henry sholar
@mapablue.bsky.social
eugene, oregon • cruiser on a beater • bookish hippie • great great great great grandson of isaac harby • rorty-esque flexibility in my anticipatory resoluteness • progressive • choice • LGBTQIA2S+ • BLM • fight fascism • social media doggerel • he/him/old
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henry sholar
@mapablue.bsky.social
· Nov 22
January 2017 — March 2020
every Tuesday, Eugene, OR
(i need to make another sign)
every Tuesday, Eugene, OR
(i need to make another sign)
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You're not going to get a better deal than this.
If you are a voter in Tennessee's 7th Congressional District and also a fan of The Wire, I will, on evidence you voted today, pen a personal apology for having killed any character you cared for.
And yes, this assumes Wire fans do not vote for some cheese-eating supplicant to any tinpot dictator.
And yes, this assumes Wire fans do not vote for some cheese-eating supplicant to any tinpot dictator.
December 2, 2025 at 9:45 PM
You're not going to get a better deal than this.
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Every ICE thug today gearing up to hunt brown people in the city of New Orleans can eat an entire sack of stale, unsalted dicks. They and the administration they serve are displaying our fallen nation as an ungrateful, soulless shitpile of gutless, frightened race-hate. We are forever shamed.
December 2, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Every ICE thug today gearing up to hunt brown people in the city of New Orleans can eat an entire sack of stale, unsalted dicks. They and the administration they serve are displaying our fallen nation as an ungrateful, soulless shitpile of gutless, frightened race-hate. We are forever shamed.
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it is the worst of all worlds. a "unitary *presidency*" insulated from judicial or congressional power and a weak president unable to do the job of governing
December 1, 2025 at 5:36 PM
it is the worst of all worlds. a "unitary *presidency*" insulated from judicial or congressional power and a weak president unable to do the job of governing
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A FreedomWorks (tea party astroturfers) operative and Trump pollster are behind this. I smell a rat(fuck).
Using artificial intelligence to identify Congressional districts where independent candidates could win, an organization called the Independent Center is aiming to disrupt the two-party system. n.pr/48mmSlu
An independent effort says AI is the secret to topple 2-party power in Congress
Using artificial intelligence to identify congressional districts where independent candidates could win, an organization called the Independent Center is aiming to disrupt the two-party system.
n.pr
December 1, 2025 at 2:47 PM
A FreedomWorks (tea party astroturfers) operative and Trump pollster are behind this. I smell a rat(fuck).
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It’s also notable that TPUSA employs rabid Islamophobes like this person. Imagine what the Trump admin would do to a university if they allowed an organization that said this about Jews and pork to establish themselves on campus.
November 30, 2025 at 9:57 PM
It’s also notable that TPUSA employs rabid Islamophobes like this person. Imagine what the Trump admin would do to a university if they allowed an organization that said this about Jews and pork to establish themselves on campus.
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JFC Oklahoma you fuckin cowards. Now every Jesus-freak right-wing student who can't get a passing grade for a bunch of bible quotes masquerading as an essay is going to file a 1st amendment complaint. You gonna suspend the whole Biology department for teaching about evolution? (Don't answer that)
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 9:37 PM
JFC Oklahoma you fuckin cowards. Now every Jesus-freak right-wing student who can't get a passing grade for a bunch of bible quotes masquerading as an essay is going to file a 1st amendment complaint. You gonna suspend the whole Biology department for teaching about evolution? (Don't answer that)
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JFC, don't borrow your vision for America's future from a venture capitalist.
November 30, 2025 at 5:52 PM
JFC, don't borrow your vision for America's future from a venture capitalist.
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I just can't get past someone saying they were going to pardon a guy who tried to smuggle 400 TONS of cocaine into the US while pretending they care about drugs
November 30, 2025 at 5:13 PM
I just can't get past someone saying they were going to pardon a guy who tried to smuggle 400 TONS of cocaine into the US while pretending they care about drugs
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Everything about the bombings of boats in the Caribbean Sea has been illegal under both US and international law
Everything
Everything
November 30, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Everything about the bombings of boats in the Caribbean Sea has been illegal under both US and international law
Everything
Everything
i think about the children who grow up under fascism nowadays. & what they understand as normal.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=684n...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=684n...
