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Jim_Writes @jpwwrites.bsky.social · 3h

Maybe they have a "bully
man-baby-award" - of course he'll have to pay shipping and Biggy Tarriffs on the award being sent to him? Consumers pay Tarriffs, it's a tax.

Jim_Writes @jpwwrites.bsky.social · 4h

The Quest IS his (djts) Identity.

It may very well prove to be the gops house & senates members,downfall at the polls? Parallel. In Man of La Mancha (Cervantes' Don Quixote),poignant tension between aspiration and reality & dreams, its fulfillment. Courts holding as guardrails are today's Knights

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Jim_Writes @jpwwrites.bsky.social · 4h

Tick - Tock -

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Tick - Tock -

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Jim_Writes @jpwwrites.bsky.social · 2d

She's a walking contradiction while under oath - or appearing on alt right tv -

Maybe, some day, she'll be walking around with an ankle monitor?

Jim_Writes @jpwwrites.bsky.social · 2d

PlayBall!
Very Cool! I may find a way to visit and support.

I once did a paper on the SF librarian who took a sabbatical and introduced baseball sportsmanship to Japan.

His Memorial is at the Mechanics' Library on Post and Montgomery Street, in SF.

NBC News @nbcnews.com · 2d

The games honored Japanese Americans who formed baseball teams at prison camps after they were forced to relocate during WWII.

Japanese Americans play historic baseball games at prison camp to recall a pastime — and a lifeline

The games honored Japanese Americans who formed baseball teams at prison camps after they were forced to relocate during WWII.

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Jim_Writes @jpwwrites.bsky.social · 2d

Very Cool! I may find a way to visit and support.

I once did a paper on the SF librarian who took a sabbatical and introduced baseball sportsmanship to Japan.

His Memorial is at the Mechanics' Library on Post and Montgomery Street, in SF.

Jim_Writes @jpwwrites.bsky.social · 2d

One is J6, the other is Portland .

It's not complicated friends.

Jim_Writes @jpwwrites.bsky.social · 2d

Checkmate ...

Jim_Writes @jpwwrites.bsky.social · 2d

When the Trump Administration puts "Puffery comments" out here ...

Motto;
"Laugh at them - Make them Small" -#AOC. I think AOC has figured out the best chess move!

Chess Umpire
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez - Rules the Chess Board.

@aoc.bsky.social @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com

a chess board with the words checkmate written on it

ALT: a chess board with the words checkmate written on it

media.tenor.com

Jim_Writes @jpwwrites.bsky.social · 2d

When the Trump Administration puts "Puffery comments" out here ...

Motto;
"Laugh at them - Make them Small" -#AOC. I think AOC has figured out the best chess move!

Chess Umpire
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez - Rules the Chess Board.

@aoc.bsky.social @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com

a chess board with the words checkmate written on it

ALT: a chess board with the words checkmate written on it

media.tenor.com

Jim_Writes @jpwwrites.bsky.social · 2d

@aoc.bsky.social

When the Trump Administration puts "puffery comments" out here ...

Motto; "Laugh at them - Make them Small" -#AOC.

I think AOC has figured out the best chess move!

Chess Umpire
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez - Rules the Chess Board

a chess board with the words checkmate written on it

ALT: a chess board with the words checkmate written on it

media.tenor.com

Jim_Writes @jpwwrites.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah Chris, but their pitchers still can't meet the Padres speed.

Jim_Writes @jpwwrites.bsky.social · 3d

Great questions and a sobering interview, tonight with Gov @govpritzker.illinois.gov .

California Punchbowl poll has Prop 50 at +18 "Yes." Salutes Gavin @governor.ca.gov and JB for not bending the knee.

We see your action plans and friends of democracy are with you both.

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Jim_Writes @jpwwrites.bsky.social · 4d

“You become,” Murrow said, exhaling smoke, the person who still uses white ink when everyone else has switched to black ink. Not because it’s easy. Not because it’s profitable. But because someone has to.”

“That’s not a business model.”

“No,” Cronkite agreed. “It’s a calling.”

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Jim_Writes @jpwwrites.bsky.social · 4d

I'd rather wait for Becketts "GODOT" then wait for false trumprx or MedBed, conflated pitches & dialogues from djt.

Jim_Writes @jpwwrites.bsky.social · 4d

TAFFF - LA - Documentaries List & Premiers; theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/documentarie...

Jim_Writes @jpwwrites.bsky.social · 4d

"It is easier to fool a man than it is to convince him he's been fooled." -Mark Twain

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Jim_Writes @jpwwrites.bsky.social · 4d

"It is easier to fool a man than it is to convince him he's been fooled." -Mark Twain

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Jim_Writes @jpwwrites.bsky.social · 4d

Life imitates Art - 1997- Bond writer Bruce Feirstein based Carver on Maxwell, viewers & critics saw him as a (satire) of Murdoch, particularly his control of global media and use of news to manipulate public opinion. Carver's philosophy of "You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the War." Hearst

Jim_Writes @jpwwrites.bsky.social · 4d

CBS, founded in 1927 as the Columbia Broadcasting System. Edward R. Murrow (1940s-1950s) - Walter Cronkite (1962-1981). Dan Rather (1981-2005) - Succeeded Cronkite and anchored the CBS Evening News for 24 years. Mike Wallace, Morley Safer, and Lesley Stahl ,60 Mins.

"And that's the way it is"-WC

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Jim_Writes @jpwwrites.bsky.social · 5d

Protecting Writers;
@authorsguild.org Author's Guild Updates -

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Anthropic Settlement: What Authors Should Know - The Authors Guild

Copyright holders recently secured preliminary approval of a $1.5 billion class settlement in the Bartz v. Anthropic case, in which authors Andrea Bartz, Kirk Johnson, and Charles Graeber led a class-...

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Jim_Writes @jpwwrites.bsky.social · 5d

"Land of Hope & Dreams;" @brucespringsteen.net

Democrats would need a net gain of four seats to retake control of the Senate in 2027

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Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band - Land of Hope and Dreams (Live in New York City)

YouTube video by BruceSpringsteenVEVO

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Jim_Writes @jpwwrites.bsky.social · 5d

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ORWELL 2+2=5 - Official Greenband Trailer - In Select Theaters October 3

YouTube video by NEON

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