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Scott Henderson
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Creating a pirate republic on the Great Plains. Sourdough baker.
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samuel-bagg.bsky.social
Misinformation *is* central to democratic problems today, but the solution is *not* to correct such epistemic failures directly. Instead, we must address them at their roots, in social identity.

Or so I argue in a new post for @apaphilosophy.bsky.social.

blog.apaonline.org/2025/11/12/t...
The Problem is Epistemic. The Solution is Not. | Blog of the APA
Doubts about the wisdom of the masses are as old as philosophy itself. Yet interest in democracy’s “epistemic” merits has surged in the last decade—and it is no mystery why. Democracy is collapsing ar...
blog.apaonline.org
November 13, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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colinsmith.bsky.social
William Golding from his 1962 essay “Fables” on the intended meaning of his “Lord Of The Flies”.
No
November 12, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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johncluverius.bsky.social
The Epstein story gets a something that is tearing at the heart of the electorate: elite impunity. The idea that wealthy and powerful people can do terrible things *at scale* and face no consequences for them. Whatever political party actually stops it could rule the country for a generation.
November 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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lorak.bsky.social
aim to live your life in such a manner that your best friends have long, beautiful, hilarious, dirty stories to tell about you on national TV after you’re called away…
November 12, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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katmabu.bsky.social
This is the facility that I and many others have been protesting. We’ve been hit, thrown, gassed, and shot with pepper bullets but none of that holds a candle to what is being done to people *in* the actual facility.

Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.
lyndab08.bsky.social Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 8d
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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pack2010.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 2:52 AM
scottyhendo.bsky.social
This was the moment I first came across Mayor Elect Mamdani
marcofoster.bsky.social Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · Mar 12
New York assemblyman Zohran Mamdani confronts Border Czar Tom Homan today in Albany 👇🏻
November 5, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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katmabu.bsky.social
Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
November 5, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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louisevans.bsky.social
Really puts the American right’s dog-killing streak into a strange new light.
sharonk.bsky.social Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · Mar 22
i think about this william gibson quote a lot
Gibson's later fanzine articles convey his natural flair for travel writing, since the best pieces are his description of an unpleasant encounter with Span- ish police on Ibiza ("My Life under Fascism; or, Franco Killed My Dog"), an amusing account about observing a mirror spontaneously explode in a Turk ish restaurant ("Anecdotal Evidence"), and a 1984 report on a visit to Mexico ("On the Surface," Wing Window No. 7); these pieces would not have seemed out of place in Distrust That Particular Flavor. In the first article, he explained that the policemen, after asking if a stray dog belonged to Gibson, cruelly shot the animal, provoking this rare excursion into political commentary: So the next time you hear someone say that Heinlein or Bianca Jagger or Anita Bryant is fascist, I've given you one little yardstick of the genuine, the histori- cal article. They shot my dog. I say my dog because this experience taught me something about fascists: if you don't admit to owning the world's stray dogs, they'll shoot them. And one day they'll be back. For you. With the boxcars. (18)
November 4, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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poemless.bsky.social
Some context to the viral videos:

Around 9am Friday, ICE/CBP *encircled* several square miles of a safe suburb and *stormed* it using multiple units.

They were in cars, on foot in alleys & gangways, and in helicopters. They demanded papers, threatened residents, pointed guns, kidnapped people.
November 1, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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timothysnyder.bsky.social
Six months ago I wrote this post about “the next terrorist attack.” I republish it now (lightly updated) because my fear of this scenario has recently grown much greater.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-t...
The Next Terrorist Attack
And What Comes After (Updated)
snyder.substack.com
November 1, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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horadam.bsky.social
RW militias have moved from their 90s fringe to effectively state-sanctioned, and Nazism, white nationalism, and other extremist strains now dominate state political parties, with the upper hand in national politics under an increasingly authoritarian regime.

As a threat assessment, it’s not close.
November 1, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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annaleehq.bsky.social
“It’s the same picture”
Raising the flag on Iwo Jima
October 19, 2025 at 5:57 PM
scottyhendo.bsky.social
Omaha #NoKings Rally biggest one yet this year and filled with emergent energy. You can sense a realignment of coalitions within American politics. It’s a great platform for human connection. People making clever signs, dressing up in costumes, singing songs, telling stories on stage, etc.
October 18, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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horadam.bsky.social
Well this explains a lot.
paris.nyc paris martineau @paris.nyc · Oct 14
my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...
Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports
CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.
www.consumerreports.org
October 15, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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billkristolbulwark.bsky.social
A notice from @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social.

Will run in newspapers across the nation.
October 13, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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pedsortho.bsky.social
Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.
But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death. The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed. After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died. While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants. Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....
October 13, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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trumwill.bsky.social
An Oklahoma girls basketball team returned its championship after discovering it actually lost the title game - CBS News share.google/vccoxSaNXFGw...
An Oklahoma girls basketball team returned its championship after discovering it actually lost the title game
Brendan King, head coach of the Academy of Classical Christian Studies high school girls basketball team, recounted every basket of the title game and discovered his team had actually lost.
www.cbsnews.com
October 11, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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4nikkolas.bsky.social
after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.
October 10, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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sifill.bsky.social
Cause the algorithms are increasingly shady and I don’t see much promotion, let me Gift Link this:

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...
Civil Rights Lawyer Bryan Stevenson on How America’s Story Should Be Told
www.nytimes.com
October 8, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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katiephang.bsky.social
“This is a movement…This is an achievement of a whole society…I am just one person.”

The beautiful humility of Venezuelan pro-democracy leader, Maria Corina Machado, the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize recipient.
October 10, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
Wounded Knee is a dark stain upon our nation’s history. We must remember it for what it truly was, not for what white nationalists would have it be.
A screenshot of two X posts. The first post is from Tom Morello (@tmorello), timestamped 7 hours ago, with a profile picture showing a person in a colorful outfit. The text reads: "What the f*ck is wrong with these people. Wounded Knee was a bloodthirsty massacre of Lakota Sioux, including dozens of women and children." The second post is from Secretary of War Pete (@username), timestamped 9 hours ago, with a profile picture of a man in a suit. The text reads: "Under my direction, the soldiers who fought at the Battle of Wounded Knee will keep their medals. This decision is final. Their place in history is settled." The second post includes an image of a man in a suit standing in front of an American flag and an official seal, appearing to give a formal statement.
September 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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gilduran.com
pitch perfect
September 26, 2025 at 5:56 AM
scottyhendo.bsky.social
Local media affiliates are the car dealerships of Trump 2.0
markharris.bsky.social Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · Sep 24
One thing we've learned in the last 12 hours: The Sinclair-Nexstar ban on Kimmel, in terms of his reach, means nothing in an era when late-night shows have an afterlife or simultaneous life on streaming. Kimmel's average audience is 1.6M. On YouTube, last night's monologue is already at 8.4M views.
September 24, 2025 at 3:10 PM