Joe Scordato
@joescordato.bsky.social
On the internet, no one knows you're a dog.
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Yep, this is what cops do. They do it all the time. That's why so many people and communities have issues with cops.
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
March 26, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Yep, this is what cops do. They do it all the time. That's why so many people and communities have issues with cops.
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If the next Dem administration doesn’t nationalize SpaceX it’s malpractice.
"be quiet, small man"
jfc
jfc
Any country, corp, org, or individual that uses Starlink is subject to the whims, wishes, demands and insults of The Owner. Do so at your peril.
March 9, 2025 at 5:40 PM
If the next Dem administration doesn’t nationalize SpaceX it’s malpractice.
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This is a core insight of political science, specifically of the study of public opinion and political psychology, which answers the question: how do people form their political ideas?
They follow their leaders, almost all of the time
They follow their leaders, almost all of the time
the thing about “democrats should take popular cultural positions” is that what constitutes popular is a function of an interaction between the public and elites. if a faction of elites start screaming about a vulnerable minority and another faction says they have a point, this shapes the public.
In a leaked recording, State Senator Elena Parent (D-42) said she’d vote for Republican transgender healthcare bans because trans rights are too “unpopular."
"You can go right to heck. I don’t think I will lose re-election based on you screaming at me"
"You can go right to heck. I don’t think I will lose re-election based on you screaming at me"
March 3, 2025 at 2:21 PM
This is a core insight of political science, specifically of the study of public opinion and political psychology, which answers the question: how do people form their political ideas?
They follow their leaders, almost all of the time
They follow their leaders, almost all of the time
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Everyone should read this Andrew Van Dam piece on how much work federal employees put in and then get really really mad at that clown Elon Musk www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Column | Are federal workers lazy? Let’s look at the data.
As Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service targets federal workers, we investigate how hard those folks have been working for their government paychecks.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 22, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Everyone should read this Andrew Van Dam piece on how much work federal employees put in and then get really really mad at that clown Elon Musk www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Cuts to NSF expected to be at 50% reduction in force for an independent agency that fuels discovery and innovation.
"The NSF budget was $9B, or 0.13% of the total [budget]."
This is not about fiscal prudence. This is about killing universities.
nanoscale.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-...
"The NSF budget was $9B, or 0.13% of the total [budget]."
This is not about fiscal prudence. This is about killing universities.
nanoscale.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-...
The National Science Foundation - this is not business as usual
The National Science Foundation was created 75 years ago, at the behest of Vannevar Bush , who put together the famed study, Science, The E...
nanoscale.blogspot.com
February 21, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Cuts to NSF expected to be at 50% reduction in force for an independent agency that fuels discovery and innovation.
"The NSF budget was $9B, or 0.13% of the total [budget]."
This is not about fiscal prudence. This is about killing universities.
nanoscale.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-...
"The NSF budget was $9B, or 0.13% of the total [budget]."
This is not about fiscal prudence. This is about killing universities.
nanoscale.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-...
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I think humanitarian aid as an extension of soft imperial power is good and "have free elections and we'll cure your tuberculosis" is the best game in town.
February 21, 2025 at 8:55 PM
I think humanitarian aid as an extension of soft imperial power is good and "have free elections and we'll cure your tuberculosis" is the best game in town.
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I second this.
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February 22, 2025 at 2:03 AM
I second this.
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I just read a 700 page biography of Goebbels and this sounds...not that far removed from how goebbels approached things. 1
It’s malignant narcissism run completely rampant. The man’s estimation of his own abilities (and the abilities of the neo-Nazi twerps who worship him) is almost limitless. If he decides the attorney who keeps drunk pilots out of the air is expendable, then it clearly is so.
February 21, 2025 at 11:54 PM
I just read a 700 page biography of Goebbels and this sounds...not that far removed from how goebbels approached things. 1
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This is what happens when you ask me to help sanewash the Trump tariffs.
February 2, 2025 at 8:43 PM
This is what happens when you ask me to help sanewash the Trump tariffs.
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It's like "political correctness"
-- they heard it somewhere, so now they say it when they get in trouble
-- they heard it somewhere, so now they say it when they get in trouble
Britt and Hegseth claim that pulling Tuskegee Airmen training content was "malicious compliance"... we'll see
January 27, 2025 at 4:20 AM
It's like "political correctness"
-- they heard it somewhere, so now they say it when they get in trouble
-- they heard it somewhere, so now they say it when they get in trouble
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Trump is deprioritizing the deportation of actually dangerous people on order to ensure that all undocumented people are afraid.
And he’s prioritizing deportations of non-dangerous people over enforcement of all other crimes.
The man is committed to his racism.
And he’s prioritizing deportations of non-dangerous people over enforcement of all other crimes.
The man is committed to his racism.
January 22, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Trump is deprioritizing the deportation of actually dangerous people on order to ensure that all undocumented people are afraid.
