DGCassidy
@dgcassidy.bsky.social
Humanist. Agnotology watchdog. 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇮🇪 Agitator for a better tomorrow for *everyone*. #VA01 progressive. #LFC, #PetShopBoys fan. Believer in peer-reviewed data, conclusions, and policies.
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DGCassidy
@dgcassidy.bsky.social
· Dec 17
"Agnotology is the study of the deliberate spread of ignorance or doubt to influence opinion. It helps us understand how people use ignorance to hide or divert attention from societal problems, promote ignorance, and stoke xenophobia and populism."
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
The man who studies the spread of ignorance
How do people or companies with vested interests spread ignorance and obfuscate knowledge? Georgina Kenyon finds there is a term which defines this phenomenon.
www.bbc.com
Agnotology = word of the last decade.
“Proctor found that ignorance spreads when firstly, many people do not understand a concept or fact and secondly, when special interest groups – like a commercial firm or a political group – then work hard to create confusion about an issue.”
Sound familiar?
“Proctor found that ignorance spreads when firstly, many people do not understand a concept or fact and secondly, when special interest groups – like a commercial firm or a political group – then work hard to create confusion about an issue.”
Sound familiar?
Virginia friends: is anyone in VA working on this? Now would seem to be the right time to make headway on it!
@henricodems.bsky.social @indivisibleva.bsky.social @neighbors4change.bsky.social @804thepeople.bsky.social @senatorhashmi.bsky.social @abigailspanberger.com
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How to get rid of Citizens United?
We can do away with it without a new Supreme Court. Nor do we need a constitutional amendment.
There’s a far simpler way. Let me explain: https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-to-get-rid-of-citizens-united
We can do away with it without a new Supreme Court. Nor do we need a constitutional amendment.
There’s a far simpler way. Let me explain: https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-to-get-rid-of-citizens-united
How to Get Rid of "Citizens United"
We can do away with it without a new Supreme Court. Nor do we need a constitutional amendment. There’s a far simpler way
robertreich.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Virginia friends: is anyone in VA working on this? Now would seem to be the right time to make headway on it!
@henricodems.bsky.social @indivisibleva.bsky.social @neighbors4change.bsky.social @804thepeople.bsky.social @senatorhashmi.bsky.social @abigailspanberger.com
@henricodems.bsky.social @indivisibleva.bsky.social @neighbors4change.bsky.social @804thepeople.bsky.social @senatorhashmi.bsky.social @abigailspanberger.com
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So we know it’s illegal for military service members to carry out illegal orders…
why isn’t it illegal for presidents to GIVE illegal orders? Oh, b/c a 1974 OLC memo says a sitting POTUS cannot be criminally indicted and SCOTUS granted immunity for all official actions— like giving illegal orders?
why isn’t it illegal for presidents to GIVE illegal orders? Oh, b/c a 1974 OLC memo says a sitting POTUS cannot be criminally indicted and SCOTUS granted immunity for all official actions— like giving illegal orders?
November 25, 2025 at 2:53 AM
So we know it’s illegal for military service members to carry out illegal orders…
why isn’t it illegal for presidents to GIVE illegal orders? Oh, b/c a 1974 OLC memo says a sitting POTUS cannot be criminally indicted and SCOTUS granted immunity for all official actions— like giving illegal orders?
why isn’t it illegal for presidents to GIVE illegal orders? Oh, b/c a 1974 OLC memo says a sitting POTUS cannot be criminally indicted and SCOTUS granted immunity for all official actions— like giving illegal orders?
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Reminder that Rep. Jen Kiggans (R-VA02) - definitely NOT serious on healthcare - said this: "There's a couple of areas where I would like to see federal spending cut. Number one, I'd like to eliminate Obamacare...There's nothing worse than big government." bluevirginia.us/2025/11/tues...
November 26, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Reminder that Rep. Jen Kiggans (R-VA02) - definitely NOT serious on healthcare - said this: "There's a couple of areas where I would like to see federal spending cut. Number one, I'd like to eliminate Obamacare...There's nothing worse than big government." bluevirginia.us/2025/11/tues...
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Here we go again. Instead of making healthcare cheaper and easier to access, these policies will add multiple layers of bureaucracy and administrative hoops, leading to higher deductibles and premiums, and the need for additional policies. Rob on pre-existing conditions: don’t have them.
November 25, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Here we go again. Instead of making healthcare cheaper and easier to access, these policies will add multiple layers of bureaucracy and administrative hoops, leading to higher deductibles and premiums, and the need for additional policies. Rob on pre-existing conditions: don’t have them.
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Another important interview with the peerless @charlesgaba.com.
November 25, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Another important interview with the peerless @charlesgaba.com.
