Jamie Gump (Halloween costume: "Centrist Pundit")
@jamiegump.bsky.social
Joined August 21st, 2023. #685,259
I am just as surprised as you are.
Wine educator, optimistic American, History buff, #1 fan of Jess Hutchinson. I wasn't born in Chicago, but I got here as soon as I could.
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I am just as surprised as you are.
Wine educator, optimistic American, History buff, #1 fan of Jess Hutchinson. I wasn't born in Chicago, but I got here as soon as I could.
Italian Wine Ambassador
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As we get closer to Election Day, I would like to remind folks that local elections matter just as much as national elections. And, as a former Village Councilperson in beautiful Gambier, Ohio, I'd like to announce my endorsements for the upcoming election on Tuesday, November 4th.
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Yup. This is how you lose money running a casino.
So he’s saying all the tariff money we took in is gone and we won’t be able to pay it back. There was always a possibility he could lose this lawsuit and have to refund the tariff money. We didn’t prepare for that possibility? He’s running the govt like he ran his casinos.
November 11, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Yup. This is how you lose money running a casino.
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Ahem. “Trump Tower’s commercial space has sat vacant for 16 years, becoming the longest-running retail vacancy Downtown.” (Block Club Chicago, Aug 11, 2025)
Call in the troops to solve the commercial real estate crisis in our swanky downtown cores
You can’t make this shit up, folks
You can’t make this shit up, folks
November 11, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Ahem. “Trump Tower’s commercial space has sat vacant for 16 years, becoming the longest-running retail vacancy Downtown.” (Block Club Chicago, Aug 11, 2025)
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So he’s saying all the tariff money we took in is gone and we won’t be able to pay it back. There was always a possibility he could lose this lawsuit and have to refund the tariff money. We didn’t prepare for that possibility? He’s running the govt like he ran his casinos.
November 11, 2025 at 11:38 AM
So he’s saying all the tariff money we took in is gone and we won’t be able to pay it back. There was always a possibility he could lose this lawsuit and have to refund the tariff money. We didn’t prepare for that possibility? He’s running the govt like he ran his casinos.
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For many years, @americanstudier.bsky.social has worked tirelessly to make scholarship more accessible to a broader audience and help interject academic observations into our political discourse.
He is now continuing that crucial mission away from Substack - and he deserves your support:
He is now continuing that crucial mission away from Substack - and he deserves your support:
In these fraught times, we need spaces & communities of our own, that we can make what we want & use to support each other & our work. &, yes, to avoid Nazis as much as possible. That's why we left Substack, & why @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social worked so hard on our new website. So+🗃️
blackwhiteandread.com
blackwhiteandread.com
Black and White and Read All Over
Where Scholarship Meets the Public
blackwhiteandread.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:20 PM
For many years, @americanstudier.bsky.social has worked tirelessly to make scholarship more accessible to a broader audience and help interject academic observations into our political discourse.
He is now continuing that crucial mission away from Substack - and he deserves your support:
He is now continuing that crucial mission away from Substack - and he deserves your support:
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there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
November 11, 2025 at 6:31 AM
there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all
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Tribune editorial board type post
Call in the troops to solve the commercial real estate crisis in our swanky downtown cores
You can’t make this shit up, folks
You can’t make this shit up, folks
November 11, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Tribune editorial board type post
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*maximum alpha at 1.25x speed* continuously lives on in my head, unfortunately.
November 11, 2025 at 12:52 AM
*maximum alpha at 1.25x speed* continuously lives on in my head, unfortunately.
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this specific schumer shit might not be remembered in detail but schumer will not stop being schumer, right up until midterms.
November 11, 2025 at 1:42 PM
this specific schumer shit might not be remembered in detail but schumer will not stop being schumer, right up until midterms.
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Call in the troops to solve the commercial real estate crisis in our swanky downtown cores
You can’t make this shit up, folks
You can’t make this shit up, folks
November 11, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Call in the troops to solve the commercial real estate crisis in our swanky downtown cores
You can’t make this shit up, folks
You can’t make this shit up, folks
50 years ago...
Nighthawks At The Diner (Remastered), by Tom Waits
18 track album
tomwaits.bandcamp.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:13 AM
50 years ago...
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We can’t all be born with a golden spoon lodged in our anus.
Trump claims that food stamps "puts the country in jeopardy. People that are able-bodied can do a job, they leave their job because they figure they can pick this up, it's easier."
November 11, 2025 at 12:59 AM
We can’t all be born with a golden spoon lodged in our anus.
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JFC is this bad. Straight up cash transfer to the shadiest Republican senators and an assault on the rule of law.
