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Joseph Henderson

@josephenderson.bsky.social
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I study the politics of climate change and environmental education: scholar.google.com/citations?user=_…

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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Tweet from Film Daze (@filmdaze):

Blade Runner 2049 directed by Denis Villeneuve

(image of a cat bathed in pink/purple light looking up at a giant screen with a sexy cat on it)
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Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 12h
A Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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A Reckoning in Springfield
A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 10h
Part 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.
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Christa Brown @christabrown.bsky.social · 10h
“What is distinctive is the way evangelical theology & organizational structures enable those with authority to perpetrate, cover up & dismiss abuse… Evangelicals have created totalizing systems that shield perpetrators & silence victims.” – @kkdumez.bsky.social, LIVE LAUGH LOVE (p. 295)
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11h
the idea that rufo has, at any point in his public career, been a sincere advocate for “colorblind meritocracy” is brain dead
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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"For America to right itself, we need changes on the scale of Reconstruction and the New Deal. And I worry that’s not going to happen if Democrats and the broader anti-Trump left are taking their cues about what’s necessary and politically possible from the Times." newrepublic.com/article/2160...
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The Left Must Fight The New York Times’ Monopoly Too
The paper’s editorial vision is out of step with the robust liberalism needed today.
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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 14h
new wolfenstein looks like shit
its pete hegseth splaying his arms christlike at a podium with all sorts of americana bunting thats got a distinct fash aesthetic
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Ornamental Hermit @smccain.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This. I've heard many times the impact is “overstated ", but never seen anyone saying that actually citing evidence, nor can I find it. Serious question: where is this information?
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Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I was raised by a nurse with an associates degree and a steel mill electrician. I am not denigrating the value and dignity of blue collar work when I ask how many elite national media staffers are raising future bricklayers themselves. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
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Time to Consider Becoming a Bricklayer
College degrees hold less value, while jobs in the trades are booming.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 03/10/2026
This country won't control its sex pests, so long as there's profit to be made.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I don’t think everyone realizes how bad things are for US science: For the fiscal year that just ended, the Trump regime withheld $1.4 billion from the National Science Foundation’s research budget, which is about 1/5 of its primary research budget.
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National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress (Gift Article)
The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.
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Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 03/10/2026
Country singer Zach Bryan wore a “Free Palestine” shirt at his Gillette Stadium show in Massachusetts.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail.
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
And note how many of the Republican pundits and elected officials saying these things are white guys with Ivy degrees. Their kids aren’t getting blue collar jobs. They’re unlikely to enlist in the military either.
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Dannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Do yourself a favor. Read these 7 pages by @lilymasonphd.bsky.social right now. It is the most concise explanation of the current situation in U.S. politics I've seen and it captures why calls to reduce "polarization" can ultimately worsen the problem 🧵 www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/pol...
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Polarization Is Not the Problem | Journal of Democracy
Americans have never been angrier with one another. But polarization is not the disease—it is the response to a revanchist movement seeking to roll back sixty years of social progress.
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Lily Mason @lilymasonphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
My new JOD piece arguing against the “cure polarization” approach to saving democracy.
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Thomas M. Keck @tmksyracuse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
@lilymasonphd.bsky.social is one of our leading scholars of polarization in U.S. politics, and she is very clear-eyed about how the widespread adoption of that frame has led lots of analysts to misdiagnose the problem with contemporary U.S. democracy
From this perspective, the “both sides” frame falls apart. The problem is not that the parties are divided. The problem is the existential threat that a reempowered ethnonationalist strain poses to pluralistic U.S. democracy writ large. The current level of political animosity is exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s citizens. The only way to re-oppress most of a country is to use anti-democratic and authoritarian tactics. And the only way to oppose those tactics is to push back as a population and clearly reject them. This is the argument happening in the United States, and its pathology is not anger—it is the movement to undermine a generation of rights.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/10/2026
not that you should expect anything more than rank idiocy from this pair of racists, but the idea that whiteness means a "high trust" society of "social cohesion" is some of the stupidest shit i have ever heard. these people live in a fantasy land that you could dispel by simply opening a book.
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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing
To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in...
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Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · 02/10/2026
NEW: @jayapal.house.gov has released the National AI Charter Act, a framework for governing AI. It’s encouraging to see a framework that checks corporate power and takes a holistic approach to everything from risky model releases to surveillance and worker exploitation.
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Jayapal Introduces Legislative Framework Establishing National Charter System to Rein in AI - Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal
SEATTLE, W.A. — U.S. Representative Pramila Jayapal (WA-07) is introducing a new policy framework that reins in artificial intelligence (AI) by requiring every AI company to hold a federal charter to ...
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Cannot be emphasised enough that Trump II will plausibly cause the kind of death count we associate with the worst dictatorships of the last century. Unspeakably bad that he came to be president of the world's most powerful nation.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"In France schools are being blockaded as a nationwide student protest gains momentum.. high school students demand that authorities address overcrowded classrooms, teacher shortages & crumbling infrastructure. The demonstrations coincide with a public sector strike.."
