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.
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Musk’s Wealth
2012: $2 billion
2025: $493.8 billion
Bezos’ Wealth
2012: $18.4 billion
2025: $240.9 billion
Zuckerberg’s Wealth
2012: $17.5 billion
2025: $226.9 billion
Federal Minimum Wage
2012: $7.25
2025: $7.25
It’s not the start of an oligarchy. — We’re in the thick of it.
2012: $2 billion
2025: $493.8 billion
Bezos’ Wealth
2012: $18.4 billion
2025: $240.9 billion
Zuckerberg’s Wealth
2012: $17.5 billion
2025: $226.9 billion
Federal Minimum Wage
2012: $7.25
2025: $7.25
It’s not the start of an oligarchy. — We’re in the thick of it.
December 4, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Musk’s Wealth
2012: $2 billion
2025: $493.8 billion
Bezos’ Wealth
2012: $18.4 billion
2025: $240.9 billion
Zuckerberg’s Wealth
2012: $17.5 billion
2025: $226.9 billion
Federal Minimum Wage
2012: $7.25
2025: $7.25
It’s not the start of an oligarchy. — We’re in the thick of it.
2012: $2 billion
2025: $493.8 billion
Bezos’ Wealth
2012: $18.4 billion
2025: $240.9 billion
Zuckerberg’s Wealth
2012: $17.5 billion
2025: $226.9 billion
Federal Minimum Wage
2012: $7.25
2025: $7.25
It’s not the start of an oligarchy. — We’re in the thick of it.
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"It was all about business. Oligarch money. Projects. Investments. And now Ukraine is about to pay the price for those conversations.
My sources are telling me that in that Miami meeting, Kushner and Witkoff are not negotiating. They’re delivering an ultimatum."
My sources are telling me that in that Miami meeting, Kushner and Witkoff are not negotiating. They’re delivering an ultimatum."
December 5, 2025 at 3:57 AM
"It was all about business. Oligarch money. Projects. Investments. And now Ukraine is about to pay the price for those conversations.
My sources are telling me that in that Miami meeting, Kushner and Witkoff are not negotiating. They’re delivering an ultimatum."
My sources are telling me that in that Miami meeting, Kushner and Witkoff are not negotiating. They’re delivering an ultimatum."
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The White House has launched a webpage to report "media bias" tips. It would be a pity if it were flooded with tips about every show on Fox News.
www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
A CALL TO ACTION: Submit “Media Bias” Tips
The White House recently launched a Media Bias Portal as a service to truth and transparency. Its purpose is to combat the baseless lies,
www.whitehouse.gov
December 5, 2025 at 1:27 AM
The White House has launched a webpage to report "media bias" tips. It would be a pity if it were flooded with tips about every show on Fox News.
www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
What will they say when he actually does a face plant on the table? That day is coming.
Trump Is Furious Over ‘Bullshit’ Media Coverage About His Age, Mental Decline
‘He is sensitive to being compared, even if not explicitly, to Sleepy Joe,’ a Trump adviser tells Zeteo.
zeteo.com/p/trump-furi...
‘He is sensitive to being compared, even if not explicitly, to Sleepy Joe,’ a Trump adviser tells Zeteo.
zeteo.com/p/trump-furi...
Trump Is Furious Over ‘Bullshit’ Media Coverage About His Age, Mental Decline
‘He is sensitive to being compared, even if not explicitly, to Sleepy Joe,’ a Trump adviser tells Zeteo.
zeteo.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:55 AM
What will they say when he actually does a face plant on the table? That day is coming.
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It's good—very good, and very important—that district courts keep issuing these 100-page rulings upholding the law. It must be incredibly dispiriting to see them overturned in a two-page, lawless, unsigned order, but please, keep them coming. They expose SCOTUS' corruption like nothing else.
December 5, 2025 at 12:41 AM
It's good—very good, and very important—that district courts keep issuing these 100-page rulings upholding the law. It must be incredibly dispiriting to see them overturned in a two-page, lawless, unsigned order, but please, keep them coming. They expose SCOTUS' corruption like nothing else.
For fuck's sake don't wake him up.
December 4, 2025 at 11:44 PM
For fuck's sake don't wake him up.
Let's kick their ass anyway.
The USA can't survive long with these corrupt thugs running things, so it's now or never.
The USA can't survive long with these corrupt thugs running things, so it's now or never.
Scathing dissent from Justice Kagan:
"[T]his Court reverses that judgment based on its perusal, over a holiday weekend, of a cold paper record. We are a higher court than the District Court, but we are not a better one when it comes to making such a fact-based decision."
"[T]his Court reverses that judgment based on its perusal, over a holiday weekend, of a cold paper record. We are a higher court than the District Court, but we are not a better one when it comes to making such a fact-based decision."
