Rik Scarce
@rikscarce.bsky.social
I'm a Licensed Battlefield Guide at Gettysburg National Military Park and semi-retired sociology professor who's eager to build a better world.
This presser should become the Trump administration's "47 percent" moment. They do not, will not, accept those not like themselves, including those who choose to dress, speak, hell chew differently.
Sean Duffy: "Dressing with respect -- whether it's a pair of jeans and a decent shirt, I would encourage people to maybe dress a little better which encourages us to maybe behave a little better. Let's try not to wear slippers and pajamas as we come to the airport."
November 25, 2025 at 1:04 AM
This presser should become the Trump administration's "47 percent" moment. They do not, will not, accept those not like themselves, including those who choose to dress, speak, hell chew differently.
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The truly wild thing is this isn’t even true, a shit-ton of their oil reserves on paper are heavy tar sands and every US oil company will take one look at that at $80/bbl and walk away because it isn’t close to economically viable.
Rep. Salazar on Venezuela: "We're about to go in ... we need to go in ... Venezuela for the American oil companies will be a field day"
November 24, 2025 at 9:26 PM
The truly wild thing is this isn’t even true, a shit-ton of their oil reserves on paper are heavy tar sands and every US oil company will take one look at that at $80/bbl and walk away because it isn’t close to economically viable.
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"Losing Revolution Wind’s electricity entirely would have cost New England consumers about $500 million a year, "
Feel the cold? Offshore wind alleviates grid woes in winter, study says. #energysky -- via Canary Media:
Feel the cold? Offshore wind alleviates grid woes in winter, study…
A sector despised by President Trump can boost grid reliability on the East Coast when people crank up the heat and gas plants are tested by extreme…
www.canarymedia.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:35 PM
"Losing Revolution Wind’s electricity entirely would have cost New England consumers about $500 million a year, "
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NEWS: I spent the past 24 hours going through major MAGA accounts on Twitter, and a bombshell development has become clear: most of the right-wing ecosphere is being fed propaganda from foreign actors.
This impacts elections. This impacts discourse. This is major. Subscribe to support my work:
This impacts elections. This impacts discourse. This is major. Subscribe to support my work:
NEWS: Major MAGA Accounts on Twitter Exposed as Foreign Actors
A stunning development over the past 24 hours.
open.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 7:38 PM
NEWS: I spent the past 24 hours going through major MAGA accounts on Twitter, and a bombshell development has become clear: most of the right-wing ecosphere is being fed propaganda from foreign actors.
This impacts elections. This impacts discourse. This is major. Subscribe to support my work:
This impacts elections. This impacts discourse. This is major. Subscribe to support my work:
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One thing that is not getting enough attention is that Trump has normalized the idea of the United States supporting the transfer of territory and millions of people from a democracy to a dictatorship.
The ending of freedom for millions is now the official US position.
The ending of freedom for millions is now the official US position.
November 24, 2025 at 3:27 PM
One thing that is not getting enough attention is that Trump has normalized the idea of the United States supporting the transfer of territory and millions of people from a democracy to a dictatorship.
The ending of freedom for millions is now the official US position.
The ending of freedom for millions is now the official US position.
Uh, so you "defend" your "team and ...club" by assaulting others, including a non-combatant TV camera operator? Pep, you need to grow up, dude. You lost. Quit your bleedin' whinging'. www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/footba...
Man City boss Pep Guardiola issues apology for heated Newcastle incident
Guardiola has faced questions about his conduct in the aftermath of Man City's defeat to Newcastle
www.chroniclelive.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Uh, so you "defend" your "team and ...club" by assaulting others, including a non-combatant TV camera operator? Pep, you need to grow up, dude. You lost. Quit your bleedin' whinging'. www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/footba...
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Amazing story, state legislator and Turning Points USA leader who crusaded against bogus voter fraud claims pleads guilty to attempted election fraud. azmirror.com/briefs/turni...
Turning Point leader, former GOP Rep pleads guilty to attempted election fraud | Arizona Mirror
Austin Smith election fraud guilty plea: Former GOP Rep admits forging 100+ signatures on ballot petitions in Arizona
azmirror.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Amazing story, state legislator and Turning Points USA leader who crusaded against bogus voter fraud claims pleads guilty to attempted election fraud. azmirror.com/briefs/turni...
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States that allow religious or philosophical vaccine exemptions are seeing deadly outbreaks. Texas and Washington have struggled with mass measles and whooping cough cases, even resulting in child deaths.
West Virginia’s strong vaccine law is under fire. Here’s what’s happening and why it matters.
Lawsuits and politics threaten West Virginia’s vaccine protections. Public health experts warn of potential outbreaks.
mountainstatespotlight.org
November 23, 2025 at 8:40 PM
States that allow religious or philosophical vaccine exemptions are seeing deadly outbreaks. Texas and Washington have struggled with mass measles and whooping cough cases, even resulting in child deaths.
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In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.
November 23, 2025 at 11:37 AM
In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.
