John Paul (@johnpaulhi.bsky.social)

@johnpaulhi.bsky.social May 16, 2026, 6:16 PM Pinned

Librarians literally saved my life

@johnpaulhi.bsky.social Oct 12, 2026, 2:30 AM

He stopped just short of calling it what it is, treason by the American president. This should end all discussions about how he got elected.

@nothoodlum.bsky.social Oct 12, 2026, 2:00 AMReposted by @johnpaulhi.bsky.social

Brian Kilmeade is not putting up with Rachel Campos-Duffy’s propaganda. “It would be the biggest mistake of his administration to work with Russia. That is the modern Hitler of our generation.”

@thedesertginger.bsky.social Oct 12, 2026, 1:21 AMReposted by @johnpaulhi.bsky.social

Whew

@web.kim Oct 12, 2026, 1:18 AMReposted by @johnpaulhi.bsky.social

Can someone translate?

@marygillis.bsky.social Oct 12, 2026, 1:18 AMReposted by @johnpaulhi.bsky.social

Anyone who's not on a skeleton crew is on a flesh crew.

@thedemcoalition.bsky.social Oct 12, 2026, 1:19 AMReposted by @johnpaulhi.bsky.social

Johnson sent them home so they never had to vote on Hegseth. Ask your representative why that was allowed to happen, then send the letter so the demand is on the record anyway.

@therealjackhopkins.bsky.social Oct 12, 2026, 1:19 AMReposted by @johnpaulhi.bsky.social

MSM was never about informing you. It’s a business, like a bank. A bank’s goal is profit; keeping your money safe is just the method. 2008 proved what happens when the two split. In media they split every day: outrage pays whether or not it’s true. No? Then read this again...sober.

@masnick.com Oct 11, 2026, 11:00 PMReposted by @johnpaulhi.bsky.social

I thought we all agreed to stop paying any attention to David Brooks after he whined about the price of an airport burger... leaving out the fact that 80% of the cost was all of the alcohol he had ordered...

@johnfugelsang.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 11:01 PMReposted by @johnpaulhi.bsky.social

Pete Hegseth has killed far, far more humans than the murderous Major Nidal Hasan.

And there's no Jesus-based justification for America killing prisoners & filming it.

Congrats, MAGA - Trump made America more like ISIS.

Pls read, subscribe & share: johnfugelsang.substack.com/p/americas-f...

@goldengateblond.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 10:43 PMReposted by @johnpaulhi.bsky.social

and why isn’t she wearing a push-up bra and heels, come on ladies

@decodingfoxnews.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 10:35 PMReposted by @johnpaulhi.bsky.social

Fox News finally included a voter panel to discuss the U.S. Senate race in Michigan. The panel included two Republicans and one Democrat. All three men were some type of political operative. Fox News did NOT disclose the men's background to their viewers. RECEIPTS!

@johnpaulhi.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 9:25 PM

His micropeen energy is going to get us all hurt.

@katiephang.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 9:17 PMReposted by @johnpaulhi.bsky.social

"The justification identifies UFC as the sole qualified vendor based on demonstrated expertise in all required MMA skills, including striking techniques, grappling/takedowns, weapon defense, ground control, and conditioning to FBI standards."

@katiephang.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 9:15 PMReposted by @johnpaulhi.bsky.social

FBI Director Kash Patel wants a one-year fixed price “sole source contract" with the UFC "to provide defense tactical technical training to special agents."

This isn't going to end well.

govtribe.com/file/governm...

govtribe.comJA DTTT Redacted.pdf – Sole Source Justification - Defense Tactical Technical Training (15F06726P0000813) | GovTribePDF posted Sep 30, 2026 for the federal contract opportunity Sole Source Justification - Defense Tactical Technical Training (15F06726P0000813).

@johnpaulhi.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 9:08 PM

Same 🥹

@mattzollerseitz.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 9:05 PMReposted by @johnpaulhi.bsky.social

I wrote a little bit about the late, great Jim Knipfel in my appreciation of the paper we both wrote for, NYPress, when they ceased print publication in 2011. nymag.com/intelligence...

started as a film critic at the Press after I moved to Manhattan in 1995. I worked with Godfrey Cheshire, who was later named editor of the film section, and Armond White, who joined the paper in 1997. The paper spoiled me for all future film critic jobs because it gave its columnists so much space and freedom. The editors' only demand was that we not be too "pointy-headed," as Strausbaugh put it. When we proposed starting our own version of the Voice's film quarterly, he shot it down and dubbed it "Cahier du Poopheads."

The rest of the paper was just as freewheeling. During its heyday - 1995 through about 2000, by my reckoning - New York Press was one of the most defiantly noncommercial, unpackaged, personal things I'd ever seen sold in a news box. Russ Smith, who published under the pen name MUGGER, was a right-winger who wrote the longest column in the paper; he spent half of it ranting about politicians and arguing with pundits, and the other half talking about the lavish fun he was having with his family. During the Monica Lewinsky scandal, one of his columns was illustrated with a cartoon that showed Bill Clinton buggering Uncle Sam.

Russ didn't insist that everyone else at the paper follow his lead. At one point the broadsheet simultaneously published
MUGGER, the liberal David Corn, and Taki Theodoracopulos, whose opinions sounded like what the little guy with the monocle on the Monopoly box would say if he were a Greek playboy. William Monahan, who would go on to write scripts for Martin Scorsese and Ridley Scott, published a column about historical topics. Future novelist and screenwriter Jonathan Ames (HBO's Bored to Death) wrote a lively column about his personal misadventures.
Future New York Magazine contributor Amy Sohn wrote a dating column. J.T.
"Terminator" LeRoy, who was later exposed as a fake identity devised by Laura Albert, published regularly there. Dave Eggers,

The New York Press, which publishes its final print edition this week, was an alternative newspaper as auteurist statement, reflecting the spiky and often bizarre personalities of the people who worked there. The paper was founded in 1988 by Russ Smith.* His advisors included John Strausbaugh, a sinewy guy with a flattop and a rock-and-roll demeanor, and the brilliant Jim Knipfel, who was going blind from retinitis pigmentosa. Knipfel wrote arts reviews, the crime blotter, and a sardonic, often moving weekly column titled Slackjaw. He also worked as a receptionist at the New York office. The way he pronounced "Afternoon, New York Press" when he answered the phone always made it sound as though he was trapped under something heavy.

@johnpaulhi.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 9:05 PM

His Dads heart swelled ❤️

@whattheactualf.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 9:00 PMReposted by @johnpaulhi.bsky.social

What a kind considerate child 🎃

@anarchymarshmallow.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 9:00 PMReposted by @johnpaulhi.bsky.social

I don't think folks should take advice from Nazis, so-