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Jim Muir

@jpmuir.bsky.social
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Practical Philosopher — politics, science, history, philosophy, human development evolution, climate, civics, health, rights, and of course the vast failure of citizens, governments, and institutions to solve our existential problems. Warren, Ohio

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Jim Muir @jpmuir.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
And no Ramaswamy political signs, but plenty of Vivek: Political ads are pathetic especially the GOP pacs . But nothing Trumps the Trump ad 'Paid for by the American Government' on Fox during the Brown's victory over the Jaguars last Sunday.
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Jim Muir @jpmuir.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
[Speaking regarding Sen. John Kennedy, Louisiana]
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Jim Muir @jpmuir.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
John Kennedy, Louisiana's "Good Ol' Boy" cowering always to Trump when it counts (votes) but a good bullshitter for sure. Elected as "dedicated watchdog of taxpayer money" — he's done anything but watch."
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Jim Muir @jpmuir.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Jim Muir @jpmuir.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Rogan another pundit with a dunce cap, who thinks these goofballs have anything to offer?
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Jim Muir @jpmuir.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Oops, there's the Guardians
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Jim Muir @jpmuir.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Another epic fail by the democrats. Hakeem you should have known better. You idiot.
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Jim Muir @jpmuir.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
$5k — Certainly a robust bribe, but given the likelihood factor, you might have to add a bonus matching $5k Musk bribe to make it a zero sum 'cause neither one has made good on a promise and always lied in every promise. Doubt that even MAGA will fall for this.
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Jim Muir @jpmuir.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Plenty of right-wing propagandists in the wings of radio in the Mahoning Valley and local TV broadcasting hate ads every hour on tv (WKBN, WFMJ, WYTV). But this incite appears personal.
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Jim Muir @jpmuir.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The A-List of speakers (Assholes) Wondering what the B-List will look like (Bullshitters)
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Jim Muir @jpmuir.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Were you old enough to remember the support of the Shah of Iran by the US? "U.S. Interference: Many Iranians deeply resented the Shah's close ties to the United States, viewing him as a puppet installed by the West after the 1953 CIA-backed coup that overthrew Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh."
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Jim Muir @jpmuir.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Hey that '57 Plymouth my mom drove had push button auto transmission buttons.
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Jim Muir @jpmuir.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Vance is such a 'shit' embellishing every conversation with a brand of humor which grates the human soul.
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Jim Muir @jpmuir.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Damn, you mean corporate power is being ignored in Big Tech? Why the men in the silicon suits are indignant at such a suggestion.
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Jim Muir @jpmuir.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Yes, AND 'the Corruption' please!
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Jim Muir @jpmuir.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
So glad he chose the image of his arrest in Georgia for his $1 coin.
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Jim Muir @jpmuir.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Can't blame you. But AI won't be going away. And as to programming, using Amazon as an example, my last 2 orders: I got a gallon Horse Pine Tar instead of 3 bags of coffee beans, and got the wrong part I needed for a device I bought yesterday. Rufus ain't working in customer service either.
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Jim Muir @jpmuir.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I won't use calendars that don't start the week with the 1st Day. Sunday is the end of the Weekend, not the first day of a week, Unless religious practices invite you to use Saturday as the Sabbath which is perfectly reasonable, but that is not my thing. Calendar makers don't seem to know this.
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Jim Muir @jpmuir.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Yep, another headline gotcha — 'Socialist' Atlantic gots to feed the Maga don't ya know.
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Honesty for Ohio Education @honesty4ohioed.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Opinion Head Start isn't just a preschool. Harmful overhaul must be stopped by Julia Stone www.dispatch.com/story/opinio...
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Head Start isn't just a preschool. Harmful overhaul must be stopped| Opinion
Children will be shortchanged if the Trump administration's proposed changes aren't stopped.
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Jim Muir @jpmuir.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Sketchy indeed. Hakeem lost his 'Fire' in the belly. Seems he's aging like Schumer.
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Jim Muir @jpmuir.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Yes, Democrats, you were elected, you hold office, you have access to speak: We NEED A VISION to break out of the chaos cloud of Republican corruption and greed and democracy's malaise. Elected Democrats who hold office must rise above Trump & MAGA — What of a Bold Future ? A Vision?
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Jim Muir @jpmuir.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Donald Trump doing his damnedest to get Democrats elected. Starting to hear coherence to what I call "The Stand". It seems settled: War, Data Centers, Economy, ICE, Incompetence, Massive Corruption and you can name more. But ambitious elected Democrats ... Where is the Vision?
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Jim Muir @jpmuir.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Flock 'em all; then fire 'em!
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Jim Muir @jpmuir.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
And you got to forgive them for they do not know what they do. Really. And yes, you forgive them because you know better but you love them never-the-less. You don't appease them. Don't hate them. But you don't hide what you know.
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Jim Muir @jpmuir.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
'Inert' Republicans — They who listen to right wing radio and TV who casually haven't got a clue but still think "welfare queen" when the word 'welfare comes up' and 'liberals' every time they hear the word democracy, both enemies of the broadcasts. They believe their beliefs without question
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Jim Muir @jpmuir.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The idiotas keep on idioting.
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Jim Muir @jpmuir.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Next Life — I want this car I think it's a '56 Packard
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Jim Muir @jpmuir.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
"even Mike Huckabee is pissed off" [West Bank] These jokers pick the worst causes and then wonder why they fail...
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Jim Muir @jpmuir.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Amen Ian. You read the headline one morning, There's a Deal! and the very next thing you find out is that Iran controls the strait but no, the US is actually blocking the strait. By the nightly news, you switch to reruns of Young Sheldon.
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Jim Muir @jpmuir.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Bobble-Heads - We should have monuments of all of them as bobble heads.
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Tim O’Brien @timobrien.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
A Bloomberg News analysis of Skype messages, flight records and other documents released by DOJ show that from the time of his release from jail in 2009, through to his arrest in July 2019, Epstein ran a trafficking network that spanned the globe. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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The Flight Network Behind Jeffrey Epstein’s Trafficking Operation
Thousands of flights booked by the pedophile financier’s staff connected associates and victims to a global network of properties
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Jim Muir @jpmuir.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Na *, It's TrumpThink all the way, to unique to Trump for decades, just a lot of years later — cognitive drift. * not AI generated script, but Trump almost always goes 'off script' and his mind wanders.
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Jim Muir @jpmuir.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
The Correspondence Dinner rerun speech by Trump Perhaps written by AI query? Google/Meta both admit using common posts on social media as 'Expert' comments.
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Jim Muir @jpmuir.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Coherence as a metaphor for sanity. i.e. common understanding; Incoherence its polarity, uncommon disarray, a word salad.
Image containing text excerpts from Trump's speech in the recent Correspondence Dinner, having been previously postponed by the assassination attempt.  

