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James Freeman

@james-t-freeman.bsky.social
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A denizen of Omaha, by God, Nebraska, home of the beleaguered Blue Dot of the Electoral College. A native of Baton Rouge, Louisiana . . . which is just beleaguered. Proud graduate of Baton Rouge Magnet High School and LSU. This occurred many years ago.

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James Freeman @james-t-freeman.bsky.social · 10m
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
October 12, 2026
Billionaire Elon Musk has already funneled at least $366 million into the midterms to try to make sure voters elect Republicans.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 3h
Our analysis found that from 2020 to 2025, the rate of deaths involving ectopic pregnancies nearly doubled compared with the previous six-year period. The uptick was steeper in states with abortion bans.
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Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
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James Freeman @james-t-freeman.bsky.social · 3h
This is so mean but, I’m sorry, so damned funny.
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James Freeman @james-t-freeman.bsky.social · 3h
@danmoser.bsky.social
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James Freeman @james-t-freeman.bsky.social · 3h
My God. His son is the spitting image of him. You know his son, Declan. Otherwise known as Elvis Costello.
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Ross McManus with The Joe Loss Orchestra - If I Had A Hammer [Colour Promo 1963]
YouTube video by Classic Music of Yesteryear
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James Freeman @james-t-freeman.bsky.social · 5h
The Goon Show. I am not sure there’s any way this sick chapter in American history doesn’t end in a bloodbath. Or with the United States intact.
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Aaron Rupar (@aaronrupar)
holy shit -- a protester at the Trump rally gets physically assaulted after she interrupt the rally by a man who punches her in the face. Trump smears the protester as a "fat guy"
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James Freeman @james-t-freeman.bsky.social · 7h
The United States’ old motto: “E Pluribus Unum.” The United States’ new motto: “We’re Not Bright.”
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A GOP PAC ran an ad opposing Maine Democrat Troy Jackson — in the wrong Portland
The $25,000 ad, which accused the challenger to Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins of raising taxes, ran in Portland, Oregon.
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 10h
😄😄😄😄
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James Freeman @james-t-freeman.bsky.social · 10h
Truth bomb.
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Canadian Returnee (@canadianreturnee)
🤔… hmm… makes sense Happy Thanksgiving, Canada! https://bsky.app/profile/canadacheryl.bsky.social/post/3m2z4amkyfs2l
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James Freeman @james-t-freeman.bsky.social · 12h
With luck, maybe next year — or the year after because of the backlog — I’ll get to celebrate Thanksgiving twice.
rossboulton1.substack.com
Canadian Thanksgiving Special
A story about a turkey that was bought for six
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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 14h
💚 Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day 💚 #Resist
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faunius.bsky.social @faunius.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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James Freeman @james-t-freeman.bsky.social · 14h
Can you say incitement to violence? I knew that you could. This is the crazed rant of the leader of a lynch mob, and what I want to know is how much more of this the American people are going to take.
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James Freeman @james-t-freeman.bsky.social · 14h
Lawd, have mercy! THIS is how you do it.
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James Freeman @james-t-freeman.bsky.social · 14h
The presumption of “regularity” has been destroyed by these Trumpian #Nazis. What #ICE is aiming for is to strip #Omar of her citizenship and deport her to Somalia. If this bunch looks like Nazis, talks like Nazis and acts like Nazis . . . Trumpers be Nazis. Treat them accordingly.
nytimes.com
Federal Agents Search Home of Rep. Ilhan Omar (Gift Article)
The search takes place within the 60-day window of the midterm elections, when the Justice Department has historically avoided such investigative steps related to political candidates.
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James Freeman @james-t-freeman.bsky.social · 21h
open.substack.com
Donald Trump’s latest disappearing act
At 12:07 this afternoon, the White House abruptly canceled all of Donald Trump’s scheduled events, right before he was scheduled to leave, and told the press that the President of the United States wo...
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📚⚾️ Leslie in CA ✌🏼🦋 @bayareafan19.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Ignorance, stupidity, and evil abound folks.
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James Freeman @james-t-freeman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
When evil meets absolutely fucking stupid. These people make Leander Perez, one of the Louisiana archsegregationists of my childhood, look like Bigoted Albert Einstein.
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Ohwoisme @kmohwoisme.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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James Freeman @james-t-freeman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
“If” is doing a lot of work there. Nebraska football has come to the point where, when the players of the last 20 years are standing in the back yard arguing with the tomatoes and peppers, everyone will wonder whether it all was worth it. Is what I’m saying. This may explain the Pillen years.
