John Sanbonmatsu
@jsanbonmatsu.bsky.social
Writer, critical theorist, and professor of philosophy at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts. Author of "The Postmodern Prince" and of "The Omnivore's Deception: What We Get Wrong About Meat, Animals, and Ourselves." www.JohnSanbonmatsu.com
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After 12+ years of labor, "The Omnivore's Deception" is out today. I chronicle the rise of the meat industry, show its catastrophic ecological effects, demolish the myth of the "enlightened" omnivore, show why animals are worthy of our respect, and advocate the abolition of the animal food economy.
"If an investigation into any one of the targets suggested by Mr. Trump were to ultimately start, it could allow the Justice Department to refuse to release any further files related to Mr. Epstein by claiming that the disclosures could harm continuing inquiries."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u...
Justice Department to Investigate Epstein Ties, but Not to Trump
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:14 PM
"If an investigation into any one of the targets suggested by Mr. Trump were to ultimately start, it could allow the Justice Department to refuse to release any further files related to Mr. Epstein by claiming that the disclosures could harm continuing inquiries."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u...
At a time when oceanic life is being wiped out and octupuses are being slaughtered in the millions, this sort of glib speculation, with its anthropocentric cast (octopuses are clever creatures like us), is an unhelpful distraction from the extinction emergency.
www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2560607...
www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2560607...
Oxford researchers say octopuses 'likely to take over the world'
Oxford University boffins say the octopuses are likely to take over the world after humans.
www.oxfordmail.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 4:07 PM
At a time when oceanic life is being wiped out and octupuses are being slaughtered in the millions, this sort of glib speculation, with its anthropocentric cast (octopuses are clever creatures like us), is an unhelpful distraction from the extinction emergency.
www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2560607...
www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2560607...
"We have yet to see anyone who was under 10, under 14" when they were tossed around and shared as sex toys by the billionaire male elite. But 15 year olds high school kids? They were consenting adults.
November 14, 2025 at 1:42 PM
"We have yet to see anyone who was under 10, under 14" when they were tossed around and shared as sex toys by the billionaire male elite. But 15 year olds high school kids? They were consenting adults.
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@repdangoldman.bsky.social is the best. We need more members of Congress like him.
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November 13, 2025 at 7:25 PM
@repdangoldman.bsky.social is the best. We need more members of Congress like him.
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Ironic, isn't it, that the public finds it easier to believe the words of a dead man who was the world's most notorious sexual predator and child abuser, than the words of dozens of still-living women.
November 14, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Ironic, isn't it, that the public finds it easier to believe the words of a dead man who was the world's most notorious sexual predator and child abuser, than the words of dozens of still-living women.
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Michael Wolff tried to buy New York Mag — with money from Harvey Weinstein and Jeffrey Epstein.
So Wolff didn't just have a reporter-source relationship with Epstein. Nor was Wolff his informal PR adviser. They saw each other as potential business partners.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
So Wolff didn't just have a reporter-source relationship with Epstein. Nor was Wolff his informal PR adviser. They saw each other as potential business partners.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Blurred lines: how Michael Wolff aspired to be part of elite circles he wrote about
The writer who features prominently in newly released Jeffrey Epstein emails has achieved extraordinary access but faced questions about his journalistic ethics
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Michael Wolff tried to buy New York Mag — with money from Harvey Weinstein and Jeffrey Epstein.
So Wolff didn't just have a reporter-source relationship with Epstein. Nor was Wolff his informal PR adviser. They saw each other as potential business partners.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
So Wolff didn't just have a reporter-source relationship with Epstein. Nor was Wolff his informal PR adviser. They saw each other as potential business partners.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
"Larry Summers...griped about women to Epstein: “I’m trying to figure why American elite think if u murder your baby by beating and abandonment it must be irrelevant to your admission to Harvard, but hit on a few women 10 years ago and can’t work at a network or think tank."
Importance: High
subj: An article for U (gift link)
i wrote ,,,,,, about jeff epstein. s emails.
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
subj: An article for U (gift link)
i wrote ,,,,,, about jeff epstein. s emails.
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
When QAnon Meets Veep
The dumb, abhorrent truth at the heart of the Epstein scandal
www.theatlantic.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:27 PM
"Larry Summers...griped about women to Epstein: “I’m trying to figure why American elite think if u murder your baby by beating and abandonment it must be irrelevant to your admission to Harvard, but hit on a few women 10 years ago and can’t work at a network or think tank."
Family of Fisherman Killed in U.S. Military Strike Says It Wants Justice
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/w...
Family of Fisherman Killed in U.S. Military Strike Says It Wants Justice
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Family of Fisherman Killed in U.S. Military Strike Says It Wants Justice
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/w...
"at the time she met Mr. Gaetz she was “a then-homeless 17-year-old high schooler.”
This is the person Trump wanted to be the Attorney General.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
This is the person Trump wanted to be the Attorney General.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
In Matt Gaetz Scandal, Circumstances Left Teen Vulnerable to Exploitation
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:16 PM
"at the time she met Mr. Gaetz she was “a then-homeless 17-year-old high schooler.”
This is the person Trump wanted to be the Attorney General.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
This is the person Trump wanted to be the Attorney General.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
Human supremacism is a material system of domination requiring continual ideological buttressing. Hence this morally reprehensible piece by science reporter Roni Rabin @nytimes.com--expressing utter, vicious contempt for nonhuman animals' lives and interests.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/h...
Scientists Grow More Hopeful About Ending a Global Organ Shortage
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Human supremacism is a material system of domination requiring continual ideological buttressing. Hence this morally reprehensible piece by science reporter Roni Rabin @nytimes.com--expressing utter, vicious contempt for nonhuman animals' lives and interests.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/h...
