Jim S.
@jimbobsama.bsky.social
#blacklivesmatter He/Him/His. Elder Millenial, Observer, and refugee from Apartheid Clyde's dumpster fire.
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You may ask "How do they continue to fall for the quarterly "what if we're the baddies" from Rogan"?
it's their job to fall for it. They're paid handsomely to fall for this same exact thing over and over again.
it's their job to fall for it. They're paid handsomely to fall for this same exact thing over and over again.
Joe Rogan: What Trump stood for, some of it turned out to not be real. Like 'no wars.' We're at a war with Iran, so that wasn't real. It's nuts to just give someone a $50,000 ICE signing bonus, you train them for seven weeks, and you have a militarized force running through the fucking city streets
October 14, 2026 at 6:03 PM
You may ask "How do they continue to fall for the quarterly "what if we're the baddies" from Rogan"?
it's their job to fall for it. They're paid handsomely to fall for this same exact thing over and over again.
it's their job to fall for it. They're paid handsomely to fall for this same exact thing over and over again.
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My heart breaks for mathematicians whose lives and careers are being destroyed by AI — and especially this PhD student, who doesn’t even know he is a poet
October 14, 2026 at 2:24 AM
My heart breaks for mathematicians whose lives and careers are being destroyed by AI — and especially this PhD student, who doesn’t even know he is a poet
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This can happen here. This WILL happen here.
Hungary removes anti-LGBTQ provisions from 'child protection' law, batting back Orban legacy
Hungary removes anti-LGBTQ provisions from 'child protection' law, batting back Orban legacy
The vote was praised by rights groups, who add that 'there is still a lot to do' on LGBTQ rights.
www.lemonde.fr
October 13, 2026 at 2:57 PM
This can happen here. This WILL happen here.
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There will be a lot of equivocating about all the times search warrants have been executed on members of Congress for corruption investigations and the like, and it can't be stressed enough in how many ways HSI raiding Ilhan Omar is extremely not like that.
October 12, 2026 at 12:48 PM
There will be a lot of equivocating about all the times search warrants have been executed on members of Congress for corruption investigations and the like, and it can't be stressed enough in how many ways HSI raiding Ilhan Omar is extremely not like that.
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"I'd really like to be recognised for my journalism outside of New Zealand"
*monkey's paw curls*
*monkey's paw curls*
October 12, 2026 at 5:21 AM
"I'd really like to be recognised for my journalism outside of New Zealand"
*monkey's paw curls*
*monkey's paw curls*
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This is so excellent. It’s really worth a listen.
“Because political polarization is a symptom, and not the root of the problem that ails us, ‘fixing’ polarization will not restore American democratic health.”
– @lilymasonphd.bsky.social explains why being more civil to one another won't solve our political crisis: lnk.to/onthemedia/b...
– @lilymasonphd.bsky.social explains why being more civil to one another won't solve our political crisis: lnk.to/onthemedia/b...
On the Media
The Peabody Award-winning On the Media podcast is your guide to examining how the media sausage is made. Hosts Brooke Gladstone and Micah Loewinger examine threats to free speech and government transparency, cast a skeptical eye on media coverage of the week’s big stories and unravel hidden political narratives in everything we read, watch and hear.
lnk.to
October 11, 2026 at 9:41 PM
This is so excellent. It’s really worth a listen.
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Doing my annual "The Black Tapes" podcast re-listen - at least Season 1.
Great premise - "Serial" and "This American Life" crossed with "The X-Files" in exploring the paranormal. But, unfortunately, they went with a full series arc and didn't know how to end it (with an awful cop out).
Great premise - "Serial" and "This American Life" crossed with "The X-Files" in exploring the paranormal. But, unfortunately, they went with a full series arc and didn't know how to end it (with an awful cop out).
October 11, 2026 at 6:51 PM
Doing my annual "The Black Tapes" podcast re-listen - at least Season 1.
Great premise - "Serial" and "This American Life" crossed with "The X-Files" in exploring the paranormal. But, unfortunately, they went with a full series arc and didn't know how to end it (with an awful cop out).
