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Jim Boyd

@bjboyd.bsky.social

Retired journalist. Vietnam vet. Mizzou grad. Nieman Fellow.

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If a pundit was going to defend the Trump ballroom -- and compare it to the Obama library -- of course it would be Ross Douthat. Only Douthat and his newspaper are that silly.

26.10.2025 00:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Anything with black currants isn’t β€œa bad substitute.”

24.10.2025 01:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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wow, which common vaccine was it?

23.10.2025 22:04 β€” πŸ‘ 7925    πŸ” 1785    πŸ’¬ 112    πŸ“Œ 86

Journalist here. Pure horseshit.

21.10.2025 15:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Don’t think it’s working.

20.10.2025 22:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œdoes”

20.10.2025 22:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Is this building not protected by federal statute? Can a president just do whatever he/she wants to it?Where do that authority come from?

20.10.2025 21:20 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

"Yes, yes, it *is* sad that you lost the family farm, but have you heard about the big beautiful ballroom that President Trump is building at the White House? It's going cost a quarter of a billion dollars! Yes, billion, with a b. ... What? ... No, you can't come see it. What a stupid question."

20.10.2025 19:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1746    πŸ” 371    πŸ’¬ 30    πŸ“Œ 5

Plus, Biden had NEVER promised single payer.

20.10.2025 18:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Illegal immigration goes up during Dem administrations for the simple reason that immigrants know Dems are much more likely to treat them humanely if they get caught.

20.10.2025 17:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Tell me the size of Dem congressional majorities during Biden’s one Covid fallout dominated term

20.10.2025 17:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Remember when they said Clinton’s election was illegitimate? For them, only Repubs had right to govern.

20.10.2025 17:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Absolutists like Talmon are a huge problem for Democrats.

20.10.2025 17:21 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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I have never seen such a perfect image

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Now that is what I call a photograph.

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Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod β€’ 22h β€’
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text: Episcopalians on Facebook Elizabeth Rose Elrod β€’ 22h β€’ Exodus 8:2-6 "But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs... The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

15.10.2025 16:10 β€” πŸ‘ 35273    πŸ” 9901    πŸ’¬ 41    πŸ“Œ 563

For the record: I’m funding our inflatables. See you Saturday.

14.10.2025 20:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I would submit that the Portland Frogs and such are an effective way to stand against Trump. They make fun of him. They make fun of ICE, they disprove Trump lies about the violence in Portland. They are far more effective as recruiters for their cause than violent protestors.

13.10.2025 19:51 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Is it just me, or does it seem the press is actually and completely terrified to report about Donald Trump's physical and mental health the way it would have if anyone else were president?

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Federal Judges, Warning of β€˜Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

It's official:

-2025 is now a more threatening year for the survival of the republic than 1968.

-John Roberts will now go down in history as a worse chief justice than Roger "Dred Scott" Taney.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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🀣🀣

10.10.2025 13:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Holly F$&@? Unbelievable

10.10.2025 00:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

No, not give up, but your prescription is weak tea, reflecting not on you but on the compromised situation we face in which the center no longer holds. The Declaration says we have the right to change our government when it no longer is virtuous. How do we do that and no be the Jan. 6 crew?

08.10.2025 01:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This is also really fucking stupid. That war was a mistake that cost 58,000 American lives and roughly 3 million Asian lives. We would not have won.

06.10.2025 00:24 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The Trump-Vance administration is losing the blame game for the shutdown, so they’ve resorted to violating the First Amendment. We sued.

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FFS, you are essentially blaming the Democrats for this. I do not think they covered themselves in glory last spring, but they ARE IN THE MINORITY. They did not initiate this, they are not to blame for this. This kind of writing makes me so angry.

01.10.2025 14:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œAligned” means they got nada.

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😎

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