Jim Ryan @shempeverlasting.bsky.social · 16/08/2026I have yelled at The Klob more times than I can count. But I will be voting for her sorry centrist ass in November 130
Reposted by Jim RyanSilmaria 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ @silmaria.bsky.social · 15/08/2026I hate Klobuchar, but Demuth will actively work to destroy my life and the lives of people I love. We cannot let Demuth win, full stop. 05010
Jim Ryan @shempeverlasting.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Yes. Yes, Yes. Don’t grandstand or speechify. Just ask the question again and again. Nobody cares about your eloquent condemnation of the nominee. If they care about anything, it’s their repeated refusal to answer a simple question. 000
Jim Ryan @shempeverlasting.bsky.social · 28/04/2026A sonnet for large language models open.substack.com/pub/jimryan/...open.substack.comIf AI only had a heartbut it's a klanker. So it doesn't, and never will 000
Jim Ryan @shempeverlasting.bsky.social · 04/04/2026At the Saint Paul NO KINGS rally last Saturday, we saw bald eagles. Other people at other rallies did too. They've been on my mind ever since.open.substack.comWhy were there so many bald eagles at NO KINGS?Mother Nature isn't being subtle here 020
Jim Ryan @shempeverlasting.bsky.social · 02/04/2026The birds in that Hitchcock movie had the right idea, but wrong location. Set them loose on Silicon Valley 000
Jim Ryan @shempeverlasting.bsky.social · 02/04/2026Could somebody please make @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social select all the pictures with traffic lights? 000
Jim Ryan @shempeverlasting.bsky.social · 02/04/2026I remember that. I also remember a Republican Party with at least a few decent human beings in the ranks. A very different time. Let’s address the moment we’re in, not the one we wish were happening 100
Jim Ryan @shempeverlasting.bsky.social · 28/03/2026Say! Those people pissing on NO KINGS really DO have a better idea! 000
Reposted by Jim RyanPreeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 28/03/2026and literally no one i know is like "Ok protest done, CHECK" and then going back to pretending we don't live in hell lol 3878
Jim Ryan @shempeverlasting.bsky.social · 28/03/2026Time to check in with Cletus at the Pennsylvania coffee shop! 020
Jim Ryan @shempeverlasting.bsky.social · 28/03/2026The Times op ed author only left out “I am very intelligent.” 000
Jim Ryan @shempeverlasting.bsky.social · 26/03/2026No Kings rallies attract new resistance members with big, welcoming, low-barrier-to-entry events. And some people think that's a bad thing?jimryan.substack.comNo Kings Three Matters a LotHuge, easy-to-join rallies freak out fascists, energize activists and convert fence-sitters. What’s not to like? 000
Jim Ryan @shempeverlasting.bsky.social · 17/03/2026Right now, a lot of people are freaking TF out. In this piece, I share my (considerable) experience freaking TF out, and the skills I learned to stop freaking TF out. Hope it helps you, or someone you know.open.substack.comHow not to despairDooming and future faking aren't helping us beat fascism. Here's how to stop doing them. 000
Jim Ryan @shempeverlasting.bsky.social · 17/03/2026This Saint Patrick's Day, let's remember my ancestors, 'the good immigrants!' 000
Reposted by Jim RyanJess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 16/02/2026They want to scare people out of posting ICE-critical content, because they know these posts are turning even their supporters against them. But the better option is to take a page out of their playbook and flood the zone. 8731361214
Jim Ryan @shempeverlasting.bsky.social · 13/02/2026Trump's regime lost something in Minnesota and they won't get it back.open.substack.comMinnesota Just Slapped Down Trump’s Theory of Power"Might makes right" has been taking a beating on Nicollet Avenue, in Minneapolis and Johnson Parkway in Saint Paul 000
Jim Ryan @shempeverlasting.bsky.social · 12/02/2026Whenever I read accounts of Hitler's Operation Barbarossa, they always include the fact that the Wehrmacht in 1942 advanced to within the furthest reach of Moscow's streetcar lines. Why didn't they just take the streetcar the rest of the way? 020
Jim Ryan @shempeverlasting.bsky.social · 04/02/2026There's heroic Minnesota resistance, and then there's whatever TF I did last week. open.substack.com/pub/jimryan/...open.substack.comIt's weird having the world praise your bravery when you're just going to CostcoLiving in Minneapolis these days means getting mythologized while just trying to live your life. That feels odd 000
Jim Ryan @shempeverlasting.bsky.social · 28/01/2026Gutless wonders from the C-Suiteopen.substack.comMinnesota’s Corporate Overlords: Profiles in CluelessnessAs Minnesotans are Stepping up, CEOs are Stepping on Rakes 000
Jim Ryan @shempeverlasting.bsky.social · 26/01/2026tl;dr: "give in to the feds so we can go back to getting richer" You know what to do. 000
Jim Ryan @shempeverlasting.bsky.social · 25/01/2026“Hey look! Super rich CEOs agree that we should collaborate with fascism! I’m sure they’re right.” — Nobody with a brain in 2026substack.comOutspoken (@out5p0ken)Nah. There’s not very fine people on both sides. Fuck outta here. 000
Jim Ryan @shempeverlasting.bsky.social · 25/01/2026They're doubling down on violence because that's all they have. But it's not enough to stop us, and it won't ever be enough.open.substack.comICE is Killing Us Because we're WinningFederal goons answered our Civic Resistance with more murder. That's a their weakness, not ours 020
Jim Ryan @shempeverlasting.bsky.social · 22/01/2026J.D. Vance's visit has prompted lockdown drills at the Twin Cities' largest interdenominational house of worship: The Room and Board Furniture Outlet 000
