John Starbuck

Old enough to have been an original Flyers fan. A music lover, a liberal tending towards socialism. A political and religious agnostic. Dog lover. Nature lover.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Dave Matthews: “​I will never stop calling for an end to the violence in Gaza and the West Bank and Lebanon and for that matter the Congo and Sudan and Ukraine or the horrific violence against immigrants and their neighbors in our country”

[John Starbuck @JCStarbuck3]

@MacFarlaneNews Republicans will not stop Pulte which should tell you what people refuse to acknowledge. Trump is doing the heavy lifting for the Republican Congress that is pushing for total power for the present and the future.

[John Cusack @johncusack]

Israel using white phosphorous weapons in populated areas of Lebanon.
The ugly truth : US and Israel are genocidal states.

[John Starbuck @JCStarbuck3]

@TheRickWilson Free speech for me, but not for thee.

[John Starbuck @JCStarbuck3]

@JohnJHarwood No, the GOP has Trump precisely because they had, and have no other potential POTUS candidates with a shred of character. They prove that every day they placate the demented old man, the Dotard in the White House.

[Maine @TheMaineWonk]

Why does this Mainer like Graham?

“I want any fucking Democrat to get elected. Any Democrat to take the fucking moron out of the White House… we need a fucking battle.. and LOVE TO FIGHT.”

Maine’s Hippies are based.

[Thomas Fazi @battleforeurope]

Crazy that this is getting barely any coverage. This year’s European Press Prize was just awarded to an investigative report by the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant. It is entitled “What the Wounds Tell” and in it the journalists Maud Effting and Willem Feenstra document the cases of 114 children in Gaza under the age of 15 who were struck by a single bullet to the head or chest. Almost all of them died or were left severely disabled. They chose to document only the cases of boys and girls under the age of 15 (though often much younger: aged 3, 4 or 7) because these are children who can be immediately identified as such. “A single bullet in these parts of the body is a clear indication that these children were deliberately targeted“, the two journalists write.

This is the article: https://t.co/YkZrpqBWBQ

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

Hegseth should just get right to the most accurate renaming: The Department of Cringe

Renaming the DOD is inane, but doing it while you're losing a war to Iran is an insult to everyone from Truman to the newest recruit.

[John Starbuck @JCStarbuck3]

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[𝔗𝔯𝔲𝔱𝔥 𝔐𝔞𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔰 @politicsusa46]

This is a clip that is so on point it may be very uncomfortable for some to watch. However, the Chinese man featured in the clip is saying out loud what I have written about at length and many academics have articulated.

You’ll have to excuse the captions which struggles with his Chinese accent, but that doesn’t detract from the message.

🎥 TikTok - https://t.co/FvZxHZpe4Z

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: Rep Madeleine Dean: “…I said to him, Mr Acting Attorney-General [Todd Blanche], when are you going to prosecute? So far we have one dead guy [#Epstein] and one woman in a Summer Camp [Ghislaine Maxwell]. When are you going to prosecute those who victimized, trafficked, abused, raped girls and women, more than a thousand of them? He blamed the victims. He said they really haven’t come forward with the names…right then I knew the coverup was complete.”😳

[John Starbuck @JCStarbuck3]

@NormOrnstein Vance is trying to walk the line between backing Trump in a stupid war that JD warned against, and not providing sound bites on a totally losing war that can be used against him when he runs for POTUS.

He's going to lose in both.

[😱 Scary Larry 😱 🇺🇦✊🏻🇺🇸🗽 @aintscarylarry]

Translation: The Orwellian-named “Justice Department” found a photo of Howard Lutnick raping a child and deleted it.

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

🚨 WOW! Erin Brockovich completely destroys the AI data center narrative. She confirms these massive facilities emit a non-stop, 24/7 deafening noise that is literally driving local residents crazy!

She exposes the total lack of environmental oversight. Pure corruption!

[John Starbuck @JCStarbuck3]

@billmeltzer Given Larkin's NTC, it is likely that any trade will not be at full value for Detroit. It also makes it unlikely that the Flyers would be on his acceptable list.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Jennifer Welch on Graham Platner: “Everyone’s talking about toxic relationships and tattoos and all of this shit. Talk about Susan Collins voting to dismantle protections that keep women safe and keep women free because that is the real story here. She is a MAGA fascist to her core. I don’t give a fuck if somebody had a toxic relationship. I myself have been a toxic girlfriend, I’ve had toxic boyfriends. That’s part of the human experience”

[John Starbuck @JCStarbuck3]

@JoyceCarolOates One of the benefits of America's extremely extended presidential campaigns is that we get to assess the makeup of the candidate. Trump has consistently controlled the media from the time he started. That we never got a real candid look is on the media.

