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Jim Milks

@jrmilks.bsky.social

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Data scientist, ecologist, sailor, disc golfer, WNY original currently living in Ohio, GenX, Non-Hodgkins lymphoma survivor My ancestors fought against this sort of BS in the Revolutionary War. Science is real whether you accept its findings or not.

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Jim Milks @jrmilks.bsky.social · 1d

Johnson refuses to call the House back into session as he’ll have to swear in the new AZ Congresswoman who represents the 218th vote to release the Epstein files.

We can never forget that Mike Johnson shut down one of the 3 branches of govt for the sole purpose of protecting a pedophile ring. By commission or omission the entire GOP is complicit in preventing child sex traffickers & their elite list of clients from being brought to justice
GUARDIANS
OF
PEDOPHILES

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Jim Milks @jrmilks.bsky.social · 4d

Where can we find the graphics for the rest of the GOP districts? I’d like to know how much will premiums rise in Mike Turner’s district (OH-10).

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Jim Milks @jrmilks.bsky.social · 10d

How about this for a constitutional amendment:

If the Congress fails to pass all of the necessary spending bills by 30 Sept, every Congressional representative and senator shall resign and new representatives and senators shall be elected within 30 days to serve the remainder of the term.

Jim Milks @jrmilks.bsky.social · 12d

@republicanparty.bsky.social

Matthew 25:31-46 was written for you. Your own Holy Book condemns what you have become.

ProPublica @propublica.org · 12d

NEW: Some 4 million people in the U.S. could lose federal housing assistance under new plans from the Trump administration, say experts who reviewed drafts of two unpublished rules obtained by ProPublica.

By @jessecoburn.bsky.social

Millions Could Lose Housing Aid Under Trump Plan

Drafts of unpublished rules obtained by ProPublica detail plans that would open the door to full-time work requirements, two-year limits on living in federally supported housing and stripping aid from...

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Jim Milks @jrmilks.bsky.social · 13d

“There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people.” — Commander William Adama, Battlestar Galactica

Jim Milks @jrmilks.bsky.social · 14d

From 9 April 1944 by U.S. VP Henry Wallace. Well worth reading as he describes the MAGA movement to a T.

www.stat.cmu.edu/~brian/walla...

Henry A. Wallace | The Danger of American Fascism

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Jim Milks @jrmilks.bsky.social · 16d

“Without hypocrisy, Republicans wouldn’t have any values at all.”

Jim Milks @jrmilks.bsky.social · 16d

tRump spent the last decade loudly claiming that various prominent Democrats were in the Epstein files and promising to release them. Now he can’t understand why his base is obsessed with the Epstein files when everyone knows HE is the most prominent person in them.

Rebecca Ballhaus wrote:

“Trump told aides he couldn't understand why people were so obsessed with Epstein and that people didn't understand that Palm Beach in the 90s was a different time. Pam Bondi complained that the FBI was "trying to destroy her." Susie Wiles convened Situation Room meetings to chart a strategy. Inside the White House's struggle to calm the Epstein storm, w/@jdawsey1 @cryanbarber wsj.com/politics/polic...”

MeidasTouch replied:

Trump couldn't understand why "people didn't understand that Palm Beach in the 90s was a different time."
Wow.
Wow.
Wow.”

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Jim Milks @jrmilks.bsky.social · 19d

Timeline cleanse. The Hueston Sailing Association race committee snapped this pic of me in my O’Day Mariner during yesterday’s Around the Lake regatta at Acton Lake in Ohio.

A picture showing the author sailing his O’Day Mariner #3729 on Acton Lake on 21 September 2025.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 19d

Dear Department of Homeland Security:

I gave this request almost a full second's worth of consideration, and my answer is an unequivocal no. I would have answered sooner, but I was laughing.

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tarasworld.bsky.social @tarasworld.bsky.social · 22d

Little clap back from Stephen Colbert 🎶🤣

#freespeech #kimmel #colbert
#shutyourtrap #pinks #resist
#resistanceunited #voteblue

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Jim Milks @jrmilks.bsky.social · 22d

How the #GOP have changed over the past century.

“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”

― Theodore Roosevelt

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Jim Milks @jrmilks.bsky.social · 22d

At least the Dutch still have free speech.

youtu.be/j3Q7wD4woL8?...

Disney haalt latenightshow Jimmy Kimmel van de buis | LUBACH

YouTube video by LUBACH

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Jim Milks @jrmilks.bsky.social · 23d

NY Times 4 Feb 1939

“Goebbels Ends Careers of Five 'Aryan' Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime”

Just in case it’s not perfectly clear whose playbook the fascist tRump regime follows.

