Bruce Shepard
@shepardwb.bsky.social
Retired academic. Spent most of my career as a poli sci prof. But then went over to the dark side, spending last 16 years as a university president.
Let's start calling it, "The Trumpstein Administration."
February 18, 2026 at 4:26 PM
Let's start calling it, "The Trumpstein Administration."
Science cannot, of course, be “repealed.” Ignorant authoritarians try - think Galileo and Pope Urban VIII - but the truths science establishes remain just that, true. While Trump reaps millions from the fossil fuel folks, it’s our grandchildren who will pay the price for this avarice and ignorance.
Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change—all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.
WATCH: Trump, EPA's Zeldin announce end of scientific basis for U.S. action on climate change
The Trump administration on Thursday revoked a scientific finding that long has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change, the most aggressiv...
www.pbs.org
February 12, 2026 at 10:46 PM
Science cannot, of course, be “repealed.” Ignorant authoritarians try - think Galileo and Pope Urban VIII - but the truths science establishes remain just that, true. While Trump reaps millions from the fossil fuel folks, it’s our grandchildren who will pay the price for this avarice and ignorance.
TRULY! And so, what does that make anyone who reposts it?
Mike Lawler on Trump's racist apes post: "Whoever created the original meme is an idiot"
February 8, 2026 at 10:36 PM
TRULY! And so, what does that make anyone who reposts it?
For once, the child rapist is right. It's high time to move on .... from the file releases to impeachments, trials, convictions, and imprisonments.
Notice how the idiot telling us to "move on" from the Epstein files released six days ago never shuts up about an election that happened SIX YEARS AGO?
February 7, 2026 at 9:19 PM
For once, the child rapist is right. It's high time to move on .... from the file releases to impeachments, trials, convictions, and imprisonments.
Ahh, Noah’s lawyers must be salivating. With the focus on comments about Epstein, imagine the territory opened up to them for discovery. Consequently, TACO Trump will fold long before legal proceedings reach that point.
President Trump is threatening to sue Trevor Noah over a joke at last night's Grammy Awards, saying that Noah's crack claiming he visited Jeffrey Epstein's island was "false and defamatory."
Trump threatens to sue Trevor Noah over joke about Epstein's island
President Donald Trump called the joke, which Noah made at last night's Grammy Awards, "false and defamatory," again insisting he has never visited Jeffrey Epstein's island.
www.nbcnews.com
February 2, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Ahh, Noah’s lawyers must be salivating. With the focus on comments about Epstein, imagine the territory opened up to them for discovery. Consequently, TACO Trump will fold long before legal proceedings reach that point.
Everything Trump touches dies.
Trump: "I have determined that the fastest way to bring The Trump Kennedy Center to the highest level of Success, Beauty, and Grandeur, is to cease Entertainment Operations for an approximately two year period of time, with a scheduled Grand Reopening that will rival and surpass anything."
February 1, 2026 at 11:50 PM
Everything Trump touches dies.
First time I've wished I had a TikTok account .... so that I could cancel it. Alas, not to be.
January 27, 2026 at 9:10 PM
First time I've wished I had a TikTok account .... so that I could cancel it. Alas, not to be.
Can you tell which one is different? 3 shot firearms being brandished at a protest; 1 does not.
January 26, 2026 at 9:20 PM
Can you tell which one is different? 3 shot firearms being brandished at a protest; 1 does not.
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Oh, look. The white president who thinks that asylum seekers come from insane asylums, that the Norwegian government gives out the Nobel Peace Prize, that stealth bombers are invisible to the naked eye, and that windmills cause cancer is talking about which black people have a "low IQ" again.
January 20, 2026 at 11:51 PM
Oh, look. The white president who thinks that asylum seekers come from insane asylums, that the Norwegian government gives out the Nobel Peace Prize, that stealth bombers are invisible to the naked eye, and that windmills cause cancer is talking about which black people have a "low IQ" again.
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For my Canadian friends. Please, please, please! 🙏
January 6, 2026 at 3:17 PM
For my Canadian friends. Please, please, please! 🙏
It’s always about projecting the evilness that pervades his own (feeble) thinking.
January 4, 2026 at 1:03 AM
It’s always about projecting the evilness that pervades his own (feeble) thinking.
Could kinda get into this renaming thing.
December 19, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Could kinda get into this renaming thing.
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This will be remembered as the most pathetic moment in American history. What a needy fool.
December 7, 2025 at 1:09 AM
This will be remembered as the most pathetic moment in American history. What a needy fool.
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Nigeria has 8x the population of Iraq. Ask Bush how that worked out.
