Jonathan Spiro
@jonathanspiro.bsky.social
Historian. Skier. Cat whisperer. Scholar of white supremacy whose book on eugenics (Defending the Master Race) is deemed by critics a “brilliant,” “chilling,” and “miraculous feat of scholarship” that “should be mandatory reading for all Americans.🌴🥥
Trump can still become pope if Mike Pence has the courage to do the right thing.
May 8, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Trump can still become pope if Mike Pence has the courage to do the right thing.
2024: Dems in the majority; GOP routinely uses the filibuster to block our agenda; Schumer insists we must retain the filibuster because one day we might be in the minority.
2025: Dems in the minority; MAGA tries to ram their agenda down our throats; Schumer refuses to use the filibuster. WTF?
2025: Dems in the minority; MAGA tries to ram their agenda down our throats; Schumer refuses to use the filibuster. WTF?
March 14, 2025 at 4:08 PM
2024: Dems in the majority; GOP routinely uses the filibuster to block our agenda; Schumer insists we must retain the filibuster because one day we might be in the minority.
2025: Dems in the minority; MAGA tries to ram their agenda down our throats; Schumer refuses to use the filibuster. WTF?
2025: Dems in the minority; MAGA tries to ram their agenda down our throats; Schumer refuses to use the filibuster. WTF?
Practicing for how to act like Americans when they become the 51st state
March 8, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Practicing for how to act like Americans when they become the 51st state
First, Google removed Holocaust Remembrance Day from Google Calendar. Now, their search engine claims the Nazis won World War II (and won it “quickly”).
Silicon Valley is truly embracing the rise of Elon’s Fourth Reich.
Silicon Valley is truly embracing the rise of Elon’s Fourth Reich.
February 12, 2025 at 5:12 PM
First, Google removed Holocaust Remembrance Day from Google Calendar. Now, their search engine claims the Nazis won World War II (and won it “quickly”).
Silicon Valley is truly embracing the rise of Elon’s Fourth Reich.
Silicon Valley is truly embracing the rise of Elon’s Fourth Reich.
Elon Musk and a toddler in the oval office. (Also, one of Elon’s many children is there)
February 12, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Elon Musk and a toddler in the oval office. (Also, one of Elon’s many children is there)
I appreciate that my cats NEVER ridicule me for the fact that I have to turn on the lights in order to see in the dark.
December 15, 2024 at 6:14 PM
I appreciate that my cats NEVER ridicule me for the fact that I have to turn on the lights in order to see in the dark.
Working at the polls on this historic day. This Vermonter temporarily resides in Boston so she paid $32 to make sure her ballot arrived before 5 pm today.
November 5, 2024 at 9:06 PM
Working at the polls on this historic day. This Vermonter temporarily resides in Boston so she paid $32 to make sure her ballot arrived before 5 pm today.
Felt GREAT to vote for Kamala (and against Trump, Musk, Putin, Vance, Stephen Miller, the Proud Boys, Laura Loomer, Steve Bannon, Alex Jones, Viktor Orban, Clarence Thomas, Sam Alito, Mitch McConnell, Matt Gaetz, MTG, Netanyahu, Giuliani, Mike Flynn, the Pillow Guy, RFK Jr, and the incel podcasters)
November 4, 2024 at 6:36 PM
Felt GREAT to vote for Kamala (and against Trump, Musk, Putin, Vance, Stephen Miller, the Proud Boys, Laura Loomer, Steve Bannon, Alex Jones, Viktor Orban, Clarence Thomas, Sam Alito, Mitch McConnell, Matt Gaetz, MTG, Netanyahu, Giuliani, Mike Flynn, the Pillow Guy, RFK Jr, and the incel podcasters)
I signed up for 2 tix to Trump's rally at Madison Square Garden using the name Benito Mussolini. I was not surprised that my support "means the world" to America's wannabe dictator.
October 17, 2024 at 10:24 PM
I signed up for 2 tix to Trump's rally at Madison Square Garden using the name Benito Mussolini. I was not surprised that my support "means the world" to America's wannabe dictator.
Wednesdays are cool, because we get new episodes of Bad Horses AND Slow Monkey. Wait: I mean … well … whatever … you get the point.
October 14, 2024 at 8:45 PM
Wednesdays are cool, because we get new episodes of Bad Horses AND Slow Monkey. Wait: I mean … well … whatever … you get the point.
Received an email from AG Sulzberger touting the New York Times’ new app, which will make it easier for me to keep up with their election coverage, “which goes far beyond the talking points to provide a deeper understanding of candidates, issues and voters.”
I wrote back:
I wrote back:
October 9, 2024 at 8:21 PM
Received an email from AG Sulzberger touting the New York Times’ new app, which will make it easier for me to keep up with their election coverage, “which goes far beyond the talking points to provide a deeper understanding of candidates, issues and voters.”
I wrote back:
I wrote back:
Many names in Jack Smith’s 165-page brief are redacted and replaced with codes: “CC1,” for example, was quickly identified as Rudy Giuliani. But who is “P1”? Well, if you assume that “P” stand for “Prick,” then it is immediately obvious that “P1” can only be Steve Bannon.
