Jim Witkins
@jimwitkins.bsky.social
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I hope there's a progressive think tank like the @rooseveltinstitute.org outlining the urgently needed path/steps to protect Democracy and address issues immediately after taking power.
“This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to fundamentally transform legislative power.”
Downballot Democrats are gearing up for “2010 in reverse."
Downballot Democrats are gearing up for “2010 in reverse."
Downballot Democrats are gearing up for “2010 in reverse”
The DLCC plans to spend $50 million targeting races in 27 states.
www.motherjones.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:12 PM
I hope there's a progressive think tank like the @rooseveltinstitute.org outlining the urgently needed path/steps to protect Democracy and address issues immediately after taking power.
Meanwhile the republicans Senile Dear Leader is running his mouth telling us he solved affordability and it's all a Dem hoax. trump's tariffs are big reason costs continue to go up.
Americans are struggling with affordability pressures that are squeezing everything from their everyday necessities to their biggest-ticket expenses.
Nearly half of Americans said they have difficulties with affordability
www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
Nearly half of Americans said they have difficulties with affordability
www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
New poll paints a grim picture of a nation under financial strain
Rising costs are crushing Americans — and they're running out of room to adjust.
www.politico.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Meanwhile the republicans Senile Dear Leader is running his mouth telling us he solved affordability and it's all a Dem hoax. trump's tariffs are big reason costs continue to go up.
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Jared Kushner – and three Arab monarchies – are at the heart of the Paramount-WBD bid | Mohamad Bazzi
Jared Kushner – and three Arab monarchies – are at the heart of the Paramount-WBD bid | Mohamad Bazzi
The president’s son-in-law is once again at the center of an international business deal that will require administration approval
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Jared Kushner – and three Arab monarchies – are at the heart of the Paramount-WBD bid | Mohamad Bazzi
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If you make a billion dollars — or $500 million or even $100 million dollars — and you keep trying to make more, then there is something seriously wrong with you. It's a mental illness akin to hoarding or drug addiction.
December 11, 2025 at 4:44 AM
If you make a billion dollars — or $500 million or even $100 million dollars — and you keep trying to make more, then there is something seriously wrong with you. It's a mental illness akin to hoarding or drug addiction.
Leave twitter.
European news sites on social media
(8 countries, 56 selected media)
- X dominates as microblogging platform, but a crisis is looming: some major news European outlets have archived their X accounts over the last year, for reasons of disinformation...
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(8 countries, 56 selected media)
- X dominates as microblogging platform, but a crisis is looming: some major news European outlets have archived their X accounts over the last year, for reasons of disinformation...
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December 11, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Leave twitter.
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Watch the whole thing. Absolutely chilling.
MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”
December 11, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Watch the whole thing. Absolutely chilling.
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All trans folks know the opposition to our healthcare is merely prejudice and has no basis in medicine.
Indeed. In a world in which we’re quite happy to do joint replacements and organ transplants, the problem with gender affirming surgery clearly isn’t that it’s “not natural”
December 11, 2025 at 12:13 PM
All trans folks know the opposition to our healthcare is merely prejudice and has no basis in medicine.
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Trans healthcare is "controversial" ONLY if you have remained isolated within fascist/"centrist" misinformation silos wherein this is a debate (on X etc.).
My healthcare isn't controversial, in truth. Anybody who thinks so has fallen for a bullshit moral panic. That's the actual reality, here.
My healthcare isn't controversial, in truth. Anybody who thinks so has fallen for a bullshit moral panic. That's the actual reality, here.
December 10, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Trans healthcare is "controversial" ONLY if you have remained isolated within fascist/"centrist" misinformation silos wherein this is a debate (on X etc.).
My healthcare isn't controversial, in truth. Anybody who thinks so has fallen for a bullshit moral panic. That's the actual reality, here.
My healthcare isn't controversial, in truth. Anybody who thinks so has fallen for a bullshit moral panic. That's the actual reality, here.
