Jim Fenton 🇺🇸<>🇨🇦 @jimfenton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I’m enjoying our new BritBox subscription, but what I really want is CanuckBox so I can watch those Canadian shows I can’t get in the US! @savethecbc.bsky.social 000
Jim Fenton 🇺🇸<>🇨🇦 @jimfenton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Not being subjected to seeing Trump’s face in the media all the time is a definite improvement. Keep it up. 001
Jim Fenton 🇺🇸<>🇨🇦 @jimfenton.bsky.social · 14/09/2026My answer to the @MuckRack Daily trivia question: tooth enamel 000
Jim Fenton 🇺🇸<>🇨🇦 @jimfenton.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I'm getting absolutely slammed by fundraising text messages from candidates and other political causes today. Is this what the next two months is going to be like? 001
Jim Fenton 🇺🇸<>🇨🇦 @jimfenton.bsky.social · 24/07/2026@kenwhite.bsky.social this would be a great topic for Serious Trouble techcrunch.com/2026/07/24/u...techcrunch.comUS accuses American of allegedly wiping his phone using a 'duress' password during border search | TechCrunchA U.S. citizen has asked a court to throw out the government's claim that he gave over a passcode to border authorities that wiped his phone's data, opening up fresh questions about a person's constit... 100
Jim Fenton 🇺🇸<>🇨🇦 @jimfenton.bsky.social · 19/07/2026My congressman, Rep. Sam Liccardo (CA-16), voted against the Massie amendment that would have cut off funding for military aid to Israel. If you are in his district and disagree with this (or, for that matter, if you agree), please let him know. liccardo.house.govliccardo.house.govCongressman Sam LiccardoRepresenting California's 16th District 000
Jim Fenton 🇺🇸<>🇨🇦 @jimfenton.bsky.social · 10/07/2026I am posting daily installments of our travel journal from our recent trip to Malta and Sicily. They begin at altmode.org/2026/07/04/m...altmode.orgMalta/Sicily Day 0: To MaltaAs I have often done in the past, I am blogging our current vacation trip to Malta and Sicily. I will be posting daily installments over the next two weeks, offset by three weeks from our trip. The… 000
Jim Fenton 🇺🇸<>🇨🇦 @jimfenton.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Wondering if Taylor Swift's wedding at Madison Square Garden will result in any guests being refused entry by their face recognition system. 010
Jim Fenton 🇺🇸<>🇨🇦 @jimfenton.bsky.social · 10/06/2026My answer to the @MuckRack Daily trivia question: Vuvuzela, I assume? 000
Reposted by Jim Fenton 🇺🇸<>🇨🇦Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 03/06/2026It's not the thing that's caused the most death and harm, but pointlessly and maliciously torching our deep-rooted relationship with our closest national friend and neighbor is, in terms of history and national character, one of the most depressing aspects of the broader catastrophe. 521658284
Jim Fenton 🇺🇸<>🇨🇦 @jimfenton.bsky.social · 05/05/2026It's really annoying when you opt out of text messages from a political candidate and they send more from a different phone number. Looking at you, @xavierbecerra.bsky.social 020
Jim Fenton 🇺🇸<>🇨🇦 @jimfenton.bsky.social · 16/03/2026As I have done for several of our past trips, I started delayed posting my travel journal from last month's trip to Vietnam and Cambodia. The first installment is at altmode.org/2026/03/11/v... 010
Jim Fenton 🇺🇸<>🇨🇦 @jimfenton.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Curious about two USAF helicopters, JOLLY91 and JOLLY92, that seem to be orbiting over two container ships off the coast of California right now. Normal training, or are they investigating something? #flightradar24 010
Jim Fenton 🇺🇸<>🇨🇦 @jimfenton.bsky.social · 13/02/2026The one AI agent I would be interested in is one that detects political fundraising text messages, replies Stop to them, and doesn’t pass the messages on to me. These fundraising messages have gotten completely out of hand. @actblueorg.bsky.social 020
Jim Fenton 🇺🇸<>🇨🇦 @jimfenton.bsky.social · 07/02/2026Surprised that Trump hasn’t asked for some deep red state to be named after him. If it was Texas, he might even inherit the motto, “Don’t mess with Trump.” 000
Jim Fenton 🇺🇸<>🇨🇦 @jimfenton.bsky.social · 12/11/2025Wouldn't it be a more efficient use of limited air traffic control resources to prioritize commercial traffic over private, and impact fewer people? Oh yeah, can't inconvenience the billionaires and corporate execs. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/t...nytimes.comWho Didn’t Suffer During the Shutdown? People Flying Private. 110
