Reposted by Charles ScottDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on. 3249762755
Reposted by Charles Scottloveismyreligion.bsky.social @loveismyreligion.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Gotta love the Brits! 27476140
Reposted by Charles ScottJohn Vaillant @johnvaillant.bsky.social · 08/08/2026My latest on the #wildfires burning across the Northern Hemisphere: time.com/article/2026... via TIMEtime.comWhat Happens When the World is on Fire"From America to Algeria, dangerous blazes are occurring around the world, giving us a glimpse into an age ablaze," writes John Valliant. 10254136
Charles Scott @chas0853.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Likely gonna take a pass (ahem) on season pass for upcoming ski season. www.nature.com/articles/d41... unofficialnetworks.com/2026/07/15/e...nature.comThis El Niño is set to be the largest on record by a ‘mind-blowing margin’Forecasters predict that the monster climate pattern will combine with global warming to push global temperatures in 2027 to new heights. 010
Charles Scott @chas0853.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Everyone should read this really informative posting from @zekehausfather.com about the Boreal forests, the Boreal forest fires, and climate change. Expert knowledge and information. bsky.app/profile/zeke... 021
Charles Scott @chas0853.bsky.social · 07/05/2026The mind boggles, absolutely. What a horror show. Utterly dystopian. I can only hope they didn't ban Plato's Symposium. I totally get why they would ban Republic (partially because they misunderstand its thesis). Read the entire thread and stay tuned to when Dr. Hester reveals the entire list. 020
Charles Scott @chas0853.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Wow. J.D. Vance just can't resist going theological ... and getting it badly wrong. Advising the Pope to be careful about matters of theology. I recall Nobel Laurate Bob Dylan had a something to say about God being on *your* side. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/u...nytimes.comVance Says the Pope Should Be More Careful When Talking About Theology 050
Reposted by Charles ScottNoel Casler Comedy @noelcaslercomedy.bsky.social · 04/04/2026Trump just wished everyone a ‘happy’ Good Friday, my dude has zero clue as to the story of Jesus which is ironic as a bunch of Evangelical MAGA freaks worship the sorry POS. The only Bible he ever touched was upside fn down. 0574118
Charles Scott @chas0853.bsky.social · 03/04/2026Interesting to compare what is in this article to, um, present day events .... www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...theatlantic.comHitler’s Edifice ComplexHe was obsessed with adding an expensive new wing to the Reich Chancellery, part of his grandiose architectural ambitions for the nation’s capital. 031
Reposted by Charles ScottAngie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 31/03/2026Maybe you heard somewhere that the COVID-19 pandemic started with a lab leak? NO! That is NOT what the evidence shows. It was not a goddamn lab leak. I’ve had enough. Here is what the evidence shows: it was zoonotic spillover at the market rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/five-reaso...rasmussenretorts.substack.comFive Reasons Why It Still Wasn't a Lab LeakTime for some of that civil disagreement that the NIH Director can't get enough of 15337130
Charles Scott @chas0853.bsky.social · 05/02/2026Everyone should see (and think about) this: Sir Ian McKellen as Sir Thomas More, in a play partly written by Shakespeare, pleading for some humanity with respect to immigration. Sadly so relevant today. youtu.be/2l2RqzVG4ag?...youtu.be"There's Nothing I Enjoy More Than Acting In The Theater" - Ian McKellen EXTENDED INTERVIEWYouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert 010
Reposted by Charles ScottDavid Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 21/01/2026Don’t count your chickening-out before it’s hatched. 43721107
Charles Scott @chas0853.bsky.social · 19/01/2026"Donald Trump now genuinely lives in a different reality, one in which neither grammar nor history nor the normal rules of human interaction now affect him. Also, he really is maniacally, unhealthily obsessive about the Nobel Prize." @anneapplebaum.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...theatlantic.comTrump’s Letter to Norway Should Be the Last StrawWill Republicans in Congress ever step in? 120
Charles Scott @chas0853.bsky.social · 08/01/2026Trump to NY Times: “Yeah, there is one thing. My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me.” Somehow, that is not so reassuring. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...nytimes.comTrump Lays Out a Vision of Power Restrained Only by ‘My Own Morality’ 120
Charles Scott @chas0853.bsky.social · 08/01/2026So ... any scuttlebutt yet on which 6 books were banned from Alberta school libraries, @carlapeck.bsky.social and @jackieseidel.bsky.social? No surprise, I guess, that the Ministry doesn't want to reveal which 6 books were banned. I guess they don't want book sales for the six books to soar ... 1/2 210
