DGCassidy
@dgcassidy.bsky.social
Humanist. Agnotology watchdog. 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇮🇪 Agitator for a better tomorrow for *everyone*. #VA01 progressive. #LFC, #PetShopBoys fan. Believer in peer-reviewed data, conclusions, and policies.
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DGCassidy
@dgcassidy.bsky.social
· Dec 17
"Agnotology is the study of the deliberate spread of ignorance or doubt to influence opinion. It helps us understand how people use ignorance to hide or divert attention from societal problems, promote ignorance, and stoke xenophobia and populism."
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
The man who studies the spread of ignorance
How do people or companies with vested interests spread ignorance and obfuscate knowledge? Georgina Kenyon finds there is a term which defines this phenomenon.
www.bbc.com
Agnotology = word of the last decade.
“Proctor found that ignorance spreads when firstly, many people do not understand a concept or fact and secondly, when special interest groups – like a commercial firm or a political group – then work hard to create confusion about an issue.”
Sound familiar?
“Proctor found that ignorance spreads when firstly, many people do not understand a concept or fact and secondly, when special interest groups – like a commercial firm or a political group – then work hard to create confusion about an issue.”
Sound familiar?
Nails it.
As a Brit working, enjoying and living in the EU with many of the rights I had when the UK was part of the EU, I can say with 100% certainty, I am content not to live in the US with a narcissistic and authoritarian President supporting billionaire oligarchs who care little for the US Constitution.
December 6, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Nails it.
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Representative Wittman says he feels your pain. We wonder as he shares his concern about the cost of living but promotes the virtues of HR1. Will he ever acknowledge that his vote for The Big Brutal Bill is harming Virginia’s economy, environment, and well-being?
December 6, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Representative Wittman says he feels your pain. We wonder as he shares his concern about the cost of living but promotes the virtues of HR1. Will he ever acknowledge that his vote for The Big Brutal Bill is harming Virginia’s economy, environment, and well-being?
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Again, hypocrisy reigns with Rob Wittman’s “Finding ORE Act.” He wraps an industry‑driven minerals‑grab in feel‑good language about stewardship while pushing a bill that hands foreign critical‑mineral opportunities to U.S. and allied companies without real protections for water, ecosystems, (1/2)
December 5, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Again, hypocrisy reigns with Rob Wittman’s “Finding ORE Act.” He wraps an industry‑driven minerals‑grab in feel‑good language about stewardship while pushing a bill that hands foreign critical‑mineral opportunities to U.S. and allied companies without real protections for water, ecosystems, (1/2)
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If Wittman were so concerned about “protecting public health,” he wouldn’t have voted to pass HR1 and against the ACA 70 times. Wittman and friends push healthcare plans that rely on magical thinking. They should stop lying and propose a bipartisan plan. We won’t wait for another 15 years.
December 5, 2025 at 7:21 PM
If Wittman were so concerned about “protecting public health,” he wouldn’t have voted to pass HR1 and against the ACA 70 times. Wittman and friends push healthcare plans that rely on magical thinking. They should stop lying and propose a bipartisan plan. We won’t wait for another 15 years.
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“We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of the few, but we can’t have both.”
Don't mind us, we're just thinking of these words from late Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis for no particular reason...👀
Don't mind us, we're just thinking of these words from late Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis for no particular reason...👀
December 5, 2025 at 2:37 PM
“We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of the few, but we can’t have both.”
Don't mind us, we're just thinking of these words from late Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis for no particular reason...👀
Don't mind us, we're just thinking of these words from late Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis for no particular reason...👀
I am a HUGE football (soccer) fan. There is no way I’m ever buying a ticket to the WC, whether here or anywhere else. FIFA is now a tool of autocrats across the world. I won’t support a competition for the sport I love in service of that agenda. #FuckFIFA
Monica Crowley claims Trump is "talking to FIFA" about potentially moving the World Cup out of "blue cities," but no decisions have been made
December 5, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I am a HUGE football (soccer) fan. There is no way I’m ever buying a ticket to the WC, whether here or anywhere else. FIFA is now a tool of autocrats across the world. I won’t support a competition for the sport I love in service of that agenda. #FuckFIFA
I look forward to finding out what Virginia district I live in now.
BREAKING: Supreme Court lets Texas use Trump-backed gerrymandered maps in 2026
December 5, 2025 at 1:02 AM
I look forward to finding out what Virginia district I live in now.
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Every state can do this.
Organizers! Legislators! Republicans! Democrats! Learn how to get this moving in your state by contacting me here: www.americanprogress.org/people/tom-m...
