kentropic
“All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.” - B. Spinoza
“I live sweat, but I dream light years.” - D. Boon
“A republic, if you can keep it.” - B. Franklin
Traveling yinzer, kamaʻāina, pākehā; Appalachian forest-grown
- Reposted by kentropiccops: sex trafficking victims are impossible to find! most of them don’t even know they’ve been trafficked. dozens of women over decades: here’s our sworn statements about jeff epstein cops: … prosecutors: … anti-trafficking task forces: … cops: we have no choice but to do a craigslist sting
- Reposted by kentropic[FOUNDER'S BRIEF - @rhettayersbutler.bsky.social] Tree planting pledges often favor scale over ecology — sometimes replacing savannas with monocultures. The Global Biodiversity Standard aims to change that by certifying restoration projects based on measurable biodiversity gains, not tree counts.
- Reposted by kentropic@wyden.senate.gov's record of warning that there is deep and constitutionally-serious dirt being done by the intelligence agencies in secret is unblemished. The vaguer he is, the filthier the dirt is. This is the vaguest I've ever seen him
- Constant GOP lies about widespread voter fraud show that "...MAGA leaders realize that the white nationalism they use to turn out their supporters is increasingly unpopular across the nation & that the only way to stay in power is to define those who vote for the other party as illegitimate voters."
- Reposted by kentropicThis is an important point. Empathy—in and of itself—is anti-fascist. The arts—and the project of higher education as a whole—teach empathy, enabling you to put yourself in other people’s shoes. So to a fascist, they must be destroyed.
- The war on empathy and the war on the arts are part of the same project. www.liberalcurrents.com/none-more-wo...
- Reposted by kentropicCourage is contagious. Let’s keep going.
- “You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.” - John 8:44 (ESV)
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- Reposted by kentropicIan McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.
- “I have no idea if I’ll live to see the day when the truth regains a strong footing in our culture, but I do have a certain amount of faith it will happen eventually…. Physics and chemistry are functional truth, despite their liberal bias.” Crucial step 1: don’t stop speaking truth vs. the lies.
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- Reposted by kentropicThis is another effort that has taken a HUGE amount of local activism, led by community folks who care. It CAN be done. Get involved where you live and push back. www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/i...
- Reposted by kentropicA popular press recap of all the cool stuff that @schmidtocean.bsky.social recently found off the coast of Argentina Deep-sea explorers film massive animal drifting through darkness in South Atlantic Ocean | Discover Wildlife share.google/99B8UnGPRL7y...
- Reposted by kentropicIt was @asharangappa.bsky.social who first put this idea in my head, but really starting to feel like they're gonna try to get Maduro to cop to some insane 2020 election conspiracy in exchange for leniency www.reuters.com/world/americ...
- Deeply disturbing, & symptomatic of an official culture that appears to tolerate CSAM, human trafficking & rape.
- Reposted by kentropicThe entire annual operating losses of the Washington Post amount to a single-digit percentage of the everyday noise in the signal of its owner's finances
- Reposted by kentropicWith Trump once again blaming Black cities for "voter fraud," it's worth revisiting our piece about why this is a playbook as old as the nation --- and how it makes these accusations more believable to Whites: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
- Reposted by kentropicSuch an important point: “staying on stories long enough to shift understanding.” Something @katharinehayhoe.com emphasizes for climate communication. Click bait drama can’t make this kind of contribution to understanding our world. 🌿
- This is the kind of reporting that the oligarchs evidently would prefer we didn't see, as layoffs at the WaPo today indicate. #AbolishBillionaires
- Reposted by kentropicOne of the intended consequences of President Trump’s politicization of the Justice Department is to leave behind a weakened, overwhelmed, decimated organization that simply can’t do its job. This is all coming home to roost in a very visible way in Minnesota: talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
- Reposted by kentropicShirley Povich writing in 1962, with the most immaculate burn conceivable of the Redskins awful, vile owner George Preston Marshall, the last NFL owner to insist on an all white roster: "Jim Brown, born ineligible to play for the Redskins, integrated their end zone three times yesterday." RIP WaPo.
- Reposted by kentropicWhistleblower puts Tulsi on notice that he will go to Congress himself if her office doesn’t respond by Friday.
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- Reposted by kentropicHighlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”
- Reposted by kentropicINBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.
- Reposted by kentropicIn a sane world, the decision by Rufo, Vance, & co. to slander and slap a target on the traumatized, hardworking immigrants who revitalized a rust belt city -- and who *were invited* to that city -- would be a stain on their careers that they never live down. They should be reminded of it. Often.
