@reasonmatters.bsky.social
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not sure how many decades it will take America living down having elected Trump twice
Hoist by our own petard.
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It’s kinda wild the President is openly corrupt, Nazi sympathizing, and very likely a pedophile—and most Republicans in Congress are still willing to ignore the Constitution whenever he asks.
November 16, 2025 at 2:46 PM
It’s kinda wild the President is openly corrupt, Nazi sympathizing, and very likely a pedophile—and most Republicans in Congress are still willing to ignore the Constitution whenever he asks.
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And yes: far-UVC germicidal light is one of the most promising tools we have.
Clean air is the seatbelt of the 21st century.
We could’ve prevented so much suffering simply by telling people the truth about how the virus moves.
Clean air is the seatbelt of the 21st century.
We could’ve prevented so much suffering simply by telling people the truth about how the virus moves.
November 16, 2025 at 6:34 PM
And yes: far-UVC germicidal light is one of the most promising tools we have.
Clean air is the seatbelt of the 21st century.
We could’ve prevented so much suffering simply by telling people the truth about how the virus moves.
Clean air is the seatbelt of the 21st century.
We could’ve prevented so much suffering simply by telling people the truth about how the virus moves.
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Masking makes sense. SARS-CoV-2 can persist, and new evidence from France shows infected megakaryocytes + platelets — meaning real blood involvement. This virus isn’t just respiratory, and protecting your air protects your blood.
Don’t know anything about viral persistence? Know that it’s the norm👇
Don’t know anything about viral persistence? Know that it’s the norm👇
"No man is an island, entire of itself."
John Donne
For me, choosing to wear a respirator mask in all public spaces signifies an awareness of my connection to the human community, whose collective well-being is grievously threatened by the ongoing pandemic of Covid-19.
#COVID19 #respirator
John Donne
For me, choosing to wear a respirator mask in all public spaces signifies an awareness of my connection to the human community, whose collective well-being is grievously threatened by the ongoing pandemic of Covid-19.
#COVID19 #respirator
November 16, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Masking makes sense. SARS-CoV-2 can persist, and new evidence from France shows infected megakaryocytes + platelets — meaning real blood involvement. This virus isn’t just respiratory, and protecting your air protects your blood.
Don’t know anything about viral persistence? Know that it’s the norm👇
Don’t know anything about viral persistence? Know that it’s the norm👇
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Excellent, & not surprising, but just incredibly depressing all around. Again, what we're rediscovering is that a disturbingly high percentage of the folks in higher education simply are not interested in the actual project of learning & teaching. Also, as it turns out, people respond to incentives.
This may be the best thing ive read yet on AI in higher ed, and its written by a Yale undergrad. Highly recommend.
Inside Yale’s Quiet Reckoning with AI | The New Journal
Amid ChatGPT's rising popularity and a computer science cheating scandal, Yale students, professors, and administrators wrestle privately with the proper role of AI in education. What happens when eve...
thenewjournalatyale.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Excellent, & not surprising, but just incredibly depressing all around. Again, what we're rediscovering is that a disturbingly high percentage of the folks in higher education simply are not interested in the actual project of learning & teaching. Also, as it turns out, people respond to incentives.
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A regime of avaricious, cruel goons isn't the same thing as a "fascist state," and the fact that they have to go to court, fight it out in state elections and legislatures, cower from being filmed (instead of filming *you*) means everything.
Recognize this. Don't surrender to your fears.
/19
Recognize this. Don't surrender to your fears.
/19
November 16, 2025 at 3:12 AM
A regime of avaricious, cruel goons isn't the same thing as a "fascist state," and the fact that they have to go to court, fight it out in state elections and legislatures, cower from being filmed (instead of filming *you*) means everything.
Recognize this. Don't surrender to your fears.
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Recognize this. Don't surrender to your fears.
/19
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ICE vs the clergy
November 15, 2025 at 1:32 AM
ICE vs the clergy
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"... the risk of myocarditis was more than twice as high after infection than after vaccination."
⭐️ Link here:
bcschoolcovidtracker.knack.com/bc-school-co...
⭐️ Link here:
bcschoolcovidtracker.knack.com/bc-school-co...
Covid raises risk of heart issues in children more than vaccination
Getting covid-19 for the first time slightly increased the risk of heart inflammation, blood clots and bleeding disorders among children, whereas being vaccinated against the virus was much safer and ...
www.newscientist.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:21 PM
"... the risk of myocarditis was more than twice as high after infection than after vaccination."
⭐️ Link here:
bcschoolcovidtracker.knack.com/bc-school-co...
⭐️ Link here:
bcschoolcovidtracker.knack.com/bc-school-co...
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👇🎯 *"Signature Policy exemptions may only apply to Republicans and the One Special Boy. Governing while Democratic or wearing a Tan Suit may void the terms of your Signature Policy exemption. Please consult the 9 Wizards In Robes to see if the Signature Policy exemption applies to you."