And find out how Montana is moving the idea forward through a constitutional ballot issue: transparentelection.org
Organizers! Legislators! Republicans! Democrats! Learn how to get this moving in your state by contacting me here: www.americanprogress.org/people/tom-m...
And find out how Montana is moving the idea forward through a constitutional ballot issue: transparentelection.org
Transparent Election Initiative - Our Fight Against Corporate Money in Politics
Join our fight for transparent elections. The Montana Plan uses state constitutional authority to keep corporate money out of politics and restore democracy to the people.
transparentelection.org
December 4, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Every state can do this.
Organizers! Legislators! Republicans! Democrats! Learn how to get this moving in your state by contacting me here: www.americanprogress.org/people/tom-m...
And find out how Montana is moving the idea forward through a constitutional ballot issue: transparentelection.org
Organizers! Legislators! Republicans! Democrats! Learn how to get this moving in your state by contacting me here: www.americanprogress.org/people/tom-m...
And find out how Montana is moving the idea forward through a constitutional ballot issue: transparentelection.org
🤩 We need this in Virginia! And EVERYWHERE!
I'm *delighted* that New York lawmakers have introduced a bill based on CAP’s bold Corporate Power Reset approach.
The bill aims to get dark and corporate money out of NY's politics by amending NY corporation law to no longer extend the power to spend in politics to corporations that operate in NY.
The bill aims to get dark and corporate money out of NY's politics by amending NY corporation law to no longer extend the power to spend in politics to corporations that operate in NY.
STATEMENT: CAP’s Tom Moore Praises New York State Lawmakers’ Bill To End Corporate Political Spending
www.americanprogress.org
December 4, 2025 at 6:03 PM
🤩 We need this in Virginia! And EVERYWHERE!
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In addition to being an imbecile, sadist, corrupt, authoritarian, etc., Trump's a vicious, virulent, gutter racist, xenophobe, etc. And if you support Trump, that's what you support - all of it! bluevirginia.us/2025/12/wedn... h/t @RepDonBeyer (D-VA08)
December 4, 2025 at 12:42 AM
In addition to being an imbecile, sadist, corrupt, authoritarian, etc., Trump's a vicious, virulent, gutter racist, xenophobe, etc. And if you support Trump, that's what you support - all of it! bluevirginia.us/2025/12/wedn... h/t @RepDonBeyer (D-VA08)
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#VA01 mood about Wittman. Party’s over for Rob. Let’s #FlipTheFirst in 2026!
December 3, 2025 at 5:57 PM
#VA01 mood about Wittman. Party’s over for Rob. Let’s #FlipTheFirst in 2026!
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Many believe #VA01 is not flippable. They’re simply flat-out wrong. Results across the country keep showing that Trump is toxic. Wittman is Trump without the bluster. #FlipVA01
✅Large Atlanta suburb flips blue
✅Dems narrow gap in "safe" red TN district by FOURTEEN points
We are winning, folks. Keep churning!
@804thepeople.bsky.social @neighbors4change.bsky.social @rva-indivisible.bsky.social
✅Dems narrow gap in "safe" red TN district by FOURTEEN points
We are winning, folks. Keep churning!
@804thepeople.bsky.social @neighbors4change.bsky.social @rva-indivisible.bsky.social
NEWS: Democrat Mary Robichaux has defeated Republican incumbent Kurt Wilson in a runoff election to become the next Mayor of Roswell, Georgia. A major upset and another sign of shifting suburban politics in the South.
December 3, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Our favorite Congressman delivered a tome on the high cost of living. In it, he uses his favorite propaganda technique, “stacking the deck," stressing the positive while avoiding the negative. He gives us a window into his values: tow the party line on taxes and reward the fossil fuel industries.
December 2, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Our favorite Congressman delivered a tome on the high cost of living. In it, he uses his favorite propaganda technique, “stacking the deck," stressing the positive while avoiding the negative. He gives us a window into his values: tow the party line on taxes and reward the fossil fuel industries.
Delighted to see this made and released! Set aside justifiable complaints about this being long overdue. It’s here, and they’re committed to continually improve it.
‘We wanted to break down barriers’: women’s teams finally join Football Manager
Sports Interactive has included the women’s game after its tireless effort of collating a comprehensive database
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Delighted to see this made and released! Set aside justifiable complaints about this being long overdue. It’s here, and they’re committed to continually improve it.
Damn it. @atrupar.com beat me to it.
