Jim Roberts

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Full-time student of the news & long-time follower of the Grateful Dead. This is the season of what.

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RFK Jr. campaign in disarray. Staffers are walking out the door amid complaints about disorganization, lavish spending, amateurish leadership. www.mediaite.com/politics/the...

‘The Campaign Is a Mess’: RFK Jr. Hit With Staff Exodus Over ‘Lavish Spending’ and ‘Amateurish’ Leadershipwww.mediaite.com Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s campaign is in disarray amid an exodus of campaign workers over disorganization, lavish spending and amateurish leadership.

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Bill Post, who helped invent the Pop-Tart, leading the baking company team that developed a toaster-friendly breakfast food with a fruity filling, a thin pastry crust and an ineffable Space Age sweetness, died Feb. 10. He was 96.

Bill Post, an inventor of the Pop-Tart, dies at 96www.washingtonpost.com After leading the baking team that developed the toaster-friendly snack in 1963, he became an executive and spent two decades as a consultant for Kellogg’s.

United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain absolutely torches Donald Trump as he attempts to court the union. https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/18/trump-skip-second-gop-debate-autoworkers-00116625

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Elon Musk plans to remove headlines from news articles shared on X

Elon Musk wants to get rid of this headlinefortune.com Tweets containing news article links will be stripped of headlines and other metadata (like this very sentence). Instead, X, formerly Twitter, plans to display only an image and a URL.

A Swiss weather balloon had to climb to an unprecedented 5,300 metres (17,400ft) before the temperature fell to 0C (32F). "A record since monitoring began in 1954.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Zero-degree line at record height above Switzerland as heat and fire hit Europewww.theguardian.com Weather balloon climbs to 5,300 metres before temperature falls to 0C amid late summer heatwave

Racketeering defendant declares: “Can you believe it? I’ll be going to Atlanta, Georgia, on Thursday to be ARRESTED." Can believe it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023...

Donald Trump says he will surrender to Fulton county authorities on Thursdaywww.theguardian.com ‘Can you believe it?’ ex-president says in post announcing his imminent booking for his alleged role in subverting the 2020 election

Long-range supersonic Russian bomber is destroyed in a Ukrainian drone strike at airbase near St Petersburg, @BBCNews reports. *Russia says the jet was "damaged." *Photo suggests that's an understatement. www.bbc.com/news/world-e...

Ukrainian drone destroys Russian supersonic bomberwww.bbc.com An image shows a Tu-22 ablaze after an attack at an air base near St Petersburg.

The twice-impeached and four-times-indicted former president chooses to ditch the GOP debate and instead do a video interview with a former Fox News host whose recent biography is tanking on a social network that itself has seen its following collapse. Stable genius? www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

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Mike Pence on Trump's indictment: "Today's indictment serves as an important reminder: Anyone who puts himself over the Constitution should never be President of the United States."

One of the best things I've read recently about the Hunter Biden mess: Opinion/How Joe Biden’s compassion for his son blew up in his face. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/08/01/hunter-biden-joe-mental-health/

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[GOP during Trump’s impeachments] we don't need to convict, let the courts handle it [GOP now] no not like that

Republicans dominate in Florida. Abortion and weed could change that. (At least that's what state Democrats are hoping.) https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/30/democrats-florida-abortion-marijuana-00108829

Republicans dominate in Florida. Abortion and pot could change that.www.politico.com Democrats hope two initiatives will "have a transformative impact" in the state.

Much credit to the New York Times for all of the deep reporting and photojournalism that went into this report: A Climate Warning from the Cradle of Civilization. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/29/world/middleeast/iraq-water-crisis-desertification.html

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Lady Gaga posts tribute to the late Tony Bennett: “All I wanted was for Tony to remember how much I loved him and how grateful I was to have him in my life.”

