kentropic
@kentropic.bsky.social
“All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.” - B. Spinoza
“A republic, if you can keep it.” - B. Franklin
“I live sweat, but I dream light years.” - D. Boon
Traveling yinzer, kamaʻāina, pākehā; Appalachian forest-grown
“A republic, if you can keep it.” - B. Franklin
“I live sweat, but I dream light years.” - D. Boon
Traveling yinzer, kamaʻāina, pākehā; Appalachian forest-grown
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kentropic
@kentropic.bsky.social
· Feb 28
A small creek cascading over mossy rocks. Olympic National Park, Washington, 19 Apr 2015. #NationalParks
This is what we’re fighting for. Whose side are you on?
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Deportations actually _increase_ housing prices because they shrink the construction industry.
The reduction in new houses being built swamps effects from lower demand
The reduction in new houses being built swamps effects from lower demand
November 13, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Deportations actually _increase_ housing prices because they shrink the construction industry.
The reduction in new houses being built swamps effects from lower demand
The reduction in new houses being built swamps effects from lower demand
Too true
If America were a person it would be suffering a psychotic break from reality
November 14, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Too true
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NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
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"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 3:10 PM
"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."
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If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 13, 2025 at 11:48 PM
If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
"Taking jobs from Americans" is one of the most poisonous, false frames ever to gain currency in our national politics, right up there with "tax relief."
Bovino: "Whether they were criminals or individuals that were taking jobs from Americans -- you name it, that's what they were doing. And I'll tell you what's gonna happen. We're gonna go even harder on the streets. If he releases those 650, we're gonna apprehend 1,650 on the streets of Chicago."
November 13, 2025 at 9:48 PM
"Taking jobs from Americans" is one of the most poisonous, false frames ever to gain currency in our national politics, right up there with "tax relief."
“In short, decades of research have demonstrated that our political beliefs and behavior are thoroughly motivated and mediated by our social identities: i.e., the many cross-cutting social groupings we feel affinity with.”
An essential read for making sense of these turbulent times!
An essential read for making sense of these turbulent times!
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...
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 9:21 PM
“In short, decades of research have demonstrated that our political beliefs and behavior are thoroughly motivated and mediated by our social identities: i.e., the many cross-cutting social groupings we feel affinity with.”
An essential read for making sense of these turbulent times!
An essential read for making sense of these turbulent times!
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megyn kelly keeping this one fresh
November 13, 2025 at 8:47 PM
megyn kelly keeping this one fresh
Tell us you're counting on your listeners having no idea what the scientific method is without telling us....
JD Vance: "Science as practiced in its best form is that if you disagree with it, then you ought to criticize it and you ought to argue against it."
November 13, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Tell us you're counting on your listeners having no idea what the scientific method is without telling us....
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This is real news. Reporters, please report on it.
ELEVEN former top FCC officials, Republican and Democratic, came together to condemn FCC Chairman Carr's abuses of power and efforts to suppress legal speech.
It's not just Jimmy Kimmel. The FCC's jawboning and chill on legal speech is ongoing.
ELEVEN former top FCC officials, Republican and Democratic, came together to condemn FCC Chairman Carr's abuses of power and efforts to suppress legal speech.
It's not just Jimmy Kimmel. The FCC's jawboning and chill on legal speech is ongoing.
Government has no business policing media for viewpoint bias or balance. The FCC must repeal its news distortion policy, urges a bipartisan group of 11 former FCC Chairs, Commissioners & other top officials in a petition we filed today with @protectdemocracy.org
protectdemocracy.org/work/fcc-new...
protectdemocracy.org/work/fcc-new...
November 13, 2025 at 4:54 PM
This is real news. Reporters, please report on it.
ELEVEN former top FCC officials, Republican and Democratic, came together to condemn FCC Chairman Carr's abuses of power and efforts to suppress legal speech.
It's not just Jimmy Kimmel. The FCC's jawboning and chill on legal speech is ongoing.
ELEVEN former top FCC officials, Republican and Democratic, came together to condemn FCC Chairman Carr's abuses of power and efforts to suppress legal speech.
It's not just Jimmy Kimmel. The FCC's jawboning and chill on legal speech is ongoing.
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"Ordinarily, a person who responds to serious accusations by telling colossal, ridiculous lies, trying frantically to change the subject, demanding an end to all inquiries, and trying to obstruct all investigation into the matter is all but telling you that those accusations are true"
He’s Acting Pretty Damn Guilty
Trump usually acts like a guy with something to hide. But his Epstein behavior is on another level.
www.thebulwark.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:04 PM
"Ordinarily, a person who responds to serious accusations by telling colossal, ridiculous lies, trying frantically to change the subject, demanding an end to all inquiries, and trying to obstruct all investigation into the matter is all but telling you that those accusations are true"
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"Casa San José, an example of support for migrants in Pittsburgh"
efs.efeservicios.com/reportaje/ca...
efs.efeservicios.com/reportaje/ca...
Casa San José, un ejemplo de apoyo a los migrantes en Pittsburgh | Stories | 55018522028
Estados Unidos se ha convertido en uno de los mayores focos de atención sobre el tema migratorio en el mundo. Organizaciones de derechos humanos han s...
efs.efeservicios.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:36 PM
"Casa San José, an example of support for migrants in Pittsburgh"
efs.efeservicios.com/reportaje/ca...
efs.efeservicios.com/reportaje/ca...
