Jim Kleiber
@jimkleiber.com
Training myself in emotional combat (emōkō).
Demonstrating the skills on The Jim Kleiber Show, starting with the DailyJim segment (5-10 min reflections, Mon-Thu).
www.jimkleiber.com
Demonstrating the skills on The Jim Kleiber Show, starting with the DailyJim segment (5-10 min reflections, Mon-Thu).
www.jimkleiber.com
If we try to change people's beliefs and behaviors, isn't that part of a culture war?
I reflect on David French's op-ed of "Jordan Peterson and I Had a Chat" below 🧵
I reflect on David French's op-ed of "Jordan Peterson and I Had a Chat" below 🧵
July 10, 2025 at 1:58 PM
If we try to change people's beliefs and behaviors, isn't that part of a culture war?
I reflect on David French's op-ed of "Jordan Peterson and I Had a Chat" below 🧵
I reflect on David French's op-ed of "Jordan Peterson and I Had a Chat" below 🧵
A snippet from today's DailyJim episode...
If you're curious to hear more, check out the full episode at www.jimkleiber.com/dailyjim-tru...
If you're curious to hear more, check out the full episode at www.jimkleiber.com/dailyjim-tru...
July 3, 2025 at 3:54 PM
A snippet from today's DailyJim episode...
If you're curious to hear more, check out the full episode at www.jimkleiber.com/dailyjim-tru...
If you're curious to hear more, check out the full episode at www.jimkleiber.com/dailyjim-tru...
"Does “manly” mean just one thing, and should I still chase it? It’s hard to figure out what it means to be strong without being “toxic,” confident but not arrogant, assertive but not overbearing. Are we meant to shrink so others can rise? Is it always zero-sum? It’s confusing."
Brilliant essay.
Brilliant essay.
Essay: A senior at an all boys high school on the appeal of the Tate brothers: In a confusing time for young men, they offer “answers that are appealingly simple.”
Essay | Boys at My High School Love the Tate Brothers. Here’s Why.
In this confusing time for young men, we take our role models where we can find them.
www.wsj.com
May 2, 2025 at 11:18 PM
"Does “manly” mean just one thing, and should I still chase it? It’s hard to figure out what it means to be strong without being “toxic,” confident but not arrogant, assertive but not overbearing. Are we meant to shrink so others can rise? Is it always zero-sum? It’s confusing."
Brilliant essay.
Brilliant essay.
Reposted by Jim Kleiber
A generation of infants are being born HIV+ today who should have been born HIV-free because one of the principal propagandists of AI bullshit in the world dismantled PEPFAR and USAID.
April 22, 2025 at 5:59 PM
A generation of infants are being born HIV+ today who should have been born HIV-free because one of the principal propagandists of AI bullshit in the world dismantled PEPFAR and USAID.
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This is a great website that allows you to view the ROI on your tax dollars invested in NIH funded research. You can type in a disease condition and immediately see the impact of research funding on it. Also links to easy ways to contact law makers to protect science.
www.ourhealthroi.com
www.ourhealthroi.com
Our Health ROI
Explore how your tax dollars fund life‑saving medical research.
www.ourhealthroi.com
April 22, 2025 at 11:13 AM
This is a great website that allows you to view the ROI on your tax dollars invested in NIH funded research. You can type in a disease condition and immediately see the impact of research funding on it. Also links to easy ways to contact law makers to protect science.
www.ourhealthroi.com
www.ourhealthroi.com
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RIP Kurt Vonnegut. Gone 18 yrs. Dang.
April 11, 2025 at 11:49 AM
RIP Kurt Vonnegut. Gone 18 yrs. Dang.
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why is *every* newspaper/programme running with the headline "tariffs are paused" when they haven't been.
What's happened is that every country (except China) gets a flat rate of 10% for 90 days.
What's happened is that every country (except China) gets a flat rate of 10% for 90 days.
April 10, 2025 at 9:21 AM
why is *every* newspaper/programme running with the headline "tariffs are paused" when they haven't been.
What's happened is that every country (except China) gets a flat rate of 10% for 90 days.
What's happened is that every country (except China) gets a flat rate of 10% for 90 days.
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This breakthrough study shows the antiviral drug obeldesivir administered once daily orally was effective against a lethal challenge of Ebola in non human primates.