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 29/09/2026
Many low income people are in fact stay at home parents because the cost of daycare is so high that their salary if they went to work would not cover it.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is the 59th death in ICE detention since Trump took office.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/10/2026
i think cox should spend less time weeping about polarization and more time working to convince his co-partisans not to abandon pluralism and liberal democracy
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
John Roberts' friend and defender is quoted in the piece, saying they shouldn't be shaming Roberts for the wreckage and ruin he's brought to this country because of "civility." The bullies always cry "civility" when the victims push back in the slightest.
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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Latest WSJ poll: "63% want to pause AI development 61% want a billionaire wealth tax 59% want Medicare for All 57% want a $20 minimum wage 58% want to end U.S. military aid to Israel" This is the center of the country politically. it is time all adjust to this political spectrum, esp. media.
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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The fact that we still have executions in this country is deplorable. and the fact many "christians" support the state killing people is outrageous.
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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Oh she's serious about running for statewide office in NY
TikTok screencap of AOC in Syracuse wearing Bills gear
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
that 18 percent seems really well represented in the news and on social media bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Skipped the Nazis, huh.
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Joseph Henderson @josephenderson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“Other people are the ideological ones, not me!” Says the guy doing the gender ideology.
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Leah Feiger @leahfeiger.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NEW: Trump's aides are starting to panic about the midterms; the president thinks Republicans still have a shot. really excellent reporting on the inside of the White House from @hugolowell.bsky.social for @wired.com:
wired.com
The White House Is Starting to Panic Over the Midterms
President Donald Trump still thinks Republicans have a shot. His aides are less convinced.
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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I keep hearing from sources about these but had no idea it was THIS many. of course these are also the orgs that squawk about the importance of "academic freedom" www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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Inside the anti-climate campaign against researchers
A POLITICO investigation reveals more than 100 open records requests demanding documents from climate scientists nationwide.
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
The first panel shows Sarah, the protagonist, holding a red ball labeled "A SILLY MEME".
The second panel shows Sarah taking the ball and going through a door labeled "GROUP CHAT".
The third panel shows a group of women sitting together and consoling one woman in the center. The woman in the center is saying "...And that's how it happened. It's been the worst day of my life."
The fourth panel shows Sarah standing in the doorway behind them awkwardly holding the red ball.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
my initial read on the Cornell 7 case is that we’re likely to have an overdue national conversation about the voluntary intoxication loophole.
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Kate Hagen's House of Horrors 👻 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Meanwhile, Jane Doe dropped out of Cornell and was denied her request to get her tuition refunded so that she could transfer to a different college. She hence faced more severe consequences than most of the men who she alleges gang-raped her." www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“The end times fascists are fleeing the crises of poverty, environmental destruction, and tech overreach they helped cause.”
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
RT @aaronregunberg.bsky.social I wrote about data centers for @guardian. Billionaires have created a perfect opening to transform our politics against both Trump and the oligarchy that produced him in the first place. It’s a singular opportunity. But Dems could easily fuck it up.
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The datacenter backlash is bringing the entire political spectrum together – against big tech billionaires
The movement against datacenters is uniting Americans because they perfectly illustrate how a few individuals hold all the power to control decisions that affect our lives
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I don't find the Schmitt Senate fiasco remotely funny. It's just McCarthyism but more incompetent. It's appalling, & a constitutional order that can't end this level of unserious lying & extremist nonsense isn't worth saving. We need massive institutional reform to make sure it never happens again.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Glad someone is finally remembering higher ed’s true purpose: artificially inflating real estate prices in trendy urban zip codes.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
These ads go in the same category as brazen, easily disproven lies after ICE killings. It’s not about persuasion. It’s a display of power. They could have passed them off as PAC-funded. They added “paid for by the U.S. government” because they want us to know they can break the law with impunity.
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Bob Berwyn @bberwyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There were about 16,000 heat-related deaths in Germany last summer, about double the mortality during the first Covid wave in early 2020. Extreme heat needs to be treated as an ongoing public health emergency.
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Mass Heat Wave Deaths in Europe Show Climate Extremes Are Outpacing Adaptation Efforts - Inside Climate News
As preparedness lags, many regions around the world could be overwhelmed by rising temperatures, climate experts warn.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The end times religious fervor of it all is absolutely real. :)
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Jeremy Fassler @jfassler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Katie Britt watching Eric Schmitt destroy his career, brought to you by Larry David.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Playoff baseball is great. I love feeling like I’m going to die after wallowing helplessly in a pit of existential despair.
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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Yup, absolutely. I think it’s wrong to treat the Iran War as simply one bad error that happened to the Trump Admin rather than the entirely logical consequence of the way it operates. If it wasn’t Iran, it would almost certainly have been something else
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 30/09/2026
I’ve heard three talks in the last couple of months by very prominent skeptics of AI who have all argued that the solution to the problem of AI in education is smaller classes and more teacher/faculty attention. I don’t know how that happens without a massive, massive investment in public education
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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026
Trump To Rename AI ‘Super Intelligence’ On All U.S. Documents theonion.com/trump-to-rename-ai-sup…
“Even the Constitution?”

Anton Pastranak, Systems Analyst
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