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Laguna Beach Democratic Club @lagunabeachdems.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
😂🤪🤔
IN AMERICA, YOU CALL IT THE 'CHRISTIAN NATIONALIST'
IN GERMANY, WE CALL IT WHY GRANDPA LIVES IN ARGENTINA'
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James Freeman @james-t-freeman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
#Omaha saying “enough of you, then” and somehow removing itself (against all odds, federal and local) from an increasingly shambolic Nebraskastan might help a lot. Other than that, thoughts and prayers.
What will it take to get more workers to choose Omaha? A new effort takes aim

Rob McLean
World-Herald Business Editor
10/09/2026 4:30 PM

The City of Omaha and the Greater Omaha Chamber are launching a program to keep the metro attractive to employers.
The program is called "All In Omaha," and it aims to encourageiemployers to strengthen job opportunities,
invest in career development, and help attract and retain talent,i according to a press release.
Omaha Mayor John Ewing saidiseeing the opportunity to build a good life here" is critical for the city's future.
By working with our business community, we can help connect people with careers that allow them to grow and support their families," Ewing said in the press release. "All In Omaha invites employers to take an active role in that work and help shape a city where people choose to stay and succeed."
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James Freeman @james-t-freeman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
October 10, 2026
So now, after more than a decade of pretending that he is not associated with Russia and that he would honor the U.S.
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James Freeman @james-t-freeman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Hang Jeff Landry! Hang Jeff Landry! Hang Jeff Landry! What’s good for the goose is good for the meddling, clown-car MAGA gander. #LSU
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James Freeman @james-t-freeman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This.
open.substack.com
The Economic Theory of War Is: Don’t
If you’re already in one, figure out where it ends and jump there.
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James Freeman @james-t-freeman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
To quote Jonathan V. Last, Trump needs to be strapped onto a Falcon Heavy and launched into the Sun.
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James Freeman @james-t-freeman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Everything Trump says about anyone is either confession or projection.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
MAGA is way more angry at Talarico for having the flu than they were Paxton for leaving the country with his mistress for the Fourth of July
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James Freeman @james-t-freeman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
In which case, I am going to vote early and vote often.
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James Freeman @james-t-freeman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Or you’re trying to beat the winter. FWIW, base 12 keeps your mind sharper than calculating months in base 10. Not that it’s helped most of my countrymen, who think the bases only go up to four — first, second, third and home.
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James Freeman @james-t-freeman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
On my father’s side, my 10th great-grandfather, William Brewster, was the ruling elder of the Pilgrims at Plymouth. So I imagine he was at that 1621 Thanksgiving. If I ever make it to Plymouth, I need to thank a Wampanoag for my existence. The colony might have starved if not for their assistance.
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James Freeman @james-t-freeman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This, the Iran War, ICE gunning down a man in his car with a kindergartener in the back seat, war-idolizing ads on TV, massive corruption . . . we have achieved the tyrannical, dystopian Amerika that used to only live in TV miniseries and alternate-universes in sci-fi programs.
lemonde.fr
US imposes sanctions on ICC, hours after Nobel award to former judge
The court rejected the US sanctions as an attack on international law and warned in a statement that 'history will judge this moment.'
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James Freeman @james-t-freeman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
. . . and adding that ‘Joseph Goebbels is certainly applauding from hell.’” At some point, these fuckwits will get the chance to ask Goebbels in person about his applause. 2/2 END 🧵
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James Freeman @james-t-freeman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
1.) Today, the United States sanctioned the International Criminal Court as a body. 2.) “Israel’s foreign ministry greeted her Nobel by calling it ‘the grotesque weaponization of an award to legitimize anti-Israel hatred and prejudice’ . . . 🧵
ifloz.substack.com
"If you clap a little bit more, I may share this prize with Trump." NAVI PILLAY WINS THE INTERNET AND NOBEL PRIZE
SHE WAS MINDING HER OWN BUSINESS IN NUREMBERG WHILE HE BEGGED IN THE OVAL OFFICE. OSLO PICKED THE JUDGE.
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James Freeman @james-t-freeman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
When my wife and I were in Vancouver last year, I joked to the concierge of our hotel that we were visiting from the Evil Empire. He politely demurred, saying he didn’t think the United States was evil, per se. I’ll bet vanishingly few people in the would push back against that description today.
reuters.com
EXCLUSIVE: US imposes sanctions on ICC hours after former judge wins Nobel Peace Prize
The Trump administration has long been hostile to the court and has previously imposed sanctions on its prosecutors and judges.
