Jim
@xmljim.bsky.social
Geek, social scientist, cook, not in any order at any particular time. Staunchly pro small-d democracy. Posts and thoughts are my own, and do not represent those of anyone I affiliate with.
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UPDATE: Per #Boulder County, Wild Turkey Fire at 3 acres, but forward spread has been stopped and crews are in mop up. There is still concern due to high winds, evacuation orders remain in place for now
December 23, 2025 at 4:26 AM
UPDATE: Per #Boulder County, Wild Turkey Fire at 3 acres, but forward spread has been stopped and crews are in mop up. There is still concern due to high winds, evacuation orders remain in place for now
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Colorado immigration activist Jeanette Vizguerra nine months after she was taken into custody ICE
"I am thankful that they never gave up, remaining committed even when the outcome seemed dark […] This fight is about the constitutional rights we all share, human rights and dignity for all people,"
"I am thankful that they never gave up, remaining committed even when the outcome seemed dark […] This fight is about the constitutional rights we all share, human rights and dignity for all people,"
Colorado immigration activist Jeanette Vizguerra released after being granted bond
Colorado immigration activist Jeanette Vizguerra was released from detention on Monday, nine months after she was taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to the American F...
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December 23, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Colorado immigration activist Jeanette Vizguerra nine months after she was taken into custody ICE
"I am thankful that they never gave up, remaining committed even when the outcome seemed dark […] This fight is about the constitutional rights we all share, human rights and dignity for all people,"
"I am thankful that they never gave up, remaining committed even when the outcome seemed dark […] This fight is about the constitutional rights we all share, human rights and dignity for all people,"
It *wasn't* a national security issue until they made it one by wrecking the East Wing
See, here is the thing about saying everything is a national security matter...
December 23, 2025 at 4:06 AM
It *wasn't* a national security issue until they made it one by wrecking the East Wing
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As I explained in my newsletter, this is because Trump's team has reinvented millennia of math to invert what "percentage of change" means.
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December 22, 2025 at 11:23 PM
As I explained in my newsletter, this is because Trump's team has reinvented millennia of math to invert what "percentage of change" means.
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CBS NEWS: “We can’t report on the current murdering spree until we get the serial killer’s side of the story.”
December 22, 2025 at 8:39 PM
CBS NEWS: “We can’t report on the current murdering spree until we get the serial killer’s side of the story.”
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Trump’s new envoy admits his goal is to steal territory from a NATO ally.
December 22, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Trump’s new envoy admits his goal is to steal territory from a NATO ally.
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My totally speculative theory on CBS is that when the WH saw the story, someone called an Ellison, who called Bari Weiss in a panic over the Warner Bros. bid, ordered her to kill it
Only a non-journalist (Ellison) would be too dumb not to understand killing the story just made things 100X worse
Only a non-journalist (Ellison) would be too dumb not to understand killing the story just made things 100X worse
December 22, 2025 at 7:55 PM
My totally speculative theory on CBS is that when the WH saw the story, someone called an Ellison, who called Bari Weiss in a panic over the Warner Bros. bid, ordered her to kill it
Only a non-journalist (Ellison) would be too dumb not to understand killing the story just made things 100X worse
Only a non-journalist (Ellison) would be too dumb not to understand killing the story just made things 100X worse
Bringing the heat (re: oligarchs):
"They believe in empathy and compassion as rhetorical wrappers for corporate activity but in the real world have none for vulnerable people unless it comes with a tax write-off."
"They believe in empathy and compassion as rhetorical wrappers for corporate activity but in the real world have none for vulnerable people unless it comes with a tax write-off."
I wrote about Bari Weiss doing the hard work of defending the rich and powerful www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Bari Weiss's Counter-Journalistic Crusade Targets "60 Minutes"
The new editor-in-chief at CBS News has shown she's not merely stupendously unqualified--she's ideologically opposed to the practice of good journalism.
www.thenation.com
December 22, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Bringing the heat (re: oligarchs):
"They believe in empathy and compassion as rhetorical wrappers for corporate activity but in the real world have none for vulnerable people unless it comes with a tax write-off."
"They believe in empathy and compassion as rhetorical wrappers for corporate activity but in the real world have none for vulnerable people unless it comes with a tax write-off."
