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James Blacksmith

@jamesblacksmith.bsky.social
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Recovering reporter. Award winning journalist and short story writer. Debut novel coming soon.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2025
Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."
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Beau Johnson 🇨🇦 🪓 @beaujohnson44.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Hey, here’s a book I liked. You might like it too. #BookSky #FridayRecs
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James Blacksmith @jamesblacksmith.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Classic.
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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
This is simply untenable. There is no way forward with media and political classes captured by the right. Every time someone commits a crime you have to pray it's not an undesirable or it's purge time, then when it turns out to be themselves again they just shrug and wait for the next one.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
“.. I can’t remember anyone ever telling me we can’t say anything critical about a civilian like this. He was not in our chain of command or anything,” the officer said. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
"Even in a contest against men twice his age, Mamdani has begun to sound like the adult in the room on issues of public safety, offering detailed, thoughtful policy proposals." 🙏 @errollouis.bsky.social
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Mamdani’s New Ideas on Crime Show Make His Opponents Look Old
What he understands and they don’t.
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Release The Epstein Files 💙🌊 @americapartyusa.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
#TrumpEpsteinCoverUp #EpsteinFiles #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles #CharlieKirk
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Valhalla @vallahha.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Kirk was never open to debate, was never ''I see your point'' kind of guy. He thought white was right, Christianity was the only religion that we should follow. If he'd shown the slightest remorse for the terrible things he said, he'd still be alive today, but he was a prick's prick and proud of it.
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Joey Reid @joeyreid.com · 11/09/2025
The best way to honour Charlie Kirk is to RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!
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Felipe Carvalho @felipecarvalho.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Exactly! Just accepting them at the discussions is losing the game to their hate. They don't need to win any debate, they just want the platforms, be heard, and spread the hate. We need to stop platforming n4zis
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Jesse Mac @jessemackinnon.com · 11/09/2025
I trust that man less and less daily, and I already thought it couldn’t sink any lower.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory? Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”
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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
All those assholes who pretended to be disinformation fighters falling all over themselves to praise one of its worst, most loathing purveyors simply because he was killed as a result of the exact policies he championed
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Amazing how those democratic lawmakers who were hunted down in their homes in the middle of the night in Minnesota weren’t a watershed moment of political violence, huh?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/09/2025
Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
This was just last month and we have already memoryholed it. A cop killed by an antivaxxer.
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Beau Johnson 🇨🇦 🪓 @beaujohnson44.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
The amount of performance i am witnessing tonight with regard to Kirk is mind boggling. When children are slaughtered in schools, why don’t I see this level of outrage? I feel for his kids, but sorry, the world is better off with him gone.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "I think he should start with Shreveport, Louisiana, and Speaker Johnson's district that has 6x the per capita murder rate of Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco. What about the carnage, Mr. President, in Shreveport? Why aren't you protecting the folks there? What bullshit."
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 09/09/2025
Donald Trump is failing to create American jobs. In the last 8 months with Trump in office, the U.S. economy added less than 600,000 jobs – the LOWEST JOB CREATION in a year since the Great Recession in 2009. That's according to the Wall Street Journal.
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Novelty Cistern @noveltycistern.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
hey im putting something together for my boss for his birthday. yeah can you write a letter or better yet an insane poem or horrifying drawing about the unspeakable crimes you all have committed together
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
NEWS Charles Munger Jr, the son of the late Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett’s business partner, has put in another $10 million into the campaign against Gavin Newsom’s redistricting initiative. Munger has contributed $30 million so far in just the last three weeks.
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Bogi Takács / WE'RE HERE ToC announced! @bogiperson.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
"The mainstream news media doesn't care about tariffs" (I have seen several variants on this lately) May I unironically suggest reading business news? E.g., the WSJ really dislikes tariffs and has been yelling about them. They are capitalists - they are not fans of barriers to trade.
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FWC Indivisible @fwcindivisible.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Andry Hernandez Romero — a gay asylum seeker, makeup artist, and survivor of political violence — trusted the U.S. asylum system. But, he was deported to a mega-prison in El Salvador. No trial. No hearing. No justice. #DisappearedInAmerica #AbductedByTrump
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Eric Swalwell @ericswalwell.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Private Bone Spurs wants to go to war? Why doesn’t he go to war with rising grocery prices?
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
The President of the United States just essentially declared a war on Chicago because — wait for it! — Black and Brown people live here. This is not normal. This is not okay. And we are going to fucking fight back.
A TruthSocial post from Donald Trump, featuring an AI generated image of him in front of Chicago burning and under invasion with the words “Chipocalypse Now” near him stylized like the poster for the film Apocalypse Now. The text accompanying the post reads “‘I love the smell of deportations in the morning…’ Chicago about to find out why it’s called the Department of WAR 🚁🚁🚁”
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ajceol.bsky.social @ajceol.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
🚨 The EU is trying to quietly weaken nature laws during summer break. We have 10 days to stop this. Don't let them destroy our forests, rivers & wildlife in silence. #HandsOffNature www.wwf.eu/campaigns/it...
