John Griffiths
@jlgriffiths.bsky.social
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I *just* stopped posting about this, bc I don't want to be a jerk to Andrew, but people need to stop seeing a blind quote from a Dem and saying "that's what every Democrat thinks."
It's what a diaper-filling wimp who won't use his name thinks! Meanwhile a bunch of Dems are going to El Salvador.
It's what a diaper-filling wimp who won't use his name thinks! Meanwhile a bunch of Dems are going to El Salvador.
Seriously tho there’s no salvaging this party
One House Dem called deportations a “soup du jour,” telling @axios.com Trump is “setting a trap for the Democrats, and like usual we're falling for it."
“Rather than talking about the tariff policy ... we're going to go take the bait for one hairdresser.” www.axios.com/2025/04/16/d...
“Rather than talking about the tariff policy ... we're going to go take the bait for one hairdresser.” www.axios.com/2025/04/16/d...
April 16, 2025 at 2:38 PM
I *just* stopped posting about this, bc I don't want to be a jerk to Andrew, but people need to stop seeing a blind quote from a Dem and saying "that's what every Democrat thinks."
It's what a diaper-filling wimp who won't use his name thinks! Meanwhile a bunch of Dems are going to El Salvador.
It's what a diaper-filling wimp who won't use his name thinks! Meanwhile a bunch of Dems are going to El Salvador.
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Trump and Vance are desperate to talk about anything other than the economy. The instinct might be to avoid what's happening with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, but that would be a mistake. We have a chance to take away their last political strength by reminding people these idiots can’t get anything right.
April 15, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Trump and Vance are desperate to talk about anything other than the economy. The instinct might be to avoid what's happening with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, but that would be a mistake. We have a chance to take away their last political strength by reminding people these idiots can’t get anything right.
By this point in the early 2020 Covid stock market crash, we had already regained about 50% of the decline.
April 7, 2025 at 1:42 PM
By this point in the early 2020 Covid stock market crash, we had already regained about 50% of the decline.
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This should INFURIATE you
March 23, 2025 at 3:53 PM
This should INFURIATE you
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When Team Democracy is back in charge it will be critical to remember what the billionaires did to this country when it was defenseless.
March 20, 2025 at 2:30 PM
When Team Democracy is back in charge it will be critical to remember what the billionaires did to this country when it was defenseless.
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Having written a kind of first draft of that history myself, voters have even more to answer for
I feel like when the history of this time is written by intelligent and reasonable historians, traditional media and social media will have a lot to answer for.
March 20, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Having written a kind of first draft of that history myself, voters have even more to answer for
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"These top elite lawmakers, lawyers, editors, CEOs, etc with their fancy Ivy degrees must all be very smart people," I used to think.
March 19, 2025 at 1:47 PM
"These top elite lawmakers, lawyers, editors, CEOs, etc with their fancy Ivy degrees must all be very smart people," I used to think.
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Say what you will about people calling their Senators newly horrifed to demand action, that's at least a theory of politics with a clear mechanism for change and a clear way to organize neighbors, unlike smugly posting that the American project was always fascist & asking why anyone is surprised.
March 18, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Say what you will about people calling their Senators newly horrifed to demand action, that's at least a theory of politics with a clear mechanism for change and a clear way to organize neighbors, unlike smugly posting that the American project was always fascist & asking why anyone is surprised.
They all have their ChatJD’s.
DOJ just argued in the MSPB/NLRB case that they have a strong likelihood of success because 'if we have a 40% chance of success on two separate issues, that combines to a 65% chance of success on the merits.' What an absurd argument.
March 18, 2025 at 3:17 PM
They all have their ChatJD’s.
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There is no state of the world where the US violently invades and annexes Canada and there are free and fair elections in the United States
These two states of the world are incompatible
These two states of the world are incompatible
american journalists have a brain when framing recent us-canada relations challenge (impossible)
March 16, 2025 at 10:37 AM
There is no state of the world where the US violently invades and annexes Canada and there are free and fair elections in the United States
These two states of the world are incompatible
These two states of the world are incompatible
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It’s unreal - the DOD deleted its page for Charles Calvin Rodgers, a Medal of Honor recipient who was wounded three times while defending against three assaults on his base in Vietnam. Now the URL includes “DEI Medal of Honor.” There’s something about Rodgers I don’t even have to tell you
March 16, 2025 at 1:33 AM
It’s unreal - the DOD deleted its page for Charles Calvin Rodgers, a Medal of Honor recipient who was wounded three times while defending against three assaults on his base in Vietnam. Now the URL includes “DEI Medal of Honor.” There’s something about Rodgers I don’t even have to tell you
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One of these things is not like the others
March 13, 2025 at 3:51 PM
One of these things is not like the others
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A Tribe Called Quest released "Scenario" as the third single from 'The Low End Theory' 33 years ago on March 13, 1992 | Watch the official video, listen to the album + explore our tribute here: album.ink/ATCQlowend
March 13, 2025 at 1:00 PM
A Tribe Called Quest released "Scenario" as the third single from 'The Low End Theory' 33 years ago on March 13, 1992 | Watch the official video, listen to the album + explore our tribute here: album.ink/ATCQlowend
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It's safe to say that anyone who sees empathy as a human weakness is not, by my definition, human.
