John Brooks
@johnbrooks.bsky.social
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1999 the Podcast: http://bit.ly/3I211ql
Religious studies person
ICE/prison/golf abolitionist
BLM
Anti-fascism forever
Trans rights are human rights
Red Sox and Crystal Palace diehard
He/Him
1999 the Podcast: http://bit.ly/3I211ql
Religious studies person
ICE/prison/golf abolitionist
BLM
Anti-fascism forever
Trans rights are human rights
Red Sox and Crystal Palace diehard
He/Him
Pinned
#057 – THE EXORCIST with Matthew J. Cressler by Pod Only Knows
Our friend and Catholic horror expert joins us for Halloween to talk about his favorite movie, 1973's The Exorcist!
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HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
Please enjoy listening to three religious studies types - me, @kellyjbaker.bsky.social, and the great @mjcressler.bsky.social - talk about THE EXORCIST in nerdy and religiony ways!
Please enjoy listening to three religious studies types - me, @kellyjbaker.bsky.social, and the great @mjcressler.bsky.social - talk about THE EXORCIST in nerdy and religiony ways!
This is We Have Harvey Keitel At Home
Chris Cuomo is trying to make this atrocious little mustache happen even though it looks like he drew it on with a ballpoint pen
November 11, 2025 at 3:49 AM
This is We Have Harvey Keitel At Home
It's pretty cool how the most powerful man on earth is a criminal idiot who has no idea how anything works.
November 11, 2025 at 3:47 AM
It's pretty cool how the most powerful man on earth is a criminal idiot who has no idea how anything works.
For the millionth time, the entire ideology of conservatism rests upon the false belief that everybody else is as lazy and cynical as they are.
Trump claims that food stamps "puts the country in jeopardy. People that are able-bodied can do a job, they leave their job because they figure they can pick this up, it's easier."
November 11, 2025 at 3:42 AM
For the millionth time, the entire ideology of conservatism rests upon the false belief that everybody else is as lazy and cynical as they are.
I want Schumer gone but not right away because I need SNL to hire Eugene Levy to play him for a few weeks until he is mocked and humiliated enough to step down.
November 10, 2025 at 11:26 PM
I want Schumer gone but not right away because I need SNL to hire Eugene Levy to play him for a few weeks until he is mocked and humiliated enough to step down.
OH MY FUCKING GOD
Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
November 10, 2025 at 7:28 PM
OH MY FUCKING GOD
Their average age is 69.75
More if you suspect, as I do, that Fetterman is an ancient undead ghoul
Primary the gerontocracy out of existence
More if you suspect, as I do, that Fetterman is an ancient undead ghoul
Primary the gerontocracy out of existence
November 10, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Their average age is 69.75
More if you suspect, as I do, that Fetterman is an ancient undead ghoul
Primary the gerontocracy out of existence
More if you suspect, as I do, that Fetterman is an ancient undead ghoul
Primary the gerontocracy out of existence
What the fuck is wrong with these fucking freaks?
November 10, 2025 at 7:12 PM
What the fuck is wrong with these fucking freaks?
This is actually quite big.
Overturning Obergefell and was and is one of the keystones in the Christian Nationalist project (upon which the push to eventually overturn Griswold would be effectively predicated) and this would seem to suggest that any effort to do so is dead in the water.
Overturning Obergefell and was and is one of the keystones in the Christian Nationalist project (upon which the push to eventually overturn Griswold would be effectively predicated) and this would seem to suggest that any effort to do so is dead in the water.
Supreme Court Rejects Call To Overturn Its Decision Legalizing Same-sex Marriage Nationwide
The Supreme Court has rejected a call to overturn its landmark decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.
www.huffpost.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:11 PM
This is actually quite big.
Overturning Obergefell and was and is one of the keystones in the Christian Nationalist project (upon which the push to eventually overturn Griswold would be effectively predicated) and this would seem to suggest that any effort to do so is dead in the water.
Overturning Obergefell and was and is one of the keystones in the Christian Nationalist project (upon which the push to eventually overturn Griswold would be effectively predicated) and this would seem to suggest that any effort to do so is dead in the water.
Chuck Schumer (opening the gates for the barbarian horde):
I WILL BE VOTING NO ON OPENING THE GATES FOR THE BARBARIAN HORDE!!!
I WILL BE VOTING NO ON OPENING THE GATES FOR THE BARBARIAN HORDE!!!
November 10, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Chuck Schumer (opening the gates for the barbarian horde):
I WILL BE VOTING NO ON OPENING THE GATES FOR THE BARBARIAN HORDE!!!
I WILL BE VOTING NO ON OPENING THE GATES FOR THE BARBARIAN HORDE!!!
A REAL patriot would do air traffic control for FREE because they LOVE AMERICA
What a statesman. He creates a crisis, then threatens the essential workers who bear its brunt, because his cruelty is the entire point of the project. How profoundly pathetic.
