Jeff Nelson
@nelsonja.bsky.social
IP & music lawyer; passionate about protecting creators; perpetually tapping along to the music in my head
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www.spyhoplaw.com
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Who could have imagined that a narcissist would cut funding for something that doesn’t immediately benefit him?
I never would have guessed that this guy would kill people for his own benefit just bc he’s done it before including all those anti vaxers that died in pain begging for a stab. Huh.
I never would have guessed that this guy would kill people for his own benefit just bc he’s done it before including all those anti vaxers that died in pain begging for a stab. Huh.
We talk about Bezos, or Citi, or Big Tech, but cancer's brand is seriously in the toilet. Everyone hates it. And yet, day one hit from Trump/Musk was to shut down all federal funding for cancer cure research. And it's still mostly shut down. Have you ever known anyone with cancer?
Looking at some survey data here. Trump/Elon cutting off all cancer cure research is the issue that freaks voters out more than any other, also the one they've heard the least about. Important for voters to hear more about this.
February 28, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Who could have imagined that a narcissist would cut funding for something that doesn’t immediately benefit him?
I never would have guessed that this guy would kill people for his own benefit just bc he’s done it before including all those anti vaxers that died in pain begging for a stab. Huh.
I never would have guessed that this guy would kill people for his own benefit just bc he’s done it before including all those anti vaxers that died in pain begging for a stab. Huh.
Dear manager, this week I:
1) knew when to hold them,
2) knew when to fold them,
3) knew when to walk away,
4) knew when to run, and
5) did not count my money while sitting at the table (there will be time enough for counting when that nazi fires my ass for no reason)
1) knew when to hold them,
2) knew when to fold them,
3) knew when to walk away,
4) knew when to run, and
5) did not count my money while sitting at the table (there will be time enough for counting when that nazi fires my ass for no reason)
Dear manager, this week I:
1) Woke up
2) Decided what type of man I will be
3) Walked a total of 1,000 miles, split into two segments of 500
4) Fell down at your door
5) Da da da (da da da), da da da (da da da), da da dum diddy dum diddy dum diddy da da da
1) Woke up
2) Decided what type of man I will be
3) Walked a total of 1,000 miles, split into two segments of 500
4) Fell down at your door
5) Da da da (da da da), da da da (da da da), da da dum diddy dum diddy dum diddy da da da
Dear manager, this week:
1. I have run
2. have crawled
3. I have scaled these city walls
only to be with you
4. But I still haven't found what I'm looking for
5. But I still haven't found what I'm looking for
1. I have run
2. have crawled
3. I have scaled these city walls
only to be with you
4. But I still haven't found what I'm looking for
5. But I still haven't found what I'm looking for
February 23, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Dear manager, this week I:
1) knew when to hold them,
2) knew when to fold them,
3) knew when to walk away,
4) knew when to run, and
5) did not count my money while sitting at the table (there will be time enough for counting when that nazi fires my ass for no reason)
1) knew when to hold them,
2) knew when to fold them,
3) knew when to walk away,
4) knew when to run, and
5) did not count my money while sitting at the table (there will be time enough for counting when that nazi fires my ass for no reason)
Movies you’ve watched more than 6 times using only gifs
February 20, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Movies you’ve watched more than 6 times using only gifs
C&H predicted maga 40 years ago
February 20, 2025 at 3:29 PM
C&H predicted maga 40 years ago
Reposted by Jeff Nelson
Today is the #DayOfRemembrance commemorating Executive Order 9066 and the government's mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII. Eight years ago, I wrote about visiting Manzanar, what life was like in the camp, and how the National Park Service plays a role in teaching civil rights.
Walking In Their Footsteps At A Former Japanese Internment Camp
"I wanted to see Manzanar with my own eyes, so that my understanding of history might feel deeper through the experience of place."
www.npr.org
February 20, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Today is the #DayOfRemembrance commemorating Executive Order 9066 and the government's mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII. Eight years ago, I wrote about visiting Manzanar, what life was like in the camp, and how the National Park Service plays a role in teaching civil rights.
