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Jim Craner

@craner.bsky.social

Library technologist and raconteur from the Midwest. (He/him)

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Screenshot of a tweet from Aaron Blake that reads: 

Trump announces he's transferring $10 billion from the US government to his "Board of Peace," which critics have likened to a giant slush fund Trump will control.

Screenshot of a tweet from Aaron Blake that reads: Trump announces he's transferring $10 billion from the US government to his "Board of Peace," which critics have likened to a giant slush fund Trump will control.

Now look, I get that I’m not a high powered Dem consultant, but is there a reason we can’t run on seizing the FUCKING SLUSH FUND Trump is setting up and sending every criminal in this administration, including but not limited to those in DHS/CBP/ICE to fucking jail? Is that not a thing we can do?

19.02.2026 17:38 β€” πŸ‘ 657    πŸ” 226    πŸ’¬ 23    πŸ“Œ 11

I've played once every couple of months for a decade - but always on a tablet - and now you've really got me wondering.

19.02.2026 18:07 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Night Lights #oilpainting #art

19.02.2026 03:33 β€” πŸ‘ 5709    πŸ” 611    πŸ’¬ 100    πŸ“Œ 15

When Joe Biden told Trump welcome home it was a fucking betrayal. A betrayal of his campaign and of core American values. But we’re supposed to shut up about it cause it makes you feel bad? GTFO

19.02.2026 12:57 β€” πŸ‘ 122    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0
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We cannot be silent.
wordandway.org/2026/02/18/4...

19.02.2026 02:39 β€” πŸ‘ 38    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

What happens when they seize and close the Blue County Boards of Elections in mid-October so no ballots or boxes make it to ANY polling place?

18.02.2026 02:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Cool. Which ones?

18.02.2026 01:41 β€” πŸ‘ 46    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 6
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Babe Ruth hit 149 home runs after Robert Duvall was born.

16.02.2026 18:28 β€” πŸ‘ 474    πŸ” 69    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 8

Sorry your health insurance costs so much more this year, we needed to make fancy airplanes for illiterate dog-murderers

17.02.2026 05:38 β€” πŸ‘ 5403    πŸ” 1062    πŸ’¬ 46    πŸ“Œ 22
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Wow.

17.02.2026 03:59 β€” πŸ‘ 35123    πŸ” 16297    πŸ’¬ 1253    πŸ“Œ 2420

The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel. The rabbit shrieks dying in the green meadows. The mountains clench their great hands full of hidden fire. There are sharks in the sea, and there is cruelty in men’s eyes.

17.02.2026 11:30 β€” πŸ‘ 59    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Rahm sucks. we’re all there at least, right?

16.02.2026 23:40 β€” πŸ‘ 605    πŸ” 35    πŸ’¬ 44    πŸ“Œ 6

I thought the depth of feeling came from him harping on Old Biden while comparatively ignoring Old AND Clearly Unfit Trump.

16.02.2026 15:45 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

15.02.2026 17:30 β€” πŸ‘ 41333    πŸ” 13996    πŸ’¬ 661    πŸ“Œ 594
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18 Days, 20 Lives: New Yorkers Who Didn’t Survive the Cold (Gift Article) Freezing days and nights claimed the lives of a grandmother, a dancer, a dispatcher and a man who lived among a colony of feral cats.

extremely well-done story.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

16.02.2026 07:49 β€” πŸ‘ 109    πŸ” 23    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

douglas adams was our most accurate futurist

15.02.2026 22:10 β€” πŸ‘ 10939    πŸ” 2776    πŸ’¬ 110    πŸ“Œ 33

They aren't just breaking the social contract, they're shredding it and throwing the pieces on the ground and pissing all over them while they laugh at the shock on our faces.

I think we're going to see the longest hottest summer of our lifetimes in the US.

15.02.2026 18:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

There are certain tactics which are universally condemned because they do ultimate and lasting harms.

You don't do foreign ops by claiming you're medical personnel...or you can't do medicine because of generational suspicion.

When they claim to need help or are in distress to do harm? Same shit.

15.02.2026 18:27 β€” πŸ‘ 166    πŸ” 54    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 4

There are two kinds of people in the world:

People who suffered, and think because of that, everyone else should suffer the way they did because otherwise it's not fair.

People who suffered, and think because of that, no one else should have to suffer either.

Be the second.

15.02.2026 18:33 β€” πŸ‘ 288    πŸ” 65    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 3

Obama continues to talk around the issue and isn’t meeting the moment

15.02.2026 14:32 β€” πŸ‘ 283    πŸ” 34    πŸ’¬ 37    πŸ“Œ 1

You're right, you're right, but there is one man who can help us, Inspector Gadget! He'd know!

15.02.2026 09:01 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon.

Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.

14.02.2026 21:47 β€” πŸ‘ 11874    πŸ” 3585    πŸ’¬ 145    πŸ“Œ 470
watercolour of a battle between british and french sailing ships.

watercolour of a battle between british and french sailing ships.

1804. Oceans are now Battlefields.

In the South China Sea a British convoy worth almost Β£1bn today is spotted by the French.

It should be a massacre.

Instead, Commodore Nathanial Dance is about to defeat a French battle squadron using some paint and the most overplayed hand in #navalHistory. /1 🧡

02.05.2025 10:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1180    πŸ” 458    πŸ’¬ 21    πŸ“Œ 88

If u get a traffic ticket and don't pay it the court can and very often will issue a bench warrant for your arrest by the police

14.02.2026 12:01 β€” πŸ‘ 142    πŸ” 39    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 3
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America is so fucked not sure people realize how different this country is gonna be real fast

14.02.2026 04:43 β€” πŸ‘ 61    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 3

Stop all conversation when axis nationals or quislings enter a cafe.

14.02.2026 11:35 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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There Should Be No Poor Among You There should be no poor among you (Deuteronomy 15:4) The Bible has an interesting sub-theme – a motif that runs through almost every page. Taking verses out of context ignores or obliterates, ahem…

There Should Be No Poor Among You redletterchristians.org/2026/02/05/t...

14.02.2026 05:04 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Imagining one of those Borgs with a little rotating saw for a hand, cutting sandwiches diagonally

14.02.2026 04:02 β€” πŸ‘ 28    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Cassie Pritchard on AI Good thread, deserved permanent link

From the other place, because it was good

14.02.2026 02:18 β€” πŸ‘ 75    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 3

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