Jim Muir
@jpmuir.bsky.social
Practical Philosopher — politics, science, history, philosophy, human development evolution, climate, civics, health, rights, and of course the vast failure of citizens, governments, and institutions to solve our existential problems. Warren, Ohio
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I have been musing about the hypothesis that the ultimate consequence of SCOTUS's opinion in Trump v. U.S. will be the destruction of the rule of law in the U.S. This gift article helps to explain why, in part by emphasizing the evisceration of the Dept. of Justice.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...
Prosecutors Began Investigating Renee Good’s Killing. Washington Told Them to Stop.
www.nytimes.com
February 7, 2026 at 12:44 PM
I have been musing about the hypothesis that the ultimate consequence of SCOTUS's opinion in Trump v. U.S. will be the destruction of the rule of law in the U.S. This gift article helps to explain why, in part by emphasizing the evisceration of the Dept. of Justice.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...
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Brown supports
🔹Affordable Health Care,
🔹Fair Wages
🔹Worker Pensions
🔹Consumer Protections
🔹Taxes Paid by All
www.sherrodbrown.com
🔹Affordable Health Care,
🔹Fair Wages
🔹Worker Pensions
🔹Consumer Protections
🔹Taxes Paid by All
www.sherrodbrown.com
Sherrod Brown - Fighting for Ohioans
Sherrod Brown has always been a relentless fighter for the people of Ohio.
www.sherrodbrown.com
February 5, 2026 at 5:41 PM
Brown supports
🔹Affordable Health Care,
🔹Fair Wages
🔹Worker Pensions
🔹Consumer Protections
🔹Taxes Paid by All
www.sherrodbrown.com
🔹Affordable Health Care,
🔹Fair Wages
🔹Worker Pensions
🔹Consumer Protections
🔹Taxes Paid by All
www.sherrodbrown.com
According to the Arms Control Association – Sept. 2025 in its analysis of Putin’s offer to keep New START limits for one extra year, Trump and his press secretary said the idea “sounds like a good idea”. Trump “has not responded in public since. Continued discombobulation of standing order.
Experts warn the expiration of a long-standing nuclear arms control treaty between the two superpowers could mark the start of a new nuclear rivalry. n.pr/4qZGDHJ
For the first time in decades, the U.S. and Russia have no limits on nuclear weapons
Experts warn the expiration of a long-standing nuclear arms control treaty between the two superpowers could mark the start of a new nuclear rivalry.
n.pr
February 5, 2026 at 1:10 PM
According to the Arms Control Association – Sept. 2025 in its analysis of Putin’s offer to keep New START limits for one extra year, Trump and his press secretary said the idea “sounds like a good idea”. Trump “has not responded in public since. Continued discombobulation of standing order.
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Spain’s PM: “The time of hiding behind servers is at an end.”
February 5, 2026 at 9:43 AM
Spain’s PM: “The time of hiding behind servers is at an end.”
JD Vance is so blindly half-witted, I doubt he even believes it.
JD Vance: "I'm headed to Minneapolis where we're gonna talk with ICE agents and local officials about how we turn down the chaos. My simple piece of advice to them is going to be if you want to turn down the chaos in Minneapolis, stop fighting immigration enforcement."
January 22, 2026 at 4:35 PM
JD Vance is so blindly half-witted, I doubt he even believes it.
Interesting and as I play with AI these days, I get very reliable results when I limit the sources. Certainly laws built and formatted in clear 'outlined' text would make light of simple decision making, just on the pattern of words, queries chosen distinctly, might be valuable. Politicians seldom.
Q: Why couldn't AI as a tool to help make policy decisions about eg. what constitutes societies best interests on basis of eg economics/fairness/reducing suffering etc be used in running a country & remove career politican element?
@richarddenniss.bsky.social
www.themonthly.com.au/february-201...
@richarddenniss.bsky.social
www.themonthly.com.au/february-201...
What the government thinks you’re worth
Our nation’s economists have a price on your head, dead or alive
www.themonthly.com.au
January 22, 2026 at 8:34 AM
Interesting and as I play with AI these days, I get very reliable results when I limit the sources. Certainly laws built and formatted in clear 'outlined' text would make light of simple decision making, just on the pattern of words, queries chosen distinctly, might be valuable. Politicians seldom.
