Johnny McNulty
@johnnymcnulty.bsky.social
Sometimes writer. More times not. He/him.
A fun fact about me is that I was prescribed gabapentin for years for anxiety and now I have severe anxiety about the side effects of gabapentin.
December 26, 2025 at 5:25 PM
A fun fact about me is that I was prescribed gabapentin for years for anxiety and now I have severe anxiety about the side effects of gabapentin.
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Centrist/Moderate is great branding because it implies reasonableness but there's nothing reasonable about stubbornly clinging to pro-business and pro-upper class politics when the country is falling apart. This is an ideology like any other, and it's a bad one
While progressives often get accused of undermining the Democratic Party, the evidence shows that it’s the moderate wing that most often violates the “Vote Blue No Matter Who” principle.
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July 17, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Centrist/Moderate is great branding because it implies reasonableness but there's nothing reasonable about stubbornly clinging to pro-business and pro-upper class politics when the country is falling apart. This is an ideology like any other, and it's a bad one
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When you lose shitfaced middle-American teenage bros, you have lost America.
December 19, 2025 at 4:54 PM
When you lose shitfaced middle-American teenage bros, you have lost America.
Man, whoever named slang "slang" just absolutely nailed it.
December 19, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Man, whoever named slang "slang" just absolutely nailed it.
I know hanging out with Epstein is a thousand times worse than having the most boring takes in the history of human existence but both are good reasons to fire David Brooks
December 18, 2025 at 10:04 PM
I know hanging out with Epstein is a thousand times worse than having the most boring takes in the history of human existence but both are good reasons to fire David Brooks
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By 2011 Epstein had already:
-registered as a sex offender
-plead guilty to solicitation of prostitution with a minor under the age of 18
-settled multiple civil lawsuits brought against him by victims
www.npr.org/2025/07/25/n...
-registered as a sex offender
-plead guilty to solicitation of prostitution with a minor under the age of 18
-settled multiple civil lawsuits brought against him by victims
www.npr.org/2025/07/25/n...
Statement from the NYT, which is useful context, but still feel like you gotta mention it in the column!
December 18, 2025 at 7:23 PM
By 2011 Epstein had already:
-registered as a sex offender
-plead guilty to solicitation of prostitution with a minor under the age of 18
-settled multiple civil lawsuits brought against him by victims
www.npr.org/2025/07/25/n...
-registered as a sex offender
-plead guilty to solicitation of prostitution with a minor under the age of 18
-settled multiple civil lawsuits brought against him by victims
www.npr.org/2025/07/25/n...
Even if you knew nothing about Jeffrey Epstein, you could have figured it out by the sheer amount of Woody Allen at his house.
December 12, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Even if you knew nothing about Jeffrey Epstein, you could have figured it out by the sheer amount of Woody Allen at his house.
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If your origins are Southern Italian, Irish, Polish etc. some version of this claim - the immigrant is a criminal underclass incompatible with the true Americans - has been around forever. They hate that the idea of America is more important than any group.
Stephen Miller: "If Somalia keeps failing, if these societies all over the world continue to fail, you have to ask yourself if you bring those societies into our country & then give them unlimited free welfare, what do we think is going to happen? You're going to replicate the conditions they left"
December 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
If your origins are Southern Italian, Irish, Polish etc. some version of this claim - the immigrant is a criminal underclass incompatible with the true Americans - has been around forever. They hate that the idea of America is more important than any group.
Every single layer of the federal judiciary: "What the fuck is this, are you insane? What in the Constitution made you think this could ever be legal?"
The Supreme Court: "So sorry those other courts were so rude! Of course the president can order Jerome Powell be publicly beheaded."
The Supreme Court: "So sorry those other courts were so rude! Of course the president can order Jerome Powell be publicly beheaded."
December 8, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Every single layer of the federal judiciary: "What the fuck is this, are you insane? What in the Constitution made you think this could ever be legal?"
The Supreme Court: "So sorry those other courts were so rude! Of course the president can order Jerome Powell be publicly beheaded."
The Supreme Court: "So sorry those other courts were so rude! Of course the president can order Jerome Powell be publicly beheaded."
At least Tarantino put his own foot in his mouth for once.
December 8, 2025 at 8:21 PM
At least Tarantino put his own foot in his mouth for once.
[55 minutes into Space Jam 3]
The Space Jam is starting. A mic descends from the arena ceiling. Daffy Duck grabs it and looks directly to camera:
"The Tune Thquad would like to expreth our thinthere thankth to Hith Royal Higneth, Mohammed Bin Thalman Al Thaud, for thponthoring tonight'th event."
The Space Jam is starting. A mic descends from the arena ceiling. Daffy Duck grabs it and looks directly to camera:
"The Tune Thquad would like to expreth our thinthere thankth to Hith Royal Higneth, Mohammed Bin Thalman Al Thaud, for thponthoring tonight'th event."
December 8, 2025 at 7:57 PM
[55 minutes into Space Jam 3]
The Space Jam is starting. A mic descends from the arena ceiling. Daffy Duck grabs it and looks directly to camera:
"The Tune Thquad would like to expreth our thinthere thankth to Hith Royal Higneth, Mohammed Bin Thalman Al Thaud, for thponthoring tonight'th event."