Reuters: U.S. SUPREME COURT REVIVES REDRAWN PRO-REPUBLICAN TEXAS VOTING MAP INTENDED TO HELP TRUMP'S PARTY KEEP CONTROL OF CONGRESS
December 4, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Let's kick their ass anyway.
The USA can't survive long with these corrupt thugs running things, so it's now or never.
The USA can't survive long with these corrupt thugs running things, so it's now or never.
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NEW: GRAND JURY REFUSES TO RE-INDICT LETITIA JAMES per @nicollewallace.bsky.social on Deadline White House. HAHAHAHA
December 4, 2025 at 10:35 PM
NEW: GRAND JURY REFUSES TO RE-INDICT LETITIA JAMES per @nicollewallace.bsky.social on Deadline White House. HAHAHAHA
Important content for ordinary Americans here.
The White House has hired a new lead architect for President Donald Trump's White House ballroom after he clashed with the project's original architect over the size of the massive addition.
Read more: bit.ly/4oukHlP
Read more: bit.ly/4oukHlP
December 4, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Important content for ordinary Americans here.
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Ukrainian children abducted by Russia are being sent to military camps in North Korea. Legal expert Rashevska told U.S. Senate that a 12-year-old from Donetsk and a 16-year-old from Simferopol were taken to Songdowon camp, 9,000 km from home, exposed to militarized training and propaganda.
December 4, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Ukrainian children abducted by Russia are being sent to military camps in North Korea. Legal expert Rashevska told U.S. Senate that a 12-year-old from Donetsk and a 16-year-old from Simferopol were taken to Songdowon camp, 9,000 km from home, exposed to militarized training and propaganda.
I hadn't read the text at the top of this video, so I thought it was an ad about the indifference of trump to people struggling. It's not an ad.
It's what that soft porn model / escort who still speaks broken English thought we all wanted to see.
It's what that soft porn model / escort who still speaks broken English thought we all wanted to see.
While millions of us are struggling to pay for groceries, energy bills & healthcare premiums, the First Lady posts this video showing how she's using our taxpayer money to wine & dine a murderous prince: fancy caligraphy, abundant forals, gilded tableware, gourmet food & white glove service
December 4, 2025 at 9:35 PM
I hadn't read the text at the top of this video, so I thought it was an ad about the indifference of trump to people struggling. It's not an ad.
It's what that soft porn model / escort who still speaks broken English thought we all wanted to see.
It's what that soft porn model / escort who still speaks broken English thought we all wanted to see.
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In high school, I received a failing grade on a math test because I used Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" instead of a trigonometry table to solve the equations. It was, clearly, a violation of my right to free speech.
Trans graduate assistant Mel Curth has been removed from her position at the University of Oklahoma after a Christian student complained a failing grade she received in a psychology essay – because she cited the Bible rather than empirical evidence – was a violation of her right to free speech.
December 4, 2025 at 9:22 PM
In high school, I received a failing grade on a math test because I used Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" instead of a trigonometry table to solve the equations. It was, clearly, a violation of my right to free speech.
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The economy was the driving concern in the election and more people thought Trump would fix it.
The moron thinks you need ID to buy groceries, but sure he was going to fix it.
#ProudBlue #Pinks #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice
The moron thinks you need ID to buy groceries, but sure he was going to fix it.
#ProudBlue #Pinks #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice
December 4, 2025 at 8:38 PM
The economy was the driving concern in the election and more people thought Trump would fix it.
The moron thinks you need ID to buy groceries, but sure he was going to fix it.
#ProudBlue #Pinks #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice
The moron thinks you need ID to buy groceries, but sure he was going to fix it.
#ProudBlue #Pinks #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice
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Top Plays of 2025: No. 7
Denzel Clarke mystifies the baseball world with one of the most impressive home run robberies you will ever see!
Denzel Clarke mystifies the baseball world with one of the most impressive home run robberies you will ever see!
December 4, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Top Plays of 2025: No. 7
Denzel Clarke mystifies the baseball world with one of the most impressive home run robberies you will ever see!
Denzel Clarke mystifies the baseball world with one of the most impressive home run robberies you will ever see!
Please, keep talking about the ballroom. That's where most Americans want you to focus, Donald. We're really excited about that ballroom and want to hear about it every day.
JUST IN via @washingtonpost.com:
"#Trump hires new White House #ballroom architect
Although the two had clashed over the size of the project, the decisive factor was the small firm’s limited capacity to handle such an enormous project."
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
"#Trump hires new White House #ballroom architect
Although the two had clashed over the size of the project, the decisive factor was the small firm’s limited capacity to handle such an enormous project."