Fox News at this hour (Wed. night, 11/12): Rupert is doing a great job keeping Trump's name out of today's news about Epstein.
November 12, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Fox News at this hour (Wed. night, 11/12): Rupert is doing a great job keeping Trump's name out of today's news about Epstein.
What is Johnson so busy doing that he is too busy to do his job?
Wondering which line the selectively-mute 'Speaker' Mike Johnson will go with today, what with all of the breaking Epstein news and such.
November 12, 2025 at 7:09 PM
What is Johnson so busy doing that he is too busy to do his job?
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Epsteingate is the tip of the iceberg — and the beginning of the end for Trump.
November 12, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Epsteingate is the tip of the iceberg — and the beginning of the end for Trump.
Interesting that other than Fox, the @washingtonpost.com is the
only major press outlet that hasn't yet reported on the Epstein emails. I guess Jeff Bezos is still trying to stay on Trump's good side.
only major press outlet that hasn't yet reported on the Epstein emails. I guess Jeff Bezos is still trying to stay on Trump's good side.
November 12, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Interesting that other than Fox, the @washingtonpost.com is the
only major press outlet that hasn't yet reported on the Epstein emails. I guess Jeff Bezos is still trying to stay on Trump's good side.
only major press outlet that hasn't yet reported on the Epstein emails. I guess Jeff Bezos is still trying to stay on Trump's good side.
I doubt that even a film of Trump abusing girls with Epstein will sway his MAGA followers to leave his side.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
Epstein Alleged in Emails That Trump Knew of His Conduct
www.nytimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:20 PM
I doubt that even a film of Trump abusing girls with Epstein will sway his MAGA followers to leave his side.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
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"Israel attacked Palestinian water sources over 250 times in five years. Armed forces and settlers used bombs, dogs, poison and machinery to attack people and infrastructure at key sites."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Israel attacked Palestinian water sources over 250 times in five years, data reveals
Armed forces and settlers used bombs, dogs, poison and machinery to attack people and infrastructure at key sites
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:56 PM
"Israel attacked Palestinian water sources over 250 times in five years. Armed forces and settlers used bombs, dogs, poison and machinery to attack people and infrastructure at key sites."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Millions of Americans facing starvation
Millions in the global South deprived of life-saving aid
Troops and masked paramilitary forces in the streets, terrorizing our communities
The military killing civilians without a trial
Thousands of flights cancelled
Ecological collapse
America is Great Again
Millions in the global South deprived of life-saving aid
Troops and masked paramilitary forces in the streets, terrorizing our communities
The military killing civilians without a trial
Thousands of flights cancelled
Ecological collapse
America is Great Again
November 9, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Millions of Americans facing starvation
Millions in the global South deprived of life-saving aid
Troops and masked paramilitary forces in the streets, terrorizing our communities
The military killing civilians without a trial
Thousands of flights cancelled
Ecological collapse
America is Great Again
Millions in the global South deprived of life-saving aid
Troops and masked paramilitary forces in the streets, terrorizing our communities
The military killing civilians without a trial
Thousands of flights cancelled
Ecological collapse
America is Great Again
The men sent to Trump's torture prison "were beaten, sexually assaulted by guards and driven to the brink of suicide": one man's head was "thrust...into a tank of water to simulate drowning," while another "was forced to perform oral sex on guards wearing hoods."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:12 AM
The men sent to Trump's torture prison "were beaten, sexually assaulted by guards and driven to the brink of suicide": one man's head was "thrust...into a tank of water to simulate drowning," while another "was forced to perform oral sex on guards wearing hoods."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
More evidence that AI is making our lives better and better every day.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
ChatGPT accused of acting as ‘suicide coach’ in series of US lawsuits
Chatbot was first used for ‘general help’ with schoolwork or research but ‘evolved into a psychologically manipulative presence’, plaintiffs say
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:41 PM
More evidence that AI is making our lives better and better every day.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Let Miyoko Buy Back Her Own Company
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open.substack.com/pub/breakthe...
Let Miyoko Buy Back Her Own Company
Stop the men trying to take it
open.substack.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Let Miyoko Buy Back Her Own Company
open.substack.com/pub/breakthe...
open.substack.com/pub/breakthe...
My interview with Ronnie Lipschultz of KSQD in Santa Cruz:
mailchi.mp/08874275271c...
I will also be speaking in person at Book Passage in Corte Madera in Marin County, in the Bay Area, on November 15.
mailchi.mp/08874275271c...
I will also be speaking in person at Book Passage in Corte Madera in Marin County, in the Bay Area, on November 15.
The Omnivore’s Deception What We get wrong about meat, animals and ourselves With Professor John Sabonmatsu, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
mailchi.mp
November 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM
My interview with Ronnie Lipschultz of KSQD in Santa Cruz:
mailchi.mp/08874275271c...
I will also be speaking in person at Book Passage in Corte Madera in Marin County, in the Bay Area, on November 15.
mailchi.mp/08874275271c...
I will also be speaking in person at Book Passage in Corte Madera in Marin County, in the Bay Area, on November 15.
Merely by saying that he will tax the rich, Mamdani has brought down the Democratic Party establishment and its media organs around his head. The @nytimes.com is already running stories implying that Mamdabi as a dangerous, two-faced Red.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/n...
November 6, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Merely by saying that he will tax the rich, Mamdani has brought down the Democratic Party establishment and its media organs around his head. The @nytimes.com is already running stories implying that Mamdabi as a dangerous, two-faced Red.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/n...