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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 buttondown.email/kungfumonkey

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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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It was mine, because that’s actually an old engineering joke I remembered from my physics days. Their equivalent of “a perfectly spherical cow”. So it was a wink. And then Cameron used it *unironically*.

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I rewrite a by the numbers disaster flick into a 1960’s science hero movie, but very few people got the bit. Enough did though!

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I was one of the writers. The only one who takes all the shit though. The shit … FOR BEING RIGHT.

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ApocalypticaNow's avatar ApocalypticaNow @apocalypticanow.bsky.social
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Can't let our disdain for AI make us forget to go after bitcoin too

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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.

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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

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There's a "view from nowhere" version of impartiality that's baked into the genes of the US mainstream press, and it's requiring greater and greater bits of acrobatics to sell the illusion of normalcy. To the point where the cognitive dissonance is unavoidable.

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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

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That’s … that’s not “appeared to”

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In this house we know who the real villain of US history is.

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Also tomorrow in the New York Times, Bill Cosby on “Why It’s Paranoid To Watch Your Drink Carefully In Bars”

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When "tough on crime 🙄" goes wrong. Police chases are almost always more of a threat to public safety than the crimes themselves.

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On Independence Day, note our progress towards energy independence & a sustainable future for generations ahead. Thanks to 2021 Bipartisan Infrastructure & 2022 Inflation Reduction laws, U.S. companies are accelerating in grid batteries to make solar+wind scalable. That's not all...

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When I went to Catholic school we had a couple late converts as teachers and they were always 1000% more intense than the actual nuns and Jesuits.

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Unfortunately, this is not just the abstract manifesto of a feverish mind. It comes with concrete plans and a detailed strategy of how to take over and transform government into an autocratic revenge machine that can impose a reactionary vision against the will of the majority. /end

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Mark Waid Should Be Working Instead's avatar Mark Waid Should Be Working Instead @markwaid.bsky.social
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Moving toward sellout, DO NOT MISS! Only 50 seats available! Fri, Aug. 16, just before @ItsTerrifiCon, Howard Chaykin & I teach you how to create comics & graphic novels! Get in NOW for this life-changing class, GO: eventbrite.com/e/comic-book...

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Kevin Roberts believes he’s a noble defender of “real America” against a totalitarian “woke,” “globalist” assault from without and within.

“Project 2025” is his declaration of war on multiracial pluralism.

I wrote about his extremist worldview here:

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thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/project-20...

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AP story waits until paragraph 16 to mention police & prosecutors are accused of conspiring to protect the cop who's apparently the real killer, until then making him seem like a lone wolf

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Everybody involved was functionally a kid and it was just soul-punching sad.

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That quote was actually relevant in the case I was on. Drug dealer WROTE HIS NAME on the front of his notebook where he kept a list of his prices for his product. Even the jury was like “Dude! It’s not middle school. No other dealers going to accidentally take your notebook!”

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I pulled out my earbuds at one moment and overheard a defense attorney at the next table say, I’m tired voice. “You’re adding more felonies as you talk. Please stop adding felonies.”

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That experience was amazing, because before then I’d never realized a courthouse cafeteria in the morning is full of defense lawyers patiently trying to talk their clients out of making bad decisions. For hours!

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Well, I’m tickled to think that when I was there for four weeks every morning on Zoom prepping my TV show and writing the season premiere before reporting to jury duty, you were there.

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There will be better ones out there I’m sure, you can find reviews, out of habit I use the one I’ve used for a decade, PureVPN.

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Taraji P. Henson did a huge public service calling out Project 2025. Earlier today, Kevin Roberts, chair of Project 2025, threatened violence: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be." It's Christofascism. Make no mistake.

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I now look forward to some Green kid lecturing me on how French socialists are not true leftys.

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Look at the leftist candidates in France “if we’re splitting the vote and the Right may win, the lowest leftist drops out.” This is what real leftists do. Strategize, prioritize.

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1) they have no examples domestically, so it’s a steep learning curve 2) because they never learn they never get real power so they attract only dilettantes and wishcasters.

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John Rogers's avatar John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social
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Well, three is shorthand for multi. I’m with you.

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Oh, like you’d turn down dinner with Putin. That caviar’s divine!

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I personally never take the risk. But that’s me.

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And the fact you feel that way is the fault of the Electoral College, which is the REAL problem (well, the actual fixable real problem is the Apportionment Act of 1929, but that’s another thread)

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No, it’s a prerequisite, until you have that, a third party vote in the US is a spoiler vote. That’s the reality -and the consequences of that reality - you keep dodging.

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You know, I get that. But I’m very leery of people treating their vote as symbolic or irrelevant. Because there’s a threshold when it suddenly isn’t, and none of us know when that is.

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