Reposted by Jeff Nelson
Anyway here's how it played in the press last time anything went this far, just for reference
February 13, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Anyway here's how it played in the press last time anything went this far, just for reference
You’re telling me that a USAA thinks this is a sentence:
“Anyone imperiling others violating our laws.”
This sounds like it was written by one of Elon’s interns.
“Anyone imperiling others violating our laws.”
This sounds like it was written by one of Elon’s interns.
Trump’s DC US Attorney says that “Any threats, confrontations, or other actions in any way that impacts” what Elon Musk’s people are doing will be investigated by his office since that “may break numerous laws.”
February 3, 2025 at 6:09 PM
You’re telling me that a USAA thinks this is a sentence:
“Anyone imperiling others violating our laws.”
This sounds like it was written by one of Elon’s interns.
“Anyone imperiling others violating our laws.”
This sounds like it was written by one of Elon’s interns.
Look. You can’t give yourself a nickname even if you do some light b&e for the richest man in the world.
Your name’s Ed.
Your name’s Ed.
February 3, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Look. You can’t give yourself a nickname even if you do some light b&e for the richest man in the world.
Your name’s Ed.
Your name’s Ed.
This being the key to Trumpism. Just make life simplistic. Reality is scary. The world isn’t easy. Life is hard. Lying to people who want to be told you will make their life easy is effective esp with so many media outlets echoing your BS.
... finally, it reaches the final destination of every such term on the right: it just means "Other." Bad. Not us.
This is because the authoritarian personality -- which more than anything defines the current right -- is highly binary, averse to complexity, fuzziness, edge cases.
This is because the authoritarian personality -- which more than anything defines the current right -- is highly binary, averse to complexity, fuzziness, edge cases.
February 2, 2025 at 7:30 PM
This being the key to Trumpism. Just make life simplistic. Reality is scary. The world isn’t easy. Life is hard. Lying to people who want to be told you will make their life easy is effective esp with so many media outlets echoing your BS.
“Now” is doing a helluva lotta work. What were they acting like for the years before now, if not power hungry warlords?
German scientists in 1945 filling out their job application for Operation Paperclip
February 2, 2025 at 7:21 PM
“Now” is doing a helluva lotta work. What were they acting like for the years before now, if not power hungry warlords?
Like I was saying, don’t let Spotify, et al, choose your music. Lots of humans still make music recs.
February 2, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Like I was saying, don’t let Spotify, et al, choose your music. Lots of humans still make music recs.
State sponsored media?
There it is. NTSB only sending info out via X now. Expect the same from CDC FDA etc. soon.
February 1, 2025 at 9:10 PM
State sponsored media?
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January 31, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Was an honor to help pull this together and see a new audience discover @thegits.bsky.social
This is horrible. And this clip sounds bad (bc it is) but with these idiots in charge, it might be the only time he can say this isn’t “standard” in air travel.
We don’t know what it’s like to have the FAA decimated by morons. Flying could become a giant game of Russian roulette.
We don’t know what it’s like to have the FAA decimated by morons. Flying could become a giant game of Russian roulette.
"Obviously it is not standard to have aircraft collide. I want to be clear on that." -- Sean Duffy, our new secretary of transportation in the new awful administration.
January 30, 2025 at 3:31 PM
This is horrible. And this clip sounds bad (bc it is) but with these idiots in charge, it might be the only time he can say this isn’t “standard” in air travel.
We don’t know what it’s like to have the FAA decimated by morons. Flying could become a giant game of Russian roulette.
We don’t know what it’s like to have the FAA decimated by morons. Flying could become a giant game of Russian roulette.
Put your phone down and talk to people. Like face to face. Be engaged. Your phone is killing you.
And vote. Every election. Get informed and vote.
And vote. Every election. Get informed and vote.
people over 30 quote this with some life advice for the rest of us?
