Paul Konstant
@progpk.bsky.social
Retired scientist/ technologist. Diverse interests, few of them mainstream, fewer overlap. I like to follow specialists. Rational, romantic, mystic, cynical, idealist. He/him.
📍València, España
📍València, España
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Paul Konstant
@progpk.bsky.social
· Nov 10
New folks on Bluesky, I *beg* you to fill out your profiles with enough info we can tell you're a real person.
I get dozens of new followers a day. At least half are scams and bots.
If your avatar isn't personalized, you never post, but follow thousands, you're getting blocked.
I get dozens of new followers a day. At least half are scams and bots.
If your avatar isn't personalized, you never post, but follow thousands, you're getting blocked.
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Amazing reporting from @chalkbeat.org: Christian Nationalist law firm Alliance Defending Freedom was involved in setting up Colorado's first "Christian public school" specifically so it could get another case to the Supreme Court over whether public money can fund religious schools
After the Supreme Court tied on religious charters, Alliance Defending Freedom asked a Colorado school district lawyer to initiate a "parallel case," according to emails obtained by Chalkbeat. A self-described Christian public school opened a few months later. www.chalkbeat.org/colorado/202...
Christian law firm sought Colorado test case for religious public schools, emails suggest
Alliance Defending Freedom approached a Colorado lawyer about starting a school in Colorado to spark a legal test of publicly funded religious education, according to an email authored by the lawyer.
www.chalkbeat.org
November 13, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Amazing reporting from @chalkbeat.org: Christian Nationalist law firm Alliance Defending Freedom was involved in setting up Colorado's first "Christian public school" specifically so it could get another case to the Supreme Court over whether public money can fund religious schools
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After years of widespread speculation about Clinton’s involvement with the alleged sex trafficker, this revelation is particularly notable. trib.al/hTywuVJ
November 13, 2025 at 10:55 PM
After years of widespread speculation about Clinton’s involvement with the alleged sex trafficker, this revelation is particularly notable. trib.al/hTywuVJ
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SWALWELL: “.. the only thing I am surprised about is that it took him this long to come after me.”
@ericswalwell.bsky.social
@ericswalwell.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 10:55 PM
SWALWELL: “.. the only thing I am surprised about is that it took him this long to come after me.”
@ericswalwell.bsky.social
@ericswalwell.bsky.social
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Megyn Kelly redefining Epstein’s child rape as “barely legal” is ontological warfare—a defense of Trump’s psychological need to flip the moral polarity of the collective mind from order to entropy, growth to trauma, and good to evil.
www.mind-war.com/p/barely-leg...
www.mind-war.com/p/barely-leg...
“Barely Legal”: When the Hinge Becomes a Crack-Up
The Epstein files don’t just threaten Trump; they threaten the entire ontological universe of his movement.
www.mind-war.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Megyn Kelly redefining Epstein’s child rape as “barely legal” is ontological warfare—a defense of Trump’s psychological need to flip the moral polarity of the collective mind from order to entropy, growth to trauma, and good to evil.
www.mind-war.com/p/barely-leg...
www.mind-war.com/p/barely-leg...
Devastating loss
Today's 🇪🇺Parliament vote has transformed the government of the EU.
🇪🇺President Von der Leyen's party has abandoned the centrist governing majority. We now have a new coalition driving EU policy.
A huge victory for Meloni, Le Pen, Wilders & Orban
As @alemanno.bsky.social put it today:
🇪🇺President Von der Leyen's party has abandoned the centrist governing majority. We now have a new coalition driving EU policy.
A huge victory for Meloni, Le Pen, Wilders & Orban
As @alemanno.bsky.social put it today:
November 13, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Devastating loss
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We Should Have Finished Reconstruction: A Brief History Of American Politics, 1865-2025
We should have started doing the elite accountability thing in 1865, & kept doing it & then we wouldn’t be here. We should have finished Reconstruction & become an actual Republic of laws & equal rights for everyone. We still could do that now. It’s long past time.
🧵 The racist traitor, Robert Edward Lee, who was totally owned by Ely Parker at Appomattox, should have spent the rest of his life in prison & was an utterly horrible human being. We would know this if we observed Union Day as a federal holiday & had finished Reconstruction like a serious country.
November 13, 2025 at 5:16 PM
We Should Have Finished Reconstruction: A Brief History Of American Politics, 1865-2025
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Key Epstein Investigative Journalist Dings MSNBC Framing On Trump’s Connection to Epstein
Key Epstein Investigative Journalist Dings MSNBC Framing On Trump’s Connection to Epstein
The Miami Herald journalist whose helped break the Epstein case story took issue with MSNBC's framing of Epstein documents and the mention of Trump's name.
The post Key Epstein Investigative Journalist Dings MSNBC Framing On Trump’s Connection to Epstein first appeared on Mediaite.
dlvr.it
November 13, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Key Epstein Investigative Journalist Dings MSNBC Framing On Trump’s Connection to Epstein
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Perfect example of political media operating under the post-truth standard that (1) distorts the facts until the parties look approximately equal, and (2) holds “do MAGA voters care?” as a higher standard than “is it true?” or “is it important for the public to know about this?”
