Scott Henderson
@scottyhendo.bsky.social
Creating a pirate republic on the Great Plains. Sourdough baker.
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Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵
DOGE was not a money-saving effort. It was an effort to chase down and prove right-wing conspiracy theories. They went after USAID to prove conspiracy theories about foreign aid. Then they went after SSA to, again, pursue conspiracy theories about Dems paying "illegals" to vote. 1/2
All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID.
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
November 26, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵
Havel was writing about the Soviet sphere but I think most of what he’s saying here applies to the internet and social media
November 25, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Havel was writing about the Soviet sphere but I think most of what he’s saying here applies to the internet and social media
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47 years ago today, dozens of turkeys met their unfortunate demise in a Cincinnati parking lot.
November 24, 2025 at 8:59 PM
47 years ago today, dozens of turkeys met their unfortunate demise in a Cincinnati parking lot.
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Elon Musk donated $277 million to Trump so he could steal the federal government’s data, dismantle the nation’s infrastructure, and stop foreign aid from going to nonwhite people. It’s a quid pro quo breathtaking in scope, corruption, and damage, & completely unprecedented in American history.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Elon Musk donated $277 million to Trump so he could steal the federal government’s data, dismantle the nation’s infrastructure, and stop foreign aid from going to nonwhite people. It’s a quid pro quo breathtaking in scope, corruption, and damage, & completely unprecedented in American history.
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Rightwing MAGA Christianity has about as much relation to the gospels as MAGA politics does to the Constitution.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
They’re doing to America what they did to Christianity | Bill McKibben
Trump’s wrecking-ball approach to America has a precedent: the evangelical perversion of Jesus’s message of radical love to one of hate and aggression
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Rightwing MAGA Christianity has about as much relation to the gospels as MAGA politics does to the Constitution.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Good old Woz. Good for him.
November 21, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Good old Woz. Good for him.
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November 20, 2025 at 3:49 AM
friends—I’ve been working super hard on putting this event together with some AWESOME partners & artists…
pls check it out! each ticket sold supports our grassroots @katmabu.bsky.social campaign + fills my heart up a teeny bit 💘
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pls check it out! each ticket sold supports our grassroots @katmabu.bsky.social campaign + fills my heart up a teeny bit 💘
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“Don’t give up the ship.
You can refuse illegal orders.
We have your back.”
🇺🇸Veterans offer support to those in active service.🇺🇸
You can refuse illegal orders.
We have your back.”
🇺🇸Veterans offer support to those in active service.🇺🇸
November 19, 2025 at 3:47 AM
“Don’t give up the ship.
You can refuse illegal orders.
We have your back.”
🇺🇸Veterans offer support to those in active service.🇺🇸
You can refuse illegal orders.
We have your back.”
🇺🇸Veterans offer support to those in active service.🇺🇸
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"There are about a thousand of us."
Yes, because the thing about girls is that they don't stay girls for very long. Which makes them disposable. And which means that men like Epstein need a huge supply.
Yes, because the thing about girls is that they don't stay girls for very long. Which makes them disposable. And which means that men like Epstein need a huge supply.
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 17, 2025 at 12:42 AM
"There are about a thousand of us."
Yes, because the thing about girls is that they don't stay girls for very long. Which makes them disposable. And which means that men like Epstein need a huge supply.
Yes, because the thing about girls is that they don't stay girls for very long. Which makes them disposable. And which means that men like Epstein need a huge supply.
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This is the “why” behind “Elastic Time” and “Elastic Value” and other elastic notions of mine. The elastic serves the human, not the system (or machine).
November 16, 2025 at 7:20 PM
This is the “why” behind “Elastic Time” and “Elastic Value” and other elastic notions of mine. The elastic serves the human, not the system (or machine).
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I'm going to repost what I feel is one of my most important threads on Twitter:
1. "Fascism" is an emotive term, often abused. But it has a real historical meaning, which we should examine dispassionately. What are its main elements?
1. "Fascism" is an emotive term, often abused. But it has a real historical meaning, which we should examine dispassionately. What are its main elements?
November 23, 2024 at 10:04 PM
I'm going to repost what I feel is one of my most important threads on Twitter:
1. "Fascism" is an emotive term, often abused. But it has a real historical meaning, which we should examine dispassionately. What are its main elements?
1. "Fascism" is an emotive term, often abused. But it has a real historical meaning, which we should examine dispassionately. What are its main elements?
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Misinformation *is* central to democratic problems today, but the solution is *not* to correct such epistemic failures directly. Instead, we must address them at their roots, in social identity.
Or so I argue in a new post for @apaphilosophy.bsky.social.
blog.apaonline.org/2025/11/12/t...
Or so I argue in a new post for @apaphilosophy.bsky.social.
blog.apaonline.org/2025/11/12/t...
The Problem is Epistemic. The Solution is Not. | Blog of the APA
Doubts about the wisdom of the masses are as old as philosophy itself. Yet interest in democracy’s “epistemic” merits has surged in the last decade—and it is no mystery why. Democracy is collapsing ar...
blog.apaonline.org
November 13, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Misinformation *is* central to democratic problems today, but the solution is *not* to correct such epistemic failures directly. Instead, we must address them at their roots, in social identity.
