John Peyton Cooke
@johnpeytoncooke.bsky.social
🏳️🌈 Whippet lover. Dilettante clarinetist. Author. Reader of great fiction. I stand with Ukraine 🇺🇦 🌻 Greenland 🇬🇱 Canada 🇨🇦 and Lake Ontario. Fascists can fuck all the way off! (See pinned post.)
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5 October 1940 | Dutch Jewish boy, Hijman Poons, was born in Amsterdam.
He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in January 1944. He was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection.
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A video about gas chambers and crematoria of the Auschwitz camp: https://youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck
He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in January 1944. He was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection.
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A video about gas chambers and crematoria of the Auschwitz camp: https://youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck
October 5, 2026 at 2:00 PM
5 October 1940 | Dutch Jewish boy, Hijman Poons, was born in Amsterdam.
He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in January 1944. He was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection.
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A video about gas chambers and crematoria of the Auschwitz camp: https://youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck
He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in January 1944. He was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection.
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A video about gas chambers and crematoria of the Auschwitz camp: https://youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck
“Down with the Tsar!”
🇷🇺An approved Communist Party rally in central Moscow did not go as planned. Protesters chanted “Fair elections,” “We want freedom,” “Freedom for political prisoners” and “Down with the Tsar” — referring to Putin. Police detained around 60 people.
October 5, 2026 at 1:57 PM
“Down with the Tsar!”
Wow! Great news. Potentially successful defense system against the horrible Russian jet-powered drones. Go Ukrainian technology!
First footage of a Ukrainian Vampire SAM system shooting down a Russian Geran 4 jet-powered attack drone using a low-cost APKWS laser-guided rocket. -OSINTtechnical
October 5, 2026 at 1:55 PM
Wow! Great news. Potentially successful defense system against the horrible Russian jet-powered drones. Go Ukrainian technology!
Questions I often ask myself:
1. Why would Vandamm build a secret airstrip on top of Mount Rushmore?
2. How did Blofeld manage to secretly hollow out the inside of a volcano?
3. How did Gavin Elster determine that exploiting Scottie’s vertigo was the best way to get away with murdering his own wife?
1. Why would Vandamm build a secret airstrip on top of Mount Rushmore?
2. How did Blofeld manage to secretly hollow out the inside of a volcano?
3. How did Gavin Elster determine that exploiting Scottie’s vertigo was the best way to get away with murdering his own wife?
October 3, 2026 at 12:36 PM
Questions I often ask myself:
1. Why would Vandamm build a secret airstrip on top of Mount Rushmore?
2. How did Blofeld manage to secretly hollow out the inside of a volcano?
3. How did Gavin Elster determine that exploiting Scottie’s vertigo was the best way to get away with murdering his own wife?
1. Why would Vandamm build a secret airstrip on top of Mount Rushmore?
2. How did Blofeld manage to secretly hollow out the inside of a volcano?
3. How did Gavin Elster determine that exploiting Scottie’s vertigo was the best way to get away with murdering his own wife?
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This is the biggest lie you've been told.
Want the truth? Order my new book The Fall of the West: How They Really Lost It.
Link below!
Want the truth? Order my new book The Fall of the West: How They Really Lost It.
Link below!
September 21, 2026 at 12:22 PM
This is the biggest lie you've been told.
Want the truth? Order my new book The Fall of the West: How They Really Lost It.
Link below!
Want the truth? Order my new book The Fall of the West: How They Really Lost It.
Link below!
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Millions of books destroyed in Russian strikes put Ukraine’s literary future at risk #AssociatedPress
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Millions of books destroyed in Russian strikes put Ukraine’s literary future at risk
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September 21, 2026 at 1:24 PM
Millions of books destroyed in Russian strikes put Ukraine’s literary future at risk #AssociatedPress
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Billionaires keep explaining that ordinary Americans simply need to work harder. Excellent advice from people whose money earns more money while they sleep than most families will see in a lifetime. Maybe skip the budgeting lecture from the yacht. #WealthInequality
September 2, 2026 at 6:28 PM
Billionaires keep explaining that ordinary Americans simply need to work harder. Excellent advice from people whose money earns more money while they sleep than most families will see in a lifetime. Maybe skip the budgeting lecture from the yacht. #WealthInequality
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oh fuck you too Apple.
