Jim Poole
@chijimbo.bsky.social
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Here's a good Soviet joke from tehgraun that I hadn't seen before.
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September 13, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Here's a good Soviet joke from tehgraun that I hadn't seen before.
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
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The month before a shooter opened fire on children gathered in a Minnesota church this week, the Trump administration cut funding in the state for efforts to identify potential mass shooters and head off their violence.
https://cnn.it/4lS986O
https://cnn.it/4lS986O
August 30, 2025 at 10:30 AM
The month before a shooter opened fire on children gathered in a Minnesota church this week, the Trump administration cut funding in the state for efforts to identify potential mass shooters and head off their violence.
https://cnn.it/4lS986O
https://cnn.it/4lS986O
If you don’t live in a place, shut the fuck up about that place. The people there have it under control unless they’re asking for help. I don’t know shit about a one stoplight farm town. Not my business. Don’t live in Chicago, New York, LA, DC? Let us be.
August 13, 2025 at 12:23 PM
If you don’t live in a place, shut the fuck up about that place. The people there have it under control unless they’re asking for help. I don’t know shit about a one stoplight farm town. Not my business. Don’t live in Chicago, New York, LA, DC? Let us be.
We got a real-life VEEP series playing out on the 5th floor. Would be funny if it wasn’t our schools, transit, and city services on the line.
Despite Mayor Brandon Johnson’s office saying it was not pursuing changes to the Chicago Board of Education’s voting procedures, his top Springfield lobbyist emailed about it in May.
Mayor Brandon Johnson’s office denied pushing to weaken CPS board voting rules — but email confirms it was a ‘goal’
Despite Mayor Brandon Johnson’s office saying it was not pursuing changes to the Chicago Board of Education’s voting procedures, his top Springfield lobbyist emailed about it in May.
www.chicagotribune.com
August 7, 2025 at 1:47 PM
We got a real-life VEEP series playing out on the 5th floor. Would be funny if it wasn’t our schools, transit, and city services on the line.
MAGA policy is composed primarily of ideas derived from comic book villains. Can’t have healthcare, but we’ll put a reactor on the moon.
EXCLUSIVE: Sean Duffy will announce expedited plans to build a nuclear reactor on the moon, his first major action as interim NASA administrator.
Duffy to announce nuclear reactor on the moon
This is the first major agency effort by the interim NASA administrator, who is also the Transportation secretary and a former Fox News host.
www.politico.com
August 5, 2025 at 11:38 AM
MAGA policy is composed primarily of ideas derived from comic book villains. Can’t have healthcare, but we’ll put a reactor on the moon.
Not just Illinois. The private opulence, public squalor program is not working. Seems like it’s all falling down around us and meanwhile we keep finding new ways to give more and more to the wealthiest Americans.
New: Lawmakers only budgeted $40 million of the nearly $800 million that districts say is needed to fix and maintain schools to keep them safe and operating. Gov. Mike Dunleavy then vetoed more than a third of that.
By @emilyschwing.bsky.social
By @emilyschwing.bsky.social
Alaska Ignored Warning Signs of a Budget Crisis. Now It Doesn’t Have Funding to Fix Crumbling Schools.
Lawmakers only budgeted $40 million of the nearly $800 million that districts say is needed to fix and maintain schools to keep them safe and operating. Gov. Mike Dunleavy then vetoed more than two-th...
www.propublica.org
August 1, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Not just Illinois. The private opulence, public squalor program is not working. Seems like it’s all falling down around us and meanwhile we keep finding new ways to give more and more to the wealthiest Americans.
I hope if reincarnation is real I return as a mischievous bear.
July 24, 2025 at 2:46 PM
I hope if reincarnation is real I return as a mischievous bear.
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This is how you do it. Muppets on the attack.
Trump Not Like Us
YouTube video by The Lincoln Project
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July 19, 2025 at 3:04 PM
This is how you do it. Muppets on the attack.
“The only thing we should fear is that we will surrender our homeland to be plundered by a gang of liars, thieves, and hypocrites. That we will surrender without a fight, voluntarily, our own future and the future of our children.” -Navalny
Amen.