November 16, 2025 at 6:20 PM
👇🎯 *"Signature Policy exemptions may only apply to Republicans and the One Special Boy. Governing while Democratic or wearing a Tan Suit may void the terms of your Signature Policy exemption. Please consult the 9 Wizards In Robes to see if the Signature Policy exemption applies to you."
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"Dozens of deportees have been sent to Africa from the U.S. since July after the Trump administration struck largely secretive agreements with at least five African nations — including Eswatini, Rwanda, and South Sudan — to take migrants under a new third-country deportation program."
West African Woman Attempts Suicide After U.S. Deportation to Non-Native Country
Attorneys say African migrants, deported under controversial U.S. policy, are facing life-threatening danger.
capitalbnews.org
November 16, 2025 at 6:22 PM
"Dozens of deportees have been sent to Africa from the U.S. since July after the Trump administration struck largely secretive agreements with at least five African nations — including Eswatini, Rwanda, and South Sudan — to take migrants under a new third-country deportation program."
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“Agents didn’t arrest anyone Sunday morning. They rolled down their windows, ‘grinning’— it was ‘the same grin they had when they pinned a teen to the ground,’ Han said.
‘Even though I knew my rights,’ Han said, when agents with guns and masks stormed into his store ‘I still felt helpless.’”
‘Even though I knew my rights,’ Han said, when agents with guns and masks stormed into his store ‘I still felt helpless.’”
“Peter Han’s family has owned Super G Mart for 15 years. He took video Saturday of the teen employee who was pushing carts back to the store being thrown down and detained by Border Patrol as Border Patrol leader Greg Bovino stood by.“
Video showed Border Patrol agents pinning down and arresting a teenage employee at the market Saturday.
November 16, 2025 at 6:30 PM
“Agents didn’t arrest anyone Sunday morning. They rolled down their windows, ‘grinning’— it was ‘the same grin they had when they pinned a teen to the ground,’ Han said.
‘Even though I knew my rights,’ Han said, when agents with guns and masks stormed into his store ‘I still felt helpless.’”
‘Even though I knew my rights,’ Han said, when agents with guns and masks stormed into his store ‘I still felt helpless.’”
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"ProPublica’s reporting debunks the idea of a ’Tren de Aragua complex' taken over by a horde of terrorists. We found no criminal convictions for 18 of the 21 Venezuelans we identified. Three of the men had been charged with offenses ... but in each case the charges were dropped."
“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 16, 2025 at 6:29 PM
"ProPublica’s reporting debunks the idea of a ’Tren de Aragua complex' taken over by a horde of terrorists. We found no criminal convictions for 18 of the 21 Venezuelans we identified. Three of the men had been charged with offenses ... but in each case the charges were dropped."
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For sure.
But if every school can have a policy to protect those with a peanut allergy (1-4%), we can do something for the 8.2% of children with Long Covid (and climbing every day) and the 100% who are susceptible, who didn’t consent to having their lifespan cut in half or being sentenced to bed.
But if every school can have a policy to protect those with a peanut allergy (1-4%), we can do something for the 8.2% of children with Long Covid (and climbing every day) and the 100% who are susceptible, who didn’t consent to having their lifespan cut in half or being sentenced to bed.
November 15, 2025 at 6:35 PM
For sure.
But if every school can have a policy to protect those with a peanut allergy (1-4%), we can do something for the 8.2% of children with Long Covid (and climbing every day) and the 100% who are susceptible, who didn’t consent to having their lifespan cut in half or being sentenced to bed.
But if every school can have a policy to protect those with a peanut allergy (1-4%), we can do something for the 8.2% of children with Long Covid (and climbing every day) and the 100% who are susceptible, who didn’t consent to having their lifespan cut in half or being sentenced to bed.
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OMG! I just got off the plane in Asheville and RFK Jr. Was boarding and someone passed by him and said “quack”
November 15, 2025 at 6:07 PM
OMG! I just got off the plane in Asheville and RFK Jr. Was boarding and someone passed by him and said “quack”
Read this entire thread by the always acute @mcopelov.bsky.social on how to handle the Supremely Corrupt Court. I ❤️ the idea of moving them to a strip mall in Kansas City! Trump I's decision to move the most knowledgeable group of Dept of Ag experts on climate change and farming destroyed the unit.
Riding the circuit. No clerks. No building. No shadow docket. Nothing, until the Wizards In Robes stop ignoring the law, data, history, precedent, & the plain meaning of words in the Constitution. And there will be 25, with 9 chosen by lottery for any case.
What I first said in sarcasm I increasingly think is a real thing to consider:
Move SCOTUS to a strip mall in rural Kansas.
We can’t fire them. Impeachment* is functionally dead. The 18-yr term thing is a fantasy.
