Janet D. Stemwedel
@docfreeride.bsky.social
Academic philosopher, lapsed chemist, occasional science writer, perpetual ethics booster. All views my own. (she/her)
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RE starbucks picket line--the relevant detail is "picket line, do not cross." Pass that along. Proclaiming that you are in no danger of doing so because you are too aesthetically pure to let Starbucks coffee pass your lips is...unhelpful and does not give the impression you perhaps imagine it does.
November 13, 2025 at 1:56 PM
RE starbucks picket line--the relevant detail is "picket line, do not cross." Pass that along. Proclaiming that you are in no danger of doing so because you are too aesthetically pure to let Starbucks coffee pass your lips is...unhelpful and does not give the impression you perhaps imagine it does.
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New AP-NORC poll
-67% of Americans disapprove of Trump's performance on the economy
-57% of Americans disapprove on immigration
-65% disapprove on health care
-67 percent disapprove of his handling of the federal government
apnorc.org/projects/tru...
-67% of Americans disapprove of Trump's performance on the economy
-57% of Americans disapprove on immigration
-65% disapprove on health care
-67 percent disapprove of his handling of the federal government
apnorc.org/projects/tru...
Trump’s approval rating remains low during government shutdown - AP-NORC
Approval of how Trump is handling the federal government has dropped sharply since March.
apnorc.org
November 13, 2025 at 3:20 PM
New AP-NORC poll
-67% of Americans disapprove of Trump's performance on the economy
-57% of Americans disapprove on immigration
-65% disapprove on health care
-67 percent disapprove of his handling of the federal government
apnorc.org/projects/tru...
-67% of Americans disapprove of Trump's performance on the economy
-57% of Americans disapprove on immigration
-65% disapprove on health care
-67 percent disapprove of his handling of the federal government
apnorc.org/projects/tru...
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From the week before the inauguration.
November 13, 2025 at 3:00 PM
From the week before the inauguration.
Big tech was never a good neighbor.
New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
www.404media.co
November 13, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Big tech was never a good neighbor.
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New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
www.404media.co
November 13, 2025 at 2:11 PM
New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
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Abusers don’t compartmentalize that shit, they simply cannot be trusted
November 12, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Abusers don’t compartmentalize that shit, they simply cannot be trusted
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Kind of mad none of the people who raised me taught me this, it was always, “so and so is a sex pest but he’s a brilliant xxx.”
I know now that abusers will always put themselves first, serve themselves first, and whatever thing they’re amazing at suffers as soon as there’s a conflict of interest.
I know now that abusers will always put themselves first, serve themselves first, and whatever thing they’re amazing at suffers as soon as there’s a conflict of interest.
Abusers don’t compartmentalize that shit, they simply cannot be trusted
November 13, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Kind of mad none of the people who raised me taught me this, it was always, “so and so is a sex pest but he’s a brilliant xxx.”
I know now that abusers will always put themselves first, serve themselves first, and whatever thing they’re amazing at suffers as soon as there’s a conflict of interest.
I know now that abusers will always put themselves first, serve themselves first, and whatever thing they’re amazing at suffers as soon as there’s a conflict of interest.
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My experience age 19 to 25 was before every professional biology conference or atheist/skeptic convention, people would warn me who not to be alone with because they would do bad things to young women
The Venn diagram of people mentioned in the Epstein emails is nearly a circle
Like, fucking duh
The Venn diagram of people mentioned in the Epstein emails is nearly a circle
Like, fucking duh
Kind of mad none of the people who raised me taught me this, it was always, “so and so is a sex pest but he’s a brilliant xxx.”
I know now that abusers will always put themselves first, serve themselves first, and whatever thing they’re amazing at suffers as soon as there’s a conflict of interest.
I know now that abusers will always put themselves first, serve themselves first, and whatever thing they’re amazing at suffers as soon as there’s a conflict of interest.