October 3, 2024 at 6:47 PM
Many names in Jack Smith’s 165-page brief are redacted and replaced with codes: “CC1,” for example, was quickly identified as Rudy Giuliani. But who is “P1”? Well, if you assume that “P” stand for “Prick,” then it is immediately obvious that “P1” can only be Steve Bannon.
Reading a story by Zach Harper in The Athletic about the upcoming NBA season, and—apropos of absolutely nothing—he lobs this grenade into the article:
“I saw the movie ‘Megalopolis’ so you don’t have to. I cannot stress enough that it is worse than you’ve been told.”
Oof.
“I saw the movie ‘Megalopolis’ so you don’t have to. I cannot stress enough that it is worse than you’ve been told.”
Oof.
October 3, 2024 at 2:14 PM
Reading a story by Zach Harper in The Athletic about the upcoming NBA season, and—apropos of absolutely nothing—he lobs this grenade into the article:
“I saw the movie ‘Megalopolis’ so you don’t have to. I cannot stress enough that it is worse than you’ve been told.”
Oof.
“I saw the movie ‘Megalopolis’ so you don’t have to. I cannot stress enough that it is worse than you’ve been told.”
Oof.
Slow Horses is a gripping, cynical, sophisticated, plot-twisting, staggering production. Everyone in the cast is outstanding, but Gary Oldman as Jackson “When am I not full of joie de fucking vivre?” Lamb is particularly astonishing.
September 6, 2024 at 2:33 PM
Slow Horses is a gripping, cynical, sophisticated, plot-twisting, staggering production. Everyone in the cast is outstanding, but Gary Oldman as Jackson “When am I not full of joie de fucking vivre?” Lamb is particularly astonishing.
Donald Trump said this yesterday in public:
“Think of this: 6 states, 6 states, Minnesota is one of them, if the baby is born you are allowed to execute the baby after birth. In Minnesota you are allowed to execute.”
Dear media: Please DO YOUR JOB and call him on this crap.
“Think of this: 6 states, 6 states, Minnesota is one of them, if the baby is born you are allowed to execute the baby after birth. In Minnesota you are allowed to execute.”
Dear media: Please DO YOUR JOB and call him on this crap.
August 30, 2024 at 1:53 PM
Donald Trump said this yesterday in public:
“Think of this: 6 states, 6 states, Minnesota is one of them, if the baby is born you are allowed to execute the baby after birth. In Minnesota you are allowed to execute.”
Dear media: Please DO YOUR JOB and call him on this crap.
“Think of this: 6 states, 6 states, Minnesota is one of them, if the baby is born you are allowed to execute the baby after birth. In Minnesota you are allowed to execute.”
Dear media: Please DO YOUR JOB and call him on this crap.
Not unexpected. For centuries Catholic men have spoiled joy by pulling out early.
August 25, 2024 at 10:58 PM
Not unexpected. For centuries Catholic men have spoiled joy by pulling out early.
I weep for my country …
August 25, 2024 at 4:26 PM
I weep for my country …
Harris & Walz have not only restored joy and hope, but they have also made us proud again to be Americans. I heard something today that I have not heard in years: DEMOCRATS chanting 3 letters that used to be the purview of mindless, macho, Republicans: “USA! USA!“ This is an historic moment.
August 7, 2024 at 12:37 AM
Harris & Walz have not only restored joy and hope, but they have also made us proud again to be Americans. I heard something today that I have not heard in years: DEMOCRATS chanting 3 letters that used to be the purview of mindless, macho, Republicans: “USA! USA!“ This is an historic moment.
VP Walz: “I can’t wait to debate the guy— That is, if he’s willing to get up off the couch and show up.”
August 6, 2024 at 10:59 PM
VP Walz: “I can’t wait to debate the guy— That is, if he’s willing to get up off the couch and show up.”
2024: The stakes could not be higher— and the choice is clear:
July 24, 2024 at 9:16 PM
2024: The stakes could not be higher— and the choice is clear:
Yesterday, RNC co-chair Lara Trump attacked Kamala Harris for “trying to label Donald Trump as a convicted felon.” And it occurs to me that if your only source of news is Fox & Friends you really may not know that Donald Trump actually IS a convicted felon.
July 24, 2024 at 1:27 PM
Yesterday, RNC co-chair Lara Trump attacked Kamala Harris for “trying to label Donald Trump as a convicted felon.” And it occurs to me that if your only source of news is Fox & Friends you really may not know that Donald Trump actually IS a convicted felon.
“It's been a long hard fight
But I see a brand new day dawning
I've been looking for the sunshine
You know I ain't seen it in so long
But everything's gonna work out just fine
And everything's gonna be all right that's been all wrong”
But I see a brand new day dawning
I've been looking for the sunshine
You know I ain't seen it in so long
But everything's gonna work out just fine
And everything's gonna be all right that's been all wrong”
July 23, 2024 at 6:01 PM
“It's been a long hard fight
But I see a brand new day dawning
I've been looking for the sunshine
You know I ain't seen it in so long
But everything's gonna work out just fine
And everything's gonna be all right that's been all wrong”
But I see a brand new day dawning
I've been looking for the sunshine
You know I ain't seen it in so long
But everything's gonna work out just fine
And everything's gonna be all right that's been all wrong”