William R Knecht, Ph.D.
@williamrknecht.bsky.social
Married, retired cognitive/behavioral research psychologist now restoring 127 acres of OK prairie. I post shareable links to NYT, The Atlantic. Love blues music, antique tractors, trees & plants supporting wildlife. Hate Trump.
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HOW TO RECOGNIZE A BLUESKY BOT
1) Very few Followers. Follows many
2) Few Posts
3) Profile picture often young, attractive, opposite sex
4) Glamor shots w suggestive poses
HOW TO HANDLE THE BOT THREAT
1) Research new Followers before Following back!
2) Mute or Block obvious bots
3) Educate others
1) Very few Followers. Follows many
2) Few Posts
3) Profile picture often young, attractive, opposite sex
4) Glamor shots w suggestive poses
HOW TO HANDLE THE BOT THREAT
1) Research new Followers before Following back!
2) Mute or Block obvious bots
3) Educate others
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In their 2026 budget, Russia has allocated $7B for youth indoctrination project to mobilize up to 1M Ukrainian children in occupied territories.
December 4, 2025 at 3:39 PM
In their 2026 budget, Russia has allocated $7B for youth indoctrination project to mobilize up to 1M Ukrainian children in occupied territories.
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If it takes 1000 FBI agents or just 1000 people to redact his name from the files, then the dumbass is in deep trouble, because 1000 more people know he is in the Epstein files an insane number of times. 😏
It will only take a few of them to leak it to the media. 👍👍
MAY THE LEAKING BEGIN NOW. 👍👍
It will only take a few of them to leak it to the media. 👍👍
MAY THE LEAKING BEGIN NOW. 👍👍
December 4, 2025 at 7:28 PM
If it takes 1000 FBI agents or just 1000 people to redact his name from the files, then the dumbass is in deep trouble, because 1000 more people know he is in the Epstein files an insane number of times. 😏
It will only take a few of them to leak it to the media. 👍👍
MAY THE LEAKING BEGIN NOW. 👍👍
It will only take a few of them to leak it to the media. 👍👍
MAY THE LEAKING BEGIN NOW. 👍👍
1 of ? Economists keep insisting that 2% inflation is "good." Why is that? Well, the claim is that this allows restructuring of the value of various types of labor. OK. I'll grant that.
The problem for us proles is that inflation is virtually ALWAYS greater than 2%. And, what effect does this have?
The problem for us proles is that inflation is virtually ALWAYS greater than 2%. And, what effect does this have?
December 5, 2025 at 11:49 PM
1 of ? Economists keep insisting that 2% inflation is "good." Why is that? Well, the claim is that this allows restructuring of the value of various types of labor. OK. I'll grant that.
The problem for us proles is that inflation is virtually ALWAYS greater than 2%. And, what effect does this have?
The problem for us proles is that inflation is virtually ALWAYS greater than 2%. And, what effect does this have?
(GIFTED) " I’ve witnessed... barbarisms elsewhere, in war-ravaged countries and in dictatorships, but never before during my lifetime as a matter of national policy here at home."
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Condemning Millions for One Man’s Crime
The sanctity of the individual is an essential Western value.
www.theatlantic.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:41 PM
(GIFTED) " I’ve witnessed... barbarisms elsewhere, in war-ravaged countries and in dictatorships, but never before during my lifetime as a matter of national policy here at home."
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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Trump is the first anti-American US president.
December 5, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Trump is the first anti-American US president.
(GIFTED) Excellent article on just how Trump is trying constantly to undo democracy and ensconce himself as Dictator. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
The Trump Lawyer Scandal Is About Something Much Deeper Than Legal Technicalities
The saga is emblematic of Trump’s most dangerous and self-serving tendencies.
www.theatlantic.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:42 PM
(GIFTED) Excellent article on just how Trump is trying constantly to undo democracy and ensconce himself as Dictator. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Bluesky bots are getting more sophisticated and numerous. I just saw an example of one that had ~400 Followers, but only 6 posts, each of which looked like a ChatGPT-generated summary of a core democratic belief, and which was liked and reposted numerous times, despite the bot's few Followers.
December 5, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Bluesky bots are getting more sophisticated and numerous. I just saw an example of one that had ~400 Followers, but only 6 posts, each of which looked like a ChatGPT-generated summary of a core democratic belief, and which was liked and reposted numerous times, despite the bot's few Followers.
