Justin Martin
@jmartinwrites.bsky.social
Trying it over here. Disabled and queer. Word tinkerer (in schools) and word tinkerer (not in schools). Never not thinking about Plastic Man.
honestly, sitting at concerts is definitely on the Family Feud board of 'top things about being in a wheelchair'.
My new old person hack is that sitting down for concerts is preferable, and you should just get a seat where you can do that. They’re usually cheaper too!
November 11, 2025 at 1:34 AM
honestly, sitting at concerts is definitely on the Family Feud board of 'top things about being in a wheelchair'.
my longest 'yeah boi' ever.
uh sorry what the Jimmy Olsen show is a true crime mockumentary from the creators of AMERICAN VANDAL???? that's fucking money right there variety.com/2025/tv/news...
Jimmy Olsen ‘DC Crime’ Series in the Works at HBO Max From ‘American Vandal’ Duo, First Season Focused on Gorilla Grodd
DC Studios and HBO Max are developing a fictional true crime series set in the DC Universe.
variety.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:10 AM
my longest 'yeah boi' ever.
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uh sorry what the Jimmy Olsen show is a true crime mockumentary from the creators of AMERICAN VANDAL???? that's fucking money right there variety.com/2025/tv/news...
Jimmy Olsen ‘DC Crime’ Series in the Works at HBO Max From ‘American Vandal’ Duo, First Season Focused on Gorilla Grodd
DC Studios and HBO Max are developing a fictional true crime series set in the DC Universe.
variety.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:06 AM
uh sorry what the Jimmy Olsen show is a true crime mockumentary from the creators of AMERICAN VANDAL???? that's fucking money right there variety.com/2025/tv/news...
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November 10, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
March 14, 2025 at 10:24 PM
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
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How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM
How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
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This is literally where I am.
I can understand the ACA decision, but the core goal of this shutdown was to try and assert some manner of "the executive branch will follow the goddamn law"
We didn't get that, at all.
I can understand the ACA decision, but the core goal of this shutdown was to try and assert some manner of "the executive branch will follow the goddamn law"
We didn't get that, at all.
Still upset about no power of the purse language. You truly do hate to see it. The Trump admin undertook the most expansive set of illegal budgetary actions of any president in history, and broadcast as loudly as possible they’d keep doing it, and nothing. Budgetary lawlessness.
November 10, 2025 at 2:01 AM
This is literally where I am.
I can understand the ACA decision, but the core goal of this shutdown was to try and assert some manner of "the executive branch will follow the goddamn law"
We didn't get that, at all.
I can understand the ACA decision, but the core goal of this shutdown was to try and assert some manner of "the executive branch will follow the goddamn law"
We didn't get that, at all.
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Not that he didn’t already know, but now Trump knows for sure he can roll the Dems every time and there’s no need to negotiate for anything
November 10, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Not that he didn’t already know, but now Trump knows for sure he can roll the Dems every time and there’s no need to negotiate for anything
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well there's Jeffries telling Schumer to man the fuck up
My statement on the spending legislation and Republican healthcare crisis.
November 10, 2025 at 12:12 AM
well there's Jeffries telling Schumer to man the fuck up
look i have two republican senators and *I* just did this because good lord, what kind of party are we if we can't fight for our most exploited?
So, listen, call Schumer’s office no matter where you live, no matter if you’re registered to vote. Leave a voicemail that says if Senate Dems cave without an ACA premiums fix, you will never vote for or donate to another Senate Democrat as long as he is Leader
Call them:
Schumer (NY)
202 224-6542
Booker (NJ)
202 224-3224
King (ME)
202 224-5344
Hassan (NH)
202 224-3324
Durbin (IL)
202 224-2152
Ossoff (GA)
202 224-3521
Shaheen (NH)
202 224-2841
Gillibrand (NY)
202 224-4451
Masto (NV)
202 224-3542
Warner (VA)
202 224-2023
Fetterman (PA)
No Point
Schumer (NY)
202 224-6542
Booker (NJ)
202 224-3224
King (ME)
202 224-5344
Hassan (NH)
202 224-3324
Durbin (IL)
202 224-2152
Ossoff (GA)
202 224-3521
Shaheen (NH)
202 224-2841
Gillibrand (NY)
202 224-4451
Masto (NV)
202 224-3542
Warner (VA)
202 224-2023
Fetterman (PA)
No Point
November 9, 2025 at 11:33 PM
look i have two republican senators and *I* just did this because good lord, what kind of party are we if we can't fight for our most exploited?
