And yet he's unable & unwilling to deliver bc he's beholden to the very billionaires that are profiting off of it"

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5 months ago

Anyhow if you care about America we should do our best to snuff out the influence of Adam Jentleson, Cam Thompson, Charlotte Swasey, Tre Easton, Danielle Deiseroth and their GOP lite brethren

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6 months ago

The next Democratic president should declare that the National Emergencies Act and Article II of the Constitution allow him to:

•admit D.C. and Puerto Rico as states
•abolish ICE
•grant citizenship to any immigrant
•disband the 5th Circuit
•expand the Supreme Court

Seriously: Why the hell not?

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10 months ago

yeah i am pretty much on the side of primary everyone

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10 months ago
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Tax the rich. #ClassWar #EatTheRich

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TV On The Radio - Wolf Like Me (Live on Letterman) YouTube video by TVOnTheRadioVEVO

one of the greatest letterman performances AND one of the great (greatest?) rock songs of the 2000s youtu.be/SlHrCg67axw?...

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11 months ago

When this presidency ends—and it will end—we need a Rooseveltian plan to not only undo the damage he did, but build bigger than we’ve ever built before.

Big universal programs and mandates. Pack the SCOTUS. Kill Buckley v. Valeo and Citizens United v. FEC. New anti-trust laws aimed at Amazon. Etc.

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11 months ago
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‘The Interview’: Chuck Schumer on Democrats, Antisemitism and His Shutdown Retreat The Senate minority leader discusses the backlash to his vote on the Republican spending bill, how he sees his role within the party and his new book.

In this interview Schumer says he agrees with Trump’s decision to pull $400 million from Columbia. A university in his own state. And he’s unconcerned about the unlawful arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, one of his constituents.

He is a traitor who needs to resign.

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1 year ago
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Elon Musk is trying to CHEAT the Wisconsin Supreme Court race!!!

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1 year ago
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Here are the 9 Democratic senators so far who voted for Trump’s spending bill. I am ashamed to say both of my senators are among them.

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1 year ago
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

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1 year ago
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AOC: It is almost unthinkable why Senate Democrats would vote to to hand the few pieces of leverage that we have away for free when we've been sent here to protect social security, protect medicaid, and protect medicare.

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1 year ago

In response to what Schumer is saying on TV:
A: The government is ALREADY SHUT DOWN. They’ve been shutting it down since Jan 20, for black people. Perhaps Chuck could acknowledge that??
B: They already have the reins of power. Chuck wants it open so he can continue playing pretend!

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1 year ago

Does anyone else remember when New York State had the fake Democratic party, the "Independent Democratic Conference", which was basically an extension of the Republican party with a different name? Just thinking about that for no reason at all.

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1 year ago

If the Democrats can't bring themselves to say "government spending is good, actually" in this precise moment, then they really are cooked and all need to be replaced.

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1 year ago
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If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations.

If you're 45, that number is 74.7%.

If you're under 30, the number is 100%.

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1 year ago

"Maybe something like yours. Maybe something better."

My god, he went full Bette Davis.

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1 year ago

Undocumented immigrants paid about $26 billion per year into Social Security, even though they will get nothing out of it.

They subsidize citizens to an extraordinary degree. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/b...

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1 year ago
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Posted around NYC, Chicago, DC and other cities. Be creative. Do something!

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1 year ago
Photo of highway in NJ with signage “Musk stole your tax data” on pedestrian overpass.

Route 4 in Paramus, NJ, yesterday. Posted on Facebook by John Weir @jweirdo.bsky.social.

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1 year ago
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Google owner drops promise not to use AI for weapons Alphabet guidelines no longer refer to not pursuing technologies that could ‘cause or are likely to cause overall harm’ The Google owner, Alphabet, has dropped its pledge not to use artificial intelligence for purposes such as developing weapons and…

Google owner drops promise not to use AI for weapons

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1 year ago
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Exclusive: Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.

This is a hostile takeover of the federal government by a private citizen of unlimited means with no restrictions and no transparency. Welcome to the Deep State www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...

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1 year ago
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Exclusive: Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.

it's not hyperbolic to say we're witnessing a coup.

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www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/o...

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1 year ago
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Pin this, save it, we’ll need it.

“When a prison camp opens in your town…when a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom…when the President destroys what’s left of the Constitution…They will all say they didn’t know this was coming. And I want the American people to know that they did.”

AOC 🔥🎯

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1 year ago
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not Lynch's movie, I know, but god, what a sendoff

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