ken vogt
@kenvogt.bsky.social
79 yo gay person (he/him), near bloomington, indiana, usa
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This mfer defended columbus on the merits and made a full-throated unapologetic defense of genocidal colonialism. I don’t really want to talk about anything else.
February 16, 2026 at 12:12 AM
This mfer defended columbus on the merits and made a full-throated unapologetic defense of genocidal colonialism. I don’t really want to talk about anything else.
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Just checking, it's now ok to flee your homeland, because you're afraid for your safety, and seek refuge in another Country?
Glad we've cleared that up. Let's hear no more about immigration and refugees then.
Glad we've cleared that up. Let's hear no more about immigration and refugees then.
February 14, 2026 at 7:55 AM
Just checking, it's now ok to flee your homeland, because you're afraid for your safety, and seek refuge in another Country?
Glad we've cleared that up. Let's hear no more about immigration and refugees then.
Glad we've cleared that up. Let's hear no more about immigration and refugees then.
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How on earth does science function in the US if they're throttling the funds?
NSF Update
Funding curve overall. A little bit of progress in the past week, but only a little bit.
Now by Directorate...
1/11
Funding curve overall. A little bit of progress in the past week, but only a little bit.
Now by Directorate...
1/11
February 14, 2026 at 11:52 AM
How on earth does science function in the US if they're throttling the funds?
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Stonewall. Come for Stonewall and come for us all. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🧡
February 12, 2026 at 9:36 PM
Stonewall. Come for Stonewall and come for us all. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🧡
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My doomer-worry about AI is not that the LLMs become omnipotent and take over the world but that the wealthy and powerful use it as a means to consolidate power and marginalize or lay off skilled workers and also everything about our technological and political and social life gets worse
February 11, 2026 at 8:20 PM
My doomer-worry about AI is not that the LLMs become omnipotent and take over the world but that the wealthy and powerful use it as a means to consolidate power and marginalize or lay off skilled workers and also everything about our technological and political and social life gets worse
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Trump to direct Pentagon to buy buggy whips to revive horse&buggy industry.
Trump to direct Pentagon to buy muskets to revive musket industry.
Buggy whip and musket industries big donors to Trump.
www.reuters.com/business/ene...
Trump to direct Pentagon to buy muskets to revive musket industry.
Buggy whip and musket industries big donors to Trump.
www.reuters.com/business/ene...
Trump to direct Pentagon to buy coal to revive industry, Bloomberg News says
U.S. President Donald Trump is set to direct the Pentagon to use government funding and Pentagon contracts to sustain U.S. coal-fired power plants, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday, citing a White H...
www.reuters.com
February 11, 2026 at 5:57 AM
Trump to direct Pentagon to buy buggy whips to revive horse&buggy industry.
Trump to direct Pentagon to buy muskets to revive musket industry.
Buggy whip and musket industries big donors to Trump.
www.reuters.com/business/ene...
Trump to direct Pentagon to buy muskets to revive musket industry.
Buggy whip and musket industries big donors to Trump.
www.reuters.com/business/ene...
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When we have the power, we must grant citizenship generously to immigrants, and we must make reparation to the people that Trump and Miller have targeted: the Somalis and Haitians first, but all immigrants who have been wronged.
For Immigrants, Citizenship Now
Abolishing ICE isn’t enough.
www.everythingishorrible.net
February 11, 2026 at 12:01 AM
When we have the power, we must grant citizenship generously to immigrants, and we must make reparation to the people that Trump and Miller have targeted: the Somalis and Haitians first, but all immigrants who have been wronged.
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U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.
February 9, 2026 at 4:07 PM
U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.
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I will be honest: we are not talking nearly enough about the downstream effects of these ICE and CBP deployments.
For example: landlords and debt collectors file more aggressive collection and eviction suits with dubious (or no) factual bases, knowing that the defendants won't go to the courthouse.
For example: landlords and debt collectors file more aggressive collection and eviction suits with dubious (or no) factual bases, knowing that the defendants won't go to the courthouse.
February 10, 2026 at 2:33 AM
I will be honest: we are not talking nearly enough about the downstream effects of these ICE and CBP deployments.
For example: landlords and debt collectors file more aggressive collection and eviction suits with dubious (or no) factual bases, knowing that the defendants won't go to the courthouse.
For example: landlords and debt collectors file more aggressive collection and eviction suits with dubious (or no) factual bases, knowing that the defendants won't go to the courthouse.
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The Heritage Foundation has released a 250-year roadmap to “save America.”
The document is a how-to guide for subjugating girls & young women: a detailed plan to push them out of college, funnel them into early marriage and motherhood, and then trap them there.
jessica.substack.com/p/theyre-com...
The document is a how-to guide for subjugating girls & young women: a detailed plan to push them out of college, funnel them into early marriage and motherhood, and then trap them there.
jessica.substack.com/p/theyre-com...
They're Coming for Our Daughters
The conservative plan to shrink girls’ futures
jessica.substack.com
February 9, 2026 at 6:22 PM
The Heritage Foundation has released a 250-year roadmap to “save America.”
The document is a how-to guide for subjugating girls & young women: a detailed plan to push them out of college, funnel them into early marriage and motherhood, and then trap them there.
jessica.substack.com/p/theyre-com...
The document is a how-to guide for subjugating girls & young women: a detailed plan to push them out of college, funnel them into early marriage and motherhood, and then trap them there.
jessica.substack.com/p/theyre-com...