Charles Scott @chas0853.bsky.social · 18/12/2025William Shakespeare, through the voice of Sir Thomas More, has a few thoughts in response to Trump's hideous and paranoid xenophobia on full display on Wednesday. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DceE...youtube.comIan McKellen performs speech about immigrants by Shakespeare from Thomas More (23/4/2016)YouTube video by TFotF 041
Charles Scott @chas0853.bsky.social · 18/12/2025This is one of the ways science is destroyed. What amounts to petty vengefulness. 060
Charles Scott @chas0853.bsky.social · 17/12/2025A great review by Dr. Jacobs of an utterly horrid research project that would NEVER be approved by an IRB/REB. The new gold standard science? This clearly shows why RFK Jr. is such a danger. 010
Reposted by Charles ScottGregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 10/12/2025A bunch of us did a piece on RFK Jr.'s attacks on vaccines. Please circulate. Scientists and clinicians are sounding the alarm. It's time to act. youtube.com/shorts/4wnNy...youtube.comExperts Warn: Trump’s Vaccine Rewrite Risks Public HealthYouTube video by Save America Movement 2299170
Charles Scott @chas0853.bsky.social · 17/11/2025Let's be clear: She knew. @sarahkendzior.bsky.social knew long before so many others. 040
Reposted by Charles ScottSarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 15/11/2025“For decades, the media did not cover Epstein. They covered *for* Epstein.” From 2022, from the chapter “Epstein Wasn’t the First”, featuring Landon Thomas Jr. 26593225
Charles Scott @chas0853.bsky.social · 17/11/2025@sarahkendzior.bsky.social had the goods on Trump, Epstein, and others years ago. Read her book "They Knew." It will curl your hair when you read the details. 040
Reposted by Charles ScottNoel Casler Comedy @noelcaslercomedy.bsky.social · 01/11/2025Wouldn’t be surprised if new Lincoln WC had some hidden cameras installed during remodel-would venture to say it’s part of his motivation. That’s a go-to Trump move re: Mar a Lago & TT. Those ‘free’ condos he gave Miss Universe & Apprentice contestants came with a cost. Pervert. 0411134
Charles Scott @chas0853.bsky.social · 26/10/2025Another fantastic essay by @noelcaslercomedy.bsky.social. Noel gets to the heart of what makes Trump such a danger. Wonderfully written; searingly insightful. In a nutshell: pay attention to the aesthetics; they tell us much about Trump's deformed character. noelcasler.substack.com/p/breakdown?...noelcasler.substack.com'Breakdown'Much of the motivation behind my years speaking out against Trump has been to contextualize his actions and provide some insight into just how deviant and depraved he truly is; how outside the boundar... 03910
Reposted by Charles ScottDr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 07/10/2025"Secretary Kennedy is entitled to his views. But he is not entitled to put people’s health at risk. This is bigger than politics. It’s about putting the health of Americans first." - Six former U.S. surgeons general, who have served under both Republican and Democratic administrationswashingtonpost.comOpinion | Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr.We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today. 3313102
Reposted by Charles ScottAndrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 04/10/2025“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943 256169827921
Reposted by Charles ScottEdward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 23/09/2025Needed some light relief 1116821
Charles Scott @chas0853.bsky.social · 09/09/2025I hope America can awaken to what is happening. As someone who has traveled to China six times since 2010 on behalf of my university, I have witnessed the meteoric rise of these Chinese universities. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/o...nytimes.comOpinion | We Are Watching a Scientific Superpower Destroy Itself 020
Charles Scott @chas0853.bsky.social · 30/08/2025Good grief, the Edmonton school board has gone full bonkers, removing books from shelves. The perfect irony is in removing Brave New World, 1984, and The Handmaid's Tale. globalnews.ca/news/1135609... 110
Charles Scott @chas0853.bsky.social · 30/08/2025This clip needs to be spread far and wide. Of all the insane things he has said and done in the past few days, this is perhaps the most chilling. Right out of Orwell's 1984. 020
Charles Scott @chas0853.bsky.social · 30/08/2025@radiofreetom.bsky.social Have you seen this clip of RFK Jr.? Truly, the Orwellian death of expertise. bsky.app/profile/rpsa... 130
Charles Scott @chas0853.bsky.social · 29/08/2025You can't get much more honest about the potential (and increasingly likely) dangers ahead than this short clip from one of the world's leading experts. We all should be following her and her colleagues. 030
Charles Scott @chas0853.bsky.social · 26/08/2025Everyone should absolutely watch the clips of today's Cabinet meeting posted by @atrupar.com Truly surreal. Utterly dystopian. The sycophancy! The ignorance. Total buffoonery. Hard to imagine how this group could be any worse than they already are. 020