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In a robust defence of "free speech", the US will deny visas to anyone promoting the regulation of US tech companies.
That kind of speech is forbidden, of course, because Trump and Musk don't like it. Unconstrained profits are far more "the American way of life" than free speech.
That kind of speech is forbidden, of course, because Trump and Musk don't like it. Unconstrained profits are far more "the American way of life" than free speech.
Trump administration moves to deny visas to factcheckers and content moderators
Action detailed in a state department memo directs officials to deny visas to any applicant engaging in ‘censorship’
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:09 PM
In a robust defence of "free speech", the US will deny visas to anyone promoting the regulation of US tech companies.
That kind of speech is forbidden, of course, because Trump and Musk don't like it. Unconstrained profits are far more "the American way of life" than free speech.
That kind of speech is forbidden, of course, because Trump and Musk don't like it. Unconstrained profits are far more "the American way of life" than free speech.
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Reminder: This vast consolidation of wealth and power at the top has not been due to neutral market forces.
There’s no such thing as a “free market.”
It is designed.
It either advances public purposes or it serves the monied interests.
There’s no such thing as a “free market.”
It is designed.
It either advances public purposes or it serves the monied interests.
December 5, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Reminder: This vast consolidation of wealth and power at the top has not been due to neutral market forces.
There’s no such thing as a “free market.”
It is designed.
It either advances public purposes or it serves the monied interests.
There’s no such thing as a “free market.”
It is designed.
It either advances public purposes or it serves the monied interests.
New York Times vs Real Clear Politics re Trump favorability in "average of polls." Be aware that RCP routinely serves up ultra-conservative articles more often than progressive ones. Also note that Dem party unfavorability is due to the fact that we criticize ourselves. They don't.
December 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM
New York Times vs Real Clear Politics re Trump favorability in "average of polls." Be aware that RCP routinely serves up ultra-conservative articles more often than progressive ones. Also note that Dem party unfavorability is due to the fact that we criticize ourselves. They don't.
(SORRY, NOT GIFTED) Putin's finger puppet Trump did exactly as the world's dictators wanted when he dismantled Voice of America.
December 5, 2025 at 8:16 PM
(SORRY, NOT GIFTED) Putin's finger puppet Trump did exactly as the world's dictators wanted when he dismantled Voice of America.
There's nothing more infuriating than seeing your president awarded a "peace prize" when he's busy systematically dismantling democracy here at home.
December 5, 2025 at 8:02 PM
There's nothing more infuriating than seeing your president awarded a "peace prize" when he's busy systematically dismantling democracy here at home.
So... Republicans are OK w re-blowing-up a boat split in two by 2 missiles... because, somehow, the 2 guys left alive might get that boat's cargo to America (1000 miles away?), even though they had no radio to tell anybody what had happened... www.cnn.com/2025/12/04/p...
Exclusive: Survivors clinging to capsized boat didn’t radio for backup, admiral overseeing double-tap strike tells lawmakers | CNN Politics
The two men killed as they floated holding onto their capsized boat in a secondary strike against a suspected drug vessel in early September did not appear to have radio or other communications device...
www.cnn.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:25 PM
So... Republicans are OK w re-blowing-up a boat split in two by 2 missiles... because, somehow, the 2 guys left alive might get that boat's cargo to America (1000 miles away?), even though they had no radio to tell anybody what had happened... www.cnn.com/2025/12/04/p...
Some Defense officials are trying to claim that a boat blown in half, and only presumed to carry cocaine, might somehow be salvaged and gotten, what, a thousand miles to America -- so they had to blow it up a second time??? www.cnn.com/2025/12/04/p...
Exclusive: Survivors clinging to capsized boat didn’t radio for backup, admiral overseeing double-tap strike tells lawmakers | CNN Politics
The two men killed as they floated holding onto their capsized boat in a secondary strike against a suspected drug vessel in early September did not appear to have radio or other communications device...
www.cnn.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Some Defense officials are trying to claim that a boat blown in half, and only presumed to carry cocaine, might somehow be salvaged and gotten, what, a thousand miles to America -- so they had to blow it up a second time??? www.cnn.com/2025/12/04/p...
SCOTUS votes to allow Texas to gerrymander voting districts to favor Republicans. How long are these conservative "Justices" going to tilt America into dictatorship? www.cnn.com/2025/12/04/p...
