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James A. Robichaux @jamesrobichaux.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I wish that I had the energy to do a big, long thread about the real problem with Jasmine Crockett. It's mostly the same problem with Gavin Newsom. They are of a specific toxic archetype, and my formative experience with this is of a candidate for Congress here in Louisiana. x.com/JamesRobicha...

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@JamesRobichaux
"we're supposed to be the good guys" is exactly how Rob Anderson was able to grift and harass so many people.

He saw the way that a certain segment of the non-GOP electorate gives automatic fealty to anyone who opposes the GOP, and he exploited it.
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He noticed, as too many other Resistance grifters have noticed, that, in this either-or society, all that you have to do is say that you are against Republicans and the Conservative Movement and say things against them, and hordes of people will be like "that's my guy!"
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Jimbaux's Journal @jimbauxsjournal.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

What if chewable antacid tablets were illegal?

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Jimbaux's Journal @jimbauxsjournal.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Remember fried chicken and the New Orleans Saints and Morten Andersen and fried fish and onion rings?

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Jimbaux's Journal @jimbauxsjournal.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Yes, this feels so affirming and validating! This is so right! Neurodivergent people are CONSTANTLY accommodating neurotypical people. #ActuallyAutistic 🧵

on Facebook....

image that reads the following:
"Maybe you'd stop being annoyed at ND's needs for accommodations if you could understand how much they are forced to accommodate the rest of the world every f##king day."

followed by text that reads the following:

Diversity Doodles
September 29, 2024
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Maybe we just need to stop calling them accommodations. Because that only ever seems to imply that we get something 'extra'. That we are demanding and entitled and difficult.

No. This backwards. The NT world is what's 'extra'. The expectations, the demands, the entitlement that 'this is how it's you need to fit in and conform'. Those are the accommodations.

And I have played all your roles, met all your unspoken demands, lived with your disappointment and your upset when I can't. I've accommodated you all at ever turn. Until this is your definition of who I should be and my inability to keep it up indefinitely is nothing but a source of shame.

And still you don't get it. So how's about you just leave me alone then?

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Jimbaux's Journal @jimbauxsjournal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I made this picture 15 years ago today. The ALT text contains the caption. See more from the month of October 2011 at the "October 2011 Sampler" essay here: jimbaux.com/2021/10/01/o... - 1 October 2011 - Sellers, Louisiana, USA

Fifteen years ago today at 13:45 CDT, Canadian National Railway train A419, with CN 8933 as the lead locomotive, crosses the Bonnet Carré Spillway eastbound. If the train was following normal procedure, it would stop in nearby Destrehan to make a pickup before turning northward at Orleans Junction in Kenner and would be in Mississippi before the crew finished its work for the day.

The Bonnet Carré Spillway was built in response to the Great Flood Of 1927 as a way to divert Mississippi River waters during swells past parts downriver and into Lake Pontchartrain, protecting such places from river flooding, as it has done since then. Occasionally, this land seen here is submerged with water flowing northward, with only the top of the bridge and the tops of trees visible.

See more from the month of October 2011 at the "October 2011 Sampler" essay here:
https://jimbaux.com/2021/10/01/october-2011-sampler/

- 1 October 2011
- Sellers, Louisiana, USA

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

When white nationalist are a part of your voting base

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Gen Wojcik @genandgenes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Someone said to me that there are frats everywhere, so why do I seem to have more ire for spaces like Cornell? Money & power. About 1/10 Cornell students have families in the top 1% of income. The institutions are by them, for them. This takes every other dynamic and amplifies it times over.

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Jimbaux's Journal @jimbauxsjournal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Here is a sample of images that I made 20 years ago this month: jimbaux.com/2026/10/01/o... The images in this set of images are from southeastern Louisiana, western Arkansas, and eastern Oklahoma.

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

sounds like someone was turning a big dial taht said "Transphobia" on it, looked back at the audience for approval like a contestant on the price is right, and saw that everyone had gotten mad at them

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Alice Jane Grimm (she/her) @alice-j-grimm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Bless every loud, angry, and rude trans person who ever resisted an act of transphobia so that even Third Way - the centrist’s centrist - is going “don’t poke that bear unless you want to get mauled” Damn right

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Nic 🍉 @nml-dc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Damn. I guess they figured out a lot of trans kids have tough as nails moms who are fucking pissed.

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Jennifer C. Martin @notreallyjcm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I would be so embarrassed to vote for a Democrat that happily endorses the same exact stance as Republicans when that’s too far even for a weak lib org like Third Way

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Brittany Marshall @thebrittanyempire.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It should be noted that this is why you don’t give the right an inch on rolling back any rights. They’ll not stop at some “pragmatic point that addresses legitimate concerns over safety” or whatever. Now you look like fools, trying to claw back to a position most people were at years ago.

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himham @himham.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Okay so we're on board with this trans stuff now, but to be clear, we were *super right* to reject it before. We will not introspect about this."

