Jim Barnes
@notesnletters.bsky.social
Independent journalist, composer, music lover, Presbyterian, Cubs fan, and father of three rock stars
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Some personal news:
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.
I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.
substack.com
September 15, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Some personal news:
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
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Everyone in America needs to read this FREE—I’ve gifted it below—report from the conservative WALL STREET JOURNAL about Trump and Epstein.
Apparently the president has now threatened to sue the WSJ over this 100% accurate report due to how damaging it is.
Apparently the president has now threatened to sue the WSJ over this 100% accurate report due to how damaging it is.
Exclusive | Jeffrey Epstein’s Friends Sent Him Bawdy Letters for a 50th Birthday Album. One Was From Donald Trump.
The leather-bound book was compiled by Ghislaine Maxwell. The president says the letter ‘is a fake thing.’
www.wsj.com
July 17, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Everyone in America needs to read this FREE—I’ve gifted it below—report from the conservative WALL STREET JOURNAL about Trump and Epstein.
Apparently the president has now threatened to sue the WSJ over this 100% accurate report due to how damaging it is.
Apparently the president has now threatened to sue the WSJ over this 100% accurate report due to how damaging it is.
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This is one of the first dramatic "rubber meets the road" demonstrations of what anyone who knows the *mechanics of modern governance* has been warning about.
—A fed agency that *exists* to measure, forecast, and warn about unsafe water levels.
—Roster of that agency shows mass purges via DOGE
—A fed agency that *exists* to measure, forecast, and warn about unsafe water levels.
—Roster of that agency shows mass purges via DOGE
Want to see something really insane? Look at this website for USGS's Water Science Centers and Regions and see how many of their directors have "Former Employee" after their names. Everyone's gone! My best friend from grad school was one of them. Who's monitoring floods, droughts, etc?
Water Science Centers and Regions
A list of all of the USGS Water Resources Mission Area Science Centers and regions, hubs for critical water science funded by Federal, State, and other partners and stakeholders located throughout the...
www.usgs.gov
July 8, 2025 at 8:42 PM
This is one of the first dramatic "rubber meets the road" demonstrations of what anyone who knows the *mechanics of modern governance* has been warning about.
—A fed agency that *exists* to measure, forecast, and warn about unsafe water levels.
—Roster of that agency shows mass purges via DOGE
—A fed agency that *exists* to measure, forecast, and warn about unsafe water levels.
—Roster of that agency shows mass purges via DOGE
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Re-upping:
If *anyone* *anywhere* in US journalism is planning a story this coming week on "Joe Biden's fitness," .. .
... Look at yourself in the mirror and focus on what is happening right now.
Our problems, NOW, do not involve Joe Biden.
If *anyone* *anywhere* in US journalism is planning a story this coming week on "Joe Biden's fitness," .. .
... Look at yourself in the mirror and focus on what is happening right now.
Our problems, NOW, do not involve Joe Biden.
The US makes its military equipment in the US.
ANY journalist in US who is focusing on Biden's cognitive issues (when he never made factually-moronic statements like this), and not Trump's ....
ANY journalist in US who is focusing on Biden's cognitive issues (when he never made factually-moronic statements like this), and not Trump's ....
Trump: "We're not looking to make sneakers and t-shirts. We want to make military equipment, we want to make big things. We want to do the AI things with the computers. But the textile -- you know, I'm not looking to make t-shirts, to be honest. I'm not looking to make socks."
May 26, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Re-upping:
If *anyone* *anywhere* in US journalism is planning a story this coming week on "Joe Biden's fitness," .. .
... Look at yourself in the mirror and focus on what is happening right now.
Our problems, NOW, do not involve Joe Biden.
If *anyone* *anywhere* in US journalism is planning a story this coming week on "Joe Biden's fitness," .. .
... Look at yourself in the mirror and focus on what is happening right now.
Our problems, NOW, do not involve Joe Biden.
