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The Bully Pulpit 🇨🇦 @thebullypulpit.bsky.social · 5h

Education, Journalism, Science all depend on the pursuit of the objective truth. Politics have no business meddling in any of them.

Politics is about policy.

But in that sense, yes: the corrupting of education by politics is politics.

(e.g. CRT isn’t political—it’s factual MADE political)

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The Bully Pulpit 🇨🇦 @thebullypulpit.bsky.social · 5h

Trade agreements: politics

Public health: politics

Criminal justice: laws voted by lawmakers: politics

Climate change: politics

"I don’t do politics” is not the flex you think it is. It’s 100% why the world is going to hell in a hand basket. Gvt is only by the people if the people participate.

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The Bully Pulpit 🇨🇦 @thebullypulpit.bsky.social · 5h

Trade agreements: politics

Public health: politics

Criminal justice: laws voted by lawmakers: politics

Climate change: politics

"I don’t do politics” is not the flex you think it is. It’s 100% why the world is going to hell in a hand basket. Gvt is only by the people if the people participate.

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The Bully Pulpit 🇨🇦 @thebullypulpit.bsky.social · 5h

Trade agreements: politics

Public health: politics

Criminal justice: laws voted by lawmakers: politics

Climate change: politics

"I don’t do politics” is not the flex you think it is. It’s 100% why the world is going to hell in a hand basket. Gvt is only by the people if the people participate.

Andrew Kurjata @akurjata.ca · 14h

“We’re not in politics. We’re just some guys in Virginia making good whisky. But unfortunately, we’re the victims.”

Idk man, maybe you don’t get to “not be in politics” when one side is blowing up international relationships you depend on www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/b...

Canada’s boycott America movement is hurting innocent bystanders | CNN Business

Virginia Distillery CEO Gareth Moore was bullish on his company’s American single malt whisky sales north of the border when 2025 kicked off.

www.cnn.com

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 5h

Emily Tucker argues that the AI regulation debate largely misses the point: the real threat to democracy is the unchecked data extraction and accumulation that is fueling corporate power. “We can have mass surveillance, or we can have political self-determination. We can’t have both,” she writes.

To Have Democracy, We Must Contest Data | TechPolicy.Press

Emily Tucker makes the case for redlines for data, not AI—real limits on corporate data collection to protect democracy and political self-determination.

www.techpolicy.press

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The Bully Pulpit 🇨🇦 @thebullypulpit.bsky.social · 14h

I'm looking for it. High and low, I promise you that.

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The Bully Pulpit 🇨🇦 @thebullypulpit.bsky.social · 15h

And make no mistake: they’re leading the energy transition for one reason only:

They have no oil.

Why is Québec so green? Because of its abundant hydro.

Humans are simple (greedy, biased, shortsighted) creatures.

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The Bully Pulpit 🇨🇦 @thebullypulpit.bsky.social · 17h

We kept it to one—on purpose. I was a lead climate organizer in 2019. We had momentum. But the pandemic allowed Big Oil to regroup—and how.

I'm stunned by the depravity of the lobby and the hubris of the political class. There is no adapting to ecological collapse. Mitigate or perish.

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The Bully Pulpit 🇨🇦 @thebullypulpit.bsky.social · 17h

#ButTheEconomy
cc @mark-carney.bsky.social
re: Carbon-emitting energy projects

#ThisIsNotADrill
#Keystone
#Pipelines
#PipeLIES

Your children and theirs will remember what you did and did not do when we still had a chance.

The time for half measures and deferred responsibility has gone.
#CdnPoli

Humans Just Pushed Earth across Another ‘Planetary Boundary’

Earth has breached a critical boundary for ocean acidification, with potentially grim effects for ocean ecosystems and human livelihoods

www.scientificamerican.com

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The Bully Pulpit 🇨🇦 @thebullypulpit.bsky.social · 17h

We're trapped in a machine that has turned all of its constituent parts (electoral and economic) into mere cogs (if I go Green, I lose votes, I lose viewers, I lose business).

That systemic powerlessness is not by accident, but by design. Not out of ignorance or even greed, but sadistic depravity.

The Bully Pulpit 🇨🇦 @thebullypulpit.bsky.social · May 2

I know how extreme this may appear. But those of us who have been paying close attention to the science know what’s coming—and know that those who are knowingly precipitating it will never get their due; they will be long gone and anyway—no punishment could ever have been sufficiently severe.

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The Bully Pulpit 🇨🇦 @thebullypulpit.bsky.social · 17h

We're trapped in a machine that has turned all of its constituent parts (electoral and economic) into mere cogs (if I go Green, I lose votes, I lose viewers, I lose business).

That systemic powerlessness is not by accident, but by design. Not out of ignorance or even greed, but sadistic depravity.

The Bully Pulpit 🇨🇦 @thebullypulpit.bsky.social · May 2

I know how extreme this may appear. But those of us who have been paying close attention to the science know what’s coming—and know that those who are knowingly precipitating it will never get their due; they will be long gone and anyway—no punishment could ever have been sufficiently severe.

