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jamesr71.bsky.social @jamesr71.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Maybe if everyone googles “fuck you Google, it’s Lake Ontario”, that will help.
Maybe if everyone googles “fuck you Google, it’s Lake Ontario” they will get the message
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jamesr71.bsky.social @jamesr71.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
If Spain wins the World Cup, will Trump give them the trophy?
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jamesr71.bsky.social @jamesr71.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Drink something Spanish today. Viva España!
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jamesr71.bsky.social @jamesr71.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
King Charles will call Gianni to get the red card lifted for Quansah.
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jamesr71.bsky.social @jamesr71.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
share.google/9yxI7z2tf7ZH... I have an 8647 bumper sticker
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Google Image Result for https://media.tenor.com/DJ9dpByP0XAAAAAM/i-want-him-dead-al-capone.gif
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jamesr71.bsky.social @jamesr71.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
open.substack.com/pub/ifloz/p/... I love this writer
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While Trump Was Licking Putin's Boots, Sweden Went Full Metal Fucking Hardass
Operation Black Coffee: While Trump Sucks Putin's Dick, Sweden Just Stole His Boat
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jamesr71.bsky.social @jamesr71.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Friends, we are going to vote for and support Xavier Becerra for Governor. A solid Democrat without the baggage or annoyance factors of other candidates and certainly without the billionaire connection. Let’s hope people coalesce around him, the low support people drop out and the party endorses him
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jamesr71.bsky.social @jamesr71.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
There it is: A full year of days spent playing golf in just over five years as president. www.pbump.net/outofoffice
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jamesr71.bsky.social @jamesr71.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Received a mailer and a text for this obviously scammy referendum. California’s 100+ billionaires are so worried about a possible wealth tax that they are dumping millions into this fake initiative. Another reason why I would not vote for their candidate Mayan.
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jamesr71.bsky.social @jamesr71.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
apple.news/Ac4PKX_FqThy... Interesting Substack from James Fallows today on the specifications and cost of the aircraft lost in the Iran excursion. One unanswered question: to what degree did Russian intelligence aid in the downing of these aircraft? Ask your friend Vladimir, Donald.
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Downed planes raise new perils for Trump as Tehran hunts for missing US pilot — Reuters
Two U.S. ​warplanes were downed over Iran and the Gulf, Iranian and U.S. officials said on Friday, with two pilots rescued and a third still missing and being hunted ‌by Tehran's forces.
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jamesr71.bsky.social @jamesr71.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
It’s depressing how often you hear wrong information on the geography of this war, and how few people can locate Iran, the Gulf States, Kharg Island and the Strait of Hormuz on a map. Or Saudi Arabia. Or the fact that Iran’s coast on the Persian Gulf is 600 miles long.
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jamesr71.bsky.social @jamesr71.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Greetings from California. So glad I drive electric.
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jamesr71.bsky.social @jamesr71.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
The Green party also beat the Social Democrats in Munich, sort of an SPD stronghold in very conservative Bavaria. The left wants a stronger message.
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jamesr71.bsky.social @jamesr71.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
America‘s Democrats may take a look at Germany‘s state elections. The SPD which is the parallel center left party to the US Democrats loses and loses. To the far right, to the Greens, to the Left. It’s a matter of running as the “sure hand” moderate party and not standing strongly for anything.
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jamesr71.bsky.social @jamesr71.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Good book (recommend of Ada Palmer). Italy in the period after Mussolini fell, Germans occupied the country and the Allies drove them out. In a parallel to the Iran war, Churchill and FDR urged the Italians to get rid of the Germans. Per the author “the sheep should kill the wolf”. Impossible task.
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jamesr71.bsky.social @jamesr71.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f... Obviously using the cover of US forces deployed to the region
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Israel launches attack on Iran as explosions heard in Tehran
Blasts heard in Tehran as Israel declares state of emergency in anticipation of retaliatory missile strikes
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jamesr71.bsky.social @jamesr71.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Yoon Suk Yeol sentenced to life in prison for leading insurrection in South Korea - The Guardian Can we do this?
