calamity jim
@calamityjim.bsky.social
fan of writers, medium-sized dogs, small children, bread, islands, stars, popcorn, candy corn, and sleep.
hitchhiked over here from balloon juice.
not a fan of willful ignorance, malice, or black licorice.
hitchhiked over here from balloon juice.
not a fan of willful ignorance, malice, or black licorice.
I'm not listening to his voice. Did he admit that she was only there because he decided to put her there? Did he say that her mission was to perform in his vicious hate-play? Did he take responsibility for the shooter being approved to stay in the USA?
Of course not.
Of course not.
President Trump says that Sarah Beckstrom — one of the National Guard members shot yesterday in Washington DC — has died.
She was just 20-years-old.
She was just 20-years-old.
November 28, 2025 at 12:20 AM
I'm not listening to his voice. Did he admit that she was only there because he decided to put her there? Did he say that her mission was to perform in his vicious hate-play? Did he take responsibility for the shooter being approved to stay in the USA?
Of course not.
Of course not.
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This is Alina and Vladyslav. Russia murdered them yesterday in their sick human safari in Kherson.
She was 34. He was only 6.
She was 34. He was only 6.
November 27, 2025 at 10:31 PM
This is Alina and Vladyslav. Russia murdered them yesterday in their sick human safari in Kherson.
She was 34. He was only 6.
She was 34. He was only 6.
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Rep. Thomas Massie
"I am sorry that one of your billionaire donors is going to get embarrassed because he went to rape Island. That is what they have coming, in fact they need to be on the other side of bars."
"I am sorry that one of your billionaire donors is going to get embarrassed because he went to rape Island. That is what they have coming, in fact they need to be on the other side of bars."
November 24, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Rep. Thomas Massie
"I am sorry that one of your billionaire donors is going to get embarrassed because he went to rape Island. That is what they have coming, in fact they need to be on the other side of bars."
"I am sorry that one of your billionaire donors is going to get embarrassed because he went to rape Island. That is what they have coming, in fact they need to be on the other side of bars."
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We're gonna need a truth and reconciliation commission and Nuremberg style trials to reckon with all of this evil, and any Dem candidate for office who shies away from a full reckoning in the name of "moving forward as a nation" can get well and truly fucked
I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. - The Boston Globe
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was at Logan to catch a flight to Texas when immigration authorities detained her as she was about to board the plane.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:29 PM
We're gonna need a truth and reconciliation commission and Nuremberg style trials to reckon with all of this evil, and any Dem candidate for office who shies away from a full reckoning in the name of "moving forward as a nation" can get well and truly fucked
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This is my yearly reminder that
A) The Pilgrims never turned on the Wampanoags. The Puritans who did were a whole different group of people.
B) Thanksgiving became a holiday to celebrate whooping the Confederates.
Sometimes we can just enjoy traditions without guilt!
A) The Pilgrims never turned on the Wampanoags. The Puritans who did were a whole different group of people.
B) Thanksgiving became a holiday to celebrate whooping the Confederates.
Sometimes we can just enjoy traditions without guilt!
Thanksgiving is problematic. Giving thanks is not. As someone who wants to remember the attempted genocide of indigenous people but also likes a reminder to practice gratitude, I like to use Indigenous People's Month to support (and be grateful for) indigenous creators. A partial list! /1
November 27, 2025 at 5:39 PM
This is my yearly reminder that
A) The Pilgrims never turned on the Wampanoags. The Puritans who did were a whole different group of people.
B) Thanksgiving became a holiday to celebrate whooping the Confederates.
Sometimes we can just enjoy traditions without guilt!
A) The Pilgrims never turned on the Wampanoags. The Puritans who did were a whole different group of people.
B) Thanksgiving became a holiday to celebrate whooping the Confederates.
Sometimes we can just enjoy traditions without guilt!
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This is who we're deporting while we're importing sex traffickers like the Tate brothers and white supremacists who are nostalgic for Apartheid.
I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. - The Boston Globe
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was at Logan to catch a flight to Texas when immigration authorities detained her as she was about to board the plane.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:58 PM
This is who we're deporting while we're importing sex traffickers like the Tate brothers and white supremacists who are nostalgic for Apartheid.
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This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.
November 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.
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Grateful for all of you who I see, read, interact with here on Bluesky. Happy Thanksgiving- enjoy "Mindful" by Mary Oliver, about finding delights in the everyday world to be thankful for.
November 27, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Grateful for all of you who I see, read, interact with here on Bluesky. Happy Thanksgiving- enjoy "Mindful" by Mary Oliver, about finding delights in the everyday world to be thankful for.
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repost to make a mutual smile
November 26, 2025 at 8:29 PM
repost to make a mutual smile
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27 November 1925 | A Dutch Jewish woman, Jeanette van Geldern, was born in Rheden.
In September 1943 she was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive.
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Women at Auschwitz
Lesson: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/2022_kobiety_en/
Podcast: https://youtu.be/ijTxtbNlJO8
In September 1943 she was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive.
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Women at Auschwitz
Lesson: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/2022_kobiety_en/
Podcast: https://youtu.be/ijTxtbNlJO8
November 27, 2025 at 6:00 AM
27 November 1925 | A Dutch Jewish woman, Jeanette van Geldern, was born in Rheden.
In September 1943 she was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive.
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Women at Auschwitz
Lesson: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/2022_kobiety_en/
Podcast: https://youtu.be/ijTxtbNlJO8
In September 1943 she was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive.
