Robert Godfrey
@holbein.bsky.social
Social scientist, humanist.
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Robert Godfrey
@holbein.bsky.social
· Nov 19
Religion is like a penis. It’s ok to have one, it’s ok to be proud of it. But do not pull it out in public, do not push it on kids, do not write laws with it, do not think with it.
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Yeah including you, you sonuvabitch
Ben Shapiro: "Today I want to talk about something even more important — how to discern those attempting to speak truth from frauds and grifters…The conservative movement is in danger from charlatans who claim to speak in the name of principle but actually traffic in conspiracy and dishonesty."
December 19, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Yeah including you, you sonuvabitch
It’s happening!
December 19, 2025 at 2:11 PM
It’s happening!
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It’s always worth remembering that even in the past, people knew this shit was wrong. Civil War fanboys say it’s unfair to judge the south by the standards of our time. Well, what if we judge them by the standards of the people *in the same time* who knew it was wrong and FOUGHT A WAR to stop it.
December 19, 2025 at 1:51 PM
It’s always worth remembering that even in the past, people knew this shit was wrong. Civil War fanboys say it’s unfair to judge the south by the standards of our time. Well, what if we judge them by the standards of the people *in the same time* who knew it was wrong and FOUGHT A WAR to stop it.
Yup!
“But the Republicans are worse” is not a viable argument for why the Democrats should keep sucking so hard
Mark Kelly is being targeted by the administration for pointing out a clear facet of military tradition and American law. Kelly then voted to support a nomination offered up by the administration that is trying to censor and prosecute him. And people wonder why there’s so much cynicism.
December 19, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Yup!
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Defunding the American Academy of Pediatrics? This will lead to increased disease and demise of children! Trump and Republicans don't give a damn about children. What more evidence do you need?
The Trump administration is punishing the American Academy of Pediatrics.
I have enough thoughts about this for an entire feature length documentary but here are two minutes of them.
(Spoiler alert: you can’t fight bad politics by staying apolitical.)
I have enough thoughts about this for an entire feature length documentary but here are two minutes of them.
(Spoiler alert: you can’t fight bad politics by staying apolitical.)
December 18, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Defunding the American Academy of Pediatrics? This will lead to increased disease and demise of children! Trump and Republicans don't give a damn about children. What more evidence do you need?
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I've been waiting to find out exactly how Trump was going to personally profit from the AI greed frenzy he has unleashed because there was no way he was *not* going to get a piece.
Now we know: a $6-billion merger of his failing media corp with an AI energy corp
www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025...
Now we know: a $6-billion merger of his failing media corp with an AI energy corp
www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025...
Trump Media to merge with nuclear fusion company to power AI
The all-stock deal comes amid growing energy needs for the tech sector.
www.aljazeera.com
December 18, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I've been waiting to find out exactly how Trump was going to personally profit from the AI greed frenzy he has unleashed because there was no way he was *not* going to get a piece.
Now we know: a $6-billion merger of his failing media corp with an AI energy corp
www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025...
Now we know: a $6-billion merger of his failing media corp with an AI energy corp
www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025...
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All of the major broadcast news outlets have converted themselves into heavily biased MAGA mouthpieces — just as MAGA is falling apart. To be followed by more whining about lack of public trust in the media.
December 18, 2025 at 2:22 PM
All of the major broadcast news outlets have converted themselves into heavily biased MAGA mouthpieces — just as MAGA is falling apart. To be followed by more whining about lack of public trust in the media.
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The networks were afraid not to run Trump because they assumed he would use his office to punish them if they didn’t. The irony is that this is what Biden was warning about, a warning they chose not to share with America.
You'll remember that when Biden delivered an address in 2022, networks refused to air it because they said it was "political" www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/0...
As Biden warned about democracy’s collapse, TV networks aired reruns
Broadcasters NBC, CBS and ABC usually air presidential prime-time addresses live. But they found Biden's Philadelphia speech more "political" than newsworthy.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 18, 2025 at 1:30 PM
The networks were afraid not to run Trump because they assumed he would use his office to punish them if they didn’t. The irony is that this is what Biden was warning about, a warning they chose not to share with America.
A summary for the ages. A snapshot of where we are —and crossroads moment of deciding where will be going.
“There's a whole bunch of players in Trump’s circle… who are trying to put in place what I would call a Nazi worldview.”
Historian @hcrichardson.bsky.social explains how the Trump administration is encouraging a Nazi worldview.
Watch the full town hall: zeteo.com/p/heather-co...
Historian @hcrichardson.bsky.social explains how the Trump administration is encouraging a Nazi worldview.
Watch the full town hall: zeteo.com/p/heather-co...
December 18, 2025 at 2:42 PM
A summary for the ages. A snapshot of where we are —and crossroads moment of deciding where will be going.
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Well, this is an utter disaster for science.
This gutting of peer review is very likely driven by Project 2025/OMB/Vought, very likely is about funding junk science, and very likely is coming for #NIH and biomedical research next.