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James Freeman @james-t-freeman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
rossboulton1.substack.com
A Canadian Teacher Graded America's Homework.
She brought her own red pen
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James Freeman @james-t-freeman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
October 8, 2026
On October 8, 1871, dry conditions and strong winds drove deadly fires through the Midwest.
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James Freeman @james-t-freeman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Barbaric much? Fine company there — Iran, North Korea, the Taliban, lynchings during Jim Crow. . . . Face it, folks. The United States as we understood it is no more. Something new will need to be built, and about a third of society will have to be marginalized completely.
nytimes.com
Fort Hood Shooter’s Execution Will be Public and Streamed Live, Pentagon Says (Gift Article)
If carried out, the public execution of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan by firing squad set for Dec. 3 would be the first in modern U.S. history.
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James Freeman @james-t-freeman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Ditto to what he said.
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The Dangerous Ones (@thedangerousones)
Everyone should watch this.
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James Freeman @james-t-freeman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
You want some unvarnished truth? Here’s some unvarnished truth. Large Man says exactly what I have said. Midterms will help, but it can’t cure societal collapse. That’s where we are. A #MAGA crowd cheering the potential nuclear destruction of SoCal is a sign of doom. #Nebraska should be so proud.
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🚨USA HAS COLLAPSED: Why Everyday Citizens Are CHEERING Their Own Ruin…
YouTube video by Large Man Abroad
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James Freeman @james-t-freeman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Do the Ukrainians have any ironic models of their sea drones? This navy must be destroyed.
nebraskaexaminer.com
Trump sixth U.S. president to be named an admiral in Nebraska’s ‘Great Navy’ • Nebraska Examiner
President Donald Trump is the sixth U.S. president to be named an admiral for the largely honorific Great Navy of the State of Nebraska.
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James Freeman @james-t-freeman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
#Nebraska has degenerated so much in my decades here, I struggle to find the words to describe it. I used to love going “outstate.” Happily lived in North Platte once. Now, I’m loathe to get out of Omaha or Lincoln. At least here in the “blue dot,” the Nazis are outnumbered.
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James Freeman @james-t-freeman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
If you didn’t know better, you’d think this was 1986. But it isn’t. We have cultists acting like #Trump, a profoundly evil man, is Jesus. We have POTUS saying it’d be OK if #Iran nuked L.A. and San Diego. And we have Pete #Ricketts saying it’s the Dems who are crazy. Yet, the press normalizes. 🧵
nebraskaexaminer.com
What did people who went to Trump’s Nebraska rally have to say? • Nebraska Examiner
While the perception of Republicans seems gloomy ahead of the midterms, thousands came to see and support President Donald Trump at his rally.
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James Freeman @james-t-freeman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
October 6, 2026
Judging from his social media posts, Trump is panicking.
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James Freeman @james-t-freeman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is what your president called for. This is what an arena full of MAGAs cheered for in #Nebraska. This is what Nebraska’s governor, Sen. Pete #Ricketts and two of three congressmen tacitly endorsed by their presence and silence. This is what debasement, inhumanity and treason looks like.
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Daisy L.A.
YouTube video by The Lincoln Project
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James Freeman @james-t-freeman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Is cheering for this at a #Trump rally what Jim Pillen likes to tout as #Nebraska values? If so, are “Nebraska values” all that different from what Adolf Hitler would have called “Aryan values”? No doubt, Shotgun Jim will be perplexed when the world finds his state about as appealing as black mold.
substack.com
John William Evans (@johnwilliamevans)
“A SMALL PRICE TO PAY” Here’s what happens If a nuclear bomb were dropped on a major U.S. city. It would instantly kill hundreds of thousands of people, flatten large parts of the city with a massi...
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James Freeman @james-t-freeman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This is what it’s come to in Amerika: #California needs a nuclear deterrent to protect itself from (checks notes) the United States.
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James Freeman @james-t-freeman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Will your grandma adopt me?
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James Freeman @james-t-freeman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The MAGAs in Nebraska cheered. Outside of California (and the foreign press), the press couldn’t be bothered to note it.
substack.com
Political (nuclear) science
Boom goes L.A.! muses Trump. ‘YAAAAYY!’ says Nebraska. ‘Cheaper diesel!’ reports the press.
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James Freeman @james-t-freeman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
@danmoser.bsky.social @thebulwark.com @hcrichardson.bsky.social
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