Dr.Scott
@dr-scott.bsky.social
Husband, father, ethics professor. Born and raised in the Bronx. Attended public schools. Yale PhD in ethics. Then moved to Kentucky to teach. Frederick Douglass scholar. 💙
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Dr.Scott
@dr-scott.bsky.social
· Feb 24
“…freedom had roused my soul to eternal wakefulness. Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever. It was heard in every sound, and seen in every thing…It looked from every star, it smiled in every calm, breathed in every wind, and moved in every storm.”
—Frederick Douglass, 1845
—Frederick Douglass, 1845
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trump just blamed Joe Biden for the current stock market decline while he was trying to sell Teslas on the White House lawn!
YOU CAN NOT MAKE THIS SHIT UP!!!
Oh, he said egg prices have come down.
WTF????
YOU CAN NOT MAKE THIS SHIT UP!!!
Oh, he said egg prices have come down.
WTF????
March 11, 2025 at 7:58 PM
trump just blamed Joe Biden for the current stock market decline while he was trying to sell Teslas on the White House lawn!
YOU CAN NOT MAKE THIS SHIT UP!!!
Oh, he said egg prices have come down.
WTF????
YOU CAN NOT MAKE THIS SHIT UP!!!
Oh, he said egg prices have come down.
WTF????
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‘Chilling’: Trump White House blames Biden amid recession alarms and market nosedive
‘Chilling’: Trump White House blames Biden amid recession alarms and market nosedive
It’s Monday, March 10, and Donald Trump has been president for 50 days. The stock market continues its steep decline, with the Dow losing nearly 2,500 points over the past month. Today, it closed down nearly 900 points—after losing over 1100—reportedly…
www.alternet.org
March 10, 2025 at 8:30 PM
‘Chilling’: Trump White House blames Biden amid recession alarms and market nosedive
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Excellent read.
Politicians Aren’t Going to Save Your Fucking Rights
Women, Minorities, Immigrants, and LGBTQ Folks Are in Danger
open.substack.com
March 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Excellent read.
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As the Trump Administration treats our colleagues in government with utter disdain and targets law firms for taking on cases and clients they don’t like, the mission for all ethical lawyers is clear: stand up and speak out. @contrariannews.org
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Calling All Ethical Lawyers
In the face of Trump's retributive assaults on our justice system, the duty of the legal community cannot be clearer: fight back
open.substack.com
March 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
As the Trump Administration treats our colleagues in government with utter disdain and targets law firms for taking on cases and clients they don’t like, the mission for all ethical lawyers is clear: stand up and speak out. @contrariannews.org
lnkd.in/eZau9G-i open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
lnkd.in/eZau9G-i open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
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New from me: The Trump admin ended funding for 1000s of int'l aid programs, including one in Kabul treating severely malnourished kids.
“A child maybe one year old will have the weight of a newborn... If we can’t treat them, they have a very high risk of dying.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
“A child maybe one year old will have the weight of a newborn... If we can’t treat them, they have a very high risk of dying.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Trump’s Foreign Aid Freeze Cut Off Funds for Severely Malnourished Toddlers
"If we can't treat them, they have a very high risk of dying."
www.motherjones.com
March 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
New from me: The Trump admin ended funding for 1000s of int'l aid programs, including one in Kabul treating severely malnourished kids.
“A child maybe one year old will have the weight of a newborn... If we can’t treat them, they have a very high risk of dying.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
“A child maybe one year old will have the weight of a newborn... If we can’t treat them, they have a very high risk of dying.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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They are the planet’s lifeblood, connecting continents, regulating climates, and enabling life to flourish.
👇read👇
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How Ocean Currents Regulate Global Climate: The Lifeblood of Our Planet 🌊🌍 -
Discover how ocean currents regulate global climate, from heat redistribution to carbon storage, and why protecting this system is critical for our planet's future.
lovirae.com
March 5, 2025 at 7:41 AM
They are the planet’s lifeblood, connecting continents, regulating climates, and enabling life to flourish.
