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Jim Naughton

@jimnaughton.bsky.social
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Formerly: Episcopal comms guy, NYT Sports, WaPo Style, Daily Orange. Currently, thrilled about my new granddaughter, trying to write something. He/him

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 11h
New — Mike Huckabee's family company is offering $5800+ trips to Israel, so tourists can meet "top Israeli officials," even while he is the Ambassador to Israel. Plus: he promised his Huck PAC would go "dormant" if he became ambassador. That didn't happen. Over the past 2 years, it's raised $4.5M.
zeteo.com
‘The Israel Experience with Mike Huckabee’: The Ambassador’s Family Sells Trips to Israel
Mike Huckabee’s family is offering trips to Israel so tourists can ‘hear from top officials,’ even though he’s the ambassador. Meanwhile, he’s done little for U.S. victims of Israeli violence.
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Jim Naughton @jimnaughton.bsky.social · 9h
Come on, Ohio. Surely, we can elect Dr. Amy Acton as our next governor instead of this showboating yahoo.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 10h
This 2022 piece by Jeremy Peters In the New York Times was hilarious bullshit when it was published but now that Musk is literally bankrolling the entire Republican Party it’s a fucking laugh riot.
Critics Say Musk Has Revealed Himself as a Conservative. It’s Not So Simple.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 15h
elon will look untouchable right up until he doesn't anymore and western governments should accelerate that day as quickly as possible
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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 16h
"Democracy dies unless Maggie Haberman has access to senior Trump aides and McConnell/Romney Republicans respect us" is essentially the argument Times editors have been making since 2018. I can't tell if they actually believe that or it's a pretext for their decision not to change their approach.
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 18h
Of course he has a strong dislike of Zelenskyy- Z is a heroic world historical fighter for freedom against the savagery & lies of the Putin-Trump axis. Everything about Z mocks and reveals the shabby criminal sleaziness and anti democratic degradation and cultural debasement that Trump embodies.
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Thomas [DARK MODE], DO 🫐 @tom.medsky.social · 18h
JD Vance is nothing more than a mediocre white guy who would have voted against all of the policies that made my existence here possible. He can eat a bag of dicks. Here is a photo of us from the early 1980s. My brother, Nick, also hates JD Vance.
A young asian family sitting on a cough togther with a christmas tree in the background.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 18h
This is so unabashedly bigoted that it would be completely unacceptable on any other network and probably result in an on-air apology. But also it's very stupid? You want to subvert America so you … join the Senate? One of the least functional entities in America? OK. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Dan Weiner @danw329.bsky.social · 18h
The last big bonanza of FEC filings before the election has come in! My top takeaway: the legal framework we’ve had since Watergate for limiting the corrupting influence of money in elections is close to dead, with a stark divide between the two parties emerging in how they fundraise.
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A senator voted to hand the private prison industry $45 billion. Nine weeks later the industry's biggest CEO maxed out to him. Ohio, it's yours. All the proof: www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-fill...
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 21h
Yesterday, Christianity Today published a piece on the late purity culture matriarch Elisabeth Elliot, with newly discovered private correspondence suggesting she may have been bisexual. Today, the article has disappeared without a trace.
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AdotSad @adotsad.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
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Mae Nick Phra Khanong @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
The way you know Vivek is not fit to rule Ohio is a true Ohioan would drive at least 8 hours before even considering flying
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Jim Naughton @jimnaughton.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Well, that was impressive. #Brewers
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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 15/10/2026
JTF-DC statement: "JTF-DC service members are directed not to monitor or secure polling locations". What's needed are clear line-of-sight no-go zones for all 55 ballot boxes, 25 early vote centers, and 50 election day vote centers at all times for active military through November 3rd. E.g.:
Proposed line-of-sight no-go zone for active military through the midterm elections to respect 18 U.S. Code § 592
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Jim Naughton @jimnaughton.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Good one.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 16/10/2026
The federal government tried to turn our public servants into deportation agents and force New York City to carry out ICE’s cruel agenda. Today, a federal court rejected that effort and upheld our laws. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
reuters.com
US judge tosses Trump administration lawsuit over New York City 'sanctuary' laws
A federal judge on Thursday threw out a Trump administration lawsuit that ​sought to block New York City laws ‌limiting cooperation with federal immigration enforcement, finding the government did not...
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Jim Naughton @jimnaughton.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
I have fond memories of Milwaukee baseball, but to give you a sense of how ancient they are, I was in town to write a profile of rookie sensation Paul Molitor, and driving back from the ballpark I listened to the Republican convention at which they nominated Ronald Reagan on the radio.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
(Reuters) - The order to limit a satellite system used by Ukraine for battlefield communications and drone operations came from inside the White House, according to two US officials and a Western official briefed on the matter. @reuters.com 🇺🇦 www.reuters.com/world/europe...
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Jim Naughton @jimnaughton.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Ahem. CLE
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Jim Naughton @jimnaughton.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Hard-hitting thread
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Ohio Capital Journal @ohiocapitaljournal.com · 16/10/2026
Commentary; Do you celebrate an arsonist who brings a cup of water to a fire they started? Is the president a hero for cutting small healthcare relief checks after he gave families the largest rollback of federal support for healthcare in American history? ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/10/15/t...
ohiocapitaljournal.com
Commentary: Trump slashed healthcare for Ohio families and spiked premiums. Now he's offering small checks. • Ohio Capital Journal
Do you celebrate an arsonist who brings a cup of water to a fire they started? Is the president a hero for cutting small, healthcare relief checks to people struggling under his policy, the largest…
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 15/10/2026
I admit that I don't know enough about Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Like, not enough people know that Heather Heyer was not just some person who randomly showed up in Cville, she was an activist and paralegal who spent her time helping families facing evictions.
