James
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James
@keptin-james.bsky.social
· May 2
What does it mean to speak out? Do I need to say more than my beliefs to everyone I know? I fear that our world is so siloed that we won’t be able to get to each other. Nobody I know disagrees anymore.
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Personally I think this is too much money for Donald trumps untrained heavily armed militia
January 29, 2026 at 2:22 AM
Personally I think this is too much money for Donald trumps untrained heavily armed militia
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We need to talk about the rise of "smol bean fascism" where you have all the guns and the immunity but the really scary people are the ones with whistles and phone cameras and they're giving you generational trauma and ptsd by filming you killing people for no reason
January 28, 2026 at 9:25 PM
We need to talk about the rise of "smol bean fascism" where you have all the guns and the immunity but the really scary people are the ones with whistles and phone cameras and they're giving you generational trauma and ptsd by filming you killing people for no reason
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I don't keep doomers in my feed but since apparently some folks do: "celebrate each and every win, loudly" is Organizing 101
January 27, 2026 at 4:13 AM
I don't keep doomers in my feed but since apparently some folks do: "celebrate each and every win, loudly" is Organizing 101
One advantage of snowy days: I can accidentally run over my phone with my car and, once dug out, the phone works
January 26, 2026 at 6:51 AM
One advantage of snowy days: I can accidentally run over my phone with my car and, once dug out, the phone works
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When Sam Darnold stood in and took that shot and got the TD pass to JSN…you just knew. He would not let what seemed to always happen to him, happen again. What a game from the quarterback who has been so resilient in all ways.
January 26, 2026 at 3:04 AM
When Sam Darnold stood in and took that shot and got the TD pass to JSN…you just knew. He would not let what seemed to always happen to him, happen again. What a game from the quarterback who has been so resilient in all ways.
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it is fuckin wild that Sam Darnold is the first USC quarterback to start in the Super Bowl
January 26, 2026 at 3:01 AM
it is fuckin wild that Sam Darnold is the first USC quarterback to start in the Super Bowl
Works for any definition of union.
What a stark, horrifying demonstration of the tension a union opens itself to when it organizes security forces.
If you hesitate to condemn the killing of a member, for fear of alienating the members who fired the guns, what sort of cage have you built around your union?
If you hesitate to condemn the killing of a member, for fear of alienating the members who fired the guns, what sort of cage have you built around your union?
My god.
Statement from AFGE: Alex was a member. His killer may have been as well.
Statement from AFGE: Alex was a member. His killer may have been as well.
January 24, 2026 at 9:58 PM
Works for any definition of union.
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you do not want to hit him where he's weak. you want to hit him in the place where he'd be weak if you hit him.
January 22, 2026 at 2:24 AM
you do not want to hit him where he's weak. you want to hit him in the place where he'd be weak if you hit him.
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it's never the crazy weird conspiracy theory weapons. they are poisoning you with toxins they are well-documented to have. they are beating you with ordinary sticks and shooting you with ordinary guns
the only conspiracy is how they gained legal immunity to do this
the only conspiracy is how they gained legal immunity to do this
My group was able to recover a spent canister from a green smoke grenade in Minneapolis. We now confirm with physical evidence that it was a green signaling grenade.
Please don't spread rumors about hexachloroethane or nerve agents.
#PublicPreparedness #Minneapolis
Please don't spread rumors about hexachloroethane or nerve agents.
#PublicPreparedness #Minneapolis
January 22, 2026 at 4:12 AM
it's never the crazy weird conspiracy theory weapons. they are poisoning you with toxins they are well-documented to have. they are beating you with ordinary sticks and shooting you with ordinary guns
the only conspiracy is how they gained legal immunity to do this
the only conspiracy is how they gained legal immunity to do this
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they mocked him for an apology tour that never happened, but whoever’s next better do a big one.
January 20, 2026 at 10:28 PM
they mocked him for an apology tour that never happened, but whoever’s next better do a big one.
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“Why are Europeans and Canadians so mean?”
Because our country threatened a war of aggression.
“Why aren’t Americans doing anything?”
1500 US Army arctic warfare specialists are literally incapable of deploying to Greenland due to domestic protests over dissidents being publicly murdered.
Because our country threatened a war of aggression.
“Why aren’t Americans doing anything?”
1500 US Army arctic warfare specialists are literally incapable of deploying to Greenland due to domestic protests over dissidents being publicly murdered.
January 19, 2026 at 11:03 PM
“Why are Europeans and Canadians so mean?”
Because our country threatened a war of aggression.
“Why aren’t Americans doing anything?”
1500 US Army arctic warfare specialists are literally incapable of deploying to Greenland due to domestic protests over dissidents being publicly murdered.
Because our country threatened a war of aggression.
“Why aren’t Americans doing anything?”
1500 US Army arctic warfare specialists are literally incapable of deploying to Greenland due to domestic protests over dissidents being publicly murdered.
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In one year, Trump has poisoned our information environment and broken a lot of institutions that mistakenly believed they were powerful.
Also true: the future is unwritten, in our hands, and anyone who says that we're doomed is effectively an enemy.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/what-is-go...
Also true: the future is unwritten, in our hands, and anyone who says that we're doomed is effectively an enemy.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/what-is-go...
"What Is Going to Happen?"
How to reject a new normal.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
January 18, 2026 at 4:12 PM
In one year, Trump has poisoned our information environment and broken a lot of institutions that mistakenly believed they were powerful.
Also true: the future is unwritten, in our hands, and anyone who says that we're doomed is effectively an enemy.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/what-is-go...
