Sign in

erkherd.bsky.social

@erkherd.bsky.social
31 followers 228 following 4 posts
PostsRepliesMedia
Reposted by @erkherd.bsky.social
Igor_Stokoz @handle.invalid · 23/08/2026
Happy Independence Day, Ukraine. Remember your sons and daughters who continue to defend you!
293
Reposted by @erkherd.bsky.social
Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
You never miss professional diplomats until they're gone
541981311
erkherd.bsky.social @erkherd.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
@whitehouse-47.bsky.social 👇
000
Reposted by @erkherd.bsky.social
Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
BREAKING: Trump caves and agrees to a two week ceasefire. Iran launches missiles toward Israel minutes after. More than 70 lawmakers call for Trump’s removal. Articles of impeachment filed against Trump. I have the latest: open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...
open.substack.com
BREAKING: Trump Caves on Threat and Agrees to Ceasefire, Impeachment Articles Filed, Dozens of Lawmakers Call for his Removal
Good evening everyone.
51990275
Reposted by @erkherd.bsky.social
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
We’ll see what Iran says they agreed to.
59711142
Reposted by @erkherd.bsky.social
Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Robert Pape, who has studied escalation crises and traps for three decades, predicts Trump and Israel's war will make Iran great again. He wrote about it in the NYT yesterday. He joins The Left Hook at 630 pm ET: thelefthook.substack.com www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | The War Is Turning Iran Into a Major World Power
419347
Reposted by @erkherd.bsky.social
George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
When you don't like the question, attack the questioner.
A screenshot of a tweet by Aaron Rupar showing a White House exchange. A reporter asks Donald Trump how bombing Iran helps the Iranian people. Trump responds by asking who the reporter is with; when told PBS, he calls it “a radical left group of lunatics.” Below is a Fox News clip of Trump speaking outside the White House with a “Breaking News” banner about him taking questions on Iran.
1191805319
Reposted by @erkherd.bsky.social
Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 07/04/2026
This doesn’t sound like someone planning to drop a nuke tonight at least
7864
Reposted by @erkherd.bsky.social
Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
👇👇
1182235918
Reposted by @erkherd.bsky.social
Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
The government illegally took your money. They won’t give it back.
9936191089
Reposted by @erkherd.bsky.social
Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
How dumb would you have to be to believe this?
98408111
Reposted by @erkherd.bsky.social
Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Apparently Trump and Kristi are lying about no immigrants being allowed into the US, because some of those who cross and are caught are being released into the country within a couple of days. But they don't want you to know this. www.rawstory.com/kristi-noem-...
rawstory.com
Kristi Noem's 'dirty little secret' on border security exposed by conservative outlet
President Donald Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem have repeatedly bragged that the Trump administration is allowing "zero" unauthorized immigrants to cross the border into the United ...
5227106
Reposted by @erkherd.bsky.social
Secular Talk @kylekulinskishow.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
636374
Reposted by @erkherd.bsky.social
PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Trump endorsed Don Huffines, whose family owns Jeffrey Epstein’s former New Mexico ranch
1871201470
Reposted by @erkherd.bsky.social
Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
. @meidastouch.com is bigger than Joe Rogan.😃
735392
Reposted by @erkherd.bsky.social
Ashley DeAzevedo @afuashley.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
New research from CLASP & Univ. of Colorado finds increased immigration enforcement is pushing U.S.-born teens in mixed-status families to work more & enroll in school full-time less. Enforcement policies don’t just affect immigrants; they reshape outcomes for American children.
clasp.org
ICE Activity in Trump 2.0 is Increasing Employment and Decreasing Full-Time School Enrollment for Teens in Mixed-Status Families | CLASP
This report finds that heightened immigration enforcement is harming U.S.-born teenagers in mixed-status households today and setting them up for worse long-term outcomes.
118078
Reposted by @erkherd.bsky.social
Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 28/02/2026
For many decades, left wing activists tried to get elite colleges out of the business of collaborating with the Department of Defense in various ways, a push those colleges almost entirely resisted. In fact, I’ve never met a professor who said they didn’t enjoy working with military students.
49114
Reposted by @erkherd.bsky.social
HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 28/02/2026
Why is it in a tweet at all? How is this our government?
4773
Reposted by @erkherd.bsky.social
Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
This is Trump's former AI adviser
582875909
Reposted by @erkherd.bsky.social
Steve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
This is a terrible idea. The more information that investors receive, the more transparent and efficient markets become, lowering the cost of capital for good performers.