This is an NIH funded study, the likes of which are being cut by the current administration.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
This is an NIH funded study, the likes of which are being cut by the current administration.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The oral drug obeldesivir protects nonhuman primates against lethal Ebola virus infection
Oral treatment with obeldesivir protects macaques from lethal infection with Ebola virus.
www.science.org
March 23, 2025 at 1:45 PM
This breakthrough study shows the antiviral drug obeldesivir administered once daily orally was effective against a lethal challenge of Ebola in non human primates.
This is an NIH funded study, the likes of which are being cut by the current administration.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
This is an NIH funded study, the likes of which are being cut by the current administration.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
When our leaders pretend to resolve conflict but really want to squash it, we get situations like this.
A Georgetown University researcher, who was studying and teaching on a student visa, has been detained by federal immigration authorities amid Trump's crackdown on student activists whom the government accuses of opposing American foreign policy, according to court papers.
March 20, 2025 at 7:27 PM
When our leaders pretend to resolve conflict but really want to squash it, we get situations like this.
One of the main things I want to change about the culture of conflict is this idea that there are only two options, here described as confront vs cower.
We can also resolve.
We can also resolve.
Here's some questions journalists might try to answer:
1) What are elected Dems saying (off record, background, whatever) that they are hearing from their consultants, polls, and focus groups?
2) What are public polls and focus groups indicating on the "confront vs. cower" question?
1) What are elected Dems saying (off record, background, whatever) that they are hearing from their consultants, polls, and focus groups?
2) What are public polls and focus groups indicating on the "confront vs. cower" question?
March 17, 2025 at 1:28 PM
One of the main things I want to change about the culture of conflict is this idea that there are only two options, here described as confront vs cower.
We can also resolve.
We can also resolve.
It frustrates me how spiteful he is
"Canadians who are in the United States for 30 days or longer will soon have to register their information with the United States government, according to a notice obtained by ABC News." abcnews.go.com/Politics/liv...
Canadians in US for over 30 days will be required to register with government
abcnews.go.com
March 12, 2025 at 11:12 AM
It frustrates me how spiteful he is
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If you’re in the US, you can watch PBS for free using the app. There’s a series of documentaries called American Experience that’s really good—each is about a different event in history.
Go watch The one about the Gilded Age in season 30.
It feels so familiar, it’s genuinely eerie.
Go watch The one about the Gilded Age in season 30.
It feels so familiar, it’s genuinely eerie.
March 11, 2025 at 1:21 AM
If you’re in the US, you can watch PBS for free using the app. There’s a series of documentaries called American Experience that’s really good—each is about a different event in history.
Go watch The one about the Gilded Age in season 30.
It feels so familiar, it’s genuinely eerie.
Go watch The one about the Gilded Age in season 30.
It feels so familiar, it’s genuinely eerie.
Instead of complaining about Trump (or other politicians), what about trying to find the people today who behave as Lincoln did—treating others as friends and not enemies—and lifting these people up as leaders?
That's the essence behind my new focus on Leading Hearts Fund.
That's the essence behind my new focus on Leading Hearts Fund.
March 7, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Instead of complaining about Trump (or other politicians), what about trying to find the people today who behave as Lincoln did—treating others as friends and not enemies—and lifting these people up as leaders?
That's the essence behind my new focus on Leading Hearts Fund.
That's the essence behind my new focus on Leading Hearts Fund.
Are you a person who feels tired of the current direction of leadership and also likes to find hidden talent and help them grow?
If so, please reach out to me, I'd love to chat with you to learn more about what motivates you to help inform my work with Leading Hearts Fund.
If so, please reach out to me, I'd love to chat with you to learn more about what motivates you to help inform my work with Leading Hearts Fund.
March 6, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Are you a person who feels tired of the current direction of leadership and also likes to find hidden talent and help them grow?
If so, please reach out to me, I'd love to chat with you to learn more about what motivates you to help inform my work with Leading Hearts Fund.
If so, please reach out to me, I'd love to chat with you to learn more about what motivates you to help inform my work with Leading Hearts Fund.
When the richest man in the world thinks he's a victim and people believe him.
I cannot stress this enough: the people now in charge of the US government are deeply invested in a conspiracy theory where they’re weak victims of radical leftists that took over everything—that includes you, academia, as absurd as it may be—and therefore entitled to the most drastic measures.
