Jim Clarke
@jimclarkeden.bsky.social
The Associated Press director of membership and major accounts. Four decades as an ink-stained wretch. Denver based. I contain multitudes, and they never get along. Native Rhode Islander. Dad. Husband. Apparently descended from Roger Williams.
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Colorado pumps brakes on e-bikes as teens go full throttle with little federal oversight
Colorado pumps brakes on e-bikes as teens go full throttle with little federal oversight
With popularity exploding as a quick way for kids to get around, serious injuries on e-bikes is emerging as a major public safety problem.
coloradosun.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Colorado pumps brakes on e-bikes as teens go full throttle with little federal oversight
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Abraham Lincoln, 1855.
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www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...
![I am not a Know-Nothing. That is certain. How could I be? How can any one who abhors the oppression of negroes, be in favor or degrading classes of white people? Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that "all men are created equal." We now practically read it "all men are created equal, except negroes" When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read "all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics." When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty -- to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocracy [sic].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:egd33s7iuqsmwlwab6mbtrqi/bafkreiaaicjid4jg3oongeah73ukqvwsqv4vwbp75q4f755nldtcfermhi@jpeg)
November 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Abraham Lincoln, 1855.
www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...
www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...
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From the MN Society for Professional Journalists: St. Paul police shot three photojournalists (MPR, Reuters, Sahan Journal) with "less lethal" munitions during an ICE operation yesterday. One had to go to the hospital. They say they were specifically targeted by St. Paul police.
November 26, 2025 at 5:47 PM
From the MN Society for Professional Journalists: St. Paul police shot three photojournalists (MPR, Reuters, Sahan Journal) with "less lethal" munitions during an ICE operation yesterday. One had to go to the hospital. They say they were specifically targeted by St. Paul police.
If all you did in your life was invent Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots, you lived a full, significant life.
Chicago-based toy designer also had a hand in creating Lite-Brite and Mouse Trap. It wasn’t all fun and games. www.wsj.com/business/ret...
Burt Meyer, Inventor of Rock ’Em Sock ’Em Robots and Other Hit Toys, Dies at 99
www.wsj.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:17 PM
If all you did in your life was invent Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots, you lived a full, significant life.
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Also your mashed potatoes are bad because you didn’t use enough butter. However much butter you think you used isn’t enough. Add more. Do you hate joy? No? Add more butter and shut up.
November 24, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Also your mashed potatoes are bad because you didn’t use enough butter. However much butter you think you used isn’t enough. Add more. Do you hate joy? No? Add more butter and shut up.
The Clash opening for The Who.
Who was the best opening act you've seen live?
November 24, 2025 at 2:36 PM
The Clash opening for The Who.
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- You’re not sure why you just walked into the kitchen.
- For some reason, you are enraged about yams.
- You spend a lot of time trying to keep skin from getting dry.
- For some reason, you are enraged about yams.
- You spend a lot of time trying to keep skin from getting dry.
Thanksgiving or Perimenopause?
1. There’s a turkey neck situation. 2. Is it four thousand degrees in the kitchen, or is it just you? 3. You love your family, but you also wish th...
buff.ly
November 23, 2025 at 3:30 PM
- You’re not sure why you just walked into the kitchen.
- For some reason, you are enraged about yams.
- You spend a lot of time trying to keep skin from getting dry.
- For some reason, you are enraged about yams.
- You spend a lot of time trying to keep skin from getting dry.
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Sister JoAnn Persch served with the Sisters of Mercy for 73 years. On Nov. 1, Sister JoAnn was among the delegation denied entry to the Broadview ICE facility when they attempted to bring Communion to those detained inside.
Sister JoAnn Persch, longtime immigrant activist, dies at 91
chicago.suntimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Sister JoAnn Persch served with the Sisters of Mercy for 73 years. On Nov. 1, Sister JoAnn was among the delegation denied entry to the Broadview ICE facility when they attempted to bring Communion to those detained inside.
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Tomorrow morning, the DC Circuit will consider whether Trump violated the First Amendment by ejecting @apnews.com from the White House press pool after it refused to call the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America. Very glad that the AP is fighting this. knightcolumbia.org/blog/the-fig...
November 23, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Tomorrow morning, the DC Circuit will consider whether Trump violated the First Amendment by ejecting @apnews.com from the White House press pool after it refused to call the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America. Very glad that the AP is fighting this. knightcolumbia.org/blog/the-fig...
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The @sltrib.com has been a beacon for large daily newspapers since going nonprofit. Now it's getting ready to drop its paywall. www.sltrib.com/news/2025/11...