Aretha Franklin's sons fight over handwritten wills. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66158755

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Former Twitter employee resigns with “Rate limit exceeded” cake

The defendant wants his Espionage Act trial delayed until after the 2024 election. Of course he does. https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/11/trump-classified-documents-trial-date-2024-00105565

Agreed: Summer’s here. Travel, for many of us, is not just wonderful but essential | Jill Filipovic via @theguardian.bsky.social https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/11/summer-travel-agnes-callard-the-new-yorker?CMP=share_btn_tw

Summer’s here. Travel, for many of us, is not just wonderful but essential | Jill Filipovicwww.theguardian.com Agnes Callard has her view – but we’d be better off if more people were willing to experience new places with open minds

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My latest in The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/11/sign-up-threads-100-million-users-judgement-elon-musk-mark-zuckerberg?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Threads may be the ‘Twitter killer.’ But let the user beware | Margaret Sullivanwww.theguardian.com Can 100 million new users be wrong? You bet

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Some straight up media criticism from me here, in memory of Eric Boehlert https://margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/media-maelstrom-enough-already-mainstream?utm_medium=email

Joe Biden curses. Stop the presses. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/jul/09/bbc-suspends-presenter-accused-of-paying-teenager-for-explicit-images

JetBlue says it will end alliance with American to save Spirit merger deal. https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/05/business/jetblue-alliance-american-airlines-spirit/index.html?_hsmi=265390043&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_bC9vdN3785k4LCLX4OlWrYaSSIO94VTOg5HB7XLvfqlyRYGXf-gUnkl23z_Fb0Ux98nxTxQtX8V5zS-6bL1dBl0ER2g

JetBlue says it will end alliance with American to save Spirit merger deal | CNN Businesswww.cnn.com JetBlue Airways, seeking to protect a planned $3.8 billion purchase of Spirit Airlines, said on Wednesday it would follow a US judge’s May order that it end an alliance with American Airlines.

Something is gravely wrong with planet Earth. https://apnews.com/article/global-heat-climate-extremes-2023-95f6861b1312ead54ed941524fa7d2ab

The Biden administration seems to be on the verge of providing Ukraine with cluster munitions, which are banned by many US allies. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/06/us/politics/biden-ukraine-cluster-bombs.html

Biden Weighs Giving Ukraine Weapons Banned by Many U.S. Allieswww.nytimes.com Ukraine is seeking cluster munitions, which are known to cause grievous injuries to civilians, as its ammunition supply runs low.

Putting Moms for Liberty into historic context. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/06/moms-for-liberty-long-history-rightwing-activism

Moms for Liberty is part of a long history of rightwing mothers’ activism in the US | Michael Feol...www.theguardian.com While mothers’ movements are often associated with projects of social welfare, a counter-tradition has pursued staunchly conservative aims

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers Uses Veto Power To Increase School Funding … For 400 Years. *Republicans are in a total freak-out. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tony-evers-line-item-veto-school-funding_n_64a60424e4b0b6417634ceb8

Wisconsin Governor Uses Veto Power To Increase School Funding… For 400 Yearswww.huffpost.com The increase was set to expire after the 2024-2025 school year. Now it will last until 2425.

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Wait For US Passports Creates Travel Purgatory, Snarls Summer Plans 🟪 Bias C https://www.voanews.com/a/wait-for-us-passports-creates-travel-purgatory-snarls-summer-plans-/7167688.html

threads vs bluesky vs twitter? how do you manage your output across three platforms? really curious how this is going to happen.

After days of riots, French President Macron wants to shut down social media "when things get out of hand." Which is what authoritarian leaders tend to do. https://www.lemonde.fr/en/pixels/article/2023/07/05/macron-suggests-blocking-social-media-during-riots_6043565_13.html

The so-called law-and-order party goes after the heart of the nation's law-and-order apparatus. Proving just how little the GOP cares about the rule of law. (Unless, of course, they are controlling it.)

Inside the House GOP's plan to go after FBI and DOJwww.politico.com Republicans are escalating a multi-pronged fight against their two biggest political boogeymen. It goes far beyond just trying to impeach Attorney General Merrick Garland.