Character matters.

[Kevin W. @Brink_Thinker]

New Jersey school has required every freshman to hike 55 miles on the Appalachian Trail for 53 years straight.

At St. Benedict’s Prep in Newark, this isn’t optional — it’s a mandatory 5-day rite of passage before becoming a sophomore.

Many students have never hiked or camped before. They train together in the spring, then get split into small teams where each kid gets a critical role: navigator, medic, cook, captain, etc. No one knows everything — they must rely on each other.

With minimal adult supervision, they hike rain or shine, facing blisters, sore muscles, and real challenges head-on. As one administrator put it: “The only way we can get through this is if we work together.”

The result? Teens who return more confident, resilient, and bonded — proving that real growth happens when you step away from screens and into the wilderness.

What an incredible tradition! Parents, educators, and anyone raising tough kids — this is gold.

Who else believes we need more experiences like this?

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

He was only eighteen years old. His weapon of choice was not a gun, but a tiny bottle of acid. Yet, this teenage boy managed to save fourteen thousand lives from certain death.

In 1943, Paris was a dark place under Nazi occupation. Adolfo Kaminsky was just a young apprentice working in a textile dyeing shop. He spent his days learning how colors reacted with chemicals, which solvents could dissolve certain pigments, and how to alter tones at a molecular level.

He had no idea that this highly specific knowledge about ink and fabric would soon become the thin line between life and death for thousands of innocent people.

During the occupation, the Gestapo used paperwork as their primary weapon to hunt down Jewish people. Identity cards, travel permits, and food rations were all strictly monitored. On the documents of Jewish citizens, the authorities stamped one single word in blue ink: "JUIF".

That one word was a direct ticket to a concentration camp.

The French Resistance desperately needed a way to erase that word without ruining the paper. Standard forgery techniques failed because the official ink was designed to be permanent.

Any attempt to scrape it off left obvious marks that would get someone killed.

They brought the problem to Kaminsky.

The boy analyzed the paper under a dim lamp and remembered a trick from his textile work. Lactic acid could dissolve that exact blue ink while leaving the paper fibers perfectly intact.

It worked.

But erasing the stamp was only the first step. He had to rewrite names, birthdays, and signatures perfectly. The Resistance set up a secret laboratory for him in a hidden attic on the Left Bank of Paris. The demands poured in constantly.

He needed to make fifty birth certificates for children escaping to Switzerland, two hundred food cards for families hiding in cellars, and hundreds of passes to Spain.

The conditions were brutal. Bleach and acid fumes filled the tiny room, burning his throat and making his eyes water constantly. His fingers were permanently stained with dark ink. Kaminsky realized that each document took him about two minutes to make.

That meant he could save thirty people every single hour.

This realization turned into an obsession that haunted him. He looked at the clock and thought, "If I sleep for an hour, thirty people will die."

So, he stopped sleeping.

One week, word came that a local orphanage with three hundred Jewish children was about to be raided by the Nazis. They needed fake papers immediately or they would be put on a train to Auschwitz. Kaminsky locked himself in the attic.

He worked for two straight days and nights without a pause. His vision blurred and his hand cramped so badly he had to physically massage his fingers to keep writing.

Eventually, his body gave out and he collapsed onto the desk.

He slept for exactly one hour. When he woke up, panic gripped him. He cried out, "Thirty people are dead because I was lazy!"

He refused to eat or rest until the remaining papers were finished.

Thanks to his sacrifice, the children were moved to safety in time.

Kaminsky spent years in that suffocating attic, constantly upgrading his skills as the Nazis upgraded their security measures.

When Paris was finally liberated in 1944, the young genius had saved roughly fourteen thousand people.

He never accepted a single penny for his work, believing that taking money to save a life was deeply wrong.

After the war, Kaminsky became a photographer and lived a quiet, modest life. He never bragged.

He did not tell his neighbors, his coworkers, or even his own children about his wartime heroism for decades.

He simply faded into the crowd as an ordinary man.

Adolfo Kaminsky passed away in 2023 at the age of ninety-seven.

He did not want monuments or medals. His true legacy lives on today in the children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren of the thousands of people who survived the darkness simply because a brave teenager chose to stay awake.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Strange isn't how Elon Musk told everyone to mark this post, then he deleted it.

Must have been a mistake.

Let me repost it for him.