Buried inside the deal to reopen government is a provision that would give Senators private right of action to sue for millions in damages over their phone records being analyzed by Jack Smith's team.
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
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Shutdown Deal Would Let Senators Sue Over Jack Smith Searches
Senators whose phone records were sought by Special Counsel Jack Smith would gain authority to sue for millions in damages under a provision buried in the Senate-advanced deal to reopen the government...
news.bloomberglaw.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:48 AM
JFC is this bad. Straight up cash transfer to the shadiest Republican senators and an assault on the rule of law.
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It is incredible — the blind spots you develop when you’ve never, ever been poor.
Trump claims that food stamps "puts the country in jeopardy. People that are able-bodied can do a job, they leave their job because they figure they can pick this up, it's easier."
November 11, 2025 at 12:34 AM
It is incredible — the blind spots you develop when you’ve never, ever been poor.
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She’s been a champion shitposter for years. Anyone remember the David Brooks column about elitism that involved taking a supposed unnamed friend to a sandwich shop, where the poor friend was too illiterate/unclassy to understand the names of some of the items? JCO was on that too.
November 10, 2025 at 7:54 PM
She’s been a champion shitposter for years. Anyone remember the David Brooks column about elitism that involved taking a supposed unnamed friend to a sandwich shop, where the poor friend was too illiterate/unclassy to understand the names of some of the items? JCO was on that too.
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“My work is not done — despite my best efforts, there are still children alive and well in the state of Texas.”
Fuck everything today, but especially this man.
Greg Abbott announces reelection campaign for record fourth term as Texas governor
Gov. Greg Abbott formally announced his fourth gubernatorial run in Houston on Sunday. The incumbent Republican, who currently has around $87 million in his campaign war chest, will face two opponents...
www.kut.org
November 10, 2025 at 8:23 PM
“My work is not done — despite my best efforts, there are still children alive and well in the state of Texas.”
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Take the Democratic Party away from Democratic leadership.
I can't stress this enough as a super volunteer for the Democratic Party and Democratic candidates. This should prompt you to get MORE involved, not less. Show up and use the existing infrastructure to make it work for all of us. In my neck of the woods, we've seen a ton of local victories this way.
Right, the answer isn't to abandon the party to these weasels.
The answer is to flood the party with people who will take it over and transform it.
The answer is to flood the party with people who will take it over and transform it.
November 10, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Take the Democratic Party away from Democratic leadership.
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history will ultimately decide this but i think joyce carol oates might have just landed the most devastating burn in human history. like the death star trench run of posting
November 10, 2025 at 7:03 PM
history will ultimately decide this but i think joyce carol oates might have just landed the most devastating burn in human history. like the death star trench run of posting
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It’s really bad. I get nothing but gutter misogyny.
i parachute into X/Twitter a lot for my job and obviously have chronicled the devolution but today it feels that, even outside of the realm of groyperposting the broad culture there is just like *i have lead poisoning*
November 10, 2025 at 8:26 PM
It’s really bad. I get nothing but gutter misogyny.
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As an avid fan of Joyce Carol Oates, the absolute queen of brutality, I shudder to think what she's doing to Elon in the plot playing out in her mind.
November 10, 2025 at 8:29 PM
As an avid fan of Joyce Carol Oates, the absolute queen of brutality, I shudder to think what she's doing to Elon in the plot playing out in her mind.
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We pay homeowner's insurance, have done so for a few decades.
When a tornado flung a 2x4 through our garage roof last year, creating a hole but not a ton of damage, our insurance covered a new roof and shingling because it was 20+ years old.
Saved us from having to replace it eventually.
When a tornado flung a 2x4 through our garage roof last year, creating a hole but not a ton of damage, our insurance covered a new roof and shingling because it was 20+ years old.
Saved us from having to replace it eventually.
My wife and I pay for life insurance even though we have never died. I pay for fire insurance even though my house has never burned down. That's not because we want to throw money at insurance companies. It's because THAT'S HOW INSURANCE WORKS.
November 10, 2025 at 8:30 PM
We pay homeowner's insurance, have done so for a few decades.
When a tornado flung a 2x4 through our garage roof last year, creating a hole but not a ton of damage, our insurance covered a new roof and shingling because it was 20+ years old.
Saved us from having to replace it eventually.
When a tornado flung a 2x4 through our garage roof last year, creating a hole but not a ton of damage, our insurance covered a new roof and shingling because it was 20+ years old.
Saved us from having to replace it eventually.