The New Right's Theory of Power is Insane
It is simply not true that radical leftists took over all major institutions and use them to crush the right, and mainstream figures should stop being afraid to say so
www.arcdigital.media
February 15, 2025 at 2:35 PM
When the richest man in the world thinks he's a victim and people believe him.
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Makes a convincing case that the WHCA should boycott the pool until this policy changes
"We should tell the White House that if the AP is not invited to participate in his photo ops, then we’re not interested, either." - @svdate.bsky.social www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
"We should tell the White House that if the AP is not invited to participate in his photo ops, then we’re not interested, either." - @svdate.bsky.social www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
OPINION: Trump Trying To Make World’s Largest News Organization Bend The Knee
Maybe you don’t care that the president of the United States is punishing The Associated Press, but you should.
www.huffpost.com
February 15, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Makes a convincing case that the WHCA should boycott the pool until this policy changes
"We should tell the White House that if the AP is not invited to participate in his photo ops, then we’re not interested, either." - @svdate.bsky.social www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
"We should tell the White House that if the AP is not invited to participate in his photo ops, then we’re not interested, either." - @svdate.bsky.social www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
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Presented without comment. www.ft.com/content/a7c9...
February 15, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Presented without comment. www.ft.com/content/a7c9...
It's a fight. Keep attacking with love. Eventually they will become filled with love. Whether they think they want to be or not.
Do not let the depravity of the oppressor sway your moral compass.
February 15, 2025 at 1:42 PM
It's a fight. Keep attacking with love. Eventually they will become filled with love. Whether they think they want to be or not.
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What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.
February 15, 2025 at 4:10 AM
What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.
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Excellent post
January 27, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Excellent post
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Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce.
Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.
Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.
January 21, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce.
Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.
Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.
There's so much more strength in an open heart than a closed one. A closed heart can be so easily manipulated.
I’ve been contemplating the difficult inner work of keeping an open heart in a time of so much anger and grief and then I saw this quote:
“The heart that breaks right open can hold the whole universe.” — Joanna Macy
“The heart that breaks right open can hold the whole universe.” — Joanna Macy
January 22, 2025 at 3:21 PM
There's so much more strength in an open heart than a closed one. A closed heart can be so easily manipulated.
"Owning the libs" seems to be a weird desire for dominance. A belief that someone currently has less strength than the other side.
In other words, someone who actually feels strong and dominant doesn't have the desire to dominate, because they already do.
In other words, someone who actually feels strong and dominant doesn't have the desire to dominate, because they already do.
January 22, 2025 at 3:21 PM
"Owning the libs" seems to be a weird desire for dominance. A belief that someone currently has less strength than the other side.
In other words, someone who actually feels strong and dominant doesn't have the desire to dominate, because they already do.
In other words, someone who actually feels strong and dominant doesn't have the desire to dominate, because they already do.
Warning, this episode will probably make you feel sad. If you don't like feeling sad, maybe you don't want to listen, but maybe that's also why you should:
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DailyJim: I have been feeling more and more afraid to feel sad, especially around other people | Jim Kleiber
Jim reflects on his fears to feel sad around others and hopes that he gains the courage to feel sad, the courage to cry, so that others might gain it as well and we become closer to each other.
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January 21, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Warning, this episode will probably make you feel sad. If you don't like feeling sad, maybe you don't want to listen, but maybe that's also why you should:
www.jimkleiber.com/dailyjim-i-h...
www.jimkleiber.com/dailyjim-i-h...
As we seem to become more and more conflict avoidant around the world, i appreciate this reminder that Dr. King had the courage to face issues and demand that we do as well.
Thank you for the reminder.
Thank you for the reminder.
I pray this helps some of you today. We have a duty to Dr. King whose life was taken because he dared demand that this country face itself, to demonstrate that his work & sacrifice was not in vain. Let’s do it together. Please share. And subscribe.
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open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
It Is MLK Day. Do Not Despair. This Year Especially, We Have Work To Do.
With delicious anticipation, we imagined it.
open.substack.com
January 20, 2025 at 8:19 PM
As we seem to become more and more conflict avoidant around the world, i appreciate this reminder that Dr. King had the courage to face issues and demand that we do as well.
Thank you for the reminder.
Thank you for the reminder.