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Jim Metzger

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Professor Emeritus Plant Science Ohio State University. Former department chair. Agriculture, climate & policy.

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Jim Metzger @spinner1922.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Well to be fair, Trump is surrounded by some of the most boring white men on the face of the planet.
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Jim Metzger @spinner1922.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It's not even a political party, but rather a criminal gang.
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Ohio Capital Journal @ohiocapitaljournal.com · 16/09/2026
Commentary: The hyperbole around the shale gas industry’s role in Ohio’s economy has always been excessive. Recently, as the industry has targeted Ohio’s public lands for fracking and sought subsidies and regulatory favors, the claims have become absurd. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/09/16/s...
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Shale gas' importance to Ohio's economy is small and shrinking • Ohio Capital Journal
The level of hyperbole in discussions of the shale gas industry’s role in Ohio’s economy has always been excessive. Recently, as the industry has targeted Ohio’s public lands for fracking and sought…
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Jim Metzger @spinner1922.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Leave is one of their best individual tracks among their many great ones.
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Jim Metzger @spinner1922.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
95% of Americans have far more in common with the couple on the right than the couple on the left.
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Jim Metzger @spinner1922.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
You're sad, I'm nauseous
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Running out of body bags, using forklifts to transfer corpses into makeshift morgues, a mortician conducting 200 funerals in a month when he usually does 30, crematories running at double capacity… And these senators just want to memory-hole it all www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/n...
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‘We Ran Out of Space’: Bodies Pile Up as N.Y. Struggles to Bury Its Dead (Gift Article)
The coronavirus crisis is overwhelming New York’s system for burying the dead.
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Jim Metzger @spinner1922.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Peerless Perry
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Jim Metzger @spinner1922.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Plus a Bernie Moreno, dumb ass senator from Ohio
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Jim Metzger @spinner1922.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
The Salmon Chase Center at Ohio State has the same problem, so now some republicans in the state legislature are considering legislation to force students to take the introductory course.
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Jim Metzger @spinner1922.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Nope.
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Jim Metzger @spinner1922.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Read some of the comments.
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Jim Metzger @spinner1922.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
I didn't; but some of the commentators did.
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Jim Metzger @spinner1922.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
This is incorrect; the minimum age in Ohio is 17, not 13. However, a 17-year-old needs special permission from a judge. The bill is to raise the minimum age to 18 with no loophole.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 20/06/2026
Our analysis shows that the measles virus seen in Utah as recently as May is very closely related to one that circulated in Texas a year ago. Given our findings, one expert said it’s going to be difficult for the U.S. to prove measles isn’t endemic: propub.li/3QAKxK1
A comparison of eight measles virus DNA sequences with 12 genetic letters each. The first sequence is labeled "Texas, May '25," and the rest are labeled as Utah and dated between June '25 to May '26. The sequences for "Texas, May '25" and "Utah, June '25" are identical, and the first five letters of all sequences stay the same. After the "Utah,  June '25" sequence, each sequence gains one to two mutations from the previous sequence listed.
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Jim Metzger @spinner1922.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
They're enatiomers
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Jim Metzger @spinner1922.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Both Robert and Mike
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Jim Metzger @spinner1922.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Great; let's turn Harvard into a dude ranch.
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The Rooster @rooster.info · 11/05/2026
Recently released depositions show top Ohio State executives denying knowledge about Dr. Strauss abusing athletes. But that ignores what they knew about Strauss showering with athletes in the open cesspool that was Larkins Hall. www.rooster.info/p/ohio-state...
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Jim Metzger @spinner1922.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
One of your best!
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Jim Metzger @spinner1922.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
At a record pace no less
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Jim Metzger @spinner1922.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Hey, there's an HC opening in Cleveland!
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Jim Metzger @spinner1922.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Big Macs say hold our beers
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Jim Metzger @spinner1922.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
No longer embarrassed; just ashamed.
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Jim Metzger @spinner1922.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
It's gotta be the garlic powder crime.
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Jim Metzger @spinner1922.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
What does a playful romp in the snow by children have to do with Christ's birth?
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Jim Metzger @spinner1922.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Even worse are university administrators who initiate "AI fluency" in curricula as a means for career advancement.
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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...
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Opinion | Obama Supported It. The Left in Canada and Norway Does. Why Don’t Democrats?
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Jim Metzger @spinner1922.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Does that then make you a centrist?
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Jim Metzger @spinner1922.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Maybe because Swedes, Danes, & Norwegians consider the US a shithole country.
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Jim Metzger @spinner1922.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
You don't know how close to reality this is.
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Jim Metzger @spinner1922.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Fantasy or pathological lying?
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Jim Metzger @spinner1922.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Ha ha ha ha ha 😂
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Jim Metzger @spinner1922.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
You don't have to be a liberal to be for the rule of law.
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Jim Metzger @spinner1922.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
As somebody who knows a fair bit about plant physiology, this is one of the most stupid ideas that I have ever heard.
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 18/11/2025
If you relatively recently started studying politics and think you have discovered a simple trick to generate a perpetual majority party and then win elections forever, and a large portion of the world is just too stupid to see it, I would ask you to consider that you might be overconfident.
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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
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Jim Metzger @spinner1922.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
"I promise I will never EVER argue with you about the usage of the word "fascist" again!"
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Jim Metzger @spinner1922.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Having a robust social safety net is not the same as socialism as an economic system. A democratic socialist is more akin to a social democrat in Europe.
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Jim Metzger @spinner1922.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Yeah, but magnetism is a Marxist ideology, plus the prof used pronouns.
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Jim Metzger @spinner1922.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
That's easy for you to say. There are many federal employees who live paycheck to paycheck and are facing financial disaster if they don't get paid soon.
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Jim Metzger @spinner1922.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
My alma mater, class of 1974!
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Jim Metzger @spinner1922.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Ask an American how that approach worked out.
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Jim Metzger @spinner1922.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Charlie Kirk has become MAGA's golden calf.
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Jim Metzger @spinner1922.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Easy for a professor to say
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Jim Metzger @spinner1922.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Them
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Jim Metzger @spinner1922.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
That's the warrior mentality
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Jim Metzger @spinner1922.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
I'm 73, and I prefer being called elderly than dead.
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Jim Metzger @spinner1922.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Does Starmer have any self-respect?
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Jim Metzger @spinner1922.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
The US' poodle, or Trump's?
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