Jim Revkin
@jhrevkin.bsky.social
Sailor, skier, francophile, grandfather, and cardiologist. https://physiciandirectory.brighamandwomens.org/details/16437/james-revkin-cardiovascular_medicine
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Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
January 17, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
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Cartoon by @dennisgoris.bsky.social.
January 4, 2026 at 12:09 AM
Cartoon by @dennisgoris.bsky.social.
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There is some sad irony in McClatchy shutting its DC bureau the same day that Dick Cheney died.
That bureau (then Knight-Ridder) did some of the best, most skeptical reporting anywhere in the run-up to the Iraq War. And they took a lot of shit for it at the time.
www.cato.org/commentary/q...
That bureau (then Knight-Ridder) did some of the best, most skeptical reporting anywhere in the run-up to the Iraq War. And they took a lot of shit for it at the time.
www.cato.org/commentary/q...
November 4, 2025 at 9:33 PM
There is some sad irony in McClatchy shutting its DC bureau the same day that Dick Cheney died.
That bureau (then Knight-Ridder) did some of the best, most skeptical reporting anywhere in the run-up to the Iraq War. And they took a lot of shit for it at the time.
www.cato.org/commentary/q...
That bureau (then Knight-Ridder) did some of the best, most skeptical reporting anywhere in the run-up to the Iraq War. And they took a lot of shit for it at the time.
www.cato.org/commentary/q...
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This is what they voted for. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/u...
October 26, 2025 at 3:39 PM
This is what they voted for. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/u...
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Turnarounds in a country can surge from a weary, burdened People, who can no longer stand the heavy disparities between their poor life conditions and the brazen, cynical abuse against them from those in power.
A.I. can produce the possibilities of history repeating itself.
A.I. can produce the possibilities of history repeating itself.
October 23, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Turnarounds in a country can surge from a weary, burdened People, who can no longer stand the heavy disparities between their poor life conditions and the brazen, cynical abuse against them from those in power.
A.I. can produce the possibilities of history repeating itself.
A.I. can produce the possibilities of history repeating itself.
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Jane Goodall's final message from her last interview:
October 6, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Jane Goodall's final message from her last interview:
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September 1, 1939
I sit in one of the dives
On Fifty-second Street
Uncertain and afraid
As the clever hopes expire
Of a low dishonest decade:
Waves of anger and fear
Circulate over the bright
And darkened lands of the earth...
I sit in one of the dives
On Fifty-second Street
Uncertain and afraid
As the clever hopes expire
Of a low dishonest decade:
Waves of anger and fear
Circulate over the bright
And darkened lands of the earth...
September 1, 2025 at 6:52 AM
September 1, 1939
I sit in one of the dives
On Fifty-second Street
Uncertain and afraid
As the clever hopes expire
Of a low dishonest decade:
Waves of anger and fear
Circulate over the bright
And darkened lands of the earth...
I sit in one of the dives
On Fifty-second Street
Uncertain and afraid
As the clever hopes expire
Of a low dishonest decade:
Waves of anger and fear
Circulate over the bright
And darkened lands of the earth...
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As a native German speaking European who lived for years in the US, I am growing more incredulous by the day at what is happening in the US
I knew a 2nd Trump term would be bad but this total breakdown of right vs wrong, of any & all morales on sides of so many is truly shocking
I knew a 2nd Trump term would be bad but this total breakdown of right vs wrong, of any & all morales on sides of so many is truly shocking
August 21, 2025 at 8:23 AM
As a native German speaking European who lived for years in the US, I am growing more incredulous by the day at what is happening in the US
I knew a 2nd Trump term would be bad but this total breakdown of right vs wrong, of any & all morales on sides of so many is truly shocking
I knew a 2nd Trump term would be bad but this total breakdown of right vs wrong, of any & all morales on sides of so many is truly shocking
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Saying "the fish rots from the head" is true. In every society there are assholes and imbeciles, just they normally are a minority. If the first person in county, who should set an example, actively encourages them, then indecency prevails. Germans in their majority were decent before the WW2.
August 21, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Saying "the fish rots from the head" is true. In every society there are assholes and imbeciles, just they normally are a minority. If the first person in county, who should set an example, actively encourages them, then indecency prevails. Germans in their majority were decent before the WW2.
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Can you imagine a US envoy handing a Nazi medal to the family of an American who died fighting for Hitler? Because this just happened:
www.cnn.com/2025/08/20/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/08/20/p...
Witkoff delivered Russian medal from Putin to family of American who was killed fighting for Russia in 2024 | CNN Politics
US special envoy Steve Witkoff delivered a Russian medal to the grieving family of an American who was killed fighting for Russia in 2024, a senior administration official told CNN.
www.cnn.com
August 21, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Can you imagine a US envoy handing a Nazi medal to the family of an American who died fighting for Hitler? Because this just happened:
www.cnn.com/2025/08/20/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/08/20/p...
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Auchincloss: "This issue about the Maryland man is not about border security or immigration. It's about freedom. Freedom in the US means that if your feet are on American soil, you get to stand in front of a judge on an equal basis to the awesome power of the state and put forward the facts."
April 18, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Auchincloss: "This issue about the Maryland man is not about border security or immigration. It's about freedom. Freedom in the US means that if your feet are on American soil, you get to stand in front of a judge on an equal basis to the awesome power of the state and put forward the facts."
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I very much recommend people watch this series of clips. I suggest doing so because I've noticed a lot of 2024 election analyses seem to 1) misrepresent what Harris said/did & 2) project upon Harris things she did not say/did not do.
