John Colton
@johncolton.bsky.social
Physicist, BYU. Latter-day Saint. Swiftie. Nerdfighter #DFTBA. Fan of Utah Jazz, Brandon Sanderson, F1, ultimate frisbee. Singer, budding ukuleleist. ADHD, anxiety. #NeverTrump. #StandWithUkraine. Twitter handle was @johncolton70. Be the light of the world
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John Colton
@johncolton.bsky.social
· Dec 1
Hi everyone! My wife and I just set up a website for displaying and selling her watercolor art: www.splashandpetal.com
Please check it out! You can admire her artwork (it's amazing!), read what she has to say about each of the paintings and/or order cards or framed prints, canvas prints, etc.
Please check it out! You can admire her artwork (it's amazing!), read what she has to say about each of the paintings and/or order cards or framed prints, canvas prints, etc.
This is the way.
The lesson of history is that tyrants cannot be appeased.
Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power.
Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe and vulnerable.
But without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless.
Remember this.
Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power.
Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe and vulnerable.
But without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless.
Remember this.
January 21, 2026 at 5:05 PM
This is the way.
Trump is insane.
#25thAmendment
#25thAmendment
“Remember that, Mark, the next time you make your statements.”
January 21, 2026 at 5:03 PM
Trump is insane.
#25thAmendment
#25thAmendment
EVERYONE PLEASE CALL
"WHERE IS MY MOMMY?"
Imagine if this were your child.
Imagine your child lost BOTH parents!
This administration is destroying families. It's traumatizing millions!
What kind of person is okay with that?
Call your Senators & demand they redirect ICE funding.
202-224-3121!
No caving tolerated!
Imagine if this were your child.
Imagine your child lost BOTH parents!
This administration is destroying families. It's traumatizing millions!
What kind of person is okay with that?
Call your Senators & demand they redirect ICE funding.
202-224-3121!
No caving tolerated!
January 21, 2026 at 7:23 AM
EVERYONE PLEASE CALL
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I’ve run out of words to describe this man and the depth of his contempt for this country.
Trump on the Insurrection Act: "It does make life a lot easier. You don't through the court system. It's just a much easier thing to do."
January 21, 2026 at 3:13 AM
I’ve run out of words to describe this man and the depth of his contempt for this country.
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Shut ICE down, remove the leadership, break DHS apart, and investigate their crimes.
January 20, 2026 at 11:00 PM
Shut ICE down, remove the leadership, break DHS apart, and investigate their crimes.
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It’s ethnic cleansing and we have to start calling it that.
January 21, 2026 at 3:34 AM
It’s ethnic cleansing and we have to start calling it that.
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It’s murder.
It’s a slower gas chamber.
It’s a slower gas chamber.
January 21, 2026 at 3:35 AM
It’s murder.
It’s a slower gas chamber.
It’s a slower gas chamber.
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One of the first things Trump did in Feb. 2017 was set up an office in DHS to *exclusively* publicize crimes committed by immigrants — just as the Nazis used Der Stürmer to publish a special section only highlighting “Jewish crimes.”
See this article from 2017:
www.thewrap.com/der-sturmer-...
See this article from 2017:
www.thewrap.com/der-sturmer-...
December 31, 2025 at 3:10 AM
One of the first things Trump did in Feb. 2017 was set up an office in DHS to *exclusively* publicize crimes committed by immigrants — just as the Nazis used Der Stürmer to publish a special section only highlighting “Jewish crimes.”
See this article from 2017:
www.thewrap.com/der-sturmer-...
See this article from 2017:
www.thewrap.com/der-sturmer-...
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Compare & contrast. This is Trump’s demand for Greenland. And this is Hitler’s for the Sudetenland.
There is no difference. The language. The unstoppable need to dominate. The megalomania. It’s the same.
And Keir Starmer’s response is appeasement. We are in that moment.
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There is no difference. The language. The unstoppable need to dominate. The megalomania. It’s the same.
