Jim Cardin
@jimcardin.bsky.social
Husband, Dad, Grandpa. I am often mistaken for an adult because of my age. Old side hustles; Vietnam Helicopter Pilot 187th AHC. Civilian Search, Rescue, Medivac. Bell Helicopter Iran. Interest in Zen, History, and life on earth. Live in Hawaii.
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Jim Cardin
@jimcardin.bsky.social
· Dec 5
It's not so important what you believe about life but rather how you experience it.
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The Santos commutation is a prelude to a Ghislaine Maxwell pardon.
Mark my words.
Mark my words.
October 18, 2025 at 2:26 AM
The Santos commutation is a prelude to a Ghislaine Maxwell pardon.
Mark my words.
Mark my words.
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this is truly invaluable reporting
Extraordinary NEW story: We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. @nicolefoy.bsky.social w/ photos by @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
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October 16, 2025 at 10:56 PM
this is truly invaluable reporting
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So Trump finally reaches the concepts of the framework of a trade deal with a country that we actually have a trade SURPLUS with. In Trump’s vernacular, WE have been ripping THEM off. So now we help them reverse that so we can run a deficit with them. Brilliant.
May 9, 2025 at 2:04 AM
So Trump finally reaches the concepts of the framework of a trade deal with a country that we actually have a trade SURPLUS with. In Trump’s vernacular, WE have been ripping THEM off. So now we help them reverse that so we can run a deficit with them. Brilliant.
Let Them Eat Cake
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The Trump Billionaires Who Run the Economy and the Things They Say (Gift Article)
“You have to laugh to keep from crying,” one Republican pollster said about recent comments by the billionaires on the stock market, retirement funds and Social Security.
www.nytimes.com
April 19, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Let Them Eat Cake
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Hegseth is now without a chief of staff, a deputy chief of staff and a senior advisor, less than 100 days into his tenure. A "senior defense official" suggested he made poor choices for who to trust in his inner circle, with another saying there would likely be more "chaos" to follow soon.
April 19, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Hegseth is now without a chief of staff, a deputy chief of staff and a senior advisor, less than 100 days into his tenure. A "senior defense official" suggested he made poor choices for who to trust in his inner circle, with another saying there would likely be more "chaos" to follow soon.
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"The White House’s term for private institutions holding to viewpoints the government dislikes is 'ideological capture.' Remember back when we called it 'freedom'?"
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Two Dictators Walk Into a Bar...
On yesterday’s sickening Oval Office summit.
www.thebulwark.com
April 15, 2025 at 2:04 PM
"The White House’s term for private institutions holding to viewpoints the government dislikes is 'ideological capture.' Remember back when we called it 'freedom'?"
www.thebulwark.com/p/two-dictat...
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Vance’s favorite demagogic tactic, which he brings to every argument, is to reshape his opponent’s position in an absurdly extreme and preposterous way so he gets to argue with a fictitious person who doesn’t exist. It would take one phone call from Trump - everyone knows that.
April 15, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Vance’s favorite demagogic tactic, which he brings to every argument, is to reshape his opponent’s position in an absurdly extreme and preposterous way so he gets to argue with a fictitious person who doesn’t exist. It would take one phone call from Trump - everyone knows that.
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She is right in every respect.
AOC: We must acknowledge the terrifying moment we are in right now. What we are hearing and seeing with our own eyes is, in fact, happening. We are watching our neighbors, students, and friends being fired, targeted, and disappeared. It is real.
April 12, 2025 at 11:27 PM
She is right in every respect.
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60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5
April 7, 2025 at 1:29 AM
60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5
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He's wiping out your life savings, destroying the Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid upon which you were promised you could depend, ending the medical research that would protect and prolong your life and that of your families & gutting your liberties...and he doesn't care about any of it.
April 7, 2025 at 12:55 AM
He's wiping out your life savings, destroying the Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid upon which you were promised you could depend, ending the medical research that would protect and prolong your life and that of your families & gutting your liberties...and he doesn't care about any of it.
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Pete Hegseth Calls For Steep Cuts To Number Of Steps In AA Recovery
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Pete Hegseth Calls For Steep Cuts To Number Of Steps In AA Recovery
WASHINGTON—Lambasting the current program as wasteful, bloated, and entirely unnecessary, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth called for steep cuts Monday to the number of steps in the Alcoholics Anonymous recovery model. “We must cut through the red tape bogging down what could be a far more efficient AA,” said Hegseth, who slammed the 12-step program as […]
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April 5, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Pete Hegseth Calls For Steep Cuts To Number Of Steps In AA Recovery
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Propaganda engine
The top 25 political and news accounts on X in the past 30 days.
March 21, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Propaganda engine
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Biggest Federal Employee Unions Says Shutdown is Preferable to Elon/Trump CR talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/bigge...
Biggest Federal Employee Unions Says Shutdown is Preferable to Elon/Trump CR
Federal workers obviously don’t like government shutdowns. Most of them are furloughed....
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March 13, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Biggest Federal Employee Unions Says Shutdown is Preferable to Elon/Trump CR talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/bigge...
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As I highlighted here, real world activism matters: boycotts, protests, and strikes are tools to stand up to would-be autocrats. One data point: Tesla stock is down 14% today. That’s partly structural and partly the brand getting destroyed. Keep going.
I wrote about how Trump is destroying American democracy, along with eight crucial lessons about how to counteract it, drawing on my 14 years of studying brave pro-democracy opposition movements in authoritarian regimes across the globe. We’re in serious trouble, but there’s still hope.
Is American democracy doomed?
How to understand the concept of "competitive authoritarianism" and why it's crucial to push back now to avoid it.
www.forkingpaths.co
March 10, 2025 at 5:43 PM
As I highlighted here, real world activism matters: boycotts, protests, and strikes are tools to stand up to would-be autocrats. One data point: Tesla stock is down 14% today. That’s partly structural and partly the brand getting destroyed. Keep going.
I wonder when reality will break through the propaganda as the effects of Trump/Musk "efficiency" hit home for more and more people who voted for them. Wondering when the billionaires will, if ever, be asked to sacrifice?
March 10, 2025 at 5:35 PM
I wonder when reality will break through the propaganda as the effects of Trump/Musk "efficiency" hit home for more and more people who voted for them. Wondering when the billionaires will, if ever, be asked to sacrifice?
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This was his exact sales pitch for people to attend Trump University. Right before he ripped all of them off.
March 10, 2025 at 12:29 AM
This was his exact sales pitch for people to attend Trump University. Right before he ripped all of them off.
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March 9, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Any country, corp, org, or individual that uses Starlink is subject to the whims, wishes, demands and insults of The Owner. Do so at your peril.
March 9, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Any country, corp, org, or individual that uses Starlink is subject to the whims, wishes, demands and insults of The Owner. Do so at your peril.