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James Blood

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Retired attorney, current investor. Former Republican. Always learning and constantly seeking the good.

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Jeffrey Sonnenfeld @jeffsonnenfeld.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
In TIME - Leaders Pivoting on Data Centers Require More Than Roads, Water, & Power Promises - Leaders across the political spectrum...want communities to actually benefit. The best listen to citizens’ concerns while constructively raising the bar for the data center industry time.com/article/2026...
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Leaders Pivoting on Data Centers Require More Than Roads, Water, and Power Promises
"The politics of data centers have shifted," write Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, David Siegel, and Stephen Henriques.
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Jon Ossoff @ossoff.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
As more people and media write about Russia, I wanted to clear up some misinformation and misconceptions I keep seeing. It is impossible to understand Putin without understanding Russian history. And until that system is broken, nothing will change. I hope you'll read and share!
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What the West Still Doesn't Understand About Russia
Over the past few months, Western media have been flooded with headlines speculating that Vladimir Putin is under growing pressure, that a coup may be brewing, or that his grip on power is finally beg...
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James Blood @jfblood.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
This is a sick, deranged, delusional man. He is not fit to be president.
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
There’s been a lot of talk in this race about what makes a "real man." A man does what’s right when no one is watching. He upholds his commitments to his family and neighbors. He doesn’t lie, cheat, & steal his way through life. Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.
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James Blood @jfblood.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
So apparently gas is only up in New York and California. Got it.
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James Blood @jfblood.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Well said. “The administration wants all the benefits of religion and none of the burdens. It wants to be seen as godly while acting godlessly.”
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Pope Leo XIV condemns the Trump administration in new speech: "Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth."
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 13/04/2026
Viktor Orbán's defeat came thanks to a broad, diverse, and patriotic grassroots movement—and shatters the assumption of inevitability that has pervaded illiberal movements across the globe, @anneapplebaum.bsky.social argues. Read more: theatln.tc/CPvne6uz
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Fascinating, Zelensky coming out publicly more and more and saying that Trump is working with/for Putin. The Ukrainians seem to have determined that telling the truth is preferable to lying to please Trump.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
This is so well done. 👌
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James Blood @jfblood.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Yay! More authoritarianism! Dictatorships. Lawlessness. Corruption. Fealty to Putin and Russia. Less freedom. That’s the model we want!
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
BESSENT, one month ago today: “.. 2025 was about setting the table. 2026 is going to be a banquet for the American people. The economy is taking off.” @cnbc.com
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
‘Mr. Nobody Against Putin’ Director: “This is about how you lose your country — through small acts of complicity: when a government murders people on the streets, when oligarchs take over the media… we all face a moral choice. But even a nobody is more powerful than you think."
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 08/03/2026
The Trump administration keeps using Putin's language. from Anton Troianovski @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/u...
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How Trump’s War in Iran Has Echoes of Putin and Ukraine
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Neil Lewis @neil-lewis.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/03/2026
wow -- Tillis goes ballistic on Noem, telling her "what we've seen is a disaster under your leadership"
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Euromaidan Press @euromaidanpress.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
EU's top diplomat Kaja Kallas says the US strategy of pressuring Ukraine into concessions has failed after a year "Maybe we should focus now on the other side," she said, urging Trump to lean on Russia instead euromaidanpress.com/2026/02/24/k...
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Kallas: If the US wants peace, it should put pressure on Russia, not Ukraine
Exactly four years after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the EU's top diplomat Kaja Kallas said Washington's yearlong push to force Kyiv into concessions has failed and called on…
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
To the press who have been saying Trump might support Ukraine, Trump might get tough on Putin, Witkoff is misleading Trump, etc...ask yourself this. If you are now saying Witkoff is being "naive", maybe you are the ones being naive, as you have been this entire time.
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James Blood @jfblood.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Stop pretending that you, Trump, and the U.S. are neutral brokers in this. The world knows that is false.
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James Blood @jfblood.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Witkoff is Putin’s useful idiot.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 21/02/2026
When there is a new president, there will be accountability. If I was a member of this administration and knowingly breaking the law/constitution…. I’d be planning my safe harbor home oversees. Belarus or Russia would take ya
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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Our Utah legislators don’t care what you think
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The Salt Lake Tribune @sltrib.com · 05/02/2026
About 500 BYU students, alumni and others protested Thursday against Border Patrol’s presence at a job fair on the Provo campus, chanting “BYU get ICE out” and “Border Patrol has got to go.” (Video by The Tribune’s Francisco Kjolseth) Read more here: www.sltrib.com/news/educati...
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Paul Reeve @wpaulreeve.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
My thanks to Jana Riess and Religion News Service for publishing my opinion piece on the ICE incursions into Minnesota as an eerie echo from the past--the federal incursion into Utah Territory in 1857-58 known as the Utah War. religionnews.com/2026/02/02/w...
