Andrew Trotter
@andrewftrotter.bsky.social
Former print journalist in the education field, I'm into music and guitar, current events, history, writing, songwriting, nature, spiritual exploration, chess and lots of other stuff. Pro-Constitution
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. By systematically engaging in selective and vindictive prosecutions, handing out galling pardons, and appointing stooges to the Department of Justice, Trump has underscored that the throughline is corruption of our legal system
contrarian.substack.com/p/trump-is-i...
Admitting you got it wrong would be confession that you’r a patsy, a liar, or both, but it would also that you’ve hurt many Americans. No wonder MAGA Republicans would prefer the security of nonsensical lies to the gnawing discomfort that facts provoke.
Admitting you got it wrong would be confession that you’r a patsy, a liar, or both, but it would also that you’ve hurt many Americans. No wonder MAGA Republicans would prefer the security of nonsensical lies to the gnawing discomfort that facts provoke.
Trump is in Full Retreat
A scandal that he inflamed engulfs his presidency
contrarian.substack.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:31 PM
. By systematically engaging in selective and vindictive prosecutions, handing out galling pardons, and appointing stooges to the Department of Justice, Trump has underscored that the throughline is corruption of our legal system
Epitaph On a Tyrant
Perfection, of a kind, was what he was after,
And the poetry he invented was easy to understand;
He knew human folly like the back of his hand,
And was greatly interested in armies and fleets;
1/2
Perfection, of a kind, was what he was after,
And the poetry he invented was easy to understand;
He knew human folly like the back of his hand,
And was greatly interested in armies and fleets;
1/2
June 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Epitaph On a Tyrant
Perfection, of a kind, was what he was after,
And the poetry he invented was easy to understand;
He knew human folly like the back of his hand,
And was greatly interested in armies and fleets;
1/2
Perfection, of a kind, was what he was after,
And the poetry he invented was easy to understand;
He knew human folly like the back of his hand,
And was greatly interested in armies and fleets;
1/2
I always learned much more about the subject than I could put in a magazine or newspaper article. AI should not be allowed to short-shrift that learning process.
New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays.
Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...
Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...
June 19, 2025 at 7:32 PM
I always learned much more about the subject than I could put in a magazine or newspaper article. AI should not be allowed to short-shrift that learning process.
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Trump says he can’t allow Iran to make a nuclear weapon. But Tulsi Gabbard addressed this last quarter, so which of them is lying?
June 17, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Trump says he can’t allow Iran to make a nuclear weapon. But Tulsi Gabbard addressed this last quarter, so which of them is lying?
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Gift Article
As if algorithmic-social-media sites aren't doing enough to warp minds, along comes the AI chatbot.
“What does a human slowly going insane look like to a corporation?” Mr. Yudkowsky asked in an interview. “It looks like an additional monthly user.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t...
As if algorithmic-social-media sites aren't doing enough to warp minds, along comes the AI chatbot.
“What does a human slowly going insane look like to a corporation?” Mr. Yudkowsky asked in an interview. “It looks like an additional monthly user.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t...
They Asked an A.I. Chatbot Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling.
www.nytimes.com
June 13, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Gift Article
As if algorithmic-social-media sites aren't doing enough to warp minds, along comes the AI chatbot.
“What does a human slowly going insane look like to a corporation?” Mr. Yudkowsky asked in an interview. “It looks like an additional monthly user.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t...
As if algorithmic-social-media sites aren't doing enough to warp minds, along comes the AI chatbot.
“What does a human slowly going insane look like to a corporation?” Mr. Yudkowsky asked in an interview. “It looks like an additional monthly user.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t...
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"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.” — Hannah Arendt
www.reuters.com/world/us/fem...
www.reuters.com/world/us/fem...
www.reuters.com
June 3, 2025 at 3:44 AM
"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.” — Hannah Arendt
www.reuters.com/world/us/fem...
www.reuters.com/world/us/fem...
Persons on Medicaid can have trouble navigating paperwork & deadlines—I’ve seen this up close. The House billionaire tax cut bill takes advantage of that difficulty to reduce deserved benefits, as this article discusses.
As this opinion piece (gift article) makes clear, there are indeed cuts to Medicaid in the House bill. Republicans may call them ‘reforms’ or claim they are combatting “fraud.” The truth is that they want to rob the poor to pay the rich.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/o...
Opinion | Republicans Will Use Paperwork to Kick Americans Off Health Care
www.nytimes.com
May 22, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Persons on Medicaid can have trouble navigating paperwork & deadlines—I’ve seen this up close. The House billionaire tax cut bill takes advantage of that difficulty to reduce deserved benefits, as this article discusses.
An important, eye opening article on a growing threat to human health. Fungi.
What spoils our crops, kills about six times more people than malaria every year and is breathed in by each of us every single day?
It’s not a virus or bacteria, but something even more formidable: fungi 🍄
via @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
It’s not a virus or bacteria, but something even more formidable: fungi 🍄
via @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Deadly Fungi Are Here, and They’re Spreading
Unlike “The Last of Us,” virulent fungal disease isn't a work of science fiction.
www.bloomberg.com
May 22, 2025 at 2:34 PM
An important, eye opening article on a growing threat to human health. Fungi.
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Take a moment, and read...
• Siegfried Sassoon •
• Siegfried Sassoon •
May 21, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Take a moment, and read...
• Siegfried Sassoon •
• Siegfried Sassoon •
Important thread
Who's responsible for the climate crisis?
