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Jamie Ross

@jamie252.bsky.social
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"Was the earth made to preserve a few covetous, proud men to live at ease, and for them to bag and barn up the treasures of the Earth from others, that these may beg or starve in a fruitful land; or was it made to preserve all her children?" - Winstanley

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12h
ProPublica designed a reporting experiment to demonstrate how easy it can be to open private schools that might then access public money. We succeeded in opening two schools. No credentials or background checks required.
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How ProPublica Reporters Became Private School Owners in 24 Hours
The reporting experiment demonstrates how easy it can be to open private schools that might then access public money. No credentials or background checks required.
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Jamie Ross @jamie252.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Right - it used to be called "Silicon Valley" because they made semiconductors from silicon - the first transistors & integrated circuits. Cool stuff that changed everyone's lives. Now it seems like a mature industry.
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Jamie Ross @jamie252.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
One notable thing is how linear the approval & disapproval ratings are as a function of time. I worked it out the other day ... for the past 16 months it's like 27,000 people change their mind about Trump each day - at a fairly steady pace. Are presidential ratings declines always like this?
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
New Pew poll has Trump's approval at 30% (!) 68% of the country disapproves of him. Lowest in his second term, at January 6 levels. *31%* of Trump 2024 voters now disapprove of him.
Trump's approval rating continues to drop
Three-in-ten Americans now say they approve of Trump's handling of his job as president, while 68% disapprove - down 4 percentage points from July and his lowest approval rating of his second term.
Trump's approval rating drops to 30% - on par with his rating prior to leaving office in January 2021