January 30, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Put your phone down and talk to people. Like face to face. Be engaged. Your phone is killing you.
And vote. Every election. Get informed and vote.
And vote. Every election. Get informed and vote.
Lights on the ceiling. Not fixtures. But reflected light from any surface whether a phone or the counter or a metal pan. It’s terrifying and we must bark at it incessantly
January 26, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Lights on the ceiling. Not fixtures. But reflected light from any surface whether a phone or the counter or a metal pan. It’s terrifying and we must bark at it incessantly
Fabio gets his chest hair done by Magnum’s chest hair guy
January 25, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Fabio gets his chest hair done by Magnum’s chest hair guy
Greathouse is the best WR on the field
January 21, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Greathouse is the best WR on the field
This is what we need to see.
“Proposal” or “attempt” being the word we should be seeing from Dems and media.
Don’t normalize the bullshit
“Proposal” or “attempt” being the word we should be seeing from Dems and media.
Don’t normalize the bullshit
Trump’s proposal to strip birthright citizenship from those born in this nation is unconstitutional.
In Illinois, we follow the law.
This is only the start of attempts to undermine the rule of law, and Illinoisans can count on me to stand against unconstitutional actions.
In Illinois, we follow the law.
This is only the start of attempts to undermine the rule of law, and Illinoisans can count on me to stand against unconstitutional actions.
January 21, 2025 at 3:45 AM
This is what we need to see.
“Proposal” or “attempt” being the word we should be seeing from Dems and media.
Don’t normalize the bullshit
“Proposal” or “attempt” being the word we should be seeing from Dems and media.
Don’t normalize the bullshit
Smith is so amazing that he needed a blatant pick play to try to force him the ball
January 21, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Smith is so amazing that he needed a blatant pick play to try to force him the ball
He didn’t preemptively pardon everyone that voted for him? Jfc
late breaking news from the outgoing biden admin:
- leonard peltier's sentence has been commuted to home confinement
- a number of biden family members have been given preemptive pardons
- leonard peltier's sentence has been commuted to home confinement
- a number of biden family members have been given preemptive pardons
January 20, 2025 at 4:50 PM
He didn’t preemptively pardon everyone that voted for him? Jfc
Yes and not just the Court but Congress, the military, etc.
Trumps team learned not to bring in respected people. They might say no. So they bring in nothing but sycophants.
Rs in congress have to stop confirming these people.
Trumps team learned not to bring in respected people. They might say no. So they bring in nothing but sycophants.
Rs in congress have to stop confirming these people.
I would caution people to stop relying on the Constitution as written to have any meaning other than what the people Trump put on the Supreme Court says it means.
"He can't do that" is not a useful response to the things he's going to do. The correct response is "Will the Court uphold that?"
"He can't do that" is not a useful response to the things he's going to do. The correct response is "Will the Court uphold that?"
Trump cannot abrogate birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment by way of executive order. That’s not how constitutional rights work.
January 20, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Yes and not just the Court but Congress, the military, etc.
Trumps team learned not to bring in respected people. They might say no. So they bring in nothing but sycophants.
Rs in congress have to stop confirming these people.
Trumps team learned not to bring in respected people. They might say no. So they bring in nothing but sycophants.
Rs in congress have to stop confirming these people.
Media reports that behavior they spent the last decade normalizing has become normal for people who came of age in the last decade.
/falls on the floor from head spinning
/falls on the floor from head spinning
"For a whole cohort of younger voters, Trump and Trumpism are how they came to politics. For some, they’re what they prefer. For others, they’re merely an unwelcome reality of American democracy. But in either case, he is their normal."
Trump is a dire threat to American democracy. But, for a whole generation of voters, he’s entirely normal.
My first for MSNBC:
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
My first for MSNBC:
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
January 20, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Media reports that behavior they spent the last decade normalizing has become normal for people who came of age in the last decade.
/falls on the floor from head spinning
/falls on the floor from head spinning