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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"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...
JD Vance spinning a doozy, maybe thinking of Forbe's book Columbus and the Cannibals, but that was Wetiko,the indigenous belief of destructive mind virus and the cannibals were actually the Europeans — the indigenous of America were decimated by disease, wild pigs, war, and famine from the invasion.
November 27, 2025 at 9:01 AM
JD Vance spinning a doozy, maybe thinking of Forbe's book Columbus and the Cannibals, but that was Wetiko,the indigenous belief of destructive mind virus and the cannibals were actually the Europeans — the indigenous of America were decimated by disease, wild pigs, war, and famine from the invasion.
Interesting choice of colors BLUE & RED as it appears, despite the distinct labeling, RW News at-a-glancers won't see the downside here.
November 24, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Interesting choice of colors BLUE & RED as it appears, despite the distinct labeling, RW News at-a-glancers won't see the downside here.
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With usual Trump efficiency. Why add anything?
"Trump’s Ukraine Peace Deal Appears to Be Translated From Russian"
Of course it is.
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Of course it is.
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Trump’s Ukraine Peace Deal Appears to Be Translated From Russian (The New Republic)
The U.S. peace plan presented to Ukraine appears to have been translated from Russian.
The syntax of certain phrases are more common in the Russian language,...
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November 22, 2025 at 11:14 AM
With usual Trump efficiency. Why add anything?
Congratulations to Fox News!!
Wow it's only taken just short of 10 years for the majority of Americans to finally realize Trump is really who he is.
In fact, let's congratulate American Media for this debacle!
Wow it's only taken just short of 10 years for the majority of Americans to finally realize Trump is really who he is.
In fact, let's congratulate American Media for this debacle!
Enten: "This is probably the worst 10 day period for the president in the polls his entire second term. The numbers are just atrocious ... when your best poll has you 14 points underwater, you know it's truly bad and it's as bad as 26 points underwater ... -43 with independents! They despise him."
November 22, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Congratulations to Fox News!!
Wow it's only taken just short of 10 years for the majority of Americans to finally realize Trump is really who he is.
In fact, let's congratulate American Media for this debacle!
Wow it's only taken just short of 10 years for the majority of Americans to finally realize Trump is really who he is.
In fact, let's congratulate American Media for this debacle!
The 'Thanksgiving Walmart package proves lower prices' is the con job that will Trip Trump Up with MAGA, but the pedophile shtick will put him out and send him packing.
KARL: The president claims that Thanksgiving costs are down 25%. Does he know that's not true?
HASSETT: Well if you look at Walmart--
KARL: Wait a minute. I've gotta stop you. The Walmart package this year contains much less than the one last year. That's why the price is less.
HASSETT: Well if you look at Walmart--
KARL: Wait a minute. I've gotta stop you. The Walmart package this year contains much less than the one last year. That's why the price is less.
November 17, 2025 at 10:14 AM
The 'Thanksgiving Walmart package proves lower prices' is the con job that will Trip Trump Up with MAGA, but the pedophile shtick will put him out and send him packing.
AI buttons appearing out of nowhere, everywhere you click, everywhere you look.
Containing them a chore. Using AI applets, browser queries often useful or annoying. Microsoft's implementations are overbearing but useful and simple to turn off.
Hate the popups. Not unlike web pages.
Containing them a chore. Using AI applets, browser queries often useful or annoying. Microsoft's implementations are overbearing but useful and simple to turn off.
Hate the popups. Not unlike web pages.
No. Just no. I don't want any of this. And I don't want this popup distracting me while I try to work.
What I want is a "SHUT THE F**K UP" option.
In my opinion, the way big tech companies try to force feed us their AI solutions is a sure sign that they are desperate.
The AI bubble will burst.
What I want is a "SHUT THE F**K UP" option.
In my opinion, the way big tech companies try to force feed us their AI solutions is a sure sign that they are desperate.
The AI bubble will burst.
November 17, 2025 at 10:09 AM
AI buttons appearing out of nowhere, everywhere you click, everywhere you look.
