John Jackson
@jpj.bsky.social
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Historian of scientific racism. Here's how to find all my stuff:
https://www.johnpjacksonjr.com/
JFC. Jesus Fascist Christ.
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Dear Publication Manual of the APA, Why must you vex me so?
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One less Graham Cracker in the world.
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Me and Mitch were doing wind-sprints today and he shared with me some very interesting about possible alterations of 16 USC Ch. 99 on maritime security and fisheries enforcement. He's on top of everything, as per usual!
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Me and Mitch were doing wind-sprints today and he shared with me some very interesting about possible alterations of 16 USC Ch. 99 on maritime security and fisheries enforcement. He's on top of everything, as per usual!
6 days ago
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Forgotten but not gone, I wrote a post on my blog. It addresses a new book on the history of the Anti-Defamation League. It is complicated.
altrightorigins.com/2026/07/08/c...
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Complicating the Anti-Defamation League
The Anti-Defamation League of the 1940s and 1950s was much different than it is today.
https://altrightorigins.com/2026/07/08/complicating-the-anti-defamation-league/
8 days ago
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My fiction is overlooked again! Just because it doesn't exist! I call that unfair!
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17 days ago
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From the FBI file of Speros Lagoulis of Rockwell's American Nazi Party in the early 1960s. From the address to the mode of entertainment, its hard to believe he could be taken seriously.
18 days ago
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Does anyone use a paperweight any more?
19 days ago
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In 1949, the Cinema Education Guild, an antisemitic organization wanted to get the Reds out of Hollywood. They named these people as commies. Obviously, Rita Hayworth, but my question: why not Chico?
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It must really bother the malignant narcissist to be undone by a reflecting pool.
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Two of my favorites!
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What Chess Reveals About Gender, Intelligence, and Culture | AgustĂn Fuentes & Jennifer Shahade
YouTube video by Accelerator Media
https://youtu.be/37H0Efr-afU?si=wjVGoM_p_3QOH8yH
22 days ago
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Friend of Trump behaves like a Friend of Trump. Film at 11.
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If you ever get a chance to watch SLINGS AND ARROWS, take it. It is really very wonderful.
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The outrageous fortune of Slings & Arrows | Folger Shakespeare Library
Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore. Jo...
https://www.folger.edu/blogs/shakespeare-and-beyond/the-outrageous-fortune-of-slings-arrows/
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"The painful event was an almost too-perfect symbol of the larger problem infecting Trump’s White House: it’s run by men obsessed with looking tough, but who are, in actuality, weak and incompetent."
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29 days ago
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There was a time when the FBI was really, really interested in Billy Carter. Keeping us safe, I guess?
vault.fbi.gov/Billy%20Carter
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Billy Carter
https://vault.fbi.gov/Billy%20Carter
about 1 month ago
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The Christian right-wingers are beginning their completely expected ritual cannibalism.
www.jezebel.com/mike-lee-sen...
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The Leopards Have Finally Come for the Mormon Face of Sen. Mike Lee
MAGA warriors led by Utah Sen. Mike Lee, a proud Mormon, are feuding with each other over Christian semantics.
https://www.jezebel.com/mike-lee-senator-utah-mormon-trump-administration-pentagon-christian-denominations-list-jesus-christ-latter-day-saints
about 1 month ago
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John Jackson
headfallsoff
about 1 month ago
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The Zoot Suit riots took place June 3-8 1943. This young man was arrested on June 7, 1943.
about 1 month ago
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We have declined the invitation to play at the America 250 celebration.
about 1 month ago
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In the least surprising move ever, the democracy-hating libertarian is moving to the democracy-hating Milei's Argentina.
