G. A. Nesse
@glennesse.bsky.social
College instructor, adjunct advocate, philosopher.
Spicy opinion: aesthetics requires Rupert Murdoch to be thrown off the Fox News headquarters, lest we will lose an important part of permanent art (should he die naturally). We. Are. Running. Out. Of. Time.
June 20, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Spicy opinion: aesthetics requires Rupert Murdoch to be thrown off the Fox News headquarters, lest we will lose an important part of permanent art (should he die naturally). We. Are. Running. Out. Of. Time.
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Yep, we're at the "Selling Pardons" stage now. Tell me again how the law is supposed to stop all this before everything is either on fire or we're blown to bits? I mean martial law is just a step away, only "their" law will matter.
The law has become a sick joke.
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
The law has become a sick joke.
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Lawyers Are Quoting $1 Million in Fees to Get Pardons to Trump
One pardon recipient recalls the president telling him, ‘You’re cleaner than a baby’s bottom.’
www.bloomberg.com
May 7, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Yep, we're at the "Selling Pardons" stage now. Tell me again how the law is supposed to stop all this before everything is either on fire or we're blown to bits? I mean martial law is just a step away, only "their" law will matter.
The law has become a sick joke.
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
The law has become a sick joke.
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
*Looks around at current events*
"What f'king timeline did I emerge in?"
"What f'king timeline did I emerge in?"
May 3, 2025 at 11:06 AM
*Looks around at current events*
"What f'king timeline did I emerge in?"
"What f'king timeline did I emerge in?"
"It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything." -Tyler Durdin, or so I heard
May 3, 2025 at 10:03 AM
"It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything." -Tyler Durdin, or so I heard
When you were trying to dodge the inevitable aging, but then stress from contemporary politics.
May 3, 2025 at 10:00 AM
When you were trying to dodge the inevitable aging, but then stress from contemporary politics.
I would like to start a music appreciation thread, though I have few friends on this side of the social media. The theme is simple: that which is salient to our times. This video is dedicated to the Christian Nationalists.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3si...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3si...
Normalized
YouTube video by Vision Video - Topic
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April 19, 2025 at 9:55 AM
I would like to start a music appreciation thread, though I have few friends on this side of the social media. The theme is simple: that which is salient to our times. This video is dedicated to the Christian Nationalists.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3si...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3si...
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Seems particularly relevant today... 🇬🇧🏴 #transphobia #feminist #biology #womensrights #transrights #transrightsarehumanrights #transwomenarewomen #transmenaremen #nonbinarypeoplearevalid
April 16, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Seems particularly relevant today... 🇬🇧🏴 #transphobia #feminist #biology #womensrights #transrights #transrightsarehumanrights #transwomenarewomen #transmenaremen #nonbinarypeoplearevalid
Concentration camps and genocide used to be out of fashion. Now, they are outsourced.
April 16, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Concentration camps and genocide used to be out of fashion. Now, they are outsourced.
"Rule of law" is ultimately just a phrase to describe the standard sort of moral agreement that exists within any complex society. I will abide by limitations on my actions so that we can live together, so that we can flourish together. There's nothing to enforce it but law. And that amounts to act.
April 16, 2025 at 8:16 AM
"Rule of law" is ultimately just a phrase to describe the standard sort of moral agreement that exists within any complex society. I will abide by limitations on my actions so that we can live together, so that we can flourish together. There's nothing to enforce it but law. And that amounts to act.
It's become obvious that the supreme court cannot serve as a check to the Trump administration. It's dubitable whether federal courts can as well. This is a failure of the system. If there is a fix, then it won't be simply a matter of a new president.
April 16, 2025 at 7:54 AM
It's become obvious that the supreme court cannot serve as a check to the Trump administration. It's dubitable whether federal courts can as well. This is a failure of the system. If there is a fix, then it won't be simply a matter of a new president.
No Nazi took themselves to be evil. No white supremacist believes themselves to be in the wrong. Mao, Pol Pot, and Hitler believed they they were taking the right acts.