Surprise Anyone? CBS News was Trumped by MagGops.
VARIETY: “10 people familiar with the workings of CBS News say the Paramount Skydance unit is veering toward dysfunction, with a management team led by Bari Weiss that doesn’t value standards held by veteran journalists…”
Welp, this didn’t take long.
variety.com/2026/tv/news...
Welp, this didn’t take long.
variety.com/2026/tv/news...
January 22, 2026 at 7:53 AM
Surprise Anyone? CBS News was Trumped by MagGops.
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20M registered Democrats didn't bother to vote in '24.
90M people of voting age never even bothered to register to vote.
Voter turnout was under 65% putting US in the lower third of all democracies.
Freedom isn't free.
Too many people took too much for granted for too long.
This has to change.
90M people of voting age never even bothered to register to vote.
Voter turnout was under 65% putting US in the lower third of all democracies.
Freedom isn't free.
Too many people took too much for granted for too long.
This has to change.
January 11, 2026 at 10:13 AM
20M registered Democrats didn't bother to vote in '24.
90M people of voting age never even bothered to register to vote.
Voter turnout was under 65% putting US in the lower third of all democracies.
Freedom isn't free.
Too many people took too much for granted for too long.
This has to change.
90M people of voting age never even bothered to register to vote.
Voter turnout was under 65% putting US in the lower third of all democracies.
Freedom isn't free.
Too many people took too much for granted for too long.
This has to change.
It is too bad we have to live through the education of the stupid, the evolution of news to beyond the pale, lies, propaganda, and Trump.
January 11, 2026 at 10:19 AM
It is too bad we have to live through the education of the stupid, the evolution of news to beyond the pale, lies, propaganda, and Trump.
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Agree 💯 With Bernie.......
December 28, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Agree 💯 With Bernie.......
And this will come as no surprise. Redactions were the delay... Now where's the original.
🚨 "The Justice Department redacted the names and identifiers of victims. Fox News Digital has learned that the same redaction standards were applied to politically exposed individuals and government officials. "
h/t @kleinmatic.bsky.social
h/t @kleinmatic.bsky.social
Epstein files explode open as DOJ details discovery of powerful figures and more than 1,200 victims
EXCLUSIVE: More than a dozen people and government officials' names appear in the hundreds of thousands of pages of Jeffrey Epstein files made public Friday, sources said.
www.foxnews.com
December 20, 2025 at 10:12 AM
And this will come as no surprise. Redactions were the delay... Now where's the original.
I just had to endure a several minute propagandized news segment from NewsNation on my local news channel 33 Youngstown (WYTV 33.1) about 5:30 am this morning actually made Trump look good in all this. And he's not good in all this. Yes, it's owned by Nextar Media Group. Gag me with a spoon.
Americans Are Turning Hard Against Trumpism
His insane overreaches are giving Americans a new appreciation for free trade, immigration, and international alliances.
His insane overreaches are giving Americans a new appreciation for free trade, immigration, and international alliances.
Americans Are Turning Hard Against Trumpism
His insane overreaches are giving Americans a new appreciation for free trade, immigration, and international alliances.
www.thebulwark.com
December 18, 2025 at 1:25 PM
I just had to endure a several minute propagandized news segment from NewsNation on my local news channel 33 Youngstown (WYTV 33.1) about 5:30 am this morning actually made Trump look good in all this. And he's not good in all this. Yes, it's owned by Nextar Media Group. Gag me with a spoon.
Tucker's our 'Useful Idiot' for now.
The crack up on the far right is fascinating, fractal (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/s...
Amid Fractures on the Right, Tucker Carlson Continues His Attacks
www.nytimes.com
December 13, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Tucker's our 'Useful Idiot' for now.
Joseph Valimont's most excellent newsletters, this. latest.
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1st WARD NEWSLETTER - 10 DECEMBER 2025
City Council: 2026's Budget's settled - See you again after Christmas
josephvalimont.substack.com
December 12, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Joseph Valimont's most excellent newsletters, this. latest.
josephvalimont.substack.com/p/1st-ward-n...
josephvalimont.substack.com/p/1st-ward-n...