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This gutting of peer review is very likely driven by Project 2025/OMB/Vought, very likely is about funding junk science, and very likely is coming for #NIH and biomedical research next.
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December 16, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Well, this is an utter disaster for science.
This gutting of peer review is very likely driven by Project 2025/OMB/Vought, very likely is about funding junk science, and very likely is coming for #NIH and biomedical research next.
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This gutting of peer review is very likely driven by Project 2025/OMB/Vought, very likely is about funding junk science, and very likely is coming for #NIH and biomedical research next.
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Just a reminder that at least 600 Americans were fired for failing to show sufficient respect after Charlie Kirk's murder.
December 15, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Just a reminder that at least 600 Americans were fired for failing to show sufficient respect after Charlie Kirk's murder.
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real police state stuff
WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 13, 2025 at 4:06 AM
real police state stuff
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Best news of the day and a real sign of AI progress.
LOL... Pentagon released a new AI military chatbot and it immediately pointed out that Pete Hegseth is a war criminal.
abovethelaw.com/2025/12/pent...
abovethelaw.com/2025/12/pent...
Pentagon Unveils New GenAI Platform, It Immediately Starts Flagging Pete Hegseth's War Crimes - Above the Law
The Defense Department's new ChatJAG turned out to be better than the human chain of command.
abovethelaw.com
December 13, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Best news of the day and a real sign of AI progress.
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"This will hurt them a lot more than it hurts me" --
The Economic Populism and Affordability president
The Economic Populism and Affordability president
Q: At the end of this year, those extended Obamacare subsidies expire. What's your message to those 24m Americans who will see their premiums go up?
TRUMP: Don't make it sound so bad. Obviously you're a sycophant for Democrats. You're obviously a provider of bad news for Republicans.
TRUMP: Don't make it sound so bad. Obviously you're a sycophant for Democrats. You're obviously a provider of bad news for Republicans.
December 13, 2025 at 4:18 AM
"This will hurt them a lot more than it hurts me" --
The Economic Populism and Affordability president
The Economic Populism and Affordability president
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its really fucked every day to live in a country with a leader this openly racist and the msm just nods along with it and the dems hardly ever say anything about it
December 9, 2025 at 2:46 PM
its really fucked every day to live in a country with a leader this openly racist and the msm just nods along with it and the dems hardly ever say anything about it
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They want to repeat lies to make them true in people's minds. Every time you hear these lies, remind people that Biden left Donald Trump an economy that The Economist called envy of the world. ZERO% chance of a recession. Donald's regime has dragged it down into a stagflation.
Karoline Leavitt lies with impunity on Fox & Friends: "Don't forget -- a year ago, President Trump inherited the worst inflation crisis in modern American history from the Biden administration."
December 9, 2025 at 1:02 PM
They want to repeat lies to make them true in people's minds. Every time you hear these lies, remind people that Biden left Donald Trump an economy that The Economist called envy of the world. ZERO% chance of a recession. Donald's regime has dragged it down into a stagflation.
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That's called a Dictatorship.
December 9, 2025 at 2:09 AM
That's called a Dictatorship.
In a sense, this is a lens to see where the Democratic Party is at the moment. Is it in transition or is it locked in place?
Read @sifill.bsky.social: "Every Democratic member of the House should have been on the steps of the Capitol affirming support for their colleague Ilhan Omar and for the Somali-American community after the President’s Oval Office attack" sherrilyn.substack.com/p/is-it-too-...
Is It Too Late?
No. But We Must Better Understand the Nature of the Battle
sherrilyn.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:17 PM
In a sense, this is a lens to see where the Democratic Party is at the moment. Is it in transition or is it locked in place?
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I know there’s a lot going on but are we ever circling back to the Epstein Files?
The president’s involvement with his best friend’s scheme of sex trafficking minors seems a little important
The president’s involvement with his best friend’s scheme of sex trafficking minors seems a little important
December 9, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I know there’s a lot going on but are we ever circling back to the Epstein Files?
The president’s involvement with his best friend’s scheme of sex trafficking minors seems a little important
The president’s involvement with his best friend’s scheme of sex trafficking minors seems a little important
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This thread is like one of those sci-fi movies where they stumble upon a destroyed spaceship and find the log reports of the captain slowly going insane.
December 9, 2025 at 2:44 PM
This thread is like one of those sci-fi movies where they stumble upon a destroyed spaceship and find the log reports of the captain slowly going insane.
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Donald Trump is sleeping in public the right way.
by Ezra Klein
by Ezra Klein
December 9, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Donald Trump is sleeping in public the right way.
by Ezra Klein
by Ezra Klein
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Community Note strikes again!
December 9, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Community Note strikes again!
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45 years ago was such a cold day. RIP John Lennon.
December 8, 2025 at 10:57 AM
45 years ago was such a cold day. RIP John Lennon.