And Keir Starmer’s response is appeasement. We are in that moment.
1/
January 20, 2026 at 9:00 AM
Compare & contrast. This is Trump’s demand for Greenland. And this is Hitler’s for the Sudetenland.
There is no difference. The language. The unstoppable need to dominate. The megalomania. It’s the same.
And Keir Starmer’s response is appeasement. We are in that moment.
1/
There is no difference. The language. The unstoppable need to dominate. The megalomania. It’s the same.
And Keir Starmer’s response is appeasement. We are in that moment.
1/
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Felon47 made more money last year, (2025), than he's made his entire miserable life...
Tell me again how he's not taking a paycheck... He's robbing Americans.
Tell me again how he's not taking a paycheck... He's robbing Americans.
January 21, 2026 at 3:41 AM
Felon47 made more money last year, (2025), than he's made his entire miserable life...
Tell me again how he's not taking a paycheck... He's robbing Americans.
Tell me again how he's not taking a paycheck... He's robbing Americans.
Kudos to whoever is playing Clair de Lune on the BYU carillon right now. It's gorgeous.
January 21, 2026 at 2:56 AM
Kudos to whoever is playing Clair de Lune on the BYU carillon right now. It's gorgeous.
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The 15 richest people in America saw their collective wealth jump nearly $1 trillion during Trump's year back in office.
Many of them were standing alongside Trump at his inauguration one year ago today.
How are you doing?
Many of them were standing alongside Trump at his inauguration one year ago today.
How are you doing?
January 20, 2026 at 8:30 PM
The 15 richest people in America saw their collective wealth jump nearly $1 trillion during Trump's year back in office.
Many of them were standing alongside Trump at his inauguration one year ago today.
How are you doing?
Many of them were standing alongside Trump at his inauguration one year ago today.
How are you doing?
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US citizen says he felt fear, shame and desperation a day after ICE officers broke down his door with guns drawn, handcuffed him and dragged him into the snow wearing half-dressed.
He was later returned home without explanation or apology, he said.
He was later returned home without explanation or apology, he said.
ICE broke into Minnesota home, dragged barely clothed man into snow
A Minnesota man told Reuters he felt fear, shame and desperation a day after ICE officers broke down his door with guns drawn, handcuffed him and dragged him into the snow wearing shorts and Crocs.
www.reuters.com
January 20, 2026 at 3:09 PM
US citizen says he felt fear, shame and desperation a day after ICE officers broke down his door with guns drawn, handcuffed him and dragged him into the snow wearing half-dressed.
He was later returned home without explanation or apology, he said.
He was later returned home without explanation or apology, he said.
He's done.
But I fear what he may do in his all-consuming need to maintain power.
But I fear what he may do in his all-consuming need to maintain power.
Trump reaching new lows: only 37% approval & 71% of adults say the country is out of control.
-27 points underwater on inflation
-10 points underwater on immigration
-7 points underwater on handling crime
Plus, only 9% support using military force to seize Greenland.
-27 points underwater on inflation
-10 points underwater on immigration
-7 points underwater on handling crime
Plus, only 9% support using military force to seize Greenland.
January 20, 2026 at 3:31 PM
He's done.
But I fear what he may do in his all-consuming need to maintain power.
But I fear what he may do in his all-consuming need to maintain power.
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Yes, it’s a confirmation of what everyone said would happen. But a confirmation is still useful.
“Foreign exporters absorbed only 4% of last year’s U.S. tariff increases by lowering prices, while American consumers and importers absorbed 96%.
“Rather than acting as a tax on foreign producers, the tariffs functioned as a consumption tax on Americans.”
www.wsj.com/economy/trad...
“Rather than acting as a tax on foreign producers, the tariffs functioned as a consumption tax on Americans.”
www.wsj.com/economy/trad...
Americans Are the Ones Paying for Tariffs, Study Finds
New research contradicts President Trump’s claim that foreigners are footing the bill.
www.wsj.com
January 20, 2026 at 2:22 AM
Yes, it’s a confirmation of what everyone said would happen. But a confirmation is still useful.
