James Hrynyshyn
@classm.earth
Humanist, skeptic, limitarian https://classm.earth
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National media: Please stop describing what’s happening in Minneapolis as “protests.” There has been a modest, sustained protest outside the Whipple federal building, about 10 miles from downtown, but... 1/3
January 18, 2026 at 3:07 PM
National media: Please stop describing what’s happening in Minneapolis as “protests.” There has been a modest, sustained protest outside the Whipple federal building, about 10 miles from downtown, but... 1/3
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Everyone should watch and share this. Very funny, but also true, smart and informative. #Greenland #Denmark
🇬🇱 Trump wants to buy Greenland. Its former colonizer, through Danish comedian Huxi Bach, has some thoughts on why that’s a terrible idea.
youtu.be/dBoLhWHx-as?... 👇
youtu.be/dBoLhWHx-as?... 👇
Dear America, We’d Like to Speak to the Manager
YouTube video by New York Times Opinion
youtu.be
January 18, 2026 at 3:43 PM
Everyone should watch and share this. Very funny, but also true, smart and informative. #Greenland #Denmark
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How is it that Bill Kristol is better on ICE than the Democratic leadership in Congress?
Hey, @amyklobuchar.com and @smith.senate.gov: I'm not a senator, but if ICE thugs were rampaging through the major city in my state, I might try to impede Senate business as usual and try to bring everything to a halt until I could get answers or force some votes.
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
Democrats Appear Ready to Duck a Key Fight on ICE
Top Senate Democrats are focused on other priorities in the government funding fight.
open.substack.com
January 15, 2026 at 10:44 AM
How is it that Bill Kristol is better on ICE than the Democratic leadership in Congress?
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This. This. This. This. This.
Bari Weiss is a stupid person’s (Danial Ellison) idea of the answer to covering reality in the current media age.
Leaving aside her ridiculous and incoherent politics, she has exactly none of the experience and knowledge needed to meet this moment.
Bari Weiss is a stupid person’s (Danial Ellison) idea of the answer to covering reality in the current media age.
Leaving aside her ridiculous and incoherent politics, she has exactly none of the experience and knowledge needed to meet this moment.
I cannot emphasize how much “be the news” is the opposite of what I was taught about how to be a good journalist and strikes me as an excellent way to churn out elite solipsism that has nothing to do with the public interest and everything to do with self promotion www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/b...
‘We Need to Be the News’: Inside Bari Weiss’s Bumpy Revamp at CBS
www.nytimes.com
January 13, 2026 at 2:52 PM
This. This. This. This. This.
Bari Weiss is a stupid person’s (Danial Ellison) idea of the answer to covering reality in the current media age.
Leaving aside her ridiculous and incoherent politics, she has exactly none of the experience and knowledge needed to meet this moment.
Bari Weiss is a stupid person’s (Danial Ellison) idea of the answer to covering reality in the current media age.
Leaving aside her ridiculous and incoherent politics, she has exactly none of the experience and knowledge needed to meet this moment.
UNC cell biologist Paul Maddox is more than a little frustrated with the lack of intelligence in evidence in Washington these days. So he wants to be western North Carolina's congressmen. polklore.com
Polk Lore
polklore.com
January 13, 2026 at 1:59 PM
UNC cell biologist Paul Maddox is more than a little frustrated with the lack of intelligence in evidence in Washington these days. So he wants to be western North Carolina's congressmen. polklore.com
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There is no attitude for which legacy journalists are more often rewarded by their bosses than "Everybody needs to calm down." It is a preening announcement that you are the adult in the room, immune from emotion or overreaction or "hysteria." And it is the worst imaginable priority for this era. >
January 11, 2026 at 5:23 PM
There is no attitude for which legacy journalists are more often rewarded by their bosses than "Everybody needs to calm down." It is a preening announcement that you are the adult in the room, immune from emotion or overreaction or "hysteria." And it is the worst imaginable priority for this era. >
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I really think where we went wrong was algorithmic feeds. by far the best and most fulfilling part of my BlueSky experience is the one list that includes friends (including ones I've never met IRL)
January 11, 2026 at 3:10 PM
I really think where we went wrong was algorithmic feeds. by far the best and most fulfilling part of my BlueSky experience is the one list that includes friends (including ones I've never met IRL)
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In light of what happened to Renee Good, I thought it important to reiterate my grandmother's advice.
My grandmother’s family was murdered in the chambers of Auschwitz. She survived and told me never let it get that far. Make them shoot you in public before they murder you in hiding. Stand up for others. Never cave in fear of the Nazis or the holocaust will happen again.
January 10, 2026 at 7:16 PM
In light of what happened to Renee Good, I thought it important to reiterate my grandmother's advice.
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"To our major newsrooms, the truth of the matter is a jump ball."
Read @froomkin.bsky.social on the "both sides" bias at the top.
No paywall. presswatchers.org/2026/01/why-...
Read @froomkin.bsky.social on the "both sides" bias at the top.
No paywall. presswatchers.org/2026/01/why-...
