HarritoJohn
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HarritoJohn
@harritojohn.bsky.social
I’m a scribbler, photographer, book nerd, and general man about the house. When pricked, I bleed bright blue.
There's 62,000 pounds of copper wasting away in the Statue of Liberty. Why not melt the lady down for a new line of Tesla Cybertrucks . . . the Tesla Liberty Truck! How much do you think Putin, Xi, Orban, or Kim Jong Un would pay for one?
March 17, 2025 at 12:28 AM
No 2025 flu vaccine? Of course! It's Make Americans Die Again (MADA)

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump administration cancels meeting on flu shots, fueling anti-vax concerns
FDA, which vaccine skeptic RFK Jr oversees, made the announcement with no explanation or new date
www.theguardian.com
March 12, 2025 at 12:27 AM
The storied Washington Post has become a trump administration house organ. I wonder what Woodward and Bernstein think. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/f...
Bezos directs Washington Post opinion pages to promote ‘personal liberties and free markets’
Amazon executive and newspaper owner says in letter that ‘viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others’
www.theguardian.com
February 26, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Maybe Senator McCarthy will rise from the dead to save us from the Russian takedown of our government. I can dream, right?

www.britannica.com/biography/Jo...
Joseph McCarthy | Biography, Senator, McCarthyism, Communism, & Facts | Britannica
Joseph McCarthy, U.S. senator who lent his name to McCarthyism. He dominated the U.S. political climate in the early 1950s through his sensational but unproven charges of communist subversion in high ...
www.britannica.com
February 16, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Any country that is one election away from being dismantled is a failed state.
February 16, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Elon Musk now has the ability to stop Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid payments. And he can do this without Congressional action simply by "flicking a switch" at the Treasury Department.

Are you pissed yet?

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...
Elon Musk’s Team Now Has Access to Treasury’s Payments System (Gift Article)
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent gave Mr. Musk’s representatives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency a powerful tool to monitor and potentially limit government spending.
www.nytimes.com
February 2, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Will trump be getting a big TikTok wire transfer over the next three days? This is a wet-dream scenario for him, right?
January 17, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Reposted by HarritoJohn
Maybe it's just bad marketing?
January 9, 2025 at 7:58 PM
What do you think happens to NATO if the U.S. and Europe come to blows over Greenland after Denmark invokes
Article 5? Yup. And who wants that to happen? Yup.
January 8, 2025 at 4:26 PM

The Book Censor's Library has one of my favorite first sentences of all time:

"As the book censor awoke one morning, filled with others' words, he found himself transformed into a reader."
💙📚

www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
THE BOOK CENSOR'S LIBRARY | Kirkus Reviews
How dangerous can books really be?
www.kirkusreviews.com
November 25, 2024 at 2:17 PM
From the Great Orange Projectionist in the campaign (in effect): "I'm not the grapist. She's the grapist." (For letting in brown-skinned criminals to rape our white women.)

And it worked. <<sniff>>
November 25, 2024 at 12:44 PM
Reposted by HarritoJohn
November 25, 2024 at 7:25 AM
@jaymac3.bsky.social, Hey, Jay. Good to see you on here.
November 24, 2024 at 6:40 PM