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jamesr71.bsky.social @jamesr71.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
www.thefriedegg.com/articles/dc-... I admit to being a golfer. But a “muni” golfer. Golf is changing. Many more women players. Always been ethnically diverse, but mostly the province of males. Some a bit Trump adjacent. These historic, DC courses are places where folks play for less than 50 bucks
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National Links Trust, Trump Administration Battle Explained
In the wake of the latest unfortunate news for Washington D.C.s public golf scene, we explain the ongoing battle between the National Links Trust and the Trump Administration.
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jamesr71.bsky.social @jamesr71.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Minneapolis shooting latest: Alex Pretti’s parents say ‘please get the truth out’ after son fatally shot by federal agents
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jamesr71.bsky.social @jamesr71.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
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Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell
YouTube video by Federal Reserve
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jamesr71.bsky.social @jamesr71.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
open.substack.com/pub/trueblue...
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Stunning analysis reveals that Trump spent a quarter of his 2025 days at golf clubs, costing taxpayers a whopping $110,600,000.
And it gets even crazier...
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jamesr71.bsky.social @jamesr71.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Does anyone think Trump is paying any attention to Taiwan while it is surrounded by PRC forces who are pegging missiles and causing all the international flights to be delayed or cancelled
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jamesr71.bsky.social @jamesr71.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
www.pbs.org/newshour/nat... Maybe we should also remember this victim and this perpetrator today.
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Shooter attacked CDC headquarters to protest COVID-19 vaccines, authorities say
Georgia Bureau of Investigation Director Chris Hosey said 30-year-old Patrick Joseph White also recently verbalized thoughts of suicide, which led to law enforcement being contacted several weeks befo...
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jamesr71.bsky.social @jamesr71.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n... My buddies and I got free tickets from KMET to see The Harder They Come at some art house in Westwood when it came out. Totally changed us. We went around for days faking Jamaican accents. Bought the vinyl soundtrack and played it to death (Pressure Drop!) Sad
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Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
Star of The Harder They Come had hits including You Can Get It If You Really Want and I Can See Clearly Now
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jamesr71.bsky.social @jamesr71.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
@jfallows.bsky.social any comments on the NTSB summary report on the Baltimore bridge collapse? Session was chaired by Jennifer Homendy
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jamesr71.bsky.social @jamesr71.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Our Spanish tour guides accentuate the positive aspects of the 700 years of tolerant Muslim rule in Spain and its many contributions, often contrasting it with the forced Catholization that followed it.
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jamesr71.bsky.social @jamesr71.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Yesterday, on Indigenous Peoples Day, we saw the (alleged) tomb of Christopher Columbus. The Spanish seem to view their history as history, not to be debated and overcome and not to be used as justification for cheap nationalism. Things that happened in another time.
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jamesr71.bsky.social @jamesr71.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Some might argue golf, in the US particularly, has always been a sport for white conservatives, but it’s hard to remember galleries calling opposing players “faggots” and openly deriding their wives until recently. What could have changed? apple.news/A0uMkHq29TMq...
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US fan ugliness at the Ryder Cup was merely a reflection of Trump’s all-caps America — Guardian US
European players were subjected to slurs and crude insults about their families. They were no surprise as public discourse in America has broken down
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jamesr71.bsky.social @jamesr71.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/jimmy... Look! It’s everywhere.
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Jimmy Kimmels Show wird vorläufig abgesetzt
Hintergrund sollen kritische Kommentare Kimmels im Zusammenhang mit dem Mord an dem Aktivisten Charlie Kirk sein.
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jamesr71.bsky.social @jamesr71.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Lots of peeps in line for the Covid booster on day one
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jamesr71.bsky.social @jamesr71.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru... And what’s he saying now?
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Trump says calling Walz after Minnesota shootings would be 'waste of time'
President Donald Trump told ABC News on Sunday that he "may" call Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz after a political assassination sent shockwaves through the state.
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jamesr71.bsky.social @jamesr71.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
youtu.be/dbebXrdT8EY
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MAGA Ballroom 2028: AI Exposes the Elite's Vile Power Dance 😡💃 #PoliticalSatire
YouTube video by Salty Dawg Entertainment
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jamesr71.bsky.social @jamesr71.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open... And also the World Cup.
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Cancel the 2028 L.A. Olympics
OPINION: “Hosting an Olympic Games requires working with a lawless U.S. regime — and its rights-violating security apparatus — as they openly wage war against California,” says Joe...