*chart showing his sinking approval ratings, compared alongside his first term*

Much of this decline in his approval ratings over the course of his term is among Trump's own 2024 voters - 67% of validated Trump 2024 voters approve of his job performance today while 31% disapprove. At the beginning of his term, 95% approved.
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New Kings Democrats @newkingsdems.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Yesterday, former Party Chair Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn, violating a court order, called a meeting to hold a vote for party chair. Now she claims Nikki Lucas was elected chair, with votes from only 13 of the 42 District Leaders. This is illegal and undemocratic.
Screenshot of email from Brooklyn Democrats account purporting to announce "Assemblywoman Nikki Lucas Elected As Party Chair"
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.
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Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 04/10/2026
A Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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A Reckoning in Springfield
A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.
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Jamie Ross @jamie252.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
you know ... factories
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Jamie Ross @jamie252.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Really an amazing statement. It's shitty on many levels.
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Jamie Ross @jamie252.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
ah! well, that's better.
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Jamie Ross @jamie252.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Did baby boomers give this to themselves? These fee structures were established before any boomer was in charge of anything. The oldest boomers reached age 18 in 1964. State schools were cheap before that.
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Andrew Cuomo, through tears : this is marxism
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Mamdani Delivers $131 Million Settlement For DoorDash Drivers
The Mamdani administration said the settlement is the largest labor enforcement action in the city’s history.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“Muscular Christianity” means that when when you’re glazing the serial predator president who deports refugee children, executes fishermen, and builds idols to himself, you TYPE REALLY HARD.
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Jamie Ross @jamie252.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I'm crying
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Bill Scher @billscher.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Huge gender gap in NYT polls of ME, MI, NH MEN Collins 54 Jackson 38 Rogers 52 El-Sayed 42 Sununu 51 Pappas 42 WOMEN Jackson 53 Collins 44 El-Sayed 55 Rogers 39 Pappas 57 Sununu 39 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Cross-Tabs: September 2026 Times/Siena Poll of the Likely Electorate in Battleground Senate Races
Results of a New York Times/Siena poll conducted among 1,837 voters from Sept. 15 to 22, 2026.
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Jamie Ross @jamie252.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Where does this come from? thanks.
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I have been turning this quote over and over in my head and still can't quite wrap my head around the idea
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Dawn Whiteside Rubin @dd-rubin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Jamie Ross @jamie252.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
But many of them are new. There is an explosive growth. Why do we suddenly need so much more capacity?
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Jamie Ross @jamie252.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Thank you. That is the question. Why do we suddenly need so much more computing power? What is the benefit these places provide?
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The accounting is in: In Oregon there are 111 data centers. The TOTAL number of people employed at data centers is just 2,630, or 0.1% of the labor force. Those 100 data centers consumer 23% of all electricity used in Oregon. Meanwhile, electricity rates skyrocket as more centers are built.
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Oregon data centers by the numbers: 111 facilities consume nearly one-quarter of state’s power, according to new report
A first-of-its-kind report details the footprint of the controversial facilities.
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Jamie Ross @jamie252.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
So sorry ... Used to read his "Climate Progress" all the time.
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Jamie Ross @jamie252.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
you don't like this? www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HvA...
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The Selfishness In Man
YouTube video by George Jones - Topic
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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Republican Governor Jim Pillen has been a champion of Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown. But at least 20 of his family farms employed undocumented immigrants, according to a new investigation by the Flatwater Free Press and The New York Times. youtu.be/5RZgrR1_7Dc?...
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This GOP governor said ‘illegal aliens’ have ‘invaded.’ His family farms EMPLOYED them, report finds
YouTube video by MS NOW
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Jamie Ross @jamie252.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
no one's ever seen numbers like this!
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local blogger @fergoe.blacksky.app · 17/09/2026
Fun fact: They banned chemtrails in Florida and weeks afterward, DeSantis was still getting angry tweets from his constituents online because they were "still seeing chemtrails." Genuinely one of the funniest things I've ever seen, straight-up appealing to the dumbest possible people
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Jamie Ross @jamie252.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"Give us a chance - we might just stop screwing up"
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“Guys, they want us to go home.” 🔥 🇫🇷 French short film about what would happen to society if all the immigrants listened to angry old racist white men and left (aka the Republican agenda)
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The Canadian Border 🇨🇦 @canadianborder.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Seen a lot of these, but this one is my favourite 😎
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Jamie Ross @jamie252.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
not just a war - a GREAT war
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Jamie Ross @jamie252.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
What about a business that owes $40 Trillion ... do they declare a dividend?
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Jamie Ross @jamie252.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
46 years ago. Thanks for reminding. It's so easy to forget.
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Jamie Ross @jamie252.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I remember going to a wine store & they didn't sell French wine. I was like, are you nuts? And then I left.
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Jamie Ross @jamie252.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
It does not surprise me to hear there are no adults in the room.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/09/2026
Trump: "Only I can make this promise to you: If the Republicans win the House and Senate, I will issue a dividend to every adult citizen in the United States of America for $5,000"
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Brynn Tannehill @brynntannehill.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Fun fact: the only surgeries performed on trans youth in the US are breast reductions, which are far more common for cisgender youth (by, like 50 times), and are perfectly legal for both male and females (if they're cisgender). ~ 250 per year for trans youth, and ~12,500 for others.
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Jamie Ross @jamie252.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
From Buddy Cianci to David Morales in a few short decades
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
RESULT: David Morales, a socialist challenger, has ousted the mayor of Providence David Smiley. Add Providence to NYC, DC, and Ann Arbor as socialist wins in mayoral elections.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/09/2026
NEW: 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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Jamie Ross @jamie252.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"Never forget, but keep embellishing"
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
(NBC News) — It is now the least rewarding time to be a worker in the U.S. economy since the government started keeping track. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
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Jamie Ross @jamie252.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Yeah. Trump is epically corrupt. The corruption prompt is a perfect opportunity to attack Lawler & his GOP ilk for tolerating it.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Regime change! OK, no regime change. Unconditional surrender! OK, no surrender. Nuclear deal! OK, no nuclear deal. But we control Hormuz! OK, we don’t control Hormuz. But we’re squeezing them economically into concessions! OK, no concessions. But maybe a future president can get something, IDK.
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Jamie Ross @jamie252.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
ah ha ha ha ha ha
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First Among Equals @pyncster.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
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Rep. Mark Pocan @pocan.house.gov · 04/09/2026
Diesel gas prices have risen more than $2/ gallon since the Iran War began, and reached an all-time high today. That hits farming and transport hard, which means higher prices for the food and all the goods we need. apnews.com/article/gas-...
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US diesel prices hit a record high, pushing up transportation costs for a long list of goods
Diesel has hit a record price in the U.S., soaring to an average of $5.85 a gallon for the first time.
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Jamie Ross @jamie252.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
amending the Constitution is basically impossible.
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Jamie Ross @jamie252.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Clinton ended Welfare, which led to an increase in poverty. He also pushed for Nafta, which led to people losing jobs in the midwest. Obama allowed banks to foreclose on working people's homes with dubious legality. It's not correct that Dems have always wanted to help people. I wish it were.
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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Trump did it! Diesel hits a new record high! gasprices.aaa.com
gasprices.aaa.com
AAA Fuel Prices
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