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Sign at the US Military Academy at West Point:
November 23, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Sign at the US Military Academy at West Point:
Got curious about whether @secscottbessent.govpeeps.us was lying or not. Unsurprisingly, it appears he is. Take a look at this map, produced by Senate Republicants. Scanning over "blue" and "red" states, it looks like blue state inflation is lower, not higher. www.jec.senate.gov/public/index...
Bessent: "You know the best way to bring your inflation rate down? Move from a blue state to a red state. Blue state inflation is half a percent higher."
November 23, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Got curious about whether @secscottbessent.govpeeps.us was lying or not. Unsurprisingly, it appears he is. Take a look at this map, produced by Senate Republicants. Scanning over "blue" and "red" states, it looks like blue state inflation is lower, not higher. www.jec.senate.gov/public/index...
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For over 300 years now, it is a bedrock principle in Anglo-American constitutionalism that obedience is owed according only to law. Refusal to follow an illegal command is not only a moral choice but an absolute duty.
November 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM
For over 300 years now, it is a bedrock principle in Anglo-American constitutionalism that obedience is owed according only to law. Refusal to follow an illegal command is not only a moral choice but an absolute duty.
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America putting most of its eggs in the generative AI basket, China going hard into green tech. When history looks back on this period, someone is going to look awfully stupid.
November 22, 2025 at 7:18 PM
America putting most of its eggs in the generative AI basket, China going hard into green tech. When history looks back on this period, someone is going to look awfully stupid.
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Russia killed 33 people, including six children, by a missile strike on Ternopil on November 19.
94 more people were injured, 18 of them children. Six people remain missing.
Ukrainian rescuers worked for four days at two locations, managing to save 46 people, including seven children.
94 more people were injured, 18 of them children. Six people remain missing.
Ukrainian rescuers worked for four days at two locations, managing to save 46 people, including seven children.
November 22, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Russia killed 33 people, including six children, by a missile strike on Ternopil on November 19.
94 more people were injured, 18 of them children. Six people remain missing.
Ukrainian rescuers worked for four days at two locations, managing to save 46 people, including seven children.
94 more people were injured, 18 of them children. Six people remain missing.
Ukrainian rescuers worked for four days at two locations, managing to save 46 people, including seven children.
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The darkness of what Trump is trying to do in Ukraine is almost impossible to explain, but all the other Putin stooges get it!
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said that his government supports the "peace plan" for Ukraine proposed by President Trump.
According to him, the document is "bombastic,"&if adopted,Russia would "emerge as a complete winner - morally and economically strengthened."
According to him, the document is "bombastic,"&if adopted,Russia would "emerge as a complete winner - morally and economically strengthened."
November 22, 2025 at 10:00 AM
The darkness of what Trump is trying to do in Ukraine is almost impossible to explain, but all the other Putin stooges get it!
Whaddaya know! Society matters in "who we are," what we do. It's not all biology after all. My colleagues in psychology and biology have long argued that "social" traits are actually psycho/biological. And we are biological beings. But not in the determinative way some would have us believe.
So there you have it, twin study estimates were greatly inflated, and molecular data sets the record straight. I walk through possible counter-arguments, but ultimately the uncomfortable truth is that genes contribute to traits much less than we always thought.
November 22, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Whaddaya know! Society matters in "who we are," what we do. It's not all biology after all. My colleagues in psychology and biology have long argued that "social" traits are actually psycho/biological. And we are biological beings. But not in the determinative way some would have us believe.
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This guy has his finger on the pulse of his party's base in a way that others in his caucus unequivocally just do not
November 21, 2025 at 10:45 PM
This guy has his finger on the pulse of his party's base in a way that others in his caucus unequivocally just do not
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Trump gets: $5 billion in crypto deals, a $400 million plane, a $300 million ballroom, millions in deals from Facebook, Amazon, CBS.
Everyone else gets: higher prices for health care, electricity, and groceries.
Corruption, plain and simple.
Everyone else gets: higher prices for health care, electricity, and groceries.
Corruption, plain and simple.
November 21, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Trump gets: $5 billion in crypto deals, a $400 million plane, a $300 million ballroom, millions in deals from Facebook, Amazon, CBS.
Everyone else gets: higher prices for health care, electricity, and groceries.
Corruption, plain and simple.
Everyone else gets: higher prices for health care, electricity, and groceries.
Corruption, plain and simple.
Turn off "smart" features in Google. It should actually be labeled "theft" features, since they allow our ideas to be stolen from us to train AI.
November 21, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Turn off "smart" features in Google. It should actually be labeled "theft" features, since they allow our ideas to be stolen from us to train AI.
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An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees staggering reduction in homelessness
The state program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years. At the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
www.streetroots.org
November 21, 2025 at 2:35 AM
An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
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I've had a missile blow up next to my airplane, been shot at dozens of times by anti-aircraft fire, and launched into orbit — all for my country. I never thought I'd see a President call for my execution.
Trump doesn’t understand the Constitution, and we're all less safe for it.
