John Rogers

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TV, comics and film writer. LEVERAGE, JACKIE CHAN ADVENTURES, BLUE BEETLE, MARRY ME, a couple other things. Free newsletter of reviews, recommendations, and general oddities at https://buttondown.email/kungfumonkey

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This narrative has been pushed by heterodox types for years. It never made much sense.

Well, well, well. WELL. That whole “protests made cops feel bad so they all quit” narrative? Looks like it was mostly myth. Excited to read this paper by Ben Grunwald, who compiled a huge dataset on post-2020 police employment. Agg decline was 1%… and bigger local declines not tied to protests.

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Hopkins: “beginning in fall 2024, our School of Medicine will be tuition-free for students from families earning under $300,000, and students from families earning up to $175,000 will receive a full ride, support that includes both tuition and living expenses.”

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We are looking for an illustrator for Ex Tenebris, a galaxy-spanning investigative game in a world of shadowy cults, demons, and sinister ancient technology. Must be able to draw human scenes, monsters and technology (e.g. spaceships). Is that someone you know? Get in touch!

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General Mills just paid a $300 million dividend to investors, bought back $150 M in stock to enrich execs+investors and pays its CEO $16M a year. Yearly profit is around $2.1 billion. It's raising prices 20% blaming inflation. MAGA morons can't grasp corporate greed

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And arguably what I am enjoying most is that this is not the hero theory of history. We’re not seeing a charismatic leader carry the election through rhetoric and force of personality. We’re seeing populations say: nope. I like the power of nope.

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BREAKING: Upside side down French flag spotted outside the Alitos' summer residence

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Congrats to other country’s liberal coalitions for ever being able to get their shit in gear tell us what that’s like

Breaking news: The first projections after polls closed in France’s legislative election put a leftist alliance in the lead, as the populist, anti-immigration far right falls behind and performs far below expectations.

France election live updates: Left-wing bloc leads in results projectionswww.washingtonpost.com The populist, anti-immigration National Rally party had been hoping to install France’s first far-right government since World War II, with 28-year-old Jordan Bardella as prime minister.

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recently had an influx of new followers so seems like A Time to once again wistfully post about the nearly 400 page graphic novel i’m yearning to finish about the dangers of following your calling set against dying days of a VERY messy family (work schedule this year has other plans😭). #art #comcis

ELEMENTARY has dropped on Hulu (was it there before and I hadn’t seen it?) and as I’m busted with COVID, I’m indulging. The pilot’s a masterclass, the show’s an A+ example of procedural writing, balancing the serialization and B plots.

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How coal failed in the Texas deep freezewww.eenews.net Industry has claimed that coal is more reliable than natural gas and renewable energy during extreme weather events because it's stored on-site. But the

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May heat wave exposes myth of fossil fuel reliability as Texas coal- and gas-fired generators fail early season performance test | IEEFAieefa.org Renewables such as solar and wind are proving more reliable in a record-setting Texas heat wave than coal- and gas-fired power plants

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If for any reason Joe Biden can't complete a 2nd term, we know who will take over. Her name is Kamala Harris and America already voted for her once. If Donald Trump can't complete a 2nd term, we have no idea who will take over because he TRIED TO HAVE HIS LAST VP MURDERED.

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reminded of a scene from Terry Pratchett's Going Postal

A hill I will die on: all white-collar crimes are violent crimes. It's just that the violence is removed from the perpetrator because the perpetrator is wealthy.

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You had me at “exceedingly dry in-jokes for recherché subcultures”

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Just a reminder that Michelle Wolf nailed it at the White House Correspondents Dinner. NYT, I’m looking in your direction especially.

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Among other questions, I wonder how we got to the point where “separation of powers” means the judiciary can prohibit the executive from holding itself accountable. radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-suprem...

The Supreme Court foldsradleybalko.substack.com Faced with the most potent threat to democracy in more than a century, our most revered institution didn't just fail to hold, it aligned itself with the threat

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We can call this era of gilded-kinda scandal “heat pop dome.”

Rare event! Competing heat domes in the Southeast and Southwest US crank out two huge all-time record highs. Palm Springs 124 and Raleigh=Durham 106 with a heat index of 118! Las Vegas is forecast to break their all-time high this weekend and even Death Valley may come close.

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I don’t even know where to begin with this.

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have you all heard of THE RADIUM GIRLS? if you haven’t, go look that up because any post i try to do won’t be enough and will get suppressed. come back when you’re done looking up THE RADIUM GIRLS okay. you done? cool. okay so Clarence Thomas wants to get rid of OSHA

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If Biden said something like this it would spell the end of not only his campaign but his current tenure. It's just one of countless examples of insane gibberish from Trump that the press & Democrats are choosing to treat as an immutable part of the electoral landscape rather than a story or issue.

Vetted by Tobias (also you should read his great sci-fi.)

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For the people who don’t have time, here’s your Readers Digest version. You’re welcome.

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Can't let our disdain for AI make us forget to go after bitcoin too

The Murderous Energy Suck of Universal Paperclipshillheat.news The fracking to AI pipeline is a crime. And the crime is homicide.

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We need more, but credit where due: both The Nation (June 2024 issue) and Boston Review have run a breakdown of the Project 2025 “Mandate for Leadership” document. Media Matters, too. Lots of good work going on digesting this. www.bostonreview.net/articles/ins... www.mediamatters.org/project-2025

Where are the columnists who are experts in specific fields, breaking down what the Heritage Foundation + Trump want to do to each individual federal agency? E.g. I read the section dedicated to our intelligence agencies, and had to stop, since I was starting to feel a little nauseous.

Hah hah look I appreciate you all sending me this, on an unrelated note I will be off social media for several months and some of you may be contacted in regards to my government clearance.

John. JOHN. @johnrogers.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2024/07/05/s...

Scientists say they’ve confirmed a slowdown in Earth’s inner core rotation. Now what? | CNNwww.cnn.com Scientists say they’ve confirmed Earth’s inner core has been slowing down. Here’s what it could mean — and why the topic has been the subject of fierce debate.

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I wanna be critically clear: this whole account's deal is an amazingly beautiful simpsons assassin AU, and has less than 300 followers: unserious website, you know nothing of art

Finally finished this one

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Idaho lawmakers pushed for policies targeting the state’s unauthorized immigrant population during the 2024 legislative session, but dairy industry leaders have been vocal about its need for the unauthorized immigrant workforce. Via Idaho Capital Sun

Unauthorized immigrants are key players in Idaho’s economy, agric...www.newsfromthestates.com Para leer esta historia en español, haga clic aquí. Unauthorized immigrants make up about 35,000 people of Idaho’s population, and their labor and spending contributions are in the tens of millions of...

That’s … that’s not “appeared to”

NEWS --> Mark Robinson, the MAGA extremist GOP nominee for governor in North Carolina, appeared to endorse political violence against unnamed foes in a recent speech. "Some folks need killing!" he shouted. "It's a matter of necessity!" Video and story here: newrepublic.com/article/1834...

MAGA Gov Candidate’s Ugly, Hateful Rant: “Some Folks Need Killing!”newrepublic.com Mark Robinson, the GOP nominee for governor in North Carolina, has a long history of incendiary comments. But he may have topped himself this time.