Jonathan Assink
@jonassink.bsky.social
On your left. Fan of all the great shows. Progressive Christianity and deconstruction. #goms #gobiz
we have too many dystopian stories and not enough utopias. even beyond politics, we've lost our imagination for a better world.
we don't have jetpacks because we stopped dreaming about jetpacks.
we don't have jetpacks because we stopped dreaming about jetpacks.
This place needs some Innocuous Discourse pronto. Quote this with a take that’s not political or aggressive
January 6, 2026 at 7:54 AM
we have too many dystopian stories and not enough utopias. even beyond politics, we've lost our imagination for a better world.
we don't have jetpacks because we stopped dreaming about jetpacks.
we don't have jetpacks because we stopped dreaming about jetpacks.
this is my "talk to me about cooking, baseball, nerdy bible jokes, guitar, writing, fundraising, golf, and watching old seasons of This Old House on YouTube" shirt.
u heard sharon, everyone post about their esoteric interests right fucking now. for the good of the community, we need to be hyperfixationmaxxing.
i think this site really needs to figure out how to grow the non-politics verticals (the baseball moment was a good thing!) because i suspect a lot of the bad clusters come out of the political clusters driving 95% of ENG-lang posts
January 6, 2026 at 7:51 AM
this is my "talk to me about cooking, baseball, nerdy bible jokes, guitar, writing, fundraising, golf, and watching old seasons of This Old House on YouTube" shirt.
someday when I run for office one of my core issues will be standardized unit pricing. no more having half the prices in oz and half in lbs and another half in volume.
January 5, 2026 at 4:10 AM
someday when I run for office one of my core issues will be standardized unit pricing. no more having half the prices in oz and half in lbs and another half in volume.
Reposted by Jonathan Assink
“It’s about being full human beings and not just means to an end. I want to live in a city that honors what you’re doing when you’re not making money: time spent on the playground with a kid or visiting a sick friend…we need bread, but we need roses too.” -Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson
January 2, 2026 at 7:13 PM
“It’s about being full human beings and not just means to an end. I want to live in a city that honors what you’re doing when you’re not making money: time spent on the playground with a kid or visiting a sick friend…we need bread, but we need roses too.” -Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson
read my first book of 2026
January 2, 2026 at 1:27 AM
read my first book of 2026
Impeachment is the morally correct path, but it's politically a dead end. I care less about whether Dems take up impeachment than I do about someone like AOC or Raskin being chair of oversight and handing out subpoenas and contempt citations.
My least muddled take is that presidential impeachment doesn't work. Too many people incorrectly see the president as a king-like figure with a four-year democratic mandate.
That idea mutated in 2021-2024, when MAGA and SCOTUS decided that you can't ever prosecute a president for crimes.
That idea mutated in 2021-2024, when MAGA and SCOTUS decided that you can't ever prosecute a president for crimes.
What's with all the qualifications? Would it not be seen as a coup if the replacement was a criminal? Or from a different party? Or elected on a different ticket?
Seems like your thinking on this subject is quite muddled.
Seems like your thinking on this subject is quite muddled.
December 30, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Impeachment is the morally correct path, but it's politically a dead end. I care less about whether Dems take up impeachment than I do about someone like AOC or Raskin being chair of oversight and handing out subpoenas and contempt citations.
don't waste a second screaming into the void about this being voter suppression. organize in your community and make sure everyone turns in their ballots to a drop box on election day. don't waste your energy on anger. they want you to feel angry and powerless. just don't.
Hey so this seems like something more people should be talking about 🤔 🗳️
www.npr.org/2025/10/23/n...
www.npr.org/2025/10/23/n...
December 30, 2025 at 5:26 AM
don't waste a second screaming into the void about this being voter suppression. organize in your community and make sure everyone turns in their ballots to a drop box on election day. don't waste your energy on anger. they want you to feel angry and powerless. just don't.
I shook John Roderick's hand at the Shoreline Goodwill
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
December 30, 2025 at 5:19 AM
I shook John Roderick's hand at the Shoreline Goodwill
I discovered something tragic this holiday season. Costco apparently changed their men's merino wool socks to be a high-calf sock rather than a mid-calf sock and it has ruined something previously perfect.
