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@bigjimbok.bsky.social
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71. He/Him. Woke, I think. Rural. I've farmed, worked, able to join a union late in life, loving family all in Iowa still, being liberal makes common sense to me, and now, mostly bewildered that battles thought were won are reopened fronts. Patriot.

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Bigjimbok @bigjimbok.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This analysis matches perfectly my lived experience in SW Iowa. We just won't win by being afraid to speak the truth. The MAGAGOP doesn't believe in this experiment in self-governance. The Left Must Fight <i>The New York Times</i>’ Monopoly Too newrepublic.com/article/2160... via @newrepublic.com
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The Left Must Fight The New York Times’ Monopoly Too
The paper’s editorial vision is out of step with the robust liberalism needed today.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm…
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I'm in love.
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2026: Time for the Midterms
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 14/09/2026
Over at the newsletter I wrote about the completely insane last few weeks of AI doomsday rhetoric and media coverage
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AI Doomsday Panic Is Completely Out Of Control
The press obsession with software-powered doomsday is a misdirection overshadowing a much deadlier reality: our public interest regulators no longer function.
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Bigjimbok @bigjimbok.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"Why voters expected a self-proclaimed business “genius” who can’t compute basic percentages to understand global macroeconomics shall forever remain the central mystery of Trump’s rise and return to power." Mystery?Consider.Fox/NYT/Media.Emails.Sanewashing?Con sold open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...
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Trumpflation is here
He broke it, he bought it.
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Bigjimbok @bigjimbok.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Read this! Believe this! From my perch in SW Iowa and across complimentary breakfast in motels across this experiment in self-governance....Fox Noise saturation.
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Victor Pickard @victorpickard.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
A piece I wrote for @theprogressivemag.bsky.social magazine earlier this summer is now published online: “How to Fight Media Oligarchy” progressive.org/magazine/how...
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How to Fight Media Oligarchy
Every billionaire-owned media outlet is a profound threat to our democracy.
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Bigjimbok @bigjimbok.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Excellent piece. "A judge can issue an injunction. The government can appeal it. Lawyers can file emergency motions. Another court can clarify what the first court meant. Someone can ask for reconsideration." Our experiment walks thru mud... open.substack.com/pub/marygedd...
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You Cannot Win Back Election Day
Inside the rushed USPS ballot system where one mismatch can stop thousands of ballots, and every day lost makes the damage harder to undo.
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Bigjimbok @bigjimbok.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
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Imperialist Delusions and the Price of Fuel
Trump and Bessent tried to betray Ukraine. Now they don’t have any cards.
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Shantha Mohan, Ph.D., DTM @shlead.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
“Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.” ― Wendell Berry RIP. 🙌🏼 www.npr.org/2026/09/01/1...
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Beloved writer and environmentalist Wendell Berry has died at age 92
Wendell Berry has died at age 92 He was a beloved American poet, novelist, essayist, and farmer.
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Bigjimbok @bigjimbok.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I'm a rural Iowa citizen and NOT a lawyer but I found this analysis helpful in the chaos. @stevevladeck.bsky.social @annabower.bsky.social @gregsargent.bsky.social @rparloff.bsky.social @katiephang.bsky.social www.justsecurity.org
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Just Security - A Forum on Law, Rights, and U.S. National Security
Just Security - A Forum on Law, Rights, and U.S. National Security
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Bigjimbok @bigjimbok.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Science brings hope and the possibility of a better world. The GOP and MAGA attack science at every turn. Vote them out and away.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/08/2026
"What did he do to deserve to be murdered, to be left cold, on the ground, dead, my child? What did he do? ... they don't care ... I expect an apology. Why shouldn't we get one?" -- Alex Pretti's mom
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Julie Hotard Ph.D., writer, effects of disinfo on social systems @upine.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Most Americans are vulnerable to propaganda like anyone in any country, but are otherwise good ppl. The problem is we're drowning in propaganda. Most media are Right Wing. upine.medium.com/the-vast-rea...
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The Vast Reach of Right Wing Disinformation
In one of my previous essays, I explained how very much in denial most Americans are about the extent to which our nation is immersed in…
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Bigjimbok @bigjimbok.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Clear understanding. Speaking the truth of where we are and where we've been. youtu.be/46tpqFxfomI?...