It will always be Lake Ontario.
It will always be Lake Ontario.
September 2, 2026 at 12:56 AM
oh fuck you too Apple.
It will always be Lake Ontario.
It will always be Lake Ontario.
I’ve deleted Apple Maps and Google Maps and am now using MapQuest. Sorry I didn’t do it sooner.
September 2, 2026 at 3:12 AM
I’ve deleted Apple Maps and Google Maps and am now using MapQuest. Sorry I didn’t do it sooner.
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If you’re struggling in this economy, just know the Trump regime’s billionaire Treasury Secretary believes you are a “malcontent” who “does not want to work”
September 2, 2026 at 2:40 AM
If you’re struggling in this economy, just know the Trump regime’s billionaire Treasury Secretary believes you are a “malcontent” who “does not want to work”
Book recommendation. No Road Leading Back, by Chris Heath. I read every word of its 614 pages plus every endnote. From Schocken. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
August 22, 2026 at 1:34 PM
Book recommendation. No Road Leading Back, by Chris Heath. I read every word of its 614 pages plus every endnote. From Schocken. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Books read or reading currently:
NO ROAD LEADING BACK, by Chris Heath - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
THE PEOPLE IMMORTAL , by Vasily Grossman - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Currently reading:
STALINGRAD, by Vasily Grossman
Next on tap:
LIFE AND FATE, by Vasily Grossman
NO ROAD LEADING BACK, by Chris Heath - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
THE PEOPLE IMMORTAL , by Vasily Grossman - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Currently reading:
STALINGRAD, by Vasily Grossman
Next on tap:
LIFE AND FATE, by Vasily Grossman
August 14, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Books read or reading currently:
NO ROAD LEADING BACK, by Chris Heath - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
THE PEOPLE IMMORTAL , by Vasily Grossman - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Currently reading:
STALINGRAD, by Vasily Grossman
Next on tap:
LIFE AND FATE, by Vasily Grossman
NO ROAD LEADING BACK, by Chris Heath - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
THE PEOPLE IMMORTAL , by Vasily Grossman - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Currently reading:
STALINGRAD, by Vasily Grossman
Next on tap:
LIFE AND FATE, by Vasily Grossman
MSNOW is constantly beating up on the Democratic Socialist candidates and talking about how trad Dems need to distance themselves from it. There is definitely no legacy media TV channel that speaks to the real concerns of a huge number of voters to the left of the impotent trad Dems. 😢
August 14, 2026 at 2:16 PM
MSNOW is constantly beating up on the Democratic Socialist candidates and talking about how trad Dems need to distance themselves from it. There is definitely no legacy media TV channel that speaks to the real concerns of a huge number of voters to the left of the impotent trad Dems. 😢
For the first 2 hours of The Odyssey, I thought it was terrible (not the tale but the telling), but it all came to gather in the 3rd hour, and then I thought it was pretty good.
#FilmSky
#TheOdyssey
#FilmSky
#TheOdyssey
August 2, 2026 at 10:49 PM
For the first 2 hours of The Odyssey, I thought it was terrible (not the tale but the telling), but it all came to gather in the 3rd hour, and then I thought it was pretty good.
#FilmSky
#TheOdyssey
#FilmSky
#TheOdyssey
Hey, likeminded souls! Peter Straub coming out October 6 from Library of America! 1,100 pages.
Includes 3 novels:
JULIA
IF YOU COULD SEE ME NOW
GHOST STORY
$30 pre-publication price if you order directly from the LoA (not from AMZN.) After 10/6, it’s $45.
www.loa.org/books/three-...