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You’d think the Vice Chair of the House Armed Services Committee might address the admin’s threats of starting a war in Venezuela. Nope - too busy shilling for fossil fuel companies on his own. Rob Wittman is an empty suit that doesn’t protect the military or #VA01.
November 25, 2025 at 2:24 PM
You’d think the Vice Chair of the House Armed Services Committee might address the admin’s threats of starting a war in Venezuela. Nope - too busy shilling for fossil fuel companies on his own. Rob Wittman is an empty suit that doesn’t protect the military or #VA01.
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Imagine paying for Netflix every month, and then paying when you watch the movie, and then getting another bill three months later because one of the actors isn’t signed with Netflix so you have to pay him directly.
That’d be STUPID right???
This is a post about health insurance.
That’d be STUPID right???
This is a post about health insurance.
November 25, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Imagine paying for Netflix every month, and then paying when you watch the movie, and then getting another bill three months later because one of the actors isn’t signed with Netflix so you have to pay him directly.
That’d be STUPID right???
This is a post about health insurance.
That’d be STUPID right???
This is a post about health insurance.
This is so incredibly sad. Not emotionally - just SAD. We've come to this, where the world's most wealthy man is fawning over a machine that supplements his massive lack of personal wit?
Just pathetic.
Just pathetic.
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 9:22 PM
This is so incredibly sad. Not emotionally - just SAD. We've come to this, where the world's most wealthy man is fawning over a machine that supplements his massive lack of personal wit?
Just pathetic.
Just pathetic.
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Wednesday, 9.30am-12pm, every week - that's when you can meet fellow #VA01 voters expecting better from Rob Wittman, at his office at 401 Main St, Yorktown, VA. Drop by to chat and let Rob know you're watching his every move!
November 24, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Wednesday, 9.30am-12pm, every week - that's when you can meet fellow #VA01 voters expecting better from Rob Wittman, at his office at 401 Main St, Yorktown, VA. Drop by to chat and let Rob know you're watching his every move!
I would LOVE for this to be true, and to happen. ASAP!
Scoop: Democrats eye ranked-choice voting for 2028 primaries
It's a tool that drew national attention when it propelled New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani to a decisive primary win.
www.axios.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:55 AM
I would LOVE for this to be true, and to happen. ASAP!
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You’d think after we’ve fact-checked Representative Wittman’s many lies about healthcare, his team would give up repeating the same gibberish. Nope. Wittman brings back “fuzzy math,” the #2 Big Lie, and twists himself into a knot avoiding a discussion of pre-existing conditions.
November 23, 2025 at 7:54 PM
You’d think after we’ve fact-checked Representative Wittman’s many lies about healthcare, his team would give up repeating the same gibberish. Nope. Wittman brings back “fuzzy math,” the #2 Big Lie, and twists himself into a knot avoiding a discussion of pre-existing conditions.
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Big news in the #VA01 race: @daredevil-one.bsky.social has suspended his campaign. We applaud James’s early entry in the race, and how he set the tone of collaboration and mutual respect among the candidates. Together, one of them will win!
@pilotonline.com @richmond.com @henricocitizen.bsky.social
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November 23, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Big news in the #VA01 race: @daredevil-one.bsky.social has suspended his campaign. We applaud James’s early entry in the race, and how he set the tone of collaboration and mutual respect among the candidates. Together, one of them will win!
@pilotonline.com @richmond.com @henricocitizen.bsky.social
@pilotonline.com @richmond.com @henricocitizen.bsky.social
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👀 Rob, 2026 is coming…
For the first time in recent memory, Virginia’s 1st Congressional District may be ‘in play’ for Democrats trib.al/TSS6LZ5
For the first time in recent memory, Virginia’s 1st Congressional District may be ‘in play’ for Democrats
Gov.-elect Abigail Spanberger performed better across the board in 2025 than Rob Wittman’s Democratic challenger in 2024. What could that mean for the 2026 midterms?
trib.al
November 23, 2025 at 1:54 PM
👀 Rob, 2026 is coming…
Despite their pride at their schools’ athletic successes, my college kids all lament how much money their schools spend on sports. It’s LUDICROUS that an academic institution is spending $95m on one coach! Amazing insight here.
How to Fix the Mess of College Sports
Athletic departments are spending too much money on the wrong things.
www.theatlantic.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Despite their pride at their schools’ athletic successes, my college kids all lament how much money their schools spend on sports. It’s LUDICROUS that an academic institution is spending $95m on one coach! Amazing insight here.
History is repeating. Look at the case of Senator Lundeen in the late 1940s and his connections with George Viereck and Nazi influence in the US during WW2. The gov decided it best to cover that up too. Are we seeing a pattern yet?! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_...