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Car Seat Headrest's The Scholars, a self-described rock opera, is out in May
Car Seat Headrest Announce Tour and First Album in Five Years, Share Video for New Song
Will Toledo and his bandmates return with The Scholars’ 11-minute track “Gethsemane”
pitchfork.com
March 4, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Car Seat Headrest's The Scholars, a self-described rock opera, is out in May
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Car Seat Headrest announce new album 'The Scholars' — hear the 10-minute lead single "Gethsemane"
Car Seat Headrest Announce New Album The Scholars: Hear “Gethsemane”
Rev those engines: Car Seat Headrest are back. Will Toledo and company have announced their new rock opera album The Scholar, the follow-up to 2020’s Making A Door Less Open. Before it’s out on May 2,...
www.stereogum.com
March 4, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Car Seat Headrest announce new album 'The Scholars' — hear the 10-minute lead single "Gethsemane"
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Car Seat Headrest will release 'The Scholars,' their first album in five years, in May. Listen to their 11-minute single, "Gethsemane," here. www.pastemagazine.com/article/car-...
Car Seat Headrest Announce Long-Awaited New Album, The Scholars
Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.
www.pastemagazine.com
March 4, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Car Seat Headrest will release 'The Scholars,' their first album in five years, in May. Listen to their 11-minute single, "Gethsemane," here. www.pastemagazine.com/article/car-...
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Epic courage here.
Wow. Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde fearlessly calls out Trump and Vance to their faces. This is heroic.
(posting in 3 parts due to Bluesky's 1 minute limit)
(posting in 3 parts due to Bluesky's 1 minute limit)
January 21, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Epic courage here.
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Love it when bookshops or libraries arrange their books appropriately...
December 23, 2024 at 4:23 PM
Love it when bookshops or libraries arrange their books appropriately...
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This aged like raw milk.
December 23, 2024 at 5:07 PM
This aged like raw milk.
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The Cubs have traded OF/1B Cody Bellinger to the Yankees, sources confirm to @chicagotribune.com.
December 17, 2024 at 9:50 PM
The Cubs have traded OF/1B Cody Bellinger to the Yankees, sources confirm to @chicagotribune.com.
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After COVID, I got into concert photography. So much damn fun. Wish I had gotten into it earlier in life.
Came across this shot I took of Will Toledo Car Seat Headrest a while back.
I really need to out to more shows next year.
Came across this shot I took of Will Toledo Car Seat Headrest a while back.
I really need to out to more shows next year.
November 25, 2024 at 12:09 AM
After COVID, I got into concert photography. So much damn fun. Wish I had gotten into it earlier in life.
Came across this shot I took of Will Toledo Car Seat Headrest a while back.
I really need to out to more shows next year.
Came across this shot I took of Will Toledo Car Seat Headrest a while back.
I really need to out to more shows next year.
youtu.be/bPLWBhNW3FM?...
R.I.P. Mike Pinder, last of the original Moody Blues. I’ll never forget the first time I heard them (and this song). While it’s Justin Hayward’s song, it was Mike Pinder’s mellotron that gave the band its unique, atmospheric sound.
R.I.P. Mike Pinder, last of the original Moody Blues. I’ll never forget the first time I heard them (and this song). While it’s Justin Hayward’s song, it was Mike Pinder’s mellotron that gave the band its unique, atmospheric sound.
Moody Blues - Tuesday Afternoon (1970)
The Moody Blues sing Tuesday Afternoon (1970)
youtu.be
April 26, 2024 at 3:20 AM
youtu.be/bPLWBhNW3FM?...
R.I.P. Mike Pinder, last of the original Moody Blues. I’ll never forget the first time I heard them (and this song). While it’s Justin Hayward’s song, it was Mike Pinder’s mellotron that gave the band its unique, atmospheric sound.
R.I.P. Mike Pinder, last of the original Moody Blues. I’ll never forget the first time I heard them (and this song). While it’s Justin Hayward’s song, it was Mike Pinder’s mellotron that gave the band its unique, atmospheric sound.
