Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social) reposted
* Trump Family Amasses $6 Billion Fortune After Crypto Launch @wsj.com
Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social) reposted
* Trump Family Amasses $6 Billion Fortune After Crypto Launch @wsj.com
strange american (@jamesjamerson1.bsky.social) reply parent
What if Joe Biden defeats Donald Trump in the 2028 Pres election
strange american (@jamesjamerson1.bsky.social) reply parent
What’s to stop 4 dudes with face coverings and fake ICE uniforms from “arresting” this guy for impersonating law enforcement? Since being an “officer” apparently means whatever you want it to mean in the moment
strange american (@jamesjamerson1.bsky.social) reply parent
How long until the 911 call is verified to be nonexistent
strange american (@jamesjamerson1.bsky.social) reply parent
sounds like you're the one who should vote Republican, dawg
strange american (@jamesjamerson1.bsky.social) reply parent
he does not actually have any data to support this claim lol
strange american (@jamesjamerson1.bsky.social) reply parent
ah ok - no worries, I will eat elsewhere and survive
strange american (@jamesjamerson1.bsky.social) reply parent
the near future of a semi-successful America is an alignment pact between blue-run states to establish a set of acceptable norms through their governments and signal their standards to residents and to non-residents that if they want a particular version of America they should come and live there
strange american (@jamesjamerson1.bsky.social) reply parent
I feel like no news outlet should ever interview her until she casts a truly surprising vote against her party, and then get the "concerned" take
strange american (@jamesjamerson1.bsky.social) reply parent
a coalition of grievance and oppression against agreed-upon enemies can manage to eke out a win here and there (as we've seen twice) but it's untenable once just enough people break off
strange american (@jamesjamerson1.bsky.social) reply parent
this lady always brings up that she used to be a ballerina she knows that when America becomes a white nationalist ethnostate she'll probably be safe anyway but for good measure she's laying the groundwork to be a stenographer for the regime
strange american (@jamesjamerson1.bsky.social) reply parent
"The Kansas City Cheifs have NEVER EVEN WON A SUPER BOWL? And "Tiny" Taylor Swift? NO GRAMMIES. Whose even heard of these two losers?? Not me!"
strange american (@jamesjamerson1.bsky.social) reply parent
the worst part of all of this is that they brought him there to brownnose him like he's never seen before and he *still* looks bored and like he's dying to get out of there these people will never learn there is nothing you can do to get him to like you
strange american (@jamesjamerson1.bsky.social) reply parent
lol can you imagine a single voter out there that's like, "a year in jail for flag burning? that's it - I'm *finally* all in on Trump"
strange american (@jamesjamerson1.bsky.social) reply parent
let's fact-check here - "Beverly Hills, I have friends" stop - first lie: Trump does not have any friends
strange american (@jamesjamerson1.bsky.social) reply parent
this is proof that Trump's mind is failing: he usually remembers to only make these claims for people who are either dead or do not actually exist (see: grown men with tears in their eyes), and not a living verifiable person who can dispute the claim
strange american (@jamesjamerson1.bsky.social) reply parent
You’d think that the Pres proposing to attack *other Americans in America* would change the way they report it, but
strange american (@jamesjamerson1.bsky.social) reply parent
I have bad news for Tom Nichols: I work a lot in the TX Valley and asked a room full of Mexican-Americans once in 2024 what they thought of the phrase “Latinx” and not a single one of them had ever heard of it. The reason anyone has is because of people like Tom making a big deal about it.
strange american (@jamesjamerson1.bsky.social) reply parent
Yet again, every Dem candidate has to answer for and denounce every offensive statement made by some person “on the left”, but when *elected Republicans* make similar statements Republican candidates are never even asked about them
strange american (@jamesjamerson1.bsky.social) reply parent
You are obligated to report on the Russian war on Ukraine as a failure of Trump’s Presidency from here on out
strange american (@jamesjamerson1.bsky.social) reply parent
So weak - just useless
strange american (@jamesjamerson1.bsky.social) reply parent
to be clear, he wants to go and incite violence with his thug troops in Chicago, and *wants* the people being targeted to fight back so he can turn and say "see? I was right - look at how violent they are"
strange american (@jamesjamerson1.bsky.social) reply parent
Can’t wait to post a pic of my Old Timer’s Breakfast complete with biscuits and gravy with the caption “the MAGA mind cannot comprehend this”
strange american (@jamesjamerson1.bsky.social) reply parent
As a leftie who grew up in a red area I’m excited to to own MAGA by starting to dine at CB again because their food is good
strange american (@jamesjamerson1.bsky.social) reply parent
I bet they didn’t even eat there after posting this
strange american (@jamesjamerson1.bsky.social) reply parent
every time there is a mass shooting Republicans urge us not to discuss gun restrictions but that we need to focus on policies related to "mental health" but when confronted with actually having to deal with mental health as a policy matter, this is what always happens
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
The tone of this video is completely wild. It's filmed like a high school media class project. It looks like it too; the presentation and graphics are amateurish. And yet it's chilling, because she's a real government spokesperson dismissing reports of abuses in detention with finger quotes.
