James Wagner
@jamesarthurwagner.bsky.social
cranky radical, fussy aesthete, humanist, generalist, partner of
@bhoggard
@bhoggard
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I love this image, of a plucky caterer, maybe family, working on some celebratory bunting
tall vertical ladder resting on clothesline, clear Midwest September sky, the comfort of stars and stripes in a time and in a place (1936/WI) we imagine more innocent, white apron, rolled slacks, shirt sleeves
tall vertical ladder resting on clothesline, clear Midwest September sky, the comfort of stars and stripes in a time and in a place (1936/WI) we imagine more innocent, white apron, rolled slacks, shirt sleeves
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They call her "climate killer Kathy."
The centrist Democrat has gone all-in on setting the climate on fire as crypto-investors, fossil fuel executives, and her own husband cash in.
The centrist Democrat has gone all-in on setting the climate on fire as crypto-investors, fossil fuel executives, and her own husband cash in.
Kathy Hochul's 'Affordability' Excuse for Building a Gas Pipeline Doesn't Even Make Sense
The centrist Democrat insists that we must first accelerate the destruction of the environment to save it...eventually.
hellgatenyc.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:37 AM
They call her "climate killer Kathy."
The centrist Democrat has gone all-in on setting the climate on fire as crypto-investors, fossil fuel executives, and her own husband cash in.
The centrist Democrat has gone all-in on setting the climate on fire as crypto-investors, fossil fuel executives, and her own husband cash in.
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Say it with me: “Liberals will always accept fascism over socialism because fascism doesn’t threaten capital.”
November 17, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Say it with me: “Liberals will always accept fascism over socialism because fascism doesn’t threaten capital.”
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May I suggest living in an apartment building with legal immigrants and citizens of hispanic ancestry, and waiting for the nice masked men with the tear gas and guns to show up? Then you can share your perspective.
November 17, 2025 at 6:12 AM
May I suggest living in an apartment building with legal immigrants and citizens of hispanic ancestry, and waiting for the nice masked men with the tear gas and guns to show up? Then you can share your perspective.
yes!
The Democrats will accept Marjorie Taylor Greene into the tent before they accept Zohran Mamdani.
Raskin: We are a big tent. We must be a huge, vast tent. I say this is a party that’s got room for Marjorie Taylor Greene if she wants to come over.
November 17, 2025 at 10:30 PM
yes!
Tina Brown has been around
“..it all starts with the private plane, and it goes from there…”
“they can never go back” www.youtube.com/shorts/CcgwK...
“..it all starts with the private plane, and it goes from there…”
“they can never go back” www.youtube.com/shorts/CcgwK...
Tina Brown on how wealth can warp minds
YouTube video by The Atlantic
www.youtube.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Tina Brown has been around
“..it all starts with the private plane, and it goes from there…”
“they can never go back” www.youtube.com/shorts/CcgwK...
“..it all starts with the private plane, and it goes from there…”
“they can never go back” www.youtube.com/shorts/CcgwK...
and we will
have health
care for all
have health
care for all
November 17, 2025 at 4:26 PM
and we will
have health
care for all
have health
care for all
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Rick Steves from 2014: "The more I travel, the clearer it seems to me: Fear is for people who don't get out much. These people don't see the world firsthand, so their opinions end up being shaped by sensationalistic media coverage geared toward selling ads."
Op-Ed: Tune out cable news and turn away fear
I miss the days when people would say "Bon voyage" to travelers heading off.
www.latimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Rick Steves from 2014: "The more I travel, the clearer it seems to me: Fear is for people who don't get out much. These people don't see the world firsthand, so their opinions end up being shaped by sensationalistic media coverage geared toward selling ads."
and the fat cat professional Democrats have been fighting back with gums and limp noodles ever since
at the very least, it was the beginning of 25 years of “because I said so” jurisprudence that has completely trashed SCOTUS’ aura of nonpartisanship, which will not be recovered in my lifetime
i don't think that bush v. gore is the *worst* ruling in the history of the supreme court, but i do think it is the most openly *corrupt* ruling in its history. a real disgrace.
November 17, 2025 at 1:48 PM
and the fat cat professional Democrats have been fighting back with gums and limp noodles ever since
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"Trump is historically and deeply unpopular. it’s not just that people disapprove of him; they strongly disapprove of him. This is the biggest story in US politics. [It's] bad for Rs and getting worse."
On the pod @speechboy71.bsky.social is great on the big picture:
newrepublic.com/article/2032...
On the pod @speechboy71.bsky.social is great on the big picture:
newrepublic.com/article/2032...
Trump Explodes in Angriest Epstein Tirade Yet as Allies Visibly Panic
With Trump distracted by Jeffrey Epstein even as allies and advisers fret about the midterms, the author of a new piece on Trump’s standing decodes why his approval is hitting dangerous new lows.
newrepublic.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:04 PM
"Trump is historically and deeply unpopular. it’s not just that people disapprove of him; they strongly disapprove of him. This is the biggest story in US politics. [It's] bad for Rs and getting worse."
