Jiří Black
@jiriblack.bsky.social
Just another guy who couldn’t take twitter anymore. Baltimore, public transportation, FOIA, the Philadelphia Eagles, good beer and the occasional movie. Oppose fascism. He/him
Irrationally cheerful over watching the ice rink being made ready at the Inner Harbor.
November 17, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Irrationally cheerful over watching the ice rink being made ready at the Inner Harbor.
60 Minutes tonight is leading with a segment on chess boxing. Or at least that’s what they keep repeating during the game.
With everything going on in the nation and the world, the storied CBS news magazine is doing a sports story.
The decision to avoid politics is a political decision.
With everything going on in the nation and the world, the storied CBS news magazine is doing a sports story.
The decision to avoid politics is a political decision.
November 17, 2025 at 12:38 AM
60 Minutes tonight is leading with a segment on chess boxing. Or at least that’s what they keep repeating during the game.
With everything going on in the nation and the world, the storied CBS news magazine is doing a sports story.
The decision to avoid politics is a political decision.
With everything going on in the nation and the world, the storied CBS news magazine is doing a sports story.
The decision to avoid politics is a political decision.
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
“Okay, if you say so. But I was more looking to get a credential and make money and have fun. But I will definitely think about adding your podcast to my feed.”
“Okay, if you say so. But I was more looking to get a credential and make money and have fun. But I will definitely think about adding your podcast to my feed.”
My students are so nice! They talk! I like them! But the number who actually are willing to do the work to actually learn, not just pass with good grades but LEARN? Not that many.
This isn't really their fault, though, because who on earth is asking them to?
This isn't really their fault, though, because who on earth is asking them to?
November 14, 2025 at 11:56 PM
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
“Okay, if you say so. But I was more looking to get a credential and make money and have fun. But I will definitely think about adding your podcast to my feed.”
“Okay, if you say so. But I was more looking to get a credential and make money and have fun. But I will definitely think about adding your podcast to my feed.”
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"But the true message—the prospective message—is that pardons will be available to everyone who joins him in election subversion in 2026 and 2028. This wave of preemptive pardons is a permission slip, an encouragement for election subversion in the future."
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
Pardon the Corruption
Trump’s blanket pardons for stop-the-steal illegality aren’t only about settling scores from past elections. They’re about laying the groundwork to subvert future ones.
open.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:56 PM
"But the true message—the prospective message—is that pardons will be available to everyone who joins him in election subversion in 2026 and 2028. This wave of preemptive pardons is a permission slip, an encouragement for election subversion in the future."
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
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seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous
November 10, 2025 at 12:50 PM
seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous
This is not a story about what they got away with in 2020, it’s about what they believe they can get away with in 2026 and 2028.
Democrats can’t negotiate with this regime, they can oppose it or they can collaborate with it.
Democrats can’t negotiate with this regime, they can oppose it or they can collaborate with it.
Trump pardons Giuliani and allies accused of trying to subvert 2020 election – latest updates
Trump pardons Giuliani and allies accused of trying to subvert 2020 election – latest updates
Directive could prevent future administrations from prosecuting more than 70 people named
There’s been massive disruption to air travel in and out of the US due to the shutdown, where staff like air traffic controllers have been working without pay.
According to trackers, thousands of flights were cancelled on the weekend, with more than 10,000 delayed. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:44 PM
This is not a story about what they got away with in 2020, it’s about what they believe they can get away with in 2026 and 2028.
Democrats can’t negotiate with this regime, they can oppose it or they can collaborate with it.
Democrats can’t negotiate with this regime, they can oppose it or they can collaborate with it.
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Fight don’t fold.
November 10, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Fight don’t fold.
If you weren’t there you missed a party.
November 8, 2025 at 10:10 PM
If you weren’t there you missed a party.
Mosey up to the hospital and throw down the cash, folding green, for a CT scan, open heart surgery, whatever, shoot the works, keep whatever is left over and HOW FUCKING STUPID DOES HE THINK WE ARE
His "concept" of a Healthcare Plan is finally revealed. It involves eliminating the Insurance Industry & people purchasing their OWN, MUCH BETTER, HEALTHCARE. Unrelated, note his obsessive envy of Obama, historically rated 1 of our finest presidents, who he still believes was born in Kenya.
#sad 🤣
#sad 🤣
November 8, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Mosey up to the hospital and throw down the cash, folding green, for a CT scan, open heart surgery, whatever, shoot the works, keep whatever is left over and HOW FUCKING STUPID DOES HE THINK WE ARE
What a beautiful day to be outside, drinking beer and listening to house music at the Peabody Heights’ anniversary celebration
November 8, 2025 at 8:17 PM
What a beautiful day to be outside, drinking beer and listening to house music at the Peabody Heights’ anniversary celebration
‘In September, the filmmaker Woody Allen told Bari Weiss, editor in chief of CBS News and founder of The Free Press, that he would vote for Mr. Cuomo because “he will be better for New York.”’
So much that is horrible in that sentence.
So much that is horrible in that sentence.
Celebrities to New York City: Pick This Guy!
www.nytimes.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:26 AM
‘In September, the filmmaker Woody Allen told Bari Weiss, editor in chief of CBS News and founder of The Free Press, that he would vote for Mr. Cuomo because “he will be better for New York.”’
So much that is horrible in that sentence.
So much that is horrible in that sentence.
