Jim Silver
@jimlsilver.bsky.social
Ph.D. in mathematics and M.S. in computer science.
College professor and software engineer.
College professor and software engineer.
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Jim Silver
@jimlsilver.bsky.social
· Jun 13
NO KINGS!
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Did you know Trump has added 2.2 trillion to the national debt since taking office 10 months ago?
December 3, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Did you know Trump has added 2.2 trillion to the national debt since taking office 10 months ago?
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Me too
December 3, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Me too
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How will this go?
Witkoff & Kushner: We tried to get you what you want, but we couldn’t.
Putin: Oh?
W&K: How about most of what you want?
P: No.
W&K: If we get you all you want we still can make a lot of money together?
P: Yes.
W&K: And if not, stall while you attack more?
P: Yes.
W&K: OK!
Witkoff & Kushner: We tried to get you what you want, but we couldn’t.
Putin: Oh?
W&K: How about most of what you want?
P: No.
W&K: If we get you all you want we still can make a lot of money together?
P: Yes.
W&K: And if not, stall while you attack more?
P: Yes.
W&K: OK!
Putin to Meet With Witkoff and Kushner as U.S. Pushes for Ukraine Deal
www.nytimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 12:53 PM
How will this go?
Witkoff & Kushner: We tried to get you what you want, but we couldn’t.
Putin: Oh?
W&K: How about most of what you want?
P: No.
W&K: If we get you all you want we still can make a lot of money together?
P: Yes.
W&K: And if not, stall while you attack more?
P: Yes.
W&K: OK!
Witkoff & Kushner: We tried to get you what you want, but we couldn’t.
Putin: Oh?
W&K: How about most of what you want?
P: No.
W&K: If we get you all you want we still can make a lot of money together?
P: Yes.
W&K: And if not, stall while you attack more?
P: Yes.
W&K: OK!
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Healthcare Truth ...
December 1, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Healthcare Truth ...
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Republicans want you to think they’re steely-eyed realists
They’re actually just assholes
They’re actually just assholes
November 30, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Republicans want you to think they’re steely-eyed realists
They’re actually just assholes
They’re actually just assholes
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REUTERS: “Trump blamed Biden-era vetting failures for the admission of an Afghan immigrant suspected of shooting two National Guard members — but the alleged gunman was granted asylum this year under Trump…” www.yahoo.com/news/article...
November 27, 2025 at 9:38 PM
REUTERS: “Trump blamed Biden-era vetting failures for the admission of an Afghan immigrant suspected of shooting two National Guard members — but the alleged gunman was granted asylum this year under Trump…” www.yahoo.com/news/article...
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I really wish journalists would stop using the word "retribution" to describe Trump's efforts to criminalize opposition to him, as it treats his claim that his adversaries did something wrong in the first place.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
November 26, 2025 at 11:38 AM
I really wish journalists would stop using the word "retribution" to describe Trump's efforts to criminalize opposition to him, as it treats his claim that his adversaries did something wrong in the first place.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
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A classic from Tom the Dancing Bug. From 2016
November 26, 2025 at 12:07 PM
A classic from Tom the Dancing Bug. From 2016
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Please watch this.
The Senate killed a bill to ban state regulation of AI by a vote of 99-1 this spring. Now the industry - eager to stay unregulated - and Trump are scheming to shove the provision in the national defense bill.
You need to know this, so you can help stop it.
The Senate killed a bill to ban state regulation of AI by a vote of 99-1 this spring. Now the industry - eager to stay unregulated - and Trump are scheming to shove the provision in the national defense bill.
You need to know this, so you can help stop it.
November 24, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Please watch this.
The Senate killed a bill to ban state regulation of AI by a vote of 99-1 this spring. Now the industry - eager to stay unregulated - and Trump are scheming to shove the provision in the national defense bill.
You need to know this, so you can help stop it.
The Senate killed a bill to ban state regulation of AI by a vote of 99-1 this spring. Now the industry - eager to stay unregulated - and Trump are scheming to shove the provision in the national defense bill.
You need to know this, so you can help stop it.
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Total BS. Individuals have no leverage to negotiate rates or hold companies’ feet to the fire. Trump will never give people the money; he will find some way to pocket it. And in the end it goes to insurance companies anyway.
November 16, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Total BS. Individuals have no leverage to negotiate rates or hold companies’ feet to the fire. Trump will never give people the money; he will find some way to pocket it. And in the end it goes to insurance companies anyway.
Exactly.
This is where the Lucy deke misses reality.
This is where the Lucy deke misses reality.
November 11, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Exactly.
This is where the Lucy deke misses reality.
This is where the Lucy deke misses reality.
We got a reprieve, but as long as our rights depend on the whims of people in black robes, we have no rights.
Boom. Get fucked, bigots.
BREAKING: The Supreme Court rejects a call to overturn its decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide.
November 10, 2025 at 3:24 PM
We got a reprieve, but as long as our rights depend on the whims of people in black robes, we have no rights.
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November 9, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I'm old.
Really old.
Old enough to remember Eisenhower's heart attack being in the news for weeks.
