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Jim Watts

@jimwatts.bsky.social
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Texan. Retired journalist. Independent Company USA. I’m not as stupid as I look

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Bryan @elwick70.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
What Trump and Hegseth are saying is that one of the most powerful squadrons in the US Air Force, the most power air force in human history, has been scared off by 5 half wits in a transit van. Trump is turning you into a laughing stock, lads.
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The Aviation Show @theaviation.show · 02/10/2026
When you are talking about new wings, naturally you have to ask about how they bolt onto the aircraft. In this clip from our visit with the Vintage Wings team, John and Joe describe what goes into getting Beach City Baby's new wings on. 📺 youtu.be/W4yogCnTd5w 🎧 pod.fo/e/674607 #aviation #avgeek
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
.@cnn hard to believe there’s another source here. Wtf? Give an attribution if this is what you’re doing.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Donald Trump addressing Hispanic people and making a "you people could survive a great fall because you've had practice illegally climbing over my border wall" joke. He's smart, aware, and sensitive that way.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Here's NYT story w/recording of Ken Paxton describing what a dead weight Trump has been, including the convention. “So to be honest with you, the numbers — when we did that convention — it dropped our numbers. Everybody’s numbers dropped. Right now, yeah, not good.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/u...
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Ken Paxton, G.O.P. Nominee in Texas, Privately Said Trump’s Convention Hurt Him
Ken Paxton, one of the party’s top Senate candidates and a Trump loyalist, said that “everybody’s numbers dropped” after the event, according to audio obtained by The Times.
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Eric Deggans @edeggans.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Since Elon Musk seems to hate this documentary about him from one of my favorite non-fiction filmmakers, Alex Gibney, figured it was my duty to spread a link to the trailer so you can see it for yourself. ENJOY: loom.ly/oA2_-p8
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Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
1. The thing about Donald Trump is that he's bad at being president. I don't mean tyrannical or fascist or criminal or corrupt. Those adjectives obviously apply, but I mean *just plain bad*.
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Laura Barrón-López @lbarronlopez.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
EXCLUSIVE @ms.now: Trump administration officials have discussed attaching the president’s name to Ford’s Theatre, the playhouse where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in 1865 Officials are circulating a list of government sites that could carry the president’s name www.ms.now/news/trump-f...
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Trump aides explore attaching president’s name to Ford’s Theatre
The playhouse where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated has been mentioned among federal properties that could carry the president’s name, people familiar with the effort told MS NOW.
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 15/09/2026
American consumers who have paid higher prices as a result of Trump’s illegal tariffs are also paying for interest payments for tariff refunds, more than $100 million of which went to Chinese companies.
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Foreign Companies Have Netted Millions in Tariff Refunds. Taxpayers Foot Part of the Bill
International companies are getting tariff refunds — with added, taxpayer-funded interest. People...
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Dark Canada 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇵🇦 🇲🇽 🇬🇱 🇩🇰 @darknato.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I think it may heal Bluesky to find out that the russian oligarch that paid for Don Jr’s wedding party was also one of the primary originators of the trans panic around the Algerian Olympic boxer.
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Kristy Greenberg @kristygreenberg.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
‘I would cheat, but the Secret Service won’t let me move the ball’ is quite the defense. They’re his protective detail, not Shooter McGavin forcing him to play it as it lies.
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
W/o getting drawn into the "seriously or literally" / "it'll never happen" trap, we need to stomp *hard* on the continuing effort to undermine Article 1 power of the purse by saying that this or that revenue stream makes something outside the normal budget process. 1/ www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
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Lutnick says Trump’s $5,000 checks for Americans wouldn’t rely on taxpayer funds
A top White House official suggested Congress would use a budget process to fund them. Vice President JD Vance had said tariff revenues.