strange american (@jamesjamerson1.bsky.social) reply parent
Yglesias is the guy who drafts the “best” kicker in the 7th round and tells everyone how strategic of a move it is while the guy who wins the league waits until the last round to draft whichever kicker is available because he knows it doesn’t matter
strange american (@jamesjamerson1.bsky.social) reply parent
“White power hair, don’t care”
strange american (@jamesjamerson1.bsky.social) reply parent
Once Americans start having to pay high prices for basic meds imported from China they will be outraged Of course Trump will be long gone when it happens
strange american (@jamesjamerson1.bsky.social) reply parent
What’s next - a cover story on the New Black Panther Party and its 6 members taking over the US?
strange american (@jamesjamerson1.bsky.social) reply parent
Trump in 2015: "what if I just never apologize or even admit when I've done something bad or failed? why don't politicians ever try that? it probably doesn't work but what have I got to lose, right?" Trump in 2025: "it worked"
Adam Keiper (@adamkeiper.com) reposted reply parent
I like this concise explanation for how Germany fell into line behind the Nazis, written by a journalist in 1939 and quoted in Richard J. Evans's 'The Coming of the Third Reich' (2003). (2/6)
strange american (@jamesjamerson1.bsky.social) reply parent
me, a couple of years ago watching the clip of that ex-rugby player on the Seahawks scramble and do a killer dropkick after rebounding a block: I am very busy but it is necessary for me to care about punting now
strange american (@jamesjamerson1.bsky.social) reply parent
I agree with Dr. Oz that Medicaid recipients - mostly elderly white people in rural America - should not spend 6.1 hours per day watching Fox News and ought to do something else with their time
strange american (@jamesjamerson1.bsky.social) reply parent
G for President '28
strange american (@jamesjamerson1.bsky.social) reply parent
“that my friends and I had been struggling to solve” can you imagine where we’d be today if they had won that struggle??? utopia, no doubt
strange american (@jamesjamerson1.bsky.social) reply parent
I’ll say it a million times: NYT writers and mgmt never ever encounter any of these type of people in real life so when they do they only know how to filter them through the NYT reality “immigrants are ruining this country” becomes “economic anxiety” bc they can’t rationalize actual racism
strange american (@jamesjamerson1.bsky.social) reply parent
there will be TikTok reels of a clip of Benny Johnson saying "liberal college students are FUMING about the indictment of Bill Clinton", followed by a clip of actual liberal college students holding signs with Clinton's face shouting "lock him up", while some dude makes a confused face
strange american (@jamesjamerson1.bsky.social) reply parent
how to destroy your hundred-years-old academic reputation in a few short months why would any Ivy League-bound undergrad pick Columbia over another school with the weight of a diploma from there in grave doubt in their post-collegiate life
strange american (@jamesjamerson1.bsky.social) reply parent
“People who dislike this movie are wrong” “That’s a ridiculous take” “You just be joking” This is me in high school - “if you hate this album you are an idiot” - before I realized that you can use numerous descriptive words to describe how you feel
strange american (@jamesjamerson1.bsky.social) reply parent
False equivalence
strange american (@jamesjamerson1.bsky.social) reply parent
in case there are any journalists at major organizations reading this who are looking for a big story: the US House of Representatives decided to STOP GOVERNING TO AVOID TALKING ABOUT TRUMP AND EPSTEIN
strange american (@jamesjamerson1.bsky.social) reply parent
uhhh what is up with this recent uptick in 30-44yos
strange american (@jamesjamerson1.bsky.social) reply parent
for him to try and mobilize the base this hard against Obama (who he genuinely likes and is envious of, and because he knows how much his supporters hate O) means Trump is really feeling the squeeze on the leaking Epstein news
strange american (@jamesjamerson1.bsky.social) reply parent
hey - wanna see a Dem Pres candidate lose Illinois?