On the pod @speechboy71.bsky.social is great on the big picture:
newrepublic.com/article/2032...
On the pod @speechboy71.bsky.social is great on the big picture:
newrepublic.com/article/2032...
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Because he told DOJ to open an investigation into Dems in the files so they can't be released with an open investigation. It's the "I cant release my taxes because I'm being audited" excuse
November 17, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Because he told DOJ to open an investigation into Dems in the files so they can't be released with an open investigation. It's the "I cant release my taxes because I'm being audited" excuse
sliced NY ‘Upstate Abundance’ potatoes roasted w/olive oil/dried Santa Fe pepper/bay leaves, adding Sicilian olives, two 8-ounce LI cod fillets
salt-buried 1 hour, rinsed/drained/dried, placed on the potatoes, drizzled w/oil, peppered,
the cod roasted tender, served garnished with chopped parsley
salt-buried 1 hour, rinsed/drained/dried, placed on the potatoes, drizzled w/oil, peppered,
the cod roasted tender, served garnished with chopped parsley
November 17, 2025 at 6:09 AM
sliced NY ‘Upstate Abundance’ potatoes roasted w/olive oil/dried Santa Fe pepper/bay leaves, adding Sicilian olives, two 8-ounce LI cod fillets
salt-buried 1 hour, rinsed/drained/dried, placed on the potatoes, drizzled w/oil, peppered,
the cod roasted tender, served garnished with chopped parsley
salt-buried 1 hour, rinsed/drained/dried, placed on the potatoes, drizzled w/oil, peppered,
the cod roasted tender, served garnished with chopped parsley
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One of the funnier, and very understated, things I saw in a museum while in Berlin: a display that said, of the 1970s, "West Germany's economy boomed, in part thanks to over a million 'Temporary Workers' that no one in government had expected to stay." (From memory, so very slight paraphrase)
THE GERMAN ECONOMIC MIRACLE DEPENDED ON IMMIGRANTS
but miracles aren’t forever
but miracles aren’t forever
Yes. By the same token, I don't think Germany as a society truly understands what Germany's complicity in all this means for the country. I predict Gaza will be a significant factor in alienating or repelling the "high-skilled" workers the economy needs: www.iamexpat.de/expat-info/g...
November 17, 2025 at 1:20 AM
One of the funnier, and very understated, things I saw in a museum while in Berlin: a display that said, of the 1970s, "West Germany's economy boomed, in part thanks to over a million 'Temporary Workers' that no one in government had expected to stay." (From memory, so very slight paraphrase)
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lightly-cured bacon (NYS farm pastured pigs, a smoky salt, fat removed/saved, Wesphalian butter added to pan to fry local eggs, adding Faro (PT) salt/melequeta/crushed dried Pasilla/cook's hot pepper oil/garden tarragon
Whole Foods rye, stovetop-toasted, Westph. butter and Beth’s orange marmalade
Whole Foods rye, stovetop-toasted, Westph. butter and Beth’s orange marmalade
November 16, 2025 at 10:05 PM
lightly-cured bacon (NYS farm pastured pigs, a smoky salt, fat removed/saved, Wesphalian butter added to pan to fry local eggs, adding Faro (PT) salt/melequeta/crushed dried Pasilla/cook's hot pepper oil/garden tarragon
Whole Foods rye, stovetop-toasted, Westph. butter and Beth’s orange marmalade
Whole Foods rye, stovetop-toasted, Westph. butter and Beth’s orange marmalade
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As the old bigots become more anti immigration; there appears to be an increasing number of young people who just want out.
As with German, same with the US.
I think these things are linked?
news.gallup.com/poll/697382/...
As with German, same with the US.
I think these things are linked?
news.gallup.com/poll/697382/...
Record Numbers of Younger Women Want to Leave the U.S.
The percentage of younger women in the U.S. who express a desire to migrate permanently has surged in the past decade.
news.gallup.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:23 PM
As the old bigots become more anti immigration; there appears to be an increasing number of young people who just want out.
As with German, same with the US.
I think these things are linked?
news.gallup.com/poll/697382/...
As with German, same with the US.
I think these things are linked?
news.gallup.com/poll/697382/...
THE GERMAN ECONOMIC MIRACLE DEPENDED ON IMMIGRANTS
but miracles aren’t forever
but miracles aren’t forever
Yes. By the same token, I don't think Germany as a society truly understands what Germany's complicity in all this means for the country. I predict Gaza will be a significant factor in alienating or repelling the "high-skilled" workers the economy needs: www.iamexpat.de/expat-info/g...
