James "Wheatbread" Martin
@jamesnotjim.bsky.social
musician • educator • reader • father • husband • left liberal • anti-fascist • ally • friend of birds • https://jamesnotjim.com
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JamesNotJim | Funk & Ambient Music
jamesnotjim.com
When I’m not snarking about politics on the socials, I make instrumental music. You can find it here: https://jamesnotjim.com
2026 would be a good year to start taxing billionaires and churches.
December 28, 2025 at 4:33 PM
2026 would be a good year to start taxing billionaires and churches.
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This is how you know a wealth tax is the right thing to do
December 28, 2025 at 3:50 PM
This is how you know a wealth tax is the right thing to do
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December 28, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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The GOP has really leaned in to singling out Somalis for very explicit racism. Ron Johnson and the rest of the party are just loathsome, un-American people.
Ron Johnson: "Understand, Somalis have just been in this country a few years. They're amateurs when it comes to fleecing the federal government."
December 28, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The GOP has really leaned in to singling out Somalis for very explicit racism. Ron Johnson and the rest of the party are just loathsome, un-American people.
Supreme Court Upholds Block to Trump’s Chicago Military Takeover
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 23, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Since the Internet Archive has popped back into relevance tonight, just an FYI: It's one of a handful of tech nonprofits that have low-key become super important *in general* over the years, and perhaps especially this year.
I feel like there’s a story to be done on the under-recognized importance of tech nonprofits to modern journalism.
E.g.:
• Signal
• RECAP/Courtlistener
• Internet Archive/Wayback Machine
• Wikipedia/Wikimedia
See also: nonprofit outlets like AP, ProPublica, and RNS, obvi.
E.g.:
• Signal
• RECAP/Courtlistener
• Internet Archive/Wayback Machine
• Wikipedia/Wikimedia
See also: nonprofit outlets like AP, ProPublica, and RNS, obvi.
December 23, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Since the Internet Archive has popped back into relevance tonight, just an FYI: It's one of a handful of tech nonprofits that have low-key become super important *in general* over the years, and perhaps especially this year.
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This:
Since the Internet Archive has popped back into relevance tonight, just an FYI: It's one of a handful of tech nonprofits that have low-key become super important *in general* over the years, and perhaps especially this year.
I feel like there’s a story to be done on the under-recognized importance of tech nonprofits to modern journalism.
E.g.:
• Signal
• RECAP/Courtlistener
• Internet Archive/Wayback Machine
• Wikipedia/Wikimedia
See also: nonprofit outlets like AP, ProPublica, and RNS, obvi.
E.g.:
• Signal
• RECAP/Courtlistener
• Internet Archive/Wayback Machine
• Wikipedia/Wikimedia
See also: nonprofit outlets like AP, ProPublica, and RNS, obvi.
December 23, 2025 at 12:41 AM
This:
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⚠️ | This massive list has now been significantly updated. You'll be shocked by how many violations of federal law the Trump Administration has already been caught in as to its hoax release of—we're now learning—only 1% of the Epstein files.
There's a reason many are talking DOJ impeachments.
There's a reason many are talking DOJ impeachments.
PROOF EXCLUSIVE: Itemizing Every Violation of the Epstein Files Transparency Act By the Trump Administration
Major media reports confirm that (a) Trump is personally overseeing the case—and thus all violations of federal law now known—and (b) those running the show day-to-day are all his lawyer-agents.
open.substack.com
December 20, 2025 at 9:50 PM
⚠️ | This massive list has now been significantly updated. You'll be shocked by how many violations of federal law the Trump Administration has already been caught in as to its hoax release of—we're now learning—only 1% of the Epstein files.
There's a reason many are talking DOJ impeachments.
There's a reason many are talking DOJ impeachments.
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[email protected] : Were you satisfied with the answers you’ve gotten so far in this classified briefing on Venezuela?
AOC: Oh, hell no. It was a joke. This was not a serious intelligence briefing. This was the communication of an opinion.
AOC: Oh, hell no. It was a joke. This was not a serious intelligence briefing. This was the communication of an opinion.
