Jim
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Geek, social scientist, cook, not in any order at any particular time. Staunchly pro small-d democracy. Posts and thoughts are my own, and do not represent those of anyone I affiliate with.
After the Marshall Fire, this makes sense. We have the same dry conditions like we did in December 2021.
All Snow Dances are welcomed and encouraged.
www.denver7.com/weather/weat...
All Snow Dances are welcomed and encouraged.
www.denver7.com/weather/weat...
Xcel Energy will likely shut off power Wednesday along Front Range as safety precaution due to strong winds
Xcel Energy is considering shutting off power along the Front Range on Wednesday as a safety precaution due to the strong winds expected that afternoon.
www.denver7.com
December 16, 2025 at 11:46 AM
After the Marshall Fire, this makes sense. We have the same dry conditions like we did in December 2021.
All Snow Dances are welcomed and encouraged.
www.denver7.com/weather/weat...
All Snow Dances are welcomed and encouraged.
www.denver7.com/weather/weat...
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Binge listeners, your time has come!
All six episodes of Rachel Maddow presents: Burn Order are now available to listen to for free wherever you get your podcasts.
Enjoy!
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All six episodes of Rachel Maddow presents: Burn Order are now available to listen to for free wherever you get your podcasts.
Enjoy!
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December 16, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Binge listeners, your time has come!
All six episodes of Rachel Maddow presents: Burn Order are now available to listen to for free wherever you get your podcasts.
Enjoy!
podcasts.apple.com/me/podcast/r...
All six episodes of Rachel Maddow presents: Burn Order are now available to listen to for free wherever you get your podcasts.
Enjoy!
podcasts.apple.com/me/podcast/r...
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Opinion | Trump’s crude remarks about Rob Reiner are unbecoming of a FIFA Peace Prize winner.
December 16, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Opinion | Trump’s crude remarks about Rob Reiner are unbecoming of a FIFA Peace Prize winner.
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AMERICOM and … INTERNATIONALCOM? are the dumbest possible CCMD names I can imagine; this half-assed plan should be rejected on that basis alone
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Pentagon plan calls for major power shifts within U.S. military
If adopted, the changes would fulfill Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s pledge to disrupt the status quo and slash the number of four-star generals.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 16, 2025 at 1:28 AM
AMERICOM and … INTERNATIONALCOM? are the dumbest possible CCMD names I can imagine; this half-assed plan should be rejected on that basis alone
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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lol spoke too soon, the other two options are somehow(!) even dumber
“JTF-War” are you fucking kidding me rn
“JTF-War” are you fucking kidding me rn
December 16, 2025 at 1:30 AM
lol spoke too soon, the other two options are somehow(!) even dumber
“JTF-War” are you fucking kidding me rn
“JTF-War” are you fucking kidding me rn
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It is rare that i reach out to as many trump advisers and officials that I did today and get literally no one willing to defend this, even off the record.
"Trump Dances on Rob Reiner's Grave"
BREAKING: Trump Dances on Rob Reiner’s Grave
Even for President Donald Trump, this is sickening.
zeteo.com
December 16, 2025 at 2:17 AM
It is rare that i reach out to as many trump advisers and officials that I did today and get literally no one willing to defend this, even off the record.
Nothing more than an extortion ring by the government
finance.yahoo.com/news/tata-in...
finance.yahoo.com/news/tata-in...
Tata and Infosys to Bear Brunt of Trump’s $100,000 H-1B Worker Fee
President Donald Trump’s $100,000 price tag for new H-1B workers hired from outside the US will have punishing effects for the IT outsourcing and staffing industries that have long been a target of bo...
finance.yahoo.com
December 15, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Nothing more than an extortion ring by the government
finance.yahoo.com/news/tata-in...
finance.yahoo.com/news/tata-in...
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Sigh. Chile is going fascist... again.
New guy wants a Chilean ICE. :(
edition.cnn.com/2025/12/14/a...
New guy wants a Chilean ICE. :(
edition.cnn.com/2025/12/14/a...
Chile elects Kast as president, deepening regional shift to law-and-order politics | CNN
Jose Antonio Kast won Chile’s presidential election on Sunday, leveraging voter fears over rising crime and migration to take the country to its sharpest rightward shift since the end of dictatorship ...
edition.cnn.com
December 15, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Sigh. Chile is going fascist... again.
New guy wants a Chilean ICE. :(
edition.cnn.com/2025/12/14/a...
New guy wants a Chilean ICE. :(
edition.cnn.com/2025/12/14/a...
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The Constitution guarantees your right to follow, record, protest, and notify others about the agents and what you see. These are core First Amendment rights, and DHS has clearly ordered its agents to threaten and violate those rights. cato.org/blog/dhs-pol...
December 15, 2025 at 8:09 PM
The Constitution guarantees your right to follow, record, protest, and notify others about the agents and what you see. These are core First Amendment rights, and DHS has clearly ordered its agents to threaten and violate those rights. cato.org/blog/dhs-pol...
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This is part of a pattern of ICE agents intentionally causing accidents with ICE observers and then accusing them of assault.
December 15, 2025 at 8:22 PM
This is part of a pattern of ICE agents intentionally causing accidents with ICE observers and then accusing them of assault.
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Also could be the absolute classic; the FBI convinced a bunch of losers to do a terror attack, including informants pushing them to make plans, telling them where to buy weapons and making "connections" with "arms dealers," and helping pick the target list.
I’m finding it increasingly hard to report anything delivered by “official sources” in the US. Could be true, could be a coverup, could be completely made up for nefarious ends.
It’s a country now where no one really has any idea what’s actually going on.