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about 1 month ago
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After consulting with what is left of Milli Vanilli, we have declined the invitation to play the America 250 concert.
about 1 month ago
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Historians, journalists, and citizens. This is an important petition to keep the
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Tell New York Times, The Atlantic, and USA Today to keep the crucial work of journalists in the Wayback Machine!
https://savethearchive.com/newsleaders
about 1 month ago
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I've moved out of my office. I guess I'm really retired now.
about 2 months ago
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"We have reconsidered and will not be playing at the White House on July 4."
about 2 months ago
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MSU just doubled his salary and he's leaving anyway. I've been here for 9 years. He was our 6th president in that time. Everything is fine here. The place pretty much runs itself (into the ground).
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Michigan State University President Kevin Guskiewicz is leaving for Clemson University
Michigan State University President Kevin Guskiewicz is leaving his role to take a position at Clemson University.
https://www.wxyz.com/news/michigan-state-university-president-kevin-guskiewicz-is-leaving-the-university-sources-confirm
about 2 months ago
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The Rebel County is still pissed at him. For good reason. Irish councilor proposes tiny statue of mosquito blamed for killing invader Oliver Cromwell
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Irish councilor proposes tiny statue of mosquito blamed for killing invader Oliver Cromwell
A Green Party councillor in Cork wants the Irish city to honor the mosquito blamed for killing Oliver Cromwell, the English Lord Protector whose conquest of Ireland made him a reviled figure there.
https://open.substack.com/pub/boingboing/p/irish-councilor-proposes-tiny-statue?r=458qiy&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
about 2 months ago
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For folks interested in the American far right, I just posted my 800th document on their activities, mostly concerning the 2 decades after WWII. All of it is in public domain and can be otherwise hard to find.
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Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
https://archive.org/details/@jpjackson
about 2 months ago
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Jonny Haidt is a right-wing grifter posing as a scientist.
crookedtimber.org/2026/05/21/p...
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Pet Haidt — Crooked Timber
https://crookedtimber.org/2026/05/21/pet-haidt/
about 2 months ago
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I'm convinced that most CEOs are sociopaths. What do you expect them to do when you make the mistake of inviting them to speak in public? Another graduation speaker hypes AI to boos, tells students their education is already obsolete
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Another graduation speaker hypes AI to boos, tells students their education is already obsolete
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and private equity managerial Gloria Caulfield, addressing graduates, both got booed recently as they talked up AI.
https://open.substack.com/pub/boingboing/p/another-graduation-speaker-hypes?r=458qiy&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
about 2 months ago
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And MAGA says, "Thank you, sir, may I have another?" Trump phone is years-old knockoff with wrong number of stripes on U.S. flag logo
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Trump phone is years-old knockoff with wrong number of stripes on U.S. flag logo
Imagined as an original made-in-America smartphone, but realized as a made-elsewhere knockoff, the $500 Trump Phone is finally here. It’s an Alibaba-tier knockoff of the years-old HTC U24 Pro and has ...
https://open.substack.com/pub/boingboing/p/trump-phone-is-years-old-knockoff?r=458qiy&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
about 2 months ago
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When writing about Milton Friedman, I find myself using the phrase, "evidence-free assertion" so often I feel I should write a macro for it.
about 2 months ago
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May 17, 1954. "We conclude that, in the field of public education, the doctrine of "separate but equal" has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal."
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Warwick Anderson
2 months ago
TWO great jobs in History and Philosophy of Science at Sydney! Rank from Lecturer (Assistant Prof) to Assoc Prof. Particularly interested in candidates working in the areas of early modern science, or science or medicine in Asia, or Indigenous knowledge systems...
#HPS
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Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor to the School of History and Philosophy of Science - Camperdown, Australia job with UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY | 410910
Build your research and apply your expertise by contributing as a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor to the School of History and Philos...
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/listing/410910/lecturer-senior-lecturer-associate-professor-to-the-school-of-history-and-philosophy-of-science/
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The Code of Ur-Nammu c. 2200 BCE. One law reads: "f someone severed the nose of another man with a copper knife, he must pay two-thirds of a mina of silver." I can see some guy trying to staunch the blood streaming from where his nose used to be yelling at the scribe: "I said a COPPER knife!"
