Jim Ryan
@jim-ryan.bsky.social
Milwaukee, WI. Let’s get rid of guns and billionaires.
A place where I haven’t written much in ages but might have to again soon: https://nobutseriously.substack.com
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/12350361
A place where I haven’t written much in ages but might have to again soon: https://nobutseriously.substack.com
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/12350361
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I can’t join ICE because I once gave a woman an orgasm 😔
January 9, 2026 at 2:07 PM
I can’t join ICE because I once gave a woman an orgasm 😔
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“I need 185,000 kids to die every year so 27 other kids get less excited about trains.” - RFK Jr between mouthfuls of raw yak meat
January 6, 2026 at 12:17 PM
“I need 185,000 kids to die every year so 27 other kids get less excited about trains.” - RFK Jr between mouthfuls of raw yak meat
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Polls show that 70% of Americans oppose the war in Venezuela. But at this CBS News staff meeting, that number feels much smaller.
January 4, 2026 at 8:35 PM
Polls show that 70% of Americans oppose the war in Venezuela. But at this CBS News staff meeting, that number feels much smaller.
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I remember when they were saying they were powerless to return a man they illegally sent to an El Salvador gulag because it would violate that country's national sovereignty.
January 3, 2026 at 5:46 PM
I remember when they were saying they were powerless to return a man they illegally sent to an El Salvador gulag because it would violate that country's national sovereignty.
Reading @calfraser.bsky.social’s remarkable, unputdownable Murderland and just learned that the New York Times was New York Timesing at least as far back as 1978!
January 3, 2026 at 6:04 PM
Reading @calfraser.bsky.social’s remarkable, unputdownable Murderland and just learned that the New York Times was New York Timesing at least as far back as 1978!
On the upside, we’ve just set the precedent that it’s okay for foreign nations to kidnap corrupt autocrats from their palaces, mansions, white houses, etc. Let’s take a breath and see how this plays out!
January 3, 2026 at 3:42 PM
On the upside, we’ve just set the precedent that it’s okay for foreign nations to kidnap corrupt autocrats from their palaces, mansions, white houses, etc. Let’s take a breath and see how this plays out!
So wait, now we’re bringing South American criminals *in* to the country? By force?
January 3, 2026 at 1:37 PM
So wait, now we’re bringing South American criminals *in* to the country? By force?
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One of the ways you can tell America is stronger than ever is that it’s almost Christmas and all anyone is talking about is a heavily redacted set of documents about sex monsters
December 20, 2025 at 2:44 AM
One of the ways you can tell America is stronger than ever is that it’s almost Christmas and all anyone is talking about is a heavily redacted set of documents about sex monsters
Using the exact same mathematical logic, Donald Trump’s approval rating is down 131% since January.
FOX: If you cut something by 100%, the cost goes down to 0. If you cut it by 600%, the drug companies are actually paying you
LUTNICK: What he's saying is if a drug was $100 and you bring it down to $13, it's down 7 times
F: Not a 600% cut
L: But it's 700% higher price before. It's down 700% now
LUTNICK: What he's saying is if a drug was $100 and you bring it down to $13, it's down 7 times
F: Not a 600% cut
L: But it's 700% higher price before. It's down 700% now
December 19, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Using the exact same mathematical logic, Donald Trump’s approval rating is down 131% since January.
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re: roblox dude's interview crashout. the thing he wants to say but can't is "at scale, kids are gonna get hurt. that is the price for scale." the thing nobody wants to say out loud is "maybe scaling to a level where harm isn't manageable is bad, and scale should be contained"
November 21, 2025 at 6:35 PM
re: roblox dude's interview crashout. the thing he wants to say but can't is "at scale, kids are gonna get hurt. that is the price for scale." the thing nobody wants to say out loud is "maybe scaling to a level where harm isn't manageable is bad, and scale should be contained"
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the only way i am willing to consume olivia nuzzi content is by reading an endless succession of stories about self-serious amoral idiot ryan lizza being cuckolded by an increasingly gross succession of octogenerians
November 18, 2025 at 3:51 AM
the only way i am willing to consume olivia nuzzi content is by reading an endless succession of stories about self-serious amoral idiot ryan lizza being cuckolded by an increasingly gross succession of octogenerians
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Part of this week’s newsletter was inspired by the post below. Was there a way to show the distance between normal Americans and the super wealthy?