Amen.
Pursued relentlessly by the government of Vladimir Putin, the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny died in prison. He left behind an account of his final years—and an admonition to his country and the world.
Alexei Navalny’s Prison Diaries
The Russian opposition leader’s account of his last years and his admonition to his country and the world.
www.newyorker.com
July 2, 2025 at 8:59 PM
“The only thing we should fear is that we will surrender our homeland to be plundered by a gang of liars, thieves, and hypocrites. That we will surrender without a fight, voluntarily, our own future and the future of our children.” -Navalny
Amen.
Amen.
Live look at the US Constitution…
a man is laying in a hospital bed with an oxygen mask in his mouth .
ALT: a man is laying in a hospital bed with an oxygen mask in his mouth .
media.tenor.com
June 27, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Live look at the US Constitution…
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This is a lie (as usual). While I disagree with the decision, IT LEAVES THE INJUNCTIONS OF THE BIRTHRIGHT EO IN PLACE, just narrows them to the plaintiffs. And it does not limit nationwide class actions, which will be filed to achieve the identical outcomes. The EO remains unconstitutional.
June 27, 2025 at 3:24 PM
This is a lie (as usual). While I disagree with the decision, IT LEAVES THE INJUNCTIONS OF THE BIRTHRIGHT EO IN PLACE, just narrows them to the plaintiffs. And it does not limit nationwide class actions, which will be filed to achieve the identical outcomes. The EO remains unconstitutional.
This is just the beginning of city cuts. Buckle up.
Citing budget woes, the city will now close shelters in Kenwood and Midway it said it would take over. blockclubchi.co/3HUS2qy
June 24, 2025 at 4:03 AM
This is just the beginning of city cuts. Buckle up.
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"Before you know it all you got is bankrupt states." @pingree.house.gov of Maine tells it like it is in a dynamite conversation with @jenrubin.bsky.social
June 20, 2025 at 9:51 PM
"Before you know it all you got is bankrupt states." @pingree.house.gov of Maine tells it like it is in a dynamite conversation with @jenrubin.bsky.social
TACO
June 15, 2025 at 1:22 PM
TACO
He’s scared and should be. Keep going, everyone. History and the constitution are with us! The people united can never be defeated.
Trump warns 'any' protesters at military parade will be 'met with heavy force'
President Donald Trump threatened to use force against those who protest the military parade honoring the 250th anniversary of the Army on Saturday, June 14.
abcnews.go.com
June 10, 2025 at 10:11 PM
He’s scared and should be. Keep going, everyone. History and the constitution are with us! The people united can never be defeated.
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Georgia’s governor promotes his Medicaid work requirement as a national model for reform.
Yet the program has cost taxpayers more than $86M, three-quarters of which has gone to consultants, and enrolled only 3% of the quarter-million Georgians eligible.
(Published Feb. 2025)
Yet the program has cost taxpayers more than $86M, three-quarters of which has gone to consultants, and enrolled only 3% of the quarter-million Georgians eligible.
(Published Feb. 2025)
Georgia Touts Its Medicaid Experiment as a Success. The Numbers Tell a Different Story.
Only 6,500 participants have enrolled in a program that has cost taxpayers more than $86 million — a warning for other states looking to impose restrictions on Medicaid in a second Trump presidency.
www.propublica.org
June 6, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Georgia’s governor promotes his Medicaid work requirement as a national model for reform.
Yet the program has cost taxpayers more than $86M, three-quarters of which has gone to consultants, and enrolled only 3% of the quarter-million Georgians eligible.
(Published Feb. 2025)
Yet the program has cost taxpayers more than $86M, three-quarters of which has gone to consultants, and enrolled only 3% of the quarter-million Georgians eligible.
(Published Feb. 2025)
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NEW: The mother of an Arizona man who died after being unable to find mental health treatment is suing his health insurer, saying it broke the law by publishing false information that misled its customers.
By @maxblau.bsky.social
By @maxblau.bsky.social
He Died Without Getting Mental Health Care He Sought. A New Lawsuit Says His Insurer’s Ghost Network Is to Blame.
