Jim
Jim
@blimjim.bsky.social
Pennsylvanian-Washingtonian. Likes: international broadcasting, history, personal finance, geography, what used to be called new wave, vexillology, slow travel, fast quizzing, smart movies, dumb jokes.
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The thing is, unlike with normal corporate raiders, he just doesn't care about ratings. Like Bezos and the Wapo, it was bought to please his ego. They have so much money from other sources, profitability just doesn't matter to them.
Fun part about David Ellison destroying CBS News, 60 Minutes and his late-night show is that he'll never be able to get any of it back. You could argue that latter was heading toward obsolescence anyway, but the Weiss-ification of the news has led to a permanent erosion of trust.
Democrats have vision, momentum and energy for the first time in years and he's ready to throw the source of all that under the bus
WELKER: Do democratic socialists belong in the Dem Party? JEFFRIES: What I can say is I do not support defunding the police, I do not support open borders, I do not support abolishing the Senate. We're focused on actually solving the problems hard-working American taxpayer want us to solve ...
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The AP has a live stream of the Freedom250 clusterfuck: www.youtube.com/live/IyEPha0...
AI definitely has its place, but companies never realize that forcing people to use something they might not be familiar with it is a surefire way to lose goodwill. tech.yahoo.com/ai/gemini/ar...
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The remarks weren’t “about Charlie Kirk,” they were about how this administration is using Kirk’s death as an excuse to shut down critics … and they responded by proving him completely correct.
New: FCC chair threatens ABC and Disney over Jimmy Kimmel’s remarks about Charlie Kirk www.cnn.com/2025/09/17/m...
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1952_Se.... This 9.0 was in the same approximate area as today's Kamchatka quake. The resulting Tsunami did a fair amount of damage in Hawaii.
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I just got confirmation that National History Day, a program that does more to ignite K-12 students' love of history, learning, and yes, even the United States than anything else I've ever seen, had all its funding cut yesterday by the DOGE-axe at the NEH - including for this year's ongoing contest.
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If you combined Nicolae Ceauçescu, Rodrigo Duterte, and Turkmen dictator Saparmurat Niyazov, you'd get something like this
Oh hey it’s the Bible salesman with a very uplifting and unifying message on Christmas Day: "Merry Christmas to the Radical Left Lunatics… I refuse to wish a Merry Christmas to those lucky "souls" but, instead, will say, GO TO HELL!"
The person who reinvents geocities will be rich. Huge untapped market. aftermath.site/website-musk...
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