It’s a country now where no one really has any idea what’s actually going on.
December 15, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Also could be the absolute classic; the FBI convinced a bunch of losers to do a terror attack, including informants pushing them to make plans, telling them where to buy weapons and making "connections" with "arms dealers," and helping pick the target list.
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Since it looks like we're going through the "liberals who stayed on X/Twitter trying to convince others to go back there," I'll just remind folks I already wrote a long article pointing out how that makes no sense and is, in fact, an incredibly dumb idea.
www.techdirt.com/2025/09/15/s...
www.techdirt.com/2025/09/15/s...
Stop Begging. Start Building
As a reminder, I’m on the board at Bluesky, which means you should consider me extremely biased, even as this article isn’t really about Bluesky. The writer Jerusalem Demsas wants you to stay on Tw…
www.techdirt.com
December 15, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Since it looks like we're going through the "liberals who stayed on X/Twitter trying to convince others to go back there," I'll just remind folks I already wrote a long article pointing out how that makes no sense and is, in fact, an incredibly dumb idea.
www.techdirt.com/2025/09/15/s...
www.techdirt.com/2025/09/15/s...
Then an interesting thing happened: the people stormed Bastille.
NYT op-ed reminds billionaires to heed the French Revolution, mentions Network State cultists Peter Thiel and Balaji Srinivasan.
"It’s as if the sheer scale of this wealth, which beggars even the riches of the Gilded Age, has induced a kind of class sociopathy."
🎁
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/o...
"It’s as if the sheer scale of this wealth, which beggars even the riches of the Gilded Age, has induced a kind of class sociopathy."
🎁
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/o...
Opinion | The Billionaires Have Gone Full Louis XV
www.nytimes.com
December 15, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Then an interesting thing happened: the people stormed Bastille.
They has assurances from the US via the Budapest Memorandum in 1994, which Trump has used in an attempt to extort Zelensky. What would lead anyone to believe Trump would keep his word?
Ukraine and US claim progress towards peace deal but divisions persist on.ft.com/3MCtgxQ
Ukraine and US claim progress towards peace deal but divisions persist
Germany says Americans will provide security guarantees as Kyiv and Washington admit differences on territorial issues
on.ft.com
December 15, 2025 at 8:14 PM
They has assurances from the US via the Budapest Memorandum in 1994, which Trump has used in an attempt to extort Zelensky. What would lead anyone to believe Trump would keep his word?
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Not that it's not appalling enough, but this is an official US Government post, paid for by our federal tax dollars.
December 15, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Not that it's not appalling enough, but this is an official US Government post, paid for by our federal tax dollars.
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the CBS News tweets about Erika Kirk will continue until morale improves
December 15, 2025 at 7:07 PM
the CBS News tweets about Erika Kirk will continue until morale improves
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"If you owe the bank $100, that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem" but for sovereign nations and trillionaires
#TSLA Elon Musk becomes first person in history to surpass a $600 billion net worth
December 15, 2025 at 7:13 PM
"If you owe the bank $100, that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem" but for sovereign nations and trillionaires
Is AI churning these out like songs on Spotify?
Related: did you know Christian fiction authors have branched out into "dark romance fantasy" novels?
December 15, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Is AI churning these out like songs on Spotify?
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this is one of the most psychotic things Trump has ever posted
December 15, 2025 at 2:52 PM
this is one of the most psychotic things Trump has ever posted
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The ravenous, all-consuming narcissism that has rotted the mind of this man requires that every event, every tragedy, every circumstance be ultimately about him. Others in the world do not exist as fully human; they operate only to validate Donald Trump. This is a gross display of mental illness.
Rob Reiner and his wife Michele Singer were murdered. This is how Trump decided to respond.
December 15, 2025 at 4:29 PM
The ravenous, all-consuming narcissism that has rotted the mind of this man requires that every event, every tragedy, every circumstance be ultimately about him. Others in the world do not exist as fully human; they operate only to validate Donald Trump. This is a gross display of mental illness.
Perhaps these should be table stakes for all Dem candidates
"Allowing anyone to possess that much money is an existential danger to American democracy and society. It simultaneously drives them mad with power and gives them the resources to destroy us all, including themselves." prospect.org/2025/03/25/2...
The Existential Threat of Ultra-Billionaires - The American Prospect
A handful of rich guys will burn human society to the ground rather than pay a dime in tax.
prospect.org
December 15, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Perhaps these should be table stakes for all Dem candidates
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"Meta calculated that about 19% of that money – more than $3 billion – was coming from ads for scams, illegal gambling, pornography and other banned content, according to internal Meta documents reviewed by Reuters." www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Meta tolerates rampant ad fraud from China to safeguard billions in revenue
A Reuters investigation reveals the owner of Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp decided to accept high levels of fraudulent advertisements from China. Internal company documents show Meta wanted to mini...
www.reuters.com
December 15, 2025 at 4:54 PM
"Meta calculated that about 19% of that money – more than $3 billion – was coming from ads for scams, illegal gambling, pornography and other banned content, according to internal Meta documents reviewed by Reuters." www.reuters.com/investigatio...
NATO should be the floor, the EU is just a bonus.
BREAKING: Russia has indicated it's open to Ukraine joining the European Union as part of a potential peace deal to end the war, U.S. officials said.
Russia indicates it's open to Ukraine joining EU as part of peace deal to end war, US officials say
U.S. officials say Russia has indicated it’s open to Ukraine joining the European Union as part of a peace deal to end the war.
bit.ly
December 15, 2025 at 4:55 PM
NATO should be the floor, the EU is just a bonus.
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Feverishly working on this
December 15, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Feverishly working on this