👇read👇
👇read👇
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Thumbnail for today's, Coffee With Texas Paul. Hope you can join us. It is a live broadcast with the best community anywhere in the live chat. Let's make this happen. Economic Blackout Friday, today Feb. 28th!
February 28, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Thumbnail for today's, Coffee With Texas Paul. Hope you can join us. It is a live broadcast with the best community anywhere in the live chat. Let's make this happen. Economic Blackout Friday, today Feb. 28th!
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The Republicans have chosen 🟠 over the American people every presented opportunity.
They have dropped their oaths and abandoned the impoverished, sick, disabled, elderly-all of us.
They have dropped their oaths and abandoned the impoverished, sick, disabled, elderly-all of us.
February 27, 2025 at 7:21 PM
“For the whole law is summed up in a single commandment, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.””
Galatians 5:14 NRSV
Galatians 5:14 NRSV
February 24, 2025 at 8:25 PM
“For the whole law is summed up in a single commandment, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.””
Galatians 5:14 NRSV
Galatians 5:14 NRSV
“…freedom had roused my soul to eternal wakefulness. Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever. It was heard in every sound, and seen in every thing…It looked from every star, it smiled in every calm, breathed in every wind, and moved in every storm.”
—Frederick Douglass, 1845
—Frederick Douglass, 1845
February 24, 2025 at 8:19 PM
“…freedom had roused my soul to eternal wakefulness. Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever. It was heard in every sound, and seen in every thing…It looked from every star, it smiled in every calm, breathed in every wind, and moved in every storm.”
—Frederick Douglass, 1845
—Frederick Douglass, 1845
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Compare with Joe Biden's first month and you start to see there's a real potential for the bottom to drop all the way out here.
February 20, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Compare with Joe Biden's first month and you start to see there's a real potential for the bottom to drop all the way out here.
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If Trump and the GOP extend their 2017 tax cuts, the top 1% will make out like bandits — taking home an extra $165 per day.
But the bottom 60% will get shafted — getting only an extra $1.10 per day in exchange for massive cuts to Medicaid and SNAP.
It's reverse Robin Hood.
But the bottom 60% will get shafted — getting only an extra $1.10 per day in exchange for massive cuts to Medicaid and SNAP.
It's reverse Robin Hood.
February 15, 2025 at 5:01 PM
If Trump and the GOP extend their 2017 tax cuts, the top 1% will make out like bandits — taking home an extra $165 per day.
But the bottom 60% will get shafted — getting only an extra $1.10 per day in exchange for massive cuts to Medicaid and SNAP.
It's reverse Robin Hood.
But the bottom 60% will get shafted — getting only an extra $1.10 per day in exchange for massive cuts to Medicaid and SNAP.
It's reverse Robin Hood.
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Elon Musk was raised in apartheid South Africa. He and his family observed, endorsed, and enjoyed apartheid.
Until the age of 18, Elon was completely immersed in a wildly racist, homophobic, whites-only culture. These were Elon’s formative years, and as a result, bigotry is firmly embedded in…
Until the age of 18, Elon was completely immersed in a wildly racist, homophobic, whites-only culture. These were Elon’s formative years, and as a result, bigotry is firmly embedded in…
February 9, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Elon Musk was raised in apartheid South Africa. He and his family observed, endorsed, and enjoyed apartheid.
Until the age of 18, Elon was completely immersed in a wildly racist, homophobic, whites-only culture. These were Elon’s formative years, and as a result, bigotry is firmly embedded in…
Until the age of 18, Elon was completely immersed in a wildly racist, homophobic, whites-only culture. These were Elon’s formative years, and as a result, bigotry is firmly embedded in…
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Donald Trump fumed over the state of New York’s fraud judgment against him in a Truth Social post Tuesday morning. The president used to call New York his home, but in his post, he said it “is the most corrupt State in the Union.”
