Scotty Hendricks
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Scotty Hendricks
@scottyhendricks.bsky.social
Writer, Master of Public Policy, and Interesting Person. Philosophy Grad Student at LUC. All posts my own and not representing anybody I'm affiliated with and all that.

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"The cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.

"AOC exposes Trump's ICE funding scheme.
January 13, 2026 at 7:40 PM
Scott Adams is dead. So please enjoy the best Dilbert comic ever on this, the last day you'll think of that comic.

Adams didn't even write it:

www.smbc-comics.com/comic/requie...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Requiem for a Dil
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Requiem for a Dil
www.smbc-comics.com
January 13, 2026 at 4:53 PM
I had a relative lose his mind over gas stoves when that was the culture war front of the week. He didn't have one. Nor did his neighbors. Didn't slow him down.

None of it is ever for the people who might be impacted. Its always trying to get the base to fear that the left is out to get them.
By every metric, congestion pricing been a success. And even most of the people who opposed it in NYC have since come around.

But it may still be a red meat issue to *people who don't actually live here* and that's presumably whom he's trying to appeal to.
New York news: Trump is vaguely threatening to end congestion pricing, again. Unclear why he is bringing this up now.
January 12, 2026 at 11:12 PM
The Des Moines.

Never saw any monks, though.
My favorite Twitter prompt was "RT this with your home river," so reskeet this with your home river.

Mine is the Patuxent.
January 12, 2026 at 10:20 PM
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Government accounts just post like this now and that’s how policy is made
January 12, 2026 at 9:10 PM
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The fact that this almost directly echoes President Nixon’s counsel is surely a coincidence. - RZ
Chris Murphy: "Let's talk about what's at stake here. The president is spending every single day thinking about invading Greenland, managing the Venezuelan economy, building a ballroom. He's not thinking about the American people at all."
January 11, 2026 at 5:24 PM
I also suggest the dynamic version of the game.
Edu-tainment for our times.
January 11, 2026 at 12:56 AM
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If they truly think the video makes the shooting seem justified, it’s because they believe summary execution is an appropriate punishment for “being a bitch” and they feel confident that many other men believe the same thing
The new video makes clear that

1) he told her to get out of the car, and ultimately shot her, because he wanted to punish her for making him feel small

2) she made him feel small, not because she was a threat to him or anyone else, but because she was not afraid of him
January 9, 2026 at 8:06 PM
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January 9, 2026 at 2:44 AM
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Abolishing ICE is the bare minimum.

We need to dismantle DHS. We need restitution. And we need trials.
January 8, 2026 at 1:51 AM
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DHS should go away. This should be a real goal, to unwind this un-American beast created by the War on Terror. Send the agencies under its umbrella back to their historic homes. Maybe save TSA and send it to DOT. But nuke the rest of it.
January 7, 2026 at 7:31 PM
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this feels like the 2003 mission accomplished speech if you'd been kicked in the head by a horse.
January 3, 2026 at 5:32 PM
America trying to administer a currently socialistic country in the tropics? Promises of transition to a new government? I've seen this before somewhere..... anybody remember how it went?
Trump on Venezuela: "We're going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper, and judicious transition"
January 3, 2026 at 5:15 PM
The opinion that all opinions should be respected should not be respected.
my plan to get this country back on track consists of one bullet point: i propose we stop pretending stupid people arent stupid just because theyre loud and theres a lot of them
January 3, 2026 at 4:11 PM
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It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month.

It’s about oil and regime change.

And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.
January 3, 2026 at 3:34 PM
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January 3, 2026 at 3:06 PM
Uranium sales are about to go through the roof amongst smaller nations who don't trust the closest major power.
congratulations to the Kim family, whose entire approach to the question of how you respond to a hostile, completely unreliable United States has been completely vindicated by the past 25 years
January 3, 2026 at 1:53 PM
The litmus test for every candidate in every congressional primary this year must be having a way to respond to illegal actions like this.

Vote accordingly
January 3, 2026 at 1:50 PM
So, when's a good protest happening in Chicago?
January 3, 2026 at 1:21 PM
All Glory to Linux!
www.howtogeek.com/new-article-...

Installing Linux is now easier than Windows 11:

Currently, windows requires multiple reboots, online connectivity, signing up for a service, and serves ads.

Most Linux distro's can install in less than 10 min, no ads, no internet needed, and one reboot.

#Linux
Installing Linux is easier than Windows 11 now (here’s what changed)
Hint: I had to solve 10 CAPTCHAs just to install Windows 11
www.howtogeek.com
January 2, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Just saw an ad for a vocational school arguing the trades are AI proof. The ad, however, used AI generated cartoons in lieu of actors.

Irony is dead, and we have killed it.

#AI
January 1, 2026 at 6:37 PM
I once saw Bernie Sanders at the University of Iowa library before anybody outside of Vermont knew who he was.

My grandma has a better one, she was once in an elevator with the prog supergroup Asia.
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie

Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
December 30, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Upjohn Institute researchers are participating in the 2026 Allied Social Science Associations (ASSA) annual meeting as paper authors and discussants in nine different sessions. Read our newest research highlight for details and links

Read more: www.upjohn.org/research-hig...

#econsky #assa
Upjohn Institute takes part in 2026 ASSA conference in Philadelphia
www.upjohn.org
December 29, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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People really need to understand Marcuse and apply it to this moment. Maybe I need to write “Zero-Dimensional Man”…..
for the love of god, AI systems aren't "just tools that are neither good nor evil in and of themselves". AI systems *are* tools of capitalism. they exist as tools of capitalism. there is no AI system "in and of itself" outside of capitalism
December 29, 2025 at 4:36 PM