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Coherence as a metaphor for sanity. i.e. common understanding; Incoherence its polarity, uncommon disarray, a word salad.
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Jim Muir @jpmuir.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Wow, grasping this makes me think the conspiracy theory of Israel's involvement in the JFK assassination is all the more credible. They wanted nukes and JFK said no. Israel is more embedded in the Trump government than the Russians it seems.
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Jim Muir @jpmuir.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
I can only speak for myself, perceptions of Israel under Netanyahu have been very negative since forever. Imagining that propaganda was employed by groups advocating anti-Israel memes would not surprise me any more than an propaganda insider whining about public sentiment being manipulated. Sketchy
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Jim Muir @jpmuir.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I just watched the Men Who Watched Goats for a gift refresher of lengths the Defense Department will go in seeking the ultimate ...
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Jim Muir @jpmuir.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I think his facial expression, although straight on, resembles his booking photo from his election meddling adventures but then as I look continuously, it appears he may burst out laughing in the next moment... perhaps at the self-image of hypocrisy.
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Jim Muir @jpmuir.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
or Celebrates the Strength of American Values — Trump promoting values we disdain and thought we overcame from the 60s, not those we cherish going into the future.
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Jim Muir @jpmuir.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Are they plastic? Chocolate or bubblegum inside?
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Tom Carter @thcarter123.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
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Jim Muir @jpmuir.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
According to the Independent— 'Cadet Bonespurs' 'In an April interview with CNBC, Trump claimed he “would have won Vietnam very quickly” and has argued the Iran conflict is a brief and lower-cost war by comparison.' www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Picture of Donald Trump appearing to be sitting asleep during a meeting.
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Jim Muir @jpmuir.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Trump has spent his entire life 'honing that shtick' of combating journalists, and Kristen thinks another interview might work. You are better off covering the Truth Kristen, Trump has never crossed that threshold, nor will you with interviewing Trump.
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Jim Muir @jpmuir.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Cancel their offices in Washington DC. move them to their districts, and meet virtually, vote electronically, and full transparency. And why not?
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💠𝑺𝒄𝒉𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒛𝒊𝒆𝑷𝒊𝒆💠 @schultziepie.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
James Talarico does a phenomenal job debunking school vouchers in about 90 seconds. He gives a great explanation of how they work & who they benefit! He says,“Vouchers are welfare for the wealthy.” Take a listen!👇🏼 #supportpublicschools #saynotovouchers #Pinks
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Jim Muir @jpmuir.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
As to anti-intellectualism, my approach is 'forgive them for they...' correct the record presently, and let them stew about it. It's actually how people learn, from the push-back, shocking them into thinking with a wider scope of awareness. Or not. You've opened my eyes to many stale beliefs here.
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Jim Muir @jpmuir.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
I think you are correct Will - in your conclusion about data centers, and an open question. The data center resistance follows the same pattern. But that's democracy with a small 'd' in operation for now. Little information or misinformation, lots of fear based rhetoric and mimicry of the others.
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Jim Muir @jpmuir.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Every time Treasury Secretary Bessent speaks, I wonder what he's on. I want what he's smokin'. But not if it makes me Bessentful
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NPR @npr.org · 04/06/2026
Just 3% of U.S. households pay for AI for personal use. Sign ups are growing — even though Americans have subscription fatigue. n.pr/4el0ME6
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A handful of American households pay for AI. Is the future free — or a subscription?
Just 3% of U.S. households pay for AI for personal use. Sign ups are growing — even though Americans have subscription fatigue.
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