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Jim Witkins

@jimwitkins.bsky.social
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Jax (the original) @jacqueline321.bsky.social · 18h
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Jim Witkins @jimwitkins.bsky.social · 32m
It's not antisemitic to point out the insane cruelty being done by the Israeli govt. Same goes for the US/trump/MAGA govt and their concentration camps of immigrants. It's wrong. It's up to us to stop them both.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 22h
The man who found a way to bankrupt a casino is on the verge of bankrupting the Kennedy Center. Everything he touches he destroys.   The reflecting pool, the East Wing, the Kennedy Center, & every monument in America belong to the PEOPLE. They're not his to remake, remodel, or destroy.
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The Kennedy Center was solvent when Trump took over. Then its finances collapsed.
The Post examined 15 years of the institution’s financial records to see why it went south after the president took over.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 47m
Reuters: FAMILY OF RENEE GOOD SUES TRUMP ADMINISTRATION OVER FATAL MINNEAPOLIS SHOOTING BY IMMIGRATION AGENT
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 2h
House lawmakers spent $6.7 million of taxpayer money on meals and lodging last year — a 21 percent increase over 2024 — under a reimbursement program that doesn’t require them to provide receipts, a Post analysis found. Here’s who spent the most in 2025: wapo.st/47r8qsl
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Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 2h
Barbarity in our name. Tennessee Fails to Execute Woman After 2 Doses of Lethal Injection www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/u...
nytimes.com
Tennessee Death Row Inmate Christa Pike Still Alive After Attempts to Execute Her, Lawyers Say
Christa Pike was convicted of murdering a classmate in 1995. It was not clear what went wrong in the execution or what her current medical condition was.
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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 19h
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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 21h
I feel dumb even just having to say this but the reason passports are mailed out in plain regular envelopes is that so that people do not attempt to steal easily recognizable passports in the mail. bsky.app/profile/carn...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h
Ossoff: "You played earlier the tape of Mike Collins, a sitting member of Congress and the Republican candidate for senate in Georgia, supporting the deployment of federal troops to polling places in Georgia this fall. Folks, this is a 5 alarm fire."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h
Ossoff on Mike Collins: "This is a congressman who called for executing immigrants by throwing them out of helicopter. He is a fanatic and Trump puppet."
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Jim Witkins @jimwitkins.bsky.social · 12h
Imagine if we didn’t host the World Cup.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 14h
Fellas, we have to talk to our sons while they’re still young. This foundation👇🏽 is the way…
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Jim Witkins @jimwitkins.bsky.social · 14h
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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 17h
Again with the testosterone… As someone with a deeper voice and more body hair than Pete Hegseth, let me say: - Few problems have military solutions. - Human rights are a force multiplier, not an obstacle. - Everyone belongs here in the US. - Ordering soldiers to commit murder demands consequences.
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Ben Franklin’s ghost @ben-franklin-ghost.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They (GOP) know this to be true and it will always be true.
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Jim Witkins @jimwitkins.bsky.social · 18h
Guy who told us they were eating the cats and dog... 🖕💩🧠🤡
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Jim Witkins @jimwitkins.bsky.social · 18h
JD likes to make up "stories". ie, lying. No schools are doing this. 🖕
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 22h
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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Jim Witkins @jimwitkins.bsky.social · 20h
Still only a begrudging fan of Klobuchar. Maybe she'll make a better gov than senator.
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Jim Witkins @jimwitkins.bsky.social · 20h
This should not be close, Wisconsin. We all hate what trump has done to us. Tom Tiffany might not seem like a wild trumper, but he's just as deranged and dangerous. Help make sure we elect Crowley! Vote early. Make a plan. Volunteer. Donate. #WIgov #WIvote
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 22h
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Jim Witkins @jimwitkins.bsky.social · 21h
Let me guess... only to swing states. Just add half a billion $ to the national debt so trump can try to save his bacon. finance.yahoo.com/personal-fin...
finance.yahoo.com
Trump to send $500 ACA refund checks to roughly 1 million Americans
The Trump administration is mailing refund checks to Americans who it says were overcharged due to Obamacare plan exchange user fees.
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Jim Witkins @jimwitkins.bsky.social · 21h
If I believed in Karma, this would be close: www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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Get ready for Trump to turn on Ken Paxton
On Wednesday, The New York Times published secretly obtained audio in which the Texas Republican nominee for Senate admitted that President Donald Trump’s midterm convention hurt the GOP more than it…
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Jim Witkins @jimwitkins.bsky.social · 22h
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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Van Gogh goes on display before sale of ‘almost mythical’ private collection
Châtaigniers en fleurs, valued at $180m, to be auctioned along with 11 other works by likes of Cézanne and Monet
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Jim Witkins @jimwitkins.bsky.social · 23h
Peter Thiel, expert antichrist lecturer. 🤡 Evil is good. Who does that sound like?🙃
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Jim Witkins @jimwitkins.bsky.social · 23h
Seriously. Based on his TV commercials, Tom Tiffany is some benevolent grandpa. Total fraud. He tried to overturn your vote, WI, in 2020. He voted for trump's Iran war repeatedly. Doesn't trust women to make own decisions. Nothing is too extreme for this trump lackey. captimes.com/opinion/edit...
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Editorial | Tiffany doesn’t want voters knowing the truth about him
Editorial: After Tom Tiffany banned the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel from media coverage, we looked into the allegedly unfair coverage — it is Tiffany who is being unfair.
