James Blood
@jfblood.bsky.social
Retired attorney, current investor. Former Republican. Always learning and constantly seeking the good.
In all of human history, can anyone point to any other examples of people with their hands blackened or bruised on the back side from shaking so many hands?
Krauss: That doesn’t look suspicious to me at all, having worked with a lot of A-list talent who are out there shaking a lot of hands. I mean, the guy is an elderly man. Your skin gets thinner as you get older.
December 13, 2025 at 7:26 PM
In all of human history, can anyone point to any other examples of people with their hands blackened or bruised on the back side from shaking so many hands?
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JOHN DEERE: "Our US market has been the one under the most pressure . . . based on what’s happened with trade flows, what’s happened with tariffs .." We'll build "half as many tractors this year as we did two years ago."
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Donald Trump’s tariffs intensify strain on US farmers, Deere warns
Farming equipment giant is scaling back production at flagship tractor plant in Iowa
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December 10, 2025 at 12:20 PM
JOHN DEERE: "Our US market has been the one under the most pressure . . . based on what’s happened with trade flows, what’s happened with tariffs .." We'll build "half as many tractors this year as we did two years ago."
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Poland’s foreign minister 👇
December 6, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Poland’s foreign minister 👇
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Putin's plan to end the war in Ukraine.
Cartoon by Michael de Adder
Cartoon by Michael de Adder
November 27, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Putin's plan to end the war in Ukraine.
Cartoon by Michael de Adder
Cartoon by Michael de Adder
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"This is one of the greatest geopolitical mistakes of my lifetime" - Senator Angus King on Trump's selling out of Ukraine to Putin.
I agree, and it is why we must fight this rancid appeasement with everything we got. My latest 👇
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/this-is-on...
I agree, and it is why we must fight this rancid appeasement with everything we got. My latest 👇
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/this-is-on...
"This is one of the most serious geopolitical mistakes of my lifetime" - Senator Angus King on Trump's rancid betrayal of Ukraine and the West
Historian, author, commentator Ruth Ben-Ghiat joins us live tomorrow at 130pm EST
www.hopiumchronicles.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:58 PM
"This is one of the greatest geopolitical mistakes of my lifetime" - Senator Angus King on Trump's selling out of Ukraine to Putin.
I agree, and it is why we must fight this rancid appeasement with everything we got. My latest 👇
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/this-is-on...
I agree, and it is why we must fight this rancid appeasement with everything we got. My latest 👇
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/this-is-on...
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We honor the millions of Ukrainians who were starved by the Soviet regime and vow to never forget their resistance and loss.
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November 22, 2025 at 7:10 PM
We honor the millions of Ukrainians who were starved by the Soviet regime and vow to never forget their resistance and loss.
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Trump has approved a 28-point plan to end the war between Russia and Ukraine. “The deeply troubling details now circulating show what Trump wants: to help the Russian president,” Phillips Payson O’Brien argues, “and to weaken Ukraine, perhaps fatally.”
Trump’s Devastating Plan for Ukraine
The White House is giving Putin permission to try again.
bit.ly
November 22, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Trump has approved a 28-point plan to end the war between Russia and Ukraine. “The deeply troubling details now circulating show what Trump wants: to help the Russian president,” Phillips Payson O’Brien argues, “and to weaken Ukraine, perhaps fatally.”
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"Ukraine is fighting for the values we claim as our own: freedom, sovereignty, human dignity, democratic self-determination....If we fail to support that, we are not merely abandoning Ukraine. We are abandoning ourselves." lnk.thebulwark.com/4ihTiSP
November 22, 2025 at 12:30 AM
"Ukraine is fighting for the values we claim as our own: freedom, sovereignty, human dignity, democratic self-determination....If we fail to support that, we are not merely abandoning Ukraine. We are abandoning ourselves." lnk.thebulwark.com/4ihTiSP
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Trump's plan is so grotesque and makes the US such an enemy of European freedom, that European states should have no other option than to tell Trump to shove it where the sun does not shine.
November 21, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Trump's plan is so grotesque and makes the US such an enemy of European freedom, that European states should have no other option than to tell Trump to shove it where the sun does not shine.
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Here is Trump's full 28 point plan for Ukraine. It would destroy Ukraine as a sovereign state and leave it helpless to face a Russian attack in the future. It would also give Putin full vindication and immunity from prosecution.
www.axios.com/2025/11/20/t...
www.axios.com/2025/11/20/t...
Trump's full 28-point Ukraine-Russia peace plan
The full plan was obtained by Axios and verified by Ukrainian and U.S. officials.
www.axios.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Here is Trump's full 28 point plan for Ukraine. It would destroy Ukraine as a sovereign state and leave it helpless to face a Russian attack in the future. It would also give Putin full vindication and immunity from prosecution.
www.axios.com/2025/11/20/t...
www.axios.com/2025/11/20/t...
