James Blacksmith
@jamesblacksmith.bsky.social
Recovering reporter. Award winning journalist and short story writer. Debut novel coming soon.
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Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."
September 13, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."
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September 13, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Classic.
Here’s a ‘funny but true’ for a Friday night…😂
September 13, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Classic.
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This is simply untenable. There is no way forward with media and political classes captured by the right. Every time someone commits a crime you have to pray it's not an undesirable or it's purge time, then when it turns out to be themselves again they just shrug and wait for the next one.
September 12, 2025 at 7:55 PM
This is simply untenable. There is no way forward with media and political classes captured by the right. Every time someone commits a crime you have to pray it's not an undesirable or it's purge time, then when it turns out to be themselves again they just shrug and wait for the next one.
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“.. I can’t remember anyone ever telling me we can’t say anything critical about a civilian like this. He was not in our chain of command or anything,” the officer said.
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September 12, 2025 at 11:12 PM
“.. I can’t remember anyone ever telling me we can’t say anything critical about a civilian like this. He was not in our chain of command or anything,” the officer said.
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"Even in a contest against men twice his age, Mamdani has begun to sound like the adult in the room on issues of public safety, offering detailed, thoughtful policy proposals."
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Mamdani’s New Ideas on Crime Show Make His Opponents Look Old
What he understands and they don’t.
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September 11, 2025 at 7:28 PM
"Even in a contest against men twice his age, Mamdani has begun to sound like the adult in the room on issues of public safety, offering detailed, thoughtful policy proposals."
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Kirk was never open to debate, was never ''I see your point'' kind of guy. He thought white was right, Christianity was the only religion that we should follow. If he'd shown the slightest remorse for the terrible things he said, he'd still be alive today, but he was a prick's prick and proud of it.
September 11, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Kirk was never open to debate, was never ''I see your point'' kind of guy. He thought white was right, Christianity was the only religion that we should follow. If he'd shown the slightest remorse for the terrible things he said, he'd still be alive today, but he was a prick's prick and proud of it.
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Charlie Kirk didn't have a good-faith bone in his body and if Newsom doesn't have the courage to say that he doesn't deserve our support
September 11, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Charlie Kirk didn't have a good-faith bone in his body and if Newsom doesn't have the courage to say that he doesn't deserve our support
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The best way to honour Charlie Kirk is to RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!
September 11, 2025 at 1:44 AM
The best way to honour Charlie Kirk is to RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!
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Exactly! Just accepting them at the discussions is losing the game to their hate. They don't need to win any debate, they just want the platforms, be heard, and spread the hate. We need to stop platforming n4zis
September 11, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Exactly! Just accepting them at the discussions is losing the game to their hate. They don't need to win any debate, they just want the platforms, be heard, and spread the hate. We need to stop platforming n4zis
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I trust that man less and less daily, and I already thought it couldn’t sink any lower.
“good-faith debate”
With white supremacists, Governor?
With white supremacists, Governor?
September 11, 2025 at 1:37 AM
I trust that man less and less daily, and I already thought it couldn’t sink any lower.
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Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory?
Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”
Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”
September 11, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory?
Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”
Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”
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All those assholes who pretended to be disinformation fighters falling all over themselves to praise one of its worst, most loathing purveyors simply because he was killed as a result of the exact policies he championed
Astonishing how many people can’t tell the difference between “loved debate and free speech” and “carried out an effective PR campaign for specific, previously unpopular ideas”
September 11, 2025 at 1:10 AM
All those assholes who pretended to be disinformation fighters falling all over themselves to praise one of its worst, most loathing purveyors simply because he was killed as a result of the exact policies he championed
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Amazing how those democratic lawmakers who were hunted down in their homes in the middle of the night in Minnesota weren’t a watershed moment of political violence, huh?
The assassination of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk marks a watershed moment in a surge of US political violence, one that some experts fear will inflame an already-fractured country and inspire more unrest reut.rs/41PWH4l
Nation on edge: Experts warn of “vicious spiral" in political violence after Kirk killing
The assassination of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk marks a watershed moment in a surge of U.S. political violence, one that some experts fear will inflame an already-fractured country and inspire more unrest.
