John LaNear
trainwreckturtle.bsky.social
John LaNear
@trainwreckturtle.bsky.social
Recovering attorney. Recovering academic. Reformed Twitter-er.
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The most powerful word in American English at this precise moment in history is:

NOPE.

Use it. Live it.

In this context, ditch streaming services, like, yesterday. Today if you have not already.

Does your radio station play AI? Turn it off.
December 4, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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Ilhan Omar: "He's always been a racist, bigot, xenophobic, & Islamophobic. We know that he called African nations 'shit holes' during his first administration ... most of us are citizens. We love that Minnesota has welcomed us ... we are going to be here regardless of what the president has to say."
December 3, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Congratulations to 21 year old Democrat Akbar Ali who made history in Georgia tonight. The youngest state rep in GA history.
December 3, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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Honestly, though. Dismissing human beings as 'garbage'. Not their ideas or beliefs but their existence. Saying an entire country 'stinks'. It's a boiling frog moment. Forget he's President, or a game show host or a social media name - if the person sat next to you on the bus said this, you'd recoil.
December 2, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Ilhan Omar rose from a single parent immigrant family where her dad drove a taxi to her current position. Trump is the kid of a racist wealthy slum landlord who headed multiple failed businesses. One of these people is the example of failed ambition and it's not her.
What a racist piece of shit.
Trump on Somalis: "We're gonna go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country. Ilhan Omar is garbage. She's garbage. Her friends are garbage."
December 2, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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The president is falling asleep durring a White House cabinet meeting with each member praising him for his resilience. What are we doing America? This is so embarrassing.
December 3, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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Hitler was bad.

An essay that, you know, I didn’t think I’d need to write.
Perry: The pro-Hitler problem with the American right
"We need to get back to the basics: Hitler was bad. The people who suggest otherwise are also bad," David M. Perry writes.
www.startribune.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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A new feature on X revealed that many influential MAGA accounts are not actually based in the US. President Donald Trump has continued sharing their posts anyway.
Trump Is Boosting MAGA X Accounts Operating Overseas
A new feature on X revealed that many influential MAGA accounts are not actually based in the US. President Donald Trump has continued sharing their posts anyway.
wrd.cm
November 30, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Why do you appreciate unions?

I’ll start:

Weekends off
Paid vacations
Work breaks
Sick leave
Paid holidays
No child labor
Safer working conditions
Health care and retirement benefits
November 30, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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In the last week, Donald Trump has called for the murder of Congressional Democrats and threatened to unilaterally declare an invasion of Venezuela.

If Congressional Republicans followed the Constitution, both of these would be removable offenses. But, they’re loyal to Trump, not the constitution.
November 29, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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I wish more politicians understood how the economy is rigged against regular people the way Bill Burr does.
August 20, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Pete Hegseth is a war criminal and should be fired immediately.
November 30, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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Every woman needs to see this ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️
November 30, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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November 29, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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Indiana Republican Sen. Mike Bohacek, who has a daughter with Down's syndrome, says he'll vote "No" on redistricting following Trump's "retarded" slur at Gov. Walz.
November 29, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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The latest evidence that America is becoming a land of idiots:
November 27, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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Even “in the midst of a civil war of unequalled magnitude & severity, Lincoln described “blessings of fruitful fields & healthful skies” and hoped for “full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquility & Union.” In that spirit, I am hopeful for better days ahead. www.americaamerica.news/p/abraham-li...
Abraham Lincoln's Thanksgiving Proclamation
As we approach our national holiday, America's 16th president reminds us to give thanks even in times of turmoil
www.americaamerica.news
November 27, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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LFG!!! Solidarity!!!
🚨 MAJOR BREAKING!! 🚨

In a previously unreleased memo, Teamsters President Sean O’Brien throws the FULL WEIGHT of his union behind striking Starbucks workers.

Teamsters drivers have already refused to make hundreds of deliveries to Starbucks stores where baristas are striking.

#NoContractNoCoffee
November 26, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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“Wanna talk about candidates who put their💰where their mouth is? @aftynbehn.bsky.social does not fuck around.” #TN7

@rachelwells1.bsky.social on Behn being dragged out of the state leg over ex-speaker Casada’s support for Rep. Byrd, who apologized to 1 of 3 women who said he sexually abused them.
November 26, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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precisely my thought. the president and his dumbass republican allies put these men and women into harm’s way for a political stunt and look what has happened
Whether this was random street crime or targeted political violence, I think it was bad for the president to unnecessarily put the National Guard in harm’s way like this. They simply don’t need to be there.
November 26, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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I still can't believe these goddamn fools are trying to get into a patriotism dick measuring contest with a guy who was a combat pilot and an astronaut and space flight commander.
November 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Still have yet to see AI make my life better in any way
November 26, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Col. Nicole Mann (USMC) is a pilot & NASA astronaut. She is the first #NativeAmerican woman to go into space & to go on a spacewalk.

US Naval Academy & Stanford grad (engineering), she is of Wailaki heritage (Round Valley Indian Tribes).

#NativeAmericanHeritageMonth #WomenInSTEM #AstronautEnvy🚀
November 24, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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November 24, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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„Quiet, Piggy!“ Just think about that for a minute, and what it means to live in a time when a President can assault a woman in public like that without any consequences.
It‘s quite a testimony to the age of regression we live in.
November 23, 2025 at 6:09 PM