Henry Porter
@henryporter.bsky.social
Wrecking lot proprietor. 🌋
Academia has been accumulating power at the expense of parties for a century. They get mad when I say this because of “support” for parties like this.
June 20, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Academia has been accumulating power at the expense of parties for a century. They get mad when I say this because of “support” for parties like this.
I seem to be on a philosophy of science island by myself but I don’t understand why smart scientists just abandon science and start doing scholasticism like this.
June 18, 2025 at 12:34 PM
I seem to be on a philosophy of science island by myself but I don’t understand why smart scientists just abandon science and start doing scholasticism like this.
I really, really like Karol on parties and don’t want to further encourage a pile on. He’s one of the few people on here who actually knows how some parts of politics works. But this is a great example of how all politics is identity politics. He identifies with the New York Times.
June 17, 2025 at 5:30 PM
I really, really like Karol on parties and don’t want to further encourage a pile on. He’s one of the few people on here who actually knows how some parts of politics works. But this is a great example of how all politics is identity politics. He identifies with the New York Times.
The team news from MLB.com is a really good example of how Dem-aligned news could play out in practice. Sure, this isn’t “hard hitting journalism,” but I want this rookie to succeed and the article has plenty of facts and no lies.
June 14, 2025 at 2:08 PM
The team news from MLB.com is a really good example of how Dem-aligned news could play out in practice. Sure, this isn’t “hard hitting journalism,” but I want this rookie to succeed and the article has plenty of facts and no lies.
I’m on the website for less than 2 minutes and I’m seeing insane nonsense from someone who ostensibly agrees with me. No thank you.
June 9, 2025 at 6:33 PM
I’m on the website for less than 2 minutes and I’m seeing insane nonsense from someone who ostensibly agrees with me. No thank you.
This is a good point as far as it goes, but it was reposted to my feed by a political scientist. I find it really striking how many of them treat the bad behavior of the press as individuals making mistakes instead of business strategies playing out.
June 6, 2025 at 12:53 PM
This is a good point as far as it goes, but it was reposted to my feed by a political scientist. I find it really striking how many of them treat the bad behavior of the press as individuals making mistakes instead of business strategies playing out.
On college/non-college voters again. I can never capture all that feeds into it in one thread. Here’s another part of the story: the rule against jingoism that only handicaps the party of college professors and journalists.
June 5, 2025 at 2:34 PM
On college/non-college voters again. I can never capture all that feeds into it in one thread. Here’s another part of the story: the rule against jingoism that only handicaps the party of college professors and journalists.
I mean, this is popular with my friends? Did they get dropped on their heads?
June 4, 2025 at 12:40 AM
I mean, this is popular with my friends? Did they get dropped on their heads?
Post-Watergate journalism, with it's relentless focus on attacking government and its disregard for corporate malfeasance (Pulitzer turned upside down), is a major cause of our current crisis.
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May 31, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Post-Watergate journalism, with it's relentless focus on attacking government and its disregard for corporate malfeasance (Pulitzer turned upside down), is a major cause of our current crisis.
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/dont-...
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Everyone cares about the rules of discourse because everyone is impacted. As a general rule, no one cares about foreign policy or wars that don’t include our soldiers. Neither of these facts is interesting. (What the fuck is up with “quote posts disabled”? Lmao)
May 30, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Everyone cares about the rules of discourse because everyone is impacted. As a general rule, no one cares about foreign policy or wars that don’t include our soldiers. Neither of these facts is interesting. (What the fuck is up with “quote posts disabled”? Lmao)
You can’t understand the information ecosystem of 2025 if you don’t start with the fact that the marketing of legacy news has left us with normie Dems and academics convinced that the business model of regional monopoly newspapers is a normative requirement for democracy.
May 29, 2025 at 10:28 PM
You can’t understand the information ecosystem of 2025 if you don’t start with the fact that the marketing of legacy news has left us with normie Dems and academics convinced that the business model of regional monopoly newspapers is a normative requirement for democracy.
I mean, journalists creating Trump’s victory in one screenshot.
May 25, 2025 at 12:31 AM
I mean, journalists creating Trump’s victory in one screenshot.