Supreme Court allows Texas to use Trump-backed congressional map in midterms | CNN Politics
The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed Texas to use a congressional map that will boost President Donald Trump’s effort to keep Republicans in control of Congress, blocking a lower court decision that ...
www.cnn.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:51 AM
SCOTUS votes to allow Texas to gerrymander voting districts to favor Republicans. How long are these conservative "Justices" going to tilt America into dictatorship? www.cnn.com/2025/12/04/p...
ChatGPT is incredible at generating images. Still, on occasion it goofs spectacularly. Notice Statue of Liberty has 3 arms.
December 4, 2025 at 10:00 PM
ChatGPT is incredible at generating images. Still, on occasion it goofs spectacularly. Notice Statue of Liberty has 3 arms.
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This makes my blood run cold.
December 3, 2025 at 6:17 PM
This makes my blood run cold.
OK, so we're being told that military strikes on "suspected" drug boats are fine, legally.
Does that mean that an attack on Donald Trump, "suspected of pedophilia," would be warranted?
How about attacks on any Republican "representative" "suspected" of aiding illegal behavior of a president?
Does that mean that an attack on Donald Trump, "suspected of pedophilia," would be warranted?
How about attacks on any Republican "representative" "suspected" of aiding illegal behavior of a president?
December 4, 2025 at 8:43 PM
OK, so we're being told that military strikes on "suspected" drug boats are fine, legally.
Does that mean that an attack on Donald Trump, "suspected of pedophilia," would be warranted?
How about attacks on any Republican "representative" "suspected" of aiding illegal behavior of a president?
Does that mean that an attack on Donald Trump, "suspected of pedophilia," would be warranted?
How about attacks on any Republican "representative" "suspected" of aiding illegal behavior of a president?
"Negotiating" with Putin is a waste of time. The only thing psychopaths like him understand is a slap in the mouth or a slug from a .45.
December 4, 2025 at 8:28 PM
"Negotiating" with Putin is a waste of time. The only thing psychopaths like him understand is a slap in the mouth or a slug from a .45.
RIP Steve Cropper... www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBF6...
Soul Man
YouTube video by Booker T. & the M.G.’s - Topic
www.youtube.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:53 PM
RIP Steve Cropper... www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBF6...
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Putin's not crazy enough to attack a NATO nation. That'd put him in a 2-front war at a time when he can barely handle the one in Ukraine. Russia being Russia, some general would probably slip some plutonium in his borscht.
Ukraine war: Nato ‘ready and willing’ after Putin’s threats to Europe
www.channel4.com/news/ukraine...
www.channel4.com/news/ukraine...
Ukraine war: Nato ‘ready and willing’ after Putin’s threats to Europe
“We are ready and willing to do what it takes” to protect our people and secure our territory, the Nato chief declared today after Vladimir Putin warned that he was "ready for war" with Europe.
www.channel4.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Putin's not crazy enough to attack a NATO nation. That'd put him in a 2-front war at a time when he can barely handle the one in Ukraine. Russia being Russia, some general would probably slip some plutonium in his borscht.
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Family of Colombian man killed in illegal U.S. strike files human rights challenge
The petition from the family of Alejandro Carranza says the military bombed his fishing boat on when he was sailing off Colombia's Caribbean coast, in violation of human rights
#Wrldpoli🌐
www.npr.org/2025/12/04/g...
The petition from the family of Alejandro Carranza says the military bombed his fishing boat on when he was sailing off Colombia's Caribbean coast, in violation of human rights
#Wrldpoli🌐
www.npr.org/2025/12/04/g...
Family of Colombian man killed in U.S. strike files human rights challenge
In a petition to the premier human rights watchdog in the Americas, the first challenge to U.S. military strikes on alleged drug-carrying boats argues that the death was an extrajudicial killing.
www.npr.org
December 4, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Family of Colombian man killed in illegal U.S. strike files human rights challenge
The petition from the family of Alejandro Carranza says the military bombed his fishing boat on when he was sailing off Colombia's Caribbean coast, in violation of human rights
#Wrldpoli🌐
www.npr.org/2025/12/04/g...
The petition from the family of Alejandro Carranza says the military bombed his fishing boat on when he was sailing off Colombia's Caribbean coast, in violation of human rights
#Wrldpoli🌐
www.npr.org/2025/12/04/g...