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#ItsOurNature
#ItsOurNature
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
You had your chance to remove and bar him from the presidency after Jan 6. And you chickened out.
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M 💓🇺🇸🗽🌊🌈✨🧘‍♀️ @liveadivinelife.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
First Bernie Sanders. Then CDC directors. Now, more than 1,000 current and former HHS staffers are demanding he step down. Kennedy has fired thousands of HHS workers, boosted unproven treatments for measles while undermining vaccines, backed Medicaid cuts, fired former CDC Director Susan Monarez...
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RFK Jr.’s enemies list just got a lot longer
First Bernie Sanders. Then CDC directors. Now, more than 1,000 current and former HHS staffers are demanding he step down.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Priorities.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 06/09/2025
What study design did they use to determine Tylenol use during pregnancy causes autism? And they did the study in 8 months??? Did they do a “gold standard” randomized placebo-controlled trial to determine folate supplementation “treats autism”? What does that even mean? www.cnn.com/2025/09/05/h...
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Upcoming HHS report will link autism to common pain reliever, folate deficiency in pregnancy, Wall Street Journal reports | CNN
An upcoming report from the US Department of Health and Human services is likely to link the development of autism in children to a common over-the-counter pain reliever, and it will reference a form ...
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 04/09/2025
First Bernie Sanders. Then the CDC directors. Now, more than 1,000 current and former HHS staffers are demanding he step down.
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RFK Jr.’s enemies list just got a lot longer
First Bernie Sanders. Then CDC directors. Now, more than 1,000 current and former HHS staffers are demanding he step down.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/09/2025
WARNER: Do you accept the fact that 1 million Americans died from covid? RFK Jr: I don't know how many died W: You're the secretary of health and human services. You don't have any idea how many Americans died from covid? RFK Jr: I don't think anybody knows that W: How can you be that ignorant?
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John Topper @jct49.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Good morning to you 🌞 from the Southern Coast on the
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Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
California, Oregon and Washington announced plans on Wednesday to form a “health alliance” that would coordinate vaccine recommendations for the three states. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
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Snubbing Kennedy, States Announce Plans to Coordinate on Vaccines
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 03/09/2025
One life lost to violence is one too many. I established London’s Violence Reduction Unit in 2018 to address the complex root causes of violence. Latest figures show that it’s making a difference: homicides in London are now at a 10-year low, but there’s no room for complacency.
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Fewest London murders in summer since 2018, says mayor's office
Homicide numbers have been falling in the capital, a report from City Hall finds.
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
"Last year, Mehta found Google guilty of monopolizing search markets through special pay-for-placement deals to make it the default search on devices and browsers. As a punishment, Mehta said that Google could … keep making those deals." prospect.org/justice/2025...
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Embarrassing Ruling Allows Google to Maintain Its Search Monopoly
Judge Amit Mehta found Google guilty of illegally monopolizing search, and then allowed the company to keep doing it.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
You may wonder how ICE agents can even sleep at night. Well, I guess the answer is they don't sleep at night: they spend their nights kidnapping children. www.huffpost.com/entry/immigr...
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Children Were Yanked From Bed In The Middle Of The Night For Attempted Deportation: Lawsuit
They detailed the trauma and shock of the experience in a court filing.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Ohhhhmygod!!! Look how many people are supporting down-ballot Democratic nominees in Missouri. This is just within the last few weeks. We are taking the fight to them. Scroll through the list for a little balm for your soul. ❤️
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 04/09/2025
surely we can come up with something better for 7 billion people than being lorded over by a bunch of plundering elderly murder and torture enthusiasts who whisper to each other about printing spare organs so they can immiserate others in perpetuity
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rainwarror52.bsky.social @rainwarror52.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
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CUDDY @ptcontagion.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Newspaper page with off-white background, black type and a red banner.
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Lyndon Baines Johnson @lyndonbajohnson.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
It's still incredible that conservatism became people who are such fuckin' losers they're alienated by the most incredible society that's ever existed. That conquered the whole world with nothing but its attractiveness, and they've burnt it all because they felt left out. -OS
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Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Downtown Chicago is really hopping tonight. Restaurants are full. Lots of people on the sidewalks. Thousands enjoying free music at Jazz Fest.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
MO Gov Mike Kehoe is calling a special session to gerrymander the 5th District which encompasses Kansas City. He is specifically violating Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which bans any voting practice that denies or weakens the power of a racial minority to elect its preferred candidates.
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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 01/09/2025
Weekends. The 40-hour work week. Sick days. That didn't just happen. Organized labor did that. And today, we celebrate how far we've come. And how far we've yet to go to build an economy – and a country – that works for working people.
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