Chris Elder
@crowhop.bsky.social
Cyclist, organic inspector, craft beer snob, and avid reader.
Ah, the sad irony of it…
July 27, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Ah, the sad irony of it…
Chummy people with abhorrent views - I’ve known people like this. www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ap...
A year of hate: what I learned when I went undercover with the far right
The long read: Working for Hope Not Hate, I infiltrated an extremist organisation, befriended its members and got to work investigating their political connections
www.theguardian.com
April 27, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Chummy people with abhorrent views - I’ve known people like this. www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ap...
What are your dreams telling you as authoritarianism takes hold in the US? www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...
They Dreamed of Hitler
A newly reissued book documents the dreams of Germans living under the Nazis, charting totalitarianism’s power over the subconscious.
www.theatlantic.com
April 27, 2025 at 1:52 PM
What are your dreams telling you as authoritarianism takes hold in the US? www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...
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All right, I’m gonna break my no-all-caps rule: LISTEN TO THIS. The journalism we need now.
Props to @michelmartinnpr.bsky.social for holding DHS Deputy Secretary Troy Edgar's feet to the fire this morning. Powerful interviewing: www.npr.org/2025/03/13/n...
DHS Deputy Secretary Troy Edgar discusses arrest of protest leader, deportations
NPR speaks with Department of Homeland Security Deputy Secretary Troy Edgar about the arrest of a student protest leader and the Trump administration's ramped-up deportations of immigrants.
www.npr.org
March 13, 2025 at 2:07 PM
All right, I’m gonna break my no-all-caps rule: LISTEN TO THIS. The journalism we need now.
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On the cutting room floor is the bit where the host introduced their interview series, The Interview, and I asked how long it took to come up with the name. Anyway, here’s me talking about birds and science and burnout and moving through the world. The photo’s nice! www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/m...
‘The Interview’: Ed Yong Wants to Show You the Hidden Reality of the World
The Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer talks about burnout from covering the pandemic and how bird-watching gave him a new sense of hope.
www.nytimes.com
February 22, 2025 at 5:07 PM
On the cutting room floor is the bit where the host introduced their interview series, The Interview, and I asked how long it took to come up with the name. Anyway, here’s me talking about birds and science and burnout and moving through the world. The photo’s nice! www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/m...
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This kind of hard hitting in-depth reporting is why I'm proud to be a monthly supporter of the @texasobserver.org
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February 19, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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Wow. James Rodden, an ICE prosecutor in Dallas, ran an anonymous X account that posted: "America is a White nation."
NC peeps, take note: He graduated from Wake Forest University Law School and worked in the federal public defender's office in Greensboro.
www.texasobserver.org/ice-prosecut...
NC peeps, take note: He graduated from Wake Forest University Law School and worked in the federal public defender's office in Greensboro.
www.texasobserver.org/ice-prosecut...
ICE Prosecutor in Dallas Runs White Supremacist X Account
The Observer has identified the operator of “GlomarResponder,” an overtly racist social media account, as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical deta...
www.texasobserver.org
February 20, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Wow. James Rodden, an ICE prosecutor in Dallas, ran an anonymous X account that posted: "America is a White nation."
NC peeps, take note: He graduated from Wake Forest University Law School and worked in the federal public defender's office in Greensboro.
www.texasobserver.org/ice-prosecut...
NC peeps, take note: He graduated from Wake Forest University Law School and worked in the federal public defender's office in Greensboro.
www.texasobserver.org/ice-prosecut...
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‘This is a coup’: Trump and Musk’s purge is cutting more than costs, say experts
‘This is a coup’: Trump and Musk’s purge is cutting more than costs, say experts
In slashing staff and disabling entire agencies the administration is lacerating the structures of US democracy
www.theguardian.com
February 18, 2025 at 3:41 AM
‘This is a coup’: Trump and Musk’s purge is cutting more than costs, say experts
One of my favorite all-time movie scenes: youtube.com/watch?v=kCXT...
youtube.com
February 1, 2025 at 6:22 PM
One of my favorite all-time movie scenes: youtube.com/watch?v=kCXT...
My appreciation for Snoop Dogg is over.
February 1, 2025 at 4:51 PM
My appreciation for Snoop Dogg is over.
Ah good, a way to move away from Amazon’s Kindle! www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/b...
Indie Bookstores Will Soon Be Able to Sell E-Books to Customers
Bookshop, a site that lets independent, bricks-and-mortar bookshops sell their books online, is launching an app that will allow the sales of e-books, too.
www.nytimes.com
February 1, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Ah good, a way to move away from Amazon’s Kindle! www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/b...
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In the early 2000s, RFK Jr was doing great work as an environmental lawyer taking on industrial hog farms, and we talked about going to NC together to document the problems. Then he started crazy talk about vaccines. My column on the threat he poses: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/o...
Opinion | If Kennedy Is Blind to Science, Why Entrust Him With Our Health? (Gift Article)
When we face some risk of a bird flu pandemic, do we want to entrust our health to a man who has fought lifesaving vaccines?
www.nytimes.com
February 1, 2025 at 3:18 PM
In the early 2000s, RFK Jr was doing great work as an environmental lawyer taking on industrial hog farms, and we talked about going to NC together to document the problems. Then he started crazy talk about vaccines. My column on the threat he poses: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/o...
