John Thornton Jr. @JohnThorntonJr
Executive Director of Held, an organization changing lives through guaranteed income heldgso.org Joined June 2022-
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I do not want to ‘build community’ to access assistance that I need, I want to interact with an impersonal and uncaring bureaucracy that provides assistance according to easily understandable rules and procedures.
I do not want to ‘build community’ to access assistance that I need, I want to interact with an impersonal and uncaring bureaucracy that provides assistance according to easily understandable rules and procedures.
Learned this the last 6 months.
Has anyone posted this clip from when Conan replaced the entire audience with children?
"What's that?" I call it a 'knife' "Wow, that's the best thing since bread!" Gregory, I am about to blow your mind
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Just gave $1,300 directly to 5 families. This job does not get old.
The central node of ChatGPT’s signifying network is… the phallus. Lacan remains unbeaten. Nobody tell Zizek about this.
"In an age of such drastic income and wealth inequality, what makes something 'prophetic' or 'pastoral' often boils down to how rich people feel about it," writes John Thornton Jr. (2019) buff.ly/3UIeuI2
“Fundamentalism is the paranoid condition of those who do not see that roughness is not a defect of human existence, but what makes it work.” - Terry Eagleton
“Fundamentalism is the paranoid condition of those who do not see that roughness is not a defect of human existence, but what makes it work.” - Terry Eagleton
All the people saying "I would never get scammed!!" should know it can happen to anyone... My gf in Slovenia has a PhD and she got scammed out of $20,000 right after I sent her $20,000 for a plane ticket to America so we could finally meet in person
dune 2? yeah I'm into dune 2: dune 2 others as you would have them dune 2 you
What does it take to be "middle class" in America today? A new WaPo poll finds 6 key things: 1) Secure job 2) Savings 3) Can cover $1k emergency 4) Pay bills on time 5) Health insurance 6) Can retire **Only 35% of Americans have all six**
Adam Phillips:
wow it’s almost like this works 100% of the time
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Every community that has "no autism" will then also be like "oh yeah, that’s just Jonathan. He doesn’t make eye contact much, but he’s incredible at woodworking" or something like that.
How do these guys think people get diagnosed with autism
Me in church youth group giving my testimony
time to spread some Luka MVP propaganda
got to see and briefly try on an apple vision pro and my immediately take was that it's an incredible technological accomplishment--much more impressive than you'd expect--and it will utterly fail because actually wearing it and using it feels bad and makes you feel bad
harp is an empath with balls of steel screaming “got it” before the ball even went in the hoop and this is like his 10th time doing this too 😭
Jabari misses both free throws, and then
This is fine for a country like Finland, but how would it work here, in a country where we don't want to do that
Amazing how simple it really is.
Open the eyes of my heart
I was in that crowd and I actually did learn something about Kidd's Coaching strategy recently that made me realize I just disagree with 1 of his fundamental methods... I talked about it on the podcast yesterday linktr.ee/LockedOnMavs I've also been very vocal that even though…
This @TheSteinLine Kyrie article is so good. It tells you everything you didn’t and need to know. This is why I don’t respond to the “Fire JKidd” crowd on here. You’re simply uninformed. But you can change that. Read it here: marcstein.substack.com/p/sunday-read-…
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There are many people praying for me on here so I wanted to provide an update on my prognosis, particularly as things have shifted to the hopeful over the past month. Whereas I was told a month ago that there was nothing more to be done, a new oncologist thinks differently. 1/
I will be getting treatment in Boston soon over an extended period of time. This is only possible financially because of the generosity of all who gave to the gofundme set up by a friend. I cannot express my gratitude to you all sufficiently for your care & prayers! fin/
My five year old calls pop music by its government name “popular music” like what
online discourse loves to 1. read a thing which the writer has very intentionally written to express their own failings or limitations, and 2. write a snide quote tweet about that writer's failings or limitations as if the writer wasn't aware of it
Writer: look at this gaping hole in my soul Online person with hole in their soul: look at this idiot that doesn't even realize they have a hole in their soul, you can see the hole right there in their soul!
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