Avery Kolers @averykolers.bsky.social · 16/07/2025Radley Balko tracks the law-enforcement side of the descent into fascist dictatorship. The police militarization debate is over open.substack.com/pub/radleyba...open.substack.comThe police militarization debate is overQuaint disputes about the proper role of police and military have been superseded by a more urgent threat: Donald Trump is creating his own, personal paramilitary force 020
Reposted by Avery KolersWajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 16/06/2025Trump realizes people are turning on him, which means he will get more desperate, aggressive, extreme, and violent. These are all actions of a weak regime and weak man. 14657651068
Reposted by Avery KolersMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 16/06/2025He’s gonna send the troops into our cities to create violence as a pretense for shooting us to control the violence. 992957748
Reposted by Avery KolersJohn Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 08/06/2025As this passage from a letter from several Dem lawmakers makes clear, ICE’s refusal appears to violate explicit federal law: 22787331
Avery Kolers @averykolers.bsky.social · 15/03/202553 Republican Senators and not a one of them represents the state of any of the universities on Trump's hit list. What a coincidence. (Source: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/08/u...) 030
Reposted by Avery KolersBrian Kahn @blkahn.bsky.social · 13/03/2025Just thinking about what the US looked like before the EPA existed 676199057064
Avery Kolers @averykolers.bsky.social · 13/03/2025Imagine a president so villainous he is trying to destroy Habitat for Humanity. 010
Reposted by Avery KolersAmy Spitalnick @amyspitalnick.bsky.social · 12/03/2025Again, the goal for this administration isn’t to counter antisemitism or protect Israel. It’s to weaponize antisemitism to go after their political enemies, advance an extreme agenda, and undercut democracy — and it only makes Jews *less* safe. 21468156
Avery Kolers @averykolers.bsky.social · 12/03/2025Trump's assault on Kentucky's economy continues. First he spurs retaliatory bourbon tariffs. Now he imposes steel and aluminum tariffs. 010
Reposted by Avery KolersThe American Prospect @prospect.org · 12/03/2025From 2020-2022, "more than $1 billion flowed from more than 3,500 foundations and high-net-worth donors to about 150 nonprofits that advocate purging people from the voting rolls, restricting vote-by-mail or early voting, removing drop boxes, and other ways of making it harder for people to vote."prospect.orgRight-Wing Donors and Foundations Spent $1 Billion to Keep People From Voting Last YearA new study documents the fortunes spent to suppress voting in 2024. 411973
Avery Kolers @averykolers.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Casting Trump's Canada/Fentanyl lie into further relief: thankfully, this catastrophe, which took off under Trump 1, began to subside well before Trump 2 took office. www.npr.org/2025/03/07/n...npr.orgDeadliest phase of fentanyl crisis eases, as all states see recoveryIn some parts of the U.S., drug deaths have plunged to levels not seen since the fentanyl crisis exploded. Addiction experts say communities still face big challenges. 000
Reposted by Avery KolersZack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 10/03/2025A recent report showed that the destruction of just one USAID program, the anti-AIDS PEPFAR initiative, would lead to the deaths of one million people *every year* www.vox.com/future-perfe... 12241341900
Reposted by Avery KolersJacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 09/03/2025Glad to see a statement from AAU on Columbia, since AAU can afford to be more assertive than any particular targeted university can be. But disappointed to see "unprecedented" not spelled out. 1/ www.aau.edu/newsroom/pre...aau.eduStatement of AAU President Barbara R. Snyder Regarding the Cancellation of $400 Million in Federal Contracts and Grants to Columbia University | Association of American Universities (AAU)Statement of AAU President Barbara R. Snyder regarding the cancellation of $400 million in federal contracts and grants to Columbia University. 24813
Reposted by Avery KolersWilliam Clare Roberts 🇵🇸 @marxinhell.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Not only does the ADL support Trump's DHS/ICE goons disappearing a legal permanent resident, they openly hope that it will scare others into being quiet. 813033
Avery Kolers @averykolers.bsky.social · 09/03/2025"Sorry, did I say Canada? Heh. Kentucky. I meant Kentucky." 900
Avery Kolers @averykolers.bsky.social · 09/03/2025If you haven't yet fired your bank, why not fire your bank? (Specifically: Bank of America, BMO, CIBC, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, National Bank, TD Bank Group, and Wells Fargo.) www.wired.com/story/big-ba...wired.comThe Biggest US Banks Have All Backed Out of a Commitment to Reach Net ZeroIn the lead up to the inauguration, the six largest US banks left a voluntary alliance with the UN to reach net zero by 2050. Now, critics are calling for new climate laws. 020