Great premise - "Serial" and "This American Life" crossed with "The X-Files" in exploring the paranormal. But, unfortunately, they went with a full series arc and didn't know how to end it (with an awful cop out).
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question for brooks: what if they are, literally, nazis?
"Jon Ossoff, my advice to him is, if you start calling your political opponents Nazis, maybe it's time to shut up. That's just not what we do here in this country." -- David Brooks, this evening. Remember, Brooks still gets very handsomely rewarded by the fossilized media for saying shit like this
October 11, 2026 at 6:01 PM
question for brooks: what if they are, literally, nazis?
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1) it’s great the times painstakingly attempted to document how much this had grown
2) and also how do you do the article about HOW this is happening without addressing WHY? What CAUSED this uptick? Did you try to figure that out?
2) and also how do you do the article about HOW this is happening without addressing WHY? What CAUSED this uptick? Did you try to figure that out?
A massive, and massively underrated, threat to a functioning democracy. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/10/11/u...
Threats of Political Violence Have America’s Elected Officials Living in Fear (Gift Article)
A Times investigation has found that violent threats have become a new normal among public officials, reshaped private lives, cost millions in security and pushed people out of office.
www.nytimes.com
October 11, 2026 at 1:22 PM
1) it’s great the times painstakingly attempted to document how much this had grown
2) and also how do you do the article about HOW this is happening without addressing WHY? What CAUSED this uptick? Did you try to figure that out?
2) and also how do you do the article about HOW this is happening without addressing WHY? What CAUSED this uptick? Did you try to figure that out?
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Repeat after me: Yes on 40, no on 41 and 42, which are designed to cancel out 40!
Gavin Newsom backs measure to kill the billionaire tax and ban future wealth taxes
Gov. Gavin Newsom isn't just fighting the billionaire tax. He's backing Prop. 42, which would ban future wealth taxes in California, too.
Gov. Gavin Newsom isn't just fighting the billionaire tax. He's backing Prop. 42, which would ban future wealth taxes in California, too.
Gavin Newsom backs measure to kill the billionaire tax and ban future wealth taxes
Gov. Gavin Newsom isn't just fighting the billionaire tax. He's backing Prop. 42, which would ban future wealth taxes in California, too.
cal.news
October 11, 2026 at 3:35 PM
Repeat after me: Yes on 40, no on 41 and 42, which are designed to cancel out 40!
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My takeaway from this is that Ben Shapiro is more evil than the Pope is good and God was like, welp sorry Leo I can't let Daily Wire Damien feel any joy
The White Sox in the playoffs before this tweet
4-0 outscoring opponents 20-9
The White Sox after this tweet
0-3 getting outscored 20-8
4-0 outscoring opponents 20-9
The White Sox after this tweet
0-3 getting outscored 20-8
October 11, 2026 at 4:26 AM
My takeaway from this is that Ben Shapiro is more evil than the Pope is good and God was like, welp sorry Leo I can't let Daily Wire Damien feel any joy
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if Elon is spending millions of dollars of his own money to push this message with paid media, what do you think he does to the black box algorithm on his platform that chooses which posts you see and which of your posts are shown to others?
Elon Musk’s PAC is running anti-lgbtq+ midterm ads on X. Not surprising but incredibly unsubtle
October 11, 2026 at 3:40 AM
if Elon is spending millions of dollars of his own money to push this message with paid media, what do you think he does to the black box algorithm on his platform that chooses which posts you see and which of your posts are shown to others?
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It's extremely corrosive to civil order that we hear "Trump is breaking the law" and most people think "when I break the law I am *minimally* involved in a drawn out cruel display of state power and *maximally* deprived of my freedom" and for actual members of the government its a "whoopsie".
It's already illegal. Congress banned it near-unanimously in 2022. That law allows the ban to be lifted only if Russia withdraws from Ukraine. He's simply breaking the law that's already on the books.
Republican US Rep Brian Fitzgerald tweets that he will introduce a bill to block purchases of Russian oil. Don Bacon (R-Neb) tweets that he will co-sponsor. Obviously this won’t happen during campaigning recess (and Trump could veto anyway) but interesting push-back on Trump.
