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Jim Ryan

@shempeverlasting.bsky.social
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I'm opposed to most things on principle

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Jim Ryan @shempeverlasting.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
I have yelled at The Klob more times than I can count. But I will be voting for her sorry centrist ass in November
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Silmaria 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @silmaria.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I 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.
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Jim Ryan @shempeverlasting.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Yes. 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.
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Jim Ryan @shempeverlasting.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
A sonnet for large language models open.substack.com/pub/jimryan/...
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If AI only had a heart
but it's a klanker. So it doesn't, and never will
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Jim Ryan @shempeverlasting.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
At 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.
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Why were there so many bald eagles at NO KINGS?
Mother Nature isn't being subtle here
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Jim Ryan @shempeverlasting.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
The birds in that Hitchcock movie had the right idea, but wrong location. Set them loose on Silicon Valley
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Jim Ryan @shempeverlasting.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Could somebody please make @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social select all the pictures with traffic lights?
Hakeem Jefferies on Blueksy: The American people are sick and tired of the chaos, high costs and extreme Republican agenda.

Donald Trump must end his reckless war of choice in the Middle East.

Now.
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Jim Ryan @shempeverlasting.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
I 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
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Jim Ryan @shempeverlasting.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Say! Those people pissing on NO KINGS really DO have a better idea!
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
and literally no one i know is like "Ok protest done, CHECK" and then going back to pretending we don't live in hell lol
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Jim Ryan @shempeverlasting.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Time to check in with Cletus at the Pennsylvania coffee shop!
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Jim Ryan @shempeverlasting.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
The Times op ed author only left out “I am very intelligent.”
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Jim Ryan @shempeverlasting.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
No Kings rallies attract new resistance members with big, welcoming, low-barrier-to-entry events. And some people think that's a bad thing?
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No Kings Three Matters a Lot
Huge, easy-to-join rallies freak out fascists, energize activists and convert fence-sitters. What’s not to like?
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Jim Ryan @shempeverlasting.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Right 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.
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How not to despair
Dooming and future faking aren't helping us beat fascism. Here's how to stop doing them.
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Jim Ryan @shempeverlasting.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
This Saint Patrick's Day, let's remember my ancestors, 'the good immigrants!'
19th century cartoon showing brutish, hairy, ape-jawed, Irishman wearing a battered plug hat and smoking the stub of a clay pipe.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 16/02/2026
They 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.
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Jim Ryan @shempeverlasting.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Trump's regime lost something in Minnesota and they won't get it back.
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Minnesota 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
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Jim Ryan @shempeverlasting.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Whenever 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?
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Jim Ryan @shempeverlasting.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
There's heroic Minnesota resistance, and then there's whatever TF I did last week. open.substack.com/pub/jimryan/...
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It's weird having the world praise your bravery when you're just going to Costco
Living in Minneapolis these days means getting mythologized while just trying to live your life. That feels odd
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Jim Ryan @shempeverlasting.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Gutless wonders from the C-Suite
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Minnesota’s Corporate Overlords: Profiles in Cluelessness
As Minnesotans are Stepping up, CEOs are Stepping on Rakes
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Jim Ryan @shempeverlasting.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
tl;dr: "give in to the feds so we can go back to getting richer" You know what to do.
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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 2026
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Outspoken (@out5p0ken)
‪Nah. There’s not very fine people on both sides. Fuck outta here. ‬
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Jim Ryan @shempeverlasting.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
They'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.
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ICE is Killing Us Because we're Winning
Federal goons answered our Civic Resistance with more murder. That's a their weakness, not ours
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Jim Ryan @shempeverlasting.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
J.D. Vance's visit has prompted lockdown drills at the Twin Cities' largest interdenominational house of worship: The Room and Board Furniture Outlet
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Jim Ryan @shempeverlasting.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Play by play of Jake Lang's ritual humiliation and rescue open.substack.com/pub/jimryan/...
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MAGA Nazi Stages a Show of Weakness in Minneapolis
File under: another thing we Minnesotans didn't need
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Jim Ryan @shempeverlasting.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Post-protest report from occupied Minnesota
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Siege and Solidarity in Minnesota
After senseless tragedy, a day to grieve and connect
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Jim Ryan @shempeverlasting.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
How to stay connected in protests
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Glen 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...
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Jim Ryan @shempeverlasting.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Don’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
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Jim Ryan @shempeverlasting.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
open.substack.com/pub/jimryan/... The latest Epstein distraction is a big, dumb, and totally imaginary battleship
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You Sank my Battleship!
All aboard the USS Epstein Distraction!
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Jim Ryan @shempeverlasting.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
open.substack.com/pub/jimryan/... Urban Minnesota is infested with ICE goons. Here’s what it’s like
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Dateline: Occupied Minnesota
Notes from Twin Cities under siege
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Aaron Cohen @unlikelywords.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
The 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.
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Hollyphant Pants @hollyphantpants.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Miller 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.
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Jim Ryan @shempeverlasting.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
The coming AI crash will be a "black swan who moved in months ago and attacked everybody in the house daily" event.
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Jim Ryan @shempeverlasting.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
So You’ve Decided to Join a Failing President's Goon Squad! open.substack.com/pub/jimryan/...
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So 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
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Jim Ryan @shempeverlasting.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
A Greek Tragedy, but with Morons open.substack.com/pub/jimryan/...
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A Greek Tragedy, but with Morons
Whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make MAGA
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Ryan, Perdido en TX @ryanlostintx.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Give 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.
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Jim Ryan @shempeverlasting.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
OMFG. 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
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Christina Dongowski @tinido.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
I 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.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Courage is contagious. Sounds too simple, but is true. Same for cowardice.
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SwampLizard @swamplizard.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
future grandchild: like shit, from an ass? me in 30 years: Swear to God. Then he demolished the White House
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Jim Ryan @shempeverlasting.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Dracula praises Renfield—up to a point
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Jim Ryan @shempeverlasting.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
One of my favorite historians channels Chaucer’s Wife of Bath. And I mean that as a sincere compliment
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Jim Ryan @shempeverlasting.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Pathetic failson says what?
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
This Is Fascism
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Jim Ryan @shempeverlasting.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Important 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.
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Jim Ryan @shempeverlasting.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
"Nazi lightbulb" is not a good spokesperson for any cause
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Bradley Whitford @bradleywhitford.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
When authoritarianism is on the rise, you can count on the richest, least vulnerable men on the planet to be the biggest cowards.
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Jim Ryan @shempeverlasting.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Regardless 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
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Times 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
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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.
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