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Jim Boyd

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Jim Boyd @bjboyd.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I don't see how we ever fully restore trust in democracy or fully protect it from a new surge in authoritarian power. Democracy contains the seeds of its own destruction: An electorate can always fall for authoritarian flim-flam and elect another Hitler or Trump.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Correct. This "deal" gives the US nothing it didn't have before—ie, before Trump threatened a previously close and loyal US ally, said "who cares about NATO?", and unleashed lackeys in search of their own financial deals in Greenland. (See also: Trade war with Canada. War on Iran, etc)
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Jim Boyd @bjboyd.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Freyja in field of flowers.
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Jim Boyd @bjboyd.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Spring’s vision manifest.
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
If you're interested in election coverage — and what it can be — my thread from yesterday could strike a chord.
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JoeA64 @joea64.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I place an ample share of blame on the fundamental concept of "access journalism", the notion that too many journalists have that getting access to powerful people is more important than accurate and honest reporting.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Trump is desperate to get out, Iran knows this, so how is it a surprise that they are only going to agree to a deal that makes Trump surrender even more than he did in the MOU? And where is that in the article? www.nytimes.com/2026/08/08/world/mi…
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Iran Issues List of Demands, Dampening Hopes of Reopening Strait of Hormuz
The head of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council said that the waterway will remain closed until the United States met certain conditions.
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Jim Boyd @bjboyd.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
I’ve always been a fan of morning light. Today it is joined by the sound of quaking aspen leaves and a glorious temperature for sitting outside with coffee. In northern Minnesota, summer is best taken as a brief treat. And right now summer is treating our socks off.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Oh, so when OTHER countries do it, the New York Times has no hesitation to conclude that “The evidence suggests that security forces exceeded many guidelines for law enforcement in peaceful demonstrations established by the United Nations.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/08/w...
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Pellet Guns, Sticks and Tear Gas: How India’s Police Halted a Youth March
A New York Times analysis details the July 20 crackdown on unarmed protesters in New Delhi that has provoked public outrage and accusations of excessive force.
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Edward Goldstick @ejgoldstick.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
💯✊😠 A worthwhile read (which is why I'm reposting it again...). Not all questions are answered (or even asked), but the overall presentation of options is compelling. Thank you, @brianbeutler.bsky.social
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Let me tell you, having chronicled Pentagon-style war game on attacking Iran nearly 25 yr ago, every single "surprise," "darkening turn," "narrowing option," spreading warfare," "rising casualties," "no easy exit," etc that comes drip-by-drip is EXACTLY why GHWB WJC GWB OBAMA BiDEN did NOT do this
From page full of headlines about things going to hell in Iran.
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Jim Boyd @bjboyd.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
what if Mitch is saving us from the Save Act?
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Right. The argument isn't, "be leftist on everything and you'll win." It's, "yes, let's be mindful about taking unpopular positions and not get bullied by litmus tests, but moderation as an end in itself is being oversold as a panacea and can very easily lead to unnecessary moral compromises."
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Jim Boyd @bjboyd.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Repeat after me: In recognition of our troop’s pledge to lay down their lives if called to do so, we pledge NEVER to issue that call unless our nation is under severe threat.
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Jim Boyd @bjboyd.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
For the sake of the World Cup, which our house is thoroughly enjoying, it was a very good thing that the United States lost to Belgium. Otherwise a significant amount of the focus would continue to be on Trump’s really stupid intervention in the red card issue. Now the focus can come back to soccer
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Jim Boyd @bjboyd.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
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One boat, many oars
Synchronicity, please
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Jim Boyd @bjboyd.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
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The debt we stopped sharing
From Christian theology to our current political wreckage
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Jim Boyd @bjboyd.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
The soccer offsides rule sucks.
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Strider @reluctantranger.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Told ya
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Jim Boyd @bjboyd.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
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Call them Common Stake Democrats
The Democratic Establishment is Clutching its Pearls at Democratic Socialist success. Wonderful. Now make the DS brand sellable in red America
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
This guy doesn’t miss.
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Jenny Turner @jennytrumpet.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
IMO the focus should be on them going into a polling place for this. It’s obvious her posting this is not a real cause for investigation but it’s likely a trial balloon for excuses to go into polling places.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
They are a cult, you are a coalition. What works for them will not work for you. Just tape this post to your mirror and repeat it every morning until November.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Please keep hammering this. It's an obvious and effective message that plays widely, especially with low-info voters.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Something NYT has been doing more, and is useful application of its resources: Big-picture "how did we get here" explainers, including two-page spread on Epstein in today's print paper. (Below.) Or this on gerrymandering maps: www.nytimes.com/interactive/... Or www.nytimes.com/2026/05/28/w...