Abusers don’t compartmentalize that shit, they simply cannot be trusted
November 13, 2025 at 3:20 PM
My experience age 19 to 25 was before every professional biology conference or atheist/skeptic convention, people would warn me who not to be alone with because they would do bad things to young women
The Venn diagram of people mentioned in the Epstein emails is nearly a circle
Like, fucking duh
The Venn diagram of people mentioned in the Epstein emails is nearly a circle
Like, fucking duh
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And I'm one of them! If you are outside the US and need a planetary scientist, please let me know!!
"In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups."
Record Numbers of Younger Women Want to Leave the U.S.
The percentage of younger women in the U.S. who express a desire to migrate permanently has surged in the past decade.
news.gallup.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:15 PM
And I'm one of them! If you are outside the US and need a planetary scientist, please let me know!!
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the point of camo for a soldier is to obscure their position from the enemy. camo in an urban environment is completely different, and this forest green or desert pattern is functionally useless.
police only dress this way to project an image of power they should not have.
police only dress this way to project an image of power they should not have.
November 13, 2025 at 2:39 PM
the point of camo for a soldier is to obscure their position from the enemy. camo in an urban environment is completely different, and this forest green or desert pattern is functionally useless.
police only dress this way to project an image of power they should not have.
police only dress this way to project an image of power they should not have.
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Today, Oklahoma is set to execute Tremane Wood even though a state panel recommended his life is spared
Tremane Wood is currently on death row, despite his older brother admitting to killing victim Ronnie Wipf in 2002.
Next week, he will have the chance to make his case for mercy.
Oklahoma's attorney general is fighting to ensure his death anyway.
Next week, he will have the chance to make his case for mercy.
Oklahoma's attorney general is fighting to ensure his death anyway.
His Brother Admitted To A Murder. He Is Set To Be Executed For It.
Next week, Tremane Wood will have the chance to make his case for mercy. Oklahoma's attorney general is fighting to ensure his death.
www.huffpost.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Today, Oklahoma is set to execute Tremane Wood even though a state panel recommended his life is spared
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The Republican president is a pedophile who has doubled my healthcare costs and let scores of violent criminals out of jail. But a Democratic mayor-elect wants to make busses free in a city I don't live in. I have never felt more politically homeless.
November 13, 2025 at 12:47 PM
The Republican president is a pedophile who has doubled my healthcare costs and let scores of violent criminals out of jail. But a Democratic mayor-elect wants to make busses free in a city I don't live in. I have never felt more politically homeless.
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in online corners like these I think people largely recognize how credulous, unprincipled opposition to "wokeness" functioned as lightly papered over defenses of impunity, but it's one of those drums people should probably start beating for normies
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 2:13 PM
in online corners like these I think people largely recognize how credulous, unprincipled opposition to "wokeness" functioned as lightly papered over defenses of impunity, but it's one of those drums people should probably start beating for normies
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November 12, 2025 at 4:04 PM
It is never too late to disavow the terrible people in your field of endeavor that you had been defending.
First rule of holes: put down the shovel.
First rule of holes: put down the shovel.
November 13, 2025 at 4:37 AM
It is never too late to disavow the terrible people in your field of endeavor that you had been defending.
First rule of holes: put down the shovel.
First rule of holes: put down the shovel.
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The entire online cosmology community has literally watched in public for years as these elder statesmen of the field bullied me in public because I dared to say white supremacy and misogyny are harmful to people and the science we do ⚛️
November 12, 2025 at 11:37 PM
The entire online cosmology community has literally watched in public for years as these elder statesmen of the field bullied me in public because I dared to say white supremacy and misogyny are harmful to people and the science we do ⚛️
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"What Would Feynman Do?" is a fucking terrible ethical maxim. Feynman was a repulsive misogynist and a creep.
Which seems to be very much what I'd expect from Krauss.
Which seems to be very much what I'd expect from Krauss.
“I have decided that Feynman would have done what I did.. and I am therefore content.. no matter what..:)“
— Lawrence Krauss
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— Lawrence Krauss
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November 13, 2025 at 4:13 AM
"What Would Feynman Do?" is a fucking terrible ethical maxim. Feynman was a repulsive misogynist and a creep.