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After ChatGPT appeared to validate a man's suspicion that his 83-year-old mother may have been part of a conspiracy against him, he killed her. OpenAI bears responsibility for her death because the company rushed out “a defective product that validated a user’s paranoid delusions,” a lawsuit says.
ChatGPT spurred a 56-year-old man to kill his mother, lawsuit says
A new lawsuit against OpenAI alleges that ChatGPT encouraged a man’s delusional thinking, leading him to kill his 83-year-old mother and take his own life.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 11, 2025 at 12:00 PM
After ChatGPT appeared to validate a man's suspicion that his 83-year-old mother may have been part of a conspiracy against him, he killed her. OpenAI bears responsibility for her death because the company rushed out “a defective product that validated a user’s paranoid delusions,” a lawsuit says.
Fascist billionaires should not exist.
David Ellison appears to be mortified that CBS/60 Minutes is “going rogue” by covering the news and by keeping him “in the dark” about a segment critical of Trump.
Because Ellison doesn’t realize that’s how it’s supposed to work.
nypost.com/2025/12/10/m...
Because Ellison doesn’t realize that’s how it’s supposed to work.
nypost.com/2025/12/10/m...
December 11, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Fascist billionaires should not exist.
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Jail. It is a moral imperative to put Jared Kushner in jail for his deep corruption.
If we do not jail Kushner and take his wealth we merely encourage future thieves.
If we do not jail Kushner and take his wealth we merely encourage future thieves.
Kushner founded Affinity Partners in 2021 after leaving the White House, backed by about 2 billion dollars from Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund. The tactic is brutal. Control the lens and you control reality. Once audiences trust the voice, you can remake the world frame by frame.
Jared Kushner Is Quietly Steering a Massive Media Takeover
The president’s son-in-law is getting in on the scramble to make billions from Warner Bros.
www.thedailybeast.com
December 11, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Jail. It is a moral imperative to put Jared Kushner in jail for his deep corruption.
If we do not jail Kushner and take his wealth we merely encourage future thieves.
If we do not jail Kushner and take his wealth we merely encourage future thieves.
Why not. trump is the patron saint of grifters and criminals.
Tried and convicted degenerates now demanding tax payer bonanzas for storming the capitol building
Almost 400 people pardoned or granted clemency by President Donald Trump in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol are now seeking millions of dollars in payouts from the federal government.
December 11, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Why not. trump is the patron saint of grifters and criminals.
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Tried and convicted degenerates now demanding tax payer bonanzas for storming the capitol building
Almost 400 people pardoned or granted clemency by President Donald Trump in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol are now seeking millions of dollars in payouts from the federal government.
Trump Pardoned Them for Jan. 6. Now They Want Millions of Dollars
Almost 400 people pardoned or granted clemency by President Donald Trump in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol are now seeking millions of dollars in payouts from the federal government, according to their lawyer.
bloom.bg
December 11, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Tried and convicted degenerates now demanding tax payer bonanzas for storming the capitol building
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“Somali-looking” man repeatedly begged ICE agents to check his digital passport ID as they tried to put him in a chokehold. They did not, and instead tackled him to the ground, and abducted him. They reportedly drove him 7 miles away before freeing him.
Video: @LongTimeHistory via X
Video: @LongTimeHistory via X
December 11, 2025 at 4:47 AM
“Somali-looking” man repeatedly begged ICE agents to check his digital passport ID as they tried to put him in a chokehold. They did not, and instead tackled him to the ground, and abducted him. They reportedly drove him 7 miles away before freeing him.
Video: @LongTimeHistory via X
Video: @LongTimeHistory via X
Embarrassing. We used to be a real country. www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
The Recap: Fonts are too woke and pencils make you broke in Trump’s America
A daily roundup of the best stories and cartoons by Daily Kos staff and contributors to keep you in the know. 'You can give up pencils': Trump tells you how to survive his economy That feeling when ...
www.dailykos.com
December 11, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Embarrassing. We used to be a real country. www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
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White House Begins Christmas Season With Ceremonial Lighting Of Cross
December 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
White House Begins Christmas Season With Ceremonial Lighting Of Cross
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Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara to US citizen detained by ICE: "I apologize that this happened to you in my city with people wearing vests that say 'police.' That's embarrassing."