December 2, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Damn it. @atrupar.com beat me to it.
May I propose that we all refer to Trump as “Dozy Don”?
Trump's periods of wakefulness during this cabinet meeting are becoming less frequent
December 2, 2025 at 6:50 PM
May I propose that we all refer to Trump as “Dozy Don”?
A new report by @snfagora.bsky.social and @publicagenda.bsky.social shows divisions among Repubs:
- 29% are Trump-first
- 34% are Constitution-first
- 36% are Party-first
And 84% (❗) think democracy is in crisis, and so do 78% of Dems and 50% of Indies.
Rs are *badly* divided. Trumpism is dying.
- 29% are Trump-first
- 34% are Constitution-first
- 36% are Party-first
And 84% (❗) think democracy is in crisis, and so do 78% of Dems and 50% of Indies.
Rs are *badly* divided. Trumpism is dying.
Understanding Evolving Republican Attitudes Towards Democracy
Survey from SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins and Public Agenda Pinpoint Distinct Divides Within Republican Party
snf-agora.shorthandstories.com
December 2, 2025 at 4:42 PM
A new report by @snfagora.bsky.social and @publicagenda.bsky.social shows divisions among Repubs:
- 29% are Trump-first
- 34% are Constitution-first
- 36% are Party-first
And 84% (❗) think democracy is in crisis, and so do 78% of Dems and 50% of Indies.
Rs are *badly* divided. Trumpism is dying.
- 29% are Trump-first
- 34% are Constitution-first
- 36% are Party-first
And 84% (❗) think democracy is in crisis, and so do 78% of Dems and 50% of Indies.
Rs are *badly* divided. Trumpism is dying.
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My name is Salaam. I’m a public interest lawyer running for Congress in VA-1.
Here’s my platform:
- tax billionaires
- health care for all/strong safety net
- campaign finance reform
- ban stock trading for congressmembers
- end the genocide in Gaza
Follow along & join the fight.
Here’s my platform:
- tax billionaires
- health care for all/strong safety net
- campaign finance reform
- ban stock trading for congressmembers
- end the genocide in Gaza
Follow along & join the fight.
December 2, 2025 at 4:30 PM
My name is Salaam. I’m a public interest lawyer running for Congress in VA-1.
Here’s my platform:
- tax billionaires
- health care for all/strong safety net
- campaign finance reform
- ban stock trading for congressmembers
- end the genocide in Gaza
Follow along & join the fight.
Here’s my platform:
- tax billionaires
- health care for all/strong safety net
- campaign finance reform
- ban stock trading for congressmembers
- end the genocide in Gaza
Follow along & join the fight.
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Gov-Elect @abigailspanberger.com has today endorsed @shannontaylorva.com for the #VA01 election next year, citing her work as Commonwealth Attorney in Henrico County among other things. Read it here! Also…
Gov.-elect Abigail Spanberger is endorsing Henrico County Commonwealth's Attorney Shannon Taylor in a crowded Democratic primary field for the party nomination to take on Rep. Rob Wittman, R-1st, in a district that may look different when the time comes to vote.
Spanberger endorses Taylor in crowded congressional primary
Gov.-elect Abigail Spanberger is endorsing Henrico County Commonwealth's Attorney Shannon Taylor in a crowded Democratic primary field for the party nomination to take on Rep. Rob Wittman, R-1st, in a district that may look different when the time comes to vote.
richmond.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Gov-Elect @abigailspanberger.com has today endorsed @shannontaylorva.com for the #VA01 election next year, citing her work as Commonwealth Attorney in Henrico County among other things. Read it here! Also…
For anyone interested in the #Va-01 election, this might be worth attending.
@shannontaylorva.com, one of seven candidates for #VA01, is holding a "State of the Race" Zoom meeting on Dec 9th 7pm-8pm. Register at this link!
State of the Race Briefing
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December 1, 2025 at 6:48 PM
For anyone interested in the #Va-01 election, this might be worth attending.
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Musk cut off international aid; that's killed 600k ppl, and will likely kill some 14 million overall. He is a genocidal Nazi mass murderer. It's like asking Hitler what he thinks about philanthropy.
It’s in fact extremely easy to give away money in a way that helps people.
Stuff like this is just what you say when you don’t actually want to help others.
Stuff like this is just what you say when you don’t actually want to help others.
December 1, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Musk cut off international aid; that's killed 600k ppl, and will likely kill some 14 million overall. He is a genocidal Nazi mass murderer. It's like asking Hitler what he thinks about philanthropy.