James Bearden
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James Bearden
@jeb1945.bsky.social
My spouse has Estrogen receptor positive breast cancer. She knew not to take hormone replacement therapy for menopause. The warnings are necessary.
November 10, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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I think you mean "we may someday start fighting."
November 10, 2025 at 12:50 PM
FA newsletter today reviews the costs to the US of the so called “war on terror”.
@foreignaffairs.com

www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/uni...
Winning Ugly
What the war on terror cost America.
www.foreignaffairs.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:26 PM
😨😰😱
Trump wants health insurance premiums to spike right after he allowed medical debt to adversely affect people’s credit ratings, while rolling out 50 year mortgages.

But he loves you, MAGA. That’s why he’s building that ballroom for you.
November 9, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Trump wants health insurance premiums to spike right after he allowed medical debt to adversely affect people’s credit ratings, while rolling out 50 year mortgages.

But he loves you, MAGA. That’s why he’s building that ballroom for you.
November 9, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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Impressive that Altman built a company that relies on fraud, puffery, and deception even more than Tesla seems to!
“.. if anything, [OpenAI’s] endless barrage of statements, interviews, and communications .. is starting to become counterproductive (anyone, whether it’s a company or politician, that insists on saturating media cycles .. usually isn’t doing so from a place of confidence).”

- Vital Knowledge
November 9, 2025 at 12:28 PM
In the current situation, as tiring as it gets, we must continue to organize consistently and not stop ever.
Mamdani got 1,036,051 votes and had 108,000 volunteers. One out of ten people who voted for him also built the campaign. Amazing.

All of us olds live in constant PTSD about Obama's campaign purposefully unwinding its volunteer army in 2009.

Good news: Mamdani's team says it's doing the opposite.
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 PM
This story helps explain why I hate the NYTimes. Though I have not yet cancelled my subscription, I don’t trust it.
@nytimes.com

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Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 9, 2025 at 12:50 PM
I just bought a club pass to the 2026 Rochester International Jazz Festival

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November 7, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Have you read the 15th amendment to the US Constitution ?
Ratified in 1870, the Fifteenth Amendment is short, a mere fifty words including the section headings, but written with a large intended effect. https://bit.ly/4npLAaj
The Fifteenth Amendment: Annotated - JSTOR Daily
The brevity of the Fifteenth Amendment of the US Constitution belies its impact on American voting rights.
bit.ly
November 7, 2025 at 12:08 PM
The Trump USDA against people getting food.
The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse.
I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email
November 7, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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A right wing guy filed a complaint against me for conduct unbecoming an elected official relating to my comments about ICE. The Monroe County Board of Ethics actually investigated. Needless to say, I'm pretty disturbed.
rachbarnhart.substack.com/p/bellos-eth...
November 7, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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AOC: I have to tell you, in my traveling across the country, I am hearing and have been seeing consistent things from everyday people. And it is that they are terrified, they are frustrated, they are angry, and they are shocked by a president violating the values that we hold dear
November 5, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Read Fintan O’Toole:

“If the Democrats do not seem brave enough to take the risks involved in speaking against the oligarchy, they will not prevent Trumpism from establishing itself as the American political order for the foreseeable future.”

www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
The Lingering Delusion | Fintan O’Toole
Kamala Harris’s memoir 107 Days succeeds at least in distilling the evasions and weaknesses of the modern Democratic Party.
www.nybooks.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:20 PM
It’s past time for Schumer to go! @schumer.senate.gov

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/n...
As Mamdani Surges Ahead, Schumer Risks Finding Himself Left Behind
www.nytimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Voting in NYC mayoral election.
@nytimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Big Tech’s evil ways.

Meta “sells glasses that allow people to surreptitiously film others in public and operates a social network where inflammatory, outrageous content is rewarded and monetized,”

www.404media.co/metas-ray-ba...
Meta's Ray-Ban Glasses Users Film and Harass Massage Parlor Workers
“The shameless use of covert recording technology at massage parlours to gain likes, attention, and online notoriety is both disgusting and dangerous.”
www.404media.co
November 2, 2025 at 1:03 PM
NY’s shame.
New York is actively choosing not to provide SNAP recipients with direct funds.
rachbarnhart.substack.com/p/other-stat...
October 31, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Too true!
i don’t think you can maximin vote share with polls and spreadsheets, and i think it is a problem that the most prominent and influential political commentators right now are more devotees of data than experts in narrative
October 31, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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New reporting from the Wall Street Journal reveals Trump’s Pentagon is ordering the National Guard to form “quick reaction forces” in every state—a major shift toward using U.S. troops on domestic ground. WSJ’s Vera Bergengruen joins to discuss her reporting.
Pentagon quietly building up 500-troop ‘quick reaction forces’ in every state: WSJ
YouTube video by MSNBC
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October 31, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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October 31, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Laborers and labor law have been moving in favor of wealth for a long time now.
Welcome back to the 1930s.
Here is one possible response.

youtu.be/b3vFdpPLgVM?... youtu.be/b3vFdpPLgVM?...
Class Struggle Unionism, by Joe Burns
YouTube video by Gloppydrop Library
youtu.be
October 30, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Speak Up for Palestine
October 28, 2025 at 1:35 PM