Reposted by Dennis DimickDrew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 15hHard to overstate how much Hegseth's execution stream mirrors the U.S. military's traditional description of ISIS propaganda: broadcast killings designed to send a message, strike fear and create a social media spectacle. Will almost certainly be repurposed by online terror cells 611997744
Reposted by Dennis DimickSeth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 15hThanks be to God that we no longer have to live under the tyrannical yoke of the woke radical left language police. 20443103
Reposted by Dennis DimickBill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 09/10/2026what did you think about the part where he differentiated between 'safety' questions and 'wisdom' questions--like, for reasons of human meaning is it even wise to be going down this path? 162
Dennis Dimick @ddimick.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Grandpa’s fascist cadre have hogtied his new girlfriend and taken over the twitter feed. Calling Discount Goebbels… 030
Reposted by Dennis DimickBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026This is Nazi rhetoric, full stop. It's not only a call to instigate a race war in the United States, but it's reminiscent of historic European justifications used to incite pogroms against Jews. People who say things like this are incredibly dangerous, as there is nothing they won't eventually do. 1140001301
Reposted by Dennis DimickAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 08/10/2026It's Artificial Intelligence. It's Twitter. It's the Gulf of Mexico. It's Lake Ontario. It's the Department of Defense. It's the Kennedy Center. 601148483510
Dennis Dimick @ddimick.bsky.social · 08/10/2026If you still haven’t stopped business with the many-tentacled online mall run by this guy, now’s your chance. 000
Reposted by Dennis DimickThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 08/10/2026In Opinion Almost 70 years after its inception, “The Twilight Zone” remains incredibly relevant, Alan Sepinwall writes. It tackled “prejudice, creeping authoritarianism, the dangers of humans being replaced by technology and the peril of conformity as a societal ideal in ways that still resonate.”nyti.msOpinion | ‘The Twilight Zone’ Was a Warning America IgnoredWith “The Twilight Zone,” Rod Serling created a durable blueprint for understanding our surreal reality. 312922
Reposted by Dennis DimickThe New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 08/10/2026“When a new technology untethers thoughts from their thinkers, we go from thinking for ourselves to thinking that we are thinking for ourselves.” —Dan Rockmore nybooks.comThe Work of Math in the Age of Artificial Reproduction | Dan RockmoreThere are seven questions in pure mathematics deemed important enough by the Clay Mathematics Institute, a nonprofit foundation devoted to “furthering the 042
Reposted by Dennis DimickMicah @rincewind.run · 05/10/2026the reason these people need to be stripped of almost all of their money is so that they stop thinking that it gives them the right to nominate themselves for the "benevolent dictator" position 412687561
Dennis Dimick @ddimick.bsky.social · 04/10/2026From Dear Leader, the man who is supposed to have a job but only bothers if he can grift the taxpayers 010
Dennis Dimick @ddimick.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway’s book Merchants of Doubt lays out the strategy and methods of these efforts. A documentary based on the book came out in 2014. www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comMerchants of Doubt film exposes slick US industry behind climate denialRobert Kenner’s forthcoming documentary lifts the lid on the ‘professional deceivers’ manipulating US debate on climate change 051
Reposted by Dennis DimickNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026AI is now the biggest investment in all of US history as a percentage of GDP. Datacenter construction is up, all other construction is down. "AI Is Squeezing Out the Rest of the Stock Market," reported WSJ 2 days ago. We basically bet the whole economy on the most optimistic visions panning out. 852064490
Reposted by Dennis DimickBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint. 308122382245
Reposted by Dennis DimickAdam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 03/10/2026I really hope so. It won’t be enough to get us to a full reconstruction, but it may enable the essential work of prosecuting Trump administration criminals, ending the current Court majority one way or another, and getting a new Voting Rights Act (at bare minimum) 826748
Reposted by Dennis DimickT.J. Stiles @tj-stiles.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Reasons to vote Republican in 2026: • There are parts of the White House that haven’t been torn down yet. • We still haven’t lost a war to North Korea. • Your investment in AI stocks in your 401k will help cushion the blow when you lose your job to AI. • Someone you don’t like may die of measles. 071
Dennis Dimick @ddimick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Looks like a demographically well-rounded cabal ginning up another grift to fatten their own wallets. 030
Dennis Dimick @ddimick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Dear Leader: “My fellow Americans, beatings will continue until morale improves, so ya better perk up.” 000
Reposted by Dennis DimickCharlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o... 11571802059
Reposted by Dennis DimickGabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 29/09/2026“When food prices go up because farm workers go missing, that’s the ICE Tax. When construction grinds to a halt because no one is left to build homes, that’s the ICE Tax. When our elders can’t get the care they deserve because their caretakers and nurses are gone, that’s the ICE Tax.” #EndtheICETaxamericasvoicecnn.substack.comCHC Chair: ‘ICE Is Not Just Busting The Budget, It’s Wrecking Our Economy’Congressional Hispanic Caucus members joined America’s Voice to call for an end to the ICE Tax that’s making the lives of all working families more expensive. 770043342