Dennis Blank Transforming Warren— #74 Data Centers are unpopular
#74 Data centers are unpopular
Transforming Warren
dennisblank.substack.com
December 12, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Dennis Blank Transforming Warren— #74 Data Centers are unpopular
Don't forget your Trump Card. What's in your wallet?
December 12, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Don't forget your Trump Card. What's in your wallet?
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🟢 Climate change hits the poorest the hardest shows *Chapter 2.1 of the 2025 #ClimateInequality Report*
⚠️The bottom 50% wil bear ¾ of all income losses from climate change by 2050.
Read more in the report 🔗 wid.world/news-article...
⚠️The bottom 50% wil bear ¾ of all income losses from climate change by 2050.
Read more in the report 🔗 wid.world/news-article...
November 17, 2025 at 10:03 AM
🟢 Climate change hits the poorest the hardest shows *Chapter 2.1 of the 2025 #ClimateInequality Report*
⚠️The bottom 50% wil bear ¾ of all income losses from climate change by 2050.
Read more in the report 🔗 wid.world/news-article...
⚠️The bottom 50% wil bear ¾ of all income losses from climate change by 2050.
Read more in the report 🔗 wid.world/news-article...
The comedy is a tragedy.
The clowns are drunk.
The piano, it's been drinking ...
These days, 'Who'd a thunk!'
The clowns are drunk.
The piano, it's been drinking ...
These days, 'Who'd a thunk!'
DOJ plans to declare as “domestic terrorists” any Americans who express:
“opposition to law and immigration enforcement; extreme views in favor of mass migration and open borders; adherence to radical gender ideology,” as well as “anti-Americanism,” “anti-capitalism,” and “anti-Christianity.”
“opposition to law and immigration enforcement; extreme views in favor of mass migration and open borders; adherence to radical gender ideology,” as well as “anti-Americanism,” “anti-capitalism,” and “anti-Christianity.”
December 10, 2025 at 9:56 AM
The comedy is a tragedy.
The clowns are drunk.
The piano, it's been drinking ...
These days, 'Who'd a thunk!'
The clowns are drunk.
The piano, it's been drinking ...
These days, 'Who'd a thunk!'
Trump's 'Golden Dome' Security
December 10, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Trump's 'Golden Dome' Security
... and half of America, probably ¾.
December 9, 2025 at 10:37 AM
... and half of America, probably ¾.
And if you add vaccine users of covid mrna vaccines are living longer +25% we are one win short of Valhalla. (Trump gone)
Keep calm and carry on.
We will not be defeated. #RESIST
Do it for your health and for your country. ✊
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
We will not be defeated. #RESIST
Do it for your health and for your country. ✊
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Turns out fighting fascism helps you live longer
Retirees are mobilizing to defend democracy—and the benefits literally show up in their DNA.
www.motherjones.com
December 9, 2025 at 10:36 AM
And if you add vaccine users of covid mrna vaccines are living longer +25% we are one win short of Valhalla. (Trump gone)
Alas NYT get's woken, and I'm going to turn over in my grave, no. wait. I'm going to turn over in my bed and go back to sleep.....zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
December 9, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Alas NYT get's woken, and I'm going to turn over in my grave, no. wait. I'm going to turn over in my bed and go back to sleep.....zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Mighty Proud Arrogance here —
The Supreme Court is flirting with a power grab that would make even Machiavelli proud. At the urging of the Trump administration, justices are weighing overturning Humphrey’s Executor v. United States, a 90-year-old precedent protecting independent agencies from becoming presidential puppets.
Republican-controlled Supreme Court considers granting a Project 2025 wish
At the Trump administration’s urging, the justices are weighing overturning a 90-year-old precedent protecting independent agencies from presidential control.
www.ms.now
December 9, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Mighty Proud Arrogance here —
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"We will not be able to control or avoid the simplification ahead, but can cultivate our own ability to adapt+respond." The metacrisis as a foundational moment to cultivate relational intelligence and moral imagination @natehagens.bsky.social @ssweetwater.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF3D...
November 27, 2025 at 9:45 AM
"We will not be able to control or avoid the simplification ahead, but can cultivate our own ability to adapt+respond." The metacrisis as a foundational moment to cultivate relational intelligence and moral imagination @natehagens.bsky.social @ssweetwater.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF3D...