JJ Hastings
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Gaza is a Genocide, fullstop.
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Gaza is a Genocide, fullstop.
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I Am An American On SNAP, and I’m NOT Lazy
JJ Hastings
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I’ve drained my entire savings trying to survive. I cashed in what little retirement I had available at 38, just to keep a roof over my head. I sold things I loved. I took every gig, every scrap, every hustle I could find, even some I am ashamed of. I’m down to thirteen dollars in my bank account.
Content Update
Just a quick update that I finished setting up my recording space and finally got some audio equipment (thanks to my readers generous support!), so will begin filming my 3 original YouTube series this week. I am also in the process of moving my long form TikTok content over to my…
Just a quick update that I finished setting up my recording space and finally got some audio equipment (thanks to my readers generous support!), so will begin filming my 3 original YouTube series this week. I am also in the process of moving my long form TikTok content over to my…
Content Update
Just a quick update that I finished setting up my recording space and finally got some audio equipment (thanks to my readers generous support!), so will begin filming my 3 original YouTube series this week. I am also in the process of moving my long form TikTok content over to my YouTube as well, so make sure to subscribe. Thanks!
jjhastings.com
November 16, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Content Update
Just a quick update that I finished setting up my recording space and finally got some audio equipment (thanks to my readers generous support!), so will begin filming my 3 original YouTube series this week. I am also in the process of moving my long form TikTok content over to my…
Just a quick update that I finished setting up my recording space and finally got some audio equipment (thanks to my readers generous support!), so will begin filming my 3 original YouTube series this week. I am also in the process of moving my long form TikTok content over to my…
Monica Lewinsky was a 22 year old woman caught up in a well documented power dynamic w/ a literal fucking President that impacted consent.
All these years later, with all the effort to educate folks about CONSENT in power dynamics, and people predictably immediately jump to Lewinsky memes.
Fuck.
All these years later, with all the effort to educate folks about CONSENT in power dynamics, and people predictably immediately jump to Lewinsky memes.
Fuck.
November 15, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Monica Lewinsky was a 22 year old woman caught up in a well documented power dynamic w/ a literal fucking President that impacted consent.
All these years later, with all the effort to educate folks about CONSENT in power dynamics, and people predictably immediately jump to Lewinsky memes.
Fuck.
All these years later, with all the effort to educate folks about CONSENT in power dynamics, and people predictably immediately jump to Lewinsky memes.
Fuck.
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Centrist Democrats in the Senate folded on the shutdown, throwing away their leverage in exchange for worthless GOP promises.
When will they learn that there is no center between a government of oligarchs and a government of the people? https://youtu.be/EQzG_TrhyrY?si=LBXGJad9NjGyBGBo
When will they learn that there is no center between a government of oligarchs and a government of the people? https://youtu.be/EQzG_TrhyrY?si=LBXGJad9NjGyBGBo
The Failures of “Centrism”
Robert Reich
youtu.be
November 10, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Centrist Democrats in the Senate folded on the shutdown, throwing away their leverage in exchange for worthless GOP promises.
When will they learn that there is no center between a government of oligarchs and a government of the people? https://youtu.be/EQzG_TrhyrY?si=LBXGJad9NjGyBGBo
When will they learn that there is no center between a government of oligarchs and a government of the people? https://youtu.be/EQzG_TrhyrY?si=LBXGJad9NjGyBGBo
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So @schumer.senate.gov really thinks we don’t understand that he orchestrated this by getting senators not up for re-election to vote yes?
November 10, 2025 at 3:57 AM
So @schumer.senate.gov really thinks we don’t understand that he orchestrated this by getting senators not up for re-election to vote yes?
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Trump pardoned his associates who tried to help him overturn the 2020 election.
He pardoned 1500 people who tried to violently overthrow our government on January 6th.
Trump is proving that he’ll pardon anyone for any crimes they help him commit.
Complete lawlessness.
He pardoned 1500 people who tried to violently overthrow our government on January 6th.
Trump is proving that he’ll pardon anyone for any crimes they help him commit.
Complete lawlessness.
November 10, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Trump pardoned his associates who tried to help him overturn the 2020 election.
He pardoned 1500 people who tried to violently overthrow our government on January 6th.
Trump is proving that he’ll pardon anyone for any crimes they help him commit.
Complete lawlessness.
He pardoned 1500 people who tried to violently overthrow our government on January 6th.
Trump is proving that he’ll pardon anyone for any crimes they help him commit.
Complete lawlessness.
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Making fun of our neighborhoods and communities is disgusting.