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The Bully Pulpit 🇨🇦 @thebullypulpit.bsky.social · 17h

#ButTheEconomy
cc @mark-carney.bsky.social
re: Carbon-emitting energy projects

#ThisIsNotADrill
#Keystone
#Pipelines
#PipeLIES

Your children and theirs will remember what you did and did not do when we still had a chance.

The time for half measures and deferred responsibility has gone.
#CdnPoli

Humans Just Pushed Earth across Another ‘Planetary Boundary’

Earth has breached a critical boundary for ocean acidification, with potentially grim effects for ocean ecosystems and human livelihoods

www.scientificamerican.com

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The Bully Pulpit 🇨🇦 @thebullypulpit.bsky.social · 2d

I'm glad I don't live in Florida.
Not because I'm gay, I'm not.
But because I'd get in trouble.
For beating the living snot out
of all these goddam bigots who
confidently ignore science and
persecute people who did them
NO WRONG—under the
indifferent gaze of a
complicit electorate.
#ElbowsUP

DeSantis tears up Miami Pride crosswalk with bulldozers & sledgehammers - LGBTQ Nation

State authorities gave no notice to Miami officials that they were coming to destroy the street art.

www.lgbtqnation.com

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The Bully Pulpit 🇨🇦 @thebullypulpit.bsky.social · 4d

Bad science alert:

1) No sex & age matching;
2) ME cases were from the CureME biobank; controls came from the company’s own biobank;
3) All cases were severe, house-bound; all controls were healthy & likely physically active (vs having other chronic conditions—depression, fibromyalgia, MS…)

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The Bully Pulpit 🇨🇦 @thebullypulpit.bsky.social · 4d

Bad science alert:

1) No sex & age matching;
2) ME cases were from the CureME biobank; controls came from the company’s own biobank;
3) All cases were severe, house-bound; all controls were healthy & likely physically active (vs having other chronic conditions—depression, fibromyalgia, MS…)

👎

expert reaction to study of blood based diagnostic biomarkers for ME/CFS | Science Media Centre

www.sciencemediacentre.org

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The Bully Pulpit 🇨🇦 @thebullypulpit.bsky.social · 5d

"If the business model of open AI is advertising, then it's [worthless]. Cuz the business model was SUPPOSED to be 40% of people lose their jobs and we do it for you at a fraction of the cost. And in that world, maybe Nvidia is worth the entire pharmaceutical industry combined" But in this one? Nope

Give me a single reason why Sora2 should exist.

YouTube video by Hank Green

www.youtube.com

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The Bully Pulpit 🇨🇦 @thebullypulpit.bsky.social · 5d

It actually can't favor accuracy over profit. Because of how they fundamentally (don't) work.

OpenAI’s research on AI models deliberately lying is wild | TechCrunch

AI models don't just hallucinate. They also "scheme," meaning deliberately lie or hide their true intentions.

techcrunch.com

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The Bully Pulpit 🇨🇦 @thebullypulpit.bsky.social · 5d

Give me a single reason why Sora2 should exist.

YouTube video by Hank Green

www.youtube.com

The Bully Pulpit 🇨🇦 @thebullypulpit.bsky.social · 5d

For shit that doesn't even work, is accelerating the climate crisis AND that nobody wants.

OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws

In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...

www.computerworld.com

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The Bully Pulpit 🇨🇦 @thebullypulpit.bsky.social · 5d

It's mostly speculative venture capitalism at this point. But in the case of Meta in particular, participation in their platforms is definitely the enemy.

It's why I'm here (not there).

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The Bully Pulpit 🇨🇦 @thebullypulpit.bsky.social · 5d

#Climate

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The Bully Pulpit 🇨🇦 @thebullypulpit.bsky.social · 6d

No matter how weak they appear, it only works if you become the force they fear.

Apathy is compliance.
Passivity is complicity.

It’s gonna take more than the occasional weekend protest, America.

The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 6d

Trump is much weaker than he looks. He's always been a bloated, sloppy, low-IQ flaccid failure. Now he’s a bloated, sloppy, low-IQ flaccid failure desperately trying to distract from all that by attacking US cities with our military and sending his Justice Dept after political opponents.

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The Bully Pulpit 🇨🇦 @thebullypulpit.bsky.social · 6d

No matter how weak they appear, it only works if you become the force they fear.

Apathy is compliance.
Passivity is complicity.

You’re gonna need more than the occasional weekend protest, America.

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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 6d

“We’re not talking about delays… We’re talking about the end of it.” Bill Nye’s latest warning is a wake-up call for anyone who cares about progress. Are we ready to listen?
www.newsletter.samuel-warde.com/p/bill-nyes-...

Bill Nye's Dire Warning of an 'Extinction-Level Event'

The Trump Administration’s Assault on Science

www.newsletter.samuel-warde.com

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The Bully Pulpit 🇨🇦 @thebullypulpit.bsky.social · 6d

Must watch. Now.
#Sora2 #AI #Bubble #Slop #Stop

Give me a single reason why Sora2 should exist.

YouTube video by Hank Green

www.youtube.com

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