Andrew Elder

Andrew Elder

@awelder.bsky.social

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Media criticism and other things. Yeah but why

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You don't put mosaic floors in a barracks. You put mosaic floors in a large house near where the money is generated and where it's enjoyed

At any given time, the borderlands of northern Britannia had something like 30 working, manned forts. York was the base for an entire Legion, 5,000 strong. Roman Britain is famous for its villas & its mosaic floors. How many villas or mosaic floors are known in the north? Zero. 330 years.

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what if - instead of attempting to ban porn and end internet anonymity in the name of “protecting children” - we actually protected them by making sure they have enough to eat

Meanwhile eight states, seven Democratic trifectas (CA, CO, MA, ME, MI, MN, NM) and Vermont, took a lesson from the pandemic and made universal free school meals permanent.

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Sometimes my scroll gets it right.

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Political reporting, 2024

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A renewable resource

Here's some fashy tears for your Sunday.

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I’m old enough to have made ashtrays for my parents as a school project.

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Just a reminder that Michelle Wolf nailed it at the White House Correspondents Dinner. NYT, I’m looking in your direction especially.

If you take George to a fancy lunch he's yours forever

Ooh yairs, they should've kept Boris and they'd've won!

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Oh what joy of even half of this comes to pass ...

"The Other Third Rome"

Christian nationalist takeover attempt of Idaho town: A fundamentalist congregation wants to make Moscow an explicitly Christian city, governed by Biblical principles https://idahocapitalsun.com/2024/07/05/new-extremely-american-podcast-tackles-christian-nationalism-through-story-of-an-idaho-town/

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Organizers got enough signatures to put a measure protecting abortion on the ballot in Arkansas. In *Arkansas*. They had *no national support*. Ignore the pundits melting down over not being treated as Very Special Boys. Dobbs has fundamentally changed elections. Everything they know is wrong.

Arkansas abortion rights groups collect enough signatures to advance ballot measurewww.nbcnews.com A measure to enshrine abortion rights in the ruby red state’s constitution is now one step closer to making the November ballot — but major obstacles remain.

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Pick one open.spotify.com/playlist/2M1...

Other than Hurt by Johnny Cash and any version of The Sound of Silence, what are your favorite cover versions of famous songs?

Champion Coversopen.spotify.com Champion Covers · Playlist · 276 songs · 1 likes

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ironically, US now with a king for the first time since then as well

no Conservative MP in Oxfordshire for the first time since 1777.

The original General Lee was a 1969 Dodge Charger. There's no way a Cybertruck could perform as well as that. You may as well paint Peter Brock 05 livery on your mum's Corolla

Am I cooler than the least cool thing imaginable? Yeah, probably.

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I don't take the age thing seriously. THEY PICK A LIE ABOUT EVERY DEM, and the press knows it's some BS but plays along. They know that the other guy is worse in every way, especially his brain. They turned being a war hero into a liability against a fortunate son draft dodger.

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Just found out that the guy who wrote 1984 is a different person to the one who directed Citizen Kane. I thought Orwell was just his two names together, like JLo.

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The mainstream media and social media environment surrounding Biden is more aggressively toxic than anything I can recall for a POTUS, Trump included. That more than anything Biden has or hasn’t done has me questioning the wisdom of him saying in. The negativity is overwhelming. (1/2)

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Words to live by.

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In Scotland, the Alba Party (the breakaway socially conservative nationalist party founded by SNP's old leader) have lost their deposit in every seat they contested at the UK General Election www.thenational.scot/news/2443276...

Alba lose deposit in ALL seats where candidates stood in General Electionwww.thenational.scot THE Alba Party have lost their deposit in every seat they contested at the General Election, it has been reported.

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For those who don't know: this is James Timpson of Timpson key cutters/shoe repairs/dry cleaners. His company employs ex-convicts and even runs work training programmes in prisons. Genuinely inspired choice.

Oh, now that *is* interesting - James Timpson as minister for prisons, parole and probation. Dare we actually hope for something that might reduce recidivism?

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The UK election was really close, a true nailbiter, it was probably a smart move for Starmer to sell out trans people to get those extra votes

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Some folks need...to be kept far away from public office. Microphones too while we're at it

NEWS --> Mark Robinson, the MAGA extremist GOP nominee for governor in North Carolina, appeared to endorse political violence against unnamed foes in a recent speech. "Some folks need killing!" he shouted. "It's a matter of necessity!" Video and story here: newrepublic.com/article/1834...

MAGA Gov Candidate’s Ugly, Hateful Rant: “Some Folks Need Killing!”newrepublic.com Mark Robinson, the GOP nominee for governor in North Carolina, has a long history of incendiary comments. But he may have topped himself this time.

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The discourse around biden needing more sleep is fully insane. Does no one remember "Executive Time," the thing Trump spent the majority(!) of his schedule on where he would just watch TV and tweet? Dude was categorically unable to fulfill any of the demands of the office and the press barely cared

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Holy God. Show this to the young people in your life next time when they say their vote doesn't count 😲

15 votes!

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I'm beginning to think more and more these days I've wasted a great deal of my life listening to the opinions of pundits, both professionals and volunteers.

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Midsomer Norton’s MP is found thoroughly defeated…. #UKpol

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When you see the way the press is treating Joe Biden for aging in public, you see how they could treat Donald Trump for committing fraud, rape, espionage, and insurrection and never, ever will.

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Wow amazing how the Saudis keep showing up in these stories where they offer illegal support to far right politicians.

Brazil's Bolsonaro indicted for alleged money laundering for undeclared diamonds from Saudi Arabia

Brazil's Bolsonaro indicted for alleged money laundering for undeclared diamonds from Saudi Arabiaapnews.com The indictment of former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro for money laundering and criminal association in connection with undeclared diamonds from Saudi Arabia marked the far-right leader’s second formal accusation with more potentially in store.

Truss removed, everyone can relax now