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“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy--they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made…”
Trump is holding a Great Gatsby/Roaring 20s-themed party at his private club in Palm Beach tonight as he tries to withhold SNAP and health care subsidies from millions of Americans. (via Kellie Meyer)
November 1, 2025 at 1:15 PM
“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy--they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made…”
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I know it’s a word but it’s a personal pet peeve of mine when people say “resiliency” instead of “resilience”
October 26, 2025 at 6:25 PM
I know it’s a word but it’s a personal pet peeve of mine when people say “resiliency” instead of “resilience”
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What it means to seek refuge in the U.S. has been transformed, casting aside an ethos of helping the persecuted that is nearly as old as the country itself. One Afghan family's story of separation across the world shows the human consequences.
One family fled Afghanistan. Then US deportations scattered them across the world
What it means to seek refuge in the U.S. has been transformed, casting aside an ethos of helping the persecuted nearly as old as the country itself.
bit.ly
October 25, 2025 at 11:31 AM
What it means to seek refuge in the U.S. has been transformed, casting aside an ethos of helping the persecuted that is nearly as old as the country itself. One Afghan family's story of separation across the world shows the human consequences.
How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force
October 18, 2025 at 1:05 PM
How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force
The essence of the Republican Party: They can do whatever the fuck they want and there is no law that can stop them.
Trump’s corrupt pardon spree is never-ending.
In the first 5 months alone, he granted clemency to 16 corrupt Republican politicians.
Santos is only the latest one.
These pardons and sentence commutations covered guilty pleas or convictions for 125 counts of corruption-related crimes
In the first 5 months alone, he granted clemency to 16 corrupt Republican politicians.
Santos is only the latest one.
These pardons and sentence commutations covered guilty pleas or convictions for 125 counts of corruption-related crimes
Trump has granted clemency to 16 corrupt politicians—so far - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
Trump has granted clemency to seven federal elected politicians and nine state and local politicians convicted of corruption charges.
www.citizensforethics.org
October 18, 2025 at 8:53 AM
The essence of the Republican Party: They can do whatever the fuck they want and there is no law that can stop them.
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Our ethics, by all appearances.
Trump credits his tariff policy (??) for Gaza deal. What exactly does he think we are importing from Hamas?
www.nbcnews.com/world/middle...
www.nbcnews.com/world/middle...
Trump suggests tariffs played a role in peace deal
Trump said during a Fox News interview tonight that his tariffs may have played a role in getting Israel and Hamas to sign off on the first phase of a peace
www.nbcnews.com
October 9, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Our ethics, by all appearances.
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Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.
Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race
southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...
Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race
southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...
Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children
Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.
southsideweekly.com
October 8, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.
Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race
southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...
Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race
southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...
The language of death squads, in front of a branch of the military.
Trump to the Navy: "We have to take care of this little gnat that's on our shoulder called the Democrats."
October 5, 2025 at 8:57 PM
The language of death squads, in front of a branch of the military.
It’s not that they want or expect anyone to be persuaded by bullshit like this, the regime just wants us to drown in it.
NEW—US Department of Education sent out standard Out of Office language to employees on Wednesday in light of shutdown. Later yesterday, workers tell me they found someone had updated their auto-responses without consent to a new one blaming Democrats.
Version of original on left, updated on right:
Version of original on left, updated on right:
October 2, 2025 at 5:21 PM
It’s not that they want or expect anyone to be persuaded by bullshit like this, the regime just wants us to drown in it.
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Let’s be clear: Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans forced a government shutdown tonight.
Rather than address the health care crisis that they created just earlier this year, they refuse to come to the table and do their jobs.
What happened to the art of the deal?
Rather than address the health care crisis that they created just earlier this year, they refuse to come to the table and do their jobs.
What happened to the art of the deal?
October 1, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Let’s be clear: Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans forced a government shutdown tonight.
Rather than address the health care crisis that they created just earlier this year, they refuse to come to the table and do their jobs.
What happened to the art of the deal?
Rather than address the health care crisis that they created just earlier this year, they refuse to come to the table and do their jobs.
What happened to the art of the deal?
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The endgame for all of this is constructing a military that will obey orders when ordered to fire on citizens. That's the throughline to half of what Trump is doing.
yeah, this is hegseth straightforwardly announcing that it is free play time for bigots in the ranks. and together with his comments on standards, he clearly wants to purge as many women, black and brown people as he can from the armed services. a white man's military.
Hegseth: "We are overhauling an inspector general process that has been weaponized, putting complainers and poor performers in the driver seat. We are doing the same with the equal opportunity policies. No more frivolous complaints, no more anonymous complains ... no more walking on eggshells."
September 30, 2025 at 1:10 PM
The endgame for all of this is constructing a military that will obey orders when ordered to fire on citizens. That's the throughline to half of what Trump is doing.
Oh, yeah, the tush push isn’t fun to watch, but lining up on 4th down trying to get the defense to jump only to take the delay of game is the football action America craves.
September 29, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Oh, yeah, the tush push isn’t fun to watch, but lining up on 4th down trying to get the defense to jump only to take the delay of game is the football action America craves.
I don’t care what the shooter’s motives are, the ethnicity or gender or social media posts. I mean that today and the next time there’s a mass shooter.
I only care about what we, as a country, are going to do to stop gun violence and I’m mad as hell that the answer is “nothing.”
I only care about what we, as a country, are going to do to stop gun violence and I’m mad as hell that the answer is “nothing.”
September 28, 2025 at 6:07 PM
I don’t care what the shooter’s motives are, the ethnicity or gender or social media posts. I mean that today and the next time there’s a mass shooter.
I only care about what we, as a country, are going to do to stop gun violence and I’m mad as hell that the answer is “nothing.”
I only care about what we, as a country, are going to do to stop gun violence and I’m mad as hell that the answer is “nothing.”
If the Eagles score a touchdown every time the other team tries to kick…
September 28, 2025 at 5:12 PM
If the Eagles score a touchdown every time the other team tries to kick…