A news article first published in The NY Times on 4 Feb 1939 titled “Goebbels Ends Careers of Five 'Aryan' Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime.”

Jim Milks @jrmilks.bsky.social · 28d

Free speech, am I right? The fascist wing of America is so oblivious to their own hypocrisy.

www.reuters.com/world/us/cha...

Charlie Kirk's allies warn Americans: Mourn him properly or else

After the fatal shooting of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk, U.S. Republicans have a warning for Americans: Mourn him respectfully or suffer the consequences.

www.reuters.com

Jim Milks @jrmilks.bsky.social · 28d

So, a white MAGA fascist shot MAGA fascist leader Charlie Kirk because Kirk wasn’t extreme enough.

Hey #MAGA, still want to shoot the people responsible for Kirk’s death?

Or maybe, just maybe, pause long enough to wonder why MAGA radicals are turning on your own leaders? Just a thought.

Jim Milks @jrmilks.bsky.social · Sep 8

So far in 2025, it’s tRump doing his usual — bankrupting the company he’s in charge of, just like he’s done six times before. Except now it’s the entire blasted country and the American Fascist Party (formerly known as the #GOP) is enabling him.

Jim Milks @jrmilks.bsky.social · Sep 8

The only thing tRump is good at when it comes to businesses is bankrupting them. And now he’s doing the same thing to the entire U.S. government.

Jim Milks @jrmilks.bsky.social · Sep 5

Best States to Live In according to WalletHub. Map made in R using the Tidyverse and usmap packages.

A map showing state rankings on WalletHub's Best States to Live in Ranking. Dark green are the top ten states, light green states 11-20, yellow states 21-30, orange states 31-40, and red states 41-50.

Jim Milks @jrmilks.bsky.social · Sep 4

Rump’s Department of Energy gets their rear handed to them by 83 climate scientists for their embarrassing climate change report.

drive.google.com/file/d/1PwAR...

Climate_Experts_Review_of_DOE_CWG_Report.pdf

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Jim Milks @jrmilks.bsky.social · Aug 31

In #Ohio, MAGA gerrymandered themselves into a supermajority in 2010. Ohio public schools ranked 5th in the nation. Fifteen years later, they still have a supermajority and Ohio ranks 35 in education.

Jennifer Welch on CNN:

"As someone who lives in a red state, let me just tell you what MAGA supermajorities get you.

We're 50th in education. The worst in the whole country for women to live. We're poorer, worst health care. And if you look at the bottom ten states, they are all MAGA supermajorities. These policies hurt people.
They use people's faith to lure them in and say, oh, we're family values. But then they don't vote to help women have children.
They don't vote for health care. They don't vote for child care. They demean the poor."

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Jim Milks @jrmilks.bsky.social · Aug 29

Hope #MAGA enjoys the inflation this ridiculous decision will trigger as well as the pain this will cause U.S. small businesses.

www.nbcnews.com/business/bus...

U.S. shoppers' orders canceled as world shuts down some American-bound shipments

The end of the “de minimis” exemption for cheap parcel shipments, nearly a century old, is prompting countries everywhere to suspend shipments to the U.S.

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Jim Milks @jrmilks.bsky.social · Aug 28

Whenever the American Fascist Party (formerly known as as the #GOP) tries to claim they’re “fiscally responsible,” make them explain this:

U.S. National Debt: A $37 trillion breakdown by presidential administration:

A pie chart showing:

Trump $12.5 trillion
All 44 other presidents combined: $24.5 trillion

Based on CBO data and a 10-year projection as of 2025.

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Jim Milks @jrmilks.bsky.social · Aug 17

This is why I read and watch foreign news media like the BBC, CBC, The Guardian, etc. American media companies are, with few exceptions, fascist supporting jokes.

“THE LAST FEW DAYS HAVE TRULY BEEN A LOW POINT FOR THE AMERICAN NEWS MEDIA. AND IT'S ALL BECAUSE JOURNALISTS IN THIS COUNTRY-AND THEIR CORPORATE MASTERS-LACK THE COURAGE TO SAY WHAT THEY ALL KNOW AND SAY ENDLESSLY IN PRIVATE:

THAT DONALD TRUMP IS STUPID AND NUTS.

THIS SHOULDN'T BE HARD. BUT THEY MAKE IT SO, FOR THEIR READERS, VIEWERS, LISTENERS, AND THE COUNTRY AS A WHOLE. MOST OF THE REST OF THE WORLD GOT OVER THIS LONG AGO.”

— GEORGE CONWAY

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · Aug 14

Former White House Chief of Staff to President Biden, Ronald Klain. This isn’t hyperbole. It’s why more and more people like Ron are standing up and stating the obvious. They know how close to the end of democracy…and freedom…we are.

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