December 11, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara to US citizen detained by ICE: "I apologize that this happened to you in my city with people wearing vests that say 'police.' That's embarrassing."
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Remind me: Did Brett Kavanaugh include having your wedding band cut in pieces among the minor inconveniences of being arrested by ICE as a US citizen?
“She has marks on her neck and wrist from where agents restrained her. Agents cut off her wedding ring and held her in leg shackles at Whipple Federal Building for about five hours.”
Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.
Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.
Federal agents arrest citizen observer watching ICE detain neighbors on her north Minneapolis block
Susan Tincher, a 55-year-old American citizen, appears to be the first observer arrested by federal immigration enforcement officers since the agency launched an immigration surge in the Twin Cities l...
www.mprnews.org
December 10, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Remind me: Did Brett Kavanaugh include having your wedding band cut in pieces among the minor inconveniences of being arrested by ICE as a US citizen?
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🚨 Today, I formally introduced articles of impeachment against Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
RFK Jr. has turned his back on science and the safety of the American people. Michiganders cannot take another day of his chaos.
RFK Jr. has turned his back on science and the safety of the American people. Michiganders cannot take another day of his chaos.
December 10, 2025 at 1:10 PM
🚨 Today, I formally introduced articles of impeachment against Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
RFK Jr. has turned his back on science and the safety of the American people. Michiganders cannot take another day of his chaos.
RFK Jr. has turned his back on science and the safety of the American people. Michiganders cannot take another day of his chaos.
I guess the US government is now bringing back piracy. 🏴☠️
December 10, 2025 at 10:42 PM
I guess the US government is now bringing back piracy. 🏴☠️
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Beefing with celebrities online. Reposting AI-generated memes of Franklin the Turtle. Sharing videos of people being detained to copyrighted music.
All of these prove exactly what @annamerlan.bsky.social wrote about months ago: The official voice of the US government is cruel, gross, and weird.
All of these prove exactly what @annamerlan.bsky.social wrote about months ago: The official voice of the US government is cruel, gross, and weird.
The official voice of the US government is cruel, gross, and weird. What is that doing to us?
Joking memes about imprisonment, deportation, and death by alligator are designed to radicalize and desensitize.
www.motherjones.com
December 10, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Beefing with celebrities online. Reposting AI-generated memes of Franklin the Turtle. Sharing videos of people being detained to copyrighted music.
All of these prove exactly what @annamerlan.bsky.social wrote about months ago: The official voice of the US government is cruel, gross, and weird.
All of these prove exactly what @annamerlan.bsky.social wrote about months ago: The official voice of the US government is cruel, gross, and weird.
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This woman was an observer when ice was arresting her Somali neighbors who are legal citizens. She was arrested and her legs kept in shackles for 5 hours and they CUT OFF her wedding ring when they were processing her. It is so appalling. In Minneapolis my hometown.
December 10, 2025 at 8:50 PM
This woman was an observer when ice was arresting her Somali neighbors who are legal citizens. She was arrested and her legs kept in shackles for 5 hours and they CUT OFF her wedding ring when they were processing her. It is so appalling. In Minneapolis my hometown.
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The fact that we have super wealthy and extremely stupid people trying to set themselves up as new nobles has made historical nobility, which I only know from books, far more real to me. These people were not smart, they did not rule well, and rigid hierarchies of domination are very bad.
December 10, 2025 at 10:12 PM
The fact that we have super wealthy and extremely stupid people trying to set themselves up as new nobles has made historical nobility, which I only know from books, far more real to me. These people were not smart, they did not rule well, and rigid hierarchies of domination are very bad.
At this point the Swedish chef would make more sense. Schmor de bor…
December 10, 2025 at 8:44 PM
At this point the Swedish chef would make more sense. Schmor de bor…
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Powell: "Inflation for goods has picked up, reflecting the effects of tariffs."
December 10, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Powell: "Inflation for goods has picked up, reflecting the effects of tariffs."