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Daily Kos @dailykos.com · 12/09/2026
The GOP doesn’t care if pregnant women die. www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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Texas doesn’t want you to know how dangerous its abortion ban is
Conveniently, Texas is delaying a critical report until after the midterm elections.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/09/2026
LMAO this guy is being featured at Trumpapalooza because Trump pardoned him
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Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I’ll repeat what I said last year. “One prediction about CK: in five years time, no-one will remember anything about him at all other than his death. Rush Limbaugh was a huge cultural figure. Who remembers anything about him now? He built nothing capable of ensuring or worth preserving …
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
This adulterous liar scolding James Talarico on his understanding of Christianity is as ridiculously galling as JD Vance chastising the Pope on his understanding of Catholicism.
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
The irony of Republicans establishing Sharia-like laws while railing against the imaginary threat of Sharia Laws…
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
I haven't been this impressed with a candidate in a l-o-n-g time. If @jamestalarico.bsky.social is the future of the Democratic Party, we are in VERY good shape.
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Dr Prit Buttar @dienekes.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
If you ever need a succinct summary for why the world is in such a terrible state:
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Dr. Luke Truxal @luketruxal.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Robust air defense networks are no longer luxuries. Both high tech and low tech solutions must be used. The key is the ability to mass produce produce defensive capabilities that are just as affordable as drones.
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Inflation surges to 4.2%, significantly above the 3% that Trump inherited after a campaign in which he vowed to bring down prices starting on day one. @lydiadepillis.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/live/2026/06...
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Live Updates: Inflation Jumps as Iran War Intensifies Price Squeeze
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Happy Birthday Dr Fauci!! Thank you! As physician with the National Institutes of Health, he served the American public health for 51 years, advisor to every president since Reagan. As director of NIAID, he made invaluable contributions to HIV/AIDS research and other immunodeficiency diseases
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
“Trump says” headlines are the junk mail of journalism.
AP: Trump says pilots are fine after US helicopter crashes near Strait of Hormuz
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 05/06/2026
NYT headline when the economy added 266,000 jobs under Biden vs. NYT headline when BLS says the economy added 172,000 jobs under Trump.
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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 05/06/2026
Thousands of Albanians are protesting a luxury resort backed by President Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner. Meanwhile, Kushner is still working as Trump's special envoy for peace and has not filed a financial disclosure.
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Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner’s Albanian resort plan sets off days of protests
The protests, raising concerns about conservation, transparency and the project’s ties to the Trump family, began Sunday in the Albanian capital, Tirana.
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Diana Butler Bass @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Talarico v. Paxton is going to be a straight up religious argument between Christianity as a religion of love for neighbor and Christian authoritarianism. There's not been a public theological contest like this since the Scopes Monkey trail.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
I don't think an unscrupulous coward who lied to get out of serving this country should be called upon to try to read words he neither means nor understands off a teleprompter about those who died serving. It's abhorrent.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
You don't usually rely on Iran's Fars News Agency for unvarnished truth-telling, but we can make an exception in this case.
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§ Translated from Persian Show original It should be noted that American officials have acknowledged in multiple messages to Iran that Trump's tweets are primarily for promotional purposes and media consumption within the United States, and they have recommended that no attention be paid to these statements. 6/6 Rate this translation: B 5:21 PM • May 23, 2026 • 38.7K Views
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Because this country likes to forget what it’s capable of, I take it as a duty to remind us. We sit at the brink of the largest decimation of Black political power since the fall of Reconstruction — a Second Redemption. And the end of Black political power means the end of democracy itself.
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The Civil Rights Era Is Collapsing Before Our Eyes
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 23/05/2026
Donald Trump’s endorsement of Texas’s scandal-plagued attorney general might have given Democrats their best chance in decades to win back a Senate seat, @elainegodfrey.bsky.social writes:
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The Republican Senate Candidate Who Could Lose Texas
Ken Paxton won Trump’s endorsement, but may struggle in a general election.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Holy shit. It's like 2016 all over again, but in clown suits.
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
It is worth noting that almost 15 months after the military genius Trump told the Ukrainians that they had no “cards”, the Ukrainians hit so many targets around Moscow in one night, the most heavily defended city in Russia, that only a map does it justice.