Charles Scott @chas0853.bsky.social · 19/08/2025Anne Applebaum has it exactly right: Trump has no cards. Zero cards. Zero interest in ending the war (beyond seeing himself get a Nobel). Putin owns him. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...theatlantic.comTrump Has No CardsWhy would Putin need to make a deal with him? 030
Charles Scott @chas0853.bsky.social · 16/08/2025"The U.S. has no cards because we’ve been giving them away. If we ever want to play them again, we will have to win them back: Arm Ukraine, expand sanctions, stop the lethal drone swarms, break the Russian economy, and win the war. Then there will be peace." 030
Reposted by Charles ScottGretchen Goldman, PhD @gretchentg.bsky.social · 14/08/2025My new @science.org editorial on the role of scientists in defending democracy is out today. As authoritarianism takes hold in the US, we must fight for the democratic principles that enable a free society and scientists have a key role. I hope you'll join us. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...science.orgScientists’ role in defending democracyThe United States’ democratic leadership, commitment to freedom of expression, and investment in the pursuit of knowledge have long enabled its preeminence in science and technology. Yet today we are ... 9550260
Charles Scott @chas0853.bsky.social · 14/08/2025Such a timeless classic ... and so relevant today. 121
Charles Scott @chas0853.bsky.social · 14/08/2025Again, as an arts educator, I can't stress enough what a incredible posting this is from @noelcaslercomedy.bsky.social One of his best. He gets to the heart of the power of the arts and how Trump represents a threat to the arts. 27212
Charles Scott @chas0853.bsky.social · 13/08/2025This one of Noel's best ever postings. An amazing piece about the power of the arts ... and how Trump can (will likely?) destroy much of what The Kennedy Center offers. Trump's ignorant attacks on the arts are as dangerous as his attacks on science and education. 14012
Reposted by Charles ScottAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 03/08/2025The most corrupt White House in history. Here is an account of what people are paying, directly to a PAC called MAGA Inc, in order to meet the president, get pardons, change policy www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/u...nytimes.comDonor List Suggests Scale of Trump’s Pay-for-Access Operation 16146622220
Reposted by Charles ScottGeorge Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 29/07/2025@anneapplebaum.bsky.social: “The West doesn’t understand the extremism of Putinism…that (its) goals involve the destruction of the transatlantic alliance & maybe of the EU…The path to peace is through convincing Putin that he won’t win the war, that it’s hopeless.” (ht: @berlinbridge.bsky.social) 29780592870
Charles Scott @chas0853.bsky.social · 23/07/2025Tariffs already causing woes for U.S. business: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...washingtonpost.comTariffs hit U.S. companies hard, but businesses absorb them for nowGeneral Motors said tariffs slashed its second-quarter income by more than $1 billion, and other companies pointed to import duties to explain smaller profits. 021
Reposted by Charles ScottVanity Fair @vanityfair.com · 17/07/2025On a Tuesday in March, Rümeysa Öztürk writes, “I was thrust into a nightmare.” For VF, the Fulbright scholar details what she witnessed in the six and a half weeks she spent inside a South Louisiana ICE detention center.vanityfair.com“Even God Cannot Hear Us Here”: What I Witnessed Inside an ICE Women’s PrisonTufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk opens up about her 45 days in a South Louisiana processing facility—and the generous and compassionate women she met. 10397234
Reposted by Charles ScottDaniel Aldrich @danielaldrich.bsky.social · 30/06/2025Trump's attacks on higher ed have consequences : Stanford University will cut $140 million from its operations and may lay off employees as it contends with “significant budget consequences from federal policy changes” including reductions in research www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...sfchronicle.comStanford cuts $140 million, warns of layoffs as research funding dries up, endowment tax loomsLike other universities, Stanford has been hit by the Trump administration’s cutting of federal research funding. 035
Reposted by Charles ScottJennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 30/06/2025“I represent 67,000 pediatricians, and let me be clear: this bill will devastate children’s health,” said Dr. Susan Kressly, President of @ameracadpeds.bsky.social “Kids are 22% of our population—but 100% of our future. We cannot afford to fail them.” Call your senators and demand a NO vote. 4223951072
Reposted by Charles ScottKate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 29/06/2025I cannot overemphasize how mind-bogglingly, brain-meltingly, galactically stupid it is to burn coal for electricity 414739
Charles Scott @chas0853.bsky.social · 24/06/2025Calvin & Hobbes banned. "This leaves no room for educators and librarians to curate collections that reflect the real world ...." Indeed. And these legislators are clearly delusional and out of touch with the real world. 001