Jim Witkins
Comms/healthcare, progressive politics, climate solutions, YIMBY, travel, science, art, books, sports, music, hiking, gardening, Madison, WI community.
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- Trump Confesses Migrants Aren't the Criminals He Claimed They Are www.emptywheel.net/2025/05/16/t...
- "India on Tuesday reiterated its rejection of US President Donald Trump's offer to mediate" Also, India says the US did not help broker the ceasefire timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/...
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- Trump is tearing down the system that is responsible for this extraordinary health breakthrough. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/h...
- When will I get a long investigative piece from the Times or the Atlantic on why this man with his pudding brain has become obsessed with the word ‘groceries’. Obsessed.
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- Yes! And please tell everyone you know they really need to fill all five spots on their ballot.
- When we say “DON’T RANK Andrew Cuomo for Mayor!”, we’re also saying DO RANK these candidates and fill out your ballot (in no particular order): ✅ Adrienne Adams ✅ @bradlander.bsky.social ✅ @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social ✅ @zellnor.bsky.social ✅ @jessicaramosqns.bsky.social
- I hope I live long enough to see her in prison.
- Cool kid
- These are some truly sick people
- Anyone who has worked on intelligence matters understands the importance of apolitical analysis and speaking truth to power. In firing intel officials who did just that, Gabbard proved once again that she is unfit for her position.
- We can’t keep our country safe if intelligence analysts are pressured to lie to keep their jobs.
- These really are sick people... what's next? Making nonwhite immigrants fight wild animals in a stadium with the option of death or a green card? What in the puppy killing hell is this???
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- There is no hell deep enough to contain the people involved with this
- The American public is broadly supportive of maintaining federal science and medical research funding, and against punishing universities by taking their funding away, according to a new poll:
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- how much of the DOGE-driven destruction of the nation’s research and development capacity is because these people are AI cultists who believe that we’re on the verge of creating a sentient general intelligence?
- What’s supposed to happen? If my daughter is out and masked men grab her, claiming they’re ICE, drag her away w/out letting her prove she’s a citizen… w/out calling me, her dad… what is she supposed to do? Does she not have the right to fight back, as we have taught her, to free herself. Run? 1.
- Can we just fix the airports and work on planes crashing?
- never let anybody tell u that evil does not exist
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- The Boss opened his European tour with a fiery speech that has everyone talking—and now you can see it for yourself.
- Meiselas: They’re going through this because people like Trump and others are the ones doing it to them. And the people causing the pain have managed to convince the people they’re inflicting it on that they’re actually helping them. They’re not.
- All this about the families and heirs of Pete Rose and Shoeless Joe. How about the family of Roberto Clemente, who now may have to see his Hall of Fame status cheapened by inclusion of reprobates and degenerates? My (outraged) thoughts. www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/...
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- EVERY Member of Congress should be demanding an end to Israel’s forced starvation of over a million children in Gaza, for food and medical aid to be allowed in, and for a permanent ceasefire. Thank you to @welch.senate.gov and these Senators taking a stand.
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- someone tell jake tapper and the rest of the dc media club that theres an elderly out of touch man with his hands on the nukes. oh wait, he's a republican. doesnt count.
- This is a HUGE scandal. Elon Musk, JD Vance, and Trump are lying about Social Security fraud. Internal documents show DOGE found "no significant fraud"—but did slow retirement claim processing by 25%. Nothing efficient about making it harder for people to get their benefits.
- Sean Duffy blames antiquated government email systems for the fact air traffic controllers received "fork in the road" emails offering resignations
- RFK seems to have lied to Congress a lot
- We 👏 Still 👏 Don’t 👏 Know 👏What 👏 Kash 👏 Patel 👏 Did 👏 as 👏 a 👏 Consultant 👏 for 👏 Qatar
- MORE. OF. THIS.
- Dereliction of duty.
- so the members of congress just stopped going to el salvador and not a single person who was illegally sent there has been returned and that’s just how it is now?
- ICE not legal! "Many of these detentions are happening without legal warrants during the detention process," said Veronica Frenkel, of Indivisible Northern NV. These deportations are so rushed that people aren't getting the opportunity to speak to an attorney before they are transferred elsewhere."
- @indivisiblennv.bsky.social and Reno thank you for showing up www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1ce...
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- Elon Musk wants permission to launch more rockets from Cape Canaveral—a lot more. The FAA is accepting public comments on Musk's plan through May 15.
