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:: sailor / writer / human :: vagabond :: i like some people

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The Day I Became Part Of The Problem This isn’t an apology; it’s a reckoning.

open.substack.com/pub/jherlig/...

16.02.2026 21:06 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

We certainly all know what we saw.

28.01.2026 19:05 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Hard to watch. Thank you for your advocacy, Monsoor. 🙏🏻

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This is despicable at its core.

27.11.2025 01:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
stinadeee 4h
"The abuse of women and girls is the most pervasive and unaddressed human rights violation on Earth." - Jimmy Carter

"I am fortunate to have a lot of strong women in my life..." - George W. Bush

"I'm absolutely confident that for two years if every nation on earth was run by women, you would see a significant improvement across the board on just about everything..." - Barack
Obama

"Quiet! Quiet Piggy!" - Donald Trump

stinadeee 4h "The abuse of women and girls is the most pervasive and unaddressed human rights violation on Earth." - Jimmy Carter "I am fortunate to have a lot of strong women in my life..." - George W. Bush "I'm absolutely confident that for two years if every nation on earth was run by women, you would see a significant improvement across the board on just about everything..." - Barack Obama "Quiet! Quiet Piggy!" - Donald Trump

Women are watching abusive dynamics play out on the national stage and for many it feels very, very familiar to what they’ve experienced regularly—

I hope midterms are a referendum

18.11.2025 16:39 👍 9679 🔁 3189 💬 253 📌 112

🤬

15.11.2025 22:20 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Shocker, that.

14.11.2025 22:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Did the November gales come early on the Bay? Southbound on a pretty (and cold and bouncy) delivery. Miami awaits!

11.11.2025 21:33 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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What's happening with Jimmy Kimmel is about politics and power.

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Ok, I might be a fan hahaha.

09.05.2025 11:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Hey, @blindboyboatclub.bsky.social which episode was it where you spoke about responding vs. reacting? I'd love some help finding that, I'd like to send it to a friend. 🙏🏻

27.04.2025 19:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Princess! 😏

18.04.2025 22:56 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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John Herlig on Substack In 2002 Mansoor Adayfi, then 18 years old, was sold to the CIA by Afghani drug lords, tortured in secret prisons, and shipped to Guantanamo. In 2022 I was honored to let Mansoor tell his story. I als...

In 2022 I interviewed Guantanamo survivor Mansoor Adayfi @mansooradayfi441.bsky.social as well as former US Counterintelligence officer Mark Fallon @markfallon.bsky.social.

This link should work even if you don't have a Substack account.

substack.com/@jherlig/not...

18.04.2025 19:12 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

Oooh, I'm famous—that's me and my Ugo Messenger bag!! And that bag is some of the best money I've ever spent. 🥰

24.03.2025 12:42 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This was the best part of my day. 😌

08.03.2025 00:41 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.

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Trump administration rethinking Guantánamo immigrant detention plan amid cost issues and power struggles Trump still wants to use the base for detention, but a scaled-down version is the likeliest outcome, sources said.

Though administration officials have consistently said the people being sent to #Guantánamo are the “worst of the worst,” 51 of the 178 were considered to be non-criminal, meaning they had committed no crime other than being present in the United States unlawfully. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

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Washington Post backs out of ‘Fire Elon Musk’ ad order The Washington Post this week backed out of a “Fire Elon Musk” advertising order that was to run as a wrap on some of its Tuesday editions, according to the advocacy group Common Cause.  The group …

What a disgrace.

Bezos and the newspaper he has destroyed should be grateful that anyone thinks it’s still worthwhile to buy ad space from them.

*This* is how democracy dies.

17.02.2025 14:56 👍 14010 🔁 3847 💬 822 📌 323

Well said. ☺️

18.02.2025 14:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I smell a trip to Maxwell's in the air... 🙂

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WaPo quote: “A Washington Post review of Kennedy's public appearances found he also promoted these centers as particularly beneficial for
Black youth.
"Every Black kid is now just standard put on Adderall, on SSRIs, benzos which are known to induce violence and those kids are going to have a chance to go somewhere and get re-parented, to live in a community where there'll be no cellphones, no screens. You'll actually have to talk to people," Kennedy said in a June 2024 episode of the 19Keys online show”

WaPo quote: “A Washington Post review of Kennedy's public appearances found he also promoted these centers as particularly beneficial for Black youth. "Every Black kid is now just standard put on Adderall, on SSRIs, benzos which are known to induce violence and those kids are going to have a chance to go somewhere and get re-parented, to live in a community where there'll be no cellphones, no screens. You'll actually have to talk to people," Kennedy said in a June 2024 episode of the 19Keys online show”

Even the most disturbing RFK Jr. headline always manages to have a detail inside creepier than you could have imagined. I’m sorry, did you just say Black kids should have a chance to get “re-parented”???? Gift link wapo.st/4hW2xGI

17.02.2025 17:44 👍 9017 🔁 3119 💬 775 📌 1091
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You cannot possibly be accepting this trash, can you? What's next, 'I only hit you because I love you!"?

16.02.2025 13:15 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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jherlig.substack.com/p/the-mornin... A little piece on me encountering a Nazi salute in public.

16.02.2025 13:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I ♡ her so much. 🔥 🔥 🔥

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