Wild to watch playbook run cover for this particular Trump scandal
November 13, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Perfect example of political media operating under the post-truth standard that (1) distorts the facts until the parties look approximately equal, and (2) holds “do MAGA voters care?” as a higher standard than “is it true?” or “is it important for the public to know about this?”
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Mandatory comparison. Note, it was a choice to not include a four column wide photo of Trump looking like shit in his only press appearance yesterday when he refused to answer questions about Epstein.
November 13, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Mandatory comparison. Note, it was a choice to not include a four column wide photo of Trump looking like shit in his only press appearance yesterday when he refused to answer questions about Epstein.
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Given the scale of the operation, the fact that no-one has been charged can be seen both as a grotesque mismanagement of resources and a desire to focus on creating images of military domination.
You probably saw videos of a nighttime raid in Chicago. Agents rappelling from a helicopter, bursting down doors, questioning brown-skinned immigrants.
We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua.
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua.
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime
Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arres...
www.propublica.org
November 13, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Given the scale of the operation, the fact that no-one has been charged can be seen both as a grotesque mismanagement of resources and a desire to focus on creating images of military domination.
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Never forget: At breakneck speed we are leaving the stable Holocene climate in which human society developed and thrived. Weather extremes are outside historical experience. Sea-level rise is accelerating. Dangerous tipping points are ahead.
Graph: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
Graph: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
November 13, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Never forget: At breakneck speed we are leaving the stable Holocene climate in which human society developed and thrived. Weather extremes are outside historical experience. Sea-level rise is accelerating. Dangerous tipping points are ahead.
Graph: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
Graph: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
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3 things to keep in mind:
1) While much of this is awful, much of it is also not criminal (or provable beyond reasonable doubt)
2) Trump got elected by exploiting email dump like this, & milked similar dump from Hunter Biden hard drive & Twitter files
1) While much of this is awful, much of it is also not criminal (or provable beyond reasonable doubt)
2) Trump got elected by exploiting email dump like this, & milked similar dump from Hunter Biden hard drive & Twitter files
November 13, 2025 at 11:55 AM
3 things to keep in mind:
1) While much of this is awful, much of it is also not criminal (or provable beyond reasonable doubt)
2) Trump got elected by exploiting email dump like this, & milked similar dump from Hunter Biden hard drive & Twitter files
1) While much of this is awful, much of it is also not criminal (or provable beyond reasonable doubt)
2) Trump got elected by exploiting email dump like this, & milked similar dump from Hunter Biden hard drive & Twitter files
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Media standards:
1) No Democratic scandal on par with Trump-Epstein, so it’d be biased and unfair to five it much attention.
2) Trump wouldn’t be shamed into resigning and his cult of personality wouldn’t abandon him, so Trump-Epstein wasn’t worth pursuing.
Way too many think that’s journalism.
1) No Democratic scandal on par with Trump-Epstein, so it’d be biased and unfair to five it much attention.
2) Trump wouldn’t be shamed into resigning and his cult of personality wouldn’t abandon him, so Trump-Epstein wasn’t worth pursuing.
Way too many think that’s journalism.
November 13, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Media standards:
1) No Democratic scandal on par with Trump-Epstein, so it’d be biased and unfair to five it much attention.
2) Trump wouldn’t be shamed into resigning and his cult of personality wouldn’t abandon him, so Trump-Epstein wasn’t worth pursuing.
Way too many think that’s journalism.
1) No Democratic scandal on par with Trump-Epstein, so it’d be biased and unfair to five it much attention.
2) Trump wouldn’t be shamed into resigning and his cult of personality wouldn’t abandon him, so Trump-Epstein wasn’t worth pursuing.
Way too many think that’s journalism.
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Growing list of reasons Trump should step down:
- Cover up of his involvement in notorious sex trafficking ring
- Unprecedented corruption, self enrichment
- Tariffs are historic, unprecedented abuse of power
- Illegal desecration of most important global symbol of American democracy
- Cover up of his involvement in notorious sex trafficking ring
- Unprecedented corruption, self enrichment
- Tariffs are historic, unprecedented abuse of power
- Illegal desecration of most important global symbol of American democracy
Mike Johnson is really committed to covering up for Trump and Epstein
November 12, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Growing list of reasons Trump should step down:
- Cover up of his involvement in notorious sex trafficking ring
- Unprecedented corruption, self enrichment
- Tariffs are historic, unprecedented abuse of power
- Illegal desecration of most important global symbol of American democracy
- Cover up of his involvement in notorious sex trafficking ring
- Unprecedented corruption, self enrichment
- Tariffs are historic, unprecedented abuse of power
- Illegal desecration of most important global symbol of American democracy
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🧵
Growing list of reasons Trump should step down:
- Cover up of his involvement in notorious sex trafficking ring
- Unprecedented corruption, self enrichment
- Tariffs are historic, unprecedented abuse of power
- Illegal desecration of most important global symbol of American democracy
- Cover up of his involvement in notorious sex trafficking ring
- Unprecedented corruption, self enrichment
- Tariffs are historic, unprecedented abuse of power
- Illegal desecration of most important global symbol of American democracy
Mike Johnson is really committed to covering up for Trump and Epstein
November 13, 2025 at 6:23 AM
🧵
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To recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
“would you like photos of donald and girls in bikinis in my kitchen?” -Jeffrey Epstein
November 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
To recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
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Can we circle back to the part where the NY Times never disclosed that they have incriminating information on Donald Trump from sent by Epstein that's been sitting on their email servers for nearly a decade?