Reposted by Jim Fenton 🇺🇸<>🇨🇦Anil Dash @anildash.com · 17/10/2025"I have a decent fluency in LLMs, and they have utility, but the absurd degree of over-hype, the way they're being forced on everyone, and the insistence on ignoring the many valid critiques about them make it very difficult to focus on legitimate uses where they might add value." 291435218
Reposted by Jim Fenton 🇺🇸<>🇨🇦Kathleen Clark @kathleenclark.bsky.social · 10/10/2025A master class from MIT in responding to authoritarian overreach: Your “premise … is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone. … America’s leadership in science & innovation depends on independent thinking & open competition for excellence. 71117357
Jim Fenton 🇺🇸<>🇨🇦 @jimfenton.bsky.social · 10/10/2025Word of the day: 'dummymander' www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...nytimes.comThe Redistricting Fight You Haven’t Heard About 042
Jim Fenton 🇺🇸<>🇨🇦 @jimfenton.bsky.social · 07/10/2025Given Pam Bondi's refusal to answer important questions, she should be held in contempt of Congress. But, oh yeah, it would require Republican votes to do that. 010
Jim Fenton 🇺🇸<>🇨🇦 @jimfenton.bsky.social · 04/10/2025I am enormously proud to have Alex Padilla @padilla.senate.gov as my senator (and fellow MIT alum). This interview clearly explains why: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/m...nytimes.comSen. Alex Padilla Says His Viral Moment Was a Sign of Things to Come 031
Reposted by Jim Fenton 🇺🇸<>🇨🇦WCY @wangchungyooon.bsky.social · 18/09/2025Posted on the wall of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum since 2003. When are people gonna wake up and fight back? 410338
Jim Fenton 🇺🇸<>🇨🇦 @jimfenton.bsky.social · 18/09/2025This is about as un-American as anything I have seen lately. Media freedom ratings for the US, never as good as they should be, should be flashing red right now. 010
Jim Fenton 🇺🇸<>🇨🇦 @jimfenton.bsky.social · 06/09/2025How much will be spent changing signage, letterhead, websites, etc from Defense to War? Will agencies like DIA and DTIC need renaming? Will terms like DEFCON need to change? What happens if the courts decide Trump didn’t have the authority to do this? This is the opposite of government efficiency. 010
Jim Fenton 🇺🇸<>🇨🇦 @jimfenton.bsky.social · 28/08/2025Just received my renewed US passport. Honestly surprised that there isn't a picture of Trump on it somewhere. 110
Jim Fenton 🇺🇸<>🇨🇦 @jimfenton.bsky.social · 27/08/2025Why is it that every time I see the term "Alligator Alcatraz" my mind keeps reading it as Alligator Auschwitz? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...nytimes.comJokey Names for Detention Centers Face Criticism for Insensitivity 120
Jim Fenton 🇺🇸<>🇨🇦 @jimfenton.bsky.social · 01/08/2025At long last, the four-volume NIST SP 800-63-4, Digital Identity Guidelines, has been released! Looking forward to the online workshop discussing the documents. www.nist.gov/blogs/cybers... #SP80063nist.govLet’s get Digital! Updated Digital Identity Guidelines are Here! 010
Jim Fenton 🇺🇸<>🇨🇦 @jimfenton.bsky.social · 04/07/2025For some strange reason I’m just not in a mood to celebrate the 4th this year. 000
Jim Fenton 🇺🇸<>🇨🇦 @jimfenton.bsky.social · 30/06/2025Why does the scaffolding on the Supreme Court building make it seem like even the building is ashamed of their recent rulings? 101
Reposted by Jim Fenton 🇺🇸<>🇨🇦Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 26/06/2025Federal and local law enforcement wearing masks is just plain unamerican. It’s a cowards move, and shows the fact that the kinds of deportations happening and the methods are, shameful and unpopular. adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/why-are-fe...adamkinzinger.substack.comWhy Are Federal Agents Wearing Masks? It’s a Threat to American DemocracyMasked Federal Agents Are Undermining Trust—and Democracy 975143584129
Jim Fenton 🇺🇸<>🇨🇦 @jimfenton.bsky.social · 18/06/2025Sad that my senators have yielded to the cryptocurrency bros. 020
Jim Fenton 🇺🇸<>🇨🇦 @jimfenton.bsky.social · 17/06/2025This makes the potential corruption clear: those supporting the GENIUS Act are putting $ ahead of their principles. 120
Jim Fenton 🇺🇸<>🇨🇦 @jimfenton.bsky.social · 17/06/2025We need this, and we need it at the federal level too. Officers involved in immigration raids need to be identifiable by arrestees so they can be held responsible for rights violations. Are they afraid we’ll find out if they were Jan 6 participants? sd11.senate.ca.gov/news/senator...sd11.senate.ca.govSenators Wiener & Arreguin Announce Legislation To Prohibit Local, State & Federal Law Enforcement From Covering Their Faces & Require Stronger IdentificationOfficial website of Senator Scott Wiener, representing California Senate District 11. 010