Reposted by Dennis DimickAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 30/09/2026mr smith we have text message evidence you were the halftime performer at last years super bowl 1527222
Reposted by Dennis DimickArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social 178125002679
Reposted by Dennis DimickBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Would just note that illiterate medieval peasants during the bubonic plague understood the value of social distancing better than the current U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services 18916
Reposted by Dennis DimickAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort." 694279449551
Dennis Dimick @ddimick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Wendell Berry wrote: "There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places." 000
Dennis Dimick @ddimick.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Dear Leader: This here “Bill of Rights,” I’ve been doing my damnedest to get rid of that thing. 000
Reposted by Dennis DimickMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 25/09/2026"Now, I know you Chinamen think you're the shit when it comes to tricking your population with stupid propaganda, but—COME ON—you can't touch this beauty here. And there is more where that came from, trust me." 3702696587
Dennis Dimick @ddimick.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Democracy died in broad daylight but someone needs to tell the owner of The Washington Post, who is too busy managing his yacht fleet. 000
Reposted by Dennis DimickMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The Washington Post once got attention by cracking and exposing Watergate. Now, it's going viral with articles about whether you should drink iced coffee at interviews. What a comedown. 30473421270
Reposted by Dennis DimickMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 25/09/2026"Poor, sad, stupid orange white man. He would sell his soul—and country—for a few hollow words of praise." 669104302442
Reposted by Dennis DimickNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026On top of the immorality of casting Russian aggression and Ukrainian self-defense as the same, there’s a huge practical problem: doing so prolongs the war. Putin and Russia are the ones choosing war. They’re doing it in pursuit of conquest. We get peace only when they’re forced to choose otherwise. 413738
Reposted by Dennis DimickJack Murphy @jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is like the propaganda that plays everywhere you go in a dystopian sci fi movie in which the characters are always hearing the voice of their leader. 45718
Reposted by Dennis DimickNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026When OpenAI asks for a bailout—not if, when—say no. The chances the company can honor its financial commitments are very low. They’ll say they’re too big to fail, and taxpayers should cover their losses. Govt will have to help unwind commitments and contain the damage, but shouldn’t save OpenAI. 1228870
Reposted by Dennis DimickSilvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 24/09/2026“Ammonia emissions, which can harm a person’s ability to breathe, are more than three times higher when emitted from manure that has been through a digester compared to manure that is directed into storage lagoons or sprayed on fields, according to a new study.” There’s no reforming CAFOs, folks.thenewlede.orgManure digesters worsen ammonia air emissions from hog farms, study findsAmmonia emissions, which can harm a person’s ability to breathe, are more than three times higher when emitted from manure that has been through a digester compared to manure that is directed into st... 1105
Reposted by Dennis DimickNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Are the bankers finally ready to acknowledge reality? Are they done pretending yet? 711931
Reposted by Dennis DimickKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I know we're all* numb to this by now, but it really needs to be said that any one of the batshit insane tyrant tweets from our special little boy would've led to swift efforts to remove any other previous president. 34567501532
Reposted by Dennis DimickAna Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 22/09/2026My new employer is fond of the maximizing excitable headlines, but this is just the bluntest possible expression of my point: Freedom of the press is vital--and you prove that by doing the work that supports democracy, not by talking about doing it. 810527
Reposted by Dennis DimickCatherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026It really is striking how many authoritarian states have ended up in this exact same place, where the leader seizes control of scientific inquiry. Lysenkoism in the Soviet Union, Aryan Physics in the Third Reich, Great Leap Forward (also related to Lysenko) in China. 8527311077
Reposted by Dennis DimickMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Trump banning CNN from the White House has only served to get the channel to go for him full-on. A constant stream of lowest poll ratings ever, billions spent on the Iran War and more. Would have been nice if it happened before, but it’s a good result. 17712141
Reposted by Dennis DimickChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Successive tweets in my Twitter feed; no lies detected. 15447108
Reposted by Dennis DimickT.J. Stiles @tj-stiles.bsky.social · 17/09/2026The punchline is that the war has done nothing, nothing, to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. He sent the world economy down the toilet for nothing. 061