Reposted by Avery KolersJournal of Applied Philosophy @the-joap.bsky.social · 28/02/2025JOAP SPECIAL ISSUE ON PROCREATION, INTERGENERATIONAL JUSTICE, AND THE CLIMATE CRISIS | Guest Eds: Serena Olsaretti & Isa Trifan onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14685930... #philsky #appliedphilosophyonlinelibrary.wiley.comJournal of Applied Philosophy: Vol 42, No 1Click on the title to browse this issue 032
Reposted by Avery KolersCraig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Rather than get mad at "retaliatory tariffs" maybe the Kentucky Distillers' Association should place the blame where it belongs: on Donald Trump. whiskeynetwork.net/2025/03/kda-...whiskeynetwork.netKDA Statement on “Retaliatory Tariffs” on Bourbon - Whiskey NetworkKentucky Distillers' Association President Eric Gregory released the following statement today on what the KDA calls "retaliatory tariffs" against bourbon:"Kentucky bourbon is a great American success... 3748580
Reposted by Avery KolersKentucky Lantern @kentuckylantern.com · 05/03/2025Commentary by Tom FitzGerald Shortsighted and unconstitutional Senate Bill 84 would tip scales of justice against health and safety, encroach on KY courts’ independence. kentuckylantern.com/2025/03/05/s...kentuckylantern.comBill would tip scales of justice against health and safety, encroach on KY courts' independence • Kentucky LanternA bill moving in the Kentucky legislature would hamstring the courts in their independent role and state agencies in their duty to implement laws. 177
Reposted by Avery KolersMomsRising @momsrising.org · 05/03/2025FACT: Immigrants are our nation's strength! Immigrants make up 17% of all health care workers, 28.2% of physicians, 27% of direct care workers, and a staggering 38% of home health aides. #ProtectImmigrantFamilies #MOMSky 12453061126
Reposted by Avery KolersJohn Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 04/03/2025My favorite explanation, which isn't a complete one (nor would the author claim it was), is this by @johnkroman.bsky.social, who points to the not-much-help-from-the-Feds restoration of local social services, who are in many ways even more "first-responders" than the police.johnkroman.substack.comWhy did crime decline in 2023?Because local government went back to normal 0125
Reposted by Avery KolersJohn Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 04/03/2025It's true homicides are still higher than they were in the early 2010s, when they hit near-historic lows. But the decline in homicide since 2021 has been truly staggering. It's a huge public safety win, and thousands of ppl are alive bc of it. It deserves--demands--the same attention as the spike. 2153
Avery Kolers @averykolers.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Seconding this idea. The only good response in the joint address today is to walk out 25 at a time every third sentence, then gather at some designated meaningful spot outside for an event foregrounding T&M's victims, and formally announce the end of their cooperation with the coup. 100
Reposted by Avery KolersGregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 04/03/2025We are not starting from scratch. The strategies and tactics are out there to resist the #Trump mafia state. But it’s time to put it all into action. Find some friends and start making some beautiful, good trouble. beautifultrouble.orgbeautifultrouble.orgBeautiful TroubleCreative tools for a more just world. 310641
Reposted by Avery KolersDr Keith 🎃 Wilson @keithwilson.eu · 04/03/2025Resources for philosophers on Bluesky: 1. Starter packs go.bsky.app/kiKSKZ (people) go.bsky.app/RMuQBg3 (orgs) 2. New PhilSky+ feed 🦋 bsky.app/profile/did:... – uses #PhilSky & other common hashtags (see profile for more) 3. Lists bsky.app/profile/did:... (people) bsky.app/profile/did:... (orgs) 911849
Reposted by Avery KolersTrish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 04/03/2025The most extraordinary thing about James Harrison, who donated his rare plasma every 2 weeks for over 60 years and saved the lives of an estimated 2.4 million babies, is that he had to overcome a FEAR OF NEEDLES. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...independent.co.ukJames Harrison, whose rare blood helped save millions of babies, dies at 88By donating blood over 1,100 times, James Harrison helped develop Anti-D, a life-saving treatment for newborns at risk of Rhesus disease 191121307
Reposted by Avery KolersThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/03/2025Imagine that. 💰 984177737413
Reposted by Avery KolersProPublica @propublica.org · 03/03/2025NEW: One million children will go untreated for severe malnutrition, up to 166,000 people will die from malaria and 200,000 more children will be paralyzed by polio over the next decade, internal memos estimated. The USAID programs were cut anyway. By Brett Murphy and @annamaria.bsky.socialpropub.liInternal Memos: Senior USAID Leaders Warned Trump Appointees of Hundreds of Thousands of Deaths From Closing AgencyOne million children will go untreated for severe malnutrition, up to 166,000 people will die from malaria and 200,000 more children will be paralyzed by polio over the next decade, the memos estimate... 851779955
