John Sundman

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Biodigital novelist, mover of heavy objects, volunteer firefighter (retired), national treasure.

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I wish someone kept a list of all the imbeciles who said Elon Musk is a free speech hero so I could waggle a middle finger in their insipid faces until it fell off

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In the week following the debate the New York Times ran 192 stories about Biden's performance and six about Project 2025. x.com/Will_Bunch/s...

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HOW THE PRESS LEARNED TO LOVE THE PUTIN/TRUMP ALLIANCE Trump said one interesting thing at the last debate. And the media ignored it.

How MAGA trained the press to love the Putin/Trump alliancei-know-how-much-you-care.ghost.io Trump said one interesting thing at the last debate. And the media ignored it. With the press primarily dedicated to flaming concerns or concern trolling about the age of the president of the Uni...

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This guy is such a fucking relentless weirdo.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says he 'won't take sides' on what happened on 9/11www.nbcnews.com The independent presidential candidate made the remark in a social media post, later saying that he was referring to "possible Saudi involvement" in the 2001 terror attacks.

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The group is called "Arkansans for Limited Government," which is brilliant. I've been suggesting the Ds retool as the "Mind Your Own Fucking Business" party, but these folks in AR obviously know their communities and are nailing it.

Organizers got enough signatures to put a measure protecting abortion on the ballot in Arkansas. In *Arkansas*. They had *no national support*. Ignore the pundits melting down over not being treated as Very Special Boys. Dobbs has fundamentally changed elections. Everything they know is wrong.

Arkansas abortion rights groups collect enough signatures to advance ballot measurewww.nbcnews.com A measure to enshrine abortion rights in the ruby red state’s constitution is now one step closer to making the November ballot — but major obstacles remain.

One of the things the U.S. Army excels at is neologisms like 'clusterfuck'. I don't know if the Army gave us 'clusterfuck,' but I'd be willing to bet that that's where it came from. Irregardless, if there's a contested convention, it is guaranteed to be a clusterfuck.

Having lived through the last two contested primaries, I am very skeptical that a contested *convention* resolved through back room wheeling and dealing proves a team building exercise

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It's genuinely helpful that the press has successfully signalled that they will not treat Kamala Harris generously or fairly if Biden steps aside for her. Clarifying!

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I refuse to believe this was written SIX YEARS AGO. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/in-...

In Order to Keep Our Editorial Page Completely Balanced, We Are Hiring More Dipshitswww.mcsweeneys.net Here at the New York Times, we believe that all sides of the story should be tolerated and explored, from white supremacists being actually kinda c...

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"Does Melkor canonically fuck? In this essay I will"

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love that they've gone through 2 or 3 different words for the n-word that other people will allow them to print as if it's no big deal

It’s bad out there!

Saddened to learn of the death of Judy Belushi Pisano, whose high school boyfriend & first husband was John Belushi, of Animal House & SNL fame. I first got to know Judy ~ 1995, when she took over from me & my wife as chair of the Tisbury (public, elementary) School Parent/Teacher Organization. 1/

Hotel California — but only if Trump wins & we all enter a suicide pact. Otherwise, the Kars 4 Kids jingle, the only tune ever written that's more obnoxious, lyrically AND melodically, than The Star Spangled Banner. My real preference? Star Spangled Banner, but as played by Hendrix at Woodstock.

You have to pick a new national anthem for the US, but it has to be a song that plays at least once a week on your city's equivalent of Jack-FM (a sort of all-purpose "top 40 from 1970 to 2010" station, skewing rock but not averse to pop/R&B/etc.).

Capitalism!

Tesla won’t free up use of its batteries, leaving owners unable to reap full benefitsdlvr.it Exclusive: Experts say Tesla should be excluded from rebates for disabling function on its batteries in Australia that would let users alter power usage remotely * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our morning and afternoon…

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here’s some!

