Jim Meehan
mixography.bsky.social
Jim Meehan
@mixography.bsky.social
Author of The PDT Cocktail Book, Meehan’s Bartender Manual and The Bartender’s Pantry. Democracy Lover.
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Sent in another 30,000 words of my next book today, a second collaboration with Brett Adams. Almost completed now. Looking forward to sharing it with you someday, almost as much as I'm looking forward to us being finished writing it!
May 20, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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This is too wholesome
May 11, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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BLANK SPACE: A Cultural History of the 21st Century

November 2025

Cover featuring the artwork of Andrew Kuo

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/769187...
April 23, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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Greetings from Wisconsin
March 31, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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merit is back baby
March 29, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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He fired the black chairman of the joint chiefs for being woke and hired his brother.
March 28, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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FunFact: if the salts, heavy metals, & radioactive components in fracking wastewater get into drinking water supplies...
Most US water treatment plants can not filter them out.
March 23, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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A gobsmacking story. Water companies let toxic waste disposers, for cash, dump their loads into sewage farms. The sewage sludge is then spread, untested, on farmland, potentially poisoning vast areas, entire ecosystems and the people (you and me) eating the food.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
What’s in the millions of tonnes of sludge sprayed on to farmland? The answer won’t make you happy | George Monbiot
Thanks to breathtaking negligence, the liquid fertiliser used to help grow our food bubbles with a lethal cocktail of toxins, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
March 21, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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1. What you see here is clearest illustration why things are so messed up and why it cannot get any better until this asymmetry is addressed.

Put simply: the right-wing has narrative dominance.

My org @mmfa.bsky.social did this study and has been sounding this alarm for years. Some thoughts...
March 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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"The Forest Service is increasing its timber harvest to 4 billion board ft -- That’s enough lumber to circle the globe more than 30 times...The agency does not account for carbon effects when setting its timber targets because it 'does not manage for carbon.'” 🌏 wisconsinwatch.org/2025/03/fore...
Forest Service cuts more trees despite their carbon-capture ability
Advocates argue that we need trees now more than ever and that an increase in the timber harvest doesn’t make sense.
wisconsinwatch.org
March 13, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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Bad Company
Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream
June 10, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — Walgreens agrees to be acquired by private equity firm for almost $10 billion.
March 6, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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Somewhere, Jeff Bezos is angrily clicking “track shipment” to see what happened to his new editorial page.
March 5, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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As someone who spends a lot time thinking about the values I want to teach my kid (besides PLEASE DON’T EAT DIRT), the thing I keep coming back to is this: I want him to believe that the strongest, bravest thing he can do is give a shit about other people—especially ones who aren’t like him at all.
March 2, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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NOTE: The opponents of DEI are purging anyone who is not a white man from military leadership

This is not about merit; it’s about normalizing racism and misogyny
No More Female 4-Stars: Franchetti Firing Leaves Top Ranks Filled by Men
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth fired Adm. Lisa Franchetti, the Navy's first female chief, last week without any clear explanation -- part of a purge of top uniformed leadership that included the Joint...
www.military.com
March 1, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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If I wrote this, you all would say I was taking the bit too far, wouldn't you?
March 1, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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Breaking: FDA's March meeting to select flu shot strains for 2025-2026 season has been canceled per email sent to committee members, a VRBPAC member told me. drug companies need about 6 months leeway to make shots in time for fall vax campaigns. #healthpolicy
February 26, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Maddow on the @msnbc cancellations ( @joyannreid.bsky.social @katiephang.bsky.social Wagner etc ): “A mistake. Indefensible. And I do not defend it.”
February 25, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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This truly breaks my 💔

Thank you @joyannreid.bsky.social, I’ll be watching for what’s next. 🙏🏽
February 24, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Someone at the American Bar Association ate their Wheaties this morning.
February 10, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Weekend read for the coffee lovers: a guide to "co-fermentation," the controversial and mysterious process that might make your next cup taste wildly like watermelon, lychee, or other fruits and spices.
slate.com/life/2025/02...
I Was a Barista Snob. Would I Hate the Latest Big Trend in Coffee?
A technique called co-fermentation is on the rise. It’s controversial.
slate.com
February 8, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Same... it's flattering when people ask and I love reading the books before they come out.
I don’t mind giving blurbs at all. The number of requests is daunting but I love reading new work.
February 2, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Digital Drugs Have Us (Me too!) Hooked. Dr. Anna Lembke Sees a Way Out. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/m...
‘The Interview’: Dr. Anna Lembke Is Scared About What Modern Life Is Doing to Us
The psychiatrist and author of “Dopamine Nation” wants us to find balance in a world of temptation and abundance.
www.nytimes.com
February 2, 2025 at 4:09 AM