I'm being silly about this, but also I kind of don't know what to do for new socks now, haha.
I'm being silly about this, but also I kind of don't know what to do for new socks now, haha.
December 25, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I discovered something tragic this holiday season. Costco apparently changed their men's merino wool socks to be a high-calf sock rather than a mid-calf sock and it has ruined something previously perfect.
I'm being silly about this, but also I kind of don't know what to do for new socks now, haha.
I'm being silly about this, but also I kind of don't know what to do for new socks now, haha.
Genuinely curious what Gorsuch would think about federal officers/troops being deployed to arrest undocumented people living on tribal land.
NEW: By a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court blocks Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Chicago to assist immigration agents. A majority holds that he likely lacks authority to do so. Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
![The Government asked this Court to stay the District Court's order. After the response and reply were filed, JUSTICE BARRETT referred the application to the Court. We directed the parties to file supplemental letter briefs on an issue that the District Court had addressed but the parties' initial briefs had not: the meaning of the term "regular forces" in §12406(3). In its supplemental brief, the Government argues that the term refers to civilian law enforcement officers, such as those employed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement or the Federal Protective Service.
Respondents, echoing the District Court, maintain that the term refers to the regular forces of the United States mili-tary.
We conclude that the term "regular forces" in §12406(3) likely refers to the regular forces of the United States mili-tary. This interpretation means that to call the Guard into active federal service under §12406(3), the President must be "unable" with the regular military "to execute the laws of the United States." Because the statute requires an assessment of the military's ability to execute the laws, it likely applies only where the military could legally execute the laws. Such circumstances are exceptional: Under the Posse Comitatus Act, the military is prohibited from "execut[ing] the laws" "except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress."
18 U. S. C. §1385. So before the President can federalize the Guard under §12406(3), he likely must have statutory or constitutional authority to execute the laws with the regular military and must be "unable" with those forces to perform that function.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6h7b2i6ttw3l4t7pvbvxdith/bafkreiftbhzwvn3vgwhqsi7k2paizvdw4t26ailljvovso3chqupnmj364@jpeg)
December 23, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Genuinely curious what Gorsuch would think about federal officers/troops being deployed to arrest undocumented people living on tribal land.
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bari weiss is in hot water, fielding accusations of both malice and incompetence, but it’s not too late for her to clear this whole thing up by sitting down for an honest, straightforward interview with isaac chotiner.
December 23, 2025 at 1:08 PM
bari weiss is in hot water, fielding accusations of both malice and incompetence, but it’s not too late for her to clear this whole thing up by sitting down for an honest, straightforward interview with isaac chotiner.
when I'm working on a car, I 100% have more trust in the YouTube video from a shop with 500k subscribers and 20m views over whatever uncited gobbledygook that ChatGPT tells you to do.
December 21, 2025 at 6:49 PM
when I'm working on a car, I 100% have more trust in the YouTube video from a shop with 500k subscribers and 20m views over whatever uncited gobbledygook that ChatGPT tells you to do.
Rick Steves 2028
December 18, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Rick Steves 2028
One of my favorite scenes in Wake Up Dead Man is Father Jud saying to Blanc, "you’re setting me against my real and only purpose in life, which is not to fight the wicked and bring them to justice, but to serve them and bring them to Christ!”
I've come to realize that a lot of people like him because he tells them it's OK to not have any values either. Values require effort. MAGA is about effortless decadence, sit in your chair and get mad at computer with the rest of us, it's great.
Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
December 16, 2025 at 4:58 PM
One of my favorite scenes in Wake Up Dead Man is Father Jud saying to Blanc, "you’re setting me against my real and only purpose in life, which is not to fight the wicked and bring them to justice, but to serve them and bring them to Christ!”
Christmas music is the bestmest music.
December 14, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Christmas music is the bestmest music.
there is a criminal lack of people acknowledging the perfection of the Star Wars joke in this movie.