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I wrote about Bari Weiss doing the hard work of defending the rich and powerful www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Bari Weiss's Counter-Journalistic Crusade Targets "60 Minutes"
The new editor-in-chief at CBS News has shown she's not merely stupendously unqualified--she's ideologically opposed to the practice of good journalism.
www.thenation.com
December 22, 2025 at 6:43 PM
I wrote about Bari Weiss doing the hard work of defending the rich and powerful www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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Still the Saudis, still the same price, still the media incompetent and hopelessly compromised Ellisons. But thanks for the guarantee Big Daddy — you can afford it (for now) www.cnn.com/2025/12/22/m...
Paramount’s new, hostile offer to Warner Bros. Discovery: Larry Ellison will personally guarantee $40 billion | CNN Business
Paramount has upped the ante in its hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, announcing Monday that Larry Ellison will personally guarantee the tens of billions of dollars he is putting up to ...
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December 22, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Still the Saudis, still the same price, still the media incompetent and hopelessly compromised Ellisons. But thanks for the guarantee Big Daddy — you can afford it (for now) www.cnn.com/2025/12/22/m...
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MEMO: “.. we strongly recommend that employees without a valid H-1B visa stamp avoid international travel for now.”
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December 22, 2025 at 9:04 PM
MEMO: “.. we strongly recommend that employees without a valid H-1B visa stamp avoid international travel for now.”
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ICE agents illegally break into a woman's bathroom in a NY nutrition bar manufacturing plant. "Pull up your pants," says a male agent. The agents only had a warrant to review employer documents. They didn't have a warrant to search for, detain, or arrest anyone there.
December 22, 2025 at 7:52 PM
ICE agents illegally break into a woman's bathroom in a NY nutrition bar manufacturing plant. "Pull up your pants," says a male agent. The agents only had a warrant to review employer documents. They didn't have a warrant to search for, detain, or arrest anyone there.
I think term, "the radical left" is codeword for anyone to the left of MAGA and Christian Nationalists who have a moral compass and a spine.
If this doesn't motivate you to vote in the Midterms, nothing will.
December 22, 2025 at 9:05 PM
I think term, "the radical left" is codeword for anyone to the left of MAGA and Christian Nationalists who have a moral compass and a spine.
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Tanya Simon, the E.P. of "60 Minutes" told the show's staff she stood by the shelved segment but could not allay the concerns of the network’s editor in chief, Bari Weiss.
"She wanted changes, and I ultimately had to comply."
Updated w/ @liamjscott.bsky.social:
"She wanted changes, and I ultimately had to comply."
Updated w/ @liamjscott.bsky.social:
‘I ultimately had to comply’: ‘60 Minutes’ EP faces fallout after Bari Weiss shelves story
CBS News postponed a “60 Minutes” segment about El Salvador’s CECOT prison one day before it was set to air because the Trump administration declined to participate.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 22, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Tanya Simon, the E.P. of "60 Minutes" told the show's staff she stood by the shelved segment but could not allay the concerns of the network’s editor in chief, Bari Weiss.
"She wanted changes, and I ultimately had to comply."
Updated w/ @liamjscott.bsky.social:
"She wanted changes, and I ultimately had to comply."
Updated w/ @liamjscott.bsky.social:
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This is pretext. Trump’s been obsessed w/wind turbines for decades, which began after Scotland put some in near his golf course. He sued the govt & lost, which is why he claims they cause cancer, mental illness in whales, bird extinctions, etc. Welcome to the 19th century. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Burgum: "Today we're sending notifications to the 5 large offshore wind projects that are under construction that their leases will be suspended due to national security concerns ... the Dept of War has come back conclusively that these large offshore wind programs create radar interference"
December 22, 2025 at 3:41 PM
This is pretext. Trump’s been obsessed w/wind turbines for decades, which began after Scotland put some in near his golf course. He sued the govt & lost, which is why he claims they cause cancer, mental illness in whales, bird extinctions, etc. Welcome to the 19th century. bsky.app/profile/atru...
It's almost as if there was a universal law about this... Oh yes, @therickwilson.bsky.social defined it: "Everything Trump touches dies" #ETTD
Over a dozen Heritage Foundation employees recently walked away from their jobs.
Heritage has been wrapped in controversy after its president defended Tucker Carlson’s interview of Nick Fuentes, a white supremacist who routinely espouses antisemitic views.
Heritage has been wrapped in controversy after its president defended Tucker Carlson’s interview of Nick Fuentes, a white supremacist who routinely espouses antisemitic views.
