Jameson Elder
@jamesonelder.bsky.social
I used to play music more, but now I have 2 kids and a “real” job. Music. Occasional politics. Random things
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One cool way to solve homelessness that isn’t an authoritarian take over of a city is to give everyone homes
August 11, 2025 at 7:03 PM
One cool way to solve homelessness that isn’t an authoritarian take over of a city is to give everyone homes
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People are not criminals or dangerous, by virtue of their unhoused status. People are struggling to afford rent and food in an expensive city. We should not have homelessness in our nation’s capital. But the path to ending homelessness is housing, not displacement.
August 10, 2025 at 6:39 PM
People are not criminals or dangerous, by virtue of their unhoused status. People are struggling to afford rent and food in an expensive city. We should not have homelessness in our nation’s capital. But the path to ending homelessness is housing, not displacement.
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THE POPE CALLS IT "SOCCER"
May 8, 2025 at 5:25 PM
THE POPE CALLS IT "SOCCER"
I’m on a plane and the pilot came over the intercom sounding like a Texas auctioneer
April 17, 2025 at 11:58 PM
I’m on a plane and the pilot came over the intercom sounding like a Texas auctioneer
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Yes, the stock market may be tanking and our national security apparatus has never been more vulnerable and we're on the verge of both economic collapse and war, but it was all worth it to keep pronouns out of email signatures.
April 3, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Yes, the stock market may be tanking and our national security apparatus has never been more vulnerable and we're on the verge of both economic collapse and war, but it was all worth it to keep pronouns out of email signatures.
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It's 1828. The United States has adopted the highest tariff rate of the century for insane and idiotic reasons.
It's 1929. The United States has adopted the highest tariff rate of the century for insane and idiotic reasons.
It's 2025. The United States has adopted the highest tariff rate of the ce
It's 1929. The United States has adopted the highest tariff rate of the century for insane and idiotic reasons.
It's 2025. The United States has adopted the highest tariff rate of the ce
April 2, 2025 at 11:57 PM
It's 1828. The United States has adopted the highest tariff rate of the century for insane and idiotic reasons.
It's 1929. The United States has adopted the highest tariff rate of the century for insane and idiotic reasons.
It's 2025. The United States has adopted the highest tariff rate of the ce
It's 1929. The United States has adopted the highest tariff rate of the century for insane and idiotic reasons.
It's 2025. The United States has adopted the highest tariff rate of the ce
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They just fucking divided the value of U.S. exports to other countries by the value of what we import from them based on a Wikipedia balance of trade chart. Holy shit
April 2, 2025 at 10:20 PM
They just fucking divided the value of U.S. exports to other countries by the value of what we import from them based on a Wikipedia balance of trade chart. Holy shit
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This is not an exaggeration: illegally gutting this program will cause Americans to freeze to death in their homes.
April 1, 2025 at 7:51 PM
This is not an exaggeration: illegally gutting this program will cause Americans to freeze to death in their homes.
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These motherfuckers are going to kill children. I've been saying it for a year, but RFK Jr might as well be a serial murderer.
Watch: they'll start vaccine *bans* within a year.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/h...
Watch: they'll start vaccine *bans* within a year.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/h...
RFK Jr. Turns to a Discredited Vaccine Researcher for Autism Study (Gift Article)
David Geier has been hired as a senior data analyst at H.H.S. According to several people, he will examine any potential links between vaccines and autism that were debunked long ago.
www.nytimes.com
March 28, 2025 at 1:03 PM
These motherfuckers are going to kill children. I've been saying it for a year, but RFK Jr might as well be a serial murderer.
Watch: they'll start vaccine *bans* within a year.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/h...
Watch: they'll start vaccine *bans* within a year.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/h...
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I'm not racist, I just think every celebration of an achievement or contribution by a nonwhite is DEI.
Exclusive: Navajo Code Talkers disappear from military websites after Trump DEI order
Navajo Code Talkers get "DEI" label as military info disappears under Trump order
Also vanishing: The Civil War regiment from "Glory," women pilots from WWII and a Medal of Honor winner.
www.axios.com
March 17, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I'm not racist, I just think every celebration of an achievement or contribution by a nonwhite is DEI.
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The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought:
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB
Killing children is by design, I'm afraid. "Pro-natalists" like Musk claim they aren't racist, but their pressure to have children is solely focused on white women, while they back policies that literally kill of non-white children.
He's a eugenicist.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
He's a eugenicist.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True.
A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.
www.nytimes.com
March 15, 2025 at 4:42 PM
The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought:
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB
🥺😞
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Dolly Parton says her husband of nearly 60 years, Carl Dean, has died at 82.
March 4, 2025 at 12:43 AM
🥺😞
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fun fact!!! sharing pictures of nazi salutes still helps normalize it even if you shake your head the whole time
February 22, 2025 at 10:38 PM
fun fact!!! sharing pictures of nazi salutes still helps normalize it even if you shake your head the whole time
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"They're putting persecuted Christian refugees in camps in the jungle" sounds like something Glenn Beck would accuse the Obama administration of doing and yet now it's a pillar of the Republican agenda.
