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Jim Ausman

@ausman.bsky.social
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The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next. - Ursula Le Guin 🏴

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Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
If they do it to them They'll do it to you If they do it to them They're gonna do it to you
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Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I guess I shouldn’t be surprised or sickened but I am. What have we come to? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Woman in Cornell rape allegations case targeted with threats, her lawyer says
Attorney says people have threatened to silence or harm ‘Jane Doe’ if she does not withdraw civil lawsuit
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Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
puml.media/a-lifelong-r...
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A lifelong Republican anointed Daniel Lurie "the foil to the rising socialists" in Jeff Bezos' newspaper
In Lurie, the nation’s elites think they may have found the answer. ‘The foil to the rising socialists might be found in a red state with conservative values. But perhaps he’s a Democrat in San Franci...
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Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It has to start with us men. We need to change and we need to call out bad behavior in other men.
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Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The MOST IMPORTANT thing we can do now politically is to expand and strengthen our tribes.
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Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The MOST IMPORTANT thing we can do now politically is to expand and strengthen our tribes. 1/N
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Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Just pass the god damn thing already. Billionaires already have too much wealth and power and they are rocketing away from us mere mortals.
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Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In San Francisco we are losing control of our government. We are turning from a Democracy into an Oligarchy. missionlocal.org/2026/09/san-...
missionlocal.org
San Francisco's wealthiest have unprecedented control of city politics
Our city fathers (if you like them) or oligarchs (if you don’t) have never been richer, more brazen or faced weaker opposition
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Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
They are going to try and steal it. Get ready. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/...
aljazeera.com
US top court allows Trump to use controversial voter verification system
Voting rights groups have warned system may falsely identify voters as non-citizens, leading to disenfranchisement.
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Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"error"
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Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“But we must accept one central truth and responsibility as participants in a democracy: Freedom is not a state; it is an act. It is not some enchanted garden perched high on a distant plateau where we can finally sit down and rest... 1/2
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Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
comic with two animated bears. one is purple and cheery and acting silly and the other is more somber and light blue. The blue one asks "why are you in such a silly mood." the purple one dances for a frame then replies "without it, darkness would consume me" and stares into the blue ones eyes as it sweats. Next frame the purple one does a silly handstand and the blue one sweats profusely.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Todd Achilles, a veteran running for U.S. Senate in Idaho as an independent, has a new ad about starting wars.
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Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In our age there is no such thing as "keeping out of politics." All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia. -George Orwell
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Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Linus from Peanuts is talking to Lucy. They are sitting in desks in a classroom. He says "No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them."
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Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The G7 of course said nothing when Saudi Arabia was bombing the Houthi’s and committing war crimes. www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Iran must stop arming Houthis in Yemen, G7 says ahead of UN General Assembly
The G7 also condemns "in the strongest terms" Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia, saying that the escalation in fighting in Yemen jeopardises regional security.
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Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I got off this hellsite and just started following people on kollectiva on Mastadon and am so much happier.
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Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
US judge blocks DHS from threatening prosecution against man who criticized ICE
David Streever was issued a ‘warning notice’ after sending an email critical of ICE to the agency’s director in January
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A minor detail is missing from the headline.
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Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/h... The rent is too high? Thank Calvin Welch and Aaron Peskin for shooing down this and thousands of units like it. We could have had 62 more apartments at Haight and Stanyan but they blocked it. Connie wasn't on the BoS yet or she would have helped them block it.
nbcbayarea.com
Haight's Whole Foods Love Affair Finally Begins
The Haight’s hatred towards Whole Foods has finally come to an end.
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Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
www.sfexaminer.com/news/politic... Scott is the only candidate who can go to Washington and represent San Francisco effectively. His collosal legislative record shows that and he has delivered on housing, civil liberties, gay rights, trans rights, and so many other esssential issues.
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Scott Wiener has authored more than 100 laws
Loss of land use control to the state is a wedge issue.
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Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The Onion has created a machine that will kill everyone on Earth that is coincidentally running out of money and the only way to slow it down is if my staff and I take a six-week vacation to Cabo San Lucas.
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Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
San Francisco is in a real Doom Loop now, where rising rents are pushing out the freaks, artists, queers and just normal people who make it special. It’s getting more and more like Singapore: safe, surveilled, boring, and full of expensive things to do. Which draws in even more rich people.
