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Errol Morris @errolmorris.bsky.social · 22h

READING AGAIN THE NYT. Should I stop? An article about Sam Terblanche. Dead. Despite the usual equivocal prose, one point is clear. Medicine has become hopelessly bureaucratized. Has insurance and insurance claims turned doctors into box-checkers with stethoscopes? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/w...

It’s Just a Virus, the E.R. Told Him. Days Later, He Was Dead.

www.nytimes.com

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Errol Morris @errolmorris.bsky.social · 23h

Charlie Silver wrote an extraordinary Ph.D. thesis on Kripke’s theory of proper names. To me, it opened a whole new world about modalities and reference. It is part of my criticism of the work of Thomas Kuhn. How stable is reference? Is it on shifting sands or an impregnable fortress? Neither?

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Errol Morris @errolmorris.bsky.social · 1d

My close friend Charles L Silver died yesterday, He was my closest friend, and it is an incredible loss.

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Errol Morris @errolmorris.bsky.social · 14d

Is the American idea of how to deal with fascism: to embrace it?

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Errol Morris @errolmorris.bsky.social · 20d

We are in the grip of not just fascism… OK, that isn’t OK, but also in the grip of extraordinary cupidity and stupidity. People who know nothing control everything.

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Errol Morris @errolmorris.bsky.social · 20d

The Ukrainian Night is my kind of book. History through deeply personal accounts. It deepened my understanding of the Maidan. Thank you, Marci.

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Errol Morris @errolmorris.bsky.social · 20d

THE NEW BRO MILITARY. He who can do the most pushups wins. Maybe Hegseth should challenge Putin to a pushup contest.

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Errol Morris @errolmorris.bsky.social · 20d

Once truth is devalued, what is left? Untruth. Falsehood. Gobble-de-gook.

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Errol Morris @errolmorris.bsky.social · 24d

I am indebted to both Timothy Snyder and Marci Shore. Essential reading. The Ukrainian Night. Shouldn’t we have an answer? What role did the US play in undermining the Yanukovych government?

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Errol Morris @errolmorris.bsky.social · 24d

WHAT A NIGHTMARE. NYT Sunday Opinion, Maureen Dowd weighs in on AI and the end of the world; Nicholas Kristof tells us that withdrawal of US aid has put African women at risk; the Editorial Board opines on the politicization of justice… Nothing good here. (And a lot of bad.)

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Errol Morris @errolmorris.bsky.social · 24d

From mathematical logic we learn that from a contradiction you can prove anything. Of course, the same holds true for politics.

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Errol Morris @errolmorris.bsky.social · 27d

INTENTIONALLY OBTUSE OR JUST CLUELESS. The NYT weighs in on the knotty problem of why late night comedians have become politicized. They ask, how did these establishment figures become so political? Huh? How about the implacable reality of our country plunging headlong into fascism?

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Errol Morris @errolmorris.bsky.social · 28d

THE WORD SALAD PRESIDENT. Incoherence would be a blessing. Nonsense is what we got.

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Errol Morris @errolmorris.bsky.social · Sep 22

DO THEY HAVE A DIFFERENT IDEA? Clearly, Pam Bondi and I have differing ideas of what we mean by an independent Justice Department. But it seems we also have differing ideas about the meaning of the word “independent.” Do words have any meaning anymore?

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Errol Morris @errolmorris.bsky.social · Sep 19

IS STATING THE OBVIOUS A CRIME? SHOULD STATING THE OBVIOUS BE PUNISHED? Ask Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel. The Bill of Rights prohibits the government from curbing free speech. But it does not prohibit corporations. OK. What if the government tells corporations to curb free speech? What then?

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Errol Morris @errolmorris.bsky.social · Sep 9

HEAR, HEAR. Justic Sotomayor: "We should not have to live in a country where the government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish and appears to work a low wage job." Why not arreat people who look like Supreme Court Justices who take bribes?

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Errol Morris @errolmorris.bsky.social · Sep 6

INCURABLE DISEASE? Recent studies have shown that listening to RFK Jr. causes autism.

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Errol Morris @errolmorris.bsky.social · Sep 5

FAILURE TO STATE THE OBVIOUS. If there was a flat-earth "theorist" testifying before Congress, would the NYT provide the headline, "Grilled by the Senate, Kennedy defends flat earth moves." The issue isn't Kennedy's defense of idiocy, it's the NYT mollycoddling an idiot. Please guys show some spine.

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Errol Morris @errolmorris.bsky.social · Sep 3

A SINCERE APOLOGY. I wrote "what happens when crime goes unpunished..." I should have written "what happens when crime is rewarded..." Yes, indeed. The situation is much worse than what I at first imagined.

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Errol Morris @errolmorris.bsky.social · Sep 3

What if Occam's Razor was used on Buridan's Ass? Would the ass be well fed?

Errol Morris @errolmorris.bsky.social · Sep 3

Can we depend on the Supreme Court to do the wrong thing? Let's see what they do with the Voting Rights Act. (After all hasn't our racist president decided that racism isn't a problem in this country?)

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Errol Morris @errolmorris.bsky.social · Aug 30

Is it possible to erase 200 years of progress…? Ask the Trump Administration. They’re actively trying to set back the clock.

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Errol Morris @errolmorris.bsky.social · Aug 22

A NEW VERSION OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT. Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech or of the press… unless such freedoms permit a disagreement with the opinions of the President of the United States.

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Errol Morris @errolmorris.bsky.social · Aug 19

Let's replace the meritocracy with the idiocracy. Idiocracy, ship of fools, confederacy of dunces, take your pick... Trump's Cabinet picks tells us a lot about who he really is. Sadly enough, a fool, a craven fool.

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Errol Morris @errolmorris.bsky.social · Aug 19

Let's make the world safe for mediocre white people.

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