Seeing your own essence in other people is what makes us human. It connects us. It is the opposite of weakness. It is everything. This is why I've spent my life focused on art.
Seeing your own essence in other people is what makes us human. It connects us. It is the opposite of weakness. It is everything. This is why I've spent my life focused on art.
March 5, 2025 at 7:16 PM
It's safe to say that anyone who sees empathy as a human weakness is not, by my definition, human.
Seeing your own essence in other people is what makes us human. It connects us. It is the opposite of weakness. It is everything. This is why I've spent my life focused on art.
Seeing your own essence in other people is what makes us human. It connects us. It is the opposite of weakness. It is everything. This is why I've spent my life focused on art.
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Hmmm this guy is on to something
March 1, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Hmmm this guy is on to something
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ppl getting angry at this but he's talking alliances and he's 100% right- you cannot trust a country where every 4 yrs the foreign policy does a complete 180 & tears up treaties and reneges on deals and withholds payments because some sheep farmers in Wisconsin think too many black women have jobs
America is over. There is no coming back from this.
If we're lucky maybe we claw back some small-l liberalism for our daily lives. But even that might be too much to hope for.
The rest of the world has to move on from us.
They now know that the American people can't be trusted.
They're right.
If we're lucky maybe we claw back some small-l liberalism for our daily lives. But even that might be too much to hope for.
The rest of the world has to move on from us.
They now know that the American people can't be trusted.
They're right.
February 28, 2025 at 6:52 PM
ppl getting angry at this but he's talking alliances and he's 100% right- you cannot trust a country where every 4 yrs the foreign policy does a complete 180 & tears up treaties and reneges on deals and withholds payments because some sheep farmers in Wisconsin think too many black women have jobs
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I want to tread carefully here, but I think a broadly under discussed aspect to our Current Moment is this is essentially the first time in human history when a person can accrue massive influence and political power without any social skills whatsoever, or even the ability to exist in public.
February 27, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I want to tread carefully here, but I think a broadly under discussed aspect to our Current Moment is this is essentially the first time in human history when a person can accrue massive influence and political power without any social skills whatsoever, or even the ability to exist in public.
bookshop.org - stop buying Amazon books
libbyapp.com/interview/we... - your local library can also loan ebooks and audiobooks
libbyapp.com/interview/we... - your local library can also loan ebooks and audiobooks
Bezos destroying the post opinion pages is just another reminder: Conservatives think free speech is when they can say what they want and when you can say what they want.
February 26, 2025 at 3:53 PM
bookshop.org - stop buying Amazon books
libbyapp.com/interview/we... - your local library can also loan ebooks and audiobooks
libbyapp.com/interview/we... - your local library can also loan ebooks and audiobooks
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I am ordering all of my opinion-writing employees to only write about the importance of personal liberty, if they don't want to write on the assigned topic, they will lose their jobs
February 26, 2025 at 3:10 PM
I am ordering all of my opinion-writing employees to only write about the importance of personal liberty, if they don't want to write on the assigned topic, they will lose their jobs
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What I've realized covering games, especially over the last 2 years: The people who say the loudest "dont put your politics in games" are often the loudest in telling everyone what parts of *their* politics they want in games.
February 18, 2025 at 4:08 PM
What I've realized covering games, especially over the last 2 years: The people who say the loudest "dont put your politics in games" are often the loudest in telling everyone what parts of *their* politics they want in games.
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Crockett: "It's just that they're idiots. These are the same guys as it relates to our nuclear stockpile, they're like, 'Oh, wait a minute, we needed those guys? Can we get them back? Oh, we don't know how to.' I don't know how anyone can look at this administration & feel a semblance of confidence"
February 19, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Crockett: "It's just that they're idiots. These are the same guys as it relates to our nuclear stockpile, they're like, 'Oh, wait a minute, we needed those guys? Can we get them back? Oh, we don't know how to.' I don't know how anyone can look at this administration & feel a semblance of confidence"
The normies will go through an accelerated cycle of figuring this out and getting furious about it, just as it starts to impact their lives.
Your oligarchy, ladies and gentlemen
This is incredible. The source code for the new DOGE “official US government website” points to X as its primary source of authority. Sharing links to the DOGE site sends users to x dot com.
www.wired.com/story/doge-w...
www.wired.com/story/doge-w...
February 14, 2025 at 1:19 PM
The normies will go through an accelerated cycle of figuring this out and getting furious about it, just as it starts to impact their lives.
Mace wanted Crockett to punch her, not have an actual fight. www.businessinsider.com/nancy-mace-w...
February 13, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Mace wanted Crockett to punch her, not have an actual fight. www.businessinsider.com/nancy-mace-w...