More and more people are talking about Frederick Douglass…
May 21, 2025 at 6:38 PM
More and more people are talking about Frederick Douglass…
And this is one with the government experience to know better! Although a little time in the State Department is probably a recipe for Dunning-Kruger, come to think about it.
May 13, 2025 at 10:14 PM
And this is one with the government experience to know better! Although a little time in the State Department is probably a recipe for Dunning-Kruger, come to think about it.
Save: example of inability to see press business model as a variable. Example of unwillingness to accept that media is a business and businesses don’t ignore their own profit making strategy.
May 12, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Save: example of inability to see press business model as a variable. Example of unwillingness to accept that media is a business and businesses don’t ignore their own profit making strategy.
“This stuff was made in New York City!”
“New York City!??!”
Bluesky is dedicated to the principle that you can “Well, actually…” the characters in this ad into submission.
“New York City!??!”
Bluesky is dedicated to the principle that you can “Well, actually…” the characters in this ad into submission.
May 9, 2025 at 5:25 PM
“This stuff was made in New York City!”
“New York City!??!”
Bluesky is dedicated to the principle that you can “Well, actually…” the characters in this ad into submission.
“New York City!??!”
Bluesky is dedicated to the principle that you can “Well, actually…” the characters in this ad into submission.
I sincerely don't understand what philosophers of science do with their time. How in 2025 is this method of reasoning out what things "mean" a valid approach to the empirical world such that it can give recommendations about how to act?
May 6, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I sincerely don't understand what philosophers of science do with their time. How in 2025 is this method of reasoning out what things "mean" a valid approach to the empirical world such that it can give recommendations about how to act?
The first sentence in the Wikipedia section on Hungary’s government: “Hungary is a unitary, parliamentary republic.” Both adjectives are essential to understanding how European countries go fascist, neither applies to the USA, and neither is mentioned by Beauchamp in his discussion of Hungary.
April 30, 2025 at 3:33 PM
The first sentence in the Wikipedia section on Hungary’s government: “Hungary is a unitary, parliamentary republic.” Both adjectives are essential to understanding how European countries go fascist, neither applies to the USA, and neither is mentioned by Beauchamp in his discussion of Hungary.
This piece may be optimistic, but it’s not optimistic *enough* and is itself an example of one of the causes of the current crisis: the failure of media-academy complex to take pride in our country’s strengths, instead chalking up Trump’s failures to a lack of savvy.
April 30, 2025 at 3:22 PM
This piece may be optimistic, but it’s not optimistic *enough* and is itself an example of one of the causes of the current crisis: the failure of media-academy complex to take pride in our country’s strengths, instead chalking up Trump’s failures to a lack of savvy.
Ok. But then these people treat the news media as high fidelity transmitters of elite rhetoric.
April 23, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Ok. But then these people treat the news media as high fidelity transmitters of elite rhetoric.
The skills required to solicit leaks from whistleblowers and the skills required to win elections do not overlap. Indeed the personality type linked to the former is going to be bad at everything that requires cooperation.
April 21, 2025 at 2:29 PM
The skills required to solicit leaks from whistleblowers and the skills required to win elections do not overlap. Indeed the personality type linked to the former is going to be bad at everything that requires cooperation.
Either it's true that Kristi Noem had $3,000 in her bag and she was planning to buy some drugs or it's false and she's committing some extremely petty fraud, padding a claim for reimbursement.
April 21, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Either it's true that Kristi Noem had $3,000 in her bag and she was planning to buy some drugs or it's false and she's committing some extremely petty fraud, padding a claim for reimbursement.
This is what we’re up against: the comity of the faculty.
April 18, 2025 at 4:18 PM
This is what we’re up against: the comity of the faculty.
We’re basically waiting on law professors to admit that the conservative legal movement is fundamentally an *academic* enterprise with a fundraising arm that gives everyone an easy way to avoid the uncomfortable truth.
April 18, 2025 at 4:17 PM
We’re basically waiting on law professors to admit that the conservative legal movement is fundamentally an *academic* enterprise with a fundraising arm that gives everyone an easy way to avoid the uncomfortable truth.
When you definitely have a leg to stand on demanding Senators piss off half their colleagues to advance some symbolic interest…
April 15, 2025 at 6:54 PM
When you definitely have a leg to stand on demanding Senators piss off half their colleagues to advance some symbolic interest…