uujames.bsky.social @uujames.bsky.social · 11/09/2026youtu.be/B0k5yt2H5l4?...youtu.beOfficers Honor Last 9/11 Search Dog With Moving Tribute Before Being Put DownYouTube video by Inside Edition 093
uujames.bsky.social @uujames.bsky.social · 10/09/2026All I can think of is Kellywise youtu.be/Hlt3rA-oDao?...youtu.beKellywise - SNLYouTube video by Saturday Night Live 040
Reposted by @uujames.bsky.socialChris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 09/09/2026There’s such an easy answer to this “gotcha” question and it’s “Sports are inherently unsafe and unfair and it’s ridiculous to single out trans athletes when we allow 150 pound linebackers to go up against 260 pound linemen in freshman football on a daily basis. Let kids play with their friends.” 12561111622
uujames.bsky.social @uujames.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Have you seen Jack Miles' Christ: A Crisis in the Life of God with the crucifixion as divine suicide? 000
uujames.bsky.social @uujames.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I've decided this is the canonical A Christmas Carol from now on youtu.be/1ww5p_Gean4?...youtu.beA Christmas Carol - SNLYouTube video by Saturday Night Live 000
uujames.bsky.social @uujames.bsky.social · 01/09/2026The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. 000
uujames.bsky.social @uujames.bsky.social · 31/08/2026There is a plague within liberalism where appearing smart and disinterested in an issue is seen as superior to actually caring and worrying about outcomes. Creating complex rationales and processes matters more than results. Procedural justice is seen as more important than distributive justice. 030
Reposted by @uujames.bsky.socialestarianne @estarianne.bsky.social · 31/08/2026I will tell you that literally anyone who has worked with either ICE or CBP in a human rights sense has heard them lie about what they do and knows their capability for violence. 0104
Reposted by @uujames.bsky.socialFully Automated @fullyautomatedluxury.com · 31/08/2026Called my senators and read quotes from this to the staffer on the phone and reiterated that i am a single issue voter and that issue is the abolition of ice. abolish ice reparations to people / communities terrorized amnesty for people here investigations and trials from everyone in DHS, CPB, ICE 25522
Reposted by @uujames.bsky.social🔵Blue Dot Buckeye🔵#Blues 🦋💙🌊🗽🌪️ @buckivotesblue.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Dolly Parton's Imagination Library was responsible for gifting 332,000,000 books since its inception 31 years ago. Check out the final letter one child received when ‘graduating’ and receiving their last book. Warning—grab your tissues first. #DollyParton #ImaginationLibrary #Blues 1010450
Reposted by @uujames.bsky.socialTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 22/08/2026👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾 114518
uujames.bsky.social @uujames.bsky.social · 18/08/2026How many lives is it worth? That regulation is projected to save 237 lives and decrease cancer risk by 55% for people who live by ports of Long Beach, Los Angeles and Richmond. earthjustice.org/press/2023/g...earthjustice.orgGroups Applaud EPA’s Action to Curb Ship Pollution at California’s PortsEPA grants waiver for California's life-saving clean shipping regulation 000
Reposted by @uujames.bsky.socialMalena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Would it shock you to hear that the Trump administration is lying about vehicle weaponization attacks against ICE? The administration is lying, the ICE thugs are lying & even federal prosecutors are lying. #ICELawlessness Share this video with friends. www.instagram.com/reel/DcJqGN4... 20292179
Reposted by @uujames.bsky.socialJoey Scott @joeyneverjoe.bsky.social · 16/08/2026“Riot control has become the transcendent issue in the current mayoral election, as candidates propose competing schemes to finance thousands of new cops by privatizing or downsizing the rest of city government.” Who Killed LA - Mike Davis 1993 226937
uujames.bsky.social @uujames.bsky.social · 16/08/2026This explains so much about the experience of Karen Bass' LAPD and Gavin Newsom's CHP's collaboration with Trump and ICE. All one team when it came to roughing up protestors. 020
uujames.bsky.social @uujames.bsky.social · 02/08/2026In principle we probably could have had school staff where respirators like nurses but these same people that complain about closures complain about the vaccine and complain about masks. And they also complain that the virus is a bioweapon lab leak and also harmless. 000