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Former vice president Mike Pence said Friday he will not endorse Donald Trump, the president with whom he served, just days after the former president secured the Republican Party’s 2024 nomination.
Pence says he will not endorse Trump in 2024
The former vice president who served under Trump but has been critical of the former president after the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection in which Pence was targeted, said Trump’s agenda doesn’t align with ...
wapo.st
March 15, 2024 at 8:40 PM
Former vice president Mike Pence said Friday he will not endorse Donald Trump, the president with whom he served, just days after the former president secured the Republican Party’s 2024 nomination.
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The lower 48 states just had the warmest winter in 130 years of record-keeping, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Temperatures were more than 5 degrees Fahrenheit hotter than average.
U.S. has warmest winter on record – and no, that's not a good thing
From lack of snow to wildfires, a record-warm winter had impacts across the country. Scientists say winters are warming faster than any other season in the U.S.
www.npr.org
March 9, 2024 at 6:20 PM
The lower 48 states just had the warmest winter in 130 years of record-keeping, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Temperatures were more than 5 degrees Fahrenheit hotter than average.
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Analysis by Glenn Kessler: The freshman senator decried a case of sexual bondage that took place in Mexico during the George W. Bush administration.
Analysis | Katie Britt’s false linkage of a sex-trafficking case to Joe Biden
The freshman senator decried a case of sexual bondage that took place in Mexico during the George W. Bush administration.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 9, 2024 at 9:46 PM
Analysis by Glenn Kessler: The freshman senator decried a case of sexual bondage that took place in Mexico during the George W. Bush administration.
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Periodic reminder that you can be young, healthy, 5x boosted, get “mild” Covid and end up with permanent and (as of now) irreversible immune damage w the lymphocyte levels of an AIDS patient. This is why it’s so crucial to PREVENT infection by wearing an N95, ventilating the air, and avoiding crowds
February 24, 2024 at 2:34 AM
Periodic reminder that you can be young, healthy, 5x boosted, get “mild” Covid and end up with permanent and (as of now) irreversible immune damage w the lymphocyte levels of an AIDS patient. This is why it’s so crucial to PREVENT infection by wearing an N95, ventilating the air, and avoiding crowds
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On The Past Is Still Alive, Alynda Segarra's latest album as Hurray for the Riff Raff, the shapeshifting folk artist dives into deeply personal stories from their own vagabond youth.
Hurray for the Riff Raff, the rail-riding teen poet who lived to sing the tale
On The Past Is Still Alive, Alynda Segarra's latest album as Hurray for the Riff Raff, the shapeshifting folk artist dives into deeply personal stories from their own vagabond youth.
www.npr.org
February 23, 2024 at 11:10 PM
On The Past Is Still Alive, Alynda Segarra's latest album as Hurray for the Riff Raff, the shapeshifting folk artist dives into deeply personal stories from their own vagabond youth.
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"I’m less than a year younger than Joe Biden, so I believe utterly in his competence, his brilliance, his worldview....
someone with a strong institutional memory, who knows how things are supposed to work."
Marilynne Robinson Considers Biden a Gift of God www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
someone with a strong institutional memory, who knows how things are supposed to work."
Marilynne Robinson Considers Biden a Gift of God www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Marilynne Robinson Considers Biden a Gift of God
The celebrated writer discusses human freedom, immortality and the “stinginess” that has settled into the country.
www.nytimes.com
February 18, 2024 at 12:53 PM
"I’m less than a year younger than Joe Biden, so I believe utterly in his competence, his brilliance, his worldview....
someone with a strong institutional memory, who knows how things are supposed to work."
Marilynne Robinson Considers Biden a Gift of God www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
someone with a strong institutional memory, who knows how things are supposed to work."
Marilynne Robinson Considers Biden a Gift of God www.nytimes.com/interactive/...