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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · Jul 2

I’m going to be very honest and clear.

I am fully preparing myself to die under this new American regime. That’s not to say that it’s the end of the world. It isn’t. But I am almost 50 years old. It will take so long to do anything with this mess that this is the new normal for *me*.

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Eric Corey Freed @ericcoreyfreed.bsky.social · Jun 30

5. Everyone repeats same script.
6. More truth comes out showing cover up.
7. Lie more by telling you not to believe your own eyes.
8. Followers parrot the messaging. /2

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Eric Corey Freed @ericcoreyfreed.bsky.social · Jun 30

One of his common patterns:
1. Desperation to shape a narrative.
2. Premature announcement.
3. Truth (inevitably) comes out.
4. Attack the truth.
Attack the messenger(s).
Lie and cover up. /1

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Eric Corey Freed @ericcoreyfreed.bsky.social · Jun 30

Given the massive embodied carbon emissions of concrete, there are some low-carbon options to achieve that amorphous shape (that you might be looking for with shotcrete.)

@geoship.bsky.social is a wonder material;
Plus there’s the whole mass timber route.
Let me know how I can help!

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · Jun 8

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MS Kohut @mskohut.bsky.social · May 23

Fascism sets in EXACTLY like this. Days go by. Nothing improves. The people wait with bated breath for SOMETHING or SOMEONE to help. Court orders, but no enforcement. Time passes. We become desensitized. Life goes on. Rights are chipped away. Life goes on. People die. Life goes on.

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Peter Manseau @petermanseau.bsky.social · May 4

Star Wars Intro Scroll

Episode IV
It Was All So Stupid

Seriously, you would not believe how stupid it was. Every day, unrelentingly, just the dumbest stuff by the absolute worst people. And what made it worse was knowing that we’d brought this on ourselves.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · Apr 25

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Elizabeth Kolbert @elizkolbert.bsky.social · Apr 21

Let them eat cake, I mean toxic chemicals. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/c...

E.P.A. Set to Cancel Grants Aimed at Protecting Children From Toxic Chemicals

The cancellations, set to apply to pending and active grants, also affect research into “forever chemicals” contaminating the food supply.

www.nytimes.com

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Eric Corey Freed @ericcoreyfreed.bsky.social · Apr 8

So we can’t afford clean air, or science, or cancer research, or weather tracking, or space exploration, or feeding the poor, or healthcare… but THIS we can afford?! Got it.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/u...

Trump Administration Aims to Spend $45 Billion to Expand Immigrant Detention

A request for proposals for new detention facilities and other services would allow the government to expedite the contracting process and rapidly expand detention.

www.nytimes.com

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Eric Corey Freed @ericcoreyfreed.bsky.social · Apr 4

Wow: “It took just 71 days for Donald Trump to wreck the American economy, mortally wound NATO, and destroy the American-led world order.”

www.thebulwark.com/p/the-americ...

The American Age Is Over

Emergency Triad: The United States commits imperial suicide.

www.thebulwark.com

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Eric Corey Freed @ericcoreyfreed.bsky.social · Mar 10

I love Venn diagrams, so I attempted to create a literary Venn to describe where we are.

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Eric Corey Freed @ericcoreyfreed.bsky.social · Mar 5

Imagine hearing from your president that “we’re here for you” and not the usual performative, low class, ratings seeking, pathetic and weak messaging designed to solely divide Americans.

Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · Mar 4

You can’t overstate the historic importance of today’s speech to both American and Canadian citizens by Canada’s Prime Minister.

Please watch it and share it wherever you live, but especially if you’re in the United States. You need to know what Trump is doing, and why. youtu.be/wz_42pckM7w

Watch Trudeau speak directly to Trump during blistering speech

YouTube video by CNN

youtu.be

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Eric Corey Freed @ericcoreyfreed.bsky.social · Feb 23

Eric Corey Freed @ericcoreyfreed.bsky.social · Feb 17

and 1% feta cheese.

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Eric Corey Freed @ericcoreyfreed.bsky.social · Feb 13

So what happens if, sometime in the future, he decides to switch the name from “Washington DC” to “Trump DC”?
Do Google and Apple Maps just blindly oblige?

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Alessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · Feb 10

I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky

Alessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · Feb 6

Just received an email saying that it's not advisable to include the following words in future applications for research funding to the US DOT. Here we are.

1. Climate change
2. Greenhouse gas emissions
3. Emissions
4. Racial equity
5. Gender identity
6. Diversity, equity and inclusion
7. Environmental justice
8. Justice40 initiative

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Eric Corey Freed @ericcoreyfreed.bsky.social · Feb 2

We import 60% of our oil from Canada.
Trump slapped a 25% tariff on everything Canadian.
Trump gutted incentives for renewables.
Trump eliminated the incentives for Electric Vehicles.

Explain to me how this plays out.

Eric Corey Freed @ericcoreyfreed.bsky.social · Feb 2

Is America Great Again yet?!

Richard Zussman @richardzussman.bsky.social · Feb 2

NEW - Ottawa Senators fans booed the American national anthem at the beginning of tonight’s hockey game.

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Eric Corey Freed @ericcoreyfreed.bsky.social · Jan 31

How long until Trump simply points at a black person and shouts, “You’re DEI!”?

I’m thinking this week.

(Remember when he pointed at Jim Acosta and said, “You’re Fake News.”?!)

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · Jan 31

Department of Transportation orders all personnel to "identify and eliminate" every order, directive, rule, regulation, policy, notice, guidance document, funding arrangement, or program that even mentions climate change, diversity, or environmental justice

www.transportation.gov/sites/dot.go...

Dept of Transportation memo ordering all personnel to "identify and eliminate" every order, policy, funding arrangement, or program that even mentions climate change, diversity, or environmental justice

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Eric Corey Freed @ericcoreyfreed.bsky.social · Jan 31

So the “King” makes a list of words he doesn’t like and the entire government scrambles to undo the past and block anything mentioning those meddlesome words, regards of the lives it ruins?!

This type of chaos isn’t sustainable.
(Oops, that’s one of the bad words the king hates!)

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Eric Corey Freed @ericcoreyfreed.bsky.social · Jan 29

Trump took down the HHS webpage on their Climate Pledge program that hundreds of our clients had enrolled. Maddening. Try it: www.hhs.gov/climate-chan...

www.hhs.gov

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Fred Guttenberg @fredguttenberg.bsky.social · Jan 24

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