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Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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Christian Picciolini @cpicciolini.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Your mind is shaped by what you expose it to every day. Garbage in, garbage out. And vice versa. Get off the couch and move.
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Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Things are seriously broken in our queer community in San Francisco. Instead of endorsing the most aggressively pro-gay rights legislator that has ever lived, this person is endorsing the straight cis-gendered woman who doesn't even care for our community. juanitamore.com/votingguide
juanitamore.com
San Francisco & California Voting Guide — Juanita MORE!
November 3, 2026
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Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I "acknowledged" it. I am surprised you think it's okay to compare the Black experience with the Transgender experience. The NAACP is a good group and I gave them money for many years. I take their opinion on things very seriously. The People lead, the Democrats follow.
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Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Be ready for what comes next. We are all Alex Pretti.
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Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Oldie but goodie. "‘If you are willing to act like an anarchist now, your long-term vision is pretty much your own busi- ness’."
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Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
www.wsj.com/world/middle...
wsj.com
The Violent Israeli Nomads Who Defy Law and Order in the Name of God
Young squatters ditch mainstream lives to push Palestinians from land in the West Bank they claim is the divine birthright of Jewish people.
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Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This is San Francisco in a nutshell.
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Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
“It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom — for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself." - Declaration of Arbroath, a famous letter written in 1320 to Pope John XXII that asserted Scottish independence.
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The labor librarian @laborlibrarian.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
It’s Labor Day weekend and that means it’s a great time to teach kids about the context of the holiday. I’ve compiled a list of books for a variety of age ranges that talk about labor and unions. Feel free to add more! #booksky #skybrariona #libraryunions #labor #unions
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
This is how our government has been corrupted: 1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office 2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor 3) Donors make huge profit 4) Repeat We must get big money out of politics. It is the root of our dysfunction.
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 31/08/2026
macabre = “muh-KAHB” Worcestershire = “WOOSS-ter-sheer” omnipotent = “ahm-NI-puh-tunt” reticent = “RET-uh-sunt” epitome = “ih-PIT-uh-mee” myriad = "MEER-ee-ud" Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading.
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
one of the craziest things about American politics is that Republican media figures and politicians are constantly threatening to commit mass murder on an unimaginable scale unless they are allowed to win and it literally never makes the news
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The Onion @theonion.com · 31/08/2026
‘Wall Street Journal’ Defends Decision To Publish Peggy Noonan–Generated Article theonion.com/wall-street-journal-de…
‘Wall Street Journal’ Defends Decision To Publish Peggy Noonan–Generated Article
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Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The Zionists at The Atlantic aren't worth paying any attention to anymore.
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Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The Atlantic is run by Zionists so when the left turned against them it broke their brain.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The richest man owns X. The second and fourth richest men control Google. The third richest man owns The Washington Post. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the seventh richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
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“CALL ME MISSUS…Thee Well Read Bonnet” 🖕🏽🤷🏽‍♀️ @wrong1rightday.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Look at this fool. He wants to be relevant so badly & cannot accept that I don’t respect him nor his opinion and he expected me to bow to him…I’m sure bc he is such a superior being used to keeping women in check. Stay outta Black folks business boy. Accept your inferiority & you ain’t in the loop.
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“CALL ME MISSUS…Thee Well Read Bonnet” 🖕🏽🤷🏽‍♀️ @wrong1rightday.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This is a deeply troubled human being who wants to troll and harass me for some reason.
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Tasha @toshyou.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
NO media 1000s are marching in DC to defend voting rights; 90 orgs signed on, Reuters sent photographers, but local media Bernie Sanders, AOC and Martin Luther King III attended Wa Post buried it A Black-led march is visible in DC only after somebody else reports it Repost the march they buried
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Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
"Authoritarianism appeals simply to people who cannot tolerate complexity: there is nothing intrinsically "left-wing" or "right-wing" about this instinct at all. 1/3
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Roughly 100 US cities have torn out Flock Safety's licence plate cameras over federal immigration (ICE) access and privacy concerns. The company taking those contracts holds a $220m ICE procurement, works near-identically, and Trump's trust owns its stock.
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