James A. Natesmith
@jamesanatesmith.bsky.social
Utah Utes, Chicago Bears, the American West, sometimes a stray Shakespeare take.
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After yesterday’s surrender, we’re launching the largest Democratic primary program that we’ve ever run.
We will not back any Senate primary candidate unless they call for Schumer to step down as Minority Leader.
If you’re as pissed as we are, join this campaign to rebuild the Democratic Party. 👇
We will not back any Senate primary candidate unless they call for Schumer to step down as Minority Leader.
If you’re as pissed as we are, join this campaign to rebuild the Democratic Party. 👇
Democratic leaders have failed us again. It's time to get new leaders.
After yet another capitulation by Chuck Schumer and Senate Democrats, it's clear we need new leadership capable of mounting a serious opposition to Trump's authoritarian regime. We're launching our la...
www.indivisible2026.org
November 11, 2025 at 12:00 AM
After yesterday’s surrender, we’re launching the largest Democratic primary program that we’ve ever run.
We will not back any Senate primary candidate unless they call for Schumer to step down as Minority Leader.
If you’re as pissed as we are, join this campaign to rebuild the Democratic Party. 👇
We will not back any Senate primary candidate unless they call for Schumer to step down as Minority Leader.
If you’re as pissed as we are, join this campaign to rebuild the Democratic Party. 👇
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I think his choice of words here, “fighting to keep my own job,” is really telling about the entire generation of people in leadership. He can only view what he does as a career, and not as a call to leadership.
Ryan’s statement makes clear that the fed government had threatened to withhold unrelated university funding & student visas in order to coerce his resignation
All individual university leaders now have targets on their backs
All individual university leaders now have targets on their backs
June 28, 2025 at 1:03 PM
I think his choice of words here, “fighting to keep my own job,” is really telling about the entire generation of people in leadership. He can only view what he does as a career, and not as a call to leadership.
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New from me in @newrepublic.com: “Primary Every Democrat.”
If the current crop cannot demonstrate they care more about democracy than enjoying three-day weekends, we should flood the zone and challenge them all.
If the current crop cannot demonstrate they care more about democracy than enjoying three-day weekends, we should flood the zone and challenge them all.
Primary Every Democrat
It’s exhausting to watch poll-tested, donor-beholden congressional Democrats continue to be too old, too cloistered, and too bumbling to do anything as the government burns.
newrepublic.com
February 3, 2025 at 12:58 PM
New from me in @newrepublic.com: “Primary Every Democrat.”
If the current crop cannot demonstrate they care more about democracy than enjoying three-day weekends, we should flood the zone and challenge them all.
If the current crop cannot demonstrate they care more about democracy than enjoying three-day weekends, we should flood the zone and challenge them all.
This is bullshit, but it does highlight the way how utterly foolish Biden has been in committing fully to a foreign policy that splits his party. Great Idiot of History.
The daughter of The Los Angeles Times’s owner said the newspaper chose not to endorse Kamala Harris for president because of the candidate’s continued support for Israel in its war in Gaza.
Daughter of L.A. Times Owner Says Endorsement Decision Stemmed From Harris Stance on Gaza War
The decision by the owner, Patrick Soon-Shiong, to cancel the paper’s planned endorsement of Kamala Harris sent shock waves through the organization. It was not the first time he had gotten involved i...
www.nytimes.com
October 26, 2024 at 7:18 PM
This is bullshit, but it does highlight the way how utterly foolish Biden has been in committing fully to a foreign policy that splits his party. Great Idiot of History.
I still can’t believe so many fucking people thought Biden should stay on the ballot.
October 26, 2024 at 6:16 PM
I still can’t believe so many fucking people thought Biden should stay on the ballot.
@benjaminepark.bsky.social It brings me no pleasure to inform you that the narrator of the American Zion somehow mispronounces Moroni after correctly pronouncing Nephi. Lemme know if you want to take legal action.
Book is incredible so far, btw.
Book is incredible so far, btw.