Greg Bovino and his masked agents are not here to make Chicago safer. As children are tear gassed and U.S. citizens detained, they are posing for photo ops and producing reality TV moments. blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/10/b...
Greg Bovino and his masked agents are not here to make Chicago safer. As children are tear gassed and U.S. citizens detained, they are posing for photo ops and producing reality TV moments. blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/10/b...
Border Patrol Agents Pose At The Bean For Apparent Photo Op
The photo op came after agents tear-gassed a Little Village street and were spotted in the area numerous times. At the Bean, one agent shouted, "Everyone say, 'Little Village!'"
blockclubchicago.org
November 10, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Making fun of our neighborhoods and communities is disgusting.
Greg Bovino and his masked agents are not here to make Chicago safer. As children are tear gassed and U.S. citizens detained, they are posing for photo ops and producing reality TV moments. blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/10/b...
Greg Bovino and his masked agents are not here to make Chicago safer. As children are tear gassed and U.S. citizens detained, they are posing for photo ops and producing reality TV moments. blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/10/b...
"Keep glazing fucking useless Dems, or you're a bad person!" - the typical BlueSky brained dem who thinks sharing AI generated memes of donkeys is "community organizing".
November 10, 2025 at 5:15 PM
"Keep glazing fucking useless Dems, or you're a bad person!" - the typical BlueSky brained dem who thinks sharing AI generated memes of donkeys is "community organizing".
Dick Durbin and 7 Buddies Kill America
Dick Durbin is a cunt, and he gathered up his friends not at re-election this cycle to kill America overnight.
Dick Durbin is a cunt, and he gathered up his friends not at re-election this cycle to kill America overnight.
Dick Durbin and 7 Buddies Kill America
Dick Durbin is a cunt, and he gathered up his friends not at re-election this cycle to kill America overnight.
jjhastings.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Dick Durbin and 7 Buddies Kill America
Dick Durbin is a cunt, and he gathered up his friends not at re-election this cycle to kill America overnight.
Dick Durbin is a cunt, and he gathered up his friends not at re-election this cycle to kill America overnight.
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Great job, @schumer.senate.gov. You've changed the story from "GOP hurting millions of Americans to please unpopular, failing, delusional despot who's destroying his party" to "Dems are too weak and divided in the face of Trump's strength to take a stand and protect Americans"
November 10, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Great job, @schumer.senate.gov. You've changed the story from "GOP hurting millions of Americans to please unpopular, failing, delusional despot who's destroying his party" to "Dems are too weak and divided in the face of Trump's strength to take a stand and protect Americans"
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Enough is enough. Contact your Democratic senators TODAY and tell them to call for Senator Schumer to step aside as Minority Leader. We desperately need new leadership in the Democratic Party.
CALL NOW: Tell Your Democratic Senator It's Time for Chuck Schumer to Step Aside
indivisible.org
November 10, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Enough is enough. Contact your Democratic senators TODAY and tell them to call for Senator Schumer to step aside as Minority Leader. We desperately need new leadership in the Democratic Party.
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Schumer can be removed from his Dem leadership role this week - 23 Dems (and/or independents) just have to vote to depose him
And they should, given this is his fault.
And they should, given this is his fault.
This is a lovely sentiment but Schumer isn't up for re-election until 2028 and he knows this. At which point he will be 77/78. There's no mechanism to recall a sitting senator AFAIK.
Let’s be clear: Chuck Schumer is the one ending this shutdown, no matter how the votes read.
Chuck Schumer is claiming that he’s voting no, while letting other Senators (Fetterman, Kaine, King, etc) do HIS dirty work.
He must be removed from his leadership & primaried for the sake of this country
Chuck Schumer is claiming that he’s voting no, while letting other Senators (Fetterman, Kaine, King, etc) do HIS dirty work.
He must be removed from his leadership & primaried for the sake of this country
November 10, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Schumer can be removed from his Dem leadership role this week - 23 Dems (and/or independents) just have to vote to depose him
And they should, given this is his fault.
And they should, given this is his fault.
You can reach Senator Richard J. Durbin's office by phone at (312) 353-4952.
November 10, 2025 at 4:50 PM
You can reach Senator Richard J. Durbin's office by phone at (312) 353-4952.
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📌I can't stop banging this drum: Democrats had a spectacular Tuesday at the polls, the wind at their backs, and basically punched themselves and their voters in the face five days later.
This is political malpractice at best, and out and out brazen capitulation to their billionaire donors at worst.
This is political malpractice at best, and out and out brazen capitulation to their billionaire donors at worst.