Stuff like this makes me wonder why there hasn't been any reporting about Trump having affairs during his presidencies
November 12, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Can we circle back to the part where the NY Times never disclosed that they have incriminating information on Donald Trump from sent by Epstein that's been sitting on their email servers for nearly a decade?
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In 2015, mind you. Landon Thomas, Jr., of the NYT got this juicy morsel about Trump in 2015.
Here, via an old clip, is what the NYT devoted its investigative resources to over that timeframe instead:
Here, via an old clip, is what the NYT devoted its investigative resources to over that timeframe instead:
November 12, 2025 at 8:59 PM
In 2015, mind you. Landon Thomas, Jr., of the NYT got this juicy morsel about Trump in 2015.
Here, via an old clip, is what the NYT devoted its investigative resources to over that timeframe instead:
Here, via an old clip, is what the NYT devoted its investigative resources to over that timeframe instead:
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Researcher watch, let’s see: we got EO Wilson. We got Summers, who is probably Larry Summers. We got Chomsky (☹️). And of course: Nathan could be my colleague and long-ago coauthor Nathan Wolfe, who thanks Jeff in his book and has some pictures with Ghislaine circulating online :)
November 12, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Researcher watch, let’s see: we got EO Wilson. We got Summers, who is probably Larry Summers. We got Chomsky (☹️). And of course: Nathan could be my colleague and long-ago coauthor Nathan Wolfe, who thanks Jeff in his book and has some pictures with Ghislaine circulating online :)
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NOTABLE LEADING INDICATORS OF A RECESSION:
-inverted yield curve
-the Sahm rule
-the White House saying the jobs reporting system is permanently damaged and they're just not going to release the numbers because they'd be wrong anyway
-inverted yield curve
-the Sahm rule
-the White House saying the jobs reporting system is permanently damaged and they're just not going to release the numbers because they'd be wrong anyway
WHITE HOUSE: FEDERAL STATISTICAL SYSTEM MAY HAVE PERMANENTLY BEEN DAMAGED WHITE HOUSE: OCTOBER JOBS REPORTS LIKELY NEVER RELEASED
November 12, 2025 at 6:55 PM
NOTABLE LEADING INDICATORS OF A RECESSION:
-inverted yield curve
-the Sahm rule
-the White House saying the jobs reporting system is permanently damaged and they're just not going to release the numbers because they'd be wrong anyway
-inverted yield curve
-the Sahm rule
-the White House saying the jobs reporting system is permanently damaged and they're just not going to release the numbers because they'd be wrong anyway
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Nancy Mace is expected to pull her support for the petition to release the Epstein Files, the day before Adelita Grijalva is sworn in.
November 12, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Nancy Mace is expected to pull her support for the petition to release the Epstein Files, the day before Adelita Grijalva is sworn in.
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🚨 The BBC’s Road to Appeasement
As the BBC comes under growing criticism for its coverage of Reform, we republish @adambienkov.bsky.social and @baghdaddi.bsky.social’s 2024 investigation into how the corporation's leadership became cowed by the right
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/the-bbcs-r...
As the BBC comes under growing criticism for its coverage of Reform, we republish @adambienkov.bsky.social and @baghdaddi.bsky.social’s 2024 investigation into how the corporation's leadership became cowed by the right
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/the-bbcs-r...
The BBC’s Road to Appeasement
As the BBC comes under growing criticism for its coverage of Reform, we republish Adam Bienkov and Patrick Howse's 2024 investigation into how the corporation's leadership became cowed by the right
www.bylinesupplement.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:51 PM
🚨 The BBC’s Road to Appeasement
As the BBC comes under growing criticism for its coverage of Reform, we republish @adambienkov.bsky.social and @baghdaddi.bsky.social’s 2024 investigation into how the corporation's leadership became cowed by the right
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/the-bbcs-r...
As the BBC comes under growing criticism for its coverage of Reform, we republish @adambienkov.bsky.social and @baghdaddi.bsky.social’s 2024 investigation into how the corporation's leadership became cowed by the right
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/the-bbcs-r...
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November 11, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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The most blatantly and obviously corrupt admin in US history by far. Will ANY Republican have the integrity to speak up about this, the pardons, the crypto scam, ANYTHING?
November 11, 2025 at 10:47 PM
The most blatantly and obviously corrupt admin in US history by far. Will ANY Republican have the integrity to speak up about this, the pardons, the crypto scam, ANYTHING?