And he’s prioritizing deportations of non-dangerous people over enforcement of all other crimes.
The man is committed to his racism.
And he’s prioritizing deportations of non-dangerous people over enforcement of all other crimes.
The man is committed to his racism.
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I want everyone to understand that rescission of 1965 antidiscrimination orders is literally resegregation and for reporters in the room to press them accordingly
also the gall of revoking the *Equal Employment Opportunity* directive. man affirmatively said 'I want unequal employment opportunities'
also the gall of revoking the *Equal Employment Opportunity* directive. man affirmatively said 'I want unequal employment opportunities'
BREAKING: In a new executive order sent out by the White House, Donald Trump has revoked the federal contractor nondiscrimination executive order, EO 11246, that was signed by Lyndon Johnson in 1965 and has protected employees of businesses seeking federal contracts from discrimination ever since.
January 22, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I want everyone to understand that rescission of 1965 antidiscrimination orders is literally resegregation and for reporters in the room to press them accordingly
also the gall of revoking the *Equal Employment Opportunity* directive. man affirmatively said 'I want unequal employment opportunities'
also the gall of revoking the *Equal Employment Opportunity* directive. man affirmatively said 'I want unequal employment opportunities'
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Or that Brendan Carr, Trump's pick to head the FCC, sent Meta a letter right after the election telling Zuck that fact checking was against the First Amendment and Carr was poised to take action if Meta kept fact checking.
www.fcc.gov/sites/defaul...
www.fcc.gov/sites/defaul...
January 11, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Or that Brendan Carr, Trump's pick to head the FCC, sent Meta a letter right after the election telling Zuck that fact checking was against the First Amendment and Carr was poised to take action if Meta kept fact checking.
www.fcc.gov/sites/defaul...
www.fcc.gov/sites/defaul...
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The new Republican House began with an obvious lie advanced in the service of Christian nationalism, so we’re off to a great start
In his opening speech, Speaker Mike Johnson just recited a long prayer attributed to Thomas Jefferson.
As @jackjenkins.me and others have pointed out, Jefferson never said any of this: www.monticello.org/research-edu...
As @jackjenkins.me and others have pointed out, Jefferson never said any of this: www.monticello.org/research-edu...
January 3, 2025 at 10:25 PM
The new Republican House began with an obvious lie advanced in the service of Christian nationalism, so we’re off to a great start
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Also crucial from Sen Murphy here:
"Just because it is unlikely that we are going to defeat these nominees doesn’t mean there isn’t great efficacy in having the fight. The signaling to the public is important. We’re not super popular politicians, but it doesn’t mean that people don’t listen to us."
"Just because it is unlikely that we are going to defeat these nominees doesn’t mean there isn’t great efficacy in having the fight. The signaling to the public is important. We’re not super popular politicians, but it doesn’t mean that people don’t listen to us."
Sen Chris Murphy is urging Ds to stop fluffing RFK. As he told me:
"If we just accept that RFK is a mainstream nominee when he just finished telling us that maybe Covid was a genetically engineered virus...we’re cooked if that all of a sudden is normal."
More below
newrepublic.com/article/1895...
"If we just accept that RFK is a mainstream nominee when he just finished telling us that maybe Covid was a genetically engineered virus...we’re cooked if that all of a sudden is normal."
More below
newrepublic.com/article/1895...
January 3, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Also crucial from Sen Murphy here:
"Just because it is unlikely that we are going to defeat these nominees doesn’t mean there isn’t great efficacy in having the fight. The signaling to the public is important. We’re not super popular politicians, but it doesn’t mean that people don’t listen to us."
"Just because it is unlikely that we are going to defeat these nominees doesn’t mean there isn’t great efficacy in having the fight. The signaling to the public is important. We’re not super popular politicians, but it doesn’t mean that people don’t listen to us."
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There actually is real news in here it anyone at The New York Times knew how to read a poll. bsky.app/profile/crai...
FYI NYT folks, this poll shows Donald Trump is running the second-least popular transition in the history of the question, beating only his own first extremely unpopular transition.
The New York Times is an echo chamber of sorts. Just like Twitter has become. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
The New York Times is an echo chamber of sorts. Just like Twitter has become. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
December 11, 2024 at 9:06 PM
There actually is real news in here it anyone at The New York Times knew how to read a poll. bsky.app/profile/crai...
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I can almost hear the clicking of calipers when I read this.
And apparently all it takes is one person of Italian descent being suspected of murder and suddenly they aren't white any more.
And apparently all it takes is one person of Italian descent being suspected of murder and suddenly they aren't white any more.
In retrospect this quote from last Thursday that the shooter looked “not white” but “maybe Italian” was prescient
December 10, 2024 at 3:20 AM
I can almost hear the clicking of calipers when I read this.
And apparently all it takes is one person of Italian descent being suspected of murder and suddenly they aren't white any more.