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Do I agree with disrupting a church service? No I don’t. But the worst crime they committed was possibly misdemeanor trespass. These Trump fascists want to destroy the lives of anyone who dares speak out against them.
Rep. Randy Fine on protesters who disrupted a church service in the Twin Cities: "These people have to go to jail. They have to go to jail for a very long time."
January 20, 2026 at 1:27 PM
Do I agree with disrupting a church service? No I don’t. But the worst crime they committed was possibly misdemeanor trespass. These Trump fascists want to destroy the lives of anyone who dares speak out against them.
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This stopped being funny a long time ago.
The only people this helps want to see us fall.
The only people this helps want to see us fall.
January 20, 2026 at 6:11 AM
This stopped being funny a long time ago.
The only people this helps want to see us fall.
The only people this helps want to see us fall.
Today is a great day to read some quotes from MLK Jr.
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly." —MLK Jr.
January 19, 2026 at 3:11 PM
Today is a great day to read some quotes from MLK Jr.
"When he's gone, everyone will hate him. Period. And they will judge you for what you've done to enable him... It's time to put grandpa in a home."
Spread the word.
Spread the word.
January 19, 2026 at 3:09 PM
"When he's gone, everyone will hate him. Period. And they will judge you for what you've done to enable him... It's time to put grandpa in a home."
Spread the word.
Spread the word.
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What snub? Snub implies a majority of ppl reasonably believed he had a chance at it. Snub is The Dark Knight not getting a Best Picture nom.
Calling it a snub normalizes the rantings of a spoiled narcissist who throws a tantrum that threatens int'l security every time he doesn't get what he wants.
Calling it a snub normalizes the rantings of a spoiled narcissist who throws a tantrum that threatens int'l security every time he doesn't get what he wants.
January 19, 2026 at 2:19 PM
What snub? Snub implies a majority of ppl reasonably believed he had a chance at it. Snub is The Dark Knight not getting a Best Picture nom.
Calling it a snub normalizes the rantings of a spoiled narcissist who throws a tantrum that threatens int'l security every time he doesn't get what he wants.
Calling it a snub normalizes the rantings of a spoiled narcissist who throws a tantrum that threatens int'l security every time he doesn't get what he wants.
Republicans do your job and impeach & remove.
This isn’t parody. It’s a message attributed to the sitting U.S. president arguing the world isn’t safe unless America has “complete and total control” of Greenland—because he didn’t get a Nobel Prize.
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
Trumps Unhinged Rant Is Real. He Gaslights The World
Time to put him in a home
open.substack.com
January 19, 2026 at 3:04 PM
Republicans do your job and impeach & remove.
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Todd Blanche letting every American know that *you too* can get shot in the face by the federal government, on camera, and nothing will be done.
January 18, 2026 at 4:26 PM
Todd Blanche letting every American know that *you too* can get shot in the face by the federal government, on camera, and nothing will be done.
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I'm starting to think that, until he's finally gone, I should repost on a daily basis this 11,000+ word piece I published in @theatlantic.com about Donald Trump's serious psychiatric disorders to explain why, as a legal and constitutional matter, he was unfit for the presidency.
In the six-plus years since, every mental health professional I have come across has told me that my essay had it exactly right. I think every word of it has been proven right many times over.
Even today, he's still only going to get worse.
Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Even today, he's still only going to get worse.
Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Unfit for Office
Donald Trump’s narcissism makes it impossible for him to carry out the duties of the presidency in the way the Constitution requires.
www.theatlantic.com
January 19, 2026 at 1:38 PM
I'm starting to think that, until he's finally gone, I should repost on a daily basis this 11,000+ word piece I published in @theatlantic.com about Donald Trump's serious psychiatric disorders to explain why, as a legal and constitutional matter, he was unfit for the presidency.
Evergreen post
any word on the epstein files?
January 19, 2026 at 2:54 PM
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