Jon DeSpirito

Social Worker, Advocate, Storyteller, School Therapist, Dungeon Master
(he/him/his)

[Jon DeSpirito @JonDeSpirito]

How many icons on your phone depict gadgets that the phone replaces?

At what point do those images have meaning only in the icon universe?

[Citizens for Ethics @CREWcrew]

Sixteen of the 27 corporate donors to Trump's ballroom are facing federal enforcement actions or have had such actions suspended by the Trump admin, including major antitrust reviews, labor actions and securities matters. https://t.co/zaF7Ky0aaI

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

Lawmakers are working to make juvenile sentencing stricter—despite decades of studies that show that incarcerating minors is counterproductive, @ebruenig writes. She reports on efforts across the country to prosecute children like they are adults: https://t.co/c1Pedope71

[Jon DeSpirito @JonDeSpirito]

@NewYorker A great tip-in for an absolutely horrible shot from Brunson.

[Claire Valdez @claireforny]

Working people around the world have more in common with each other than the billionaires who profit from war.

[Jon DeSpirito @JonDeSpirito]

@Tickled_Orange @MollyTeachesFCS @SenWarren @grok Which is not even in their top ten years since you stated they were a dire threat. Why wait?

Why wait, and let all those deaths happen? Oh, and also insinuate that you had their back? Did tactical mastermind Trump feel it smart to sacrifice those most willing to die for freedom?

[Jon DeSpirito @JonDeSpirito]

@Tickled_Orange @SenWarren If taking on Iran is so vital, why didn't he run on it? Why tell the 'no new wars' lie? Isn't protecting America something to be proud of? Something to run on? It's not like anything changed since then.

[Jon DeSpirito @JonDeSpirito]

@cheprofessor @samstein Arnold has a rebuttal for your use of all-caps.

[Jon DeSpirito @JonDeSpirito]

@PieEd1010 @gopherwendy You forgot: "are all of them bad guys, no."

Because that IS the racist part.

[Jon DeSpirito @JonDeSpirito]

@BillLoutha14295 @gopherwendy Link or you're a liar

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

A Daily Reminder: If Bernie's Social Security bill was enacted in 2021, Elon Musk would've paid $2.9 billion more in taxes, Social Security would be solvent for 75 years, benefits would be expanded by $2,400 and 91% of Americans would pay $0 more in taxes.

Scrap the damn cap.

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Bari Weiss built her entire public identity on the proposition that cancel culture was destroying American discourse. She wrote about it. She founded a publication around it. She championed the Intellectual Dark Web as brave thinkers being silenced for saying forbidden things.

Scott Pelley said factually true things, without yelling, without cursing, without threatening anyone, in a staff meeting. He said Bilton had slender qualifications. He said Weiss was murdering 60 Minutes. He said these things because they are true and because saying true things in rooms where powerful people prefer comfortable silence is - per Weiss's own stated philosophy - exactly what journalists are supposed to do.

She fired him.

JVL names what this exposes precisely. They never wanted to end cancel culture. They wanted to control it. Some forbidden ideas - the ones MAGA likes - must be protected and platformed. Other ideas - the ones Bari Weiss dislikes - are genuinely verboten. Say them out loud and you lose your job.

The Pentagon press office is now classified. Tim Miller was threatened with FARA for sharing a public news report. Comey is being prosecuted for seashells on a beach. The federal workforce faces proposed NDAs. Pelley was fired for refusing instructions to broadcast unverified assertions and then saying so in a meeting.

The through line is not chaos. It is a consistent, documented project to determine who gets to speak, about what, to whom, and under whose authority. Cancel culture was never the target. It was always the tactic. Weiss just proved it by doing the thing she built her career opposing, the moment she had the power to do it.

[Jacen Bowman @JacenBowman]

Black queer people have spent generations turning rejection into culture, pain into art, and exclusion into movements. Imagine what we’d build if we weren’t fighting just to survive.

[Jon DeSpirito @JonDeSpirito]

@Georgesantos @Kalshi Or... Just a thought, don't use their platform to run scams on stupid people.

[Bobby Allyn @BobbyAllyn]

George Santos called me after my story revealing federal investigations into his suspected market manipulation on Kalshi.

And he said: "This story is going to get you a gun in your face."

Then he lied about it.

https://t.co/3hZWckf54M

[Summer Lee @SummerForPA]

The silence from Democrats when Muslim colleagues and candidates are attacked is a cancerous rot.

We cannot lead our country out this moment if we're willing to accept the abuse or dehumanization of any marginalized group.

[Jon DeSpirito @JonDeSpirito]

@crazy_injun_guy @seashells9196 @roving71776904 @RepRobertGarcia @PamBondi STFU and check the sources. Google provides them, but you might be too uninformed to know that. Or is it that you don't care: you've already made up your mind, and no facts will change it?

[Jon DeSpirito @JonDeSpirito]

@Jjpatt92 @atrupar Because oil is run by a cartel, with no real free market, that is kind of it, because they collude on supply. But, of course, if you don't need as much gas, paying for it is far less painful. If one commodity is the be-all/end-all of the economy, you're already fucked.

[Jon DeSpirito @JonDeSpirito]

@HQNewsNow "Vladimir says I am the best ever for national security"

[Jon DeSpirito @JonDeSpirito]

@ForeignAffairs Trump tipping his hand has kind of shown that maybe they don't need a nuclear deterrent after all.

[Jon DeSpirito @JonDeSpirito]

@C4CEO @JamesTate121 The more someone has to tell you what you know, the more they don't believe it themselves.

In a nutshell: link or you're a liar