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Patrick Crotty

@patrickrcrotty.bsky.social
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Physics prof. Basic philosophy: Data > Theory, Facts > Narrative. MAGAs, bigots, doomers, people with a hammer-and-sickle in their nym, and other obnoxious rabble get instablocked. Posts are my personal views and I don’t speak for any institution etc.

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Patrick Crotty @patrickrcrotty.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
For some reason, several people recently IRL have asked me, on hearing I’m a physicist, what I think of the threat from AI. I don’t think my background gives me any special expertise or insight on the question, but FWIW: I think it’s going to be like climate change, in that it’s (a) a real issue
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Patrick Crotty @patrickrcrotty.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Doomerist fuckwits like this are a plague on Bluesky.
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Patrick Crotty @patrickrcrotty.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
If you're celebrating or excusing this murder just because of the victim's job title, you are an unmitigated piece of shit. nypost.com/2026/09/01/u...
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Exclusive | Victim stabbed to death in Times Square rampage was VP at Bank of America, just celebrated 2nd wedding anniversary
The Bank of America VP was fatally stabbed near the Crossroads of the World on Monday afternoon.
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Patrick Crotty @patrickrcrotty.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Donald Trump is showing us what old age looks like when unaccompanied by wisdom or dignity.
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Patrick Crotty @patrickrcrotty.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
The next Democratic President and Attorney General need to do to Silicon Valley what Rome did to Carthage. Obliterate it, annihilate it, burn it to the ground and salt the earth.
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Patrick Crotty @patrickrcrotty.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Luigi Mangione is not a hero or revolutionary. He’s a cowardly murderer who will deservedly spend the rest of his life in prison.
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Patrick Crotty @patrickrcrotty.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
In January, exactly one of these three things happens: a) Democrats, having legitimately won the midterms, take over the House. b) Republicans, having legitimately won the midterms, keep the House. c) The federal government becomes illegitimate, thereby losing any legal or moral right to govern.
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Patrick Crotty @patrickrcrotty.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Happy 250th, America. Despite our historical sins and current president, we remain at root a great nation and a good people. We‘ll survive this dark and shameful era, and hopefully emerge from it with a bit more maturity, humility, and respect for other countries. But the spirit of 1776 lives.
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Patrick Crotty @patrickrcrotty.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
This fall, no matter their state, district, or nominal opponent, every Republican candidate for Congress will be running against Graham Platner and Darializa Avila Chevalier. I really, really hope that a small group of Dem primary voters haven't just snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.
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Patrick Crotty @patrickrcrotty.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
America will survive trump. We’ll limp into 2029 battered and diminished, but not broken beyond repair. This article makes me a lot less optimistic we‘d survive President Vance — who is just as amoral as trump but a lot younger and smarter — particularly if he kept people like Stephen Miller on.
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Patrick Crotty @patrickrcrotty.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
The case for a tax on extreme wealth got a lot stronger today.
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Patrick Crotty @patrickrcrotty.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Did you know that 8647 is a prime number?
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Patrick Crotty @patrickrcrotty.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
I despise the president. I am also very glad that the assassination attempt against him last night was thwarted, and that he and the other people there were unharmed. The suspect should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, and nobody should be celebrating or excusing his actions.
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Patrick Crotty @patrickrcrotty.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
It’s been a while since I‘ve regularly attended Mass, but I don’t think I’ve ever felt more Catholic than now. www.cnn.com/2026/04/12/p...
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Pope says he has ‘no fear of Trump administration’ after president slams his Iran war criticism | CNN Politics
Pope Leo XIV on Monday strongly pushed back against criticism from US President Donald Trump, defending his position of seeking peace and rejecting violence amid the Iran war.
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Patrick Crotty @patrickrcrotty.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Szívből gratulálok Magyarországnak!
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Patrick Crotty @patrickrcrotty.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
There need to be continuous 24/7 protests outside the homes of every single Republican member of Congress until they stop this war.
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Patrick Crotty @patrickrcrotty.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Idiots. Incompetent, feckless assholes. Congress has to cut off all funding for this stupid, meaningless fucking war, now. www.bbc.com/news/live/cn...
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US and Iran fail to reach agreement after historic peace talks in Pakistan, Vance says
Vice-President JD Vance says Tehran must make a
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Patrick Crotty @patrickrcrotty.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Had never really thought about this before for some reason, but I realized today that of the 10-15 closest personal friends I’ve had from childhood through middle age, at least 8 or 9 were either immigrants or the children of immigrants.
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Patrick Crotty @patrickrcrotty.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Since the 1980s, the American military has been respected and celebrated by the American people. Military service is seen as the highest form of patriotism and national service. That all changes — 180 degrees — if the military commits war crimes in Iran tonight.
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Patrick Crotty @patrickrcrotty.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Our president is an evil, demented psychopath. He must be removed from office. Now.
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Patrick Crotty @patrickrcrotty.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
It really says something about where we are as a country that if we woke up tomorrow to learn that JD Vance was President of the United States, there‘d be dancing in the streets.
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Patrick Crotty @patrickrcrotty.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
JFC, Bluesky is barely functional today
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Patrick Crotty @patrickrcrotty.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
I know it’s insignificant in even the minor scheme of things, but from now on I will not be capitalizing “trump.”
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Patrick Crotty @patrickrcrotty.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Never forget: There are a *lot* more of us than there are of them.