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November 15, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Part of this week’s newsletter was inspired by the post below. Was there a way to show the distance between normal Americans and the super wealthy?
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www.howtoreadthisch.art/putting-the-...
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We gotta have a clear term for people so cynical they become gullible.
November 12, 2025 at 4:55 PM
We gotta have a clear term for people so cynical they become gullible.
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whenever someone says they "don't know what party they're affiliated with", they're a republican
October 26, 2025 at 4:10 PM
whenever someone says they "don't know what party they're affiliated with", they're a republican
I’ve apparently turned “would rather lick/suck the syrup off the hair on the back of my hand than get up from my post-breakfast reading perch on the porch to wash it” years old.
October 26, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I’ve apparently turned “would rather lick/suck the syrup off the hair on the back of my hand than get up from my post-breakfast reading perch on the porch to wash it” years old.
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The thing to understand about fascism is that most people you know will be bought off. Bought with promises of peace and stability, bought with business opportunities or paid with actual cash. Most people aren't going to resist. Get used to it and get used to operating in that environment.
October 23, 2025 at 11:27 PM
The thing to understand about fascism is that most people you know will be bought off. Bought with promises of peace and stability, bought with business opportunities or paid with actual cash. Most people aren't going to resist. Get used to it and get used to operating in that environment.
It’s cool that Alexa has a new voice that is 30% more natural sounding and the only downside is she’s 70% slower and shittier at performing the basic tasks I need her to perform!
October 23, 2025 at 6:51 PM
It’s cool that Alexa has a new voice that is 30% more natural sounding and the only downside is she’s 70% slower and shittier at performing the basic tasks I need her to perform!
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I think the fundamental conflict in America is still that the broad left has cultural power but wants that to translate to political power and the right has political power and wants that to translate to cultural power.
October 2, 2025 at 11:35 PM
I think the fundamental conflict in America is still that the broad left has cultural power but wants that to translate to political power and the right has political power and wants that to translate to cultural power.
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It's fascinating and revealing how many centrists think refusing to compromise on human rights to gain the support of bigots represents a "political purity test," yet also think that a bigot saying "I won't join you unless you accommodate my bigotry" does NOT represent a "political purity test."
October 1, 2025 at 10:47 AM
It's fascinating and revealing how many centrists think refusing to compromise on human rights to gain the support of bigots represents a "political purity test," yet also think that a bigot saying "I won't join you unless you accommodate my bigotry" does NOT represent a "political purity test."
Honestly hilarious that Ezra Klein’s position in his conversation with Ta-Nehisi Coates is essentially “the GOP has had huge political success by becoming a radical far-right extremist party that is hurting all the causes I believe in and the only way we can win again is by becoming more moderate.”
September 29, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Honestly hilarious that Ezra Klein’s position in his conversation with Ta-Nehisi Coates is essentially “the GOP has had huge political success by becoming a radical far-right extremist party that is hurting all the causes I believe in and the only way we can win again is by becoming more moderate.”
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Two headlines on the same day
September 24, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Two headlines on the same day
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the US if Tylenol actually caused autism
September 23, 2025 at 4:13 PM
the US if Tylenol actually caused autism
Sorry bro, but the founders didn’t mention acetaminophen!
September 23, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Sorry bro, but the founders didn’t mention acetaminophen!
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What’s more astonishing: 1) that the president clearly believes, and repeatedly suggests, that asylum seekers are people from mental asylums, or 2) that no journalist has ever challenged him on this and no mainstream media outlets have done any deep dives on this story?
September 20, 2025 at 7:11 PM
What’s more astonishing: 1) that the president clearly believes, and repeatedly suggests, that asylum seekers are people from mental asylums, or 2) that no journalist has ever challenged him on this and no mainstream media outlets have done any deep dives on this story?
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The debate around what is or isn’t “cancel culture” really just obscures a simple truth that it’s BAD to be massively racist/sexist/homophobic/transphobic and it’s GOOD to speak out against injustice. Some things are good and some things are bad and it’s okay to say which you think are which.
September 20, 2025 at 4:28 PM
The debate around what is or isn’t “cancel culture” really just obscures a simple truth that it’s BAD to be massively racist/sexist/homophobic/transphobic and it’s GOOD to speak out against injustice. Some things are good and some things are bad and it’s okay to say which you think are which.