3135692
Reposted by @erkherd.bsky.social
southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Kash Patel’s FBI puts two pounds of methamphetamine in the incinerator at an animal shelter, sending 14 people to the hospital, and exposing some 75 cats and dogs to the narcotic. www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Animal shelter evacuated after FBI incinerates meth at facility
Fourteen staff were hospitalised and 75 cats and dogs evacuated.
73481303686
Reposted by @erkherd.bsky.social
Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 15/09/2025
The Dept of Education is now accepting comments on a proposed rule that would overhaul Public Service Loan Forgiveness, and make it too expensive for students to go into work that threatens the Trump administration Folks have til *Sept. 17* to oppose the changes ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...
ballsandstrikes.org
The Trump White House Is Trying to Price Law Students Out of Public Service
A proposed Department of Education rule would make borrowers ineligible for loan forgiveness if the administration doesn’t approve of their work.
2914721286
Reposted by @erkherd.bsky.social
Harry Shannon @harryshannon.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
17531164
Reposted by @erkherd.bsky.social
Harry Dunn @libradunn1.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Damn being "liberal" its really just having compassion, empathy and wanting people to be happy doing what makes them happy. Happy Sunday.
1896357893
Reposted by @erkherd.bsky.social
Heather Thomas @heatherthomasaf.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
I'm super busy but here's my weekly reminder that the Authoritarian goal of creating a permanent over-burdened underclass of low-wage workers with no information, education, choice or recourse is moving along, swimmingly.
752511691
Reposted by @erkherd.bsky.social
Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
If Trump is going to hold a UFC event at the White House, it only seems appropriate that he should fight in the main event. Show America how “tough” you really are…Donald.
1181230203
Reposted by @erkherd.bsky.social
Brian J. Karem @briankarem.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Dear Don the Con: All I can say is that isn't much of a riot in Los Angeles when a celebration in Kentucky - after UK won the NCAA - was actually more violent. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZn-...
youtube.com
312927
Reposted by @erkherd.bsky.social
Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Bass: If you want to go back in time, where was LA on Thursday? Fine, peaceful. Nothing was happening. The minute ICE rolled into town, that's when the chaos started and then add to that—bringing in federal troops.
216133623545
Reposted by @erkherd.bsky.social
Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
what if democrats could have a little self-respect, as a treat
520217
Reposted by @erkherd.bsky.social
Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
For nearly 160 years, federal govt has been producing a statistical report on condition & progress of education. In 2002, Congress gave Ed Dept annual deadline for that report: June 1. For first time ever, Ed Dept just failed to meet this statutory obligation. hechingerreport.org/proof-points...
hechingerreport.org
Education Department misses key deadline for delivering statistics report
Congress mandates annual ‘Condition of Education’ digest by June 1
25639250
Reposted by @erkherd.bsky.social
Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 05/06/2025
If you had important information for voters, and kept it to yourself to sell books after it was too late, you’re not a hero. You’re an asshole.
552247943705
Reposted by @erkherd.bsky.social
Phil Williams @philinvestigates.com · 05/06/2025
DELETED: Trump administration deleted a webpage summarizing evidence that “undocumented immigrants are arrested at less than half the rate of native-born U.S. citizens for violent and drug crimes and a quarter the rate of native-born citizens for property crimes.” 1/2
6330681475
Reposted by @erkherd.bsky.social
Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 01/06/2025
So, the MAGA plan is basically 2 dolls, 3 pencils, and then we’re all going to die?
72951198
Reposted by @erkherd.bsky.social
Jorge A. Caballero, MD @datadrivenmd.social · 31/05/2025
Trump is an idiot. Trans/genic/ mice experiments are bedrock medical science. Transgenic mice are indispensable in pre-clinical trials of treatments for virtually every human disease you can think of, including Alzheimers, cancer, diabetes, and strokes.
19391101
Reposted by @erkherd.bsky.social
Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 01/06/2025
The president of the United States is mentally compromised. He’s spreading the conspiracy that Biden was a clone.
71060761600
Reposted by @erkherd.bsky.social
James Vincent @jjvincent.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
clear, depressing set of observations from @randomwalker.bsky.social - "The decline of reading-for-pleasure (due to video) and reading-for-information (due to AI) will accelerate each other, as reading text without an intermediary will come to be seen as a chore."
"A hypothesis on the accelerating decline of reading:  

* Broadly speaking, people read for pleasure/entertainment and for learning/obtaining information. 
* Reading for pleasure has been declining for a while and is being replaced by videos (very sharply among young people). This trend will surely continue. 
