kentropic
@kentropic.bsky.social
“All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.” - B. Spinoza
“I live sweat, but I dream light years.” - D. Boon
“A republic, if you can keep it.” - B. Franklin
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“I live sweat, but I dream light years.” - D. Boon
“A republic, if you can keep it.” - B. Franklin
Traveling yinzer, kamaʻāina, pākehā; Appalachian forest-grown
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kentropic
@kentropic.bsky.social
· Feb 28
A small creek cascading over mossy rocks. Olympic National Park, Washington, 19 Apr 2015. #NationalParks
This is what we’re fighting for. Whose side are you on?
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The Wellerman - TikTok Sea Shanty mashup 2021
YouTube video by Dubbac Media
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February 14, 2026 at 4:12 AM
American hero
February 14, 2026 at 1:35 AM
American hero
Senator Hoodie is deeply, tragically damaged, & cannot be voted out of office soon enough. If he had any honor & self-awareness, he’d resign.
He really is the weakest senator there is. Two people have been murdered, there’s been no accountability, and he believes the Senate is powerless. He believes Trump gets what Trump wants.
February 13, 2026 at 11:51 PM
Senator Hoodie is deeply, tragically damaged, & cannot be voted out of office soon enough. If he had any honor & self-awareness, he’d resign.
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The utter moral squalor of these people, their unspeakably callous & cruel depravity, is deeply shocking. We must bear witness, we cannot look away.
On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
February 13, 2026 at 11:20 PM
The utter moral squalor of these people, their unspeakably callous & cruel depravity, is deeply shocking. We must bear witness, we cannot look away.
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Mother Jones' activity during the West Virginia Mine Wars gets mentioned in our co-published graphic novel, Black Coal & Red Bandanas.
Check it out here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/en-gb/produc...
Check it out here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/en-gb/produc...
February 13, 2026 at 3:37 PM
Mother Jones' activity during the West Virginia Mine Wars gets mentioned in our co-published graphic novel, Black Coal & Red Bandanas.
Check it out here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/en-gb/produc...
Check it out here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/en-gb/produc...
Aw, HELL no. More evidence that Rooney Mara’s scene in “The Social Network” includes the truest movie dialogue ever spoken.
February 13, 2026 at 1:31 PM
Aw, HELL no. More evidence that Rooney Mara’s scene in “The Social Network” includes the truest movie dialogue ever spoken.
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These are efforts to make cures for multiple sclerosis, herpes — affects hundreds of millions in the US alone! — and shingles.
This is mindblowing, amazing stuff.
But these efforts for cures require a predictable regulatory environment, where decisions are made based on science & and pub health.
This is mindblowing, amazing stuff.
But these efforts for cures require a predictable regulatory environment, where decisions are made based on science & and pub health.
February 13, 2026 at 5:44 AM
These are efforts to make cures for multiple sclerosis, herpes — affects hundreds of millions in the US alone! — and shingles.
This is mindblowing, amazing stuff.
But these efforts for cures require a predictable regulatory environment, where decisions are made based on science & and pub health.
This is mindblowing, amazing stuff.
But these efforts for cures require a predictable regulatory environment, where decisions are made based on science & and pub health.
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This is a vivid, horribly relevant read. “She does not sleep well. And as you lift up her pajama top to check her rash one morning, you see that her breathing is labored, shadows pooling between her ribs when she sucks in air. You suffer an icy moment of realization: This is a medical crisis.”
This Is How a Child Dies of Measles
When your family becomes a data point in an outbreak
www.theatlantic.com
February 13, 2026 at 12:35 PM
This is a vivid, horribly relevant read. “She does not sleep well. And as you lift up her pajama top to check her rash one morning, you see that her breathing is labored, shadows pooling between her ribs when she sucks in air. You suffer an icy moment of realization: This is a medical crisis.”
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30 countries use mail voting
February 12, 2026 at 9:21 PM
30 countries use mail voting
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Kalshi is interesting because we're talking someone who wants to gamble on some real niche shit. I feel like Cap'n Crunch is the right choice here. Can totally see him plunking down a whole cargo on the wrong side of a bet like whether RFK2 will choke on a raw liver before the 4th of July
February 13, 2026 at 2:53 AM
Kalshi is interesting because we're talking someone who wants to gamble on some real niche shit. I feel like Cap'n Crunch is the right choice here. Can totally see him plunking down a whole cargo on the wrong side of a bet like whether RFK2 will choke on a raw liver before the 4th of July
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In other words, long enough that habeas petitions can be filed on their behalf in Minnesota before they're whisked off to an immigration detention facility somewhere in the Fifth Circuit (where, under that court's current law, they wouldn't be eligible for a bond hearing).
Incredibly powerful opinion chronicling the awfulness in Whipple and the ways it interfered with the right to counsel.
One key part of the ruling (that ICE will likely appeal ASAP); Judge Brasel bars ICE from transferring anyone out of Minnesota within 72 hours of arrest.
One key part of the ruling (that ICE will likely appeal ASAP); Judge Brasel bars ICE from transferring anyone out of Minnesota within 72 hours of arrest.
February 13, 2026 at 1:03 AM
In other words, long enough that habeas petitions can be filed on their behalf in Minnesota before they're whisked off to an immigration detention facility somewhere in the Fifth Circuit (where, under that court's current law, they wouldn't be eligible for a bond hearing).
[Keith Jackson voice] "He's rumblin', fumblin', stumblin'.... Whoa, Nelly - reeeeally somethin' special."
Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.