Jim Ryan @shempeverlasting.bsky.social · 19/01/2026Play by play of Jake Lang's ritual humiliation and rescue open.substack.com/pub/jimryan/...open.substack.comMAGA Nazi Stages a Show of Weakness in MinneapolisFile under: another thing we Minnesotans didn't need 000
Jim Ryan @shempeverlasting.bsky.social · 14/01/2026Post-protest report from occupied Minnesotaopen.substack.comSiege and Solidarity in MinnesotaAfter senseless tragedy, a day to grieve and connect 000
Jim Ryan @shempeverlasting.bsky.social · 10/01/2026How to stay connected in protestssubstack.comGlen Lancaster 🇨🇦 (@glenlan)SURVIVAL GUIDE Part 1: Emergency Communication When the Internet Goes Dark Recent events in the United States have made one thing uncomfortably clear: systems we assume are permanent are not. Intern... 000
Jim Ryan @shempeverlasting.bsky.social · 05/01/2026Don’t call the assault on Venezuelan a “clusterfuck.” Actual clusterfucks are carefully planned, respectfully negotiated, events featuring multiple consenting adults following agreed-upon rules of engagement. Seriously, I hate when people compare criminal and abusive policies to consensual sex acts 000
Jim Ryan @shempeverlasting.bsky.social · 24/12/2025open.substack.com/pub/jimryan/... The latest Epstein distraction is a big, dumb, and totally imaginary battleshipopen.substack.comYou Sank my Battleship!All aboard the USS Epstein Distraction! 000
Jim Ryan @shempeverlasting.bsky.social · 17/12/2025open.substack.com/pub/jimryan/... Urban Minnesota is infested with ICE goons. Here’s what it’s likeopen.substack.comDateline: Occupied MinnesotaNotes from Twin Cities under siege 020
Reposted by Jim RyanAaron Cohen @unlikelywords.bsky.social · 28/11/2025The fact doomers have gone from "America is over" to "Dems won't hold anyone responsible when this is over" can actually be read as an optimistic signal imo. 773360452
Reposted by Jim RyanHollyphant Pants @hollyphantpants.bsky.social · 28/11/2025Miller wants power and he wants to hurt people. He's got the mentality of a serial killer, but sublimated into politics. There were plenty of guys like that running the original German Nazis. 1135
Jim Ryan @shempeverlasting.bsky.social · 28/11/2025The coming AI crash will be a "black swan who moved in months ago and attacked everybody in the house daily" event. 000
Jim Ryan @shempeverlasting.bsky.social · 25/11/2025So You’ve Decided to Join a Failing President's Goon Squad! open.substack.com/pub/jimryan/...open.substack.comSo You’ve Decided to Join a Failing President's Goon Squad!An orientation guide for new ICE agents who will totally never get prosecuted for any of this 000
Jim Ryan @shempeverlasting.bsky.social · 20/11/2025A Greek Tragedy, but with Morons open.substack.com/pub/jimryan/...open.substack.comA Greek Tragedy, but with MoronsWhom the gods wish to destroy, they first make MAGA 010
Reposted by Jim RyanRyan, Perdido en TX @ryanlostintx.bsky.social · 14/11/2025Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too. 115139143445
Jim Ryan @shempeverlasting.bsky.social · 14/11/2025OMFG. I heard Epstein had a first edition of “Lolita” but he got it on the recco of a Harvard literature prof who never fucking grasped the idea of an “unreliable narrator?” Moral depravity and abject stupidity are running neck in neck here 010
Reposted by Jim RyanChristina Dongowski @tinido.bsky.social · 12/11/2025I can understand, why @bsky.app won't comment on the details of suspending the account of Sarah Kendzior. But it doesn't inspire a lot of trust in the overall decision processes, when there's basically no official information at all what caused the suspension. 1013034
Reposted by Jim RyanJames Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 30/10/2025Courage is contagious. Sounds too simple, but is true. Same for cowardice. 6492106
Reposted by Jim RyanSwampLizard @swamplizard.bsky.social · 20/10/2025future grandchild: like shit, from an ass? me in 30 years: Swear to God. Then he demolished the White House 88119742301
Jim Ryan @shempeverlasting.bsky.social · 15/10/2025One of my favorite historians channels Chaucer’s Wife of Bath. And I mean that as a sincere compliment 000
Jim Ryan @shempeverlasting.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Important point from fascism scholar, Thomas Zimmer: we should never underestimate the ugliness of their plans, but we should also never mistake what they want to do for what they have done. 000
Jim Ryan @shempeverlasting.bsky.social · 07/10/2025"Nazi lightbulb" is not a good spokesperson for any cause 000
Reposted by Jim RyanBradley Whitford @bradleywhitford.bsky.social · 20/09/2025When authoritarianism is on the rise, you can count on the richest, least vulnerable men on the planet to be the biggest cowards. 246122282899
Jim Ryan @shempeverlasting.bsky.social · 17/09/2025Regardless of his other motives, we know that Kirk’s killer grew up in a family and community that took it for granted that ordinary citizens should prepare for someday deciding to shoot someone else and have the weapons to do it with. That’s not a healthy mindset 021
Reposted by Jim RyanSteven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 15/09/2025Times like these call for —courage, not capitulation —truth-telling, not kowtowing to fear and lies —standing up for the Constitution, not forsaking all the Americans who sacrificed their lives for our democracy 441976580
Jim Ryan @shempeverlasting.bsky.social · 11/09/2025“Lax Security” apparently means, “acting like you don’t live in a country where every grudge-holding creep can get a gun” In countries that don’t allow that, this level of security would be fine. 000