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James D. Melton

@jdmchicago.bsky.social
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Creator and co-host of the “Life in the Stupid Times” podcast. Amateur social critic. stupidtimes.net. LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/jamesmelton #BlueCrew #cats #Democracy 🫘

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James D. Melton @jdmchicago.bsky.social · 11h
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Trump's Mental Health
Plus: The Guilfoyle Follies, Diesel from Russia, Public Execution and a Lost Nobel Prize.
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James D. Melton @jdmchicago.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
#Caturday
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James D. Melton @jdmchicago.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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James D. Melton @jdmchicago.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The weird thing is that Hermann Göring killed himself because the tribunal refused to execute him by firing squad. He thought being killed by a firing squad was more dignified than hanging.
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James D. Melton @jdmchicago.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Fuck that guy.
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James D. Melton @jdmchicago.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I used to think Donald Trump was the worst person in the world. But now I think it’s Jared Kushner.
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James D. Melton @jdmchicago.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
jamesdmelton.substack.com/p/could-trum... The short answer is “yes”
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James D. Melton @jdmchicago.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
jamesdmelton.substack.com/p/could-trum... The short answer is “yes”
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James D. Melton @jdmchicago.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I love all my followers. But if @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social and @hwinkler4real.bsky.social followed me back, I might love them most of all.
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James D. Melton @jdmchicago.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The short answer: Nope.
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Can We Trust Presidents with War? | Life in the Stupid Times
AlsoL Tax-Funded Propaganda, Selling Weapons to China (maybe), and Abusing the Media
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James D. Melton @jdmchicago.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Amirite?
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James D. Melton @jdmchicago.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Why blue cities are the greatest (Chicago)
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James D. Melton @jdmchicago.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Ending the war should be our top priority. But Trump doesn't think so. substack.com/@jamesdmelto...
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Ending the war should be our top priority. But Trump doesn't think so.
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James D. Melton @jdmchicago.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Amirite?
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James D. Melton @jdmchicago.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
#Caturday
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James D. Melton @jdmchicago.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Probably.
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James D. Melton @jdmchicago.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I think it's some kind of experimental poop-containing, anti-stink device, developed by DARPA.
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James D. Melton @jdmchicago.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Bad idea. jamesdmelton.substack.com/p/our-societ...
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Our society is not ready for AI
To make the best of the new technology, we will need new institutions and ownership structures.
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James D. Melton @jdmchicago.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Our society is not ready for AI
To make the best of the new technology, we will need new institutions and ownership structures.
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James D. Melton @jdmchicago.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Our society is not ready for AI
To make the best of the new technology, we will need new institutions and ownership structures.
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James D. Melton @jdmchicago.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I don't expect this thread to be popular. But I work in the Chicago Public Schools. And I see what crime does to communities. The criminal element is just a few percentage points of the population. But it fucks up a lot of neighborhoods.
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James D. Melton @jdmchicago.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Right. We WANT people to pay into Obamacare and not need it. That is having insurance works.
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James D. Melton @jdmchicago.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
… We need to regulate the shit out of Flock. But, in a situation where most big-city PDs are understaffed, Flock is a useful tool. Most big-city residents don't have the privilege of retreating to suburbia and high-fiving each other when they say ACAB.
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James D. Melton @jdmchicago.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
… If there is a slippery slope here, we plummeted to the bottom of it when the government required people to put identifying numbers on their cars in the first place.
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James D. Melton @jdmchicago.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
… who is a cop in a major city. He mainly uses it to find stolen cars. He also used it recently to capture a domestic and abuser. And he works for a PD that doesn't cooperate with ICE, because working with ICE can get them fired almost as fast as stalking people using Flock...
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James D. Melton @jdmchicago.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
OK, @codyjohnston.bsky.social I know that Flock cameras can be abused. But cops are learning that using Flock to stalk people is a fast track to being fired. And, got cops, it's otherwise really hard to get fired. Stay with me here. I have a close relative...
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James D. Melton @jdmchicago.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Am I nuts, or did the president of the United States threaten to use thermonuclear weapons against Iran? That is what it sounded like to me.
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In an unhinged speech before the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, Donald Trump said the following, according to the Associated Press (emphasis added by me): “I have a big decision to mak...
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James D. Melton @jdmchicago.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Can we trust presidents with our military?