The Space Jam is starting. A mic descends from the arena ceiling. Daffy Duck grabs it and looks directly to camera:
"The Tune Thquad would like to expreth our thinthere thankth to Hith Royal Higneth, Mohammed Bin Thalman Al Thaud, for thponthoring tonight'th event."
I think my favorite thing about American free market capitalism is when foreign princes give the president's friends hundreds of billions of dollars to control all media.
December 8, 2025 at 6:49 PM
I think my favorite thing about American free market capitalism is when foreign princes give the president's friends hundreds of billions of dollars to control all media.
I know it sounds like exaggeration to say the GOP is "reaching new heights" of open racism with their anti-Somali rants, but keep in mind that even Mt. Everest gets taller every year.
December 7, 2025 at 11:00 PM
I know it sounds like exaggeration to say the GOP is "reaching new heights" of open racism with their anti-Somali rants, but keep in mind that even Mt. Everest gets taller every year.
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It’s crazy how 100 years in this shit just doesn’t change for anyone.
Miles Morales co-creator Sara Pichelli says she does not get any royalties from the ‘Spider-Verse’ films, Insomniac games, or merch
"I don’t get anything … that's the saddest part of my life"
(via SiteJamesons | TW)
"I don’t get anything … that's the saddest part of my life"
(via SiteJamesons | TW)
December 7, 2025 at 7:02 PM
It’s crazy how 100 years in this shit just doesn’t change for anyone.
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A massive problem today is the uneven distribution of shame. Some of us are running dedicated on-site shame servers 24/7 while others have no access to shame at all, even though they desperately need it. What we need to do is put shame in the cloud
December 6, 2025 at 2:54 AM
A massive problem today is the uneven distribution of shame. Some of us are running dedicated on-site shame servers 24/7 while others have no access to shame at all, even though they desperately need it. What we need to do is put shame in the cloud
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it's cool, i didn't really want everything i ever wanted anyway
December 5, 2025 at 11:26 PM
it's cool, i didn't really want everything i ever wanted anyway
They should make a social network for people who like me.
December 5, 2025 at 11:23 PM
They should make a social network for people who like me.
There is only one culture that is a threat to American values, and it's the same culture this right was established to protect people from: the white supremacist culture of the Confederacy.
BREAKING: The Supreme Court agrees to take up a challenge to President Trump's January 20 birthright citizenship executive order.
The court will hear DOJ's appeal of a loss below in a class-action challenge brought in the wake of June's decision limiting universal injunctions.
The court will hear DOJ's appeal of a loss below in a class-action challenge brought in the wake of June's decision limiting universal injunctions.
December 5, 2025 at 8:00 PM
There is only one culture that is a threat to American values, and it's the same culture this right was established to protect people from: the white supremacist culture of the Confederacy.
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Reconstruction 2 is going to require a level of seizing assets that I am very comfortable with but you may still need to work through
New: “Eric Trump Has Gotten 10 Times Richer Since Dad’s Election”
@kylekhanmullins.bsky.social for @forbes.com
@kylekhanmullins.bsky.social for @forbes.com
Here’s How Much Eric Trump Is Worth
Crypto took the real estate heir’s fortune and supersized it, briefly making the president’s second-oldest son a billionaire in early September.
www.forbes.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Reconstruction 2 is going to require a level of seizing assets that I am very comfortable with but you may still need to work through
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Another absolute banger by Mike on the site today.
I wrote a bit for McSweeney's about Isaac Chotiner interviewing Santa Claus. Just a little something for the holiday season. Enjoy!
The New Yorker’s Isaac Chotiner Interviews Santa Claus
For several centuries, Santa Claus has been one of the most prolific mythical gift-givers in the world. Formerly known as Saint Nicholas of Myra, a...
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December 4, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Another absolute banger by Mike on the site today.
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exactly. the machine is forcibly regressing me to a recent liberal arts college grad who lives off bodega snacks and can’t do his taxes
The algorithm is disrupting the natural laws of falling out of touch.
It keeps giving me new music.
So I listen to it, and it's nice. But I should not be here. It's like a time traveler who refuses to go home. The longer I linger in the zeitgeist, the more damage I do to the fabric of existence.
It keeps giving me new music.
So I listen to it, and it's nice. But I should not be here. It's like a time traveler who refuses to go home. The longer I linger in the zeitgeist, the more damage I do to the fabric of existence.
December 3, 2025 at 8:35 PM
exactly. the machine is forcibly regressing me to a recent liberal arts college grad who lives off bodega snacks and can’t do his taxes
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Shazam for my own emotions
December 3, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Shazam for my own emotions
I'm just saying that if *I* thought maybe *I* would need one of these one day, I would say shit like this
Jeffries claims the charges against Cueller were "very thin" and says Trump's pardon was "exactly the right outcome"
December 3, 2025 at 8:09 PM
I'm just saying that if *I* thought maybe *I* would need one of these one day, I would say shit like this
I give you to permission to hate read [drumroll followed by THX sound] these nuts.
Yes, we give you permission to hate-read 'American Canto'
Review: Yes, we give you permission to hate-read 'American Canto'
Political journalist Olivia Nuzzi has dazzled the media with scandals, but her prose is less sparkling. Her much-anticipated new memoir is rife with arrogance and thin on sourcing.
www.latimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 6:26 PM
I give you to permission to hate read [drumroll followed by THX sound] these nuts.
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These are my jokes. Please don't laugh at them.
January 31, 2025 at 3:27 PM
These are my jokes. Please don't laugh at them.