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When Mormons say to comply with ICE incursions, we're forgetting our own history
(RNS) — In 1857, when Latter-day Saints deemed actions emanating from Washington, DC, to be significant breaches of constitutional norms, they didn’t comply, they resisted.
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Fred Guttenberg @fredguttenberg.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Guess who this is? This is the guy who directed the Melania film with Trump bestie EPSTEIN and some clearly very young girl. Republican enablers, why are you still enabling him?
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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Utah’s elected reps Profiles in lack of courage
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James Blood @jfblood.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Can the American people invoke Article 5 to get help from our NATO allies to protect us from our government?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/01/2026
Van Hollen: "They really think the American people are stupid. I mean, we can all see the video. We saw the video with Renee Good. We saw the video with Alex Pretti. The real domestic terrorists are in the White House right now."
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
GLASSER: “.. in rambling on so much, Trump reveals just about everything one could ever want to know about him—his lack of discipline, his ignorance, his vanity, insecurity, and crudeness, and a mean streak that knows no limits.” @newyorker.com @sbg1.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Observing the situation around #Greenland, I have a strong sense of déjà vu - we’ve seen and heard this before. It reminds me of 2014 and Crimea. Let's recall and compare. ▪️ Security and protection: In 2014, Russia claimed that without Crimea, it was impossible to ensure the security of Russia⤵️
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Oleksandra Matviichuk: Peace isn’t made only on paper,peace isn’t Russian occupation Very often,I’ve to convince someone that people in 🇺🇦want peace...Are u serious?People in🇺🇦dream of peace.We simply don’t want to be occupied by Russia.Because peace doesn’t mean occupation
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
“.. It was during sustained criticism of Europe that Lagarde stood up and left the room, according to the people. "We have no comment to add," an ECB spokesperson said by email Wednesday morning.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 20/01/2026
Europe is working on a package to support Arctic security. And at the heart of this will be the fundamental principle: it is for sovereign people to decide their own future.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Pew Research Institute (2023): • Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants • Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants • Blue State Minnesota has 130,000. And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration." It's *not* about immigration.
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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Copenhagen town hall square, Denmark right now. Massive solidarity with Greenland demonstrations. Source: dr.dk
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 16/01/2026
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Bullying Denmark will make the United States weaker and perhaps even poorer,” our columnist David French writes. “It’s not just wrong to turn on our friends; it’s stupid, and that stupidity is spreading across the length and breadth of American foreign policy.”
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Opinion | Something Is Rotten in the State of America
This is the thanks Demark gets?
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
OMG! I just got internal bleeding from pretending to be hit by a car.
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Rep. Judy Chu @chu.house.gov · 13/01/2026
Under Trump's watch, a DHS agent shot a protestor in the face with a non-lethal round at close range, fractured his skull, and then dragged him around as he choked and bled. He is now permanently blind in his left eye.
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Anti-ICE protester blinded by federal agent during demonstration in Santa Ana, family says
A young protester narrowly avoided being killed but was left permanently blind after a Department of Homeland Security agent fired a nonlethal round at close range during a Santa Ana protest last week...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Four-byline alert: 🚨 “.. fierce blowback .. now threatens to undermine President Trump’s effort to assert dominance over economic decision-making.” @nytimes.com @colbylsmith.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u...
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Helene Meisler @hmeisler.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Once again, let me reiterate this this guy is a mouthpiece for authoritarianism. He proves it over and over again when he goes after Powell.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 12/01/2026
this is what patriotism looks like
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Steve Liesman @steveliesman.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
WSJ editorial on the latest of the hundreds of tariff walkbacks by trump (this one for furniture): “Rarely has a President worked so hard to cover the damage from his policies without admitting it.”
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 29/12/2025
Zelenskyy calls Russia’s claim of a strike on one of Putin’s residences a “complete fabrication,” a lie designed to sabotage diplomacy, justify more attacks on Kyiv, and excuse Moscow’s refusal to end the war. He warns the world must not stay silent as Russia tries to derail peace.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 26/12/2025
Not sure I understand why the Trump administration cares about Christians in Nigeria and not Christians in Ukraine
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 26/12/2025
Can someone please respond to Stephen Miller with this message from Frank Sinatra?
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
In both pageantry and policy, Trump has established a new, more audacious version of the imperial presidency that goes far beyond even the one associated with Richard Nixon, for whom the term was popularized half a century ago. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/u...
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Trump Takes America’s ‘Imperial Presidency’ to a New Level
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James Blood @jfblood.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
In all of human history, can anyone point to any other examples of people with their hands blackened or bruised on the back side from shaking so many hands?
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
JOHN DEERE: "Our US market has been the one under the most pressure . . . based on what’s happened with trade flows, what’s happened with tariffs .." We'll build "half as many tractors this year as we did two years ago." @financialtimes.com $DE www.ft.com/content/523a...
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Donald Trump’s tariffs intensify strain on US farmers, Deere warns
Farming equipment giant is scaling back production at flagship tractor plant in Iowa
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Poland’s foreign minister 👇
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