Avery Kolers @averykolers.bsky.social · 02/03/2025Also, people answer this question based not on what the government actually spends, but what they think it spends. People tend to think we spend too much on foreign aid, but when asked how much we should spend, they say a number that is far higher than we actually do. (Or, did.) 010
Avery Kolers @averykolers.bsky.social · 01/03/2025Ain't nobody here but us chickens. OK, now where's my flu vaccine? www.wired.com/story/chicke...wired.comThe US May Start Vaccinating Chickens Against Bird FluWith egg prices soaring, the US is considering vaccinating laying chickens, which have been hit particularly hard by the avian influenza outbreak. 000
Reposted by Avery KolersEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 01/03/2025I can't stop laughing at this man I'm sorry. This is the kind of shit the biggest loser in the world would say to their girlfriend about buying her flowers on Valentine's Day once, and he's doing so in an argument that started because he called her a bitch 841224803564
Avery Kolers @averykolers.bsky.social · 01/03/2025Please don't say the US has always been on the side of democracy or that the lapses were mistakes. At best, the lapses were viewed as prices worth paying. But the people who made that judgment weren't the ones to pay the price. A song for the day. open.spotify.com/track/4cDWsK...open.spotify.comNicaraguaBruce Cockburn · Stealing Fire (Deluxe Edition) · Song · 2003 120
Reposted by Avery KolersLauren Heberle @laurenheberle.bsky.social · 28/02/2025While our national and state electeds continue to embarrass us, our students are not! Specifically our students in Kentucky. I’m so damn proud of them. www.insightintodiversity.com/kentucky-stu...insightintodiversity.comKentucky Students Stage Statewide Protests in Defense of DEIStudents at every public university in Kentucky are organizing a coordinated series of protests against recent state legislation, President Donald Trump’s U.S. Department of Education directives, an 4103
Reposted by Avery KolersKai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 27/02/2025Think about this for a hot second 1062416501
Reposted by Avery KolersJess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 28/02/2025Musk treats his companies like 8-year-old millennials treated their Tamagotchi pets. Totally obsessed for the first few weeks. Then neglectful when the novelty wore off. Then so annoyed when the thing got needy that they mistreated it intentionally. 710017
Avery Kolers @averykolers.bsky.social · 28/02/2025The Lard Problem of Consciousness. You're a vegetarian. You start eating a pastry. By the time you realize it might contain congealed animal fat, you've mindlessly eaten through two-thirds of the treat.🧟 000
Avery Kolers @averykolers.bsky.social · 26/02/2025Brilliant. @repmcgarvey.bsky.social, take the show on the road across Kentucky. A town hall in every district! 000
Reposted by Avery KolersBobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 26/02/2025The next most important thing you can do is call your GOP member's office every single day. When I worked in the Senate, in every single weekly all-staff meeting, we went over the phone calls we'd received. 191756520
Avery Kolers @averykolers.bsky.social · 26/02/2025These people are such cretins. Who talks like this? www.npr.org/2025/02/25/n... 000
Avery Kolers @averykolers.bsky.social · 26/02/2025People talk about boycotting retailers, but boycotting gasoline would be more effective. It's not easy. But we can each reduce gasoline consumption by 10% or more a month. Get out of our cars. Find bus routes & trains. Walk, bike, carpool. This is nuts. We are funding our own destruction. 040
Reposted by Avery KolersCosta Samaras @costasamaras.com · 24/02/2025Just in one year, just the clean air act, prevented hundreds of thousands of early deaths. The lowest possible estimate of the benefits found that benefits outweigh the costs by 3 to 1. The most likely estimate is 30 to 1. The high estimate is 90 to 1. Ninety. Nine Zero. www.epa.gov/clean-air-ac... 151465530
Avery Kolers @averykolers.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Social norms in animal societies! Louisville folks: learn more about the social and moral lives of animals as Dr. @kristinandrews.bsky.social (@yorkuphil.bsky.social) delivers the keynote address for the 22nd annual Humphrey Colloquium this Friday, 2/28 at 4:00 p.m. in BAB 218 on the UofL campus! 050
Avery Kolers @averykolers.bsky.social · 24/02/2025In one way, computer engineers are like computers. They are great for helping you accomplish what you want to accomplish, and even for helping you rethink what you want to do in light of what can be done. They are not great for deciding what's worth doing. 010
Reposted by Avery KolersTerra Field @rainofterra.gay · 24/02/2025The public comment period for changing passports to misgender trans people is open. Please take a moment to let them know that you do not support that change.federalregister.gov30-Day Notice of Proposed Information Collection: Application for a U.S. PassportThe Department of State has submitted the information collection described below to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for approval. In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, we are requesting comments on these collections from all interested individuals and organizations.... 20920856