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Dr Prit Buttar @dienekes.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
The naked cruelty of this decision is almost impossible to articulate. But such is the depth to which this US administration has taken matters, it won’t even get a mention.
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Bruce Little @brucedlittle.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Trumps answer was 12 when asked by Howard how young is too young.
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Here’s What Trump Told Howard Stern in 2006 When Asked About His Minimum Sexual Age Limit
Donald Trump gave a startlingly low number when asked if he had a sexual "age limit" during a now-resurfaced interview with Howard Stern.
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Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
“We were determined to find the dumbest fucking people alive and finally we tracked them down”
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 16/05/2026
The posters, preachers, and podcasters on the American right might disagree on trade policy, Israel, and Big Tech, @helenlewis.bsky.social writes. But one important force unites them all: misogyny.
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The Men Who Don’t Want Women to Vote
Or work. Or have opinions.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Not legal.
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Tim O’Brien @timobrien.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
The very definition of an inside job: Trump’s own Justice Dept is pondering settling a case with Trump that he filed against his own IRS. Raw grifting. With taxpayers’ money. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/b...
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Justice Dept. Officials Consider Settling Trump Suit Against I.R.S.
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Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
It is 2027. Trump appears at the press podium at 3am with blood streaming from his eyes, rambles for 2 hours about how the word God is ‘dog’ backwards, then pukes and passes out. The NYT wonders what he might have meant by that and if it signals a new pivot to a Western Hemisphere focus.
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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Usually the onion is funny but this is a miss. This has happened to my cousin Tebney & we have no recourse
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Texas Conference of the AAUP @texasaaup.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Coming soon to Texas no doubt. 🙄 Gift link below. 👇 www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/u...
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Florida Creates a More Conservative U.S. History Course to Rival A.P.
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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
You remember last year when 500 South Korean battery production experts were kidnapped from a Hyundai plant in Georgia and mass-deported? This single act completely destroyed the willingness of foreign EV experts to work in the US to advance American battery and motor manufacturing. 7/x
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Attorney says detained Korean Hyundai workers had special skills for short-term jobs
An immigration attorney says many South Korean workers detained in a U.S. immigration raid at a Hyundai plant in Georgia were brought in for highly specialized work that Americans aren't trained to pe...
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Iikka Korhonen @iikkakorhonen.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
”One career diplomat said those who advocated for Ukraine within Trump’s state department “get a target on their back”.” 🇺🇦 giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... US ambassador to Ukraine to leave over differences with Donald Trump
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US ambassador to Ukraine to leave over differences with Donald Trump
Julie Davis frustrated with president’s lack of support for Kyiv, say people familiar with the matter
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
The masked ICE thug who killed Renee Good got 3 days of administrative leave. The guy who posted an anti-Trump photo of seashells faces 10 years in prison.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
It’s kind of astonishing how many news outlets have published versions of a “Tucker Carlson apologized for telling people to support Trump” story by writers who very clearly did not listen to the podcast.
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Russian Foreign Ministry has officially stated that Trump/USA has invited Putin to go to the G20 summit. The US is working overtime to rehabilitate the Russian dictator and European states need to take this into consideration. kyivindependent.com/russia-claim...
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Russia says it received invitation to G20 Miami summit at 'highest level'
Moscow will confirm who will represent it at the event closer to the date, Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Pankin told journalists at the U.N. Headquarters.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
'Texas A&M philosophy professor Martin Peterson is leaving the university after administrators told him in January that he couldn’t teach Plato’s Symposium in his philosophy class; they said the ancient Greek philosopher’s work violated the system’s restrictions on gender and sexuality content.' 1/3
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Faculty Defect From Texas Publics, Citing Censorship
Fed up with the state’s censoring of Plato, Joan of Arc and Romeo and Juliet, humanities professors are leaving Texas public institutions in pursuit of academic freedom.
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