November 10, 2025 at 3:21 PM
📌I can't stop banging this drum: Democrats had a spectacular Tuesday at the polls, the wind at their backs, and basically punched themselves and their voters in the face five days later.
This is political malpractice at best, and out and out brazen capitulation to their billionaire donors at worst.
This is political malpractice at best, and out and out brazen capitulation to their billionaire donors at worst.
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Not only was Sandwich Guy acquitted.
He was acquitted on a misdemeanor after Jeanine Pirro failed to get an indictment for a felony assault charge out of a grand jury. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
He was acquitted on a misdemeanor after Jeanine Pirro failed to get an indictment for a felony assault charge out of a grand jury. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
Jury finds D.C. ‘sandwich guy’ not guilty of assaulting officer
Sean C. Dunn admitted he flung the hoagie at a federal agent. His attorneys called it a “harmless gesture” of protest as Trump commandeered D.C. police.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Not only was Sandwich Guy acquitted.
He was acquitted on a misdemeanor after Jeanine Pirro failed to get an indictment for a felony assault charge out of a grand jury. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
He was acquitted on a misdemeanor after Jeanine Pirro failed to get an indictment for a felony assault charge out of a grand jury. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
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A group of parents and advocates call for transparency from the federal government and an end to immigration operations in educational settings.
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Parents want answers after feds arrest day care teacher — ‘It has destroyed us’
A group of parents and advocates call for transparency from the federal government and an end to immigration operations in educational settings.
trib.al
November 7, 2025 at 2:08 AM
A group of parents and advocates call for transparency from the federal government and an end to immigration operations in educational settings.
trib.al/4Z6In6I
trib.al/4Z6In6I
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Maine rejected a ballot measure that’d have restricted mail voting and imposed voter ID.
By a large margin, 64/36.
The no got 90% in the city of Portland. (!) boltsmag.org/five-ways-20...
By a large margin, 64/36.
The no got 90% in the city of Portland. (!) boltsmag.org/five-ways-20...
Five Ways Tuesday’s Results Will Affect Voting Rules and Democracy - Bolts
From felony disenfranchisement and mail-voting to mid-decade gerrymanders, Tuesday delivered verdicts on election law across these five states.
boltsmag.org
November 7, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Maine rejected a ballot measure that’d have restricted mail voting and imposed voter ID.
By a large margin, 64/36.
The no got 90% in the city of Portland. (!) boltsmag.org/five-ways-20...
By a large margin, 64/36.
The no got 90% in the city of Portland. (!) boltsmag.org/five-ways-20...
Power doesn’t always evaporate with fireworks. Sometimes it leaves in silence, while a tray of peaches waits on a desk.
Cottage Cheese at the End of the World
Cottage Cheese at the End of the World History likes to tell us that change is cinematic: grand speeches, powerful exits, dramatic confrontations. But the truth is far more disorienting. Power doesn’t always evaporate with fireworks. Sometimes it leaves in silence, while a tray of peaches waits on a desk; a still life of the mundane colliding with the monumental.
jjhastings.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Power doesn’t always evaporate with fireworks. Sometimes it leaves in silence, while a tray of peaches waits on a desk.
November 5, 2025 at 11:42 PM
"I wish Andrew Cuomo the best in private life." - Mamdani
November 5, 2025 at 4:21 AM
"I wish Andrew Cuomo the best in private life." - Mamdani
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Spanberger in the all red power suit, sending a clear message.
📸: Politico
📸: Politico
November 5, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Spanberger in the all red power suit, sending a clear message.
📸: Politico
📸: Politico
Spanberger Wins; First Female Governor of Virginia
Spanberger Wins; First Female Governor of Virginia
jjhastings.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Spanberger Wins; First Female Governor of Virginia
History Made: Mamdani Wins NYC
History Made: Mamdani Wins NYC
jjhastings.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:48 AM
History Made: Mamdani Wins NYC
Sneak peek of my eBook! 🥰
Took 6 months to write, I did 6 rounds of edits.
Now teaching myself to format it in Canva, one page at a time. I'm about 25% done with formatting.
Took 6 months to write, I did 6 rounds of edits.
Now teaching myself to format it in Canva, one page at a time. I'm about 25% done with formatting.
November 3, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Sneak peek of my eBook! 🥰
Took 6 months to write, I did 6 rounds of edits.
Now teaching myself to format it in Canva, one page at a time. I'm about 25% done with formatting.
Took 6 months to write, I did 6 rounds of edits.
Now teaching myself to format it in Canva, one page at a time. I'm about 25% done with formatting.