The mother of Ravi Coutinho, the subject of a recent ProPublica investigation, is suing Centene for publishing “misleading” information that gave her son a false impression about the kinds of mental h...
www.propublica.org
June 2, 2025 at 12:15 PM
NEW: The mother of an Arizona man who died after being unable to find mental health treatment is suing his health insurer, saying it broke the law by publishing false information that misled its customers.
By @maxblau.bsky.social
By @maxblau.bsky.social
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Good to hear AI will help me reduce my carbon footprint, as I've been running my microwave for 19 hours a day for the last three years and have yet to receive a single video of a dog speaking Spanish.
So…about AI’s energy use…
“…to create a five-second video, a newer AI model uses ‘about 3.4 million joules, more than 700 times the energy required to generate a high-quality image’. That's the equivalent of running a microwave for over an hour.”
“…to create a five-second video, a newer AI model uses ‘about 3.4 million joules, more than 700 times the energy required to generate a high-quality image’. That's the equivalent of running a microwave for over an hour.”
Report: Creating a 5-second AI video is like running a microwave for an hour
That's a long time in the microwave.
mashable.com
May 25, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Good to hear AI will help me reduce my carbon footprint, as I've been running my microwave for 19 hours a day for the last three years and have yet to receive a single video of a dog speaking Spanish.
They’re going to be cutting Medicare too as they rack up an additional $2.3 trillion to our national debt. All to give money to rich people and corporations that are already rolling in cash. Down with MAGA!
www.cbo.gov
May 21, 2025 at 12:37 PM
They’re going to be cutting Medicare too as they rack up an additional $2.3 trillion to our national debt. All to give money to rich people and corporations that are already rolling in cash. Down with MAGA!
Freedom to get sick and die. Way to go, MAGAts.
“you should have a choice” means “we get to choose for you”
BREAKING: FDA says covid boosters now only for those over 65 or with preconditions. www.statnews.com/2025/05/20/f...
May 20, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Freedom to get sick and die. Way to go, MAGAts.
Not having court filings available for public review when announcing charges is horseshit. This is intimidation, plain and simple. The stuff of dictatorial regimes.
Democratic Rep. McIver charged with assault after skirmish at ICE center, New Jersey prosecutor says
New Jersey's interim U.S. attorney wrote on social media that Rep. LaMonica McIver is facing a charge of assaulting, impeding or interfering with law enforcement during an immigration protest May 9. N...
chicago.suntimes.com
May 20, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Not having court filings available for public review when announcing charges is horseshit. This is intimidation, plain and simple. The stuff of dictatorial regimes.
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The Rules Committee meets at 1 AM on Tuesday night/ Wednesday morning to ram through this disastrous bill. Why? Because they don't want you to see them ripping healthcare from millions of Americans.
You do not hold a hearing for a bill at 1 AM unless you're completely ashamed of it.
You do not hold a hearing for a bill at 1 AM unless you're completely ashamed of it.
May 19, 2025 at 10:36 PM
The Rules Committee meets at 1 AM on Tuesday night/ Wednesday morning to ram through this disastrous bill. Why? Because they don't want you to see them ripping healthcare from millions of Americans.
You do not hold a hearing for a bill at 1 AM unless you're completely ashamed of it.
You do not hold a hearing for a bill at 1 AM unless you're completely ashamed of it.
MAGA rips healthcare from Americans to line the pockets of those who have more money than can be spent in a lifetime or even three. Democrats may have forgotten the regular people, MAGA is straight up fucking them.
May 19, 2025 at 8:03 PM
MAGA rips healthcare from Americans to line the pockets of those who have more money than can be spent in a lifetime or even three. Democrats may have forgotten the regular people, MAGA is straight up fucking them.
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She showed up for her annual check in… www.al.com/news/2025/05...
Son says Alabama mother of six detained by ICE after 25 years in the U.S.
Micala Pascual would be separated from an 11-year-old child if she is deported, her son said on Facebook
www.al.com
May 18, 2025 at 10:59 AM
She showed up for her annual check in… www.al.com/news/2025/05...