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So, listen, call Schumer’s office no matter where you live, no matter if you’re registered to vote. Leave a voicemail that says if Senate Dems cave without an ACA premiums fix, you will never vote for or donate to another Senate Democrat as long as he is Leader
Call them:
Schumer (NY)
202 224-6542
Booker (NJ)
202 224-3224
King (ME)
202 224-5344
Hassan (NH)
202 224-3324
Durbin (IL)
202 224-2152
Ossoff (GA)
202 224-3521
Shaheen (NH)
202 224-2841
Gillibrand (NY)
202 224-4451
Masto (NV)
202 224-3542
Warner (VA)
202 224-2023
Fetterman (PA)
No Point
Schumer (NY)
202 224-6542
Booker (NJ)
202 224-3224
King (ME)
202 224-5344
Hassan (NH)
202 224-3324
Durbin (IL)
202 224-2152
Ossoff (GA)
202 224-3521
Shaheen (NH)
202 224-2841
Gillibrand (NY)
202 224-4451
Masto (NV)
202 224-3542
Warner (VA)
202 224-2023
Fetterman (PA)
No Point
November 9, 2025 at 11:05 PM
So, listen, call Schumer’s office no matter where you live, no matter if you’re registered to vote. Leave a voicemail that says if Senate Dems cave without an ACA premiums fix, you will never vote for or donate to another Senate Democrat as long as he is Leader
big ambitious reading/movie plans for the rest of the day after a lil sojourn with friends for meatball subs/coffee/Turkish chocolate:
kate folk's planefucking novel SKYDADDY
Miyazaki's THE BOY AND THE HERON
BREAKNECK: CHINA'S QUEST TO ENGINEER THE FUTURE by Dan Wong
a few Aesop fables, to taste
kate folk's planefucking novel SKYDADDY
Miyazaki's THE BOY AND THE HERON
BREAKNECK: CHINA'S QUEST TO ENGINEER THE FUTURE by Dan Wong
a few Aesop fables, to taste
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
big ambitious reading/movie plans for the rest of the day after a lil sojourn with friends for meatball subs/coffee/Turkish chocolate:
kate folk's planefucking novel SKYDADDY
Miyazaki's THE BOY AND THE HERON
BREAKNECK: CHINA'S QUEST TO ENGINEER THE FUTURE by Dan Wong
a few Aesop fables, to taste
kate folk's planefucking novel SKYDADDY
Miyazaki's THE BOY AND THE HERON
BREAKNECK: CHINA'S QUEST TO ENGINEER THE FUTURE by Dan Wong
a few Aesop fables, to taste
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40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine.
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:20 AM
40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine.
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
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no amount of state propaganda will ever convince me this man is my enemy
November 9, 2025 at 3:05 PM
no amount of state propaganda will ever convince me this man is my enemy
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I support Plur1bus’s mission of giving an X-Files writer what appears to be a billion dollars.
November 9, 2025 at 5:00 AM
I support Plur1bus’s mission of giving an X-Files writer what appears to be a billion dollars.
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It's unfathomably cruel, a kind of inhumanity that as a kid I must have thought impossible in the present tense, that you read about from Wiesel but imagine has gone out of the world.
Of course it hasn't. And our highest officials visit it for photo ops.
Of course it hasn't. And our highest officials visit it for photo ops.
40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine.
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:20 AM
It's unfathomably cruel, a kind of inhumanity that as a kid I must have thought impossible in the present tense, that you read about from Wiesel but imagine has gone out of the world.
