Jim Helm

Amateur Radio Extra Class operator (KD9ZZ). Former master control operator in local television. I'm a gatherer of information, useful and otherwise.

[Jackie Singh @HackingButLegal]

WATCH: Emmy-winning reporter and KWQC TV6 morning anchor Dustin Nolan was visibly emotional as he announced on-air Friday that he’s quitting both the station and the news industry. He said the newsroom owed viewers “more than trends or sanitized news”

#quadcities #IApol

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

97 pardoned Jan. 6 rioters have already been returned to prison for new crimes

[NewsWatch Plus PH @newswatchplusph]

A magnitude 7.8 earthquake shook the city of General Santos at 7:37 a.m. on Monday, June 8, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) reported.

https://t.co/JQkKgBuA7t

[ABC News @ABC]

All four air crew members "successfully ejected" after two jets crashed in midair during an air show in Idaho, the Navy said in a statement Sunday, adding that the crew members were being "evaluated by medical personnel." https://t.co/XwGsSPvpdE

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

It was all about white supremacy.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

*BRITISH WRITER PENS THE BEST DESCRIPTION OF TRUMP*
Someone asked "Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?" Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England wrote the following response:
A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed.
So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump's limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.
Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever.
I don't say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman.
But with Trump, it's a fact. He doesn't even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty. Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers.
And scarily, he doesn't just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness. There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It's all surface.
Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don't. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He's not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He's more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.
And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead.
There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless or female – and he kicks them when they are down. So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think 'Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy' is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:
• Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and most are.
• You don't need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.
This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss.
After all, it's impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.

[Not Your Average Liberal @NotAvgLiberal]

Just read it.

Spot On -

An Aussie reply to Trump’s rant about ‘NATO not being there for us’:

“Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.

You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.

Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.

Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.

And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban thanked you very much for losing again.

And you're calling Greenland poorly run?

Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.

"NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.

And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.

So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your fucking mouth.”

[John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz]

If MAGAs want to compare Trump to Christ, why don't they crucify him and see if he gets up on the third day?

[John Schindler @20committee]

If only there'd been signs

[Coinvo @Coinvo]

CRAZY: 🇺🇸 Congressman Goldman showed 'credible FBI receipts' that Trump "unzipped his pants, forced a 13-year-old’s head down, and when she bit his p*nis, he punched her and called her a b*tch!"

"AG Pam Bondi lied under oath about this."

[Cindi 💚🔥💙🖕🏼🫶🏼👻🌞🩷💘✌🏼👊🏼🏖️☃️🌈💧 @cindikg161]

Fuckin never, pig

[RC deWinter @RCdeWinter]

this is completely unacceptable and it's completely heartbreaking and it's completely unnecessary. But this is what happens when parents don't pay attention to their children's development
and let them run roughshod over other people or Christ forbid encourage it.
It's what happens when children see screaming and yelling and insulting others as acceptable behavior
and mimic that behavior because they think it's perfectly OK.
Trump is the perfect example of someone with absolutely no good manners or gentility who insults people left and right and kids growing up in households with Trumper parents who probably applaud this behavior or even imitate it themselves are learning it.
Having lost a child myself although under very different circumstances my heart bleeds for this child's parents. there's nothing in this world that can wipe that pain away and I know the sleepless hours of wondering what could I have done to prevent this that they'll be going through too. You don't get over this. You just make accommodations so you can keep on breathing

[MC Squared @mcsquared34]

As an American it’s cool reading about the Cubans curing lung cancer, the Japanese building 300+ mph high speed trains & China reclaiming the literal desert, meanwhile my government jails women for abortions, hunts the homeless for sport & puts immigrants in concentration camps.

[Brian Stelter @brianstelter]

A second memo from Bari Weiss and Tom Cibrowski says CBS News Radio is shutting down. Here's the memo:

Today, we informed our CBS News Radio team and approximately 700 affiliated stations that we will end the service on May 22, 2026.

Unfortunately, this decision means that all positions within the CBS News Radio team are being eliminated.  We understand how difficult this news is for our staff and their colleagues, who have worked side by side with us to cover some of the most significant stories of our time.

While this was a necessary decision, it was not an easy one.  A shift in radio station programming strategies, coupled with challenging economic realities, has made it impossible to continue the service.  We are sharing this announcement now to fulfill our commitments to our radio partners and affiliates, which require advance notice of the service’s conclusion.

For nearly 100 years, CBS News Radio has delivered original reporting to the nation—from Edward R. Murrow’s World War II reports in London to today’s daily White House updates.  Our signature broadcast, “World News Roundup,” remains the longest-running newscast in the country.  CBS News Radio served as the foundation for everything we have built since 1927.

The coming weeks will be difficult for the team members who have worked tirelessly at CBS News Radio.  We are committed to supporting these valued colleagues with care and respect as we wind down operations.  They have been critical to our success and remain treasured friends and professionals.  We thank them deeply for their contributions.

Thank you all for your dedication and for the compassion you show one another as we move forward.

Bari and Tom

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 BREAKING: The White House has blocked intelligence agencies from warning law enforcement about terror threats to the US homeland linked to the Iran war.

Read that again.

They started an illegal war. Iran struck Azerbaijan, the Gulf states, Tel Aviv, and Dubai. Sleeper cells were activated. And now the White House is preventing intelligence agencies from telling American law enforcement about threats coming home.

The domestic response force deploys in April.
357 members of Congress voted to hide their own sexual misconduct records.

The Pentagon labeled Anthropic a supply chain risk for refusing to build surveillance tools.

And now they’re blocking terror warnings to local police.

They are not protecting you from the war they started.

They are controlling what you’re allowed to know about it.

[Steve Fisher @Stevelfisher]

My story on the raid against Mencho:

Mexico did the raid, fearing if they didn't the U.S. would take Mencho out unilaterally

US Special Forces came to MX and trained elite teams on how to take him down

The CIA and FBI provided his precise location

https://t.co/B4iTcmP5St

[Ioan Grillo @ioangrillo]

This editor wants journalists just to provide quotes for AI. It will lose because journalists need to be motivated to go dig up stories and come out with new ideas, and write their hearts out. This is enraging and sad and rightfully being shunned.

[Pat Ryan 🇺🇸 @PatRyanUC]

$38,300,000,000 of your tax dollars.

Not for healthcare. Not for education. Not for small businesses.

But for mass-detention camps.

It’s flat out UNAMERICAN.

Nobody can sit on the sidelines — it will take all of us fighting back together to stop this.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

An Al Jazeera Arabic Investigation reveals how Israel’s systematic use of internationally prohibited thermal and thermobaric weapons supplied by the US has left no trace of nearly 3,000 Palestinians it killed during its genocidal war on Gaza.

Read more: https://t.co/m8AfIkPHYv

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

Listen to British member of Parliament Ed Davey completely tear Trump apart, calling him, the "most corrupt president America has ever seen" and "an international gangster":

"President Trump is acting like an international gangster, threatened to trample over the sovereignty of an ally, threatening the end of NATO altogether, and now threatening to hit our country and seven European allies with outrageous damaging tariffs unless he gets his hands on Greenland. This is an incredibly grave moment for the United Kingdom, Europe, and the world. He is a bully. The most corrupt president, the United States has ever seen. So there are only two ways to get him to back down: bribing him with a new jet, perhaps, or a few billion in his crypto account."