We watched Wake Up Dead Man last night and I cannot, *cannot*, CANNOT recommend this movie highly enough. I very much want to talk about this movie with other folks.
December 13, 2025 at 11:47 PM
there is a criminal lack of people acknowledging the perfection of the Star Wars joke in this movie.
We watched Wake Up Dead Man last night and I cannot, *cannot*, CANNOT recommend this movie highly enough. I very much want to talk about this movie with other folks.
December 13, 2025 at 9:37 PM
We watched Wake Up Dead Man last night and I cannot, *cannot*, CANNOT recommend this movie highly enough. I very much want to talk about this movie with other folks.
Fast and Furious movies with other unhinged FF franchise fans. Avengers: Endgame. The Last Jedi.
Raising the always fun question: What are your most memorable theater-going experiences?
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
It was hands-down one of the most memorable theater-going experiences I can remember, a collective 30-minute butt-clench/armrest-grab for the final climb. And we knew he lived! Wild.
December 13, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Fast and Furious movies with other unhinged FF franchise fans. Avengers: Endgame. The Last Jedi.
"accept the anxiety of feeling yourself in suspense and incomplete"
I picked this book up today and the first thing in it is a poem by Teilhard de Chardin. It's like God hitting me in the face with a frying pan to get my attention.
Excited & trepidacious for this. Thanks @sarahbessey.bsky.social
I picked this book up today and the first thing in it is a poem by Teilhard de Chardin. It's like God hitting me in the face with a frying pan to get my attention.
Excited & trepidacious for this. Thanks @sarahbessey.bsky.social
December 12, 2025 at 6:46 AM
"accept the anxiety of feeling yourself in suspense and incomplete"
I picked this book up today and the first thing in it is a poem by Teilhard de Chardin. It's like God hitting me in the face with a frying pan to get my attention.
Excited & trepidacious for this. Thanks @sarahbessey.bsky.social
I picked this book up today and the first thing in it is a poem by Teilhard de Chardin. It's like God hitting me in the face with a frying pan to get my attention.
Excited & trepidacious for this. Thanks @sarahbessey.bsky.social
I'm almost old enough now to relate to Bob instead of Charlotte
December 8, 2025 at 5:55 AM
I'm almost old enough now to relate to Bob instead of Charlotte
it is still my opinion that the college football national championship is best decided by the Huskies beating Michigan or Ohio State in the Rose Bowl on New Year's Day.
December 7, 2025 at 5:39 AM
it is still my opinion that the college football national championship is best decided by the Huskies beating Michigan or Ohio State in the Rose Bowl on New Year's Day.
"A court that has embraced partisan gerrymandering is a court that has chosen to be political. So we will treat it as a political body, & will seek to use every power available to Congress to counter it. Including holding SCOTUS to Congressional oversight"
Dems should be saying something like this
Dems should be saying something like this
December 6, 2025 at 1:11 AM
"A court that has embraced partisan gerrymandering is a court that has chosen to be political. So we will treat it as a political body, & will seek to use every power available to Congress to counter it. Including holding SCOTUS to Congressional oversight"
Dems should be saying something like this
Dems should be saying something like this
Working in my head around a Dem platform form 2026-28 and it's something like:
- ban AI related layoffs
- breakup media monopolies to restore choice and diversity for consumers
- restore funding to PBS/CPB
- aggressively prosecute elite corruption and tax fraud to lower costs for everyone
- ban AI related layoffs
- breakup media monopolies to restore choice and diversity for consumers
- restore funding to PBS/CPB
- aggressively prosecute elite corruption and tax fraud to lower costs for everyone
December 5, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Working in my head around a Dem platform form 2026-28 and it's something like:
- ban AI related layoffs
- breakup media monopolies to restore choice and diversity for consumers
- restore funding to PBS/CPB
- aggressively prosecute elite corruption and tax fraud to lower costs for everyone
- ban AI related layoffs
- breakup media monopolies to restore choice and diversity for consumers
- restore funding to PBS/CPB
- aggressively prosecute elite corruption and tax fraud to lower costs for everyone