February 20, 2025 at 12:57 AM
"They're putting persecuted Christian refugees in camps in the jungle" sounds like something Glenn Beck would accuse the Obama administration of doing and yet now it's a pillar of the Republican agenda.
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if I were a nation, any nation, and hadn't yet cut all diplomatic and trade ties with the U.S., I would be so embarrassed
Meanwhile, the official White House account is tweeting videos of undocumented immigrants being chained up and sent on deportation flights as "ASMR."
February 19, 2025 at 4:59 PM
if I were a nation, any nation, and hadn't yet cut all diplomatic and trade ties with the U.S., I would be so embarrassed
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Today in "neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party"
They are addicted to a model of journalism that is fundamentally unfit for the purpose of covering politics in our current age. This is entirely a choice. Others are readily available.
They are addicted to a model of journalism that is fundamentally unfit for the purpose of covering politics in our current age. This is entirely a choice. Others are readily available.
I question Michael Bender's use of the words and phrases I have highlighted in the opening paragraphs of his article about J. D. Vance's comments. These strike me as normalizing euphemisms that distract from the dangerous content of the AfD's (and Vance's) far-right politics.
February 15, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Today in "neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party"
They are addicted to a model of journalism that is fundamentally unfit for the purpose of covering politics in our current age. This is entirely a choice. Others are readily available.
They are addicted to a model of journalism that is fundamentally unfit for the purpose of covering politics in our current age. This is entirely a choice. Others are readily available.
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If the legitimate press just permanently stopped attending these events and were replaced by propaganda outlets, that would be both optically clarifying and improve actual journalism.
Consider the possibility that the Trump White House WANTS this fight. Wants journalists to act like opponents instead of observers. If the entire press pool skipped a Trump photo op in solidarity with The AP, wouldn't the White House welcome Breitbart and One America News to take their places?
And, are you or your colleagues boycotting covering the WH as a protest?
February 15, 2025 at 12:20 AM
If the legitimate press just permanently stopped attending these events and were replaced by propaganda outlets, that would be both optically clarifying and improve actual journalism.
Annex Canada to get free healthcare is not a thought that would have ever crossed my mind before 2025
I get that they’re doing this mostly as a weird flex to look tough to their base of incel losers.
But if they actually got this — ten new states full of voters who hate Trump, with 20 senators and who knows how many House members — it would absolutely end them.
But if they actually got this — ten new states full of voters who hate Trump, with 20 senators and who knows how many House members — it would absolutely end them.
This is Andrew Beck.
Beck is Vice President of the Claremont Institute, one of the intellectual braintrusts of radical Trumpism.
He's been all in on the anchuluss of Canada.
Beck is Vice President of the Claremont Institute, one of the intellectual braintrusts of radical Trumpism.
He's been all in on the anchuluss of Canada.
February 15, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Annex Canada to get free healthcare is not a thought that would have ever crossed my mind before 2025
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Please remember something: if you had said a year ago that Trump would do even a fraction of these things, you would have been mocked, belittled, accused of “Trump derangement syndrome,” and dismissed by certain people.
Identify those people and block and shun them.
Identify those people and block and shun them.
February 8, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Please remember something: if you had said a year ago that Trump would do even a fraction of these things, you would have been mocked, belittled, accused of “Trump derangement syndrome,” and dismissed by certain people.
Identify those people and block and shun them.
Identify those people and block and shun them.
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is it woke to want to end cancer?
NEW: The N.I.H. will cut about $4 Billion from federal research grants that support cancer, virus and heart disease research.
#Project2025 called for the cuts to end subsidies to "leftist" university agendas.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u...
#Project2025 called for the cuts to end subsidies to "leftist" university agendas.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u...
Deep Cuts to Medical Research Funds Could Hobble University Budgets
Grants from the National Institutes of Health come with additional money for overhead. Proposed funding cuts would leave colleges with large budget gaps.
www.nytimes.com
February 8, 2025 at 3:15 AM
is it woke to want to end cancer?
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Hear me out —
If parents call colleges freaked about their FAFSA data being leaked, schools may have to issue statements — which would reach a whole lot more families about how warped this is.
Organizing isn’t always calling electeds. Sometimes it’s just calling people with a bigger megaphone.
If parents call colleges freaked about their FAFSA data being leaked, schools may have to issue statements — which would reach a whole lot more families about how warped this is.
Organizing isn’t always calling electeds. Sometimes it’s just calling people with a bigger megaphone.
Musk staff have access to student aid data now.
February 4, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Hear me out —
If parents call colleges freaked about their FAFSA data being leaked, schools may have to issue statements — which would reach a whole lot more families about how warped this is.
Organizing isn’t always calling electeds. Sometimes it’s just calling people with a bigger megaphone.
If parents call colleges freaked about their FAFSA data being leaked, schools may have to issue statements — which would reach a whole lot more families about how warped this is.
Organizing isn’t always calling electeds. Sometimes it’s just calling people with a bigger megaphone.
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