Jim Reader
@jreader.bsky.social
Writer, dog-lover, gamer, Fiercely Liberal
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This guy is just posted up outside of Congress and I’m honestly not sure what his political views are but I agree
June 13, 2025 at 12:45 PM
This guy is just posted up outside of Congress and I’m honestly not sure what his political views are but I agree
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overheard in a discussion with other faculty: "since Roe v Wade was overturned, 80% of the faculty Texas A&M has hired have been male."
June 13, 2025 at 4:17 PM
overheard in a discussion with other faculty: "since Roe v Wade was overturned, 80% of the faculty Texas A&M has hired have been male."
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Cities nationwide should follow Seattle's lead: tax the rich and fund affordable housing. Join me in taking action with @inequality.org: action.ips-dc.org/a/inequality...
Add your name: Cities should tax the rich and fund affordable housing
While the federal government ignores important cost-of-living issues and blocks progress, Seattle voters just passed an initiative taxing high earners and funding affordable housing. Tell cities natio...
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April 29, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Cities nationwide should follow Seattle's lead: tax the rich and fund affordable housing. Join me in taking action with @inequality.org: action.ips-dc.org/a/inequality...
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National Adopt a Shelter Pet Day is on April 30. To bring awareness to the day, the Up First newsletter is sharing some stories from readers about how their pet has impacted their lives.
From dogs to rabbits, NPR readers share how adopting shelter pets impacted them
National Adopt a Shelter Pet Day is on April 30. To bring awareness to the day, the Up First newsletter is sharing some stories from readers about how their pet has impacted their lives.
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April 27, 2025 at 3:17 PM
National Adopt a Shelter Pet Day is on April 30. To bring awareness to the day, the Up First newsletter is sharing some stories from readers about how their pet has impacted their lives.
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I am actually fascinated w/ whatever is going on politically and sociologically among people who have pfps or backgrounds on their accounts that say ‘blm’ and variations of hashtag resist and resistance who are still spending SO much hostile energy online lecturing people about defund demands
April 28, 2025 at 2:03 PM
I am actually fascinated w/ whatever is going on politically and sociologically among people who have pfps or backgrounds on their accounts that say ‘blm’ and variations of hashtag resist and resistance who are still spending SO much hostile energy online lecturing people about defund demands
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April 22, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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The SAVE Act would block millions of eligible Americans from voting. Text SAVE to 63033 to tell your Senators to vote NO on the SAVE Act and stop it in its tracks.
April 10, 2025 at 9:16 PM
The SAVE Act would block millions of eligible Americans from voting. Text SAVE to 63033 to tell your Senators to vote NO on the SAVE Act and stop it in its tracks.
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So, new word (stick tap to @wilwheaton.net for using the full world today) for the vocab, peeps. But from here on in, your Dems who side with Trump should be referred to as Vichycrats.
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March 14, 2025 at 8:30 PM
So, new word (stick tap to @wilwheaton.net for using the full world today) for the vocab, peeps. But from here on in, your Dems who side with Trump should be referred to as Vichycrats.
@morgfair.bsky.social
@heatherthomasaf.bsky.social
@mocollins.bsky.social
@jerilryan.bsky.social
@morgfair.bsky.social
@heatherthomasaf.bsky.social
@mocollins.bsky.social
@jerilryan.bsky.social
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Trump and Musk's genocide.
The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought:
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB
Killing children is by design, I'm afraid. "Pro-natalists" like Musk claim they aren't racist, but their pressure to have children is solely focused on white women, while they back policies that literally kill of non-white children.
He's a eugenicist.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
He's a eugenicist.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
March 15, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Trump and Musk's genocide.
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March 5, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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So, the Religious Reich and their Cheeto Messiah's quick-goose-step toward a Fascist Theocracy is meeting with resistance.
About goddamn time.
The Dems are finally getting their shit together.
Long overdue.
Let's get it done.
About goddamn time.
The Dems are finally getting their shit together.
Long overdue.
Let's get it done.
February 7, 2025 at 6:41 PM
So, the Religious Reich and their Cheeto Messiah's quick-goose-step toward a Fascist Theocracy is meeting with resistance.
About goddamn time.
The Dems are finally getting their shit together.
Long overdue.
Let's get it done.
About goddamn time.
The Dems are finally getting their shit together.
Long overdue.
Let's get it done.
Have you heard? There’s a new bill that makes it harder for millions of eligible Americans to vote. Join me and @standupamerica.bsky.social in urging Congress to vote NO on the SAVE Act: act.standupamerica.com/letters/no-o...
Vote NO on the SAVE Act!
The SAVE Act is a trick to undermine our voting rights. Urge Congress to vote no on the SAVE ACT.
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February 6, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Have you heard? There’s a new bill that makes it harder for millions of eligible Americans to vote. Join me and @standupamerica.bsky.social in urging Congress to vote NO on the SAVE Act: act.standupamerica.com/letters/no-o...
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I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
January 31, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
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My statement on the FBI Purge that puts at risk the safety, well-being and national security of the American people.
February 1, 2025 at 4:36 AM
My statement on the FBI Purge that puts at risk the safety, well-being and national security of the American people.
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We need POTUS to get the archivist to certify & publish the ERA. Give women a fighting chance in Trump’s America.
December 10, 2024 at 7:32 PM
We need POTUS to get the archivist to certify & publish the ERA. Give women a fighting chance in Trump’s America.
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Gregg Abbott’s pardon — and the right’s valorization — of Daniel Perry for killing BLM protester Garret Foster also comes to mind.
(Not to be confused the right’s valorization of Daniel *Penny*, who has now been nominated for a Congressional Gold Medal.)
radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-smeari...
(Not to be confused the right’s valorization of Daniel *Penny*, who has now been nominated for a Congressional Gold Medal.)
radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-smeari...
December 10, 2024 at 1:02 PM
Gregg Abbott’s pardon — and the right’s valorization — of Daniel Perry for killing BLM protester Garret Foster also comes to mind.
(Not to be confused the right’s valorization of Daniel *Penny*, who has now been nominated for a Congressional Gold Medal.)
radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-smeari...
(Not to be confused the right’s valorization of Daniel *Penny*, who has now been nominated for a Congressional Gold Medal.)
radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-smeari...
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This is an incalculable loss but Nikki Giovanni lived a grand and interesting life; that will always be a gift. May she rest in power.
Nikki Giovanni will forever be a legend. This headline doesn't do her the justice she deserves. www.wdbj7.com/2024/12/10/w...
Well-known Virginia Tech professor dies at 81
Virginia Tech professor and poet, Nikki Giovanni, has died at the age of 81.
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December 10, 2024 at 3:42 AM
This is an incalculable loss but Nikki Giovanni lived a grand and interesting life; that will always be a gift. May she rest in power.
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“I have too many books”
-judgemental
-boring
-implies impulse-control issues
“The books... they have me.”
- mysterious
- occult
- implies you are at the mercy of a library of books that have gained sentience and are holding you hostage
#readingcommunity
-judgemental
-boring
-implies impulse-control issues
“The books... they have me.”
- mysterious
- occult
- implies you are at the mercy of a library of books that have gained sentience and are holding you hostage
#readingcommunity
December 7, 2024 at 1:58 PM
“I have too many books”
-judgemental
-boring
-implies impulse-control issues
“The books... they have me.”
- mysterious
- occult
- implies you are at the mercy of a library of books that have gained sentience and are holding you hostage
#readingcommunity
-judgemental
-boring
-implies impulse-control issues
“The books... they have me.”
- mysterious
- occult
- implies you are at the mercy of a library of books that have gained sentience and are holding you hostage
#readingcommunity