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Women at Auschwitz
Lesson: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/2022_kobiety_en/
Podcast: https://youtu.be/ijTxtbNlJO8
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The war will end when Russia stops fighting. Therefore, pressure has to be put on Russia, so that they stop believing that they will win. Why is that so hard to understand?
November 27, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The war will end when Russia stops fighting. Therefore, pressure has to be put on Russia, so that they stop believing that they will win. Why is that so hard to understand?
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“The Insider can reveal the document contains specific language that appeared almost exactly word-for-word in an earlier text — one drafted solely by Dmitriev not long after Trump’s second inauguration.”
Trump's White House fell for Kremlin psy-op.
theins.ru/en/politics/...
Trump's White House fell for Kremlin psy-op.
theins.ru/en/politics/...
Made in Moscow: The “U.S. peace plan” for Ukraine was substantially formulated months ago by Kremlin operative Kirill Dmitriev
Since it was first published on Nov. 20, the much-discussed 28-point plan for ending the war in Ukraine has borne all the signs of a Kremlin information operation. In fact, many of its most…
theins.ru
November 26, 2025 at 11:47 AM
“The Insider can reveal the document contains specific language that appeared almost exactly word-for-word in an earlier text — one drafted solely by Dmitriev not long after Trump’s second inauguration.”
Trump's White House fell for Kremlin psy-op.
theins.ru/en/politics/...
Trump's White House fell for Kremlin psy-op.
theins.ru/en/politics/...
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THIS 👉👉👉
November 26, 2025 at 2:26 PM
THIS 👉👉👉
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After 30 years in prison and 25 years on Louisiana's death row, Chris Duncan walked out of Angola today a free man.
"I'm cruising down a highway," he texted me. "Most glaring emotion is shock."
"I'm cruising down a highway," he texted me. "Most glaring emotion is shock."
November 27, 2025 at 1:02 AM
After 30 years in prison and 25 years on Louisiana's death row, Chris Duncan walked out of Angola today a free man.
"I'm cruising down a highway," he texted me. "Most glaring emotion is shock."
"I'm cruising down a highway," he texted me. "Most glaring emotion is shock."
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An 18yo US citizen, surrounded by eight masked, armed agents of the state, taken into custody, not read his rights, not offered a chance to contact a lawyer, proof of citizenship ignored, handcuffed so tightly he later required medical attention.
Profoundly, profoundly anti-American shit.
Profoundly, profoundly anti-American shit.
ICE Detained an 18-Year-Old U.S. Citizen. This Is His Story.
YouTube video by The Hometown Holler
youtu.be
November 26, 2025 at 10:00 PM
An 18yo US citizen, surrounded by eight masked, armed agents of the state, taken into custody, not read his rights, not offered a chance to contact a lawyer, proof of citizenship ignored, handcuffed so tightly he later required medical attention.
Profoundly, profoundly anti-American shit.
Profoundly, profoundly anti-American shit.
Soviet stuff. Chinese cultural revolution stuff. Here in the USA, with media shrugging and grinning.
Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵
DOGE was not a money-saving effort. It was an effort to chase down and prove right-wing conspiracy theories. They went after USAID to prove conspiracy theories about foreign aid. Then they went after SSA to, again, pursue conspiracy theories about Dems paying "illegals" to vote. 1/2
November 27, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Soviet stuff. Chinese cultural revolution stuff. Here in the USA, with media shrugging and grinning.
gracious, read this thing.
As a comfortably well off retiree, this post is an eye opener. What kind of income does it take to ba full participant in society. And how bad the turbulence is if you’re near the boundary. www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-... @charlesgaba.com
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:49 AM
gracious, read this thing.
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This is a good day to once again note that there are no other world leaders who have both nobly defied Trump's extortive quid pro quo blackmail and fought bravely to thwart Putin's murderous aggression. He's in a tough place and nobody can say how things will transpire. But Zelensky is a rare hero.
November 26, 2025 at 10:28 PM
This is a good day to once again note that there are no other world leaders who have both nobly defied Trump's extortive quid pro quo blackmail and fought bravely to thwart Putin's murderous aggression. He's in a tough place and nobody can say how things will transpire. But Zelensky is a rare hero.
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November 26, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Kushner? Kushner??!!
Hasn't he done enough damage?
Hasn't he done enough damage?
BREAKING: Trump Sends Kushner and Witkoff to Moscow as Leaked Tapes Rock the “Peace Plan”
open.substack.com/pub/levremem...
open.substack.com/pub/levremem...
BREAKING: Trump Sends Kushner and Witkoff to Moscow as Leaked Tapes Rock the “Peace Plan”
Six months ago I told you Jared Kushner, Steve Witkoff, and Kirill Dmitriev were the real ones running Trump’s Ukraine “peace” game — leaked tapes, Miami meetings, and a planned Moscow trip.
open.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Kushner? Kushner??!!
Hasn't he done enough damage?
Hasn't he done enough damage?
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For a small fee, I will go to your historian enemy’s seminar presentation and say “I guess I’m just wondering what the “so what” of this paper is?”
November 26, 2025 at 9:45 PM
For a small fee, I will go to your historian enemy’s seminar presentation and say “I guess I’m just wondering what the “so what” of this paper is?”
I read it. This isn't about sex anymore.
November 26, 2025 at 10:04 PM
I read it. This isn't about sex anymore.