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The pundits have completely lost the plot
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
"There is a revolution happening right now. It's not a woke one, it's an authoritarian one."
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 12/08/2026
"Norms cannot be restored when one of two parties displays a demonic drive for power, and a clear willingness to establish one-man rule. This—in itself—is a shattering of the most fundamental norm of a republic: that of loyal opposition." www.liberalcurrents.com/clausewitz-a...
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Clausewitz and the Supreme Court
To forgo any effort at protecting American democracy or the rights of its people in the name of norms is mere moral cowardice.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I think we’ve already seen all the parts.
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Bigjimbok @bigjimbok.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Yes to this. Reason: I can't really figure where I and almost every Democrat I've known in rural Iowa for 73 years are on this centrist vs left label. Equal rights for all Equal opportunities for all Equal education for all kids AOC and Mamdani and Bernie agree open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...
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Moderate Democrats have a choice to make
Do they want to help their party win, or do they want to whine about the left?
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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Carney: "I'm going to take this opportunity to thank President Scheinbaum and the Mexican people for sending 200 firefighters to help us with our fires here. That's what friends do when you have crisis and fires." #cdnpoli
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Bigjimbok @bigjimbok.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
@iabacon.bsky.social @blogforiowa.bsky.social @crumbsey.eurosky.social @laurarbelin.bsky.social Ernst is just deep, deep in the cult. I guess looking for work in the CRAZY is more important than the tiniest hint of self respect.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Non-snark query: Opinion pages and talk shows groan under the weight of righties—Karl Rove, Frank Luntz, Stephens + Douthat, this guy, half the people on TV—who have "warnings" and "constructive tips" for Dems. Does this ever happen the other way? Dems published on, "here's what GOP needs to do"?
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
there is literally no amount of caveats or careful wording that will protect you from stupidity or bad faith, so you might as well say things straightforwardly and strongly to begin with.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Maybe they should just practice locking the door and turning off the lights and remaining silent while hiding under their desks…or is that just appropriate for kindergartners? 
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Bigjimbok @bigjimbok.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
This Iowan is all kinds of surprised. 🙀
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
A Response to Matt Yglesias About ‘Fight’ in Democratic Candidates talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-res...
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A Response to Matt Yglesias About ‘Fight’ in Democratic Candidates
This morning on Bluesky Politico’s Josh Gerstein flagged to me and others...
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Bigjimbok @bigjimbok.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
This outline, adjusted by you good legal patriots on Bluesky, is an absolute necessity if we are to have even a hope of making this experiment in self-governance work for all of us. Get going....get going now! What Would and Should Court Reform Look Like? talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/what-...
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What Would and Should Court Reform Look Like?
I’ve been beating the drums for years about reforming the Supreme Court...
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Jordan Ascher @j-p-a.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
New, from me, about what we can learn from the first federal case about a (nightmarish) AI-powered government decision. www.techpolicy.press/a-judicial-w...
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A Judicial Wake-Up Call on Government by AI
As agencies craft best practices for LLM use, the Learned Societies decision should serve as a handbook of what not to do, writes Jordan Ascher.
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
In the well-over 100,000 documents written by founders included in the Founders Online database from the National Archives, no one uses the phrase "God's noble experiment." No one.
Chuck Schumer: "The founding fathers called America God's noble experiment. I believe in all three words to this day: we are one nation under God, we have clung to noble ideals for longer than any other nation, and we are an experiment always changing, trying to make ourselves better.
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Bigjimbok @bigjimbok.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
@karlbode.com @joshtpm.bsky.social @hcrichardson.bsky.social @chrislhayes.bsky.social @j-p-a.bsky.social www.techpolicy.press/a-judicial-w...
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A Judicial Wake-Up Call on Government by AI
As agencies craft best practices for LLM use, the Learned Societies decision should serve as a handbook of what not to do, writes Jordan Ascher.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The Birthright Citizenship Decision Is More Evidence for Court Reform talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-b...
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The Birthright Citizenship Decision Is More Evidence for Court Reform
As you’ve seen, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of birthright citizenship...
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Congrats to the cynical propagandists in the OR GOP whose noise inspired the NYT to publish a piece about a non-story replicating the "OR Democrats are so crazy" framing, while not mentioning the legitimately crazy petition to end vote by mail the GOP's been promoting www.nytimes.com/2026/06/21/u...