strange american (@jamesjamerson1.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes, the movie *profoundly* portrays Phoenix’s character as the one with whom to sympathize and not Pascal’s and his son’s
strange american (@jamesjamerson1.bsky.social) reply parent
I mean the movie’s only sympathetic characters are anti-mask and anti-BLM, so
strange american (@jamesjamerson1.bsky.social) reply parent
It’s bad But I watched it in a packed theatre on a Sat nite and had 3 good drinks and I do not regret having gone one bit
strange american (@jamesjamerson1.bsky.social) reply parent
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The Onion (@theonion.com) reposted
Trump Urges Supporters To Move On From Societal Disdain For Pedophilia
strange american (@jamesjamerson1.bsky.social) reply parent
Hillary Clinton: I deleted thousands of emails bc they were intimate and embarrassing Right-wing and mainstream media: ah, we get it, happens to the best of us, we’ll just move on and not make a big deal about it
strange american (@jamesjamerson1.bsky.social) reply parent
The traditional news media is dead
Laura Kowalski Linden (@samoart.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Further context: If you’ve never dealt with FEMA after a disaster I can tell you they answer within 30 seconds. No hold times. Real live wonderful people who help while you cry and can’t even figure out what questions to ask. They walk you through it all. Every call. NOEM STOLE THAT $ FOR ICE
jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) reposted
oh, we have some straightforward gutter racism. “the blacks and the browns are the reason white people can’t get ahead” www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
strange american (@jamesjamerson1.bsky.social) reply parent
that's only for red states
strange american (@jamesjamerson1.bsky.social) reply parent
I used to think no one hated other immigrants more than my immigrant grandfather but realized over time he was not one of a kind
strange american (@jamesjamerson1.bsky.social) reply parent
then just join the military, losers
strange american (@jamesjamerson1.bsky.social) reply parent
sorry that God didn't save your child - must have been a good reason because everything he does is perfect
strange american (@jamesjamerson1.bsky.social) reply parent
for anyone who still can't understand how people of immigrant descent (including actual illegal immigrants in the US) to be anti-immigrant, please read her quote of "he doesn't like bad immigrants... he likes good immigrants" it is extremely easy for an immigrant to declare themselves the latter
strange american (@jamesjamerson1.bsky.social) reply parent
WaPo BREAKING: Kids Are in More Danger Because They’re Little
strange american (@jamesjamerson1.bsky.social) reply parent
I've never done a Wordle, but I hear that a lot of folks patronize NYT just for that - please stop it
strange american (@jamesjamerson1.bsky.social) reply parent
it's worse than that: they want to GAIN conservative readers by aligning with their values and think they will also keep their devout liberal readers
strange american (@jamesjamerson1.bsky.social) reply parent
this grift is super easy on people who’ve never met anyone interesting in their regular lives and are incapable of identifying a bs persona
strange american (@jamesjamerson1.bsky.social) reply parent
If Sam Altman had to spend a month living in the Ozarks he would think it was fun and quaint for the first 5 days and then he’d find some lame excuse to fly back to CA because he couldn’t do it any longer
strange american (@jamesjamerson1.bsky.social) reply parent
And at some point there will be numerous stories of ICE agents - many of whom are Latin, and for which that number is about to grow - seeing their family members deported, but they will just continue their jobs of deportation
strange american (@jamesjamerson1.bsky.social) reply parent
What’s worse is that it will take a few years for these effects to be truly felt By then the Dems will have taken back the House, and Trump will say, “it’s the Communist Democrats, folks!” And they will all believe him
strange american (@jamesjamerson1.bsky.social) reply parent
If it starts in the next 2 years Matk Cuban will win the 2028 Pres election in a landslide
strange american (@jamesjamerson1.bsky.social) reply parent
In 20 years there is going to be an Oscar-winning movie of a fictionalized version of an actual event of a Dreamer Marine deporting immigrants in hopes it will solidify his Americaness and then his entire family gets deported and he has no power to stop it and just continues deporting people
strange american (@jamesjamerson1.bsky.social) reply parent
Kamala’s Amer— wait, what happened?