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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 29/09/2026

Whelp, there we go, the biggest org anyone could point to re: "Dems are bad on trans issues" has utterly folded and is now openly pro-trans. Which of course means the goalposts will move, rapidly, somehow.

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Jacob Rees-Pawg @jacobreespawg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

there is a time for telling off those milquetoast shitheals and its right after after we retake power together.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

How to win in November

Trans rights are human rights and abolish ICE

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Elsie the Fall Weather Fox @weatherfox64.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We are going to win.

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ginger @gingerest.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

what is even happening, *Third Way*, the centrists' centrists, are saying that trans rights are human rights even as Dems are falling all over themselves to be cruel to trans kids

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mallow's hyperrealistic blood @bajablastenjoyer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

what the fuck? the right lost *Third Way*?

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 29/09/2026

You don't fucking say.

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Jimbaux's Journal @jimbauxsjournal.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Here is a picture that I made 15 years ago today inside of a tropical storm. Read the caption in the ALT-text or at the Facebook post here: www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...

This might be the only train picture in this photographer's library that was taken from within a tropical storm. Fifteen years ago today at 16:26 CDT, BNSF Railway train M-DYTCSX is moving eastbound in the rain of Tropical Storm Lee on the Friday afternoon before Labor Day.

"DYT" is BNSF's station code for Dayton, Texas, and the DYTCSX was a solid interchange train bound for CSX Gentilly Yard in New Orleans.

Read the full blog article from this date here:
https://jimbaux.com/2011/09/02/lee/

See more from the month of September 2011 at the "September 2011 Sampler" essay here:
https://jimbaux.com/2021/09/01/september-2011-sampler/

- 2 September 2011
- Paradís, Louisiana, USA

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Jimbaux's Journal @jimbauxsjournal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

katypurviance.substack.com/p/pathologic...

Research on autonomy-supportive parenting demonstrates that children whose parents provide meaningful choices, explain rationales for rules, acknowledge feelings, and support intrinsic motivation develop better self-regulation, higher intrinsic motivation, and stronger mental health than children whose parents use controlling strategies.

The recovery process begins with the adult changing, not the child. The adult must learn to offer choices rather than commands. To explain reasoning rather than demand obedience. To respect “no” when possible. To understand that a child’s resistance is information about what they need, not evidence of defiance.

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Jimbaux's Journal @jimbauxsjournal.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I took this picture 20 years ago tonight in New Orleans just outside of Cooter Brown's, where I was for the Domecoming event. Read the caption for this picture and my recollections from that night here: www.facebook.com/permalink.ph...

Twenty years ago tonight was the "Domecoming", a major event in contemporary New Orleans history, and, on this night, your boy was at Cooter Brown's for the experience. Outside of the bar, which is just out of the frame to the left of the frame of the image here, was, at 20:22 CDT, MPEX 2003, light power on the New Orleans Public Belt Railroad, stopped at South Carrollton Avenue.

This was a big night in New Orleans, for this was the night of the “Domecoming” event, and I was nearby for that event, acting upon plans I had made only a few hours earlier, since I am not a big sports fan.

Two things from that night at Cooter Brown’s, which was quite crowded that night and where, that night, I drank a few pints of Guiness, stand out in my mind.

The first was that, when ESPN would show video of devastation of Hurricane Katrina during the pregame programming, there were audible groans among people in the bars as many of them turned away from the televisions in order to avoid seeing the video. We had lived through this stuff now being shown as consumption for viewers far away.

The second was that, when that famous climactic blocked punt happened, the noise level inside of that place was so loud that I damned near thought that it would blow off roof.

It really was a magical night, and I say that as someone who does not identify as a sports fan.

Just under five years later, Steven Gleason, who became a local hero by blocking that punt, revealed that he was suffering from ALS, and it was not long after that that he was confined to a wheelchair.

- 25 September 2006
- New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The sickness of locking thousands of five-year-olds in a concentration camp while screaming about the danger of a 10th-grade trans boy playing lacrosse is an evil that needs to be yeeted into a million burning suns.

theguardian.com

Trump ally Stephen Miller leads sweeping push to accelerate removal of migrant children

Exclusive: key White House loyalist orchestrating multi-agency effort condemned by critics as cruel and racist

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Jimbaux's Journal @jimbauxsjournal.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

If you are unwilling to ever apologize to or acknowledge wrongdoing to your own children for hurting them, or that you could even possibly hurt them, then you should not ever become or should never have become a parent in the first place.

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Geoff Bowden @geoffbowden.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

If I were a Dem senator, I’d be starting some quiet conversations with my GOP colleagues.

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Jimbaux's Journal @jimbauxsjournal.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Do you ever think about all of the things that you could do if only you could do them?

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Jimbaux's Journal @jimbauxsjournal.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

What if shower-curtain rings were illegal?

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Jimbaux's Journal @jimbauxsjournal.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This is a good example of why hostility to transgender people and hostility to autistic people is largely the same thing, and largely from the same people. I didn't exhibit overtly feminine traits, but I exhibited traits that didn't fit in with what the other boys were doing. So, I was sanctioned.