Also true: the future is unwritten, in our hands, and anyone who says that we're doomed is effectively an enemy.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/what-is-go...
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is taking greenland morally justified? no. but at least it also makes no sense on the basis of cold-eyed realpolitik and the public hates the idea of doing it
January 18, 2026 at 2:57 PM
is taking greenland morally justified? no. but at least it also makes no sense on the basis of cold-eyed realpolitik and the public hates the idea of doing it
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i think, however, this is a crystal clear example that the next cold war is actually democracy vs autocracy and the battle lines run right through every single advanced democracy. there aren't really any safe harbors.
January 17, 2026 at 7:54 PM
i think, however, this is a crystal clear example that the next cold war is actually democracy vs autocracy and the battle lines run right through every single advanced democracy. there aren't really any safe harbors.
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Blowing up NATO by attacking the territory of an ally may be a feature not a bug to some advocates.
Wonder which countries would benefit from the destruction of NATO...
Wonder which countries would benefit from the destruction of NATO...
NEWSMAX: If we take Greenland, can we get out of NATO and stop paying $50 billion a year?
REP. RANDY FINE: NATO needs the US a lot more than the US needs NATO. Greenland should be part of the United States.
REP. RANDY FINE: NATO needs the US a lot more than the US needs NATO. Greenland should be part of the United States.
January 15, 2026 at 4:20 PM
Blowing up NATO by attacking the territory of an ally may be a feature not a bug to some advocates.
Wonder which countries would benefit from the destruction of NATO...
Wonder which countries would benefit from the destruction of NATO...
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Also, you should block agitators.
January 13, 2026 at 8:04 AM
a gay football show like the gay hockey show except it's on Tubi and named "Ball Security"
January 13, 2026 at 2:29 AM
a gay football show like the gay hockey show except it's on Tubi and named "Ball Security"
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Perhaps the problems are empire, capital and just uh evil guys.
January 12, 2026 at 2:19 PM
Perhaps the problems are empire, capital and just uh evil guys.
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Look at what people have done after using ChatGPT, dating it, killing people, killing themselves.
All because it’s designed to give positive reinforcement at all costs.
Now imagine being a billionaire that doesn’t know they lucked into it.
All because it’s designed to give positive reinforcement at all costs.
Now imagine being a billionaire that doesn’t know they lucked into it.
January 11, 2026 at 12:35 PM
Look at what people have done after using ChatGPT, dating it, killing people, killing themselves.
All because it’s designed to give positive reinforcement at all costs.
Now imagine being a billionaire that doesn’t know they lucked into it.
All because it’s designed to give positive reinforcement at all costs.
Now imagine being a billionaire that doesn’t know they lucked into it.
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“They delayed the first test event at the hockey arena because there was a giant hole in the ice that needed to be patched up using a watering can” is quite the game of Olympic Mad Libs
January 10, 2026 at 3:52 PM
“They delayed the first test event at the hockey arena because there was a giant hole in the ice that needed to be patched up using a watering can” is quite the game of Olympic Mad Libs
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I know it’s tempting to believe but just because the rise in the popularity of unapologetic openly fascist ideology & the rise in the popularity of pickle ball have suspiciously coincided, the two things are probably only loosely related at best
January 8, 2026 at 4:05 AM
I know it’s tempting to believe but just because the rise in the popularity of unapologetic openly fascist ideology & the rise in the popularity of pickle ball have suspiciously coincided, the two things are probably only loosely related at best
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The surprise invasion of Venezuela isn't imperial expansion driven by the dictates of capitalism; it is somehow even sicker. The Trump administration is behaving like gambling addicts chasing clout in an attention economy. Venezuela is a fucking meme stock. www.theverge.com/policy/85807...
Snatching Maduro was all about the spectacle
Kidnapping a world leader for online clout
www.theverge.com
January 7, 2026 at 11:40 PM
The surprise invasion of Venezuela isn't imperial expansion driven by the dictates of capitalism; it is somehow even sicker. The Trump administration is behaving like gambling addicts chasing clout in an attention economy. Venezuela is a fucking meme stock. www.theverge.com/policy/85807...
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It’s genuinely wild that the United States spent decades building an elaborate rules-based international order which de facto cemented its permanent status as the dominant global hegemon, sustained by ideology rather than might, and now is just blowing it all up for literally no reason
January 6, 2026 at 12:35 AM
It’s genuinely wild that the United States spent decades building an elaborate rules-based international order which de facto cemented its permanent status as the dominant global hegemon, sustained by ideology rather than might, and now is just blowing it all up for literally no reason
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Yeah, it has long been the case that adult-oriented businesses have to be careful or risk the wrath of everyone from prosecutors to payment-processing companies, but "prominent social media company owned by world's richest person swiftly became world's largest CSAM producer" produces no reaction.
Elon Musk chatbot repeatedly making CSAM on demand should be one of the single biggest stories right now and it's effectively a collective shrug instead
January 5, 2026 at 1:49 PM
Yeah, it has long been the case that adult-oriented businesses have to be careful or risk the wrath of everyone from prosecutors to payment-processing companies, but "prominent social media company owned by world's richest person swiftly became world's largest CSAM producer" produces no reaction.
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Never seen anybody who by all standards are your poster people American heroes be so consistently punished by this country as Mark Kelly and Gabby Giffords.
January 5, 2026 at 4:08 PM
Never seen anybody who by all standards are your poster people American heroes be so consistently punished by this country as Mark Kelly and Gabby Giffords.