Jim Oswalt
@jamesoswalt.bsky.social
Sales. Negotiator. Traveler. Support LGBTQ and sex-positive politics, civil liberties, and the idea that everyone deserves a rich life. If the place is friendly and the night’s still young, I’m there.
Meme that I keep seeing and keeps haunting me: 🔪When did "governments" decide they own everything and that they can make us pay to exist? I understand the notion of a society...but unsettling we are charged--in a thousand ways by the mega rich--just to be alive.
There’s something satisfying about deleting an app you never liked. A tiny reclaiming of mental space. 💍Luxury Edition: You can do the same with people, you can do the same with people, you can do the same with people.
The Trump-created rising prices crisis has made beef the most shop-lifted item in some US stores, the NYT The Daily podcast reveals.
After over 4 hours of strikes U.S. CENTCOM claims tonight's attacks on Iran are over. Iran has responded with attacks on U.S. bases in Bahrain, Jordan and Kuwait. Interceptions also occurred above Saudi Arabia.
The tragedy of Lindsey Graham is that he died with no friends and a heart that literally burst from hatred. #LindseyGraham
Every state is dealing with teacher shortages, and cuts won’t fix a pipeline that’s already strained. #education
I am not generally envious of other peoples' wealth. The disparity is immoral, grotesque and obscene.
Amanda Roos@amandaroos.bsky.social · 3w agoEveryone deserves food to eat, a place to live, and healthcare to keep them living. Trillionaires should not exist in the same world as food insecurity, housing insecurity, or medical debt.
If Todd Blanche is is confirmed to the department of justice, we will never get the Epstein files!! What a joke for him to even be considered!! 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
Part and parcel of the capitalist system. Deliberate and vile.
Devi@deviwestside.bsky.social · last mo.The grocery store I go to changed their layout. This is why I have trust issues
Feeding hungry children should not be treated like a radical political position.
Sometimes I see a great post--funny, insightful, revelatory, shocking. But then: "Posted January 23, 2026." So then....repost? Just like it? Comment?!? "FFS Grettel, they ALREADY saw this and like, did you just get out of bed?" "Look who showed up months late..."
This is a HUGE international issue...it was just reported on ALGAEzira.
Found myself in the kitchen eating chips. Remembered I originally came for napkins. Vague image of a puddle near my phone...? Backtracked, remembered needing my phone. Needed phone? Yes to place an Amazon order! Was going to order book about ADHD.
Noticing, just noticing that with inflation the basics rise first — the things people can’t skip. Like being force-fed higher prices. #economy
I do not get wound up that easily. However I got wound up when I found out about school ventilation issues. School Lunch Debt, Poor Quality of Breathable Air. Children. Schools. Our society is flat out ghoulish. #education
And yes aware of the not so subtle irony of putting a butch war helmet on a pack about empathy. go.bsky.app/7AX7dRr
None of this shit is funny. None of it. Laugh if you must but the fact is we are allowing an insane man to destroy not only our country but the world. What are we doing? Waiting for what? He needs to be removed NOW. Stop laughing. It’s not the least bit funny m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ckom...
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Let’s start with Melania who was never eligible for a “Genius” Visa…. Justice Dept. Targets Hundreds of Citizens in New Push for Denaturalization www.nytimes.com/2026/04/23/u...
Justice Dept. Targets Hundreds of Citizens in New Push for Denaturalization
nytimes.com
Trump called fallen service members "losers" and "suckers" — according to his chief of staff — he accused soldiers with PTSD of not being "strong," demeaned POWs, and insulted Gold Star parents & a widow. When he pretends to honor service members, don't believe it.
Researchers are warning — and have demonstrated — that the escalation of rhetoric correlates with real‑world violence. I would submit: not correlation at this point but causation. #CivicHealth
Every time Washington talks about “regional stability,” I laugh a little. My people back home have lived through every version of that phrase.
Our fearless elected leaders have a deep deep understanding of the word "ceasefire" understanding the subtlety of it actually meaning "bombing."
Ms. Misanthrope 🇺🇸@lilmsmisanthrope.bsky.social · 2mo agoTonight the US struck Iran near the Strait of Hormuz. Iran struck Kuwait. Kuwait activated air defenses against hostile missiles and drones. Both sides say the ceasefire is holding. A ceasefire where both sides are actively firing at each other is not a ceasefire. It is a war without an honest name.
Yes correct. As long as everyone gets paid, nothing changes.
Yes, retroactive to the point of digging up graves. Corruption is civil society's oldest foe.
David M. Perry@lollardfish.bsky.social · 2mo agoWe are going to need retroactively enforced anti-corruption legislation. And sooner Democratic lawmakers start announcing it and drawing it up, the sooner some of the corrupt may feel just a little fear and hold back.
We are going to need retroactively enforced anti-corruption legislation. And sooner Democratic lawmakers start announcing it and drawing it up, the sooner some of the corrupt may feel just a little fear and hold back.
Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 2mo agoThis is an extraordinary story, and like a lot of extraordinary stories about wrongdoing and corruption, will become much harder to report if the Trump administration succeeds in requiring NDAs of all federal employees. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trump-want...
3. "Democracy. Foreign Affairs." It is money movement. Our instinct for self-preservation, perverted into shameless greed...cloaked and disguised as state affairs and altruism. What I am saying is: Trillions in 2025. Only opine I what I know. Greatest profits come from losses.