Which seems to be very much what I'd expect from Krauss.
Which seems to be very much what I'd expect from Krauss.
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At what point does the New York Times get charged as organizationally conspiring to abet human trafficking of minors.
November 13, 2025 at 2:26 AM
At what point does the New York Times get charged as organizationally conspiring to abet human trafficking of minors.
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Thomas Jefferson was 44 when he started in creeping on 14-year-old Sally Hemings. And Sally, who was enslaved, shared a father with Martha Wayles Jefferson—Tom's wife.
He's been dead literally centuries and the US refuses to reckon squarely with what this meant for definitions of American greatness
He's been dead literally centuries and the US refuses to reckon squarely with what this meant for definitions of American greatness
November 13, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Thomas Jefferson was 44 when he started in creeping on 14-year-old Sally Hemings. And Sally, who was enslaved, shared a father with Martha Wayles Jefferson—Tom's wife.
He's been dead literally centuries and the US refuses to reckon squarely with what this meant for definitions of American greatness
He's been dead literally centuries and the US refuses to reckon squarely with what this meant for definitions of American greatness
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Release the documents because the victims have been demanding this for years. That should really be the bottom line here. RELEASE ALL OF THE DOCUMENTS (including photos and videos)
November 13, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Release the documents because the victims have been demanding this for years. That should really be the bottom line here. RELEASE ALL OF THE DOCUMENTS (including photos and videos)
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New York Times killed Weinstein and Epstein stories but just asked Ms Rachel if she was funded by Hamas.
November 12, 2025 at 8:50 PM
New York Times killed Weinstein and Epstein stories but just asked Ms Rachel if she was funded by Hamas.
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Seriously, this is just… The "ID"/facial recognition technology that this is based on has such a massive history of error and general bullshit as to be fundamentally no different from phrenology, and to the same ends and purposes. Claiming that it is in anyway "definitive" is just… so deeply wrong.
Masked ICE goons are scanning people's faces this morning in northwest DC. Outside the @wmata.com Georgia Ave station
#bigballsgoonshow
#bigballsgoonshow
November 13, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Seriously, this is just… The "ID"/facial recognition technology that this is based on has such a massive history of error and general bullshit as to be fundamentally no different from phrenology, and to the same ends and purposes. Claiming that it is in anyway "definitive" is just… so deeply wrong.
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🙃trump's alleged 1994 rape of 13yr old Katie Johnson has no statute of limitations: N.Y. Penal Law § 130.75.
November 13, 2025 at 3:55 AM
🙃trump's alleged 1994 rape of 13yr old Katie Johnson has no statute of limitations: N.Y. Penal Law § 130.75.
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Meanwhile the NYT defamed me because … checks notes … I didn’t think the guy who backed psychological warfare and ran NASA while it purged LGBTQ people shouldn’t have a telescope named after him at the behest of a guy who has had it out for me because of an argument about Robert’s Rules
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Fall 2017: Then-NYT reporter literally warning Epstein that someone is "digging around again."
![From:
Thomas Jr., Landon
Sent:
9/27/2017 2:47:47 PM
To:
Subject:
Got another call from Connelly..
Importance:
High
Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com]
He is digging around again -- not clear if its another book/or expanded paperback version. Was asking me all sorts of questions about why you hired Ken Starr. I told him I had no idea - I think he is doing some Trump-related digging too.
Anyway, for what its worth...
Landon Thomas, Jr.
Financial Reporter
New York Times
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/t/landon_ir thomas/index.h
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November 13, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Meanwhile the NYT defamed me because … checks notes … I didn’t think the guy who backed psychological warfare and ran NASA while it purged LGBTQ people shouldn’t have a telescope named after him at the behest of a guy who has had it out for me because of an argument about Robert’s Rules
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turns out the emails we should have been reading in 2016 were from the NYT
November 12, 2025 at 10:34 PM
turns out the emails we should have been reading in 2016 were from the NYT