December 16, 2025 at 7:44 PM
[email protected] : Were you satisfied with the answers you’ve gotten so far in this classified briefing on Venezuela?
AOC: Oh, hell no. It was a joke. This was not a serious intelligence briefing. This was the communication of an opinion.
AOC: Oh, hell no. It was a joke. This was not a serious intelligence briefing. This was the communication of an opinion.
Good. Worth the click-through for the chart. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Trump's approval rating slips to 39%, economy weighs, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds
President Donald Trump's approval rating slipped in recent days to nearly its lowest level of his current term as voters from his Republican Party soured on his handling of the economy, according to a...
www.reuters.com
December 16, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Good. Worth the click-through for the chart. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
I learned about Pete Coones in a @datelinenbc.bsky.social episode. Such a sad story: themip.org/clients/olin...
Olin "Pete" Coones - Midwest Innocence Project
Statement on the passing of Olin “Pete” Coones, Jr. It is with great sorrow and outrage that the Midwest Innocence Project and the law firm of Morgan Pilate announce that exoneree Olin “Pete” Coones...
themip.org
December 15, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I learned about Pete Coones in a @datelinenbc.bsky.social episode. Such a sad story: themip.org/clients/olin...
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Tomorrow, the Trump admin economic team will resume their daily ritual of insisting to the American people that the economic pain they are experiencing is either not happening or is Biden’s fault.
December 5, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Tomorrow, the Trump admin economic team will resume their daily ritual of insisting to the American people that the economic pain they are experiencing is either not happening or is Biden’s fault.
The Right: “There’s no such thing as institutional racism.” Also the Right:
🚨BREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 6-3 decision, has granted Texas’ request to stay a lower court ruling blocking it from using a heavily gerrymandered congressional map the state legislature passed at the behest of President Donald Trump. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
SCOTUS Allows Texas to Use Racially Gerrymandered Map in 2026 Midterm Elections
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:59 PM
The Right: “There’s no such thing as institutional racism.” Also the Right:
Back when I was prepping to teach #JavaScript to a group of #UpwardBound HS students, I kicked the tires on lots of JS gaming engines. The one I ended up loving and using was p5Play. I'm excited to see that the next iteration, q5Play, will be in beta in Spring 2026. q5js.substack.com/p/q5play-pro...
q5play Progress Report: November 2025
Big update!
q5js.substack.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Back when I was prepping to teach #JavaScript to a group of #UpwardBound HS students, I kicked the tires on lots of JS gaming engines. The one I ended up loving and using was p5Play. I'm excited to see that the next iteration, q5Play, will be in beta in Spring 2026. q5js.substack.com/p/q5play-pro...
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"the ballroom isn't being paid for by taxpayers, it's being paid for by corporations and billionaires!!"
October 23, 2025 at 10:23 PM
"the ballroom isn't being paid for by taxpayers, it's being paid for by corporations and billionaires!!"
Cool screenshot utility (macOS only). Free version seems great. Pay version is on sale: shottr.cc
Shottr – screenshot app for pixel professionals
Shottr is a free macOS screenshot app with scrolling screenshots, OCR, annotation and measurement instruments.
shottr.cc
December 1, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Cool screenshot utility (macOS only). Free version seems great. Pay version is on sale: shottr.cc
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Stories matter…
December 1, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Stories matter…
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For Millie: 🎂
Mabel & I are celebrating her becoming a teenager now that she's just turned 13.
It's a small, intimate affair with plenty of belly rubs, cuddling & extra doggie treats all around! 🐕 ❤️
#Woof
Mabel & I are celebrating her becoming a teenager now that she's just turned 13.
It's a small, intimate affair with plenty of belly rubs, cuddling & extra doggie treats all around! 🐕 ❤️
#Woof
November 30, 2025 at 7:23 PM
For Millie: 🎂
Mabel & I are celebrating her becoming a teenager now that she's just turned 13.
It's a small, intimate affair with plenty of belly rubs, cuddling & extra doggie treats all around! 🐕 ❤️
#Woof
Mabel & I are celebrating her becoming a teenager now that she's just turned 13.