Of course it hasn't. And our highest officials visit it for photo ops.
Of course it hasn't. And our highest officials visit it for photo ops.
I don't think "the main idea of a text" is really even a remotely useful approach to teaching English and I'd strike it from state standards if I could.
"What does (x text/author/idea) reveal about (y text/author/idea)?" has always struck me as a far more useful and real question, even if trickier.
"What does (x text/author/idea) reveal about (y text/author/idea)?" has always struck me as a far more useful and real question, even if trickier.
November 9, 2025 at 4:03 AM
I don't think "the main idea of a text" is really even a remotely useful approach to teaching English and I'd strike it from state standards if I could.
"What does (x text/author/idea) reveal about (y text/author/idea)?" has always struck me as a far more useful and real question, even if trickier.
"What does (x text/author/idea) reveal about (y text/author/idea)?" has always struck me as a far more useful and real question, even if trickier.
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Also, maybe we come up with, like, two more holidays, say in the early and late spring, that involve walking around the neighborhood and talking to your neighbors?
October 31, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Also, maybe we come up with, like, two more holidays, say in the early and late spring, that involve walking around the neighborhood and talking to your neighbors?
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It's been long enough. I thought Pokémon Go To the Polls was pretty funny
November 4, 2025 at 3:19 PM
It's been long enough. I thought Pokémon Go To the Polls was pretty funny
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One thing that strikes me is just how fake all of our problems related to government are
The filibuster isn't in the Constitution, and every single Framer would be apoplectic that it exists.
The government shutdown was invented in 1980
The 9-justices limit was invented to stop the New Deal
The filibuster isn't in the Constitution, and every single Framer would be apoplectic that it exists.
The government shutdown was invented in 1980
The 9-justices limit was invented to stop the New Deal
November 8, 2025 at 3:33 AM
One thing that strikes me is just how fake all of our problems related to government are
The filibuster isn't in the Constitution, and every single Framer would be apoplectic that it exists.
The government shutdown was invented in 1980
The 9-justices limit was invented to stop the New Deal
The filibuster isn't in the Constitution, and every single Framer would be apoplectic that it exists.
The government shutdown was invented in 1980
The 9-justices limit was invented to stop the New Deal
the most fascinating thing about PLURIBUS on Apple TV, which I love so far, is that it's basically a post-9/11 GILLIGAN'S ISLAND, which is not a thing I knew could exist or would've known to want if it could.
November 8, 2025 at 3:19 AM
the most fascinating thing about PLURIBUS on Apple TV, which I love so far, is that it's basically a post-9/11 GILLIGAN'S ISLAND, which is not a thing I knew could exist or would've known to want if it could.
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the Republican party is a violent terrorist organization who wants to destroy this country. it has no place in the future of American politics. it must be entirely crushed, and the future of political disagreements in the near term is the left and right wings of the Dems.
November 7, 2025 at 6:23 PM
the Republican party is a violent terrorist organization who wants to destroy this country. it has no place in the future of American politics. it must be entirely crushed, and the future of political disagreements in the near term is the left and right wings of the Dems.
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short term, this is catastrophic for millions of people in many different ways. long term, it's probably good for the next several elections if people remember "oh yeah, the Republicans, when they were in charge literally everything stopped working"
November 7, 2025 at 6:20 PM
short term, this is catastrophic for millions of people in many different ways. long term, it's probably good for the next several elections if people remember "oh yeah, the Republicans, when they were in charge literally everything stopped working"
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as someone who 100% has to fly for work in the next week, I'm not happy about where things are obviously. But also I do think that it is valuable for America to get a clear demonstration that Republican policies are fundamentally incompatible with a functioning society
November 7, 2025 at 6:19 PM
as someone who 100% has to fly for work in the next week, I'm not happy about where things are obviously. But also I do think that it is valuable for America to get a clear demonstration that Republican policies are fundamentally incompatible with a functioning society