James Old
@jamesold.bsky.social
Political Scientist @ Valpo
Ex-pat yooper
Interests: fiction, religion, politics, hockey, beer - not necessarily in that order
#SlavaUkraini
Ex-pat yooper
Interests: fiction, religion, politics, hockey, beer - not necessarily in that order
#SlavaUkraini
"the combat decisions he has made" Quite the paragon of masculinity and courage.
Ladies and gentlemen: let’s all watch the chest-beating lethality macho warfighter dude trying to scurry away at the first sign of trouble.
December 2, 2025 at 3:55 AM
"the combat decisions he has made" Quite the paragon of masculinity and courage.
This was so nice to start the week with. www.npr.org/2025/12/01/g...
David Byrne: Tiny Desk Concert
In matching, brilliant blue suits, David Byrne and his band squeeze behind the Desk to perform four songs, including Talking Heads' "Life During Wartime."
www.npr.org
December 1, 2025 at 1:44 PM
This was so nice to start the week with. www.npr.org/2025/12/01/g...
The Secretary of Defense should be impeached and prosecuted.
November 29, 2025 at 3:00 PM
The Secretary of Defense should be impeached and prosecuted.
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How Republicans commemorated Thanksgiving in 1869--with a multi-racial/multi-ethnic gathering of people at a table with a centerpiece celebrating universal suffrage and self-government, and with an engraving of Castle Garden, the pre-Ellis Island point of disembarkation for immigrants.
November 27, 2025 at 6:01 PM
How Republicans commemorated Thanksgiving in 1869--with a multi-racial/multi-ethnic gathering of people at a table with a centerpiece celebrating universal suffrage and self-government, and with an engraving of Castle Garden, the pre-Ellis Island point of disembarkation for immigrants.
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The war will end when Russia stops fighting. Therefore, pressure has to be put on Russia, so that they stop believing that they will win. Why is that so hard to understand?
November 27, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The war will end when Russia stops fighting. Therefore, pressure has to be put on Russia, so that they stop believing that they will win. Why is that so hard to understand?
Introduce yourself with four spaceships
November 26, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Introduce yourself with four spaceships
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Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
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NEW: For Rev. David Black, the pastor seen shot in the head w/pepper balls by DHS agents in a viral clip, protesting ICE is part of an old Christian tradition.
“I’m seeing almost a revival of Christianity through what’s happening at Broadview in Chicago,” he says. religionnews.com/2025/11/19/f...
“I’m seeing almost a revival of Christianity through what’s happening at Broadview in Chicago,” he says. religionnews.com/2025/11/19/f...
For the Rev. David Black, protesting ICE is part of an old Christian tradition
(RNS) — ‘I’m seeing almost a revival of Christianity through what’s happening at Broadview in Chicago,’ the Rev. David Black said.
religionnews.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:00 PM
NEW: For Rev. David Black, the pastor seen shot in the head w/pepper balls by DHS agents in a viral clip, protesting ICE is part of an old Christian tradition.
“I’m seeing almost a revival of Christianity through what’s happening at Broadview in Chicago,” he says. religionnews.com/2025/11/19/f...
“I’m seeing almost a revival of Christianity through what’s happening at Broadview in Chicago,” he says. religionnews.com/2025/11/19/f...
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/6 Also, it is the obligation of every lawyer who takes their oath and the Constitution seriously to shun from legal society every single AUSA and DoJ lawyer participating in this. Strike their names from every book and tablet, every pylon and obelisk, every monument of the rule of law.
November 19, 2025 at 11:46 PM
/6 Also, it is the obligation of every lawyer who takes their oath and the Constitution seriously to shun from legal society every single AUSA and DoJ lawyer participating in this. Strike their names from every book and tablet, every pylon and obelisk, every monument of the rule of law.
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I'm so sick of this alternate timeline we're all trapped in.
The attorney general and the FBI director, a manosphere podcaster bro, pulled into the situation room a member of Congress best known for getting kicked out of a Beetlejuice musical for drunkenly giving her date a handy, in order to pressure her about the president's child sex trafficking scandal.
November 13, 2025 at 1:49 PM
I'm so sick of this alternate timeline we're all trapped in.
It's nice when @cnn.com puts Scott Jennings in a segment, so I know I won't miss anything worthwhile and can just zone out on social media for a while.
November 12, 2025 at 12:42 PM
It's nice when @cnn.com puts Scott Jennings in a segment, so I know I won't miss anything worthwhile and can just zone out on social media for a while.
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There is zero excuse for police, in a free society, to wear a mask.
Cowards
Cowards
November 8, 2025 at 11:41 PM
There is zero excuse for police, in a free society, to wear a mask.
Cowards
Cowards
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1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 1:50 AM
1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
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These election results suggest Venezuela will soon be attacked.
November 5, 2025 at 2:51 AM
These election results suggest Venezuela will soon be attacked.
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I have a very bad feeling about this...
October 27, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I have a very bad feeling about this...
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BREAKING
In a surprising trend, MAGA supporters by the thousands are demolishing the East sides of their houses.
In a surprising trend, MAGA supporters by the thousands are demolishing the East sides of their houses.
October 26, 2025 at 2:09 PM
BREAKING
In a surprising trend, MAGA supporters by the thousands are demolishing the East sides of their houses.
In a surprising trend, MAGA supporters by the thousands are demolishing the East sides of their houses.
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The world joined us and said, “No Kings.”
October 19, 2025 at 4:17 AM
The world joined us and said, “No Kings.”
One of the most important checks in our constitutional system is Congress's control over the military budget. Now we've blown right past that and the Washington Post doesn't even bother to mention it in the article. wapo.st/4710rl9
Trump orders Defense Dept. to issue military paychecks during shutdown
Trump said that the Pentagon would repurpose money to make payroll, as military service members were poised to miss paychecks on Wednesday. Most other government workers will not be paid.
wapo.st
October 11, 2025 at 11:55 PM
One of the most important checks in our constitutional system is Congress's control over the military budget. Now we've blown right past that and the Washington Post doesn't even bother to mention it in the article. wapo.st/4710rl9
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Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”
October 10, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”
Awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to Machado is 100% in the interests of both democracy and the United States. Even American presidency with the slightest amount of common sense - or even just basic decency - would immediately praise this decision.
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María Corina Machado, Venezuelan opposition leader, wins Nobel Peace Prize
The prize honored Machado, who is in hiding, for keeping “the flame of democracy burning” but the White House accused the Nobel jury of “placing politics over peace.”
wapo.st
October 10, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to Machado is 100% in the interests of both democracy and the United States. Even American presidency with the slightest amount of common sense - or even just basic decency - would immediately praise this decision.
wapo.st/472JeIf
wapo.st/472JeIf
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I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
October 7, 2025 at 11:29 PM
I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
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Here’s video of the incident
October 8, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Here’s video of the incident