Trump says we are preparing to invade Nigeria. Apparently that’s what voters said they wanted in the exit polls. Trump: “We’re going to do things to Nigeria that Nigeria’s not gonna be happy about. Guns-a-blazin!”
November 6, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Nigeria has 8x the population of Iraq. Ask Bush how that worked out.
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Can we set aside that crisis of young men being driven to the Right? From NBC’s exit polling for young men 18-29:
VA: Spanberger +14
NJ: Sherrill: +10
NYC: Mamdani +40
VA: Spanberger +14
NJ: Sherrill: +10
NYC: Mamdani +40
November 6, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Can we set aside that crisis of young men being driven to the Right? From NBC’s exit polling for young men 18-29:
VA: Spanberger +14
NJ: Sherrill: +10
NYC: Mamdani +40
VA: Spanberger +14
NJ: Sherrill: +10
NYC: Mamdani +40
Venezuela produces no fentanyl. And, Nigeria is not persecuting Christians. (It’s an extremist Islamic sect that is in revolt and actually killing more Muslims than Christians.)
So, why are these nations in Trump’s crosshairs? That both have huge oil reserves is, I am sure, purely coincidental.
So, why are these nations in Trump’s crosshairs? That both have huge oil reserves is, I am sure, purely coincidental.
November 6, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Venezuela produces no fentanyl. And, Nigeria is not persecuting Christians. (It’s an extremist Islamic sect that is in revolt and actually killing more Muslims than Christians.)
So, why are these nations in Trump’s crosshairs? That both have huge oil reserves is, I am sure, purely coincidental.
So, why are these nations in Trump’s crosshairs? That both have huge oil reserves is, I am sure, purely coincidental.
Whistling past the graveyard, me thinks.
Mike Johnson: "What happened last night is blue states and blue cities voted blue. We all saw that coming. And no one should read too much into last night's election results."
November 5, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Whistling past the graveyard, me thinks.
Twas good to see a bit of light in the sky when I got up this morning. But, boy, the cocktail hour is seeming way too far away.
November 2, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Twas good to see a bit of light in the sky when I got up this morning. But, boy, the cocktail hour is seeming way too far away.
Why celebrate Great Gatsby at the Mar-a-Lago Halloween party. Forget the in-your-face gaucheness of doing so as SNAP expires. Novel's theme is the hollowness of the American dream and ends with only 3 folks attending the murdered Gatsby's funeral. I doubt any of them ever read the American classic?
November 1, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Why celebrate Great Gatsby at the Mar-a-Lago Halloween party. Forget the in-your-face gaucheness of doing so as SNAP expires. Novel's theme is the hollowness of the American dream and ends with only 3 folks attending the murdered Gatsby's funeral. I doubt any of them ever read the American classic?
While various nefarious possibilities occur, there’s the “Occam’s Razor” explanation: they’re freeloaders.
Stephen Miller, Marco Rubio and Kristi Noem represent “a growing list” of senior Trump-administration political appointees now living on military bases — “where they are shielded not just from potential violence but also from protest”
Wonder why
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Wonder why
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
November 1, 2025 at 1:41 PM
While various nefarious possibilities occur, there’s the “Occam’s Razor” explanation: they’re freeloaders.
They are expecting (or imagining they can provoke) civil war.
Stephen Miller, Marco Rubio and Kristi Noem represent “a growing list” of senior Trump-administration political appointees now living on military bases — “where they are shielded not just from potential violence but also from protest”
Wonder why
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Wonder why
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
November 1, 2025 at 1:25 PM
They are expecting (or imagining they can provoke) civil war.
Political junkie that I am, read the Washington Post for 40+ years. Cancelled last fall amidst their disgusting coverage of the presidential campaign.
Only one thing would motivate me to resubscribe: having the pleasure of again canceling.
Only one thing would motivate me to resubscribe: having the pleasure of again canceling.
October 30, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Political junkie that I am, read the Washington Post for 40+ years. Cancelled last fall amidst their disgusting coverage of the presidential campaign.
Only one thing would motivate me to resubscribe: having the pleasure of again canceling.
Only one thing would motivate me to resubscribe: having the pleasure of again canceling.
Was playing with ChatGPT. I got generic and lengthy responses to general questions like: "How can we overcome authoritarianism?" When I asked more directly, the response was terse. Could either mean it's now allowed to say. Or, could be its conclusion is that we are cooked. I fear it's both.
October 24, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Was playing with ChatGPT. I got generic and lengthy responses to general questions like: "How can we overcome authoritarianism?" When I asked more directly, the response was terse. Could either mean it's now allowed to say. Or, could be its conclusion is that we are cooked. I fear it's both.