kentropic @kentropic.bsky.social · 10h“…and in other financial news today, tumbril futures rallied strongly on the latest confirmation that too much is never enough for our cosseted rapacious billionaires.” 010
Reposted by kentropicMore Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 10hThe richest 0.1% of Americans have more than doubled their immense wealth since 2019 — per WSJ. 11390149
Reposted by kentropicMichael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 13hDave Brubeck’s 1960’s Connecticut home was as cool as his music. 1182649317
Reposted by kentropicAbdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I'd rather have an economy that makes 1,000 millionaires than 1 billionaire. 21883992124
Reposted by kentropicColton the fish squeezer🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Late season perennial #nativeplants still blooming in the garden on October 1st. 🌱 2704
Reposted by kentropicFietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 30/09/2026When you realize that car dependency is not freedom and that our entire country is designed to force you into owning, maintaining, and operating one just to exist in society: 07510
kentropic @kentropic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Powerful insights in this wide-ranging & accesible study. In a nutshell: “Opposition to democracy, science, and institutional expertise is therefore not an accidental feature of anti-democratic populism and authoritarianism, but its defining component.”frontiersin.orgFrontiers | The problem with polarization research in an age of extremism"I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block i... 001
Reposted by kentropicErik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This Day in Labor History: September 29, 1917. The Army intervenes in the strikes of the Northwest forests and sends in the military to get out the wood for airplanes. It both busted the IWW and also massively improved conditions on the ground for workers. Let's talk about this unusual moment! 317557
Reposted by kentropicmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Look having the entire roster of FBI agents leak isn't a front-page newsworthy security failure meriting front page coverage the same way having some of your emails to Anthony Weiner's wife be discovered on Anthony Weiner's laptop was 6623127
Reposted by kentropicJohn Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026"Truth is not violated only by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence." – Henri Frédéric Amiel 📷🌱 0237
Reposted by kentropicSean Carolan @sean.carolan.io · 29/09/2026I've searched for these for over 15 years. Today I got the blessing of the mushroom gods right in my own backyard! Behold #fungifriends , Laetiporus sulphureus aka Chicken of the Woods! 🐔🍄🟫 28012
Reposted by kentropicJustin Zimmerman @jztidecat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Still pretty nuts that he’s simply offering bribes with nary a raised eyebrow. 37806144
Reposted by kentropicRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm… 1277186966103
Reposted by kentropicFungi First @fungifirst.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Chicken of the woods, autumn edition! #Mushrooms #FungiFriends 0362
Reposted by kentropicCarly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Congratulations, we have created a world where teenagers cannot exist with each other in space, where we use “safety” to destroy sociality, youth, and development. 15255100
Reposted by kentropicRodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026emotion is when Girls care about things. when my Manly feelings get hurt and i punch a hole in the drywall, that's the hunter-warrior mindset that allowed my strongest ancestors to survive while the weak perished 120714
Reposted by kentropicBarred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026aaayy shout out to all the climate organizers and legal groups like @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social, @courtacctability.bsky.social, and @peoplesparity.bsky.social that kept raising hell about Alito's glaring conflict of interest ballsandstrikes.org/ethics-accou...ballsandstrikes.orgThe Supreme Court’s Recusal Rules Are WorthlessCases involving the oil and gas industry are great for Justice Samuel Alito, a noted investor in the oil and gas industry. 423973
Reposted by kentropicRep. Mike Levin @levin.house.gov · 28/09/2026Just in case it wasn’t clear, when they say the U.S. Government’s paying for this, that’s YOUR taxpayer dollars they’re using. I’ll say this as many times as I need to: it is ILLEGAL to use American taxpayer dollars from the government to pay for candidates’ or parties’ political ads. 797118324673
Reposted by kentropicAbdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Mike Rogers is a corporate sellout who moves back to Michigan every few years to run for office to take another swing at the revolving door of corporate politics. 317163804634