2 months ago
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Not to brag, but I'm apparently a robotics expert. Why else would this journal be interested in my work?
2 months ago
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Richard Dawkins has always been a purveyor of bad ideas. Now he's clearly a doddering old man with even worse ideas.
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Richard Dawkins embarrasses himself again
I've been aware of how awful Dawkins is since I had a brief but unpleasant exchange with him about sociobiology on biologist P. Z. Myers' bl...
https://www.pinkerite.com/2026/05/richard-dawkins-embarrasses-himself.html
2 months ago
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Ida B. Wells's account of being forcibly evicted from the 1st class train car in 1883 when she was 20 years old.
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This is the Road to Serfdom in Switzerland! First public libraries, next guinea pig ownership! The gulags are inevitable!
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In Switzerland, it is illegal to own just one guinea pig.
The Swiss are known for their historic commitment to neutrality, but they’ve taken a firm stand on one of the most important issues of our time: guinea pigs. Because guinea pigs are social creatures w...
https://interestingfacts.com/fact/in-switzerland-it-is-illegal-to-own-just-one-guinea-pig/
2 months ago
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For Jew who was forced to flee the Nazis, Ludwig von Mises sure did not understand the Nazis.
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Milton Friedman claimed a man was "thrown into jail for selling Alka Seltzer at a price below that set by the manufacturer under so-called 'fair trade' laws." (CAPITALISM AND FREEDOM, p. 9). If ever a claim was begging for a footnote, that is it.
3 months ago
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I bet if I were a scholar of Old English I wouldn't be pissed off all the time like I am writing about Milton Friedman and F.A. Hayek.
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Lost copy of seventh-century poem in Old English discovered at Rome library
Dublin scholars find 1,200-year-old manuscript of Caedmon’s Hymn composed by Northumbrian cattle herder
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/apr/29/lost-copy-of-seventh-century-poem-old-english-discovered-rome-library-dublin
3 months ago
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Life of the mind: I spent the entire morning trying to discover what legal philosopher Bruno Leoni (who?) did during WWII. I discovered nothing. This is how I spend my time, people!
3 months ago
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All those pro-gun conservatives at that stupid dinner who now tell us how scary it was when a loon with a gun showed up can fuck all the way off.
3 months ago
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Dan Garisto
3 months ago
Breaking: Trump has fired the membership of the National Science Board, which is oversees NSF. I have confirmed separately with multiple now-former members of NSB.
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Ranking Member Lofgren Reacts to Latest Trump Scheme to Undermine Science | House Committee on Science, Space and Technology
The House Committee on Science, Space and Technology
https://democrats-science.house.gov/news/press-releases/ranking-member-lofgren-reacts-to-latest-trump-scheme-to-undermine-science
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The only video game I ever loved.
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A free book explains Tempest by reading every line of the source code
TEMPEST vs TEMPEST is a free book about two of the strangest-looking arcade games ever made.
https://open.substack.com/pub/boingboing/p/a-free-book-explains-tempest-by-reading?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
3 months ago
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@lioneltrolling.bsky.social
has a nice piece on "respectable racism" at the Heritage Foundation.
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Paleos Ascendant?
The Takeover at the Heritage Foundation
https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/paleos-ascendant?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=112019&post_id=195023949&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=flmel&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
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Today in "He was still alive?"
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Zoologist, author and presenter Desmond Morris dies aged 98
Morris pursued dual passions of zoology and surrealist art, presenting BBC documentaries and hosting exhibitions
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/apr/20/desmond-morris-zoologist-dies
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The 2016 Supreme Court memos and the mess that John Roberts has made of his court
The New York Times scoop about the Clean Power Plan case SCOTUS memos highlights the conservative justices' brazen disregard for their own rules — both then and now.
https://www.lawdork.com/p/the-2016-memos-roberts-supreme-court-mess
3 months ago
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Now what?
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