October 11, 2026 at 2:02 AM
It's extremely corrosive to civil order that we hear "Trump is breaking the law" and most people think "when I break the law I am *minimally* involved in a drawn out cruel display of state power and *maximally* deprived of my freedom" and for actual members of the government its a "whoopsie".
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Very grateful to go on @onthemedia.bsky.social to discuss Chris Rufo, his “Indian Question,” and why Rufo deserves more of the media’s scorn and disdain, and less polite sit-down interviews on New York Times podcasts www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
Polarization Is Not Our Biggest Problem | On the Media | WNYC Studios
During an I.C.E. operation in New York City, officers shot a man in a car while a child sat in the back seat. On this week’s On the Media, coverage of I.C.E. has decreased since the s...
www.wnycstudios.org
October 10, 2026 at 12:41 AM
Very grateful to go on @onthemedia.bsky.social to discuss Chris Rufo, his “Indian Question,” and why Rufo deserves more of the media’s scorn and disdain, and less polite sit-down interviews on New York Times podcasts www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
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I converted to Catholicism six weeks before running for office. Here’s what the pope gets wrong about live-streamed executions.
October 9, 2026 at 7:40 PM
I converted to Catholicism six weeks before running for office. Here’s what the pope gets wrong about live-streamed executions.
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If you are planning to monitor ICE on the ground in California, especially San Diego and LA, and you want company, please hmu.
“One source told the outlet that officers were “told to go after anybody, they can pick up anybody.”
newrepublic.com/post/216405/...
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“Go After Anybody”: ICE Gets Terrifying Marching Orders in California
ICE has launched a new crackdown just weeks before the midterms.
newrepublic.com
October 8, 2026 at 7:01 PM
If you are planning to monitor ICE on the ground in California, especially San Diego and LA, and you want company, please hmu.
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Ossoff is definitely not listening to Yglesias/Klein/PodSave reactionary centrist crowd, he does not think his marginal voter is a white-supremacist, and that is what makes him such an attractive candidate to the vast majority of US who are not white-supremacists.
Ossoff says that Mike Collins has "hired half the Third Reich to staff your congressional office"
October 9, 2026 at 12:53 AM
Ossoff is definitely not listening to Yglesias/Klein/PodSave reactionary centrist crowd, he does not think his marginal voter is a white-supremacist, and that is what makes him such an attractive candidate to the vast majority of US who are not white-supremacists.
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impeach hegseth should be on the list day one it is not even debatable tbh
October 8, 2026 at 10:06 PM
impeach hegseth should be on the list day one it is not even debatable tbh
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the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it
Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon
October 8, 2026 at 6:12 PM
the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it
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she's got that joie de leave
October 7, 2026 at 4:42 PM
she's got that joie de leave
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Skydance now owns Nick, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Comedy Central, and MTV, effectively ending US TV animation as we know it. Countless jobs will be lost, and fewer new shows will be created. An apocalyptic scenario for cartoons, yet it's maybe the 5th-worst thing about the Paramount-WB merger!
October 6, 2026 at 6:16 PM
Skydance now owns Nick, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Comedy Central, and MTV, effectively ending US TV animation as we know it. Countless jobs will be lost, and fewer new shows will be created. An apocalyptic scenario for cartoons, yet it's maybe the 5th-worst thing about the Paramount-WB merger!
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Journalists keep wanting the story to be "normal working class centrist has questions," not "our country is currently dominated by stupid people in a right wing echo chamber."
It’s confusing that @theatlantic.com described this man as a “a lifelong Democrat who had voted for Trump for the first time in 2024” who when these are some of his very easily findable FB posts:
October 6, 2026 at 3:25 PM
Journalists keep wanting the story to be "normal working class centrist has questions," not "our country is currently dominated by stupid people in a right wing echo chamber."
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I LOVE how @propublica.org dealt with official comment here, editorially and stylistically.
October 6, 2026 at 1:39 PM
I LOVE how @propublica.org dealt with official comment here, editorially and stylistically.