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Cortisol-Infused Jeremy @jabooby.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I remember telling people that 9/11 should be treated like a crime and not a military attack and feeling like I was yelling into the wind.

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Paul Crider @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com · 11/09/2026

9/11 marks the beginning of the American Century of Humiliation, not because of the attack itself, which rallied the world to our side, but because our response tipped a series of dominoes degrading our national character. Wars of choice, ICE and border closure, torture.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I also remember my stomach sinking because the rush to war was so obvious and so fast. It became deafening even before the horrors of the day had fully unfolded. @paulrosenberg.bsky.social writes about how things might have been handled differently:

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James A. Robichaux @jamesrobichaux.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Yes, but we must be very careful about how we use the term "bribe" here, because austerians use it any time people *not* in power run for office promising emancipatory social-welfare benefits. If what Trump is doing here is a bribe, it's ONLY because he could do this now. bsky.app/profile/kwco...

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Oliver Milman @olliemilman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

As our forests burn, permafrost melts and freshwater heats up, huge amounts of planet-heating emissions are being released. These climate 'feedback loops' are often overlooked but could add upto 30% to existing global heating this century, stark new study finds www.theguardian.com/environment/...

theguardian.com

Climate ‘feedback loops’ could worsen global warming by 30%, study finds

Emissions of planet-heating methane and CO2 from natural sources are worsening the climate crisis, paper says

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Jimbaux's Journal @jimbauxsjournal.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Remember Van Halen and Burger King and shit?

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 06/09/2026

A sundowning old man, addicted to AI slop, surrounded by supplicants and apparatchiks, with control over the US nuclear arsenal.

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Space Witches, Esq. @popelizbet.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

kill the MAHA in your head, a non-exhaustive list: -stop using the word "chemicals" in a derogatory way. When criticizing specific types of chemicals, be specific. -stop saying "clean eating" for whatever diet you're on. food you're avoiding isn't dirty or bad just because you are avoiding it.

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Jimbaux's Journal @jimbauxsjournal.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Doesn't this happen to every autistic person? I describe it like one of those deep-sea fish that can survive at that depth because, inside of their bodies, there is outward pressure that becomes too much as they approach the surface. www.facebook.com/groups/21159... <continued below>

<conversation in a Facebook group about AuDHD>

ArkhamKnight6212:
Why am i becoming more and more autistic day by day, it's like the symptoms are expressing themselves more and more... I've been researching it for a while tho but it's like little by little I'm letting myself become more...autistic

reply from Jimbaux's Journal:
You are not becoming more autistic by the day.
You are losing your ability to inhibit outward presentations of your autistic traits.

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Jimbaux's Journal @jimbauxsjournal.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Life is very difficult when you are neurodivergent. Some of that difficulty is indeed due to being neurodivergent itself. A large part of the difficulty, however, is due to society's choice to be needlessly hostile to neurodivergent ways of being. #ActuallyAutistic

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Jimbaux's Journal @jimbauxsjournal.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Here is a picture that I made 15 years ago today inside of a tropical storm. Read the caption in the ALT-text or at the Facebook post here: www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...

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Jimbaux's Journal @jimbauxsjournal.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Here is a picture that I made this afternoon in Schriever, Louisiana. Read the caption in the ALT-text or here on Facebook: www.facebook.com/permalink.ph... Merci.

Today, the New Iberia Turn - Union Pacific Railroad train LLD51S - left its home base at UP Avondale Yard in Avondale, Louisiana, with 34 cars, the first 10 bound for North Boeuf and the remainder bound for New Iberia.

The train got past CTC Live Oak Junction at about 14:14 CDT and then met an eastbound train in Raceland. At Schriever, a westbound BNSF Railway train, with BNSF 7595 as the sole locomotive, was stopped making a pickup of about 16 cars on the siding. On the mainline, The 51 Local train crept up alongside it.

After the BNSF train finished its work and departed, The 51 local train - with only the UP 1500 as power today - approached the west siding switch to restore it to the normal position, and, here, you see, at 18:11 CDT, Conductor Melançon getting ready to alight the locomotive to line the switch as Engineer Domangue waves first for the camera and then for the motorists whose afternoon journey he was momentarily delaying.

Domangue and Melançon, mais, that's a good south-Louisiana crew right there, bruh!

- 2 September 2026
- Schriever, Louisiana, USA

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Jimbaux's Journal @jimbauxsjournal.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Here is a sample of pictures that I made 20 years ago this month: jimbaux.com/2026/09/01/s... All images in that set were made in southeastern Louisiana, as I spent that entire month in southeastern Louisiana. Thanks for checking them out.

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liprap @liprap.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I was at work at the time and NPR was on the radio. Initially, it was treated as an accident and likened to when a plane hit the Empire State building decades before. And then the second plane hit the south tower. www.nationalgeographic.com/history/grap...

nationalgeographic.com

The 17 Minutes That Changed America

The earliest moments of the September 11 attacks did not unfold the way we often remember. Here’s how those surreal 17 minutes changed America forever.

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