'Get back to work': Trump threatens 'true patriots' will replace air traffic controllers
Donald Trump has issued a clear message to air traffic controllers currently unpaid amid the government shutdown — "get back to work".In a post made to his Truth Social account, the president made it clear that those who were not returning to work immediately would have their pay "substantially dock...
www.rawstory.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:14 PM
A REAL patriot would do air traffic control for FREE because they LOVE AMERICA
YOU ARE LITERALLY THE REASON ANYONE WAS VOTING AT ALL
America is in the midst of a Republican-made health care crisis—a crisis so severe, so urgent, and so devastating for American families that I cannot support a continuing resolution that fails to address it.
I am voting NO.
I am voting NO.
November 10, 2025 at 12:05 PM
YOU ARE LITERALLY THE REASON ANYONE WAS VOTING AT ALL
Worth pointing out that what Adam Carolla does for "work" is effectively just yell this very tweet into a microphone for a few hours a day
November 10, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Worth pointing out that what Adam Carolla does for "work" is effectively just yell this very tweet into a microphone for a few hours a day
Anyway, they'd better seat Grijalva and vote to release the Epstein files TOMORROW.
November 10, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Anyway, they'd better seat Grijalva and vote to release the Epstein files TOMORROW.
And you tell them it's because Republicans literally want to destroy government and want your constituents to die, right?
YOU TELL THEM IT'S BECAUSE REPUBLICANS LITERALLY WANT TO DESTROY GOVERNMENT AND WANT YOUR CONSTITUENTS TO DIE, RIGHT?
YOU TELL THEM IT'S BECAUSE REPUBLICANS LITERALLY WANT TO DESTROY GOVERNMENT AND WANT YOUR CONSTITUENTS TO DIE, RIGHT?
November 10, 2025 at 3:11 AM
And you tell them it's because Republicans literally want to destroy government and want your constituents to die, right?
YOU TELL THEM IT'S BECAUSE REPUBLICANS LITERALLY WANT TO DESTROY GOVERNMENT AND WANT YOUR CONSTITUENTS TO DIE, RIGHT?
YOU TELL THEM IT'S BECAUSE REPUBLICANS LITERALLY WANT TO DESTROY GOVERNMENT AND WANT YOUR CONSTITUENTS TO DIE, RIGHT?
This is a good moment for people who think the Democratic Party should be the biggest possible tent to realize what disastrous life choices they have made and drown themselves in the sea.
November 10, 2025 at 2:56 AM
This is a good moment for people who think the Democratic Party should be the biggest possible tent to realize what disastrous life choices they have made and drown themselves in the sea.
It's cool that politicians get to have a word like "moderate" to describe them while the rest of us have to just be described as "moral cowards who don't believe in anything and are bad at our jobs."
November 10, 2025 at 1:35 AM
It's cool that politicians get to have a word like "moderate" to describe them while the rest of us have to just be described as "moral cowards who don't believe in anything and are bad at our jobs."
What a fortune time for the ADL to never have specifically stated that they were anti ALL defamation.
We asked Jonathan Greenblatt of the ADL: Why set up a tip line as part of their “Mamdani Monitor”?
Has the ADL ever done this for a single official?
“We've certainly never had an elected official like this before,” he said.
Hear his answers at length:
www.npr.org/2025/11/07/n...
Has the ADL ever done this for a single official?
“We've certainly never had an elected official like this before,” he said.
Hear his answers at length:
www.npr.org/2025/11/07/n...
ADL creates new 'Mamdani Monitor' project to track his administration policies
After the ADL announced its scrutiny of Zohran Mamdani, the mayor-elect told reporters, "I take the issue of antisemitism incredibly seriously."
www.npr.org
November 9, 2025 at 1:31 PM
What a fortune time for the ADL to never have specifically stated that they were anti ALL defamation.
My burning hot take is that the Godfather films are obscenely overrated and that Francis Ford Coppola is not a very good filmmaker.
And I think when his lousy movie loses him an island this should count as evidence for my argument.
And I think when his lousy movie loses him an island this should count as evidence for my argument.
November 9, 2025 at 4:34 AM
My burning hot take is that the Godfather films are obscenely overrated and that Francis Ford Coppola is not a very good filmmaker.
And I think when his lousy movie loses him an island this should count as evidence for my argument.
And I think when his lousy movie loses him an island this should count as evidence for my argument.
They are all absolute fucking frauds
November 9, 2025 at 4:30 AM
They are all absolute fucking frauds
It is, in fact, the very definition of a laughing matter
Trump Official Horrified By Acquittal Of Man Who Threw Sandwich: 'It's No Laughing Matter'
Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin accused the man known as the D.C. "Sandwich Guy" of spreading "dangerous rhetoric."
www.huffpost.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:03 AM
It is, in fact, the very definition of a laughing matter
Ross Douthat is the JD Vance Before picture that made a wish to be a real boy
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Ross Douthat is the JD Vance Before picture that made a wish to be a real boy
Trump Hopefully Memorial Stadium
November 9, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Trump Hopefully Memorial Stadium
He's not wrong to say "our groceries are way down."
The same guy who "doesn’t want to hear about affordability" posted about his new marble bathroom 7 times last week.
November 8, 2025 at 11:59 PM
He's not wrong to say "our groceries are way down."
No it's just that Republicans think that the private sector is better at feeding of millions of underpaid and disadvantaged citizens
November 8, 2025 at 11:59 PM
No it's just that Republicans think that the private sector is better at feeding of millions of underpaid and disadvantaged citizens