uujames.bsky.social @uujames.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Just spotted anonymous 757-200 on flight radar that must be the Richmond to San Diego flight. Just happened to be watching firefighting aircraft nearby. 000
uujames.bsky.social @uujames.bsky.social · 15/07/2026It's crazy that 70% of leafy greens come from the Salinas area in California and 90% come from California or Arizona. I think that degree of concentration makes outbreaks more common and more prominent. 0130
uujames.bsky.social @uujames.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Escherichia coli O157:H7 was first recognized as a pathogen in 1982 during an outbreak pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.govEpidemiology of Escherichia coli O157:H7 Outbreaks, United States, 1982–2002Surveillance data from 350 U.S. outbreaks of Escherichia coli O157:H7 are analyzed. Keywords: Escherichia coli O157:H7, disease outbreaks, population surveillance, United States/epidemiology, food, hu... 1150
uujames.bsky.social @uujames.bsky.social · 15/07/2026The dairy ones I kind of remember. I though salmonella was a bigger thing before E. coli 010
uujames.bsky.social @uujames.bsky.social · 15/07/2026en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...en.wikipedia.orgList of foodborne illness outbreaks in the United States - Wikipedia 100
uujames.bsky.social @uujames.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Odwalla Juices E. coli was in 1996. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categor...en.wikipedia.orgCategory:Escherichia coli outbreaks in the United States - Wikipedia 150
Reposted by @uujames.bsky.socialBrad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Almost *Every single advance* in civil rights, labor rights, disability rights, LGBTQ rights, women’s rights, and human rights in general has resulted from Democrats being pressured from the Left by women, workers, minorities, disabled people, antiwar activists. Do left punchers oppose these gains? 837671
uujames.bsky.social @uujames.bsky.social · 02/07/2026The white sheet he is talking about it actually a klan robe. 111
Reposted by @uujames.bsky.socialBeing Liberal ®🗽🏳️🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 30/06/2026“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.” ~Frank Wilhoit www.thebulwark.com/p/what-cletu... 1163
Reposted by @uujames.bsky.socialThe Unitarian Universalist Association @uua.org · 30/06/2026The UUA decries today's U.S. Supreme Court decisions in Little v. Hecox and West Virginia v. B.P.J., which uphold state laws restricting transgender student athletes. We remain steadfast in affirming the inherent worthiness and dignity of trans people. Full statement at bit.ly/4wgs04V #UU 13015
Reposted by @uujames.bsky.social@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 27/06/2026The fruit roll up is brilliant. 🔥🍸 218745
uujames.bsky.social @uujames.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Thing is he isn't lying. He's just saying the quiet part out loud. Roger Ailes created Fox after deciding that Nixon could have stayed in power if he had a friendly TV News channel. 000
Reposted by @uujames.bsky.socialAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Ms. Rachel: As the American Academy of Pediatrics says, there is no safe amount of time for a child to be in detention. The Dilley immigration detention center must be shut down. We need to end the cruel policies of family detention and family separation. 182203225465
Reposted by @uujames.bsky.socialsick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 07/06/2026new William Gibson book opening line dropped 485371942
uujames.bsky.social @uujames.bsky.social · 20/05/2026There is a Catch-22 that movement groips need a strong enough sense of belonging that people want to join but can't become self-involved or sectarian. 010
uujames.bsky.social @uujames.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Now that I'm older I've had the experience of being both too radical for people I was organizing with and also being not radical enough for another group. 000
uujames.bsky.social @uujames.bsky.social · 20/05/202610 years earlier in first gulf war did a good job building community but ended up becoming insular and cliquish. 100
uujames.bsky.social @uujames.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Probably most common mistake I've made is confusing mobilization with organization and spending all energy on events (protests and vigils) and not enough building community. 100
