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Jim Eisenbraun

@jimibooks.bsky.social
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Immigrant (@ 10 mos.), former publisher @ Eisenbrauns; follower of Jesus; husband; father; patriot (in the Mark Twain mode); bird-watcher; retired; avid reader.

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Jim Eisenbraun @jimibooks.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It's amazing (or not?) to see Rs all of a sudden promote the gospel of lower gasoline/diesel prices even while we're in the pagan wasteland of very high petroleum prices. Oh, wait! There's an election this year!!
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Jim Eisenbraun @jimibooks.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Updated flu and Covid vaccine shots completed today. Yes! Anecdotal information: since starting on the annual flu vaccines (ca. 10 years' worth now), neither Merna nor I have had a single case of the flu. Random? Perhaps. Perhaps not.
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Dr. Todd Arrington @btarrington.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A million thanks to @hcrichardson.bsky.social for writing about the 350th anniversary of the burning of Jamestown and helping a larger audience understand this still very relevant history. I say this as Executive Director of the Jamestown Rediscovery Foundation but also as a historian & a citizen.
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Jim Eisenbraun @jimibooks.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The most important thing you can do today in remembrance of 9/11/2001 is to read this article by Radley Balko, a very good investigative journalist. Please read. Please. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/o...
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Opinion | Civil Libertarians Knew This Would Happen. We Should Have Listened. (Gift Article)
The civil libertarians’ warnings have come true.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/06/2026
WOW - Trump crashes out & cuts his interview w/ Welker short as she presses him on his lack of evidence for claiming elections are rigged "You're either crooked or you're stupid. I've had enough. Thank you darling," he tells her" "I traveled all the way to Wisconsin for this interview," she pleads
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Jim Eisenbraun @jimibooks.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
“Part of the mystery of grace is the way it operates not only as present joy and future hope, but also retroactively, in a way: the past is suffused with a presence that, at the time, you could only feel as the most implacable absence.” — Christian Wiman
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Jim Eisenbraun @jimibooks.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Happy Mother's Day! You gave us all so much, mom. [Picture: early 1949, somewhere in China]
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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 12/04/2026
Hungary has chosen Europe. Europe has always chosen Hungary. A country reclaims its European path. The Union grows stronger.
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
I know this is an obvious thing to say but we should talk more about what a racist this guy is. He’s as racist as George Wallace or Strom Thurmond but unlike them he often escapes having racism mentioned as a leading cause for all his decisions.
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Jim Eisenbraun @jimibooks.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
"No new wars." Liar. Liar. Liar.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/02/2026
New in PN: "Just making s**t up" — @volts.wtf sounds off on the EPA “How the f**k are they going to do that? If you can get the Supreme Court to rule carbon is not a danger to public health, it will mark the point at which they have abandoned all pretense, because that’s just a flat out lie.”
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"Just making s**t up" — David Roberts sounds off on the EPA
"To say members of Congress didn’t anticipate a specific pollutant is just f**king comical."
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Jim Eisenbraun @jimibooks.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
"To hope does not imply accepting a false peace that laments divisions without naming the evils done. Instead, hope demands a certain doggedness, a refusal to let go." Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/o...
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Opinion | It’s So Hard Not to Be Consumed by Rage
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Jim Eisenbraun @jimibooks.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Ken White, Constitutional expert, on what is happening in Minneapolis.
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Jim Eisenbraun @jimibooks.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
If you pray, please join me in praying for Tim Walz and other persons in leadership in Minnesota.
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Jim Eisenbraun @jimibooks.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Reminder: Assume your government is lying until proved otherwise.
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Jim Eisenbraun @jimibooks.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
A reminder that the likelihood of the words "terror," "terrorist," and related terms being used appropriately are next to nil. [Edit: also the word "rioter" and/or "riot."]
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Jim Eisenbraun @jimibooks.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Every red-blooded (= alive) American Patriot needs to read this brief synopsis of Jack Smith's testimony to Congress. Why Rs at the House Committee decided to release it on New Year's Eve (if at all) is unknown to me. www.therepublic.com/2025/12/31/c...
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Jim Eisenbraun @jimibooks.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
As an Indiana resident for the last 47 years, I'm thrilled with this outcome. It's deeply surprising, and heartening, to me. The vote ended up 31 against, only 19 senators for redistricting. indianacapitalchronicle.com/2025/12/11/s...
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Senate Republicans reject Trump's plea for gerrymandered maps • Indiana Capital Chronicle
The Republican-dominated Indiana Senate voted 19-31 on Thursday against redrawing the state’s congressional districts — spurning months of demands from President Donald Trump. The final outcome remain...
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Jim Eisenbraun @jimibooks.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Well, the Indiana House passed the mid-decade redistricting bill and sent it on to the Senate, today ca. 1:30 p.m. Here is the roll-call record on the vote in the House.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Dear foreign nationals in war-torn countries, terrorism hot-spots, and amidst our enemies: If you help the United States, we’ll fuck you over and abandon you. Not the individual servicepeople or intelligence officers — they’ll fight for you. I mean the depraved, soulless leadership of the nation.
