Jim supports🇺🇦
@jhagar.bsky.social
Retired cardiologist, hiker, lonely political moderate, strong #Ukraine supporter. Apparently political moderates are now considered radicals so I will need to start acting like a radical. I will always be kind to you but please no whataboutism.
Ten more short videos about famous Americans celebrating rue 250th. Part of a great series. https://substack.com/redirect/93b3463b-7cb0-4c3e-a1e5-35bd1d2c3e5a
Joseph Pulitzer, Narrated by Connie Schultz
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
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Capital One shut down more than 300 Trump Organization accounts for money laundering https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/currencies/articles/capital-one-cites-money-laundering-165238809.html
Considering how badly Covid was mishandled, they're probably going to regret the decision to make Fauci's personal diary and journal public. We're going to see how it was handled from the insider, from Fauci's point of view... based on you know...science.
FCC progressing in its process of revoking licenses from 8 ABC stations (on the pretext of discrimination against white people). This began at Trump’s direction the day after Jimmy Kimmel made a Melania joke.
Apparently Rand Paul is counting on no one reading Fauci’s notes he spent 8 mos trying to find. Nothing new or nefarious actually fairly interesting day by day record. R wing media frenzy to please one man. https://www.paul.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/2026.07.24_Tonys-Diary-Package.pdf
Nothing says “fiscal responsibility” like ordering 250 luxury SUVs because everyone looks sharp in them.
"If an individual in a position of political power is a psychopath, he or she can create an epidemic of psychopathology in people who are not, essentially, psychopathic." Andrzej Łobaczewski
emptywheel@emptywheel.bsky.social · last wk.People are more likely to support authoritarian leaders if people around them do. www.psypost.org/anti-democra...
More startling AI “loss of control” incidents. https://www.facebook.com/reel/938052812108158/?fs=e&mibextid=wwXIfr&fs=e
Deep dive into the recent rogue AI event. The future looks grim. https://www.facebook.com/reel/1991873941473977/?fs=e&mibextid=wwXIfr&fs=e
Unable to eliminate the DACA program, administration is simply not renewing work permits.
People are more likely to support authoritarian leaders if people around them do. www.psypost.org/anti-democra...
Anti-democratic attitudes are highly contagious, new psychology study finds
The rise of anti-democratic sentiments might be driven by social contagion. Researchers have discovered that citizens often adapt their personal support for authoritarian rule to align with the politi...
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Russia going about business as usual: spyware in apps used by US servicemen, drone incursions, hacking US nuclear scientists, providing targeting information to Iran to hit US military sites. Meanwhile Patel is off on a friendly trip to Moscow. https://olgalautman.substack.com/p/russian-digest-fd2
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Week of 7/20: Top stories I'm keeping an eye on
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More radical moves as administration is rewriting regulations to allow the executive to have free rein across all historic areas and properties without oversight. https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-25-2026
July 25, 2026
It turns out Trump has not abandoned his plan to paint the massive grey granite Eisenhower Executive Office Building white.
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I constantly underestimate these people. “They can’t be…, right?”
Kerith Burke@kerithburke.bsky.social · 2w agoHmmm it appears all this protecting women and girls sports talk has nothing to do with sports
New allegations that Trump Witkoff and Kushner are intentionally manipulating Iran negotiations in order to profit from their investments as markets go up and down. Trump blatantly did this in at least one case.
Ukraine is out of interceptors to defend against ballistic missiles. 35 hit the capital last night, in addition to hundreds of drones, all against civilian, mostly residential, targets.
Abraham Lincoln warned of a leader who, “nothing left to be done in the way of building up, would set boldly to the task of pulling down”, and calling for “the people to be united with each other, attached to the government and laws, and generally intelligent, to successfully frustrate his designs.”
It's a sign of how shockingly corrupt this country has become that a nominee for Attorney General is given a hearing by the Senate *the very same week* he has been referred by a judge for possible disbarment for unethical behavior. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
By defining a normal level of testosterone as “too low for warfighters” they will coerce trios into taking medically unnecessary and potentially harmful treatment to juice them up.
Mrs. Betty Bowers@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 3w agoThe same folks who are *obsessed* with banning gender affirming care in civilian life are going to provide gender affirming care in the military. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Interesting story about the difference between monitors and observers and that the feds can, cannot, and are going to try to do.
Marc Elias@marcelias.bsky.social · 4w ago"In reality, they will, at most, be able to watch election procedures from afar. The reason is deeply ironic: Through legal action in recent years, conservatives have attempted to curtail the federal government’s ability to monitor elections." www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Trump sets politics aside for a moment to support Platner.
Videoflyer@videoflyer.bsky.social · 4w agoThe funny part of the whole Platner thing is that when you're MAGA with Nazi tats and credible accusations of sexual predation, you get to be Secretary of Defense.
Newly released Jan 6 body cam videos. https://www.judicialwatch.org/january6bodycam/ important in this revisionist era. Never forget. #neverforget
DC Metropolitan Police Department Bodycam Footage from January 6, 2021 - Judicial Watch
Judicial Watch announced that the Washington, DC, Metropolitan Police Department released over 1,000 hours of body-worn camera footage in 1,627 videos from the January 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol event.
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Calling Zelensky Putin and Iran is Japan. Wandering off and falling asleep. I’m constantly surprised how the MSM obsessively focused on Biden’s cognitive capacity and not at all on Trump’s, yet they have a “liberal bias”. Fishy. (Edited 8:12 PM via @skeetsapp.com)
TRUMP: Would you go to Moscow? ZELENSKYY: It is difficult. There are lots of Ukrainian drones there. It's dangerous.
Americans are not ready for this future, accustomed to the “basically peaceful, prosperous, and open world”, thinking it is “the normal state of intl affairs”, and can’t imagine what that unraveling will mean for them. https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-7-2026
July 7, 2026
In Ankara, Türkiye, for a two-day summit of the countries in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), President Donald J.
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How propaganda forms a cycle legitimizing false info. 47 says Haitians are eating pets, MAGA mediasphere amplifies, literal Nazis on the ground cause mayhem, MAGA influencers do a “news story” about it, VP repeats it. Cycle complete https://snyder.substack.com/p/ethnic-cleansing-in-ohio-updated
Ethnic Cleansing in Ohio (updated)
Thanks to the Supreme Court
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Some good stats. 1 trillion cuts to healthcare that are a devastating hospitals that provide a lot of charity care. 4 trillion tax cuts to the wealthy over 10 years, 4.7 trillion added to the deficit
FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · last mo.One year ago, Republicans passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, leading to: —8 million Americans losing healthcare —4 million Americans losing food assistance —$484 billion in cuts to clean energy and manufacturing —700 rural hospitals at risk of closing —$1 trillion in tax cuts for the top 1%