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Patrick Crotty @patrickrcrotty.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
These are war crimes — directly forbidden by treaties the US has ratified and which are therefore, per the Constitution, American law. Not only must Trump be impeached and removed from office for this, but *any and every US military officer taking part* must be court-martialed and cashiered.
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Patrick Crotty @patrickrcrotty.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Dear Trump enablers in the government, media, and academy: When this is all over, there will be no forgiving or forgetting. Your professional reputations will lie rotting in the mud. You will be shunned by colleagues, business partners, and former friends.
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Patrick Crotty @patrickrcrotty.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
If you’re flying in the US and find yourself waiting 7 hours in line at the airport, this is the man personally and directly responsible for your misery:
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Patrick Crotty @patrickrcrotty.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
The next Democratic President and Attorney General need to do to Silicon Valley what Rome did to Carthage. Obliterate it, annihilate it, burn it to the ground and salt the earth.
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Patrick Crotty @patrickrcrotty.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
There is not a decent bone in this man’s body. Literally no redeeming qualities of any kind. I make the same assumption about anybody still supporting him. www.ms.now/weekends-wit...
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Trump on death of Robert Mueller: ‘Good, I’m glad he’s dead’
Following the death of former Former FBI director and special counsel Robert Mueller, President Donald Trump reacted on Truth Social. “Good,” the president wrote, “I’m glad he’s dead. He can no longer...
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Patrick Crotty @patrickrcrotty.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Donald Trump must be removed from office. Now. By Congress or by the Cabinet. Without hyperbole, his being Commander in Chief poses a existential risk to human civilization. I‘m not happy about the idea of President Vance, but at least he probably wouldn’t shitpost us into World War III.
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Patrick Crotty @patrickrcrotty.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Two silver linings to oil being $200/bbl by Election Day: (a) electoral annihilation for the GOP (b) the US may finally truly embrace renewable energy, electric automobiles, etc, similar to how the oil shocks of the 70s increased the popularity of smaller, much more fuel-efficient cars
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Patrick Crotty @patrickrcrotty.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Normie Americans may soon need to take to the streets in vast numbers.
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Patrick Crotty @patrickrcrotty.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
If you voted for Trump, the US-Iran War and everything that’s going to happen as a result is on *you*. Personally. Directly. If you sat out the election, the US-Iran War and everything that’s going to happen as a result is on *you*. Personally. Directly.
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Patrick Crotty @patrickrcrotty.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
CONGRESS, IMPEACH THIS MOTHERFUCKER. NOW. www.bbc.com/news/live/cn...
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Iran latest: US and Israel carry out joint attack on Iran as Tehran launches retaliatory strikes
US President Donald Trump has called for regime change in Iran and said
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Patrick Crotty @patrickrcrotty.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02...
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Patrick Crotty @patrickrcrotty.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Every single prominent person who was willingly involved with Jeffrey Epstein after his original conviction should be booted out of public life and ostracized forever. Don’t care if they’re Democrats, Republicans, public intellectuals, or Nobel laureates.
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Patrick Crotty @patrickrcrotty.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Our country — its culture, its government, academic, and media institutions, its infrastructure, its freedoms, its economy — is being systematically destroyed by a tiny group of billionaires.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 02/02/2026
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Patrick Crotty @patrickrcrotty.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Going forward, a nonnegotiable requirement for me to consider reading any author’s book, column, or blog, or voting for any candidate in any election, will be “has no substantiated personal or professional connection of any kind to Jeffrey Epstein.”
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Patrick Crotty @patrickrcrotty.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
After the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, midterm election-doomering is truly despicable. Voting is how we stop Trump. And he doesn’t have the power to stop, rig, or invalidate the elections. Anyone making a determined effort to convince you otherwise is a coward, has an agenda, or both.
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Patrick Crotty @patrickrcrotty.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
The Trump Administration is the greatest existential threat the United States has faced in its quarter-millennium as an independent country. Worse than Al-Qaeda. Worse than the Soviet Union. Worse than the Third Reich. Worse than Imperial Japan. Worse than the Confederacy.
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Patrick Crotty @patrickrcrotty.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Donald Trump is evil. The people enabling Donald Trump and working to carry out his agenda are evil. I do not recognize them as fellow Americans.
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Patrick Crotty @patrickrcrotty.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Any DoJ attorney who participates in this investigation should suffer professional and social shunning that makes it effectively impossible to continue to work as an attorney.
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Patrick Crotty @patrickrcrotty.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Renee Nicole Good. Thirty-seven years old. A daughter, wife, and mother. Murdered by the Trump Administration.
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Patrick Crotty @patrickrcrotty.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
At this point, it’s belaboring the obvious, but Congress needs to remove Donald Trump from office as soon as possible.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Local news has now posted video from a neighbor's surveillance cam. It does appear like the officer may have been pushed aside slightly by the bumper as the victim turned to leave. Again, seems clear from the video that there was no deliberate attempt to run anyone down.
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BNO News @bnonews.com · 07/01/2026
NEW: Second video shows ICE shooting in Minneapolis. A woman, a U.S. citizen, was killed
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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 07/01/2026
This is the video.
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Patrick Crotty @patrickrcrotty.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Had Mitch McConnell given the go-ahead to GOP Senators to vote to convict Trump at his post-Jan 6 impeachment trial, he would have been rendered permanently ineligible to hold office again. He would not be president today.
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