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Drafting a "peace plan" with Putin and then telling the Ukrainians to accept it is not mediation. It's acting as an agent for the Kremlin. Trump's and Witkoff's efforts to appease Putin are deeply disappointing. I was fooled into thinking Trump had finally figured Putin out. Looks like I was wrong
November 20, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Drafting a "peace plan" with Putin and then telling the Ukrainians to accept it is not mediation. It's acting as an agent for the Kremlin. Trump's and Witkoff's efforts to appease Putin are deeply disappointing. I was fooled into thinking Trump had finally figured Putin out. Looks like I was wrong
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Epstein survivor Jena-Lisa Jones: "I beg you, President Trump, please stop making this political. It's not about you, President Trump. You are our president — please start acting like it…I voted for you, but your behavior on this issue has been a national embarrassment."
November 18, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Epstein survivor Jena-Lisa Jones: "I beg you, President Trump, please stop making this political. It's not about you, President Trump. You are our president — please start acting like it…I voted for you, but your behavior on this issue has been a national embarrassment."
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A Russian prisoner:
"Mom, I'm not going back to Russia and I'm not going to fight for Russia. I don't want to fight for a country where they don't even consider me a human being."
"Are you out of your mind?" his mom asks.
"Mom, I'm not going back to Russia and I'm not going to fight for Russia. I don't want to fight for a country where they don't even consider me a human being."
"Are you out of your mind?" his mom asks.
November 18, 2025 at 3:55 PM
A Russian prisoner:
"Mom, I'm not going back to Russia and I'm not going to fight for Russia. I don't want to fight for a country where they don't even consider me a human being."
"Are you out of your mind?" his mom asks.
"Mom, I'm not going back to Russia and I'm not going to fight for Russia. I don't want to fight for a country where they don't even consider me a human being."
"Are you out of your mind?" his mom asks.
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Russian war criminals destroyed the Evangelical Church in Kostiantynivka,Donetsk region.
In total, during the war,the Russian army has already destroyed about 600 temples&churches of various denominations.
This is what Putin's "defense of Christian values" looks like.
📷: Vitalii Stulniev/Facebook
In total, during the war,the Russian army has already destroyed about 600 temples&churches of various denominations.
This is what Putin's "defense of Christian values" looks like.
📷: Vitalii Stulniev/Facebook
November 15, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Russian war criminals destroyed the Evangelical Church in Kostiantynivka,Donetsk region.
In total, during the war,the Russian army has already destroyed about 600 temples&churches of various denominations.
This is what Putin's "defense of Christian values" looks like.
📷: Vitalii Stulniev/Facebook
In total, during the war,the Russian army has already destroyed about 600 temples&churches of various denominations.
This is what Putin's "defense of Christian values" looks like.
📷: Vitalii Stulniev/Facebook
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God Maria Bartiromo is a hag and Cuomo sits there and says nothing as she spews this racist dreck.
So here's Andrew Cuomo reacting to Maria Bartiromo wondering if Mamdani will "change the look of New York" and have Muslim women "completely covered up," telling her that Mamdani "doesn't understand New York culture" because he has "dual citizenship" and "he's a citizen of Uganda."
October 29, 2025 at 6:46 PM
God Maria Bartiromo is a hag and Cuomo sits there and says nothing as she spews this racist dreck.
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EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
October 20, 2025 at 10:09 PM
EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
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October 20, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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In 2023, a program connecting Utah farmers and ranchers to free therapy vouchers was so successful, the federal money ran out in four months.
“I want you to know,” the program director recalled one recipient telling him, “that this saved my life.”
(Published April with @sltrib.com)
“I want you to know,” the program director recalled one recipient telling him, “that this saved my life.”
(Published April with @sltrib.com)
Utah Farmers Signed Up for Federally Funded Therapy. Then the Money Stopped.
Farmers are dying by suicide at the third-highest rate by vocation in Utah. But after a federal program offering mental health support ran out of money, the state did not continue it.
www.propublica.org
October 14, 2025 at 11:00 PM
In 2023, a program connecting Utah farmers and ranchers to free therapy vouchers was so successful, the federal money ran out in four months.
“I want you to know,” the program director recalled one recipient telling him, “that this saved my life.”
(Published April with @sltrib.com)
“I want you to know,” the program director recalled one recipient telling him, “that this saved my life.”
(Published April with @sltrib.com)
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This is from Stephen Millers cousin and this is also why as a quasi-expert on the Holocaust I give Miller 0 quarter for being Jewish.
October 5, 2025 at 4:17 PM
This is from Stephen Millers cousin and this is also why as a quasi-expert on the Holocaust I give Miller 0 quarter for being Jewish.
Hegseth is plagiarizing from the original Russian.
Exhibit A at The Hague just dropped
Hegseth: "We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy. We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement."
September 30, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Hegseth is plagiarizing from the original Russian.
So we should emulate the Russian military, where raping, stealing, pillaging, torturing, targeting civilians, and kidnapping are the norm? But they aren’t woke. Got it.
Rep. Andy Harris: "I guarantee you China and Russia do not have woke policies in their military."
September 30, 2025 at 9:42 PM
So we should emulate the Russian military, where raping, stealing, pillaging, torturing, targeting civilians, and kidnapping are the norm? But they aren’t woke. Got it.