And apparently all it takes is one person of Italian descent being suspected of murder and suddenly they aren't white any more.
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I hope you’ll take a second to read this:
The government is easy to shit on. Even good, stable governments like ours, bc most people don’t understand that government is essential to human survival and there is always some level of incompetence/corruption to exploit.
The government is easy to shit on. Even good, stable governments like ours, bc most people don’t understand that government is essential to human survival and there is always some level of incompetence/corruption to exploit.
December 8, 2024 at 8:04 PM
I hope you’ll take a second to read this:
The government is easy to shit on. Even good, stable governments like ours, bc most people don’t understand that government is essential to human survival and there is always some level of incompetence/corruption to exploit.
The government is easy to shit on. Even good, stable governments like ours, bc most people don’t understand that government is essential to human survival and there is always some level of incompetence/corruption to exploit.
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it's a great system we have: one party is a snakepit of insane fascist sex creeps. the other is pathologically allergic to wielding power
December 3, 2024 at 4:31 PM
it's a great system we have: one party is a snakepit of insane fascist sex creeps. the other is pathologically allergic to wielding power
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Joe Biden has abused the presidential pardon system.
by Paul Manafort, Roger Stone, Michael Flynn, Joe Arpaio, Dinesh D'Souza, Bernie Kerik, Scooter Libby, Steve Bannon, and Charles Kushner
by Paul Manafort, Roger Stone, Michael Flynn, Joe Arpaio, Dinesh D'Souza, Bernie Kerik, Scooter Libby, Steve Bannon, and Charles Kushner
December 3, 2024 at 1:20 AM
Joe Biden has abused the presidential pardon system.
by Paul Manafort, Roger Stone, Michael Flynn, Joe Arpaio, Dinesh D'Souza, Bernie Kerik, Scooter Libby, Steve Bannon, and Charles Kushner
by Paul Manafort, Roger Stone, Michael Flynn, Joe Arpaio, Dinesh D'Souza, Bernie Kerik, Scooter Libby, Steve Bannon, and Charles Kushner
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If your whine about the Hunter pardon does not account for:
1) Trump withholding appropriated $$ to get dirt on Hunter
2) Rudy soliciting dirt from known RU spy for same
3) Barr setting up side channel to ingest that
4) SOMEHOW informant framing Joe Biden with transparently false claim
1) Trump withholding appropriated $$ to get dirt on Hunter
2) Rudy soliciting dirt from known RU spy for same
3) Barr setting up side channel to ingest that
4) SOMEHOW informant framing Joe Biden with transparently false claim
December 2, 2024 at 2:39 AM
If your whine about the Hunter pardon does not account for:
1) Trump withholding appropriated $$ to get dirt on Hunter
2) Rudy soliciting dirt from known RU spy for same
3) Barr setting up side channel to ingest that
4) SOMEHOW informant framing Joe Biden with transparently false claim
1) Trump withholding appropriated $$ to get dirt on Hunter
2) Rudy soliciting dirt from known RU spy for same
3) Barr setting up side channel to ingest that
4) SOMEHOW informant framing Joe Biden with transparently false claim
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Six decades later, Star Trek may still be the only franchise based on the ideas that diversity is strength, justice is the measure of civilization, bounty is to be shared, peace is worth the price, and all these things can be achieved.
We need more shows that look ahead and find goodness.
We need more shows that look ahead and find goodness.
November 29, 2024 at 11:50 AM
Six decades later, Star Trek may still be the only franchise based on the ideas that diversity is strength, justice is the measure of civilization, bounty is to be shared, peace is worth the price, and all these things can be achieved.
We need more shows that look ahead and find goodness.
We need more shows that look ahead and find goodness.
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Anyone interested in African history should follow @rhaplord.bsky.social
Consistently excellent and informative articles and threads on the subject, like this:
Consistently excellent and informative articles and threads on the subject, like this:
diverging fortunes:
at the time when King Leopold was forcing Congo's population to produce rubber, the neighboring kingdom of Kongo, which was still independent, was experiencing a rubber boom, and the majority of the wealth was retained by the African producers.
thread with some graphs:
at the time when King Leopold was forcing Congo's population to produce rubber, the neighboring kingdom of Kongo, which was still independent, was experiencing a rubber boom, and the majority of the wealth was retained by the African producers.
thread with some graphs:
November 25, 2024 at 2:34 PM
Anyone interested in African history should follow @rhaplord.bsky.social
Consistently excellent and informative articles and threads on the subject, like this:
Consistently excellent and informative articles and threads on the subject, like this:
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Love this message from FDR and the Office of War Information. “Books are weapons in the war of ideas.” #books #bookbanning #history #reading #ideas #fdr #booksareweapons
November 24, 2024 at 9:44 PM
Love this message from FDR and the Office of War Information. “Books are weapons in the war of ideas.” #books #bookbanning #history #reading #ideas #fdr #booksareweapons