Heritage staffers walk out amid latest strife at MAGA institution
“Most of our staff, from our legal and economic centers, are departing immediately,” Heritage President Kevin Roberts wrote in a Sunday night email.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 22, 2025 at 3:49 PM
It's almost as if there was a universal law about this... Oh yes, @therickwilson.bsky.social defined it: "Everything Trump touches dies" #ETTD
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Two days before the show was to air, Weiss suggested revamping it, including adding interviews of Stephen Miller, whose personal contact information she has (of course). Also objected to calling migrants migrants.
December 22, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Two days before the show was to air, Weiss suggested revamping it, including adding interviews of Stephen Miller, whose personal contact information she has (of course). Also objected to calling migrants migrants.
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The CBS reporter who led the story calls pulling it a "political" decision.
"The decision was made after Bari Weiss, the new editor in chief of CBS News, requested numerous changes to the segment."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
"The decision was made after Bari Weiss, the new editor in chief of CBS News, requested numerous changes to the segment."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
December 22, 2025 at 3:10 AM
The CBS reporter who led the story calls pulling it a "political" decision.
"The decision was made after Bari Weiss, the new editor in chief of CBS News, requested numerous changes to the segment."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
"The decision was made after Bari Weiss, the new editor in chief of CBS News, requested numerous changes to the segment."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
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The story is insane. The acting head of cyber security, a Noem crony, repeatedly demanded to see highly classified information he didn’t need access to, and when staff set up a lie detector test as a condition to grant him access, he failed it. So DHS suspended the staffers.
Acting CISA director failed a polygraph. Career staff are now under investigation.
Acting CISA director failed a polygraph. Career staff are now under investigation.
At least six career staff were placed on leave after DHS opened an investigation into whether they misled the agency’s acting director, Madhu Gottumukkala, into taking the test.
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December 22, 2025 at 3:20 AM
The story is insane. The acting head of cyber security, a Noem crony, repeatedly demanded to see highly classified information he didn’t need access to, and when staff set up a lie detector test as a condition to grant him access, he failed it. So DHS suspended the staffers.
Bari Weiss, David Ellison and Sharon Redstone have destroyed the legacy of giants like Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite.
December 22, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Bari Weiss, David Ellison and Sharon Redstone have destroyed the legacy of giants like Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite.
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Kind of interesting how CNN frames TPUSA conventions now
December 22, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Kind of interesting how CNN frames TPUSA conventions now
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December 4, 2025 at 9:19 PM
"Still, the bottom-line takeaway is that, if 2025 was defined by things falling apart faster than expected, my hunch is that 2026 will be defined by the bill coming due, and the Trump coalition fracturing as they are unable to pay it."
Wrote up my predictions for 2026.
-I think 2025 will have been rock bottom.
-The Trump coalition is going to panic and fall to infighting as election day draws closer.
-The AI bubble will get even more obviously bubbly.
-We'll begin the long road to repair.
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-I think 2025 will have been rock bottom.
-The Trump coalition is going to panic and fall to infighting as election day draws closer.
-The AI bubble will get even more obviously bubbly.
-We'll begin the long road to repair.
🤞
open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...
Some 2026 Predictions
I think we've made it past rock bottom?
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December 22, 2025 at 1:56 AM
"Still, the bottom-line takeaway is that, if 2025 was defined by things falling apart faster than expected, my hunch is that 2026 will be defined by the bill coming due, and the Trump coalition fracturing as they are unable to pay it."
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All of these links went to promotion of this story earlier today. All these links are dead now — that's how thoroughly they've scrubbed this.
December 21, 2025 at 10:57 PM
All of these links went to promotion of this story earlier today. All these links are dead now — that's how thoroughly they've scrubbed this.
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"Babies in the randomized, controlled trial will or will not receive the vaccine at birth...
"It is a breach of scientific ethics to withhold an intervention that has been proven safe and effective."
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
"It is a breach of scientific ethics to withhold an intervention that has been proven safe and effective."
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
US plan for $1.6m hepatitis B vaccine study in Africa called ‘highly unethical’
Experts decry ‘neocolonialist’ Guinea-Bissau study after Trump administration changed advice for US babies
www.theguardian.com
December 21, 2025 at 9:27 PM
"Babies in the randomized, controlled trial will or will not receive the vaccine at birth...
"It is a breach of scientific ethics to withhold an intervention that has been proven safe and effective."
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
"It is a breach of scientific ethics to withhold an intervention that has been proven safe and effective."
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...