Reposted by kentropicsamuelwa.de @samuelwa.de · 28/09/2026My “Involved in Human Trafficking“ shirt has a lot of people asking questions that are making me want to stop wearing my shirt rather than reconsider my involvement in human trafficking 33901547
Reposted by kentropicDanny Miller @danielmilleresq.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I'm proud to have helped organize this. If you're a lawyer or law student, sign up for this nonpartisan rally next Tuesday. You'll hear from @meiselasb.bsky.social and @normeisen.bsky.social among other champions of the rule law about what YOU can do to protect our free and fair elections. 4257141
Reposted by kentropicNaomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"The end times fascists may want us to believe that the end of the world is nigh and inevitable but this book shows, again and again, that there is a different way. It's up to us to follow it" - Thank you Ericka Taylor for this generous and thoughtful @npr.org review! www.npr.org/2026/09/28/n...npr.org'End Times Fascism' looks at supremacist groups uniting around end-of-the-world ideasAuthors Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor identify supremacists that have, despite ideological differences, converged around the conviction that they are part of an elite destined to survive an apocalypse. 417562
Reposted by kentropicWESA @wesa.fm · 28/09/2026As energy bills continue to rise, organizers said going solar can help people save. The group buying power of Solar United Neighbors’s Switch Together Greater Pittsburgh program means solar installers can offer rooftop energy systems at a 15 to 20% discount.wesanews.orgGreen advocates organize group buy of solar panels for Pittsburghers to save on energy billsSolar advocates are partnering with Pittsburgh and Allegheny County to offer homeowners a chance to buy solar energy at a discount. 0105
Reposted by kentropicSchooley @schooley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026So is he just going to keep running ads until election day and then courts rule they are illegal sometime in December? 711311252
Reposted by kentropicAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026Trump's foreign policy is not isolationist. On the contrary, his ideologues want to build an international empire run by far-right political movements who serve American crypto, mineral and tech companies, many with links to the president. Read more here: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...theatlantic.comEmpire of GriftFar-right ideologues have transformed American foreign policy into a tool of private gain and antidemocratic reaction. 9929141284
Reposted by kentropicJeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · 28/09/2026It’s astonishing how far ahead the 2026 El Niño is. The red line is 2026. The other warmest El Niños are the colored lines. It’s not even playing in the same league. Some of this is of course due to this natural El Niño cycle on top of long-term ocean warming… 1/ 17500244
kentropic @kentropic.bsky.social · 27/09/2026This, in a nutshell, is the whole problem with what people are calling AI: it’s nothing remotely resembling “intelligence” - it’s just industrial scale bullshit. 010
Reposted by kentropicAmy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026We gotta start referring to data centers by both their mother and father's last names, Spain style. The Microsoft-Chevron data center, the Meta-ExxonMobil data center, and so forth. Absolutely no reason just the tech bros should be taking the heat on this shit 352127791
Reposted by kentropicVictor Pickard @victorpickard.bsky.social · 27/09/2026A major structural hazard with extreme media ownership concentration is that oligarchs impose their ideological agendas--which almost always skew to the far right--on everyone. This capture of core info and communication infrastructures must be dismantled if we're to have any semblance of democracy. 6361149
Reposted by kentropicJoe Pierre, MD @psychunseen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026“We live in a click-based information economy. Misinformation is a really good way to get people’s attention. Instead of the free market of opinion, we’ve got a flea market. There may be some hidden gems, but mostly there’s a lot of junk.” magazine.ucsf.edu/how-digital-...magazine.ucsf.eduHow Digital Life Erodes Cognitive Health — and What You Can Do to Get It Back“The cognition crisis is not just a clinical problem. It’s a problem for our species.” UCSF scientists on what screens are doing to our minds — and how to get your focus back. 032
Reposted by kentropicMJ @bstnboy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026 💥💥BOOM💥💥 Costco took its $184M in rebate refund and used it to lower costs targeting products that would have the most impact for members!! Kudos Costco!! www.seattletimes.com/business/cos...seattletimes.comCostco clinches $184M in tariff refunds, with more expectedThe big-box retailer said the money was reinvested to give "value back to our members." It’s more than a third of the total tariff refunds the company expects. 19970442284