uujames.bsky.social @uujames.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Once we were overwhelmed by our success. Start as a small org for families in peace movement but became catch all peace coalition for entire county and lost focus. 100
uujames.bsky.social @uujames.bsky.social · 19/05/2026I started working when the minimum wage was $3.35 but I remember it being lower. So I didn't realize but according to Dept of Labor, the highest minimum wage purchasing power adjusted for inflation was when it was $1.60 in 1968. It supports the point I was trying to make but seems hard to believe. 000
uujames.bsky.social @uujames.bsky.social · 19/05/2026What organizing experiences do you have that would be useful to learn from today? I have regrets from protests I have organized and mistakes I like to avoid, but a lot of times the successes seemed more spontaneous than organized and not a success of organizing or mobilizing. 200
uujames.bsky.social @uujames.bsky.social · 19/05/2026I'm Gen X. The popular thing to do is plague on both your houses. Instead let's get the activist percentage of each generation to build movements together. 000
uujames.bsky.social @uujames.bsky.social · 19/05/2026My contention is that a lot of people claim credit for activism they weren't that involved in. And also limited awareness of how the same generation moved to the right and killed a lot of the progress. My generation of activists was mostly only playing defense. 000
uujames.bsky.social @uujames.bsky.social · 19/05/2026I've been active and organized in pretty much every peace and social justice movement in the past 40 years. I've been tear gassed, surveilled and threatened many times. I was mentored by 60s activists and my perspective is informed by their analysis. 000
uujames.bsky.social @uujames.bsky.social · 19/05/2026I work with older adults every day. Seventy year olds and even their 90 something parents. Activism and apathy are pretty evenly distributed. Abbie Hoffman used to joke about how at least 10 times as many people said they were in Chicago with him as were actually there. 110
uujames.bsky.social @uujames.bsky.social · 18/05/2026And the kids I know from Community Defense Alliance patrolling to protect immigrants are protesting and doing almost all the heavy lifting while keyboard warriors complain. 000
uujames.bsky.social @uujames.bsky.social · 18/05/2026And less than 1% were freedom riders or serious Civil Rights. But I'm talking about good liberals who definitely saw the news and were concerned. My Gen Z daughter protests more than almost any online Boomer wondering what's the matter with kids today. 200
uujames.bsky.social @uujames.bsky.social · 18/05/2026I went to school on social security survivor's benefits. That was cut when I was a student as was state funding for all levels of education after the same generation brought in Reagan. Out of all the Boomers who talk to me about the 60s, less than 10 percent went to protests. 211
uujames.bsky.social @uujames.bsky.social · 18/05/2026How much did college cost you? How much was housing? When I was a student, my boomer activist friends went to my school for free or nearly free. Tuition tripled during my years of undergrad and grad. Tuition and housing have both quadrupled again since then. 210
uujames.bsky.social @uujames.bsky.social · 16/05/2026My brain crosswired Something So Right and Beidge Over Troubled Water so I thought there was a Paul Simon lyric. My first thought was Still Waters Run Deep but I didn't know the BeeGees or Four Tops songs either. 140
uujames.bsky.social @uujames.bsky.social · 16/05/2026I've lived downstate so I know it's more complicated than we think sometimes, but I can't help but think of: youtu.be/hYTQ7__NNDI?...youtu.beBlazing Saddles 1974 - People Of The LandYouTube video by phantasm 57 010
uujames.bsky.social @uujames.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Still by the Geto Boys and Still DRE by Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre. 150
Reposted by @uujames.bsky.socialRachel Cohen @cohen489.bsky.social · 14/04/2026when we pretend the issue with ICE is that they’re masked and untrained and ‘different’ from law enforcement, what you get is unmasked ICE in airports instead of any real change. latest: open.substack.com/pub/cohen489...open.substack.comKinder, Gentler State Violence.Donald Trump wants to make ICE just like every other law enforcement agency, and the Democrats want to let him. 220963
