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@missingthejim.bsky.social
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He/Him, if anyone needs to know. Bit of a renaissance man in terms of interests including transportation, science fiction, games, history, and maps. Heterosexual, but leave the -isms and -phobias behind.

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
This is especially important: “We call upon our fellow institutions of higher education in the United States to declare their willingness to facilitate the immediate co-enrollment of Harvard’s international students, including formal acceptance of transfer for immigration purposes.”
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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
House Democrats just formally introduced our joint resolution to terminate Trump's April 2nd declaration of emergency, which would eliminate the tariffs he announced last Wednesday.
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missingthejim.bsky.social @missingthejim.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
So apparently there's a chance the Insurrection Act might be invoked on the 20th.
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missingthejim.bsky.social @missingthejim.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
This whole tarriff thing makes me want to hurl. At this rate, all we can do is pray.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Boyle: It’s pretty striking that literally all Donald Trump had to do was nothing. He could sit there, watch Fox News all day, sit with the remote control, occasionally tweet, and then on weekends go down to Mar-a-Lago and play golf. But instead, he purposely went about ruining this economy.
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missingthejim.bsky.social @missingthejim.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
It'd still involve a recession, of course, but one that wouldn't be as devastating as the one everyone is seeing.
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missingthejim.bsky.social @missingthejim.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
*Ideally* that's what happens. Trump gets booted by a freaked-out Congress (probably with hell to pay afterward), Vance takes office but is effectively castrated, and we're left groveling for a semblance of our position last year.
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Cadaver Formosus is Already Spooky @cadaverformosus.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
YOU GUYS.
A miniature train yard with working streetlights, industrial buildings in the background and parked train cars with graffiti and a train on the track, also with graffiti train carsA close up of the previous scene with a little red car in the parking lot portion of the train yard. there’s a blue crate train car with white bubble tagging that says stash. In the background there’s a white train car with kos tagged on it with a red backgroundMiniature tagged train cars on a light wood display shelf.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Very odd and questionably lawful prior restraint order out of Texas. The honor society Phi Theta Kappa is trying to prevent a critic named Toni Market from publishing a free book. They just got this bizarre order from a Texas judge prior-restraining it. /1 www.andthenshespokeup.com/wp-content/u...
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missingthejim.bsky.social @missingthejim.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
And the thing is, most of those goons have not even done anything beyond shitpost on Twitter. A few showed up to "defend" Tesla dealerships, but where did the rest go?
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missingthejim.bsky.social @missingthejim.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Well, a small relief, I suppose.
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missingthejim.bsky.social @missingthejim.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
When it comes to this "proof of citizenship" stuff, I find myself leaning more towards making it easier to have copies of one's birth certificate/passport/immigration papers on hand. It's just a solid foundation to have in general.
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AG Rob Bonta @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov · 04/04/2025
GOOD NEWS: We’ve secured a court order pausing the Trump Admin’s unlawful attempt to gut $11 billion in critical public health funding. This will keep funding flowing to help keep our communities healthy and protect us from public health threats. oag.ca.gov/news/press-r...
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Attorney General Bonta Secures Order Restoring $11 Billion in Critical Public Health Funding
OAKLAND — California Attorney General Bonta today issued a statement on the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island’s decision granting a temporary restraining order that immediately rest...
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missingthejim.bsky.social @missingthejim.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
The thing is, even far-right circles don't like her. I remember coming across videos from Intellectual Dark Web YouTubers calling her out as being an airheaded asshole.
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missingthejim.bsky.social @missingthejim.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Very much so. A new order needs to be built and people are gonna rapidly do it knowing that they need one to weather the shocks.
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missingthejim.bsky.social @missingthejim.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Yeah, I'd say someone's rockin' the look.
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missingthejim.bsky.social @missingthejim.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
They really just wanted to skip to the end. I swear, there's a growing general impatience in the air.
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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 03/04/2025
Tactically, this seems like a fantastic time for institutions (law firms, universities) and individuals (Repubs in Congress) who want to stand up to Trump. He's openly cratering the economy, the weakness of Elon's ability to buy elections was just revealed in Wisconsin. The emperor has no clothes.
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missingthejim.bsky.social @missingthejim.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
They'll make a run of trying to stop elections, of course. I don't think they'll cross that finish line in time.
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Magdi Jacobs @magdi.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Not only were there elections this week, the WI election was an essential *first* step in securing future elections. And, that election was won despite the richest man in the world using his wealth & power to influence the outcome. Democracy still matters. Those that say otherwise should be blocked.
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Police across the US are on high alert over Tesla vandalism incidents, documents released by @propertyofthepeople.org show, with agents pointing to discourse over the best method for triggering a thermal runaway. The memos make clear FBI-DHS have only attributed the vandalism to "lone offenders."