Trump Throws Tantrum as Massive Fraud Judgment Looms
Remember that fraud case against Donald Trump? It hasn’t magically disappeared yet.
newrepublic.com
February 11, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Donald Trump fumed over the state of New York’s fraud judgment against him in a Truth Social post Tuesday morning. The president used to call New York his home, but in his post, he said it “is the most corrupt State in the Union.”
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important read
“In hearings & rulings, US judges have been sharp to challenge the administration’s moves when they intrude on legislative function, ignore established laws, or violate the Constitution.
Yet the general view seems to be that Trump is winning.
That’s wrong & I want to explain why.”
“In hearings & rulings, US judges have been sharp to challenge the administration’s moves when they intrude on legislative function, ignore established laws, or violate the Constitution.
Yet the general view seems to be that Trump is winning.
That’s wrong & I want to explain why.”
OK, I wrote my “who’s going to enforce it?” piece. It’s a lengthy read, trying to respond to a lot of questions I’ve gotten over the past three weeks, but it’s about democracy so I decided it was worth it to lay out in depth, with examples, what I’ve been talking about here and elsewhere.
Don't let Donald Trump and Elon Musk talk us out of democracy
Trump and Musk are testing the limits, trying to sell America on being an authoritarian state — but they can’t do it unless we allow them to do so.
www.lawdork.com
February 11, 2025 at 11:21 PM
important read
“In hearings & rulings, US judges have been sharp to challenge the administration’s moves when they intrude on legislative function, ignore established laws, or violate the Constitution.
Yet the general view seems to be that Trump is winning.
That’s wrong & I want to explain why.”
“In hearings & rulings, US judges have been sharp to challenge the administration’s moves when they intrude on legislative function, ignore established laws, or violate the Constitution.
Yet the general view seems to be that Trump is winning.
That’s wrong & I want to explain why.”
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"Seizing congressional oversight of government spending and programs enacted by statute and handing them to an automated system would be the first sign that the AI coup is complete." - @eryk.bsky.social
Anatomy of an AI Coup | TechPolicy.Press
DOGE is gutting federal agencies to install AI across the government. Democracy is on the line, writes Tech Policy Press fellow Eryk Salvaggio.
www.techpolicy.press
February 11, 2025 at 11:30 PM
"Seizing congressional oversight of government spending and programs enacted by statute and handing them to an automated system would be the first sign that the AI coup is complete." - @eryk.bsky.social
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In Germany, the journalists are often the hosts and the politicians are the lucky visitors. www.cjr.org/analysis/ger...
February 11, 2025 at 11:31 PM
In Germany, the journalists are often the hosts and the politicians are the lucky visitors. www.cjr.org/analysis/ger...
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When the middle class existed in America we had pensions, cheap college, affordable housing and the security that our job wasn’t going to be offshored or outsourced to AI, that was all taken away from us.
February 9, 2025 at 4:58 PM
When the middle class existed in America we had pensions, cheap college, affordable housing and the security that our job wasn’t going to be offshored or outsourced to AI, that was all taken away from us.
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If we retake the House, we have turned back the coup!
So push hard.
Three elections, TWO coming up April 1. That's just a few weeks away.
1: Here's Gay Valimont's website. #FL01 >>
gayforcongress.com
So push hard.
Three elections, TWO coming up April 1. That's just a few weeks away.
1: Here's Gay Valimont's website. #FL01 >>
gayforcongress.com
February 9, 2025 at 1:50 AM
If we retake the House, we have turned back the coup!
So push hard.
Three elections, TWO coming up April 1. That's just a few weeks away.
1: Here's Gay Valimont's website. #FL01 >>
gayforcongress.com
So push hard.
Three elections, TWO coming up April 1. That's just a few weeks away.
1: Here's Gay Valimont's website. #FL01 >>
gayforcongress.com
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This IS the gameplan, and we're somewhere between Step 4 and 5.
February 7, 2025 at 10:13 PM
This IS the gameplan, and we're somewhere between Step 4 and 5.
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