- Reposted by kentropicWe only want the good immigrants who study hard and don't commit crimes, unless they try to take little Brayleigh's (28 ACT, 1350 SAT) God-given slot at an Ivy away by being smarter, in which case Korematsu didn't go far enough
- Reposted by kentropicOur friends at @workdaymagazine.bsky.social profiled Target workers who went out on strike on January 23 to protest their non-union employer's collaboration with ICE. One worker said: "For me, it was about speaking out for those who really can’t." prospect.org/2026/02/04/t...
- Reposted by kentropicA profound tragedy, not just for those involved but for public knowledge overall. Completely avoidable tragedy, wrought by plutocrat who has entered "they were careless people, they smashed up things..." hall of infamy. (WaPo's Sports section is legendary; Books excellent too. Semafor screenshot)
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- Reposted by kentropicA staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."
- "Yes, democracy does indeed die in darkness. That's why we're closing the blackout curtains & turning off all the lights."
- Reposted by kentropicKing: boy those Epstein emails King: it's really sobering to see how money and power allowed sex predators to operate Neil Gaiman: hello everyone Gaiman: i'm back Barker: oh boy Barker: oh boy you sure picked a time
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- Reposted by kentropicSeems real bad that the end point of ~25 years of War on Terror architecture is an agency of thin-skinned goons who will send armed men to your house if you email the government asking for compassion on behalf of someone else. newrepublic.com/post/206088/...
- Reposted by kentropic1. Build huge subscriber base by telling them their $ supports democracy. 2. Don’t establish other revenue sources. 3. Rug-pull subscribers by pushing opinion side to the right. 4. Subscribers leave, revenue falls. 5. Enact crippling newsroom cuts.
- Reposted by kentropicFrance’s Foreign Ministry owns Elon Musk in this response:
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- Reposted by kentropicKindergarten teacher called a prank ICE hotline thinking it was real. She called to report her 6 year old student to ICE to try to get them and their family deported. 6 years old. She does not enjoy hearing her own words and actions played back to her.
- Reposted by kentropicOther countries have social safety nets. The US has women. Women whose paid and unpaid labor are toggled up or down depending on the whims of the men who engineered and profiteered our DIY society.
- Roughly half a million women in the US exited the workforce in 2025, and 42% of those who voluntarily left cited their caregiving responsibilities as the main reason, according to a recent survey from Catalyst. www.hr-brew.com/stories/2026...
- Reposted by kentropicRemember the incident where DHS claimed officers shot a guy because he attacked them with a snow shovel? Yeah. It didn't happen. They shot him through the door of his own home. And then arrested him. And then lied about it. Again. And they almost shot some kids in the process.
- Reposted by kentropic“In my profession, I have seen many people break down in grief, but that image of Elizabeth’s father will stay with me forever,” she said. “I watched him sit in his car, bury his head in his hands, and cry uncontrollably. Those are images you do not forget.”
- Elizabeth is a Columbia Heights fourth-grader who loves volleyball, learning English and giggling in the halls with her friends. She's been held in the Dilley Immigration Processing Center for nearly a month, and she and her mom have both fallen ill. sahanjournal.com/education/co...
- Reposted by kentropicThis woman has shown more courage than the nominal leaders of the Democratic Party.
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- Reposted by kentropicdozens of women have accused him of sexual misconduct including rape and assaulting children and when you see him speak this way you know he doesn't even care to deny it, because he doesn't think he did anything wrong
- Reposted by kentropicThe rumored Trump pick to be U.S. Attorney for New Jersey has under five years of legal experience but is proficient in Microsoft Excel and Office
- This is beyond unusual. newjerseyglobe.com/judiciary/jo...
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- How nice for them. How many of their retail employees need public assistance or multiple jobs to avoid going hungry? #AbolishBillionaires
- Reposted by kentropicThe reason the Constitution is cumbersome for what you want to do is that it was expressly written to prevent you from doing it.
- Reposted by kentropicThis is unreal. An AUSA talking like that in open court is about as close as you can come to a total breakdown. Never heard of anything like it.
- Reposted by kentropicWalmart just became a trillion dollar company. Its owners, the Waltons, are billionaires many many times over. The starting pay at Walmart is below the living wage. Many of its employees have to work two jobs and rely on SNAP. It’s time for a universal basic income Abolish the billionaire class
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- Reposted by kentropicAOC on ICE: It’s our task to figure out how to claw back what has essentially supercharged this agency into becoming a relentless domestic paramilitary that is also a blank check to Palantir to create facial-recognition scans on U.S. citizens.
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