Containing them a chore. Using AI applets, browser queries often useful or annoying. Microsoft's implementations are overbearing but useful and simple to turn off.
Hate the popups. Not unlike web pages.
Containing them a chore. Using AI applets, browser queries often useful or annoying. Microsoft's implementations are overbearing but useful and simple to turn off.
Hate the popups. Not unlike web pages.
Sufficient time elapsed to 'Scrub' the Epstein files and right now a good time to release?
President Trump on Sunday urged House Republicans to back a measure that would compel the Justice Department to release the Epstein files, a sudden reversal after his campaign to tamp down Republican dissent and halt the vote.
Trump Says House Republicans Should Vote to Release Epstein Files
President Trump reversed himself as he faced the prospect that dozens of Republicans could vote this week to compel his administration to release files related to Jeffrey Epstein.
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November 17, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Sufficient time elapsed to 'Scrub' the Epstein files and right now a good time to release?
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President Trump on Sunday urged House Republicans to back a measure that would compel the Justice Department to release the Epstein files, a sudden reversal after his campaign to tamp down Republican dissent and halt the vote.
Trump Says House Republicans Should Vote to Release Epstein Files
President Trump reversed himself as he faced the prospect that dozens of Republicans could vote this week to compel his administration to release files related to Jeffrey Epstein.
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November 17, 2025 at 9:45 AM
President Trump on Sunday urged House Republicans to back a measure that would compel the Justice Department to release the Epstein files, a sudden reversal after his campaign to tamp down Republican dissent and halt the vote.
MAGA Nificent - you finally feel the MAGA we know.
Marge suddenly realizes that MAGA is a violent cult.
November 16, 2025 at 10:16 AM
MAGA Nificent - you finally feel the MAGA we know.
Epstein — not just 'Breaking News!' but breaking THE news; circular firing squad politicians, celebrities, entrepreneurs, businessmen, sports owners?, many usual suspects; add in news media to the swirl of circularity facing in — begin shooting. A vortex disrupting the matrix of American thinking.
November 14, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Epstein — not just 'Breaking News!' but breaking THE news; circular firing squad politicians, celebrities, entrepreneurs, businessmen, sports owners?, many usual suspects; add in news media to the swirl of circularity facing in — begin shooting. A vortex disrupting the matrix of American thinking.
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Latest Epstein news warrants re-upping this.
Trump has no business being in office.
We need a peaceful way to get rid of him.
The Declaration of Independence suggests that is the approach as long as it is bearable.
But at some point, it's going to be harder.
Trump has no business being in office.
We need a peaceful way to get rid of him.
The Declaration of Independence suggests that is the approach as long as it is bearable.
But at some point, it's going to be harder.
I've been wracking my brain for months, trying to figure out how we can get rid of not just Trump, but also Vance and the entire monstrous Cabinet.
#Liz48 is what I've come up with. Please share this.
#Liz48 is what I've come up with. Please share this.
The #Liz48 Plan: This Is How We Remove Them—Legally, Quickly, and Nonviolently
The way to get rid of Trump—and his entire corrupt, inept Administration—is to cut the line of presidential succession. Here's the entire ten-step process.
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November 13, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Latest Epstein news warrants re-upping this.
Trump has no business being in office.
We need a peaceful way to get rid of him.
The Declaration of Independence suggests that is the approach as long as it is bearable.
But at some point, it's going to be harder.
Trump has no business being in office.
We need a peaceful way to get rid of him.
The Declaration of Independence suggests that is the approach as long as it is bearable.
But at some point, it's going to be harder.
Geez, does JD Vance want to be the Prez or what???
November 12, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Geez, does JD Vance want to be the Prez or what???
Hellava good idea for a guy who can't string 3 sentences together without flubbing the 2nd sentence and mangling the 3rd before drifting off into some personal tirade where he fractures 4 things into an incoherent close.
The president will discuss the economy, but he will also provide important updates about Hannibal Lecter's dinner plans and Arnold Palmer's substantial penis. Additionally, his team of military physicians will reveal the record-setting results of his latest cognitive testing.