What Will You Say?
YouTube video by Women's March
www.youtube.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:43 PM
i think about the children who grow up under fascism nowadays. & what they understand as normal.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=684n...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=684n...
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Like most historians, I'm pretty immune to both doomerism and utopianism. But I have to admit, it takes a lot of effort for me to resist the allure of doomerism when I contemplate the future impacts of LLMs. What they seek to replace are the very things that make us human--thinking and expression.
November 29, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Like most historians, I'm pretty immune to both doomerism and utopianism. But I have to admit, it takes a lot of effort for me to resist the allure of doomerism when I contemplate the future impacts of LLMs. What they seek to replace are the very things that make us human--thinking and expression.
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The president is about to start a war for no real reason. All of the things he has blamed on the country he’s targeting — fentanyl distribution, “emptying the asylums” and sending patients to the U.S., alignment with Tren de Aragua— are provably, obviously false.
Lots of people are going to die.
Lots of people are going to die.
November 29, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The president is about to start a war for no real reason. All of the things he has blamed on the country he’s targeting — fentanyl distribution, “emptying the asylums” and sending patients to the U.S., alignment with Tren de Aragua— are provably, obviously false.
Lots of people are going to die.
Lots of people are going to die.
"wag the rabid dog"
November 29, 2025 at 1:58 PM
"wag the rabid dog"
morning thought:
trump just slew a hell of alot of people on 5th avenue — in broad daylight — with that pardon of former president of Honduras Juan Orlando Hernández.
trump just slew a hell of alot of people on 5th avenue — in broad daylight — with that pardon of former president of Honduras Juan Orlando Hernández.
November 29, 2025 at 12:56 PM
morning thought:
trump just slew a hell of alot of people on 5th avenue — in broad daylight — with that pardon of former president of Honduras Juan Orlando Hernández.
trump just slew a hell of alot of people on 5th avenue — in broad daylight — with that pardon of former president of Honduras Juan Orlando Hernández.
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Trump’s as responsible for the tragic death of the Nat’l Guard soldier, for ORDERING her to DC…as he is for Ashley Babbitt’s death, for LURING her to DC with his lies. He’s to blame for MILLIONS OF DEATHS..from mishandling Covid, to deliberately cutting off USAID..to random boat bombings! STOP HIM!
11/20: Judge tells Trump the National Guard has to leave Washington, DC.
11/26: A gunman with ties to the CIA shoots 2 guardsmen, who just happened to be sworn in and put in the line of duty within 24 hrs of being shot.
The second sloppiest inside job, outside the Trump "assassination attempt”
11/26: A gunman with ties to the CIA shoots 2 guardsmen, who just happened to be sworn in and put in the line of duty within 24 hrs of being shot.
The second sloppiest inside job, outside the Trump "assassination attempt”
November 29, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Trump’s as responsible for the tragic death of the Nat’l Guard soldier, for ORDERING her to DC…as he is for Ashley Babbitt’s death, for LURING her to DC with his lies. He’s to blame for MILLIONS OF DEATHS..from mishandling Covid, to deliberately cutting off USAID..to random boat bombings! STOP HIM!
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Trump can barely fog a mirror, his approval is in the toilet and other institutions have showed that bending the knee only brings them back for more but standing up to them often gets results.
And yet:
And yet:
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Trump can barely fog a mirror, his approval is in the toilet and other institutions have showed that bending the knee only brings them back for more but standing up to them often gets results.
And yet:
And yet:
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With no evidence whatsoever I stand by my theory that they’re terrorizing some small time drug traffickers to benefit some bigger competitor.
Juan Hernández, a former president of Honduras, was found guilty by a US jury last year of conspiring to import cocaine, via one of "most violent drug trafficking conspiracies in the world"
Trump intends to pardon him.
By Shawn McCreesh, Annie Correal, Jeff Ernst
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...
Trump intends to pardon him.