We'd like to believe we are past those stages in history, but that is self-deception. We can never escape history. We are in it.
We'd like to believe we are past those stages in history, but that is self-deception. We can never escape history. We are in it.
April 16, 2025 at 7:47 AM
No Nazi took themselves to be evil. No white supremacist believes themselves to be in the wrong. Mao, Pol Pot, and Hitler believed they they were taking the right acts.
We'd like to believe we are past those stages in history, but that is self-deception. We can never escape history. We are in it.
We'd like to believe we are past those stages in history, but that is self-deception. We can never escape history. We are in it.
So we find ourselves in those pre-WW3 years wondering whether we can personally do anything about our current predicament. Like the rest, I hope this is just misplaced fear. Like many others, I wonder if my inaction isn't part of the slide into fascism.
April 16, 2025 at 7:16 AM
So we find ourselves in those pre-WW3 years wondering whether we can personally do anything about our current predicament. Like the rest, I hope this is just misplaced fear. Like many others, I wonder if my inaction isn't part of the slide into fascism.
So now that it's apparent that SCOTUS is imponent, who will we pass the potato to?
April 15, 2025 at 11:28 AM
So now that it's apparent that SCOTUS is imponent, who will we pass the potato to?
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More than two weeks have passed since the European Commission’s self-imposed deadline to finalize its cases against Apple and Meta for breaking the EU's digital laws.
The longer the wait, the more speculation grows that the timing is being dictated by trade tensions with the US.
The longer the wait, the more speculation grows that the timing is being dictated by trade tensions with the US.
Big Tech fines just got political, whether the Commission likes it or not
By delaying expected announcements on fining Apple and Meta, the bloc’s Digital Markets Act is being dragged into the global trade war.
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April 15, 2025 at 7:02 AM
More than two weeks have passed since the European Commission’s self-imposed deadline to finalize its cases against Apple and Meta for breaking the EU's digital laws.
The longer the wait, the more speculation grows that the timing is being dictated by trade tensions with the US.
The longer the wait, the more speculation grows that the timing is being dictated by trade tensions with the US.
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Dr. Richard Youle was fired today. He is an eminent scientist who has done important work on brain diseases like dementia and Parkinson’s.
Musk and Trump are stopping NIH research into cures, for diseases from cancer to Alzheimer’s. Americans did not vote for this.
Musk and Trump are stopping NIH research into cures, for diseases from cancer to Alzheimer’s. Americans did not vote for this.
NEW: The doctor behind breakthrough Parkinson’s research was among the scientists purged from the National Institutes of Health, the US’s leading medical research agency. www.wired.com/story/doctor...
Doctor Behind Award-Winning Parkinson’s Research Among Scientists Purged From NIH
Leading scientists at the National Institutes of Health, the US’s leading medical research agency, were swept up Tuesday in the Trump administration's latest firing blitz.
www.wired.com
April 2, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Dr. Richard Youle was fired today. He is an eminent scientist who has done important work on brain diseases like dementia and Parkinson’s.
Musk and Trump are stopping NIH research into cures, for diseases from cancer to Alzheimer’s. Americans did not vote for this.
Musk and Trump are stopping NIH research into cures, for diseases from cancer to Alzheimer’s. Americans did not vote for this.
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The Trump administration’s attacks on universities could upend the undergraduate experience, @ibogost.bsky.social writes. Your kids may not have the chance to “go to college” like you did: theatln.tc/JWHmqOIA
The End of College Life
If they persist, Donald Trump’s attacks on universities will destroy a cornerstone of American life.
theatln.tc
March 30, 2025 at 1:14 PM
The Trump administration’s attacks on universities could upend the undergraduate experience, @ibogost.bsky.social writes. Your kids may not have the chance to “go to college” like you did: theatln.tc/JWHmqOIA
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Thinking about the power of boards of private university trustees to choose all their successors and Orban's move to lock in control by creating his own board that would run universities and appoint its own successors.