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September 11, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Amazing how those democratic lawmakers who were hunted down in their homes in the middle of the night in Minnesota weren’t a watershed moment of political violence, huh?
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Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."
September 11, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."
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This was just last month and we have already memoryholed it. A cop killed by an antivaxxer.
September 11, 2025 at 4:15 AM
This was just last month and we have already memoryholed it. A cop killed by an antivaxxer.
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The amount of performance i am witnessing tonight with regard to Kirk is mind boggling. When children are slaughtered in schools, why don’t I see this level of outrage? I feel for his kids, but sorry, the world is better off with him gone.
September 11, 2025 at 2:10 AM
The amount of performance i am witnessing tonight with regard to Kirk is mind boggling. When children are slaughtered in schools, why don’t I see this level of outrage? I feel for his kids, but sorry, the world is better off with him gone.
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@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "I think he should start with Shreveport, Louisiana, and Speaker Johnson's district that has 6x the per capita murder rate of Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco. What about the carnage, Mr. President, in Shreveport? Why aren't you protecting the folks there? What bullshit."
August 15, 2025 at 1:50 AM
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "I think he should start with Shreveport, Louisiana, and Speaker Johnson's district that has 6x the per capita murder rate of Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco. What about the carnage, Mr. President, in Shreveport? Why aren't you protecting the folks there? What bullshit."
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Donald Trump is failing to create American jobs.
In the last 8 months with Trump in office, the U.S. economy added less than 600,000 jobs – the LOWEST JOB CREATION in a year since the Great Recession in 2009.
That's according to the Wall Street Journal.
In the last 8 months with Trump in office, the U.S. economy added less than 600,000 jobs – the LOWEST JOB CREATION in a year since the Great Recession in 2009.
That's according to the Wall Street Journal.
September 9, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Donald Trump is failing to create American jobs.
In the last 8 months with Trump in office, the U.S. economy added less than 600,000 jobs – the LOWEST JOB CREATION in a year since the Great Recession in 2009.
That's according to the Wall Street Journal.
In the last 8 months with Trump in office, the U.S. economy added less than 600,000 jobs – the LOWEST JOB CREATION in a year since the Great Recession in 2009.
That's according to the Wall Street Journal.
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hey im putting something together for my boss for his birthday. yeah can you write a letter or better yet an insane poem or horrifying drawing about the unspeakable crimes you all have committed together
September 9, 2025 at 2:48 AM
hey im putting something together for my boss for his birthday. yeah can you write a letter or better yet an insane poem or horrifying drawing about the unspeakable crimes you all have committed together
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September 9, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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NEWS
Charles Munger Jr, the son of the late Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett’s business partner, has put in another $10 million into the campaign against Gavin Newsom’s redistricting initiative.
Munger has contributed $30 million so far in just the last three weeks.
Charles Munger Jr, the son of the late Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett’s business partner, has put in another $10 million into the campaign against Gavin Newsom’s redistricting initiative.
Munger has contributed $30 million so far in just the last three weeks.
September 8, 2025 at 11:24 PM
NEWS
Charles Munger Jr, the son of the late Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett’s business partner, has put in another $10 million into the campaign against Gavin Newsom’s redistricting initiative.
Munger has contributed $30 million so far in just the last three weeks.
Charles Munger Jr, the son of the late Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett’s business partner, has put in another $10 million into the campaign against Gavin Newsom’s redistricting initiative.
Munger has contributed $30 million so far in just the last three weeks.
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"The mainstream news media doesn't care about tariffs" (I have seen several variants on this lately)
May I unironically suggest reading business news?
E.g., the WSJ really dislikes tariffs and has been yelling about them.
They are capitalists - they are not fans of barriers to trade.
May I unironically suggest reading business news?
E.g., the WSJ really dislikes tariffs and has been yelling about them.
They are capitalists - they are not fans of barriers to trade.
September 8, 2025 at 12:16 AM
"The mainstream news media doesn't care about tariffs" (I have seen several variants on this lately)
May I unironically suggest reading business news?
E.g., the WSJ really dislikes tariffs and has been yelling about them.
They are capitalists - they are not fans of barriers to trade.
May I unironically suggest reading business news?
E.g., the WSJ really dislikes tariffs and has been yelling about them.
They are capitalists - they are not fans of barriers to trade.