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Police Across the Country Are on High Alert Over Tesla Protests
Intelligence reports warn law enforcement about “acts of violence against electric vehicles” and the danger of battery fires.
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missingthejim.bsky.social @missingthejim.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
I have no words.
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Chris Wicklund Auroras @wickydubswx.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
I KNEW IT! NWS Louisville doesn’t have enough staffing to cover NWS surveys. They now have to verify tornadoes via social media pictures.
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The Next Day of the Dead @incompetusrex.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
I love your optimism and occasionally share it, but man, getting to the other side of this is going to suck.
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missingthejim.bsky.social @missingthejim.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
So apparently the Prez not only wants a third term, but wants to run against Obama. Y'know what? Fuck it. Let it happen if push comes to shove.
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missingthejim.bsky.social @missingthejim.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
I'm in a strange spot when it comes to these tarriffs. I'm just uneducated enough about economics to understand why the numbers would "make sense" in the admin's heads, but aware enough of expert opinion to know why they're stupid and an economic shotgun to the face.
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Kevin Hell-iott @kjephd.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Interesting. Senate votes 51-48 to revoke the "national emergency" Trump declared to unlock the (probably unconstitutional) power to impose these tariffs. The House could end this (specific) madness right now.
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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 03/04/2025
Tapping the sign.
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missingthejim.bsky.social @missingthejim.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Ah. There they are.
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Emerald Zeea @emeraldzeea.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
As a historian and queer lefty who normally isn't very optimistic about the American people, I've actually got a lot more positive outlook on the fascist resurgence being defeated decisively at the end of four years. Like, actual real hope. But it'd take too long to explain. So, instead...
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missingthejim.bsky.social @missingthejim.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Like, wouldn't they be taking to the streets in celebration and to harass their enemies? Wouldn't they be staging massive rallies? I feel like there's something amiss here and it's badly underdiscussed.
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missingthejim.bsky.social @missingthejim.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Again, I wonder where all of these pro-Trump groups went? I've yet to hear *anything* about them beyond J6 pardons and that awkward neo-Nazi march in Columbus.
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
vibes are off the charts, and they aren't all there for Bernie
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The Space Pope @popecrocodylus.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
I think it was the whole "intellectual dark web" thing that made me realize "oh, a lot of these guys believe some really disgusting things they just don't want to say so in mixed company."
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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
It's impressive how like every elite in America is badly misreading things
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Doctor Memory @blank.org · 22/03/2025
BTW it was glioblastoma, a worst-case, settle-your-affairs-now diagnosis that’s been intractable and incurable for all of human history. We have only in the last 2 years gotten any plausible results against it, using MRNA vaccines, which these fools want to ban. My hatred outshines the sun.
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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
The problem with leftist politics in the US is that it loves LARPing as being about life-or-death issues but is determined never to make any sacrifices proportionate to the alleged threat. Now the life-or-death threat is actually real thanks to MAGA fascism, but the basic unseriousness continues.
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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Andrew and Tristan Tate are on their way back to Romania. Good riddance to the Tate brothers. 👋
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missingthejim.bsky.social @missingthejim.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
The question is, how do we make it burst?
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missingthejim.bsky.social @missingthejim.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
I give it decent odds.
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JoeinNJfightsfordemocracy @progavalanche.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
It’s another great day for our friends in Wisconsin to get out to early vote for Judge Crawford & her opponent has given you yet another great reason to do it! Show up, be heard by April 1. #DemVoice1
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missingthejim.bsky.social @missingthejim.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Y'know, if there's one aspect of tbe current admin that's underdiscussed, it's where all of those right-wing groups are. News orgs aren't reporting protests, but *nobody* is reporting *anything* about Proud Boys, 3%'ers, Oath Keepers, etc. Are they happy? Are they scared? I wonder…
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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
If you have a Dem Senator or Rep you need to raise hell right now. If they take Section 230 away, Bluesky is dead. DEAD. And we'll be forced to choose between ultra-censored walled gardens and 4chan-like cesspools. You will HATE it.
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missingthejim.bsky.social @missingthejim.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Burn, baby, burn.
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Sean McKnight @ynot1989.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
When a company gets this desperate, you know the bubble is about to pop.
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Sean McKnight @ynot1989.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Ok, I don't know how many times I gotta say it, but the US has a highly decentralized electoral system, to the point where it's not actually possible for Trump to just cancel elections. Like most of Trump's agenda, election interference relies heavily on the compliance of state and local govs.
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The Stinkfoot @thestinkfoot.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Democrats need to do more to stand up to Trump. Agreed. That doesn't mean Stephen Miller saying evil shit is somehow the fault of Democrats. People explicitly blaming Democrats for Republicans "getting away" with being evil is just a flavor of "only Dems have agency." It's a toxic dynamic.
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