Or so I argue in a new post for @apaphilosophy.bsky.social.
blog.apaonline.org/2025/11/12/t...
Or so I argue in a new post for @apaphilosophy.bsky.social.
blog.apaonline.org/2025/11/12/t...
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William Golding from his 1962 essay “Fables” on the intended meaning of his “Lord Of The Flies”.
November 12, 2025 at 1:57 PM
William Golding from his 1962 essay “Fables” on the intended meaning of his “Lord Of The Flies”.
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The Epstein story gets a something that is tearing at the heart of the electorate: elite impunity. The idea that wealthy and powerful people can do terrible things *at scale* and face no consequences for them. Whatever political party actually stops it could rule the country for a generation.
November 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
The Epstein story gets a something that is tearing at the heart of the electorate: elite impunity. The idea that wealthy and powerful people can do terrible things *at scale* and face no consequences for them. Whatever political party actually stops it could rule the country for a generation.
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aim to live your life in such a manner that your best friends have long, beautiful, hilarious, dirty stories to tell about you on national TV after you’re called away…
Tonight we remember our dear friend and bandleader Cleto 💙
Jimmy Kimmel Remembers His Best Friend and Bandleader Cleto Escobedo III
YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live
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November 12, 2025 at 5:37 AM
aim to live your life in such a manner that your best friends have long, beautiful, hilarious, dirty stories to tell about you on national TV after you’re called away…
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This is the facility that I and many others have been protesting. We’ve been hit, thrown, gassed, and shot with pepper bullets but none of that holds a candle to what is being done to people *in* the actual facility.
Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.
Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 3:29 PM
This is the facility that I and many others have been protesting. We’ve been hit, thrown, gassed, and shot with pepper bullets but none of that holds a candle to what is being done to people *in* the actual facility.
Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.
Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.
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This was the moment I first came across Mayor Elect Mamdani
New York assemblyman Zohran Mamdani confronts Border Czar Tom Homan today in Albany 👇🏻
November 5, 2025 at 4:37 AM
This was the moment I first came across Mayor Elect Mamdani
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Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
November 5, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
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Really puts the American right’s dog-killing streak into a strange new light.
November 4, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Really puts the American right’s dog-killing streak into a strange new light.
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Some context to the viral videos:
Around 9am Friday, ICE/CBP *encircled* several square miles of a safe suburb and *stormed* it using multiple units.
They were in cars, on foot in alleys & gangways, and in helicopters. They demanded papers, threatened residents, pointed guns, kidnapped people.
Around 9am Friday, ICE/CBP *encircled* several square miles of a safe suburb and *stormed* it using multiple units.
They were in cars, on foot in alleys & gangways, and in helicopters. They demanded papers, threatened residents, pointed guns, kidnapped people.
November 1, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Some context to the viral videos:
Around 9am Friday, ICE/CBP *encircled* several square miles of a safe suburb and *stormed* it using multiple units.
They were in cars, on foot in alleys & gangways, and in helicopters. They demanded papers, threatened residents, pointed guns, kidnapped people.
Around 9am Friday, ICE/CBP *encircled* several square miles of a safe suburb and *stormed* it using multiple units.
They were in cars, on foot in alleys & gangways, and in helicopters. They demanded papers, threatened residents, pointed guns, kidnapped people.
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Six months ago I wrote this post about “the next terrorist attack.” I republish it now (lightly updated) because my fear of this scenario has recently grown much greater.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-t...
snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-t...
The Next Terrorist Attack
And What Comes After (Updated)
snyder.substack.com
November 1, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Six months ago I wrote this post about “the next terrorist attack.” I republish it now (lightly updated) because my fear of this scenario has recently grown much greater.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-t...
snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-t...
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RW militias have moved from their 90s fringe to effectively state-sanctioned, and Nazism, white nationalism, and other extremist strains now dominate state political parties, with the upper hand in national politics under an increasingly authoritarian regime.
As a threat assessment, it’s not close.
As a threat assessment, it’s not close.
November 1, 2025 at 8:52 PM
RW militias have moved from their 90s fringe to effectively state-sanctioned, and Nazism, white nationalism, and other extremist strains now dominate state political parties, with the upper hand in national politics under an increasingly authoritarian regime.
As a threat assessment, it’s not close.
As a threat assessment, it’s not close.
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“It’s the same picture”
October 19, 2025 at 5:57 PM
“It’s the same picture”
Omaha #NoKings Rally biggest one yet this year and filled with emergent energy. You can sense a realignment of coalitions within American politics. It’s a great platform for human connection. People making clever signs, dressing up in costumes, singing songs, telling stories on stage, etc.
October 18, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Omaha #NoKings Rally biggest one yet this year and filled with emergent energy. You can sense a realignment of coalitions within American politics. It’s a great platform for human connection. People making clever signs, dressing up in costumes, singing songs, telling stories on stage, etc.