Jim Boyd
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Jim Boyd
@bjboyd.bsky.social
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Retired journalist. Vietnam vet. Mizzou grad. Nieman Fellow.
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And WAPO is applauding.
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The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP.

Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.

The people who need help are not the problem.

It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.
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King Charles laid flowers at a new memorial to LGBT+ armed forces veterans today, in recognition of former servicemen and women affected by the ban on service.
King attends first official LGBT event at 'hugely important' memorial dedication
www.mirror.co.uk
If a pundit was going to defend the Trump ballroom -- and compare it to the Obama library -- of course it would be Ross Douthat. Only Douthat and his newspaper are that silly.
Anything with black currants isn’t “a bad substitute.”
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wow, which common vaccine was it?
Journalist here. Pure horseshit.
Don’t think it’s working.
Is this building not protected by federal statute? Can a president just do whatever he/she wants to it?Where do that authority come from?
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"Yes, yes, it *is* sad that you lost the family farm, but have you heard about the big beautiful ballroom that President Trump is building at the White House? It's going cost a quarter of a billion dollars! Yes, billion, with a b. ... What? ... No, you can't come see it. What a stupid question."
Plus, Biden had NEVER promised single payer.
Illegal immigration goes up during Dem administrations for the simple reason that immigrants know Dems are much more likely to treat them humanely if they get caught.
Tell me the size of Dem congressional majorities during Biden’s one Covid fallout dominated term
Remember when they said Clinton’s election was illegitimate? For them, only Repubs had right to govern.
Absolutists like Talmon are a huge problem for Democrats.
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I have never seen such a perfect image
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Now that is what I call a photograph.
Skinningrove, north Yorkshire, 1970s, photo by Graham Smith.
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you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you
For the record: I’m funding our inflatables. See you Saturday.
I would submit that the Portland Frogs and such are an effective way to stand against Trump. They make fun of him. They make fun of ICE, they disprove Trump lies about the violence in Portland. They are far more effective as recruiters for their cause than violent protestors.
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Is it just me, or does it seem the press is actually and completely terrified to report about Donald Trump's physical and mental health the way it would have if anyone else were president?
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It's official:

-2025 is now a more threatening year for the survival of the republic than 1968.

-John Roberts will now go down in history as a worse chief justice than Roger "Dred Scott" Taney.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...
Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders
www.nytimes.com