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Last month, playing tape of Charlie Kirk's words was enough to get people fired for the new category of anti-Kirkist hate speech. This month, playing tape of Ronald Reagan's words is enough to spark a presidential tantrum and diplomatic breakdown. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
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Live Updates: Trump Cuts Off Trade Talks With Canada
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Jim Eisenbraun @jimibooks.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
The Lawless Man of January 6, 2021 claims new power for himself by attacking the most vulnerable people in the city where our government resides. It's an Abomination. An abomination we must resist in every way that we can. It's wickedness, plain and simple.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
JUST IN: Judge Gallagher says either El Salvador is lying to the UN or the administration is lying to her about the people deported to CECOT. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Jim Eisenbraun @jimibooks.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Read Ken White. It'll disturb you (even if you're already disturbed). www.popehat.com/p/only-crimi...
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Only Criminals Don’t Want To Be Gassed By The Government
The Tellingly Pathetic Case Against Alejandro Orellana
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Jim Eisenbraun @jimibooks.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
An Eastern Bluebird to start your Saturday.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
1. In an extraordinary public flogging, the Florida State Board of Education repeatedly threatened a school superintendent with criminal prosecution unless he removed a Judy Blume book from all library shelves. One member called the district librarians "child abusers."
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Florida's literary inquisition
In a chilling meeting of the Florida State Board of Education last week, a school district superintendent was publicly browbeaten and repeatedly threatened with criminal prosecution.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.
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Jim Eisenbraun @jimibooks.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
🧵 56 years. 56 years ago today, Merna and I were married (passive voice).
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
There is one place, however, where Musk, with the help of his minions, achieved his goals. He did indeed shred U.S.A.I.D. Though a rump operation is now operating inside the State Department, the administration says that it has terminated more than 80 percent of U.S.A.I.D. grants. Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk’s foray into politics accomplished.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
“thats not what i asked” is a phrase that should be said more in white house press briefings
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Supreme Court: The government can shoot or disappear people at will as an exercise of unitary executive power, but no, obviously, that wouldn’t include us, and frankly we’re kind of disappointed you asked.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
He missed the deadline to submit a single form 10 years ago, amidst family grief when his wife suffered a stillbirth. He did nothing illegal. Paid his taxes, completed citizenship documentation. But once you activate a police state, they don't care about individual circumstances.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
House Republicans smuggled this👇attack on the federal judiciary into their reconciliation bill. Courts rarely require plaintiffs to post security, so this provision, if passed into law, would render a vast number of existing judgments—including Boasberg's contempt order—effectively unenforceable.
SEC. 70302. RESTRICTION ON ENFORCEMENT.
20 No court of the United States may enforce a con21 tempt citation for failure to comply with an injunction or
22 temporary restraining order if no security was given when
23 the injunction or order was issued pursuant to Federal
24 Rule of Civil Procedure 65(c), whether issued prior to, on,
25 or subsequent to the date of enactment of this section.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Seems to me that if there’s a senile guy doing nothing in particular the usual way and a senile guy setting everything on fire, the fire guy is the one who should be the focus of media inquiry
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Moments like these are instructive. They demonstrate exactly how dishonest, dishonorable, and irredeemable these people are.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
See the difference? 🤨
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
There it is, in a nutshell.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Now we have the answer. The original story was legit then Bezos backed down.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
The Doge.gov website has not been substantively updated for OVER TWO WEEKS The website says it was updated on April 20, but on that date, it just increased its topline "savings" number from $155 billion to $160 billion without changing the underlying data. muskwatch.com/subscribe
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago: —Pioneering cancer researcher; —*Arrested* at airport in Boston; —Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana; —"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research. Read it. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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New images could change cancer diagnostics, but ICE detained the Harvard scientist who analyzes them
Without scientist Kseniia Petrova’s expertise, no one can fully unlock the data’s potential, putting crucial advancements in early cancer detection at risk.
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Jim Eisenbraun @jimibooks.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
When a criminal is in the White House, this is what we get.
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Jim Eisenbraun @jimibooks.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
I’m delighted!
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Bonhoeffer's Child @bonhoefferchild.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Reminder: “Family Values” isn’t really defined or expressed by ideologues hating gay people or beating a hollow drum about babies. “Family value” means actually recognizing that every man and woman are made Imago Dei and treating them accordingly, as part of Christ’s family, and acting accordingly.
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Jeffrey Overstreet @overstreet.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Again, congratulations, "evangelical" "Christians," on the destruction you have brought to your own churches. "As Christians, we can want order in our immigration system and obey Christ’s command to care for the vulnerable (Matt. 25:31–46)." Link: www.christianitytoday.com/2025/04/mode...
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
oh ok give me a moment while I look for my shocked face 🙄 oh wait that’s not it 🤮dang where is it 😵‍💫oh wait here it is 😱
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