The Salt Lake Tribune will drop its paywall next year, CEO tells donors at NewsMakers gala
After years of requiring people to pay for online news content, The Tribune announced an upcoming change during its 2025 annual NewsMakers Gala.
www.sltrib.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:40 PM
The @sltrib.com has been a beacon for large daily newspapers since going nonprofit. Now it's getting ready to drop its paywall. www.sltrib.com/news/2025/11...
This grand old building turns 100 years old this month. And she doesn’t look a day over … well, let’s be honest, 100. Here’s to another century!
November 21, 2025 at 11:25 PM
This grand old building turns 100 years old this month. And she doesn’t look a day over … well, let’s be honest, 100. Here’s to another century!
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Reporting on the Replacements in 2025.
November 21, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Reporting on the Replacements in 2025.
You know how it's important for your spouse/partner to make you laugh? The bride and I are watching the Ken Burns American Revolution thing. Every time some text comes on the screen with the s's looking like f's she tries to sound it out using the F's. It slays me every time. I'm simple that way.
November 21, 2025 at 4:22 PM
You know how it's important for your spouse/partner to make you laugh? The bride and I are watching the Ken Burns American Revolution thing. Every time some text comes on the screen with the s's looking like f's she tries to sound it out using the F's. It slays me every time. I'm simple that way.
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First Calvin and Hobbes comic strip was published 40 years ago yesterday. 🐯 👦🏼
November 19, 2025 at 7:19 PM
First Calvin and Hobbes comic strip was published 40 years ago yesterday. 🐯 👦🏼
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The President of the United States just called for my arrest and execution.
In these moments, fear is contagious, but so is courage:
In these moments, fear is contagious, but so is courage:
November 20, 2025 at 7:15 PM
The President of the United States just called for my arrest and execution.
In these moments, fear is contagious, but so is courage:
In these moments, fear is contagious, but so is courage:
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Helluva story from @AP: apnews.com/article/immi...
Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' travel patterns
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.
apnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Helluva story from @AP: apnews.com/article/immi...
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Robert Stirm, an Air Force pilot whose return home to his family after more than five years of captivity in North Vietnam was the subject of a jubilant Pulitzer Prize-winning photo — an image that hid the painful truth about his marriage ending —has died at 92.
Robert L. Stirm, Returning P.O.W. in Pulitzer-Winning Photo, Dies at 92
The image immortalized a Vietnam veteran’s joyous homecoming to his beaming family but hid the painful truth about a marriage that was about to end.
nyti.ms
November 20, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Robert Stirm, an Air Force pilot whose return home to his family after more than five years of captivity in North Vietnam was the subject of a jubilant Pulitzer Prize-winning photo — an image that hid the painful truth about his marriage ending —has died at 92.
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Downtown Denver’s Petroleum Building OK’d for loan for office-to-residential conversion trib.al/fIAj6GH
Downtown Denver’s Petroleum Building OK’d for loan for office-to-residential conversion
Plans call for turning 12 floors of vacant office space into 178 new residential units.
trib.al
November 19, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Downtown Denver’s Petroleum Building OK’d for loan for office-to-residential conversion trib.al/fIAj6GH
apnews.com/article/immi... thought they were in court for a routine hearing. Instead, it was a deportation trap
Migrants thought they were in court for a routine hearing. Instead, it was a deportation trap
The nation's immigration courts have undergone a fundamental change under the administration of President Donald Trump.
apnews.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:23 PM
apnews.com/article/immi... thought they were in court for a routine hearing. Instead, it was a deportation trap
OK, work with me here people. What if we let ChatGPT manage the Rockies next year? Just let AI make all the in-game decisions. What's the worst that could happen? I think it'd be ... interesting.
Rockies Mailbag: Who will manage Colorado in 2026? Could it be Warren Schaeffer? trib.al/yYzs4mg
Rockies Mailbag: Who will manage Colorado in 2026? Could it be Warren Schaeffer?
Is Warren Schaeffer going to manage the Rockies in 2026 or will Paul DePodesta pick someone else?
trib.al
November 19, 2025 at 5:18 PM
OK, work with me here people. What if we let ChatGPT manage the Rockies next year? Just let AI make all the in-game decisions. What's the worst that could happen? I think it'd be ... interesting.
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@reed.senate.gov calls out Trump’s “threats to press & excuses for the murder of Jamal Khashoggi”
November 19, 2025 at 1:58 PM
@reed.senate.gov calls out Trump’s “threats to press & excuses for the murder of Jamal Khashoggi”
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This is pretty intense foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/11/t...
November 19, 2025 at 3:43 AM
This is pretty intense foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/11/t...