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jamesr71.bsky.social @jamesr71.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio... I guess I will have to watch
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‘South Park’s most furious episode ever’: the jaw-dropping Satanic takedown of Donald Trump
They’ve depicted the president’s privates. They’ve shown him in flagrante with the devil. The makers of the foul-mouthed US cartoon have certainly thrown down the gauntlet …
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jamesr71.bsky.social @jamesr71.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
First it was Social Security emails used as propaganda, now it’s the smiling puss of Dr. Oz on Medicare emails. I just unsubscribed.
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jamesr71.bsky.social @jamesr71.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
So this morning I read my emails, and one of the neighbors posted on our street’s group email complaining that the Mexican hot dog vendors were working the parade. Why? People with ambition working hard to make a buck. Why do you care and how in the world does this hurt you? 3/3
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jamesr71.bsky.social @jamesr71.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Also had my favorites, the Sikh motorcyclists who ride in the parade every year! 2/3
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jamesr71.bsky.social @jamesr71.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Yesterday was our annual July 4 parade in Alameda, CA, the pleasantest of pleasant places. Highlights: this entry from the USS Hornet aircraft carrier with a “Defend the Constitution” flag. The first group marching was a large Pride contingent. Also had Mexican cowboys, Filipinos, Koreans. 1/3
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jamesr71.bsky.social @jamesr71.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
2/2 No mention of whether these strikes were legal or of the civilian casualties involved in these bombings, or of the Israeli tactic (see Gaza) of leveling an entire structure if one “bad guy” is in that structure. What if Iran bombed the home of a general in Virginia? Military tactic?
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jamesr71.bsky.social @jamesr71.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
was listening to a Politico «analysis” of the situation on NPR, and of course, there was no perspective of the events from the Iranian side, or the rational, objective side. So the repeated line was that Israel bombed “military” sites when they bombed the homes of generals and scientists. 1/2.
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jamesr71.bsky.social @jamesr71.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
4 things upsetting me now: news media cheerleading the Iran strike with déjà-vu of 1992, 2003. Democrat reps supporting the Iran strike. Huge financial support and endorsements for Cuomo. European governments kowtowing to Trump on Iran. We need new politics and leadership all around.
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jamesr71.bsky.social @jamesr71.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Putin: I am attacking Ukraine because they are an imminent threat. Trump: I am attacking Iran because they are an imminent threat.
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jamesr71.bsky.social @jamesr71.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Democrats ALL have to make speeches pointing out that Trump’s pardons of the January 6 violent criminals led directly to the assignations in Minnesota.
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jamesr71.bsky.social @jamesr71.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
This is something to think about when Trump says protesters are paid.
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jamesr71.bsky.social @jamesr71.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
At the DMV. Employee: “Good morning!” Me: “I am here to…” Employee: “Good morning!” Me: “I’m so sorry. Good morning.” Reminds me of some advice to tourists I read recently. Americans known for immediately blurting out their needs in stores and restaurants without first greeting. Bad manners!
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jamesr71.bsky.social @jamesr71.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
I have to report that I went to the DMV this week to renew my license. Arrived 8:25, left 8:50. Everyone I interfaced with was efficient, polite and nice. The lines moved quickly and were actively managed.
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jamesr71.bsky.social @jamesr71.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
meduza.io/en/feature/2... Trump/Rubio/Witkoff gift Putin everything he wishes and exploit Ukraine’s resources and electric power
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Trump's 'final offer' Washington wants Ukraine to sign a minerals deal, give up NATO membership, and accept Russian occupation — Meduza
Last week, during a meeting in Paris with Ukrainian and European officials, a U.S. delegation led by Secretary of State Marco Rubio put forward its proposal for ending Russia’s war in Ukraine. Now, Ax...
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jamesr71.bsky.social @jamesr71.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Thousands in attendance to see and hear Bernie and AOC in LA. News?
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jamesr71.bsky.social @jamesr71.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
bookshop.org/p/books/who-... This is sort of the other side of the argument to Ezra Klein and Abundance. Government does have competent and talented people. It does provide value. It needs a reorg, not destruction.
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Who Is Government?: The Untold Story of Public Service
The Untold Story of Public Service
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jamesr71.bsky.social @jamesr71.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
My son is buying an assembled in Hermosillo MX Ford Maverick off the lot today. Dealer says they cannot quote the MSRP for anything ordered in the future because of the tariffs.
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