February 13, 2026 at 1:32 AM
[Keith Jackson voice] "He's rumblin', fumblin', stumblin'.... Whoa, Nelly - reeeeally somethin' special."
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“we‘ve been working to gut the Fourteenth Amendment for generations. we are so proud”
well, there it is
February 12, 2026 at 8:15 PM
“we‘ve been working to gut the Fourteenth Amendment for generations. we are so proud”
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YOU CAN PRINT THAT... honestly, too many outlets not being able to share this obvious and dangerous truth is a big part of how we've gotten to where we are.
“I don't see any plan, any strategy, any end game,” says Pat Parenteau, a professor of environmental law at the University of Vermont. “I don't see anything from this administration, just fuck everything up as much as you can. You can print that.”
Sounds accurate to me.
Sounds accurate to me.
The Fight Over US Climate Rules Is Just Beginning
As the EPA moves to roll back the endangerment finding, which allows it to regulate greenhouse gases, experts predict uncertainty for business and a protracted legal fight.
www.wired.com
February 12, 2026 at 11:56 PM
YOU CAN PRINT THAT... honestly, too many outlets not being able to share this obvious and dangerous truth is a big part of how we've gotten to where we are.
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You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.
Breaking News: The Trump administration repealed the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten human life and well being, meaning that the EPA can no longer regulate them. nyti.ms/4rSszQu
February 12, 2026 at 8:38 PM
You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.
Of course the Trump administration aims to suppress humanist solutions that work. How else can the plutocrats who sponsor him extract maximum profit from an immiserated populace?
‘Deeply illogical’: this man’s life work could end homelessness – and Trump is doing all he can to stop it
After four decades of research and over a decade of federal support, Housing First’s Sam Tsemberis is ‘back to being an outlaw’ in the US
www.theguardian.com
February 12, 2026 at 9:24 PM
Of course the Trump administration aims to suppress humanist solutions that work. How else can the plutocrats who sponsor him extract maximum profit from an immiserated populace?
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Fascists only need to win one election to destroy democracy, whereas democrats have to win every election to preserve it. That’s why fascists cannot be allowed into politics, why a tolerant society must never tolerate fascism or it will lose its tolerance. It’s the Popper Paradox and we’re living it
February 12, 2026 at 1:37 PM
Fascists only need to win one election to destroy democracy, whereas democrats have to win every election to preserve it. That’s why fascists cannot be allowed into politics, why a tolerant society must never tolerate fascism or it will lose its tolerance. It’s the Popper Paradox and we’re living it
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Building readership and safeguarding trust in books in an era of creator-led media and information overload emerged as central themes at the #IPG 2026 Spring Conference 👇 #BookSky
IPG Conference: Publishing rigorously researched non-fiction is 'key' to safeguard trust in books
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February 12, 2026 at 12:38 PM
Essential & heartbreaking thread. The very least that’s required of us all is to bear witness, to not look away from the horrifically cruel & lawless treatment that parts of our own federal gov’t are inflicting on our friends & neighbors. 🧵
I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it.
I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”
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I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”
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February 12, 2026 at 12:44 PM
Essential & heartbreaking thread. The very least that’s required of us all is to bear witness, to not look away from the horrifically cruel & lawless treatment that parts of our own federal gov’t are inflicting on our friends & neighbors. 🧵
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I said this yesterday and I'll say it again. The Trump regime is running a squalid, disease-ridden and deadly concentration camp at Fort Bliss called Camp East Montana. Is it any wonder they don't want drones observing what happens there?
According to multiple NYT sources, it wasn’t even military personnel at Fort Bliss that fired an anti-drone laser at alleged cartel drones. It was CBP who used the weapon on loan from DoD against a child’s party balloon they mistook for a drone. The Pentagon gave CBP an anti-aircraft weapon.
February 12, 2026 at 12:25 PM
I said this yesterday and I'll say it again. The Trump regime is running a squalid, disease-ridden and deadly concentration camp at Fort Bliss called Camp East Montana. Is it any wonder they don't want drones observing what happens there?
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Some children in Dilley were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide, parents told ProPublica.
They said kids lost their appetites after finding worms and mold on their food, had trouble sleeping, and were constantly sick.
They said kids lost their appetites after finding worms and mold on their food, had trouble sleeping, and were constantly sick.
The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center
ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...
www.propublica.org
February 12, 2026 at 4:00 AM
Some children in Dilley were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide, parents told ProPublica.
They said kids lost their appetites after finding worms and mold on their food, had trouble sleeping, and were constantly sick.
They said kids lost their appetites after finding worms and mold on their food, had trouble sleeping, and were constantly sick.
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Out of the mouths of babes
February 11, 2026 at 11:31 PM
Out of the mouths of babes
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Meditation isn’t thinking about nothing. New research reinforces that it's a mind-altering, dynamic state that promotes focus, learning, and well-being. www.wired.com/story/study-...
Study of Buddhist Monks Finds Meditation Alters Brain Activity
Meditation isn’t thinking about nothing. New research reinforces that it's a mind-altering, dynamic state that promotes focus, learning, and well-being.
www.wired.com
February 11, 2026 at 10:41 PM
Meditation isn’t thinking about nothing. New research reinforces that it's a mind-altering, dynamic state that promotes focus, learning, and well-being. www.wired.com/story/study-...
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Swalwell plays Bondi a clip of Kash Patel *lying under oath* about how many times Trump's name appears in the Epstein files
February 11, 2026 at 4:39 PM
Swalwell plays Bondi a clip of Kash Patel *lying under oath* about how many times Trump's name appears in the Epstein files