Includes 3 novels:
JULIA
IF YOU COULD SEE ME NOW
GHOST STORY
$30 pre-publication price if you order directly from the LoA (not from AMZN.) After 10/6, it’s $45.
www.loa.org/books/three-...
Three Novels of the 1970s - Library of America
Arriving in early September. Reserve your copy today at the special prepublication price and it will be shipped to you as soon as books arrive in the warehouse—weeks before the official publication da...
www.loa.org
July 29, 2026 at 9:36 PM
Hey, likeminded souls! Peter Straub coming out October 6 from Library of America! 1,100 pages.
Includes 3 novels:
JULIA
IF YOU COULD SEE ME NOW
GHOST STORY
$30 pre-publication price if you order directly from the LoA (not from AMZN.) After 10/6, it’s $45.
www.loa.org/books/three-...
Includes 3 novels:
JULIA
IF YOU COULD SEE ME NOW
GHOST STORY
$30 pre-publication price if you order directly from the LoA (not from AMZN.) After 10/6, it’s $45.
www.loa.org/books/three-...
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19 July 1901 | Jewish woman, Pola Ekchaus (nee Niemenczyńska) was born in Wilno (Vilnius) - then in Imperial Russia. She emigrated to France.
She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Drancy on 29 July 1942. She did not survive.
She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Drancy on 29 July 1942. She did not survive.
July 19, 2026 at 11:00 AM
19 July 1901 | Jewish woman, Pola Ekchaus (nee Niemenczyńska) was born in Wilno (Vilnius) - then in Imperial Russia. She emigrated to France.
She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Drancy on 29 July 1942. She did not survive.
She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Drancy on 29 July 1942. She did not survive.
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Just a few hours later we find out that he's been announced as a Lord - and there's briefings that Andy Burnham will take steps that will create further destruction of our planet.
We see once again exactly who Labour are.
New face. Same party.
We see once again exactly who Labour are.
New face. Same party.
Extreme heat is killing thousands. Wildfires are burning.
In order to secure a liveable future we have to leave all fossil fuels in the ground.
Why can't Labour party politicians be honest & direct about that?
In order to secure a liveable future we have to leave all fossil fuels in the ground.
Why can't Labour party politicians be honest & direct about that?
July 16, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Just a few hours later we find out that he's been announced as a Lord - and there's briefings that Andy Burnham will take steps that will create further destruction of our planet.
We see once again exactly who Labour are.
New face. Same party.
We see once again exactly who Labour are.
New face. Same party.
For some durned reason I’ve had the classic Rodgers & Hammerstein song “Pore Jud Fry Is Daid” stuck in my haid since this mornin’. Cain’t think why. youtu.be/Euq8Z4l6Iwk?...
Pore Jud Is Daid
YouTube video by ClassicDamsel
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July 12, 2026 at 8:12 PM
For some durned reason I’ve had the classic Rodgers & Hammerstein song “Pore Jud Fry Is Daid” stuck in my haid since this mornin’. Cain’t think why. youtu.be/Euq8Z4l6Iwk?...
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Austrian campaign aims to save writer Stefan Zweig’s Salzburg villa after Porsche tunnel row
Austrian campaign aims to save writer Stefan Zweig’s Salzburg villa after Porsche tunnel row
Supporters hope to stop 17th-century Villa Europa passing into private hands after Wolfgang Porsche unexpectedly put it on market
Austrian cultural figures have launched a campaign to buy a villa once home to the writer Stefan Zweig after its owner, the automotive magnate Wolfgang Porsche, unexpectedly put it on the market following a row over his plans to build a private tunnel for his car collection.
Zweig, the Austrian Jewish writer whose novels inspired the Wes Anderson film The Grand Budapest Hotel, lived in the 17th-century property until 1934 when he was driven out of Salzburg by the Austro-fascist regime and his family was forced to sell it at a rock-bottom price. Continue reading...