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Bovino's reply to Block Club's post on Twitter
November 10, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Bovino's reply to Block Club's post on Twitter
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my fellow americans, here’s your mission this holiday season:
1) if you don’t own a bidet, put it at the top of your gift wishlist
2) if you do own a bidet, then gift a bidet to someone else
nothing else matters this year… not jesus, not joy, not stockings, not roast beast… ONLY spreading bidets
1) if you don’t own a bidet, put it at the top of your gift wishlist
2) if you do own a bidet, then gift a bidet to someone else
nothing else matters this year… not jesus, not joy, not stockings, not roast beast… ONLY spreading bidets
November 10, 2025 at 8:31 PM
my fellow americans, here’s your mission this holiday season:
1) if you don’t own a bidet, put it at the top of your gift wishlist
2) if you do own a bidet, then gift a bidet to someone else
nothing else matters this year… not jesus, not joy, not stockings, not roast beast… ONLY spreading bidets
1) if you don’t own a bidet, put it at the top of your gift wishlist
2) if you do own a bidet, then gift a bidet to someone else
nothing else matters this year… not jesus, not joy, not stockings, not roast beast… ONLY spreading bidets
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Greg Abbott is a terrible governor—cruel, authoritarian, unconcerned about children, inconsistent, dishonest, heedless of life, cozy with billionaires, submissive to Trump, oblivious to environmental and health crises, abusive of power—and still better than any Republican likely to succeed him.
Fuck everything today, but especially this man.
Greg Abbott announces reelection campaign for record fourth term as Texas governor
Gov. Greg Abbott formally announced his fourth gubernatorial run in Houston on Sunday. The incumbent Republican, who currently has around $87 million in his campaign war chest, will face two opponents...
www.kut.org
November 10, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Greg Abbott is a terrible governor—cruel, authoritarian, unconcerned about children, inconsistent, dishonest, heedless of life, cozy with billionaires, submissive to Trump, oblivious to environmental and health crises, abusive of power—and still better than any Republican likely to succeed him.
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Starting with today's post, on two important lessons about veterans & America that we can draw from Alfred F. Young's wonderful book *The Shoemaker & the Tea Party* & its Revolutionary War veteran subject, George Robert Twelves Hewes!
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November 10, 2025: Veterans’ Stories: The Shoemaker and the Tea Party – Black and White and Read All Over
[For Veterans Day, I’ll be AmericanStudying five examples of texts that can help us remember and engage with veterans’ experiences from five of our defining wars. Leading up to a weekend post on 21st ...
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November 10, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Starting with today's post, on two important lessons about veterans & America that we can draw from Alfred F. Young's wonderful book *The Shoemaker & the Tea Party* & its Revolutionary War veteran subject, George Robert Twelves Hewes!
blackwhiteandread.com/november-10-...
blackwhiteandread.com/november-10-...
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JUST IN: The Trump administration asks the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to stay Judge Sara Ellis' preliminary injunction restricting the use of force against protesters and journalists in Chicago.
Full motion here: cst.brightspotcdn.com/bc/ac/04906a...
Full motion here: cst.brightspotcdn.com/bc/ac/04906a...
![INTRODUCTION
The role of the Judiciary is to resolve concrete cases and controversies, not to act as general overseer of the Executive. But in response to the government’s efforts to enforce the Nation’s immigration laws after years of non-enforcement during an unprecedented wave of illegal immigration, courts have issued sweeping, programmatic injunctions that usurp executive authority and empower judges to superintend law-enforcement activities under threat of contempt. The predictable result is to broadly obstruct the enforcement of the Nation’s laws, chill the exercise of executive power, and subvert the constitutional structure.
This case is a perfect example. This Court previously issued a writ of mandamus to quash an order of this district court that “infringe[d] on the separation of powers” by “set[ting] the court up as a supervisor” of the agency’s law- enforcement activities. Order, In re Noem, No. 25-2936 (7th Cir. Oct. 31, 2025). The district court has now issued an extraordinary preliminary injunction that no less reflects an improper aggrandizement of the judicial role and a violation of the separation of powers. What began as a complaint by journalists and protestors alleging that DHS officers targeted them with crowd-control devices at a handful of protests in September and early October has transformed into an instrument for judicial micromanagement of federal law-enforcement operations in the Chicago area. Indeed, this injunction is so granular it consumes eight pages, governing everything from body-worn cameras, to agent identification, to the content of warnings before](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:elipdmmf5istuvtyituspske/bafkreihgvjfeppwczpepe3ijy2bgqwoo4hsxcd4ly4wo6onzf667iqxqtm@jpeg)
November 10, 2025 at 7:56 PM
JUST IN: The Trump administration asks the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to stay Judge Sara Ellis' preliminary injunction restricting the use of force against protesters and journalists in Chicago.
Full motion here: cst.brightspotcdn.com/bc/ac/04906a...
Full motion here: cst.brightspotcdn.com/bc/ac/04906a...