David Brooks, one of the few rational conservatives, on stupidity: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/o...
Opinion | Trump and Stupidity
I define stupidity as ignoring the question: What would happen next? By that definition, the Trump administration has produced volleys of it.
www.nytimes.com
February 1, 2025 at 3:18 PM
David Brooks, one of the few rational conservatives, on stupidity: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/o...
Classy… www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/u...
Trump Blames D.E.I. and Biden for Crash Under His Watch
President Trump’s remarks, suggesting that diversity in hiring and other Biden administration policies somehow caused the disaster, reflected his instinct to immediately frame major events through his...
www.nytimes.com
January 31, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Classy… www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/u...
Your morning zen: aeon.co/videos/starl...
Starlings swoosh like brushstrokes across the sky in this dazzling short | Aeon Videos
A filmmaker collaborates with a murmuration of starlings to create spellbinding visuals at the intersection of science and art
aeon.co
January 29, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Your morning zen: aeon.co/videos/starl...
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NEW: My staff has confirmed reports that Medicaid portals are down in all 50 states following last night's federal funding freeze. This is a blatant attempt to rip away health care from millions of Americans overnight and will get people killed.
Illinois shut out of Medicaid after Trump administration halts federal grants and loans chicago.suntimes.com/politics/don...
Illinois shut out of Medicaid after Trump administration halts federal grants and loans
The Trump administration's federal freeze has shut Illinois out of Medicaid, according to Gov. JB. Pritzker's office. The government-funded health insurance program covered about 3.9 million people in...
chicago.suntimes.com
January 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
NEW: My staff has confirmed reports that Medicaid portals are down in all 50 states following last night's federal funding freeze. This is a blatant attempt to rip away health care from millions of Americans overnight and will get people killed.
Having transgender soldiers negatively affects combat readiness but sick, unvaccinated COVID spreaders doesn’t?
January 28, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Having transgender soldiers negatively affects combat readiness but sick, unvaccinated COVID spreaders doesn’t?
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Frank Wilhoit seems very topical today: "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."
crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...
crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...
January 28, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Frank Wilhoit seems very topical today: "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."
crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...
crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...
So trump’s trade wars begin. I don’t know about you, but I think I am getting out of the stock market immediately. And stocking up on nonperishable food.
January 26, 2025 at 11:28 PM
So trump’s trade wars begin. I don’t know about you, but I think I am getting out of the stock market immediately. And stocking up on nonperishable food.
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This is becoming absurd—federal employees are now being told to remove pronouns from their email signatures. We will always stand by our commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, no matter how many things we’re asked to delete or change. Inclusivity is at the core of who we are.
January 26, 2025 at 1:24 PM
This is becoming absurd—federal employees are now being told to remove pronouns from their email signatures. We will always stand by our commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, no matter how many things we’re asked to delete or change. Inclusivity is at the core of who we are.
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The US Dept. of Education’s Office of Civil Rights has dismissed 11 complaints and six allegations related to book bans, saying it was ending "Biden’s book ban hoax."
PEN America counted over 10,000 instances of school book bans in the 2023-24 school year, nearly 3X the number in the previous year.
PEN America counted over 10,000 instances of school book bans in the 2023-24 school year, nearly 3X the number in the previous year.
January 25, 2025 at 12:19 AM
The US Dept. of Education’s Office of Civil Rights has dismissed 11 complaints and six allegations related to book bans, saying it was ending "Biden’s book ban hoax."
PEN America counted over 10,000 instances of school book bans in the 2023-24 school year, nearly 3X the number in the previous year.
PEN America counted over 10,000 instances of school book bans in the 2023-24 school year, nearly 3X the number in the previous year.
Damn, this hits close to home! www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/sig...
Signs You Are a Gen-Xer Who’s About to Turn Sixty
1. You own music in so many formats that your collection could be housed in an audio museum.
2. Back in your day, people feared measles more than t...
www.mcsweeneys.net
January 26, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Damn, this hits close to home! www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/sig...
So what gives trump the right to keep TikTok on when the Supreme Court says it should be shut down? trump can just overrule SCOTUS? Where are the checks and balances?
January 25, 2025 at 6:11 PM
So what gives trump the right to keep TikTok on when the Supreme Court says it should be shut down? trump can just overrule SCOTUS? Where are the checks and balances?
Who owns this this guy??
David Fotouhi, Trump’s No. 2 EPA pick, recently challenged the agency’s ban of asbestos, which causes a deadly cancer called mesothelioma. He argued the EPA “failed to demonstrate that chrysotile asbestos presents an unreasonable risk of injury.”
By @fastlerner.bsky.social
By @fastlerner.bsky.social
Donald Trump’s No. 2 Pick for the EPA Represented Companies Accused of Pollution Harm
David Fotouhi, a lawyer who recently challenged a ban on asbestos, worked to roll back climate regulations and water protections while serving in the Environmental Protection Agency during Trump’s…
propub.li
January 25, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Who owns this this guy??