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

Nearly 30 years ago I set out to write a simple murder mystery but ended up spending 4 years creating an imaginary 'biodigital' science just to solve a plot problem. Three more novels since then, more coming. The writer I'm most often compared to is Philip K. Dick. A short introductory essay: 💙📚

A chronicler of biodigital technopotheosisjohnsundman.substack.com How I accidentally became a self-publishing cyber-bio-nanopunk novelist

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This is the fundamental problem we’re facing, with Biden, with Trump, with politics. We spend many hours a day consuming media. But the content of that media is increasingly determined not by WHAT IS TRUE, but by WHAT EARNS AUDIENCE ATTENTION. Factoids are harvested and rebuilt into those stories.

there's the larger question about why "a couple anonymous donors speaking on background says something bad about the candidate" is considered to be newsworthy enough to peg a front-page, push-notification-generating story to. Could easily do the same to Trump!

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Step one is that progressives stop overtly trying to destroy him?? What is wrong with you, you’re setting him on fire and saying “tell me how we extinguish him”

He's losing. Tell me how he wins.

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Biden has been the most successful progressive president in half a century and the current “progressive” line is that he should immediately resign in disgrace at the insistence of the New York Times. Can you not see how this is an insane hysteria? How social media has completely broken you

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these people are trying to elect trump and deserve the blame for what they did

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Well, you see, Trump was *cognitively fit* when he sexually assaulted teenage girls. … … wait that makes it worse

Biden has a bad debate night: calls to step down Documents released that show two underage women accused Trump of raping them on Epstein’s island, under oath: total media silence except in a few blogs and foreign news The media double standard is incredible to see

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Let’s primary this asshole in ‘26.

Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-Va.) is attempting to assemble a group of Democratic senators to ask Joe Biden to exit the presidential race, according to two people with direct knowledge of the effort.

Sen. Mark Warner seeks to assemble group of Democratic senators to ask Biden to exit racewww.washingtonpost.com Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) is attempting to assemble a group of Democratic senators to go to the White House on Monday and ask that Joe Biden exit the presidential race, according to two people with dir...

I completed college coursework in January, 1973, and spent much of the rest of the 70's living & working in the Senegal River valley, mostly in places that didn't have running water. Round the clock electricity was a day's drive away. Guess I dodged that molded-jelly bullet. Phew!

The Jelly mold industry must have fallen into complete disarray after the 70s. Everyone had several.

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I am going to keep resharing this because everyone needs to know about what the GOP will do if they win this election.

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court presidential immunity ruling: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be" www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court immunity decision: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution"www.mediamatters.org

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New Yorker wants Joe Biden, whose admin has had historical success, to resign bc he's not doing well at running for re-election. This is not, in fact, what the 25th Amendment was made for.

This Is What the Twenty-fifth Amendment Was Designed Forwww.newyorker.com If Joe Biden doesn’t willingly resign, there’s another solution, which would allow Democrats to unite around a new incumbent.

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Striking that the NYT appears totally obsessed with Biden's withdrawing from the race (which I have no doubt will happen) while not talking much about the Supreme Court's paving the way to fascism. Seems to me primarily a coping mechanism: you fret about the things you know/may have control over

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I became a fully qualified firefighter at 57 after 2 years as probie (20+ fires) & much formal training. Per state law I retired @ 65. I was stronger & in better shape than several younger guys in our dept. I loved being a firefighter & was good at it. But it was time. Aging sucks but it is a fact.

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An essay I published on July 4th, 2023, about how a penniless refugee who arrived on Ellis Island ~1914 gave me to understand what the USA, can, and should, be about. As the son and grandson of immigrants, this holiday, to me, is a day to reflect on the vision of America that brought them here.

A lone figure skis across a frozen sea, pursued by Russians shooting gunsopen.substack.com How my grandfather left Finland and came to America

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I saw this was trending and had to google it "The post alleges that Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for this year's presidential election, "forced" young girls to "perform lesbian sex acts."

Donald Trump, Katie Johnson allegations: Everything we knowwww.newsweek.com Allegations from a lawsuit that was dismissed in 2016 are circulating on social media.

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It's pretty interesting what the media decides is front page news and what they don't decide is front page news! Trump being a child sex abuser with close connections to Jeffrey Epstein somehow doesn't merit the same coverage as "unnamed Dem insider has concerns about Biden's age"

Donald Trump, Katie Johnson allegations: Everything we knowwww.newsweek.com Allegations from a lawsuit that was dismissed in 2016 are circulating on social media.