Travis View (@travisview.bsky.social) reposted
Damn, they’re actually going to do it.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@aoc.bsky.social) reposted
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
GOLIKEHELLMACHINE (@golikehellmachine.com) reposted
idk how to tell rural americans who vote for republicans that the republican plan for those americans is to just get sick and die. it just is. that’s it. die and stop costing the country money, that’s money they think rich people should have.
strange american (@jamesjamerson1.bsky.social) reply parent
DeSantis: "we call the women's showers the Joy Division because I hear the ladies are just having a ball in there"
strange american (@jamesjamerson1.bsky.social) reply parent
@schumer.senate.gov if you want to make this be the main thing Senate Republicans have to take questions about for weeks you have that power, if you care to use it
strange american (@jamesjamerson1.bsky.social) reply parent
me, a low-info voter, seeing this chyron: wait - are Republicans anti-baby now?
strange american (@jamesjamerson1.bsky.social) reply parent
this is like pure Rod Dreher stuff [begins tirade on the attack on the Western white working class] "on my latest excursion to Prague -"
strange american (@jamesjamerson1.bsky.social) reply parent
has Jake said anything about Stephen Miller being openly white nationalist, or does that not matter to him
strange american (@jamesjamerson1.bsky.social) reply parent
The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted
WATCH: “This is f*cking kidnapping! That’s not your badge… I do have a little bit of education… get the f*ck out of here, racial profiling is illegal…” A brave woman melts ice 🧊 💪🏽 www.instagram.com/reel/DLOWbEs...
strange american (@jamesjamerson1.bsky.social) reply parent
Kids
strange american (@jamesjamerson1.bsky.social) reply parent
Would like to see what happens when those Marines visit those Border Patrol agents
strange american (@jamesjamerson1.bsky.social) reply parent
Most, if not all, of these Border Patrol officers are of Mexican descent, and most of them descended from illegal immigration (though they will deny it)
strange american (@jamesjamerson1.bsky.social) reply parent
I guess you should just stop writing forever?
Molly Knight (@mollyknight.bsky.social) reposted
ICE spokesman is trying to say these people in the video below are not ICE. Well then: who are they?
strange american (@jamesjamerson1.bsky.social) reply parent
Dude is gonna lose the 2028 GOP primary so hard
strange american (@jamesjamerson1.bsky.social) reply parent
Also, all those non-college guys that they are referring to: if they met Derek Thompson or Nate Silver in real life without knowing who they were they would just call them the f-word and then ignore them, yet Derek and Nate find them so enigmatic and interesting
strange american (@jamesjamerson1.bsky.social) reply parent
Tucker Carlson being a better interviewer than Kristen Welker or Margaret Brennan is sad
strange american (@jamesjamerson1.bsky.social) reply parent
once she publicly goes full MAGA (probably in a piece the Atlantic will proudly publish), she will say, "see? I tried to be part of the left but they are godless and rabid and were mean to me for no reason so I had no choice but to leave", and every right-wing publication will race to interview her
strange american (@jamesjamerson1.bsky.social) reply parent
No esteemed journalist has ever been more pathetic than this:
strange american (@jamesjamerson1.bsky.social) reply parent
“Love him or hate him, it’s undeniable Hitler had rizz”
strange american (@jamesjamerson1.bsky.social) reply parent
So sad that they put up the protective glass with no threats - or even supporters - around to justify the cost
strange american (@jamesjamerson1.bsky.social) reply parent
no kings - except for that worker 👑
strange american (@jamesjamerson1.bsky.social) reply parent
and this, folks, is why you aren't allowed to dress up as law enforcement, and why it's bad when law enforcement are masked and unidentifiable, and why they shouldn't use force on nonviolent protestors, and why it's really bad that the US government - sorry, Republican Party - doesn't care
strange american (@jamesjamerson1.bsky.social) reply parent
suspect shows up at the protest dressed as a cop (yet to be ID'd as the killer) at some point he starts screaming at the crowd and starts shooting the real cops, while shocked by his actions, are then distracted by retaliation from the protestors some of the real cops start shooting too there you go
strange american (@jamesjamerson1.bsky.social) reply parent
and we all know if they were Republicans it would be in every headline
strange american (@jamesjamerson1.bsky.social) reply parent
The dad using ChatGPT to write the obit is Black Mirror territory
strange american (@jamesjamerson1.bsky.social) reply parent
Can all the blue cities just secede and create a new country