By Shawn McCreesh, Annie Correal, Jeff Ernst
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...
Trump Announces Pardon for Honduran Ex-President Convicted in Drug Case
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:57 AM
With no evidence whatsoever I stand by my theory that they’re terrorizing some small time drug traffickers to benefit some bigger competitor.
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Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
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It’s infuriating to me that I need to evaluate media to determine whether it’s AI generated now. The great “time saver” technology wastes incalculable time and energy for people who want to retain their grasp on reality
November 28, 2025 at 8:48 PM
It’s infuriating to me that I need to evaluate media to determine whether it’s AI generated now. The great “time saver” technology wastes incalculable time and energy for people who want to retain their grasp on reality
either AI destroys all trustworthiness in human knowledge, abetted by trump stooges destroying scientific research,
or
the AI economic bubble pops sending the world into a deep and destructive economic depression aided by the trump stooges sabotaging the national economy.
and why not both?
or
the AI economic bubble pops sending the world into a deep and destructive economic depression aided by the trump stooges sabotaging the national economy.
and why not both?
November 28, 2025 at 8:07 PM
either AI destroys all trustworthiness in human knowledge, abetted by trump stooges destroying scientific research,
or
the AI economic bubble pops sending the world into a deep and destructive economic depression aided by the trump stooges sabotaging the national economy.
and why not both?
or
the AI economic bubble pops sending the world into a deep and destructive economic depression aided by the trump stooges sabotaging the national economy.
and why not both?
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This day in Labor History: November 28, 1901. A strike among Cuban cigar workers in Tampa, Florida collapsed after workers inspired by the Cuban revolutionary Jose Martí sought to create a cross-racial organization to resist employer oppression and fight for Cuban nationalism!!!
November 28, 2025 at 4:45 PM
This day in Labor History: November 28, 1901. A strike among Cuban cigar workers in Tampa, Florida collapsed after workers inspired by the Cuban revolutionary Jose Martí sought to create a cross-racial organization to resist employer oppression and fight for Cuban nationalism!!!
morning thought:
sure is thrilling to have all this corruption from the trump fascists constantly "breaking the fourth wall," and watching the corporate media struggle hard to keep pretending.
sure is thrilling to have all this corruption from the trump fascists constantly "breaking the fourth wall," and watching the corporate media struggle hard to keep pretending.
November 28, 2025 at 4:29 PM
morning thought:
sure is thrilling to have all this corruption from the trump fascists constantly "breaking the fourth wall," and watching the corporate media struggle hard to keep pretending.
sure is thrilling to have all this corruption from the trump fascists constantly "breaking the fourth wall," and watching the corporate media struggle hard to keep pretending.
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TODAY!! Black Friday Boycott of AT&T! Hey, AT&T, can you hear us NOW? We are talking to YOU!
#MeltIce #HangUponAT&T #CanYouHearUsNow
#MeltIce #HangUponAT&T #CanYouHearUsNow
🚨GREENSBORO, NC - 11/28/2025🚨
Hey, AT&T, can you hear us NOW?? (Yes, I stole that one!) Come out this Friday to boycott AT&T! Help us *HANG UP* ON ICE!
#MeltICE #CanYouHearMeNow
More info here: ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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Hey, AT&T, can you hear us NOW?? (Yes, I stole that one!) Come out this Friday to boycott AT&T! Help us *HANG UP* ON ICE!
#MeltICE #CanYouHearMeNow
More info here: ⬇️⬇️⬇️
mobilize.us/s/MBf5OV
AT&T: Hang Up on ICE · Indivisible Guilford County
Join us on Black Friday on the sidewalk outside of the AT&T store in the midst of Friendly Center to demand that AT&T cut ties with the Department of Homeland Security and ICE!
AT&T holds lucrative c...
mobilize.us
November 28, 2025 at 11:53 AM
TODAY!! Black Friday Boycott of AT&T! Hey, AT&T, can you hear us NOW? We are talking to YOU!
#MeltIce #HangUponAT&T #CanYouHearUsNow
#MeltIce #HangUponAT&T #CanYouHearUsNow