Jake Sparks
@jsparks7s.bsky.social
Husband. Dad. Engineer. Hiker. UK Wildcat fan. Occasional car guy. Recovering Trekkie.
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“How to Monetize Your Own Failures Through the Magic of Bigotry”
As first reported by @msjpauly.bsky.social and @pablo.show, the Harris County GOP gave Riley Gaines $25,000 to speak at the 2025 Lincoln Reagan Dinner with Gov. Greg Abbott. Here's a little more context on that, plus Gaines' relationship with the Texas GOP: www.chron.com/culture/arti...
Harris County GOP paid anti-trans activist Riley Gaines $25K to speak
Business is booming for Riley Gaines.
www.chron.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:06 PM
“How to Monetize Your Own Failures Through the Magic of Bigotry”
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The thing about Reed Sheppard is that white boy can shoot
November 22, 2025 at 3:47 AM
The thing about Reed Sheppard is that white boy can shoot
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I don't pretend to know exactly what's going on with Marjorie Taylor Greene's resignation, but I sure as shit know we're not getting the full story. None of this makes sense.
November 22, 2025 at 1:35 AM
I don't pretend to know exactly what's going on with Marjorie Taylor Greene's resignation, but I sure as shit know we're not getting the full story. None of this makes sense.
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trump cheerfully and unwittingly driving a stake through every attack line about zohran is the funniest thing I have seen all year
November 22, 2025 at 12:03 AM
trump cheerfully and unwittingly driving a stake through every attack line about zohran is the funniest thing I have seen all year
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Amused at conservative outlets who spent the past five months dragging Mayor-elect Mamdani to hell and back with the most vicious, hateful propaganda but had to watch agog as Trump heaped praise on him in the Oval Office. That's some funny shit right there.
November 21, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Amused at conservative outlets who spent the past five months dragging Mayor-elect Mamdani to hell and back with the most vicious, hateful propaganda but had to watch agog as Trump heaped praise on him in the Oval Office. That's some funny shit right there.
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I would bet good money that Trump has never looked at either of his sons this way.
November 21, 2025 at 11:55 PM
I would bet good money that Trump has never looked at either of his sons this way.
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[picture of Don Jr. and Eric making the face Daniel Craig makes when he watches Tom Hanks and Paul Newman playing piano together in "Road to Perdition"]
Played him like a fiddle.
the son he always wanted
November 21, 2025 at 11:46 PM
[picture of Don Jr. and Eric making the face Daniel Craig makes when he watches Tom Hanks and Paul Newman playing piano together in "Road to Perdition"]
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Periodic reminder to the media and the Dems and the Universities that standing up to Trump and sticking to your guns earns you a lot more respect from this guy than just handing your money and balls to him in a shoebox
This might be the single funniest thing that has happened during this incredibly cursed year
November 21, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Periodic reminder to the media and the Dems and the Universities that standing up to Trump and sticking to your guns earns you a lot more respect from this guy than just handing your money and balls to him in a shoebox
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Yes! Think about it like this. Zohran is so charming he got the world's most famous racist capitalist to slob the knob of a brown socialist for an hour in front of the press and if you don't think that matters to the country as a whole then I don't know what to say. Optics are everything to Trump.
I’m gonna implore everyone here to take the W if only to experience the feeling again.
November 21, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Yes! Think about it like this. Zohran is so charming he got the world's most famous racist capitalist to slob the knob of a brown socialist for an hour in front of the press and if you don't think that matters to the country as a whole then I don't know what to say. Optics are everything to Trump.
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I’m gonna implore everyone here to take the W if only to experience the feeling again.
November 21, 2025 at 11:14 PM
I’m gonna implore everyone here to take the W if only to experience the feeling again.
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Centrists having some real trouble accepting that the reason Zohran isn’t getting slammed like Whitmer is he didn’t go there to debase himself like Whitmer did in a pathetic attempt at winning over Trump voters. He went there to deliver his message and try to get shit done.
November 21, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Centrists having some real trouble accepting that the reason Zohran isn’t getting slammed like Whitmer is he didn’t go there to debase himself like Whitmer did in a pathetic attempt at winning over Trump voters. He went there to deliver his message and try to get shit done.
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My guess is that Zohran wanted Trump to like him while also not appearing like he endorses anything Trump is doing and unless I missed something mission accomplished buddy
November 21, 2025 at 10:57 PM
My guess is that Zohran wanted Trump to like him while also not appearing like he endorses anything Trump is doing and unless I missed something mission accomplished buddy
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big bugs bunny getting elmer fudd to marry him vibes in the white house currently i see
November 21, 2025 at 9:30 PM
big bugs bunny getting elmer fudd to marry him vibes in the white house currently i see
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trump is, first and foremost, a starfucker
November 21, 2025 at 9:13 PM
trump is, first and foremost, a starfucker
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I'm not saying the Trump Administration is stacked with Soviet assets.
I'm just wondering, if they *were* Soviet assets, what would they be doing differently?
I'm just wondering, if they *were* Soviet assets, what would they be doing differently?
November 21, 2025 at 5:09 PM
I'm not saying the Trump Administration is stacked with Soviet assets.
I'm just wondering, if they *were* Soviet assets, what would they be doing differently?
I'm just wondering, if they *were* Soviet assets, what would they be doing differently?
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Everyone is justifiably mad about the RFK of this post, but I also just wanna take a second to say this is some shameful sanewashing even for the NYT. He’s not “challenging scientific orthodoxy,” he is displaying his ignorance of and/or disdain for science. He’s a fucking charlatan, call him one.