November 23, 2025 at 3:28 AM
History is repeating. Look at the case of Senator Lundeen in the late 1940s and his connections with George Viereck and Nazi influence in the US during WW2. The gov decided it best to cover that up too. Are we seeing a pattern yet?! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_...
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And then she starts posting Russian propaganda every single day. What a coincidence.
November 22, 2025 at 9:00 PM
And then she starts posting Russian propaganda every single day. What a coincidence.
It’s a series of tactical failures (esp. transition to defense against fast-breaking low block teams), injuries throwing us off balance (Frimpong, Bradley) and personnel underperforming (Kerkez, Wirtz). This is NOT rocket science. Based on last season, I expect a lot better from Slot. #LFC
November 22, 2025 at 6:14 PM
It’s a series of tactical failures (esp. transition to defense against fast-breaking low block teams), injuries throwing us off balance (Frimpong, Bradley) and personnel underperforming (Kerkez, Wirtz). This is NOT rocket science. Based on last season, I expect a lot better from Slot. #LFC
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AOC has said this about Marjorie Taylor Greene retiring:
"She's carefully timing her departure just 1-2 days after her pension kicks in and after making millions of dollars insider trading stocks for weapons manufacturers and others while in office. "
"She's carefully timing her departure just 1-2 days after her pension kicks in and after making millions of dollars insider trading stocks for weapons manufacturers and others while in office. "
November 22, 2025 at 5:57 PM
AOC has said this about Marjorie Taylor Greene retiring:
"She's carefully timing her departure just 1-2 days after her pension kicks in and after making millions of dollars insider trading stocks for weapons manufacturers and others while in office. "
"She's carefully timing her departure just 1-2 days after her pension kicks in and after making millions of dollars insider trading stocks for weapons manufacturers and others while in office. "
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As a Congressman and Vice Chair of the House Armed Services Committee, Wittman must stand for rule of law and the legality of US military operations. As Trump threatens politicians with DEATH, Wittman surely cannot stay silent!
November 22, 2025 at 4:09 PM
As a Congressman and Vice Chair of the House Armed Services Committee, Wittman must stand for rule of law and the legality of US military operations. As Trump threatens politicians with DEATH, Wittman surely cannot stay silent!
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Cities & states using #RankedChoiceVoting have frequently seen historic advances for women in government. Election Day 2025 was no exception.
Women running in ranked choice voting elections made history on Nov. 4 in Salt Lake City, St. Paul, & beyond ⬇️
Women running in ranked choice voting elections made history on Nov. 4 in Salt Lake City, St. Paul, & beyond ⬇️
Women across the country win with ranked choice voting in 2025 elections - FairVote
From Salt Lake City to St. Paul, women made electoral history with ranked choice voting in the 2025 elections.
fairvote.org
November 22, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Cities & states using #RankedChoiceVoting have frequently seen historic advances for women in government. Election Day 2025 was no exception.
Women running in ranked choice voting elections made history on Nov. 4 in Salt Lake City, St. Paul, & beyond ⬇️
Women running in ranked choice voting elections made history on Nov. 4 in Salt Lake City, St. Paul, & beyond ⬇️
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Noting the congressional pension is based on service time, it kicks in at 5 years and her retirement date - Jan. 5, 2026 - will be the first business day after she passes five years since her first swearing in. bsky.app/profile/heli...
Any idea why she's quitting then? Her statement isn't very coherent (big surprise), although it would make more sense as an explanation of just not running for re-election.
November 22, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Noting the congressional pension is based on service time, it kicks in at 5 years and her retirement date - Jan. 5, 2026 - will be the first business day after she passes five years since her first swearing in. bsky.app/profile/heli...
I think she realizes she can’t win anything under this administration. It’s either 3 years of stasis, or she can cause whatever chaos she wants on the outside. She may disappear for a while but by July 2026, she’ll be running for the GA governorship or be all over every news show in the country.
BREAKING: Marjorie Taylor Greene announces she is resigning from Congress. Her last day in office will be January 5, 2026.
November 22, 2025 at 2:08 AM
I think she realizes she can’t win anything under this administration. It’s either 3 years of stasis, or she can cause whatever chaos she wants on the outside. She may disappear for a while but by July 2026, she’ll be running for the GA governorship or be all over every news show in the country.
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Wittman claims he’s inspired to “protect the vulnerable” because of his own history as an adoptee. But his votes tell a very different story!
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November 21, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Wittman claims he’s inspired to “protect the vulnerable” because of his own history as an adoptee. But his votes tell a very different story!
@henricodems.bsky.social @wjccindivisible.bsky.social @neighbors4change.bsky.social @indivisibleva.bsky.social @804thepeople.bsky.social
@henricodems.bsky.social @wjccindivisible.bsky.social @neighbors4change.bsky.social @indivisibleva.bsky.social @804thepeople.bsky.social