Two new studies try to answer this question: but whichever way we slice it, the answer doesn't change much.
The wealthiest are disproportionately responsible for the greatest emissions, and that's why climate change is so unfair.
An explanatory thread 🧵
Two new studies try to answer this question: but whichever way we slice it, the answer doesn't change much.
The wealthiest are disproportionately responsible for the greatest emissions, and that's why climate change is so unfair.
An explanatory thread 🧵
Who Did It? GIF
Alt: Who Did It? GIF
media.tenor.com
May 10, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Important thread
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"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."
HAPPENING NOW: Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was just taken into custody while protesting outside the Delaney Hall ICE detention center
May 9, 2025 at 10:10 PM
"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."
I’m not Catholic but I’m behind the best of the church. (St. Patrick’s Cathedral, NYC)
May 9, 2025 at 11:26 AM
I’m not Catholic but I’m behind the best of the church. (St. Patrick’s Cathedral, NYC)
Artifacts of your immortal soul—not AI—are what we care about.
May 6, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Artifacts of your immortal soul—not AI—are what we care about.
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Because no one spends as much on science as the US does, destroying NIH, NSF, NOAA, NASA, EPA, USDA, USGS, etc. is leading to a brain drain, but it's not to other countries but rather from science. This senseless destruction of US science will hurt the US and the world for a very long time.
To see why destroying the US science enterprise is so detrimental to the world, we have to realize that the US spends more on research and development than any other country in the world (by far), and if we remove China and Japan, the US spends almost as much as ALL other countries combined.
May 4, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Because no one spends as much on science as the US does, destroying NIH, NSF, NOAA, NASA, EPA, USDA, USGS, etc. is leading to a brain drain, but it's not to other countries but rather from science. This senseless destruction of US science will hurt the US and the world for a very long time.
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Cuts to public research and development would shrink the economy, a new study found. It would also reduce the tax base and the federal government’s revenue.
Sen. Susan Collins Blasts Trump for Cuts to Scientific Research - Inside Climate News
Meanwhile, a new study from American University shows budget cuts to public research would significantly hurt the economy in the long run, with large negative effects on GDP, investment and government...
insideclimatenews.org
May 1, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Cuts to public research and development would shrink the economy, a new study found. It would also reduce the tax base and the federal government’s revenue.
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Pause, and read...
• Mary Oliver •
• Mary Oliver •
April 30, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Pause, and read...
• Mary Oliver •
• Mary Oliver •
Time for some “We All Are Harvard” tee shirts.
April 16, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Time for some “We All Are Harvard” tee shirts.
“Truth has only to appear once, in one single mind, for it to be impossible for anything to prevent it from spreading universally and setting everything ablaze.”
—Teilhard de Chardin (via Cynthia Bourgeault).
—Teilhard de Chardin (via Cynthia Bourgeault).
April 15, 2025 at 2:10 PM
“Truth has only to appear once, in one single mind, for it to be impossible for anything to prevent it from spreading universally and setting everything ablaze.”
—Teilhard de Chardin (via Cynthia Bourgeault).
—Teilhard de Chardin (via Cynthia Bourgeault).
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Record wildfires
Record heat
Record melt
Record floods
Record droughts
We can't solve this crisis if we keep expanding the problem. It's time to unplug fossil fuels and #ActOnClimate
#climate #energy #renewables #go100re
Record heat
Record melt
Record floods
Record droughts
We can't solve this crisis if we keep expanding the problem. It's time to unplug fossil fuels and #ActOnClimate
#climate #energy #renewables #go100re
April 12, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Record wildfires
Record heat
Record melt
Record floods
Record droughts
We can't solve this crisis if we keep expanding the problem. It's time to unplug fossil fuels and #ActOnClimate
#climate #energy #renewables #go100re
Record heat
Record melt
Record floods
Record droughts
We can't solve this crisis if we keep expanding the problem. It's time to unplug fossil fuels and #ActOnClimate
#climate #energy #renewables #go100re
A room with a view. Georgia O’Keeffe’s bedroom windows in her house in Abiquiu, New Mexico. We visited this week.
April 11, 2025 at 9:52 PM
A room with a view. Georgia O’Keeffe’s bedroom windows in her house in Abiquiu, New Mexico. We visited this week.
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This is what we are fighting for. This what we are building. A reminder that there are objectively more of US than them! We have the numbers, they do not. Let that give you hope and strength 💪
Sign your card today :)
#generalstrike #strongertogether
Sign your card today :)
#generalstrike #strongertogether
April 10, 2025 at 11:39 PM
This is what we are fighting for. This what we are building. A reminder that there are objectively more of US than them! We have the numbers, they do not. Let that give you hope and strength 💪
Sign your card today :)
#generalstrike #strongertogether
Sign your card today :)
#generalstrike #strongertogether
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It always boggles my mind that I, a journalist, am expressly forbidden from trading stocks, but members of Congress, with vastly greater knowledge of market-moving news, are allowed to profit by front-running markets, and so may profit by in essence stealing from the public they represent.
April 10, 2025 at 10:30 AM
It always boggles my mind that I, a journalist, am expressly forbidden from trading stocks, but members of Congress, with vastly greater knowledge of market-moving news, are allowed to profit by front-running markets, and so may profit by in essence stealing from the public they represent.
A prayer labyrinth in Abiquiu, NM. Let’s pray for the preservation of Nature’s wonders.
April 10, 2025 at 2:37 PM
A prayer labyrinth in Abiquiu, NM. Let’s pray for the preservation of Nature’s wonders.