November 12, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Hellava good idea for a guy who can't string 3 sentences together without flubbing the 2nd sentence and mangling the 3rd before drifting off into some personal tirade where he fractures 4 things into an incoherent close.
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contrarian.substack.com/p/where-we-g... It is not an option to let bygones be bygones, shrug at the fecklessness 8 and make no attempt to address the serious fault line between the Senate as a whole and the activated Democratic base. That is a recipe for future disappointment and capitulation.
Where We Go from Here
Don’t go to war with army you have, find and cultivate the army you want
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November 12, 2025 at 1:28 PM
contrarian.substack.com/p/where-we-g... It is not an option to let bygones be bygones, shrug at the fecklessness 8 and make no attempt to address the serious fault line between the Senate as a whole and the activated Democratic base. That is a recipe for future disappointment and capitulation.
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Taking stock of the Roberts court at 20—and the shadowy forces that built it.
"This is now a MAGA court, and Roberts is at the helm."
"This is now a MAGA court, and Roberts is at the helm."
Taking stock of the Roberts court at 20—and the shadowy forces that built it
"Roberts will go down in history as the most destructive chief justice."
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November 12, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Taking stock of the Roberts court at 20—and the shadowy forces that built it.
"This is now a MAGA court, and Roberts is at the helm."
"This is now a MAGA court, and Roberts is at the helm."
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AOC
November 12, 2025 at 11:54 AM
AOC
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Link to the paper in "Review of Economics and Statistics": direct.mit.edu/rest/article...
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Free-access version: conference.iza.org/Gender_2022/...
In Sickness and in Health: Job Displacement and Health Spillovers in Couples
Abstract. Using administrative labor market data matched to mortality statistics and patient records, we document that negative labor market shocks produce sizable health spillovers in couples. For ev...
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November 12, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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Free-access version: conference.iza.org/Gender_2022/...
Free-access version: conference.iza.org/Gender_2022/...
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Feeling stuck? Try recasting your subject: turn your topic into a person, an object, or a character. E.g. write anxiety as an unreliable narrator or hope as a struggling houseplant.
Read more in the Ode Map: buff.ly/VpjdaPD
#amWriting #writingAboutWriting #poetry
Read more in the Ode Map: buff.ly/VpjdaPD
#amWriting #writingAboutWriting #poetry
How to Trick Your Brain into Creating Again
When inspiration dries up, stop trying to go straight through the problem. Take the scenic route instead.
buff.ly
November 12, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Feeling stuck? Try recasting your subject: turn your topic into a person, an object, or a character. E.g. write anxiety as an unreliable narrator or hope as a struggling houseplant.
Read more in the Ode Map: buff.ly/VpjdaPD
#amWriting #writingAboutWriting #poetry
Read more in the Ode Map: buff.ly/VpjdaPD
#amWriting #writingAboutWriting #poetry
Another Fly in the Ointment
i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
If the Dems blink after all of this, for a deal that all but ensures no ACA subsidies in 2026 anyway, then what was the purpose of letting the shutdown go for 40 days in the first place?
November 10, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Another Fly in the Ointment
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The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
Some good Dems and Inds on this list, so "cave" or "humanitarian" choice?
November 10, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Some good Dems and Inds on this list, so "cave" or "humanitarian" choice?
Sometimes we forget the art of 'voting with your feet'.
A known political theory where people just get fed up with the lack of power to deal with the politics of a state and 'MIGRATE' elsewhere. Politicians have to 'live in their own swill' as the pig farmers might remark.
A known political theory where people just get fed up with the lack of power to deal with the politics of a state and 'MIGRATE' elsewhere. Politicians have to 'live in their own swill' as the pig farmers might remark.
November 8, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Sometimes we forget the art of 'voting with your feet'.
A known political theory where people just get fed up with the lack of power to deal with the politics of a state and 'MIGRATE' elsewhere. Politicians have to 'live in their own swill' as the pig farmers might remark.
A known political theory where people just get fed up with the lack of power to deal with the politics of a state and 'MIGRATE' elsewhere. Politicians have to 'live in their own swill' as the pig farmers might remark.