August 25, 2024 at 5:31 PM
@benjaminepark.bsky.social It brings me no pleasure to inform you that the narrator of the American Zion somehow mispronounces Moroni after correctly pronouncing Nephi. Lemme know if you want to take legal action.
Book is incredible so far, btw.
Book is incredible so far, btw.
You know what? This is what Vice Presidents are for. Fuck it. Biden announce that he’ll retire in a two months, transition to Kamala who will choose her own Vice President.
June 29, 2024 at 8:10 PM
You know what? This is what Vice Presidents are for. Fuck it. Biden announce that he’ll retire in a two months, transition to Kamala who will choose her own Vice President.
There’s not a single candidate for President that gives a shit about what the world will look like in 2035. I think that really indicates that we’re nearing come kind of breaking point
June 29, 2024 at 7:49 PM
There’s not a single candidate for President that gives a shit about what the world will look like in 2035. I think that really indicates that we’re nearing come kind of breaking point
The fundamental flaw in the non-ideological Democratic Party is that it has super high expectations for its constituents and demands no expectations of its leaders.
It’s a corporate ladder, and it’s failing for the same reason that Google Search sucks.
It’s a corporate ladder, and it’s failing for the same reason that Google Search sucks.
June 29, 2024 at 5:22 PM
The fundamental flaw in the non-ideological Democratic Party is that it has super high expectations for its constituents and demands no expectations of its leaders.
It’s a corporate ladder, and it’s failing for the same reason that Google Search sucks.
It’s a corporate ladder, and it’s failing for the same reason that Google Search sucks.
Some say I hope to achieve the level of shamelessness that Dorval Carter spews out.
His address basically boils down to “woe is me, I try hard, the CTA is better, better things aren’t possible.”
His address basically boils down to “woe is me, I try hard, the CTA is better, better things aren’t possible.”
May 30, 2024 at 4:19 PM
Some say I hope to achieve the level of shamelessness that Dorval Carter spews out.
His address basically boils down to “woe is me, I try hard, the CTA is better, better things aren’t possible.”
His address basically boils down to “woe is me, I try hard, the CTA is better, better things aren’t possible.”
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Chicagoans to pay $1.75 mil to the family of a person who warned police about her urgent mental health problems before committing suicide in lockup. This belongs to a lineage of deadly and expensive failures by Chicago police as they arrest mentally ill people. Look up Christina Eilman.
Family of veteran who committed suicide in Chicago police holding cell could get $1.75M settlement
Irene Chavez told police about her mental health struggles, including a PTSD diagnosis, when she got arrested.
www.chicagotribune.com
May 14, 2024 at 2:46 PM
Chicagoans to pay $1.75 mil to the family of a person who warned police about her urgent mental health problems before committing suicide in lockup. This belongs to a lineage of deadly and expensive failures by Chicago police as they arrest mentally ill people. Look up Christina Eilman.
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FWIW if you are shocked to discover that cops will gladly treat you like a rabid dog even if you're a smart and respectable middle-aged person who wears business casual to work, I have nothing but love and solidarity for you. It is shocking. It should be shocking. Let's work together. We can fix it.
April 26, 2024 at 2:55 PM
FWIW if you are shocked to discover that cops will gladly treat you like a rabid dog even if you're a smart and respectable middle-aged person who wears business casual to work, I have nothing but love and solidarity for you. It is shocking. It should be shocking. Let's work together. We can fix it.
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Sorry but a core organizing principle for inviting new people into movements is to meet them where they are, not make fun of them for suddenly realizing the world is unjust.
April 26, 2024 at 1:07 PM
Sorry but a core organizing principle for inviting new people into movements is to meet them where they are, not make fun of them for suddenly realizing the world is unjust.
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if you follow me or rhiannon or 5-4 you should watch this all the way through www.instagram.com/reel/C6MfdYo...
Palestine Solidarity Committee on Instagram
265 likes, 2 comments - psc_atx on April 25, 2024
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April 25, 2024 at 7:00 PM
if you follow me or rhiannon or 5-4 you should watch this all the way through www.instagram.com/reel/C6MfdYo...