Breaking News: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he personally instructed the CDC to abandon its position that vaccines do not cause autism. The move underscores his determination to challenge scientific orthodoxy — in this case, that vaccines save lives — and bend the health department to his will.
RFK Jr. Says He Instructed CDC to Change Vaccines and Autism Language on Website
In an interview, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cited gaps in vaccine safety research. His critics say he is ignoring a larger point: Vaccines save lives.
nyti.ms
November 21, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Everyone is justifiably mad about the RFK of this post, but I also just wanna take a second to say this is some shameful sanewashing even for the NYT. He’s not “challenging scientific orthodoxy,” he is displaying his ignorance of and/or disdain for science. He’s a fucking charlatan, call him one.
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Mamdani is going to bring him that snowglobe that plays "Memories" from CATS and we're going to get government grocery stores nationwide
November 20, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Mamdani is going to bring him that snowglobe that plays "Memories" from CATS and we're going to get government grocery stores nationwide
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They misidentified the intern. The judge told them they had misidentified the intern. But instead of double checking, they took that as an affront to their authority. So they surrounded the judge's car and threatened to smash the windows to get to the intern.
They had misidentified the intern.
They had misidentified the intern.
The part where they threatened to break a judge’s car windows should be a bigger story … they feel comfortable treating judges this way, which means they are being told that they can do literally anything to nearly everyone
#BREAKING: A student intern at Rhode Island Superior Court was briefly taken into custody by ICE this afternoon before a judge intervened, 12 News has learned. Story by @jusolyn.bsky.social and @timwhiteri.bsky.social: ⤵️
November 21, 2025 at 5:03 PM
They misidentified the intern. The judge told them they had misidentified the intern. But instead of double checking, they took that as an affront to their authority. So they surrounded the judge's car and threatened to smash the windows to get to the intern.
They had misidentified the intern.
They had misidentified the intern.
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It’s just a government of edgelords who have no actual theory of change for authoritarian consolidation beyond being as repulsive as possible
November 21, 2025 at 3:59 PM
It’s just a government of edgelords who have no actual theory of change for authoritarian consolidation beyond being as repulsive as possible
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The opposite of the Moms for Liberty wave should get more attention
In culture war backlash, Democrats sweep school boards
In culture war backlash, Democrats sweep school boards
The party recruited and invested in school board races to oust Republicans. It worked.
dlvr.it
November 21, 2025 at 2:37 PM
The opposite of the Moms for Liberty wave should get more attention
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I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
Cheers to the person who leaked the initial changes www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
In reversal, Coast Guard again classifies swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The new order came hours after The Post reported the service would instead classify such symbols as “potentially divisive” under guidelines set for release next month.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
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It gets lost in the shuffle, but the Speaker of the House is someone who, by all rights, should’ve had his career ended a decade ago by a Shreveport TV news investigative team.
Fond memories of that time Mike Johnson was president of a local law school that never opened its doors, in part because it was attached to a Baptist college that was losing its accreditation, and in part because it was always a scam from the start
Mike Johnson -- who is, yes, theoretically a lawyer -- has not had a chance to look at the American Constitution because he's been very busy lately, folks, he just can't see everything, gosh, how is he supposed to know if it's wrong that the president called for the execution of congress members?
November 21, 2025 at 3:09 PM
It gets lost in the shuffle, but the Speaker of the House is someone who, by all rights, should’ve had his career ended a decade ago by a Shreveport TV news investigative team.
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The baffling part is how many people were giving him the benefit of the doubt in January and now don't approve. They got new information and changed their mind. But he was already president before! How did you not already know he sucks??
Presidential approval polling average approaching Hungry Ms. Pac Man Territory.
November 21, 2025 at 2:06 PM
The baffling part is how many people were giving him the benefit of the doubt in January and now don't approve. They got new information and changed their mind. But he was already president before! How did you not already know he sucks??
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Important to understand that shame has no power over these people, because they feel no shame over doing things like promoting Nazism, but sufficient "noise" in the form of media attention and complaints from embarrassed Republicans can have some effect on policy.
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In reversal, Coast Guard again classifies swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The new order came hours after The Post reported the service would instead classify such symbols as “potentially divisive” under guidelines set for release next month.
wapo.st
November 21, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Important to understand that shame has no power over these people, because they feel no shame over doing things like promoting Nazism, but sufficient "noise" in the form of media attention and complaints from embarrassed Republicans can have some effect on policy.
wapo.st/4rdDQew
wapo.st/4rdDQew
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per vought’s own admission, their strategy is to attack every element of government they can, and if they attract too much pushback for one attack, they shift their focus to another target. sometimes they return, sometimes they don’t. but the bottom line is that public outrage is working
Important to understand that shame has no power over these people, because they feel no shame over doing things like promoting Nazism, but sufficient "noise" in the form of media attention and complaints from embarrassed Republicans can have some effect on policy.
wapo.st/4rdDQew
wapo.st/4rdDQew
In reversal, Coast Guard again classifies swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The new order came hours after The Post reported the service would instead classify such symbols as “potentially divisive” under guidelines set for release next month.
wapo.st
November 21, 2025 at 2:04 PM
per vought’s own admission, their strategy is to attack every element of government they can, and if they attract too much pushback for one attack, they shift their focus to another target. sometimes they return, sometimes they don’t. but the bottom line is that public outrage is working