November 16, 2025 at 8:18 PM
THE GERMAN ECONOMIC MIRACLE DEPENDED ON IMMIGRANTS
but miracles aren’t forever
but miracles aren’t forever
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I’ve heard stories of the Staten Island monk parrots since I was a kid but never managed to snap a picture. Anyway LOOK AT THE MONK PARROTS
November 15, 2025 at 9:06 PM
I’ve heard stories of the Staten Island monk parrots since I was a kid but never managed to snap a picture. Anyway LOOK AT THE MONK PARROTS
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It’s getting too obvious. The times has an overt agenda. It is a far right publication.
Katie Wilson, Seattle’s next mayor, emerged from the city’s left-wing activist class and brings with her little experience in governing.
Seattle Elects a Left-Wing Mayor With a Light Résumé but Mamdani Appeal
Katie Wilson, who narrowly defeated the incumbent, Bruce Harrell, emerged from the city’s left-wing activist class and brings with her little experience in governing.
nyti.ms
November 14, 2025 at 1:12 AM
It’s getting too obvious. The times has an overt agenda. It is a far right publication.
Amy Goodman:
“where were you physically in New York city, where were you coordinating all of this?”
Tascha van Auken:
“in my apartment, in December I was in my apartment, materials were delivered physically to my apartment; it was before we had an office”
“where were you physically in New York city, where were you coordinating all of this?”
Tascha van Auken:
“in my apartment, in December I was in my apartment, materials were delivered physically to my apartment; it was before we had an office”
Tascha gave so many people the courage to knock that first door, make that first call and build the bridges with our neighbors that got us this far.
Together, we fought for a city for all of us. Now, we’ll build a City Hall for all of us.
Together, we fought for a city for all of us. Now, we’ll build a City Hall for all of us.
November 16, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Amy Goodman:
“where were you physically in New York city, where were you coordinating all of this?”
Tascha van Auken:
“in my apartment, in December I was in my apartment, materials were delivered physically to my apartment; it was before we had an office”
“where were you physically in New York city, where were you coordinating all of this?”
Tascha van Auken:
“in my apartment, in December I was in my apartment, materials were delivered physically to my apartment; it was before we had an office”
if Paul John Bojerski is a man without s country,
we are all, every last one of us, without a country
we are all, every last one of us, without a country
November 16, 2025 at 4:07 PM
if Paul John Bojerski is a man without s country,
we are all, every last one of us, without a country
we are all, every last one of us, without a country
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We said it from the beginning.
That it would come back on them.
Because MAGA never voted for Trump to make their lives better. To make America great.
They voted to make the people’s lives of those they didn’t like worse.
That it would come back on them.
Because MAGA never voted for Trump to make their lives better. To make America great.
They voted to make the people’s lives of those they didn’t like worse.
November 16, 2025 at 11:55 AM
We said it from the beginning.
That it would come back on them.
Because MAGA never voted for Trump to make their lives better. To make America great.
They voted to make the people’s lives of those they didn’t like worse.
That it would come back on them.
Because MAGA never voted for Trump to make their lives better. To make America great.
They voted to make the people’s lives of those they didn’t like worse.
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And America really has fallen.
Those chairing it on have no idea how they have actively been involved in the destruction of their own country.
Its reputation around the world.
How no one trusts America.
America has been a bully.
And now countries are just sitting back and waiting.
Those chairing it on have no idea how they have actively been involved in the destruction of their own country.
Its reputation around the world.
How no one trusts America.
America has been a bully.
And now countries are just sitting back and waiting.
Another stunning photo encapsulating how far America has fallen
November 16, 2025 at 11:58 AM
And America really has fallen.
Those chairing it on have no idea how they have actively been involved in the destruction of their own country.
Its reputation around the world.
How no one trusts America.
America has been a bully.
And now countries are just sitting back and waiting.
Those chairing it on have no idea how they have actively been involved in the destruction of their own country.
Its reputation around the world.
How no one trusts America.
America has been a bully.
And now countries are just sitting back and waiting.
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An American warning after WWII.
November 16, 2025 at 9:33 AM
An American warning after WWII.
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I saw a video of a Black person yet again using Leviticus 18:22 to justify their homophobia.
I will never ever understand this. If they had just moved on to the next Leviticus chapter 19.
They will come across 19:20, which was the scripture slave owners used to justify raping slaves.
I will never ever understand this. If they had just moved on to the next Leviticus chapter 19.
They will come across 19:20, which was the scripture slave owners used to justify raping slaves.
November 16, 2025 at 11:30 AM
I saw a video of a Black person yet again using Leviticus 18:22 to justify their homophobia.
I will never ever understand this. If they had just moved on to the next Leviticus chapter 19.
They will come across 19:20, which was the scripture slave owners used to justify raping slaves.
I will never ever understand this. If they had just moved on to the next Leviticus chapter 19.
They will come across 19:20, which was the scripture slave owners used to justify raping slaves.
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what is the New York Times *thinking* right now
are they, in fact, thinking
are they, in fact, thinking
November 16, 2025 at 2:23 PM
what is the New York Times *thinking* right now
are they, in fact, thinking
are they, in fact, thinking