Johnny Calcagno

Are Americans aware that down here in Mexico we’ve been getting bombarded for months with ads of Kristi Noem telling us to our face that we’re out welcome in the US, and that these ads even found their way into our national TV broadcasts

Because I feel like I have seen nobody mention it

The renewable energy revolution is a feat of technology | Rebecca Solnit An energy revolution is underway in this century, though most people have not noticed it

An energy revolution is underway in this century, though it’s unfolded in ways slow enough and technical enough for most people not to notice (and I assume it’s nowhere near finished). It is astonishing – a powerful solution to the climate crisis... [Wrote it a while ago; came out yesterday.]

"The man who is not yet mayor is to blame for a shooting that happened under the watch of an ex-cop mayor who's thrown every available dollar at the NYPD," insists sex pest

Really does perpetually stun me how many people in the US fundamentally don’t believe in pluralism. Like I don’t like purity balls or Hillsdale college, but yeah I think that shit has a right to exist in a free society. But they want to burn down everything over drag shows and Oberlin existing.

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It is fucking insane that we had a decade of people complaining about the dangers of cancel culture, and now literally hundreds of thousands of people are being purged from government jobs for ideological reasons, but that is not cancel culture.

Venn Diagram of 3 circles: BE KIND BLOCK FAST HAVE FUN An arrow points to thee intersection of all 3 circles: YOU CAN BE HERE

Welcome to Bluesky 💙🦋

The Jetsons had it right, get the robots to do the menial things like cooking and cleaning so you can still use your own brain to write and think and communicate.

These guys want the machines to think so we have more time to do mundane things we hate doing?

i believe that at 18 every american should be entered into a draft, not for military service, but for one year of mandatory retail or restaurant work

I'm more convinced than ever that the country lost its soul at Guantanamo.

It's where state sanctioned torture & permanent detention without due proces we're normalized.

It's patient zero for the bipartisan disregard for international norms and the rule of law that defines our moment.

I think people aren't describing the Emil Bove corruption adequately.

He blew off an order from a judge SO THAT he could send hundreds of mostly innocent men to a concentration camp, based on false claims of gang ties.

writing a series of short stories that involve people who are explicitly anxious around each other; I’m calling it neurotica

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Please Shout Fire. This Theater Is Burning The United States is being destroyed from within, and mainstream journalism isn't making that clear. When I was a kid, there was a popular phrase--"what if they had a war and no one came?" What if we ...

It's when you assemble the whole picture that you have to raise the question if the intention is to destroy this country and whether this country is in fact being destroyed.

Is Trump Using an Obscure Architecture Board to Fire Jerome Powell? The White House's pressure campaign against the Federal Reserve has taken a bizarre turn.

Is Trump Using an Obscure Architecture Board to Fire Jerome Powell?

Do you have any idea how persnickety Catholics are about the Sunday obligation? Do you know what it takes for a bishop to say "yeah never mind?"
THIS is religious persecution. Not saying "happy holidays." Sending your jackbooted thugs to kidnap people from Mass is religious persecution.

Instead of “Alligator Alcatraz” or “Alligator Auschwitz”, let me suggest that we call it simply the Dade-Collier Concentration Camp.

Hang the name on Florida. Make them own this disgraceful moment in U.S. history. Make our grandchildren lobby to change the name of Dade County out of shame.

Once again, again, again:

The true driver of antisemitism is white supremacy.

The true driver of antisemitism is power.

“Blame the Jews, not me!”

Who is trying to elide blame?

Who are the people being asked to do the blaming?

Always use your power analysis.

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Worst case scenario With Trump's big omnibus bill now law, the pieces are in place for an unprecedented crackdown on civil liberties. Time to pay attention.

@katz.theracket.news delivering the facts* as we've come to expect, with maybe a dash of Katzian hope. Solid read, if for no other reason than to pinch yourself to know this is reality.

*not sugarcoated

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When Words Are Stolen The real stakes of semantic fights.

"Historically as well as currently, white men are the demographic most often hired precisely because of their race and gender, not merely because of their merit." www.liberalcurrents.com/when-words-a...

Paramount has joined Disney in paying bribes to Donald Trump, the Washington Post killed its Harris endorsement, Fox News functions as Republican state media, and the X algorithm amplifies fascist content. Here's why the media has a liberal bias problem.

and there are people operating like we can just go through a normal campaign cycle and hit the undo button a couple times. insane.

In a less imperfect world, Musk and Trump would be forever cast as killers of children, and this would be front-page news for months and the subject of Sunday sermons in every church.

Republicans are banning drag shows, routing libraries, editing school curricula, banning medical care for trans *adults* and trying to overturn Obergefell. How much real stifling of dissent is it going to take for these people to shut up about the fake kind?

The founder of FedEx Fred Smith just passed away.

Here’s a thread to show how Republican tax cuts for the rich helped FedEx pay $0 in taxes, and did not translate to more investment, and why it’s “bullshit” that they are the party of fiscal responsibility and the working class👇🏽

there are still a bunch of plain facts you can't publish in the newspaper, such as "the Federalist Society is a conspiracy by fascist billionaires to overthrow American democracy and reinstate Jim Crow."

‘I Feel Like I’ve Been Lied To’: When a Measles Outbreak Hits Home

i almost can’t read this it makes me so angry. delusional grifters with purity fetishes and eugenic worldviews have brought pain, suffering and death to children www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/u...

“Forget about intelligence” is a pretty good mantra for this administration

The majority’s contention that I reject “ ‘pure textualism’ [a]s insufficiently pliable to secure the result [I] seek,” ante, at 10, stems from an unfortunate misunderstanding of the judicial role. Our interpretative task is not to seek our own desired results (whatever they may be). And, indeed, it is precisely because of this solemn duty that, in my view, it is imperative that we interpret statutes consistent with all relevant indicia of what Congress wanted, as best we can ascertain its intent. A methodology that includes consideration of Congress’s aims does exactly that— and no more. By contrast, pure textualism’s refusal to try to understand the text of a statute in the larger context of what Congress sought to achieve turns the interpretive task into a potent weapon for advancing judicial policy preferences. By “finding” answers in ambiguous text, and not bothering to consider whether those answers align with other sources of statutory meaning, pure textualists can easily disguise their own preferences as “textual” inevitabilities. So, really, far from being “insufficiently pliable,” I think pure textualism is incessantly malleable—that’s its primary problem—and, indeed, it is certainly somehow always flexible enough to secure the majority’s desired outcome.

Justice Jackson taking on Gorsuch's "pure textualism" and arguing for a more holistic reading of Congress' handiwork—worth reading in full. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Elon Musk needs to be forced to stand trail at The Hague for his crimes.

This isn’t a joke or exaggeration. He is morally on the same level as a war criminal for how much death DOGE has already caused because of aid cuts.