Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026If they do it to them They'll do it to you If they do it to them They're gonna do it to you 000
Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I guess I shouldn’t be surprised or sickened but I am. What have we come to? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comWoman in Cornell rape allegations case targeted with threats, her lawyer saysAttorney says people have threatened to silence or harm ‘Jane Doe’ if she does not withdraw civil lawsuit 100
Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026puml.media/a-lifelong-r...puml.mediaA lifelong Republican anointed Daniel Lurie "the foil to the rising socialists" in Jeff Bezos' newspaperIn 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... 100
Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026It has to start with us men. We need to change and we need to call out bad behavior in other men. 000
Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The MOST IMPORTANT thing we can do now politically is to expand and strengthen our tribes. 120
Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The MOST IMPORTANT thing we can do now politically is to expand and strengthen our tribes. 1/N 000
Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Just pass the god damn thing already. Billionaires already have too much wealth and power and they are rocketing away from us mere mortals. 000
Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026In San Francisco we are losing control of our government. We are turning from a Democracy into an Oligarchy. missionlocal.org/2026/09/san-...missionlocal.orgSan Francisco's wealthiest have unprecedented control of city politicsOur city fathers (if you like them) or oligarchs (if you don’t) have never been richer, more brazen or faced weaker opposition 000
Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026They are going to try and steal it. Get ready. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/...aljazeera.comUS top court allows Trump to use controversial voter verification systemVoting rights groups have warned system may falsely identify voters as non-citizens, leading to disenfranchisement. 000
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... 1/2 110
Reposted by Jim AusmanMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Todd Achilles, a veteran running for U.S. Senate in Idaho as an independent, has a new ad about starting wars. 19860261
Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026In 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 000
Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The G7 of course said nothing when Saudi Arabia was bombing the Houthi’s and committing war crimes. www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comIran must stop arming Houthis in Yemen, G7 says ahead of UN General AssemblyThe G7 also condemns "in the strongest terms" Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia, saying that the escalation in fighting in Yemen jeopardises regional security. 030
Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I got off this hellsite and just started following people on kollectiva on Mastadon and am so much happier. 010
Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comUS judge blocks DHS from threatening prosecution against man who criticized ICEDavid Streever was issued a ‘warning notice’ after sending an email critical of ICE to the agency’s director in January 000
Reposted by Jim AusmanRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16/09/2026A minor detail is missing from the headline. 1212162777256
Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026www.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.comHaight's Whole Foods Love Affair Finally BeginsThe Haight’s hatred towards Whole Foods has finally come to an end. 010
Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026www.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.sfexaminer.comScott Wiener has authored more than 100 lawsLoss of land use control to the state is a wedge issue. 010
Reposted by Jim AusmanBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 13/09/2026The 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. 230113141300
Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026San 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. 010
Reposted by Jim AusmanChristian Picciolini @cpicciolini.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Your mind is shaped by what you expose it to every day. Garbage in, garbage out. And vice versa. Get off the couch and move. 083
Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Things 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/votingguidejuanitamore.comSan Francisco & California Voting Guide — Juanita MORE!November 3, 2026 010
Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I "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. 200
Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Oldie but goodie. "‘If you are willing to act like an anarchist now, your long-term vision is pretty much your own busi- ness’." 000
Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026www.wsj.com/world/middle...wsj.comThe Violent Israeli Nomads Who Defy Law and Order in the Name of GodYoung squatters ditch mainstream lives to push Palestinians from land in the West Bank they claim is the divine birthright of Jewish people. 101
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. 043
Reposted by Jim AusmanThe labor librarian @laborlibrarian.bsky.social · 30/08/2025It’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 55623
Reposted by Jim AusmanRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/08/2026This 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. 38194863081
Reposted by Jim AusmanMerriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 31/08/2026macabre = “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. 795166613668
Reposted by Jim Ausmanrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 01/09/2026one 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 9984147
Reposted by Jim AusmanThe Onion @theonion.com · 31/08/2026‘Wall Street Journal’ Defends Decision To Publish Peggy Noonan–Generated Article theonion.com/wall-street-journal-de… 332694278
Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026The Zionists at The Atlantic aren't worth paying any attention to anymore. 000
Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026The Atlantic is run by Zionists so when the left turned against them it broke their brain. 000
Reposted by Jim AusmanRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/08/2026The 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? 1003262529032
Reposted by Jim Ausman“CALL ME MISSUS…Thee Well Read Bonnet” 🖕🏽🤷🏽♀️ @wrong1rightday.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Look 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. 031
Reposted by Jim Ausman“CALL ME MISSUS…Thee Well Read Bonnet” 🖕🏽🤷🏽♀️ @wrong1rightday.bsky.social · 01/09/2026This is a deeply troubled human being who wants to troll and harass me for some reason. 021
Reposted by Jim AusmanTasha @toshyou.bsky.social · 30/08/2026NO 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 227120906810
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. 1/3 120
Reposted by Jim AusmanAnonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Roughly 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. 3228114