Why does *all this* keep happening in election years?
April 25, 2024 at 10:55 PM
Why does *all this* keep happening in election years?
Tin soldiers and Biden coming. We’re finally on our own.
April 24, 2024 at 8:08 PM
Tin soldiers and Biden coming. We’re finally on our own.
The decision by the Democratic Establishment to rally behind Biden to block Bernie in 2020 will stand as one of the most disastrous political decisions in decades.
May it mark the beginning of the end of their rule.
May it mark the beginning of the end of their rule.
April 22, 2024 at 4:36 PM
The decision by the Democratic Establishment to rally behind Biden to block Bernie in 2020 will stand as one of the most disastrous political decisions in decades.
May it mark the beginning of the end of their rule.
May it mark the beginning of the end of their rule.
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i go back and forth over whether it is the transphobia that poisons brains or whether the people who become obsessive transphobes were already brain poisoned. i am thinking here of someone like wesley yang
April 21, 2024 at 2:07 PM
i go back and forth over whether it is the transphobia that poisons brains or whether the people who become obsessive transphobes were already brain poisoned. i am thinking here of someone like wesley yang
@lollardfish.bsky.social does the culture depicted in Braveheart really resemble the Medieval Scots at all? Or is it best understood as a representation of something in Mel Gibson’s psyche?
April 12, 2024 at 10:28 PM
@lollardfish.bsky.social does the culture depicted in Braveheart really resemble the Medieval Scots at all? Or is it best understood as a representation of something in Mel Gibson’s psyche?
If everyone on the left side of the aisle could expend 20% more grace to each other, we could absolutely turn this ship around.
April 6, 2024 at 5:44 PM
If everyone on the left side of the aisle could expend 20% more grace to each other, we could absolutely turn this ship around.
Ohhhhh rest in piss
March 27, 2024 at 9:43 PM
Ohhhhh rest in piss
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it's not hard to figure out when Objective Reporters are really carrying out a bigoted persecution campaign www.mediamatters.org/new-york-tim...
Seen but not heard: The New York Times failed to quote trans people in over 60% of 2023 stories on anti-trans legislation
A new report from Media Matters and GLAAD finds that The New York Times excluded the perspectives of trans people from two-thirds of its stories about anti-trans legislation in the year following publ...
www.mediamatters.org
March 26, 2024 at 7:37 PM
it's not hard to figure out when Objective Reporters are really carrying out a bigoted persecution campaign www.mediamatters.org/new-york-tim...
It sucks, but we got to play defense before we can play offense in 2026.
Hopefully Bowman, Bush and Omar have used the past four years to build a strong incumbency advantage.
Hopefully Bowman, Bush and Omar have used the past four years to build a strong incumbency advantage.
March 26, 2024 at 1:52 PM
It sucks, but we got to play defense before we can play offense in 2026.
Hopefully Bowman, Bush and Omar have used the past four years to build a strong incumbency advantage.
Hopefully Bowman, Bush and Omar have used the past four years to build a strong incumbency advantage.
I don't know what to make of this. I have thought for a long time that Utah could have a West Virginia style swing (going for Clinton in '96 to reddest state in the Union by 2016. Utah is the youngest state in the Union, and the weight of those Gen Zers is going to start making itself known.
The Republican-led Utah Legislature passed more laws targeting the LGBTQ+ community this year. But a new poll shows that most Utahns are supportive of their LGBTQ+ neighbors.
Are Utahns more supportive of LGBTQ+ nondiscrimination laws than Californians?
Utah was among states with the highest support for nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ+ Americans — ahead of reliably blue states like California and New York — in a recent survey by the Public Re...
www.sltrib.com
March 22, 2024 at 1:24 PM
I don't know what to make of this. I have thought for a long time that Utah could have a West Virginia style swing (going for Clinton in '96 to reddest state in the Union by 2016. Utah is the youngest state in the Union, and the weight of those Gen Zers is going to start making itself known.