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July 7, 2026 at 4:59 PM
Austrian campaign aims to save writer Stefan Zweig’s Salzburg villa after Porsche tunnel row
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7 July 1920 | A Polish woman, Emilia Smyklówna, was born in Zarównie.
In #Auschwitz from 29 January 1943.
No. 32409
She perished in the camp on 21 March 1943.
In #Auschwitz from 29 January 1943.
No. 32409
She perished in the camp on 21 March 1943.
July 7, 2026 at 5:00 PM
7 July 1920 | A Polish woman, Emilia Smyklówna, was born in Zarównie.
In #Auschwitz from 29 January 1943.
No. 32409
She perished in the camp on 21 March 1943.
In #Auschwitz from 29 January 1943.
No. 32409
She perished in the camp on 21 March 1943.
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Warfare never ceases to amaze in its dark perfection. Every advance is countered – replicated by both sides, deployed with nearly identical tactics, strategy drowned in piles of bodies and oceans of blood.
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Putin is about to join his pal Trump and be forced to sue for peace to end a war he can’t win
I remember as a cadet at West Point wondering why the Academy waited until senior year to teach cadets a year- long class on military history. They called it “History of the Military Art.” We called i...
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July 7, 2026 at 1:15 AM
Warfare never ceases to amaze in its dark perfection. Every advance is countered – replicated by both sides, deployed with nearly identical tactics, strategy drowned in piles of bodies and oceans of blood.
luciantruscott.substack.com/p/putin-is-a...
luciantruscott.substack.com/p/putin-is-a...
C’mon, allies, deliver those Patriot air defense missiles!
⚡️Zelensky warns Russia preparing 'new massive strike' on Ukraine.
President Volodymyr Zelensky warned that Russia is preparing another large-scale attack against Ukraine, calling on allies to accelerate deliveries of Patriot air defense missiles.
President Volodymyr Zelensky warned that Russia is preparing another large-scale attack against Ukraine, calling on allies to accelerate deliveries of Patriot air defense missiles.
Zelensky warns Russia preparing ‘new massive strike’ on Ukraine
President Volodymyr Zelensky warned that Russia is preparing another large-scale attack against Ukraine, calling on allies to accelerate deliveries of Patriot air defense missiles.
kyivindependent.com
July 5, 2026 at 8:05 PM
C’mon, allies, deliver those Patriot air defense missiles!
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5 July 1910 | Czech Jewish woman, Stela Ehrlichová, was born.
She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 23 January 1943 with her daughter Aviva. They did not survive.
She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 23 January 1943 with her daughter Aviva. They did not survive.
July 5, 2026 at 8:00 PM
5 July 1910 | Czech Jewish woman, Stela Ehrlichová, was born.
She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 23 January 1943 with her daughter Aviva. They did not survive.
She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 23 January 1943 with her daughter Aviva. They did not survive.
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3 July 1921 | A Polish Jew, Ernst Steinhardt, was born in Bielsko. A technician.
In #Auschwitz from 2 April 1942.
No. 27767
He perished in the camp on 19 April 1942.
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📖 Jewish prisoners at KL Auschwitz: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/29_zydzi_en/
In #Auschwitz from 2 April 1942.
No. 27767
He perished in the camp on 19 April 1942.
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📖 Jewish prisoners at KL Auschwitz: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/29_zydzi_en/
July 3, 2026 at 8:00 PM
3 July 1921 | A Polish Jew, Ernst Steinhardt, was born in Bielsko. A technician.
In #Auschwitz from 2 April 1942.
No. 27767
He perished in the camp on 19 April 1942.
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📖 Jewish prisoners at KL Auschwitz: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/29_zydzi_en/
In #Auschwitz from 2 April 1942.
No. 27767
He perished in the camp on 19 April 1942.
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📖 Jewish prisoners at KL Auschwitz: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/29_zydzi_en/