Hungary’s Orban extends dominance through university reform | CNN
Hungary’s parliament passed legislation on Tuesday setting up foundations to take over the running of universities and cultural institutions in a move critics say extends the ideological imprint of th...
www.cnn.com
March 29, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Thinking about the power of boards of private university trustees to choose all their successors and Orban's move to lock in control by creating his own board that would run universities and appoint its own successors.
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Drop everything you’re doing and read this piece. It’s that good and that important.
“We’re in the midst of an authoritarian takeover of the US gov’t… [but it’s] not yet an
accomplished fact.”
[email protected]
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“We’re in the midst of an authoritarian takeover of the US gov’t… [but it’s] not yet an
accomplished fact.”
[email protected]
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Observe, Orient, Decide, and Act: Notes on Preserving the American Republic
A short time ago former US Attorney Barb McQuade posted this passage...
talkingpointsmemo.com
March 16, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Drop everything you’re doing and read this piece. It’s that good and that important.
“We’re in the midst of an authoritarian takeover of the US gov’t… [but it’s] not yet an
accomplished fact.”
[email protected]
1/5
“We’re in the midst of an authoritarian takeover of the US gov’t… [but it’s] not yet an
accomplished fact.”
[email protected]
1/5
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The USDA cutting of a local food purchasing program will result in roughly $180,000 less funding coming into Whatcom County food banks for purchasing this year. And an unclear future for funding of another program could make matters worse.
Whatcom food banks will be hurt by loss of USDA funding | Cascadia Daily News
Federal government axes food purchasing program, additional food assistance funding in question
www.cascadiadaily.com
March 14, 2025 at 12:08 AM
The USDA cutting of a local food purchasing program will result in roughly $180,000 less funding coming into Whatcom County food banks for purchasing this year. And an unclear future for funding of another program could make matters worse.
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I had some high(er) hopes for this article, but it was still informative.
www.reuters.com/world/us/whe...
www.reuters.com/world/us/whe...
Where do the legal cases against Trump's executive orders stand?
President Donald Trump's agenda has partially stalled in court as judges pause major policy rollouts around immigration, spending and social issues, but his administration has notched some important wins as it seeks to dramatically shrink the federal bureaucracy and cut foreign aid spending.
www.reuters.com
March 7, 2025 at 11:46 AM
I had some high(er) hopes for this article, but it was still informative.
www.reuters.com/world/us/whe...
www.reuters.com/world/us/whe...
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Everything you need to know about Trump's tax cuts.
March 5, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Everything you need to know about Trump's tax cuts.
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“The fact that we are connected through space and time shows that life is a unitary phenomenon, no matter how we express that fact.”
Evolutionary biologist Lynn Margulis, born OTD in 1938, on the spirituality of science and the interconnectedness of life
Evolutionary biologist Lynn Margulis, born OTD in 1938, on the spirituality of science and the interconnectedness of life
Evolutionary Biologist Lynn Margulis on the Spirituality of Science and the Interconnectedness of Life Across Time, Space, and Species
“The fact that we are connected through space and time shows that life is a unitary phenomenon, no matter how we express that fact.”
www.themarginalian.org
March 5, 2025 at 5:47 AM
“The fact that we are connected through space and time shows that life is a unitary phenomenon, no matter how we express that fact.”
Evolutionary biologist Lynn Margulis, born OTD in 1938, on the spirituality of science and the interconnectedness of life
Evolutionary biologist Lynn Margulis, born OTD in 1938, on the spirituality of science and the interconnectedness of life
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This is what House Republicans voted for tonight.
Another reminder that we have socialism for the rich, harsh capitalism for the rest.
Another reminder that we have socialism for the rich, harsh capitalism for the rest.
February 26, 2025 at 3:20 AM
This is what House Republicans voted for tonight.
Another reminder that we have socialism for the rich, harsh capitalism for the rest.
Another reminder that we have socialism for the rich, harsh capitalism for the rest.