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Trump hires new White House ballroom architect
Although the two had clashed over the size of the project, the decisive factor was the small firm’s limited capacity to handle such an enormous project.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Please, keep talking about the ballroom. That's where most Americans want you to focus, Donald. We're really excited about that ballroom and want to hear about it every day.
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Some of this makes more sense than the real excerpts I've seen
“I became both heroine and heroin to him. And sometimes, a heron, for when we did bird play.”
More Excerpts from Olivia Nuzzi’s American Canto
“Forget the sex; the real scandal here is the crime against language.” — Brian Phillips, The Ringer, on Olivia Nuzzi’s new memoir, American Canto, ...
buff.ly
December 4, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Some of this makes more sense than the real excerpts I've seen
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December 4, 2025 at 6:07 PM
BAM.
Trump says affordability is a “Democrat scam.” Bold words from a billionaire who’s never bought his own groceries. The reality check he needs? His economy is crushing working families. Affordability isn’t a scam — Trump is.
Thanks Rep Jimmy Gomez!
#TrumpAffordabilityCrisis
Thanks Rep Jimmy Gomez!
#TrumpAffordabilityCrisis
December 4, 2025 at 6:19 PM
BAM.
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The Orange Menace says he’s “fixing housing”
Meanwhile, anyone trying to find a house they can actually afford finds this: a pallet shed on wheels.
He falls asleep in meetings and blames everyone but the profiteers he protects.
#TrumpAffordabilityCrisis
Meanwhile, anyone trying to find a house they can actually afford finds this: a pallet shed on wheels.
He falls asleep in meetings and blames everyone but the profiteers he protects.
#TrumpAffordabilityCrisis
December 4, 2025 at 6:08 PM
The Orange Menace says he’s “fixing housing”
Meanwhile, anyone trying to find a house they can actually afford finds this: a pallet shed on wheels.
He falls asleep in meetings and blames everyone but the profiteers he protects.
#TrumpAffordabilityCrisis
Meanwhile, anyone trying to find a house they can actually afford finds this: a pallet shed on wheels.
He falls asleep in meetings and blames everyone but the profiteers he protects.
#TrumpAffordabilityCrisis
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CDER is arguably FDA's most important division for new drugs. They just named an unqualified absolute crank to head it up.
Holy shit
Covid Denier Tracy Beth Høeg Named as FDA’s Acting CDER Chief
www.biospace.com/fda/covid-co...
Covid Denier Tracy Beth Høeg Named as FDA’s Acting CDER Chief
www.biospace.com/fda/covid-co...
COVID Contrarian Tracy Beth Høeg Named as FDA’s Acting CDER Chief
Høeg is the fifth person to lead the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research this year.
www.biospace.com
December 4, 2025 at 6:07 PM
CDER is arguably FDA's most important division for new drugs. They just named an unqualified absolute crank to head it up.
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this is extraordinary. too many people in my profession have circled the wagons around someone who lacks the moral sense of a child
@timmiller.bsky.social: "He's being nominated to HHS Secretary…You had information that you could have shared…and you didn't share anything about him. Why? Did you still love him?"
Olivia Nuzzi: "I don't know how to responsibly handle this on camera." lnk.thebulwark.com/4ozkaz8?utm_...
Olivia Nuzzi: "I don't know how to responsibly handle this on camera." lnk.thebulwark.com/4ozkaz8?utm_...
December 4, 2025 at 3:37 PM
this is extraordinary. too many people in my profession have circled the wagons around someone who lacks the moral sense of a child
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GOP Rep. Mike Turner: "This activity that's happening in the Caribbean where they are hitting these boats -- these individuals if they were captured and tried and convicted, they would be guilty of criminal activity for which they're not subject to capital punishment. These people are being killed."
December 4, 2025 at 2:46 PM
GOP Rep. Mike Turner: "This activity that's happening in the Caribbean where they are hitting these boats -- these individuals if they were captured and tried and convicted, they would be guilty of criminal activity for which they're not subject to capital punishment. These people are being killed."
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"Does this feel like or look like a well-run competent administration? It took them 10 months to discover that the United States doesn't grow bananas and that therefore if we tariff bananas that that's not going to bring banana factories on shore."
December 4, 2025 at 12:52 PM
"Does this feel like or look like a well-run competent administration? It took them 10 months to discover that the United States doesn't grow bananas and that therefore if we tariff bananas that that's not going to bring banana factories on shore."
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Guess there's a shortage of inspectors and lax inpection practices. I wonder how that could have possibly happened ?.......
December 4, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Guess there's a shortage of inspectors and lax inpection practices. I wonder how that could have possibly happened ?.......