Full page of Q-A on "The Big Questions About Jeffrey Epstein."
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Amber Woods @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
😵‍💫
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C.R. Denis @crdenis.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
The arch obscures Lincoln and frames Lee’s plantation. That’s not bad taste, it’s the Lost Cause made architectural. Seize the narrative, then seize the sightline. The Confederacy lost the war and spent 160 years winning the story. Now they’re pouring it in concrete.
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Jim Boyd @bjboyd.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
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The World We Inherited and Lost
France’s Perkins died on May 14. I was born on May 15. On the anniversary of both, a personal reckoning with what her generation built, what mine failed to protect.
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
As you probably know, there's a lone Democrat on the FCC, Anna Gomez. view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/177... Gomez gets out-voted on everything, so all she can do is observe, warn, translate and behave like a sharp blogger. Here she is talking to ABC News: "The settlement did not buy you peace."
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grannyvalkyrie.bsky.social @grannyvalkyrie.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
On April 30, 2026, medical experts who believe President Donald Trump is “mentally unfit” to perform his duties had a letter outlining their concerns submitted to the congressional record. www.congress.gov/congressiona...
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Jim Boyd @bjboyd.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
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The Party of Frances Perkins
I am not a partisan activist.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Democrats need to accept that they're entering a new era of procedural Total War. This includes a big escalation in redistricting, but it's not limited to that. If Republicans don't like it, tough shit: They made this world, and they are the ones inflicting it on us. newrepublic.com/article/2098...
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
People below Medicare age may not know this. But: THEY DON'T USUALLY GIVE PEOPLE THESE TESTS. They're screening tools, if the MD/NP thinks there is something to check.
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Jim Boyd @bjboyd.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
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Charles Beard had it at least substantially right
When I was in college, I did a paper on “The Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States” by Charles Beard.
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Jim Boyd @bjboyd.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
As repulsed as I am by conspiracy theories, there does seem to be substantial evidence that the ruckus at the WHCA dinner was faked. And as a career journalist who believes good journalists (I.F. Stone, Lars-Erik Nelson) must always be outsiders, please do away with this odious annual event.
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Ess Creek 🌻🌻🌈🏳️‍🌈💙 @esscreek.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Some progressives & Democrats need to stop justifying refusing to vote or 3rd party voting by saying Biden "didn't do anything." He did a whole damn lot. Facts matter. And so does a young liberal SCOTUS justice who will protect civil rights for decades. www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/fa...
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FACT SHEET: The Biden-Harris Administration Record | The American Presidency Project
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Ryan Dunlavey @ryandunlavey.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I was just talking to a friend today about Dolly Parton's Imagination Library - new books every month, totally for free, for kids ages 1-5. My son was part of the program - this is a copy of the letter that came with his last book, right after his 5th birthday.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Bondi's worst legacy is her destruction and perversion of DOJ's storied Civil Rights Division, and the resulting impunity of federal agents who have not had to fear prosecution for wide-scale abuse and even murder. But she did all that in service to Stephen Miller, and he's still there.
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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Repeat after me: If they can overturn Roe v. Wade, we can overturn Citizens United… And we will.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 31/03/2026
Trump's bill signing event was supposed to start more than 20 minutes ago but I'm giving him grace on this difficult day. I know he's having a hard time with all the tragic ballroom stuff going on.
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Jim Boyd @bjboyd.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
From Founder of North Shore R&R got back from greeting some guests, and I wish you could have been there to hear what they have been doing, and how utterly exhausted they were.....and so wowed by the place they're staying.” Donate: gofund.me/2a715ceee
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Jim Boyd @bjboyd.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
The Madison is a cliched, trite, boring television series.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
“This is the most despicable public statement by an American public official in my lifetime,” says @jfallows.bsky.social.
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Jim Boyd @bjboyd.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
You hear more frequently that journalists to rally to the defense of democracy. I've lots of years in journalism, and I see the clarion call for journalists to be fearless truth tellers. Conflating them risks cutting corners. The press serves democracy by serving truth, not the reverse.
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Laboo👻boo👻 Doll @matchbox30.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Me watching this
Dabbing dude meme where two girls are fighting and a dude is hitting a full dab rig shirtless in the background
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Who could possibly have foreseen that war on Iran would (a) make Iran retaliate by closing the strait of Hormuz, which (b) could disrupt world oil markets, enriching Russia and penalizing most everyone else? Who, indeed, except EVERYONE WHO HAS EVER THOUGHT FOR ONE MINUTE about the situation.
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Jim Boyd @bjboyd.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
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Defeating our MAGA House member
For Northeast Minnesota, that means coming together on mining, an issue of national and global import.
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