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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It's hardly the biggest tragedy, but is skim milk getting almost impossible to find lately? Is this some kind of MAHA shenanigan?

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.

Scott Tobias@scotttobias.bsky.social

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

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

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 ...

Given all the hints that he realizes he's not long for this world, what if the White House Grand Ballroom is actually being constructed as a Grand Mausoleum, a la the Palace of the Sun in Pyongyang? Is he mad enough to do that?

This is the game plan 💯

amstermom.bsky.social@amstermom.bsky.social

Trump and Miller dearly want somebody to shoot back at ICE thugs, so they'll have an excuse to go full fascist. The Chicago incident had too many inconsistencies, but they're still hoping to get an ICE agent or National Guard member shot so they can start beating down doors.

Putting all your eggs in one basketcase

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social

JENSEN HUANG, CEO OF NVIDIA, EXPRESSES DESIRE TO PARTICIPATE IN ALMOST ALL OF ELON MUSK'S VENTURES DURING CNBC INTERVIEW

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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.

Noticing a LOT of guys driving big ol' trucks waving and supporting the #nokings protest over the beltway in Silver Spring. This isn't a niche movement. ✊

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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.

Not one Republican will speak out and say these tariffs are a terrible idea. May they all lose their seats in a couple years when we're in the throes of an entirely unnecessary depression.

I interned at the Voice of America in 1988 and saw first hand how trusted radio news could break through the Iron Curtain. Apparently with the effective shutdown of VoA, countering tyranny is no longer what our country stands for. This only pleases people like Putin and Lukashenko.

People are willing to give most older Teslas a break. But there's a real collective disdain for the CT and the wankers who own one.

Blair Hopkins@hopkinsmsb.bsky.social

They started throwing stuff at this one.

Trump plays the same game every time. Take a perfectly normal situation -- say, Canadian-American trade -- totally fuck it up, return it to normalcy... And then take claim for "fixing" it.

Sure it's hilarious that Trump 'forgot' to place his tiny hand on the bible at his swearing-in. But in four years, he'll claim he wasn't officially sworn in... And will run again.

If you combined Nicolae Ceauçescu, Rodrigo Duterte, and Turkmen dictator Saparmurat Niyazov, you'd get something like this

WuTangIsForTheChildren@wutangforchildren.bsky.social

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!"

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