It's a small, intimate affair with plenty of belly rubs, cuddling & extra doggie treats all around! 🐕 ❤️
#Woof
Tabliss (tabliss.io) starts off each new Chrome tab with a beautiful photograph, like this one, from just now: unsplash.com/photos/gray-...
Photo by Yousef Espanioly on Unsplash
Perfectly located – Download this photo by Yousef Espanioly on Unsplash
unsplash.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Tabliss (tabliss.io) starts off each new Chrome tab with a beautiful photograph, like this one, from just now: unsplash.com/photos/gray-...
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ICE deems a Tribal ID fake, detains actress Elaine Miles. Incident reveals a stunning, systemic contradiction and racial profiling: officials question Native Americans repeatedly, the people whose ancestors predate the US government. A citizen's native right becomes subject to inadequate training.
Native American's Tribal ID deemed "fake" by ICE - Salon.com
Miles’ experience reveals a pattern as Native American citizens can be treated as foreigners in the U.S.
www.salon.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:12 AM
ICE deems a Tribal ID fake, detains actress Elaine Miles. Incident reveals a stunning, systemic contradiction and racial profiling: officials question Native Americans repeatedly, the people whose ancestors predate the US government. A citizen's native right becomes subject to inadequate training.
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“Under Capitalism, it’s normal to let people go hungry, let banks force people out of their homes, let sick people die for lack of healthcare.
But the idea that billionaires could be less rich - not poor, not struggling, just less rich - is considered insane.”
- Martha Kelly
But the idea that billionaires could be less rich - not poor, not struggling, just less rich - is considered insane.”
- Martha Kelly
November 28, 2025 at 11:58 PM
“Under Capitalism, it’s normal to let people go hungry, let banks force people out of their homes, let sick people die for lack of healthcare.
But the idea that billionaires could be less rich - not poor, not struggling, just less rich - is considered insane.”
- Martha Kelly
But the idea that billionaires could be less rich - not poor, not struggling, just less rich - is considered insane.”
- Martha Kelly
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The important thing to bear in mind as Trump's popularity begins to wobble is that the disastrous economic consequences of the things he's done in the first 10 months of this term have not even *begun* to hit. We've been coasting on the fumes of the economy he inherited and soon they'll be gone.
my wife and her entire team were fired over Zoom from their program manager jobs at a local nonprofit Seattle hospital this Spring because Trump just stopped paying Medicaid reimbursements. and this is a relatively affluent urban center
we're really not prepared for what's coming
we're really not prepared for what's coming
As a direct result of President Trump's Big Ugly Bill, almost 300 jobs will be cut from Providence Swedish's First Hill, Cherry Hill, Ballard, and Issaquah hospitals and clinics. These are not the only layoffs we've seen in our health care system in Washington state in recent months.
November 19, 2025 at 3:58 PM
The important thing to bear in mind as Trump's popularity begins to wobble is that the disastrous economic consequences of the things he's done in the first 10 months of this term have not even *begun* to hit. We've been coasting on the fumes of the economy he inherited and soon they'll be gone.
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There’s no fking way I’d let anyone talk to a woman like that…I don’t know why other reporters stand mute while this abuse happens in front of them.
“You’re a stupid person” — Trump lashes out at a reporter who presses him on the fact that the suspected DC shooter was actually thoroughly vetted before he was let in the US from Afghanistan
November 28, 2025 at 4:55 PM
There’s no fking way I’d let anyone talk to a woman like that…I don’t know why other reporters stand mute while this abuse happens in front of them.
Chirp #Books puts things on sale and I really can’t resist. #audiobooks #literature The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Get it for $2 on Chirp, an audiobook deals site without subscriptions. Offer applies to first-time purchasers. www.chirpbooks.com/r/4037d96edc...
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This enduring classic shines in a captivating performance by an <i>AudioFile</i> Golden Voice: In 15th-century Paris, kindhearted Esmeralda and outcast bell ringer Quasimodo are drawn into a tale of l...
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November 28, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Chirp #Books puts things on sale and I really can’t resist. #audiobooks #literature The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Get it for $2 on Chirp, an audiobook deals site without subscriptions. Offer applies to first-time purchasers. www.chirpbooks.com/r/4037d96edc...