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just a reminder this guy slashed the tires on his much younger female coworkers tires to trick her into getting in his car
he was married at the time
he was married at the time
"All they could do to distract from the Schumer shutdown cover-up is leak Epstein emails ... What a sleazy leak."
Jesse Watters attacks Democrats for releasing Epstein emails
www.mediamatters.org
November 13, 2025 at 2:37 PM
just a reminder this guy slashed the tires on his much younger female coworkers tires to trick her into getting in his car
he was married at the time
he was married at the time
This is a GREAT idea, & I’d gladly donate to help make it happen. Are you listening, any of you countless Democratic campaigns that fill my phone with spammy fundraising texts all day every day?
Watching Karoline Leavitt spew her usual misinformation and divisive nonsense makes me wonder, why isn’t there a People’s press secretary?
Someone who stands at a podium, tells the truth, and gets covered too.
Democracy deserves balance, not propaganda.
Someone who stands at a podium, tells the truth, and gets covered too.
Democracy deserves balance, not propaganda.
November 13, 2025 at 1:45 PM
This is a GREAT idea, & I’d gladly donate to help make it happen. Are you listening, any of you countless Democratic campaigns that fill my phone with spammy fundraising texts all day every day?
Easy for me, since I don’t drink their overpriced burnt-roast swill - but if you’re a fan, ask yourself: which side are you on?
November 13, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Easy for me, since I don’t drink their overpriced burnt-roast swill - but if you’re a fan, ask yourself: which side are you on?
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Survivors of Epstein's abuse are going up against some of the most powerful institutions and people. It's dangerous, so we cannot drop the ball here. For them and for other survivors of abuse and sex trafficking.
We must continue to fight as hard as we can for justice.
We must continue to fight as hard as we can for justice.
November 13, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Survivors of Epstein's abuse are going up against some of the most powerful institutions and people. It's dangerous, so we cannot drop the ball here. For them and for other survivors of abuse and sex trafficking.
We must continue to fight as hard as we can for justice.
We must continue to fight as hard as we can for justice.
Our access-addicted media courtier class, doing what they do.
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 12:38 AM
Our access-addicted media courtier class, doing what they do.
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November 12, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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WATCH — @repstevenhorsford.bsky.social : “My amendment would redirect that $40 BILLION from Argentina to fund the ACA subsidies for two years… a far better use of taxpayer dollars.”
Why do we have money for Argentina while our own people lose their health care? How does this make us great?
Why do we have money for Argentina while our own people lose their health care? How does this make us great?
November 12, 2025 at 5:17 AM
WATCH — @repstevenhorsford.bsky.social : “My amendment would redirect that $40 BILLION from Argentina to fund the ACA subsidies for two years… a far better use of taxpayer dollars.”
Why do we have money for Argentina while our own people lose their health care? How does this make us great?
Why do we have money for Argentina while our own people lose their health care? How does this make us great?
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Breathtaking technical ingenuity & artistic skill
Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.
November 12, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Breathtaking technical ingenuity & artistic skill
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If you still support Trump, I don’t judge you for your choice of political party.
I judge you for your lack of morals, ethics, compassion & humanity.
I judge you for your support of racism, misogyny, pedophilia, homophobia, treason & fascism.
So will others. So will history.
I judge you for your lack of morals, ethics, compassion & humanity.
I judge you for your support of racism, misogyny, pedophilia, homophobia, treason & fascism.
So will others. So will history.
November 11, 2025 at 8:50 PM
If you still support Trump, I don’t judge you for your choice of political party.
I judge you for your lack of morals, ethics, compassion & humanity.
I judge you for your support of racism, misogyny, pedophilia, homophobia, treason & fascism.
So will others. So will history.
I judge you for your lack of morals, ethics, compassion & humanity.
I judge you for your support of racism, misogyny, pedophilia, homophobia, treason & fascism.
So will others. So will history.
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www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... “Opening up whole coastal plain for O&G devt threatens Gwich'in people & our way of life,” Moreland said. “We know there’s consequences with oil devt: pollution, habitat destruction, greater human traffic, rise of violence, drugs, missing & murdered Indigenous peoples.”
Outcry from Gwich'in leaders over potential oil and gas drilling in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge | CBC News
Environmentalists and Indigenous leaders raise concerns after Trump administration opens up Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas leasing.
www.cbc.ca
November 12, 2025 at 12:02 AM
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... “Opening up whole coastal plain for O&G devt threatens Gwich'in people & our way of life,” Moreland said. “We know there’s consequences with oil devt: pollution, habitat destruction, greater human traffic, rise of violence, drugs, missing & murdered Indigenous peoples.”
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new from me today: not all data centers are created environmentally equal — and building them in states with cleaner grids and more access to water could go a long way in preventing environmental catastrophe
If the US Has to Build Data Centers, Here’s Where They Should Go
A new analysis tries to calculate the coming environmental footprint of AI in the US and finds that the ideal sites for data centers aren’t where they’re being built.
www.wired.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:11 PM
new from me today: not all data centers are created environmentally equal — and building them in states with cleaner grids and more access to water could go a long way in preventing environmental catastrophe