Jim Fenton 🇺🇸<>🇨🇦 @jimfenton.bsky.social · 08/06/2025During the first Trump administration, a lot of us read (and attended performances of) Sinclair Lewis’s “It Can’t Happen Here”. I haven’t heard it mentioned much lately, but the parallels to current events seem much stronger. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Can'...en.wikipedia.orgIt Can't Happen Here - Wikipedia 000
Jim Fenton 🇺🇸<>🇨🇦 @jimfenton.bsky.social · 05/06/2025This confirms my suspicions that the US H-1B program is seriously broken, both with respect to bringing in "the best and the brightest" and the path to permanent residency that follows, often involving what amounts to several years of indentured servitude to their current employer. 112
Reposted by Jim Fenton 🇺🇸<>🇨🇦Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 17/05/2025🚨URGENT RESPONSE CALL🚨 🌪️23 LIVES WERE LOST OVERNIGHT AS TORNADOS HIT KY. KY has one of several regions in the US without 24/7 National Weather Service coverage, due to DOGE cuts. W/out overnight monitoring, ppl don't receive weather warnings. THIS is how science cuts cost lives. shorturl.at/JgTjUweku.orgMultiple deaths reported in Somerset and London due to late night tornadoes UPDATEDThe towns of Somerset and London have been hit particularly hard with many homes and buildings damaged in the early morning hours. 13294166
Jim Fenton 🇺🇸<>🇨🇦 @jimfenton.bsky.social · 17/05/2025I am SO tired of getting fundraising text messages from congressional and senate candidates elsewhere in the country. Three so far today, and it's just noontime. I replay STOP to each one, but they all come from different phone numbers. 010
Jim Fenton 🇺🇸<>🇨🇦 @jimfenton.bsky.social · 03/05/2025“I saw an eagle that could have been a vulture” seems like a commentary on the current regime. 130
Jim Fenton 🇺🇸<>🇨🇦 @jimfenton.bsky.social · 23/04/2025Our family's long and enjoyable relationship with state parks got featured by @californiaparks.bsky.social recently: www.calparks.org/blog/lifelon...calparks.orgA Lifelong Journey through California's State Parks 041
Jim Fenton 🇺🇸<>🇨🇦 @jimfenton.bsky.social · 18/04/2025Protect the Internet Archive. It is critical infrastructure. chng.it/ymyNxDnR5kchng.itCan you spare a minute to help Jim Fenton?Defend the Internet Archive 020
Reposted by Jim Fenton 🇺🇸<>🇨🇦Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 15/04/2025We’re not sure what separates the Trump admin from the “terrorists” it claims to be fighting. You watch whats happening and can’t even process it—what the hell is going on is all we can think. Our Constitution grants everyone within this country the same legal protections, regardless of citizenship. 844943756
Jim Fenton 🇺🇸<>🇨🇦 @jimfenton.bsky.social · 16/04/2025I’m of course very concerned about Mr. Abrego Garcia but let’s not forget the many others that were sent to El Salvador without due process. I’m sure at least some of them are innocent too. 020
Reposted by Jim Fenton 🇺🇸<>🇨🇦Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 14/04/2025If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful. 12585407313731
Jim Fenton 🇺🇸<>🇨🇦 @jimfenton.bsky.social · 13/04/2025This is absolutely horrifying. I wouldn't be surprised if this was happening in North Korea, but this is the United States of America. www.propublica.org/article/rume...propublica.orgAmerican Rendition: Rümeysa Öztürk’s Journey From Ph.D. Scholar to Trump Target Languishing in Louisiana Cell“So horrifying and so heartbreaking”: Öztürk’s close friend provides an intimate look into one of the hundreds of foreign students who have had their visas revoked — and in dozens of instances have be... 010
Jim Fenton 🇺🇸<>🇨🇦 @jimfenton.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Headlines podcast from @nytimes.com said “tens of thousands of people took to the streets” this weekend. That’s low by a factor of about 100. 110
Reposted by Jim Fenton 🇺🇸<>🇨🇦Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Closely inspecting the list of tariffs/countries posted by the White House, Trump did not put tariffs on Russia. Ukraine's tariff is 10%, the EU's is 20%, and every American ally is on the list. But not Russia. 932218892
Jim Fenton 🇺🇸<>🇨🇦 @jimfenton.bsky.social · 02/04/2025When someone is deported to El Salvador as the result of an administrative error, it is not acceptable for our regime to react with, effectively, “oopsie” 010
Reposted by Jim Fenton 🇺🇸<>🇨🇦Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz.bsky.social · 29/03/2025The word “terrorist” is a meaningless tool of imperial narrative control. Want to bomb some people? Designate them as terrorists. Want to silence protesters and dissidents? Say they’re supporting terrorists. Want sweeping surveillance powers? Say you need them to fight terrorism. 1433015752