kentropic @kentropic.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Techbros & the extraction industries want us to think recovery’s impossible & resistance is useless. Neither is true. Keep pushing back against them & fighting their destruction everywhere, all the time! #TeamBiodiversity 020
Reposted by kentropicMarc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Nevada election officials said Thursday that 185 voters in the state who the Department of Homeland Security identified as noncitizens were all, in fact, citizens — the latest snafu in the department’s attempts to uncover illegal voters across the country. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...democracydocket.comDHS noncitizen voter claims unravel in Nevada as state confirms flagged voters are citizensNevada election officials said Thursday that 185 voters in the state who the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) identified as noncitizens were all, in fact, citizens. 694155496366
kentropic @kentropic.bsky.social · 25/09/2026“Your table is right this way, sir.” That maître d' looks SO familiar - where have I seen him before? 000
kentropic @kentropic.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Looks like they found some of that "waste, fraud & abuse" that they're always complaining about. Sometimes it's where you MOST expect it.nytimes.comUnused Tents and Uneaten Food: Watchdog Finds ‘Waste’ in Immigration Crackdown (Gift Article)In a report Thursday, the Government Accountability Office said the Trump administration squandered millions of dollars to expand detention. 000
Reposted by kentropicSusan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 24/09/2026Having déjà vu to “Roe v. Wade is settled precedent” coming from the mouths of Supreme Court nominees 21809390
Reposted by kentropicDavid Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 24/09/2026to be clear, the admin is alleged to have deported AT LEAST 25,447 individuals TO COUNTRIES THAT ARE NOT THEIR OWN with, evidently, ZERO PROTECTIONS. this is a scandal and crime of historic proportions.forbiddenstories.orgThe Deportation Project MapBetween 2025 and August 2026, the Trump administration deported over 25,000 people to countries other than their country of origin. Very few of these removals were publicly announced by the US. The De... 3822421170
Reposted by kentropicLance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Historians of this era will be divided between those who start every sentence 'Because Republicans were idiots' and those who end every sentence with 'because Republicans were idiots'. 0165
Reposted by kentropicWill Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Trump has raised $850 million supposedly for campaign ads but instead he's keeping the money and billing U.S. taxpayers for a spot Pure Mafia stuff 31725333
Reposted by kentropicMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026New — I had the opportunity to see NAZA, the documentary freaking out the Israeli government because of its horrifying firsthand descriptions of the way the IDF has used AI to target and massacre Palestinian civilians. My thoughts on the film’s damning revelations, and the banality of evil:thehandbasket.coI saw the documentary the Israeli government doesn’t want you to see'NAZA' dispels once and for all the myth that the IDF didn't target civilians in Gaza. 342512947
Reposted by kentropicWhitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English. 42103504408
Reposted by kentropicKiera Butler @kieraevebutler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I am a sports ignoramus and knew nothing about Tim Tebow till I started work on this investigation with @pablo.show into the Christian investment seminar events he speaks at like 10x/year. It was quite the introduction to him! www.youtube.com/watch?v=uh7s...youtube.comWe Investigated the Christian "Scam" Fronted by Tim Tebow | PTFOYouTube video by PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT 2436892
Reposted by kentropicBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Here's a neat thing! My mom retired after 25+ as a children's librarian at public libraries yesterday. (It was very cool! Hundreds of former Story Hour kids arrived, some as adults!) I let Ed Markey's office know in case they wanted to send a nice email back and they sent this! He's still got it! 2778128995
Reposted by kentropicflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Ten years of relentlessly hateful, comically elitist anti-democratic politics across the white people world, helpfully summarised. The wrong people are talking, the wrong people are deciding and it’s harming the careers of important people who actually matter. Smithers! Release the hounds 81489674
Reposted by kentropicSaganism @sagan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Carl Sagan summarizes the 2,000+ year history of books in 2 minutes: Video Credit: Cosmos Studios 321359445