Yet here we have Trump falling asleep while Oz is talking about obesity and dementia.
It's a lede to die for.
But not a peep.
Really old.
Old enough to remember Eisenhower's heart attack being in the news for weeks.
Yet here we have Trump falling asleep while Oz is talking about obesity and dementia.
It's a lede to die for.
But not a peep.
We’ve all now seen the iconic photo of Trump staring soulless, expressionless, into the void as others assisted the fainted Gordon Findlay, an executive at Nova Nordisk, behind him.
Have you seen the (then) live video of Trump fast asleep beforehand?
Have you seen the (then) live video of Trump fast asleep beforehand?
November 8, 2025 at 4:53 PM
I'm old.
Really old.
Old enough to remember Eisenhower's heart attack being in the news for weeks.
Yet here we have Trump falling asleep while Oz is talking about obesity and dementia.
It's a lede to die for.
But not a peep.
Really old.
Old enough to remember Eisenhower's heart attack being in the news for weeks.
Yet here we have Trump falling asleep while Oz is talking about obesity and dementia.
It's a lede to die for.
But not a peep.
We once had a decent person as president.
Has anyone reminded you of when Karmel Allison (an invited guest; girl in bright red) nearly fainted during an Obama speech on the Affordable Care Act (ACA; Obamacare) in the White House Rose Garden on October 21, 2013.
Should a president care & act this way?
Should a president care & act this way?
November 8, 2025 at 4:29 PM
We once had a decent person as president.
Ladies and gentlemen, The President of The United States!
November 7, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Ladies and gentlemen, The President of The United States!
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Hey look.
Communism.
Communism.
November 4, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Hey look.
Communism.
Communism.
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Fuck this.
This is nothing but red meat for Trump’s base. A federal law that *Trump* signed into law guarantees backpay to furloughed workers. There’s no disputing this.
This is nothing but red meat for Trump’s base. A federal law that *Trump* signed into law guarantees backpay to furloughed workers. There’s no disputing this.
A new White House memo says that furloughed federal workers aren't entitled to back pay.
This is clearly against the law, which guarantees furloughed federal employees back pay for the duration of a government shutdown.
This is clearly against the law, which guarantees furloughed federal employees back pay for the duration of a government shutdown.
October 7, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Fuck this.
This is nothing but red meat for Trump’s base. A federal law that *Trump* signed into law guarantees backpay to furloughed workers. There’s no disputing this.
This is nothing but red meat for Trump’s base. A federal law that *Trump* signed into law guarantees backpay to furloughed workers. There’s no disputing this.
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It's black letter, can't get more explicit, printed in US code you ignoramus. 31 U.S. Code § 1341 (c)(2)
*JOHNSON: SOME LEGAL ANAYLYSTS DON'T BELIEVE IN SHUTDOWN BACKPAY
*JOHNSON: SOME LEGAL ANAYLYSTS DON'T BELIEVE IN SHUTDOWN BACKPAY
October 7, 2025 at 2:19 PM
It's black letter, can't get more explicit, printed in US code you ignoramus. 31 U.S. Code § 1341 (c)(2)
*JOHNSON: SOME LEGAL ANAYLYSTS DON'T BELIEVE IN SHUTDOWN BACKPAY
*JOHNSON: SOME LEGAL ANAYLYSTS DON'T BELIEVE IN SHUTDOWN BACKPAY
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Did you know that your healthcare premiums are about to double because the GOP is intentionally sabotaging the Affordable Care Act and pretending that Democrats are trying to give undocumented immigrants free insurance?
October 4, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Did you know that your healthcare premiums are about to double because the GOP is intentionally sabotaging the Affordable Care Act and pretending that Democrats are trying to give undocumented immigrants free insurance?
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Surreal moment for America. Needless to say, if the normal police ever pulled something like this — pulling every single person out of an apartment building and handcuffing them to run warrant checks — they would be sued into oblivion.
Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.
Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.
October 2, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Surreal moment for America. Needless to say, if the normal police ever pulled something like this — pulling every single person out of an apartment building and handcuffing them to run warrant checks — they would be sued into oblivion.
Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.
Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.
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Judge SLAMS the masking of federal agents in ruling finding Trump admin violated pro-Palestine protesters' rights:
"To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan."
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
"To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan."
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
![And there’s the issue of masks. ... ICE goes masked for a single reason -- to terrorize Americans into quiescence. Small wonder ICE often seems to need our respected military to guard them as they go about implementing our immigration laws. It should be noted that our troops do not ordinarily wear masks. Can you imagine a masked marine? It is a matter of honor -- and honor still matters. To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police. Carrying on in this fashion, ICE brings indelible obloquy to this administration and everyone who works in it. “We can not escape history,” Lincoln rightly said. “[It] will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:353gzbhcjbznfxegvayffqek/bafkreia5wf5rzcvhhglwhbtnvcwom6sa6d4fli6qfbig6qdoe7myb62dt4@jpeg)
September 30, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Judge SLAMS the masking of federal agents in ruling finding Trump admin violated pro-Palestine protesters' rights:
"To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan."
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
"To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan."
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...