Repeat after Kamala Harris:
"Recession by the middle of next year"
*or sooner
SHE TRIED TO WARN YOU.
"Recession by the middle of next year"
*or sooner
SHE TRIED TO WARN YOU.
April 6, 2025 at 6:47 PM
I very much recommend people watch this series of clips. I suggest doing so because I've noticed a lot of 2024 election analyses seem to 1) misrepresent what Harris said/did & 2) project upon Harris things she did not say/did not do.
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The @financialtimes.com is not mincing words
"America’s astonishing act of self-harm"
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"America’s astonishing act of self-harm"
on.ft.com/3YjtOLV
April 4, 2025 at 8:29 AM
The @financialtimes.com is not mincing words
"America’s astonishing act of self-harm"
on.ft.com/3YjtOLV
"America’s astonishing act of self-harm"
on.ft.com/3YjtOLV
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You have to see this.
PoliticsGirl and her husband teamed up with the brilliant Timothy Snyder (author of On Tyranny) and the legendary John Lithgow to create something truly powerful. It’s important, it’s urgent—and it needs to be shared far and wide.
PoliticsGirl and her husband teamed up with the brilliant Timothy Snyder (author of On Tyranny) and the legendary John Lithgow to create something truly powerful. It’s important, it’s urgent—and it needs to be shared far and wide.
20 Lessons on Tyranny: by Timothy Snyder / read by John Lithgow
YouTube video by PoliticsGirl
youtu.be
March 31, 2025 at 11:06 PM
You have to see this.
PoliticsGirl and her husband teamed up with the brilliant Timothy Snyder (author of On Tyranny) and the legendary John Lithgow to create something truly powerful. It’s important, it’s urgent—and it needs to be shared far and wide.
PoliticsGirl and her husband teamed up with the brilliant Timothy Snyder (author of On Tyranny) and the legendary John Lithgow to create something truly powerful. It’s important, it’s urgent—and it needs to be shared far and wide.
And so the brain drain begins….https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2025/03/27/three-prominent-yale-professors-depart-for-canadian-university-citing-trump-fears/
Three prominent Yale professors depart for Canadian university, citing Trump fears
History department power couple Timothy Snyder and Marci Shore and philosophy professor Jason Stanley will begin teaching at the University of Toronto’s renowned Munk School in fall 2025.
yaledailynews.com
March 27, 2025 at 7:32 AM
And so the brain drain begins….https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2025/03/27/three-prominent-yale-professors-depart-for-canadian-university-citing-trump-fears/
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If you're a journalist in the US and you're not speaking out against the ongoing killing of Palestinian journalists, at record levels, by a US-funded foreign military, then you should hang your head in shame.
From the farewell of the Palestinian journalist Hossam Shabat.
March 25, 2025 at 3:41 AM
If you're a journalist in the US and you're not speaking out against the ongoing killing of Palestinian journalists, at record levels, by a US-funded foreign military, then you should hang your head in shame.
Exactly. Absurd. And it’s so professional to be including emojis in these communications, given that US service people were putting their lives on the line, and its likely that noncombatants were also victims./s. This is what happens when you put Fox entertainers in charge of government departments.
If not obvious:
- this was not the first time Signal was used to conduct government business
- likely not the first time used to conduct sensitive government business
- this violates the Presidential Records Act
- this was not the first time Signal was used to conduct government business
- likely not the first time used to conduct sensitive government business
- this violates the Presidential Records Act
March 25, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Exactly. Absurd. And it’s so professional to be including emojis in these communications, given that US service people were putting their lives on the line, and its likely that noncombatants were also victims./s. This is what happens when you put Fox entertainers in charge of government departments.
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Elbows up, Canada.
March 22, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Elbows up, Canada.
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This. Is. Very. Good.
March 23, 2025 at 4:14 AM
This. Is. Very. Good.
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THIS! Please read. 👇🏽
We’ve already lost so many talented physicians due to the barbaric abortion ban, and now measles. We just don’t have the rural medical infrastructure to sustain disease outbreaks.
Greg Abbott has taken our state backwards. Daylights savings time is a nothing burger in TX.
We’ve already lost so many talented physicians due to the barbaric abortion ban, and now measles. We just don’t have the rural medical infrastructure to sustain disease outbreaks.
Greg Abbott has taken our state backwards. Daylights savings time is a nothing burger in TX.
March 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
THIS! Please read. 👇🏽
We’ve already lost so many talented physicians due to the barbaric abortion ban, and now measles. We just don’t have the rural medical infrastructure to sustain disease outbreaks.
Greg Abbott has taken our state backwards. Daylights savings time is a nothing burger in TX.
We’ve already lost so many talented physicians due to the barbaric abortion ban, and now measles. We just don’t have the rural medical infrastructure to sustain disease outbreaks.
Greg Abbott has taken our state backwards. Daylights savings time is a nothing burger in TX.
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Trump hugged the flag, then stabbed veterans in the back. Cutting 80,000 VA jobs won’t improve services-it’s a betrayal of those who served. Veterans kept
their promise, why won’t he? Read more:
adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/betrayed-a...
their promise, why won’t he? Read more:
adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/betrayed-a...
Betrayed and Abandoned: Trump’s War on Veterans
Slashing the VA, Gutting Benefits, and Breaking America’s Promise to Those Who Served
adamkinzinger.substack.com
March 10, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Trump hugged the flag, then stabbed veterans in the back. Cutting 80,000 VA jobs won’t improve services-it’s a betrayal of those who served. Veterans kept
their promise, why won’t he? Read more:
adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/betrayed-a...
their promise, why won’t he? Read more:
adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/betrayed-a...
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