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OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit
February 9, 2026 at 1:33 AM
OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit
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It is a devastating evidence of the Trump regime that the US capital Washington no longer has any serious newspaper, leaving it far behind any other significant capital in the world.
Trump has successfully turned the US into a banana republic in no time.
Trump has successfully turned the US into a banana republic in no time.
February 8, 2026 at 2:26 AM
It is a devastating evidence of the Trump regime that the US capital Washington no longer has any serious newspaper, leaving it far behind any other significant capital in the world.
Trump has successfully turned the US into a banana republic in no time.
Trump has successfully turned the US into a banana republic in no time.
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A lot of our political discourse would be easier if we didn't extend good faith to people who would never extend it back.
February 7, 2026 at 3:36 PM
A lot of our political discourse would be easier if we didn't extend good faith to people who would never extend it back.
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Carbon dioxide (CO₂) averaged about 429 ppm in January 2026
10 years ago January averaged about 403 ppm
Data available at gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/
10 years ago January averaged about 403 ppm
Data available at gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/
February 7, 2026 at 7:22 PM
Carbon dioxide (CO₂) averaged about 429 ppm in January 2026
10 years ago January averaged about 403 ppm
Data available at gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/
10 years ago January averaged about 403 ppm
Data available at gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/
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Epstein survivor Anouska De Georgiou: The fact that the very people who are meant to lead this country have completely retraumatized us… it’s—I mean—it’s like being raped by the Department of Justice.
February 6, 2026 at 7:16 PM
Epstein survivor Anouska De Georgiou: The fact that the very people who are meant to lead this country have completely retraumatized us… it’s—I mean—it’s like being raped by the Department of Justice.
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@ftrain.bsky.social wrote this essay for the first @wired.com during COVID lockdowns, and it’s seared into my mind (positive). While it resonated then, it hits harder now.
Highly recommended. I reread it probably more than I should.
www.wired.com/story/stones...
Highly recommended. I reread it probably more than I should.
www.wired.com/story/stones...
February 6, 2026 at 11:08 PM
@ftrain.bsky.social wrote this essay for the first @wired.com during COVID lockdowns, and it’s seared into my mind (positive). While it resonated then, it hits harder now.
Highly recommended. I reread it probably more than I should.
www.wired.com/story/stones...
Highly recommended. I reread it probably more than I should.
www.wired.com/story/stones...
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It really pays to remind ourselves frequently that this whole immigration "crisis" is made up out of whole cloth. There was no emergency,danger or problem, only a demagogue stirring up racist grievances for political advantage.
February 7, 2026 at 3:38 AM
It really pays to remind ourselves frequently that this whole immigration "crisis" is made up out of whole cloth. There was no emergency,danger or problem, only a demagogue stirring up racist grievances for political advantage.
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The Washington Post—for which I wrote editorials for nearly a decade—has closed its Kyiv bureau.
@lawfaremedia.org has not—and we will not.
We now employ more people in Kyiv than the Washington Post.
Let me tell you about what we have done in Ukraine over the past year and why we are not leaving
@lawfaremedia.org has not—and we will not.
We now employ more people in Kyiv than the Washington Post.
Let me tell you about what we have done in Ukraine over the past year and why we are not leaving
February 6, 2026 at 6:55 PM
The Washington Post—for which I wrote editorials for nearly a decade—has closed its Kyiv bureau.
@lawfaremedia.org has not—and we will not.
We now employ more people in Kyiv than the Washington Post.
Let me tell you about what we have done in Ukraine over the past year and why we are not leaving
@lawfaremedia.org has not—and we will not.
We now employ more people in Kyiv than the Washington Post.
Let me tell you about what we have done in Ukraine over the past year and why we are not leaving
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Internal White House meetings going on, like, "Hopefully the racism will distract from the pedophilia which will distract from the killings which will distract from the pedophilia again which will distract from the economy which will distract from the pedophilia a third time"
February 6, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Internal White House meetings going on, like, "Hopefully the racism will distract from the pedophilia which will distract from the killings which will distract from the pedophilia again which will distract from the economy which will distract from the pedophilia a third time"
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1. It was not an accident.
2. It was not a staffer.
3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia.
4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares.
5. His base agrees with him.
6. He will do it again.
7. No one in power will hold him accountable.
2. It was not a staffer.
3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia.
4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares.
5. His base agrees with him.
6. He will do it again.
7. No one in power will hold him accountable.
February 6, 2026 at 5:42 PM
1. It was not an accident.
2. It was not a staffer.
3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia.
4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares.
5. His base agrees with him.
6. He will do it again.
7. No one in power will hold him accountable.
2. It was not a staffer.
3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia.
4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares.
5. His base agrees with him.
6. He will do it again.
7. No one in power will hold him accountable.
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No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
www.nature.com
February 6, 2026 at 9:09 AM
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Government of Paris > All elected US Democrats
The Paris prosecutor's office added that it was shutting its own account on X and would communicate on LinkedIn and Instagram instead. ‼️‼️‼️
WHY is any legitimate organization using X??
🤯🤬
WHY is any legitimate organization using X??
🤯🤬
February 3, 2026 at 6:24 PM
Government of Paris > All elected US Democrats
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Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...
January 18, 2026 at 5:29 PM
Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...
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The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll
January 30, 2026 at 11:21 PM
The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll