Jim
@jimc5.bsky.social
#BList baseball, books, biking, beans, beach #girldad, retired EE, enjoys Disney theme parks, fantasy baseball, cycling and coffee. Married to the smartest woman I know. 74.9% chance I will follow a fellow Jim. Looking for my next read
I guess I’m just looking for a social media experience that’s more about blowing off some steam or getting these jokes off than being all up in every aspect of everybody’s business all the time. To me that’s exactly where shit went sideways.
Lupita Nihongo@otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · yesterdayOk how do I turn off Liked By
El-Sayed: "Once a government agency like ICE is told it has impunity to do the worst things and violate the highest law of the land, which is the Constitution itself, I don't think you can reform or retrain. I think we need to start from scratch ... I think we need to abolish it."
An important point from the former chief strategist for the Bush–Cheney 2004 campaign:
Matthew Dowd@matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 8h agoNearly every one of El-Sayed's issue positions is supported by a majority. In fact, his stands are the center of American politics today. Saying he is far left/left wing is just so old. The center of American politics has moved over the last 30 years, and El-Sayed's position are center now.
I encourage all of us to have the grace and focus shown in this going up within minutes of the race being called.
Steven Quay, in line to be NIAID director, is not just any lab leaker. He is of the type of leakers who still talk about "HIV inserts". He has deleted his tweets from 2021-2025, so here are some screenshots to give you an idea of who Quay is: ▫️1/🧵 #covidorigin #quayniaid
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@quay_dr
My new analysis indicates these same inserts are responsible for long
COVID.
Designed into the virus.
zenodo.org/records/145597...
Quote-tweeting:
Dr David Cartland BMedSci MBChB MRCGP (201 v) @CartlandDavic • 11h
"It was the job of a professional [and] it's NOT Natural"
Nobel Prize winner for HIV research, Luc Montagnier (RIP), said someone
"inserted small sequences of HIV" into the original covid Pandemic virus. He died after he presented the findings aired here on a French
[photo of Montagnier on CNews]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yqxcc5ayxllwkvel4narbha4/bafkreib5nbsxgeyiycgbcrswtl4qgcx3suxbfunsnv2cjf3bf57xfavoya)
Gregg Gonsalves@gregggonsalves.bsky.social · yesterdayThis is just bat-shit crazy. www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
Republican Racists & Bigots doing #CultureWars to distract their wealth transfers from the non rich to the rich GOP Rage Baiting cycles over the years Blacks, Blacks, Blacks. Then Gays, Gays, Gays. Then Muslims, Muslims, Muslims. Then Immigrants, Immigrants, Immigrants Now Trans, Trans, Trans.
You don’t have to submit a letter of resignation to a podcast it’s okay
One way you can tell trans women are really women is that Stephen A Smith treats them like shit
Progressive politics without the "woke" social justice/racial justice components is libertarianism.
MJ@princessmom122.bsky.social · 19h agoExactly! I’m so sick of being called “centrists” compared to these class reductionists posers. And they are not even great at the class reductionism because everyone with a net worth under a couple million falls into their idea of the needy. It’s absurd.
when one person saw a thing
Editing the Blue-Gray Lady@nytdiff.bsky.social · 12h agoChange in Headline
Ben Shapiro has recreated Judeo-Bolshevism from first principles, just replacing "Jew" with "Muslim."
Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social · 13h agoBen Shapiro probably does not know enough history to even know this, but the way he is talking about Muslims as a nation within the nation who can never be integrated is almost verbatim what European nationalists said about Jews in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
I need people to understand that for the last half decade that there’s been an ecosystem of trans folks in sports media who have worked unpaid to serve as experts for context, sources and educators on what it’s like for trans athletes, in hopes of potential bylines and contacts. That’s dried up.
Sydney Bauer@sydney-bauer.com · yesterdayI hate sounding like a conspiracy person but there’s a reason that this Sophie Cunningham thing is on like day 7 of discourse and how there’s absolutely very little trans staff writers driving the news coverage of it.
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/m...
The U.S. Relies on Family Caregivers. Millions of Them Are Kids. (Gift Article)
The modern health care system requires the work of caregiving to fall to whoever else lives in a household — even if they’re kids.
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I spoke with 10 CNNers about David Ellison's essay in The NYT, in which he tried to convince the public he'll be a good steward of CNN. Suffice to say, no one at the network is buying what he's selling. “We all have eyes and ears and see what’s happening at CBS." www.status.news/p/david-elli...
The Ellison Credibility Crisis
The Paramount boss tried to convince the public he can be trusted with CNN. But staffers inside the network torched his Times essay in brutal comments to Status, pointing to his disastrous record at C...
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Sen. Thune is counting votes & knows exactly how many “hall passes” he can hand out to vulnerable Republicans & still carry the vote. This is not principled opposition from Susan Collins. It’s political theater. OTOH, Trump is so thin skinned that he will probably do something stupid and attack her.
D. Earl Stephens@dearlstephens.bsky.social · yesterday📌Susan Collins is voting "no" on the repulsive Blanche because she has been given political cover by Thune. Her vote doesn't matter. This isn't a heroic decision, it is pure politics, and whether anybody wants to admit it or not it's how she has survived like a parasite in that chamber for 30 years.
Dae-Ho Lee threw out a ceremonial first pitch to his son ahead of the @marinersbot.bsky.social game tonight! 🥹
I did not work countless hours in an ICU full of proned patients and go back to my hotel crying because we lost more patients in a day than a typical week to hear a moron with a worm in his brain say that the ICU's were empty. I AM SO FUCKING ANGRY.
Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 3d agoI worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.
went down the rabbit hole and learned that in 1994, the Duluth Police Department was considered the model for handling domestic violence situations, by implementing a policy requiring the mandatory arrest of people accused of misdemeanor assault
When Men Hit Women (Gift Article)
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12 year old girls get genital inspections "for their safety" while wife beaters get endorsed for re-election. This whole protecting women and girls thing is a bit confusing.
In a conference call hosted by the White House Faith Office on July 30 with thousands of religious leaders around the country, Blanche said he was committed to achieving policy solutions so that the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision “becomes permanent in every single state.”
Kelcie Moseley-Morris@kelciemmorris.bsky.social · yesterdayThe recording of Blanche's call with faith leaders hosted by the White House Faith Office was still live as of a few hours ago, but has since been taken down.