* Reading for obtaining information is getting intermediated by chatbots. We are in the very early stages of this shift, so I think people underappreciate the magnitude of what's coming. It's not just that AI replacing traditional web search. Even when it comes to reading news articles, business documents, or scientific papers, the vision that tech companies are pushing on us is AI summarization + synthesis + Q&A. 
* We don't have to accept this, but I predict that most people will. It's a tradeoff between speed/convenience and accuracy/depth of understanding — the same tradeoff that was once offered to us when it became possible to search the web to look up a quick fact as opposed to reading about the topic in depth in an encyclopedia. 
* Just as most people in most cases prefer a shallow web search over deeper reading, most people in most cases will prefer AI-intermediated access to knowledge. Traditional reading won't disappear, but people will do it vastly less often, except in hobbyist reading communities and professions where traditional reading is needed. 
* The decline of reading-for-pleasure (due to video) and reading-for-information (due to AI) will accelerate each other, as reading text without an intermediary will come to be seen as a chore. 
* Personally, I find this sad. But while it's tempting to moralize all this, I think that's unproductive. Yelling at individuals to resist new media has been done for centuries and has never worked. 
* Even if people individually rationally choose these tradeoffs, I think we collectively lose something; critical reading skills are arguably essential for a democracy. We need to figure out what to do about that.
14327107
Reposted by @erkherd.bsky.social
Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Precisely.
229628
Reposted by @erkherd.bsky.social
Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 25/05/2025
In case y'all missed it - Utah Republicans ordered a study on transgender healthcare, expecting it to come back unsupportive. Instead, it found that trans youth care was safe and effective, and that transgender youth need it. Whoops. www.sltrib.com/news/politic...
sltrib.com
Utah lawmakers’ own study found gender-affirming care benefits trans youth. Will they lift the treatment ban?
The Utah Legislature's own newly-released study found that gender-affirming care benefits trans youth. Now, will lawmakers lift the treatment ban?
8463891959
Reposted by @erkherd.bsky.social
Michele/Meidas Fan @michelemanziano.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
1752076531
Reposted by @erkherd.bsky.social
Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
What do you do when you just took a $400 million plane bribe from a terrorist supporting country? Accuse your opponents of “corruption.”
35861281599
Reposted by @erkherd.bsky.social
S.V. Dáte @svdate.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
NEW -- Yes, there absolutely was media malfeasance in our coverage of the 2024 presidential campaign. No, it wasn't about Joe Biden being old. It was about how we normalized the hell out of a man who had already tried to end American democracy once. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
huffpost.com
Opinion: Yes, There Was A Media Scandal In 2024. No, It Wasn’t About Joe Biden.
The political press corps started ‘normalizing’ Trump just weeks after Jan. 6, 2021, to get access. That’s a big reason Trump later won, not some ‘cover-up’ of Biden’s age.
23832233
Reposted by @erkherd.bsky.social
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/05/2025
REPUBLICANS: You need to get a job to receive Medicaid AMERICANS: What if my job doesn't offer healthcare? REPUBLICANS:
media.tenor.com
a cartoon of homer simpson standing in a grassy area
ALT: a cartoon of homer simpson standing in a grassy area
16461051371
Reposted by @erkherd.bsky.social
Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
But but but Joe Biden old, ergo …..
842141496
Reposted by @erkherd.bsky.social
Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Like I said a few times before, it was NEVER about campus protests or anti-semitism. It was always about seizing control of higher education through govt blackmail and coercion.
66655771520
Reposted by @erkherd.bsky.social
Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
I’ll say it again - when *any* politician uses the ‘I haven’t read that story’ lie about something they knew they would get asked about, the interviewer has a duty to say ‘Okay, in that case I’m going to terminate this interview and you can come back when you’re better prepared.”
2374495789
Reposted by @erkherd.bsky.social
Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Billy Long is a Missouri Christian nationalist who also seems to enjoy pregnant porn… www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
rollingstone.com
Team Trump Investigating Why IRS Nominee's X Account Followed Sexual Content
The Trump administration says it’s investigating why IRS nominee Billy Long’s X account follows a string of sexual accounts, suggesting he was hacked.
106813310
Reposted by @erkherd.bsky.social
Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
The orange felon’s vendetta against Harvard in just one photo.
785354036142
Reposted by @erkherd.bsky.social
Angry Donkey News @angrydonkeynews.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
It's OK to leave MAGA
3347
erkherd.bsky.social @erkherd.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
👇👇👇
010
Reposted by @erkherd.bsky.social
Comfortably Boo @numb.comfortab.ly · 25/05/2025
If you poll the people at a Nazi bar they will tell you they like the Nazi bar.
788824