Trump doesn’t understand the Constitution, and we're all less safe for it.
November 20, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I've had a missile blow up next to my airplane, been shot at dozens of times by anti-aircraft fire, and launched into orbit — all for my country. I never thought I'd see a President call for my execution.
Trump doesn’t understand the Constitution, and we're all less safe for it.
Trump doesn’t understand the Constitution, and we're all less safe for it.
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The party that promised "free speech on campus" has made sure there can be no free speech on campuses.
This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.
November 21, 2025 at 4:25 AM
The party that promised "free speech on campus" has made sure there can be no free speech on campuses.
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CNBC: "Republicans will sign up if you come up with something that actually works." 🤡
FACT: None were willing to sign on for a 1yr extension of subsidies to buy time for a more permanent fix.
FACT: None are willing to consider multi-year extension.
FACT: @cnbc.com carries water for Republicans.
FACT: None were willing to sign on for a 1yr extension of subsidies to buy time for a more permanent fix.
FACT: None are willing to consider multi-year extension.
FACT: @cnbc.com carries water for Republicans.
"That's absolutely a ridiculous assertion. Shame on you for saying that" -- Hakeem Jeffries was not happy when CNBC's Rebecca Quick claimed he actually wants healthcare costs to go up to score political points on Republicans
November 21, 2025 at 2:05 PM
CNBC: "Republicans will sign up if you come up with something that actually works." 🤡
FACT: None were willing to sign on for a 1yr extension of subsidies to buy time for a more permanent fix.
FACT: None are willing to consider multi-year extension.
FACT: @cnbc.com carries water for Republicans.
FACT: None were willing to sign on for a 1yr extension of subsidies to buy time for a more permanent fix.
FACT: None are willing to consider multi-year extension.
FACT: @cnbc.com carries water for Republicans.
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Good. But anyone who signed off on this has not earned the trust of the public to be in a position of public responsibility. They must resign or be fired.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
In reversal, Coast Guard again classifies swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The new order came hours after The Post reported the service would instead classify such symbols as “potentially divisive” under guidelines set for release next month.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Good. But anyone who signed off on this has not earned the trust of the public to be in a position of public responsibility. They must resign or be fired.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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DHS claimed that agents were forced to use riot munitions to disperse an "unruly mob" on September 19.
In fact, "the scene [was] quiet," and then "almost immediately and without warning, agents lob flashbang grenades, tear gas, and pepper balls, stating 'fuck yea!' as they do so."
In fact, "the scene [was] quiet," and then "almost immediately and without warning, agents lob flashbang grenades, tear gas, and pepper balls, stating 'fuck yea!' as they do so."
![For example, Defendants directed the Court to two videos of agents outside the Broadview facility the evening of September 19, 2025. Doc. 232 at 1. In those videos, agents stand behind a fence preparing to leave the facility’s gates and disperse what Defendants described as an unruly mob. Axon Body 3 Video 2025-09-19 2045 X60AB474J; Axon Body 3 Video 2025-09-19 2045 X60AB375H. The scene appears quiet as the gate opens, revealing a line of protesters standing in the street holding signs. Axon Body 3 Video 2025-09-19 2045 X60AB474J at 1:30; Axon Body 3 Video 2025-09-19 2045 X60AB375H at 1:45. Almost immediately and without warning, agents lob flashbang grenades, tear gas, and pepper balls at the protesters, stating, “fuck yea!”, as they do so, and the crowd scatters. Axon Body 3 Video 2025-09-19 2045 X60AB474J at 1:30–6:30; Axon Body 3 Video 2025-09-19 2045 X60AB375H at 1:45–3:20. This video disproves Defendants’ contentions that protesters were the ones shooting off fireworks, refusing orders, and acting violently so as to justify the agents’ use of force. [FN 7] See Doc. 172-8 (CBP use of force report for evening of September 19, 2025);
[FN 7]: 7 In one of the videos, someone throws a projectile back at agents, which one individual tells agents another person did to protect the crowd from the agents’ use of force. Axon Body 3 Video 2025-09-19 2045 X60AB375H at 4:00–5:00. This is also mentioned in the use of force report, although it is reported that the crowd threw “dangerous objects” at agents “[w]ithout provocation.” Doc. 172-8 at 19, 21. The BWC footage disproves the representation that the crowd threw objects “without provocation,” and the fact that protestors threw objects at agents after they deployed force cannot be used as justification for the use of force that preceded it.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreig4qz3vzcukthnaqgcwjwjbhibbdires2m3cwnw4q6mbzsu57fyza@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 11:07 PM
DHS claimed that agents were forced to use riot munitions to disperse an "unruly mob" on September 19.
In fact, "the scene [was] quiet," and then "almost immediately and without warning, agents lob flashbang grenades, tear gas, and pepper balls, stating 'fuck yea!' as they do so."
In fact, "the scene [was] quiet," and then "almost immediately and without warning, agents lob flashbang grenades, tear gas, and pepper balls, stating 'fuck yea!' as they do so."