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Protect Every Animal From Cruelty? Not in 2026, Oregon Democrats Say
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Bigjimbok @bigjimbok.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Nichols: “the weirdest and most astonishing day in US foreign policy in".........EVER! Why not say that? It sure seems like the truth. Aren't I right? @hcrichardson.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
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June 17, 2026
A senior U.S.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 15/06/2026
the filibuster is one of many American Institutions that is so incomprehensibly stupid that future generations will struggle to understand why it ever existed
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Why the Filibuster Absolutely Has to Go
TPM Reader TB dropped me a note this afternoon about today’s second...
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Bigjimbok @bigjimbok.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Obama Appreciation Day. I miss having a good person as my President.
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Gumby Brain Specialist @gumbybraindoc.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
The linked article below is great and you should read it. Then read this one: betterdonkey.substack.com/p/the-vra-wa...
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The VRA Was the Nice Version
SCOTUS has forced our hands, and now patience is our enemy.
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Bigjimbok @bigjimbok.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
💯 Absolutely! No doubt in my life and world in SW Iowa! open.substack.com/pub/betterdo...
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Dems Are From Mars, Voters Are From Venus
A midterm wave doesn't mean voters love us. But 70 years of evidence says they can, again.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 06/06/2026
BREAKING: in May 2026, *every single one* of the 599 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 6,665 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November 2025), and nobody else. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.
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Bigjimbok @bigjimbok.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Absolutely spot on analysis as seen from here in SW Iowa. Strong and honest responses to the lies would at least put the truth in the conversation. Without that, lies become truth. The Worst Advice for Democrats on How to Win Elections talkingpointsmemo.com/the-weekende...
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The Worst Advice for Democrats on How to Win Elections
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Zach Wahls @zachwahls.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
I will vote to end the filibuster.
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Bigjimbok @bigjimbok.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
@blogforiowa.bsky.social @iabacon.bsky.social I need help. I can't find any answer to where Turek or Wahls stand on: 1. Ending the filibuster 2. Expanding the Supreme Court Anyone know?
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Bigjimbok @bigjimbok.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
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Week One in 250 to 250
This was the first week of videos from the 250 to 250 Project that we’re producing to honor the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
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Bigjimbok @bigjimbok.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
I just could not agree more with @joshtpm.bsky.social 💯. This must happen for any meaningful policy to be enacted and for this experiment in self-governance to survive. The filibuster must go. End. Why The Filibuster Absolutely Has to Go talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/why-t...
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Why The Filibuster Absolutely Has to Go
TPM Reader TB dropped me a note this afternoon about today’s second...
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Bigjimbok @bigjimbok.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Excellent analysis. www.liberalcurrents.com/aoc-for-pres...
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AOC for President
Whether or not she runs, Ocasio-Cortez is invoking a feminist politics that Democrats should adopt if they are serious about defeating fascism.
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250 to 250 @250to250.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Maura Healey is the 73rd Governor of Massachusetts, the state’s first woman and first openly LGBTQ person elected to the position. Governor Healy recounts the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the opening salvos of the Revolutionary War.
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250 to 250 @250to250.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Dr. Jason Herbert is a historian, public scholar, and outdoorsman from Kentucky. Herbert tells us about the Acadians, French settlers expelled from British Canada, who helped to create today’s Cajun culture. #WeAreAmerica250
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 26/05/2026
"This is a moment of drastic, monumental change, initiated by a Republican Party poisoned by illiberalism and anti-democratic resentments and a figure in Donald Trump who wants to arrogate monarchical, despotic powers to himself." www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-ne...
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Democrats Need to Realize What Time It Is: On Conjuncture, Revolution, and the Next American Republic
We are living through a revolutionary moment, whether Democrats want to do their jobs or not.
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 20/05/2026
"In a single week, these justices allowed Republican-controlled states to ban the essential health care that is abortion and barred Democratic-held states from regulating the proliferation and usage of guns. With originalism, you can have it all." www.liberalcurrents.com/thurgood-mar...
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Thurgood Marshall Saw It Coming
The supercharged bad faith of
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Bigjimbok @bigjimbok.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
The End of the Line … Corrupt Court Edition talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-e...
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The End of the Line … Corrupt Court Edition
The more I speak with people both in the political world and...
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