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Jim Milks
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Data scientist, ecologist, sailor, disc golfer, WNY original currently living in Ohio, GenX, Non-Hodgkins lymphoma survivor

My ancestors fought against this sort of BS in the Revolutionary War.

Science is real whether you accept its findings or not.
The #Republican Party: Of billionaires, by billionaires, for billionaires.

And unfortunately for the rest of us, Republican billionaires are sociopaths who think the Hunger Games novels are blueprints to their ideal society instead of cautionary tales.
November 20, 2025 at 12:28 PM
“I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.” — Clarence Darrow

apnews.com/article/dick...
Dick Cheney, one of the most powerful and polarizing vice presidents in US history, dies at 84
The hard-charging conservative became one of the most powerful and polarizing vice presidents and a leading advocate for the invasion of Iraq.
apnews.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:36 PM
You know, it hit me today that the people caught up in QAnon, thinking that Democrats are child-murdering pedophiles, are probably the same people who fueled the Satanic Panic of the 1980s.
November 1, 2025 at 11:47 AM
October 25, 2025 at 11:15 AM
So, when’s Rumpty-Dumpty dynamiting Mt Rushmore to add his bloated face to it? It’d fit right in with his planned Arc de Trump monstrosity.
October 23, 2025 at 2:58 PM
All those Christian lunatics were right — tRump IS the fulfillment of a prophecy. Just not from the Bible. From the words of H. L. Mencken:

“As democracy is perfected, the office of the president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal.”
October 18, 2025 at 11:32 AM
tRump doesn’t know the meaning of the word “covert.” To him, it’s just a cool sounding word he may have heard in some spy thriller movie that gets him headlines. And that’s all he cares about. edition.cnn.com/2025/10/15/p...
Trump details decision to authorize CIA to operate in Venezuela | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump said today he authorized the CIA to operate inside Venezuela to clamp down on illegal flows of migrants and drugs from the South American nation, but stopped short of saying the...
edition.cnn.com
October 18, 2025 at 11:02 AM
You know, if the #GOP wants us to stop comparing them to NAZIS, they really should stop saying NAZI things.

FYI, the “ANTIFA” Jack is complaining about and implying shouldn’t have existed? Those were the Germans who opposed Hitler.
October 16, 2025 at 10:55 AM
October 15, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Johnson refuses to call the House back into session as he’ll have to swear in the new AZ Congresswoman who represents the 218th vote to release the Epstein files.
October 10, 2025 at 9:48 PM
How about this for a constitutional amendment:

If the Congress fails to pass all of the necessary spending bills by 30 Sept, every Congressional representative and senator shall resign and new representatives and senators shall be elected within 30 days to serve the remainder of the term.
October 1, 2025 at 1:56 PM
@republicanparty.bsky.social

Matthew 25:31-46 was written for you. Your own Holy Book condemns what you have become.
NEW: Some 4 million people in the U.S. could lose federal housing assistance under new plans from the Trump administration, say experts who reviewed drafts of two unpublished rules obtained by ProPublica.

By @jessecoburn.bsky.social
Millions Could Lose Housing Aid Under Trump Plan
Drafts of unpublished rules obtained by ProPublica detail plans that would open the door to full-time work requirements, two-year limits on living in federally supported housing and stripping aid from...
www.propublica.org
September 29, 2025 at 11:56 AM
“There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people.” — Commander William Adama, Battlestar Galactica
September 28, 2025 at 10:28 PM
From 9 April 1944 by U.S. VP Henry Wallace. Well worth reading as he describes the MAGA movement to a T.

www.stat.cmu.edu/~brian/walla...
Henry A. Wallace | The Danger of American Fascism
www.stat.cmu.edu
September 27, 2025 at 4:20 PM
tRump spent the last decade loudly claiming that various prominent Democrats were in the Epstein files and promising to release them. Now he can’t understand why his base is obsessed with the Epstein files when everyone knows HE is the most prominent person in them.
September 25, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Timeline cleanse. The Hueston Sailing Association race committee snapped this pic of me in my O’Day Mariner during yesterday’s Around the Lake regatta at Acton Lake in Ohio.
September 22, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Dear Department of Homeland Security:

I gave this request almost a full second's worth of consideration, and my answer is an unequivocal no. I would have answered sooner, but I was laughing.
September 22, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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September 19, 2025 at 8:39 PM
How the #GOP have changed over the past century.
September 19, 2025 at 10:02 PM
At least the Dutch still have free speech.

youtu.be/j3Q7wD4woL8?...
Disney haalt latenightshow Jimmy Kimmel van de buis | LUBACH
YouTube video by LUBACH
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September 19, 2025 at 7:31 PM
NY Times 4 Feb 1939

“Goebbels Ends Careers of Five 'Aryan' Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime”

Just in case it’s not perfectly clear whose playbook the fascist tRump regime follows.
September 18, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Free speech, am I right? The fascist wing of America is so oblivious to their own hypocrisy.

www.reuters.com/world/us/cha...
Charlie Kirk's allies warn Americans: Mourn him properly or else
After the fatal shooting of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk, U.S. Republicans have a warning for Americans: Mourn him respectfully or suffer the consequences.
www.reuters.com
September 13, 2025 at 11:11 PM
So, a white MAGA fascist shot MAGA fascist leader Charlie Kirk because Kirk wasn’t extreme enough.

Hey #MAGA, still want to shoot the people responsible for Kirk’s death?

Or maybe, just maybe, pause long enough to wonder why MAGA radicals are turning on your own leaders? Just a thought.
September 13, 2025 at 12:04 PM
So far in 2025, it’s tRump doing his usual — bankrupting the company he’s in charge of, just like he’s done six times before. Except now it’s the entire blasted country and the American Fascist Party (formerly known as the #GOP) is enabling him.
September 8, 2025 at 7:58 PM
The only thing tRump is good at when it comes to businesses is bankrupting them. And now he’s doing the same thing to the entire U.S. government.
September 8, 2025 at 11:29 AM