January 11, 2026 at 1:09 AM
"To our major newsrooms, the truth of the matter is a jump ball."
Read @froomkin.bsky.social on the "both sides" bias at the top.
No paywall. presswatchers.org/2026/01/why-...
Read @froomkin.bsky.social on the "both sides" bias at the top.
No paywall. presswatchers.org/2026/01/why-...
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This is fabulous because it is all, actually this stupid.
January 10, 2026 at 2:42 PM
This is fabulous because it is all, actually this stupid.
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"This bridge fuel narrative — the argument that we need to develop an entirely new fossil fuel resource, unconventional shale gas, in order to solve climate change — wasn’t accurate in 2009 when advisors to former president Barack Obama first laundered the idea into the mainstream..."
It’s time to abandon the ‘bridge fuel’ fantasy
The problem is fossil gas, which is mostly composed of methane, is a gas, which means it leaks constantly: at wells, in pipelines and from gas cookstoves in people’s homes.
www.nationalobserver.com
January 2, 2026 at 1:45 PM
"This bridge fuel narrative — the argument that we need to develop an entirely new fossil fuel resource, unconventional shale gas, in order to solve climate change — wasn’t accurate in 2009 when advisors to former president Barack Obama first laundered the idea into the mainstream..."
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Resolutions for the New Year:
1) feet: going to be on the ground
2) head: there to move me around
3) if confused, check with the sun
1) feet: going to be on the ground
2) head: there to move me around
3) if confused, check with the sun
December 31, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Resolutions for the New Year:
1) feet: going to be on the ground
2) head: there to move me around
3) if confused, check with the sun
1) feet: going to be on the ground
2) head: there to move me around
3) if confused, check with the sun
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Needless to say, I am required to think about this problem a lot.
December 31, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Needless to say, I am required to think about this problem a lot.
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In this booze-lulled food-sedated caesura, when no one knows which day it is or remembers the concept of pants, I recommend as a tonic this bracing blast of ferocious righteousness.
(It’s funny, too.)
(It’s funny, too.)
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
December 28, 2025 at 2:32 PM
In this booze-lulled food-sedated caesura, when no one knows which day it is or remembers the concept of pants, I recommend as a tonic this bracing blast of ferocious righteousness.
(It’s funny, too.)
(It’s funny, too.)
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Good name for a band.
December 26, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Good name for a band.
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Funny, after hearing this I really feel like I do
JD Vance: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore"
December 21, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Funny, after hearing this I really feel like I do
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"Refusing is actually the more hopeful, expansive vision of the future." Thank you @tressiemcphd.bsky.social for this boost for my soul:
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 1:57 PM
"Refusing is actually the more hopeful, expansive vision of the future." Thank you @tressiemcphd.bsky.social for this boost for my soul:
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As was true with the translators I heard from in an earlier edition, copywriters never felt that they were being replaced because the AI's work was better. It was almost always worse. It was simply cheaper and faster, and deemed "good enough" by clients.
December 12, 2025 at 7:00 PM
As was true with the translators I heard from in an earlier edition, copywriters never felt that they were being replaced because the AI's work was better. It was almost always worse. It was simply cheaper and faster, and deemed "good enough" by clients.
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I think other people have made this point, but: if college is just a vocational school -- if its sole purpose is to "prepare young people for jobs" -- then there's no point in college at all! Just create actual vocational schools.
December 9, 2025 at 8:38 PM
I think other people have made this point, but: if college is just a vocational school -- if its sole purpose is to "prepare young people for jobs" -- then there's no point in college at all! Just create actual vocational schools.
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"This post is about an evergreen but newly urgent topic: How mainstream media in general, and the New York Times in particular, ‘frame’ the political news." —@jfallows.bsky.social
Read the rest here: fallows.substack.com/p/here-today...
Read the rest here: fallows.substack.com/p/here-today...
Here Today, Gone Tomorrow.
Saturday's NYT shows what its editors can do, when they want to. Why not do this every day?
fallows.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:12 PM
"This post is about an evergreen but newly urgent topic: How mainstream media in general, and the New York Times in particular, ‘frame’ the political news." —@jfallows.bsky.social
Read the rest here: fallows.substack.com/p/here-today...
Read the rest here: fallows.substack.com/p/here-today...
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I recently said that no country is asking people to pay for the true cost of driving, including the externalities. Well, it looks like Denmark might be doing that soon. Kudos to them
Exciting road pricing news out of Denmark!
Today a new expert group for designing the future car taxation was announced, with a focus on the externalities from cars.
See the terms of reference below. I will soon follow up with a piece on why I think it actually can lead to GPS-based road pricing.
Today a new expert group for designing the future car taxation was announced, with a focus on the externalities from cars.
See the terms of reference below. I will soon follow up with a piece on why I think it actually can lead to GPS-based road pricing.
December 9, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I recently said that no country is asking people to pay for the true cost of driving, including the externalities. Well, it looks like Denmark might be doing that soon. Kudos to them