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James Wooten
@jameswooten.bsky.social
Born in Chicago, raised in Toronto, 40-year resident of Ottawa. I voted for Harris in '24, Biden in '20, HRC in '16 and Libs in '15, ‘19, ‘21 and ‘25. I mute idiots/trolls.
“Instead of a single sweeping plan, Buffett said he’s handing over most of his remaining wealth to his three children’s charitable foundations, allowing them to distribute about $500 million each year.”

fortune.com/2025/11/11/w...
Warren Buffett admits his Giving Pledge philanthropy was not ‘feasible’—he’s instead left his three kids $500 million a year to give away | Fortune
The Berkshire Hathaway billionaire says his longevity has led to “unavoidable consequences” for his charitable objectives.
fortune.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:40 PM
He is giving the money to the charities managed by his children.

Important point you neglected to mention in your headline.
November 11, 2025 at 2:51 PM
And we haven’t even begun to consider how the “specification” will be tested, what data will be used to test the specification and what the criteria for a successful test will be.

“Nah, bro, AI can do all that grunt work too.” 🙄
November 11, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Forgot the price.
November 10, 2025 at 11:28 PM
🎶 “Revvin' up your engine
Listen to her howlin' roar
Metal under tension
Beggin' you to touch and go

Highway to the Danger Zone
Ride into the Danger Zone

Headin' into twilight
Spreadin' out her wings tonight” 🎶

I’ll bet the Dutch version is pretty cool too. 😎
November 10, 2025 at 9:35 PM
“The acrimonious debate over the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic flared up again this week with a report from an expert panel concluding that SARS-CoV-2 likely spread naturally in a zoonotic jump from an animal to humans—without help from a lab.”

www.science.org/content/arti...
Evidence suggests pandemic came from nature, not a lab, panel says
New report takes sides in debate over COVID-19’s origins
www.science.org
November 10, 2025 at 8:05 PM
And yet people will continue to advance the absurd hypothesis that Covid-19 escaped from the Wuhan lab, or it was deliberately released, or that George Soros was behind the development of the virus or any other crazy
theory you can think of.

Easier to imagine a rat ate a bat, a cat ate the rat, etc
November 10, 2025 at 8:01 PM
The same could be said for virtually everyone in the Trump administration. No one can take them seriously.
November 10, 2025 at 6:58 PM
We all know what little Mikey has to do:
- recall the House
- vote in the Senate bill
- swear in Grijalva
- vote on the Epstein resolution
The ball’s in your court, Mikey.
November 10, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Too many people were suffering under the shutdown. Dems had to be the adults in the room.
November 10, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Too many people were suffering under the shutdown. The Dems had to be the adults in the room.

It’s time for the people to do the hard work of protesting the fascists.

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Herein lies the strategy: Johnson forced to bring House in session, swear in Grijalva, vote on Epstein resolution.
“‘We will not support spending legislation advanced by Senate Republicans that fails to extend the [ACA] tax credits. Johnson will be compelled to end the seven week Republican taxpayer-funded vacation,’ Jeffries said.”

Johnson will have to bring the House back.

www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 10, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Too many people were suffering under the shutdown. Dems did the right thing.

With the Senate deal, Johnson will have to recall the House, swear in Grijalva, vote on the Senate bill, and … vote on the Epstein resolution!

It’s diabolically clever.

bsky.app/profile/jame...
Herein lies the strategy: Johnson forced to bring House in session, swear in Grijalva, vote on Epstein resolution.
“‘We will not support spending legislation advanced by Senate Republicans that fails to extend the [ACA] tax credits. Johnson will be compelled to end the seven week Republican taxpayer-funded vacation,’ Jeffries said.”

Johnson will have to bring the House back.

www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 10, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I contend that the Dems’ strategy is to force Johnson to swear in Grijalva and vote on the Epstein resolution.

Besides, the shutdown was causing too much pain to regular people. The point has been made.

bsky.app/profile/jame...
Herein lies the strategy: Johnson forced to bring House in session, swear in Grijalva, vote on Epstein resolution.
“‘We will not support spending legislation advanced by Senate Republicans that fails to extend the [ACA] tax credits. Johnson will be compelled to end the seven week Republican taxpayer-funded vacation,’ Jeffries said.”

Johnson will have to bring the House back.

www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 10, 2025 at 2:37 PM
“‘O Oysters,' said the Carpenter,
You've had a pleasant run!
Shall we be trotting home again?'
But answer came there none
And this was scarcely odd, because
They'd eaten every one."

Favourite poem. 😀
November 9, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Trump, “The Great Deal Maker”, is used to stiffing contractors, cheating people, evicting minorities from his buildings and wielding power over the less fortunate. He has no idea what to do when confronted with people who will stand up to him.
November 9, 2025 at 11:24 PM