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jametz.bsky.social
Native Cincinnatian, Lifelong Liberal Catholic, Beatles Lover, Baseball Lover. Absolutely love being a Grandpa.
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One of these photos is CECOT, El Salvador, present day. The other is Buchenwald, Germany, April 16, 1945.

#TrumpParade 🤣🤣

Further evidence that Trump simply has no plan beyond the next 5 minutes. They did a head-fake to pretend the tariffs were coming off to rally the markets. But of course it only lasted a minute until people realized what happened. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-third-...

"It was the worst type of magical thinking to imagine Trump would have any serious constraints in a second term ... If his voters believed he wouldn’t be stupid and malevolent enough to obliterate the economy for no good reason, they simply didn’t pay attention to his first term or 2024 campaign."

Hats off to Maine’s Gov. Janet Mills. Unlike too many others, she refuses to bow to Trump. “I have spent the better part of my career listening to loud men talk tough to disguise their weakness,”. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...

The reason empty townhalls work is because it is direct action toward your local lawmaker. You aren’t a random protester. You aren’t a random person calling their office. You are a constituent demanding action. Demand your local lawmaker do better, or shame them in their own district.

Don't trust the crazy toddler with a gun. Thank you, Kevin Necessary (@knecessary.bsky.social).

McGovern: "How is any company supposed to forecast for their future, build a plant, hire workers, if they have no idea what the hell this president is gonna do in his next tweet? ... I need a neck brace to be able to get through all this."

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A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.

This all alone is an open-and-shut cause for impeachment, yes there are dozens of others but sometimes it's clarifying to just look at one

it’s weird that we’re staring down the second unprecedented economic catastrophe in five years and instead of a novel coronavirus that will go on to kill millions of people this one is just “no one was willing to tell him no”