The Iran war shows where hubris can lead if our leaders think we’re invincible
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James D. Melton @jdmchicago.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Playing a Tiny Violin
ALT: Playing a Tiny Violin
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James D. Melton @jdmchicago.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Could this be the stupidest scandal of 2026? substack.com/@jamesdmelto...
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Many people on Twitter (you might know it as X) are throwing tantrums because some Tillamook cheese products are certified Halal. This is possibly the stupidest scandal in a year full of stupid scan...
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James D. Melton @jdmchicago.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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James D. Melton @jdmchicago.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Remember when #pedophilia and war crimes were not core #Republican values? Those were good times.
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James D. Melton @jdmchicago.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Here’s the thing. Once society falls apart, billionaires in their bunkers will be at the mercy of the security personnel they hired and armed. Those luxurious underground palaces won’t belong to them for very long.
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James D. Melton @jdmchicago.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Here’s the thing. Once society falls apart, billionaires in their bunkers will be at the mercy of the security personnel they hired and armed. Those luxurious underground palaces won’t belong to them for very long.
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James D. Melton @jdmchicago.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Political Holy Wars
Republicans see Democrats as more than just wrong. They increasingly depict them as satanic.
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James D. Melton @jdmchicago.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The latest LITST asks the question: Why do Trump supporters think Democrats are satanic? jamesdmelton.substack.com/p/political-...
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Political Satanic Panic
Also, Trump-a-Palooza, Don Jr.'s wedding and more!
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James D. Melton @jdmchicago.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Protecting pedophiles is a key MAGA goal.
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James D. Melton @jdmchicago.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Worse are the people who “don’t accept” those ideas or states of being. Do they also refuse to “accept” trees, locomotives, or other clearly real things?
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James D. Melton @jdmchicago.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I am waiting for a world leader to exercise universal jurisdiction and arrest the lardass for war crimes.
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James D. Melton @jdmchicago.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
@somemorenews.bsky.social You mentioned that the Republicans could highlight “non-hot” podcasters. That's me. I am a 63-year-old white guy who co-hosts a podcast about the stupidity of our era. We’re on Bluesky: @stupidtimes.net
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Life in the Stupid Times: A Pro-Democracy Podcast: | Life in the Stupid Times
Join us on 'Life in the Stupid Times', a pro-democracy podcast that humorously examines the current inanity of the Trump era. Together, we can navigate these stupid times and form a supportive communi...
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James D. Melton @jdmchicago.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
#Caturday
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James D. Melton @jdmchicago.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
We don't talk about this enough. www.esquire.com/style/groomi...
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An Expert Explains What the Hell Is Happening With Stephen Miller's 'Hair'
That's not his natural hairline, folks.
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James D. Melton @jdmchicago.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
All the while, Trump’s sycophants on social media and elsewhere cheer on Trump’s AI slop and outrageous statements. None of them demand that Trump start taking his job seriously. And the country becomes a little bit stupider every day
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James D. Melton @jdmchicago.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
in the wee hours of the morning. Trump also “trolls” the world by threatening to annex Canada, Greenland and Mexico.
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James D. Melton @jdmchicago.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Therefore, by extension, anyone opposed to Trump or his policies was a de facto tool of Belzebub, the Prince of Darkness. In between running crypto grifts, selling merch, insider trading and telling gigantic lies, Trump reinforces his Democrats-are-evil message by posting AI slop on social media
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James D. Melton @jdmchicago.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The Trumpites also saw Democrats and moderate Republicans alike as tools of a hidden “deep state,” who were, in turn, beholden to globalists. And who do the shadowy globalists work for? Satan. Literally, Satan.
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James D. Melton @jdmchicago.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Without evidence, Trump followers imagined that the Democrats were secret communists who wanted bad things for America.
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James D. Melton @jdmchicago.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
To the Trump Movement, Democrats and moderate Republicans were not merely the opposition. Trump painted them as literally evil, even satanic. Trump and his movement attributed all kinds of nefarious motives to their opponents.
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James D. Melton @jdmchicago.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Trump attracted followers who cared more about who and what candidates opposed than about policy ideas. Trump took his voters to an entirely new level of unseriousness, using fear.
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James D. Melton @jdmchicago.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Slowly, being a conservative became less about ideas and values and more like being a participant in a nihilistic, yet ridiculous, team sport. Trumpism emerged during the team-sport phase of the conservative movement.
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