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Jim Witkins @jimwitkins.bsky.social · 23h
Be sure to put it up on stilts so the flood waters don't reclaim it. Better yet, don't build it in Miami.
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Jim Witkins @jimwitkins.bsky.social · 23h
Solid! Lets win senate and house first. www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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Kill the filibuster and make Trump veto everything people want
Try telling a voter you had the majority, that you control the rules, and let a rule beat you anyway. See how that goes.
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Buffalo Temple of Music, Sports, and Whatever @sethfromthe716.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Eric Schmitt is going to lose his shit when they tell him about the Chicago Blackhawks, Seattle Seahawks, Miami RedHawks, or the Kansas Jayhawks.
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Jim Witkins @jimwitkins.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The real takeaway from yesterday. Your reminder trump is a criminal. John Roberts SCOTUS complicit. www.mediaite.com/media/news/j...
mediaite.com
Jack Smith: Trump 'Engaged in Serious Crimes' Against US
Jack Smith ripped Trump in his opening statement to a Senate panel, saying his investigation uncovered "proof beyond a reasonable doubt" of "serious crimes."
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Jim Witkins @jimwitkins.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Didn't realize republicans probably committed a crime to obtain Jack Smith's private personal texts? HOW DID THEY GET THEM? Indeed!
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Jim Witkins @jimwitkins.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Frank Luntz has passed his expiration date.
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Jim Witkins @jimwitkins.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Feel for the Lynx fans. Rough. Was hoping this was their year. That said, of the remaining teams I’d probably root for the liberty. ATL looks pretty good too, but why not NY?
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Jim Witkins @jimwitkins.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Sure Schmitt and republicans beclowned themselves, but let’s make sure the news is Jack Smith reminding everyone what a crook trump is. He belongs in jail and if it wasn’t for a corrupt SCOTUS making him immune while Pres he’d face serious charges. Still could. Jan 6 crimes and stolen docs at MAL.
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Jim Witkins @jimwitkins.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
US up 4-2 on Chile. 95th min. Fists flying. Benches empty. #Usmnt
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Jim Witkins @jimwitkins.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Derp. finance.yahoo.com/economy/arti...
finance.yahoo.com
Decline in tourism hits US economy
Overseas visitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year.
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Jim Witkins @jimwitkins.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They’re feeding it flawed training data, and rewarding bad behaviors, so no wonder the models act deceptively.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Scoop — I've ID'd the two men sitting behind Sen. Eric Schmitt during his botched attack on Jack Smith this morning. Ethan Harper (left) is Chief Counsel to Schmitt, and Andrew Ceonzo (right) is Counsel to Schmitt and the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
And once again, real harms imposed on real people must be set aside until after real damage is done in order to privilege the unproven right of Trump to impose those harms
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 29/09/2026
🚨 BREAKING: Texas Rep. Gina Hinojosa has filed an official request to inspect unredacted communications between Gov. Greg Abbott’s office and Elon Musk after roughly 1,400 pages released last year were heavily redacted as “intimate and embarrassing.”
Texas State Rep. Gina Hinojosa stands indoors wearing a burgundy blazer and dark top, with campaign signage bearing her name and the outline of Texas visible behind her.Official letter dated September 29, 2026, from Texas State Rep. Gina Hinojosa to Gov. Greg Abbott’s office requesting inspection of unredacted communications between Abbott’s office and Elon Musk and his companies. Hinojosa seeks records previously released with redactions for information deemed “embarrassing” or “intimate,” citing her legislative authority under the Texas Public Information Act.
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Axios @axios.com · 29/09/2026
NEW: OpenAI hit with landmark lawsuit following Hugging Face hack
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OpenAI hit with landmark lawsuit following Hugging Face hack
"OpenAI is responsible for the conduct of its agents," the advocacy group suing argued.
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Jim Witkins @jimwitkins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
None of the companies with AI in their names are changing it. 🖕💩🧠🍑🤡
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
At a time when the most influential leaders of the U.S. need to stand up loudly and clearly for the rule of law, they are leading the charge in the opposite direction. But not Jack Smith. Kudos to him for continuing to be a much needed voice of clarity.
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Jim Witkins @jimwitkins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
These whiners are pathetic. I want to hear from the sincerely pissed Americans that voted against trump 3 times and were proven right about everything AND are still fighting his corruption, lies, and sabotage. 🖕#MAGA dipshits.
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Senator Amy Klobuchar @klobuchar.senate.gov · 29/09/2026
Before calling someone a “dirtbag,” the Senator should have had his facts straight. An apology is in order. Glad one of us knew the difference between the Atlanta Hawks and the Iowa Hawkeyes!
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Jim Witkins @jimwitkins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
great if trump fans are turning on him, but i don't want to hear from these folks. they didn't learn from his first horrid 4 years. maybe they can take a back seat for now. maybe listen to the folks that voted against him 3 times.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Best Sen Schmitt meme yet
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Jim Witkins @jimwitkins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Vote early folks. Avoid this horseshit. Not sure what I'd do if anyone tried to eye my vote at a polling place. Might get ugly. Don't let republicans intimidate you or cheat.
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Jim Witkins @jimwitkins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Sen Ron Johnson's office just glad it wasn't them for once. There's still the insane furry stuff from a week ago. Republicans should not lead America.
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