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
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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...
Get the audiobook The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo for $2 on Chirp!
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...
www.chirpbooks.com
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...
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Donald J. Trump, as West Virginia National Guard member Sarah Beckstrom drew her last breath. She had been placed in harm’s way only because of his disregard for the law and Constitution.
November 28, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Donald J. Trump, as West Virginia National Guard member Sarah Beckstrom drew her last breath. She had been placed in harm’s way only because of his disregard for the law and Constitution.
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Socialism is what they called public power.
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
November 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Socialism is what they called public power.
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
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“The message of these six Democrats is not subversive. It is prudent…
Calling for the arrest of political opponents and fantasizing about their execution is the definition of authoritarian abuse.”
sentinelcolorado.com/opinion/edit...
Calling for the arrest of political opponents and fantasizing about their execution is the definition of authoritarian abuse.”
sentinelcolorado.com/opinion/edit...
EDITORIAL: Trump's savage call for executing Dem vets in Congress warrants impeachment - Sentinel Colorado
'His behavior is not only reducing the presidency to a treacherous farce, he is rapidly dragging the Republican Party down with him'
sentinelcolorado.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:17 PM
“The message of these six Democrats is not subversive. It is prudent…
Calling for the arrest of political opponents and fantasizing about their execution is the definition of authoritarian abuse.”
sentinelcolorado.com/opinion/edit...
Calling for the arrest of political opponents and fantasizing about their execution is the definition of authoritarian abuse.”
sentinelcolorado.com/opinion/edit...
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Zohran flip your hair again we need healthcare get him to give us healthcare.
November 21, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Zohran flip your hair again we need healthcare get him to give us healthcare.
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Nothing to see here. Just the White House needing to reassure the public that Piggy doesn't want to murder members of Congress. 😩
November 21, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Nothing to see here. Just the White House needing to reassure the public that Piggy doesn't want to murder members of Congress. 😩
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Trump’s budget bill classifies chiropractic and theology as “professional degrees” eligible for $200,000 student loans but excludes nursing, nurse practitioners and physician assistants.
a cartoon character says maybe you are seeing the wrong doctor ..
ALT: a cartoon character says maybe you are seeing the wrong doctor ..
media.tenor.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Trump’s budget bill classifies chiropractic and theology as “professional degrees” eligible for $200,000 student loans but excludes nursing, nurse practitioners and physician assistants.
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One down, 218 to go.
November 22, 2025 at 1:43 AM
One down, 218 to go.
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Your Wednesday Morning Zen.
November 19, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Your Wednesday Morning Zen.
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I don't know why the "Piggy" thing is bothering me so much. It's one more unforgivable thing in a list of 20,000 unforgivable things, but I've been mad about it for like 12 straight hours.
November 18, 2025 at 11:48 PM
I don't know why the "Piggy" thing is bothering me so much. It's one more unforgivable thing in a list of 20,000 unforgivable things, but I've been mad about it for like 12 straight hours.
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