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Jim Naughton @jimnaughton.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Where I grew up, there was a kid named Petey Halpin in every class. Or sometimes his sister. But we were never more than one degree of separation from a Petey Halpin.
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Jim Naughton @jimnaughton.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Great Lakes World Series. Here it comes.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
The Washington Post obtained the list of donors funding Trump’s ballroom, that includes Apple ($25m), the Adelsons ($25m) and the Winklevoss twins ($5m). Not on the list: Trump, who said the ballroom would be paid “100% by me and some friends of mine”. Gift link.👇 wapo.st/4yiUDPx
wapo.st
Secret documents reveal donors behind $330 million for Trump’s ballroom
The records offer a panoramic view of a fundraising campaign that is extraordinary for its size and opacity.
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 15/10/2026
Technically our rapists are independent contractors
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
The systems of state, market, and social control are powerful enough to never be legible to regular people again. If you can’t draw meaningful inferences or parse distinctions you are lost right now.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Student journalist Cat Harris from @cnsmd.bsky.social stood her ground against a bully. There is hope for journalism. video.snapstream.net/Play/aoWTkvo...
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The Lead With Jake Tapper - Intv w/ Cat Murphy
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Matt DeLong @mattdelong.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
A member of Congress threatening a student journalist with prosecution for recording him at a public event
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Jim Naughton @jimnaughton.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
You seem to be envisioning a World Series without the possibility of bad weather blowing in off the lakes in every single game, and I won't have it.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
This is about Ilhan Omar. But it's also about control, intimidation, & authoritarianism. The message is: we can do this to a member of Congress; no foreign-born American is safe. The administration is using fear as a tactic to discourage people from voicing opposition.
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
It's not "strikingly juvenile" and it's not a "personal broadside." It's hate speech. The Vice President is trying to get people to vote against a Democrat by implying that he's gay and/or a pedophile and/or a fetishist. Take it seriously. It is on a par with every other kind of hate speech.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 15/10/2026
If Putin stops fighting, the war ends. If Zelensky stops fighting then his country will be occupied, leaders murdered, language banned, businesses stolen, children kidnapped. That's what happens in Russian-occupied Ukraine.
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Jim Naughton @jimnaughton.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
I don’t like to second guess managers, but I might have yanked Snell after that one thousand pitch at bat ended in a homer.
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Jim Naughton @jimnaughton.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Excellent sleuthing here.
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David DeWitt @daviddewitt.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Ohio’s Cincinnati Public Schools is the first district in the nation to own and operate a parking lot where families experiencing homelessness can go to at night and sleep in their cars, and has served more than 300 people since opening this past spring ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/10/14/c...
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Cincinnati Public Schools has served hundreds with first-in-the-nation sleep lot for families • Ohio Capital Journal
Cincinnati Public Schools is the first school district in the nation to own and operate a parking lot where families experiencing homelessness can go at night and sleep in their cars.
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 15/10/2026
well, YIKES
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Jonathon M. Floyd @jfloyd314.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
It's the most serious example of prosecutorial misconduct this administration has committed, which is a shockingly high bar to clear already.
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Jim Naughton @jimnaughton.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
What a wild inning for Blake Snell. Gives up a first pitch home run, and then strikes out the next three guys on a total of about a dozen pitches. 
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
They SEIZED HER PHONE???? This would be a constitutional crisis if we had three operating branches of government, instead of all three doing whatever Trump wants.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Thanks to RFK Jr, the USDA scuttled a plan to combat bird flu that included vaccinating chickens, because Brooke Rollins “was concerned about whether it would clash with the Health secretary’s anti-vaccine views”. Seems like a good time to deploy the word shitbirds for these government officials.
politico.com
‘It's time to get a vaccine in place’: RFK Jr.’s views helped stall bird flu plan
USDA shelved strategy for inoculating birds after the Health secretary criticized the idea.
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emmylou harris's baseball pager 🗽🫱🏿‍🫲🏻 @baseballmad.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
most competent political party
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Laura Grace Weldon @lauragraceweldon.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Hand printed sign nailed to utility pole reads, "Don't use AI to make art. Use childhood trauma like a real artist."
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
firing up the base, I see
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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 14/10/2026
BREAKING: We just sued Jared Kushner for unlawfully acting as one of the country's top diplomats without undergoing Senate confirmation or filing financial disclosures. It’s abundantly clear that he should be blocked from performing this outsized role: www.citizensforethics.org/legal-action...
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 14/10/2026
boy Trump fucked the American auto industry. first he yanks their EV subsidies, leading them to slash production and write off tens of billions in investment, then he jacks up the price of oil by 50%, leading to skyrocketing EV demand going almost entirely to China bc GM et al left the market
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Jim Naughton @jimnaughton.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Nice work
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Jason Kuznicki @jkuznicki.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Empirical phenomena aren't nearly as gripping as the creatures from the depths of our own minds. The declension narrative is one of them, and we love it, and we forget that real life isn't performing a fall from grace; it's usually just doing one damn thing after another.
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Oh, so the "real conversation" happening on X is incitement of terrorism?
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