But we can kill a lot of their perks.
Bet Kav would retire fast.
Move SCOTUS to a strip mall in rural Kansas.
We can’t fire them. Impeachment* is functionally dead. The 18-yr term thing is a fantasy.
But we can kill a lot of their perks.
Bet Kav would retire fast.
November 15, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Read this entire thread by the always acute @mcopelov.bsky.social on how to handle the Supremely Corrupt Court. I ❤️ the idea of moving them to a strip mall in Kansas City! Trump I's decision to move the most knowledgeable group of Dept of Ag experts on climate change and farming destroyed the unit.
Rev. Wolff has it right, we are living through a spiritual emergency. Perfect encapsulation of the sadism that pervades ICE operations and the policies of Trump and his "mini-me"s, Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem.
NEW: In his first interview since his arrest for protesting outside the Chicago-area ICE facility, @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social tells me he has "bruises all over my body."
Even so, he said, “the cruelty that goes on that facility … must be 100 times worse." religionnews.com/2025/11/15/a...
Even so, he said, “the cruelty that goes on that facility … must be 100 times worse." religionnews.com/2025/11/15/a...
November 15, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Rev. Wolff has it right, we are living through a spiritual emergency. Perfect encapsulation of the sadism that pervades ICE operations and the policies of Trump and his "mini-me"s, Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem.
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“A Native American girl was nearly deported from her own country because ICE saw brown skin and assumed ‘illegal.’ This isn’t security — it’s racial profiling and state intimidation. These are Gestapo-style tactics happening in America right now.”
azmirror.com/2025/11/12/a...
azmirror.com/2025/11/12/a...
November 13, 2025 at 10:44 PM
“A Native American girl was nearly deported from her own country because ICE saw brown skin and assumed ‘illegal.’ This isn’t security — it’s racial profiling and state intimidation. These are Gestapo-style tactics happening in America right now.”
azmirror.com/2025/11/12/a...
azmirror.com/2025/11/12/a...
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Equalizing electricity prices between residential, commercial, and industrial customers would save households - aka voters - 21% on their electricity bills. Commercial prices would go up 1%. Industrial prices would go up 59% because residential and commercial customers deeply subsidize them today.
7. Residential customers - aka you and me, aka voters - pay 28% more (16.5 c/kWh, 2024 average) than commercial customers (12.9 c/kWh) and 201% more than industrial (8.2 c/kWh). This trend is accelerating: Residential prices rose 27% from 2019-2023, vs. 21% for commercial and 19% for industrial.
November 13, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Equalizing electricity prices between residential, commercial, and industrial customers would save households - aka voters - 21% on their electricity bills. Commercial prices would go up 1%. Industrial prices would go up 59% because residential and commercial customers deeply subsidize them today.
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Scoop from @abbyvesoulis.bsky.social & @ariberman.bsky.social: Docs obtained by @weareoversight.bsky.social show efforts DHS is making to gather drivers' license data from all 50 states in order to weaponize Trump’s false claims of voter fraud. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
New docs show DHS is gathering drivers’ license data in voter fraud crusade
Experts worry the Trump administration will use the info to disenfranchise voters.
www.motherjones.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Scoop from @abbyvesoulis.bsky.social & @ariberman.bsky.social: Docs obtained by @weareoversight.bsky.social show efforts DHS is making to gather drivers' license data from all 50 states in order to weaponize Trump’s false claims of voter fraud. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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1) 'Why I Resigned' from UVa Prez 100% worth reading www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
2) Events were forced by NYT story w leaked info that he was under pressure to resign. UVa prez has 'no idea' where leaks came from (See below.)
3) FWIW same NYT team did leaked "Harvard will cave" stories
2) Events were forced by NYT story w leaked info that he was under pressure to resign. UVa prez has 'no idea' where leaks came from (See below.)
3) FWIW same NYT team did leaked "Harvard will cave" stories
November 14, 2025 at 10:35 PM
1) 'Why I Resigned' from UVa Prez 100% worth reading www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
2) Events were forced by NYT story w leaked info that he was under pressure to resign. UVa prez has 'no idea' where leaks came from (See below.)
3) FWIW same NYT team did leaked "Harvard will cave" stories
2) Events were forced by NYT story w leaked info that he was under pressure to resign. UVa prez has 'no idea' where leaks came from (See below.)
3) FWIW same NYT team did leaked "Harvard will cave" stories
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Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
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Here’s a gift link (no paywall) to the article, “Catholic bishops condemn ‘indiscriminate mass deportation’ in rare statement”:
wapo.st/448fDw6
wapo.st/448fDw6
November 13, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Here’s a gift link (no paywall) to the article, “Catholic bishops condemn ‘indiscriminate mass deportation’ in rare statement”:
wapo.st/448fDw6
wapo.st/448fDw6