Bill Heroman
@billheroman.bsky.social
Amateur researcher
herobill.blogspot.com
Memory Science for Timelines.
Distorted History (Storylines).
Nonfiction Narrative Theory.
First Century & Gospels.
PS: Jesus said be a good neighbor. So Vote Blue
herobill.blogspot.com
Memory Science for Timelines.
Distorted History (Storylines).
Nonfiction Narrative Theory.
First Century & Gospels.
PS: Jesus said be a good neighbor. So Vote Blue
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Bill Heroman
@billheroman.bsky.social
· Oct 14
They cannot love their neighbors when they profit from suffering. They cannot embrace truth when they lie to themselves. They do not serve the Lord because their god serves only them.
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WSJ: The Trump family’s ventures since re-election “generated at least $4 billion in proceeds and paper wealth for the family as of December, according to company statements and securities filings.”
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December 18, 2025 at 9:29 PM
WSJ: The Trump family’s ventures since re-election “generated at least $4 billion in proceeds and paper wealth for the family as of December, according to company statements and securities filings.”
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/politics/tru...
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www.wsj.com/politics/tru...
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The City Bar has released a report examining a broad pattern of conduct by President Trump and his Administration that reflects an ongoing abuse of presidential power and a grave breach of the public trust, and calls on Congress to reclaim its power as a co-equal branch: bit.ly/49jfeKj
The Abuse of Presidential Power and Breach of Public Trust | New York City Bar Association
Read how the NYC Bar Association examines the pattern of conduct by President Trump and his administration.
bit.ly
December 18, 2025 at 8:50 PM
The City Bar has released a report examining a broad pattern of conduct by President Trump and his Administration that reflects an ongoing abuse of presidential power and a grave breach of the public trust, and calls on Congress to reclaim its power as a co-equal branch: bit.ly/49jfeKj
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It almost goes without saying, but this is illegal. The name "John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts" is established by law and the board doesn't have the power to change it. 20 USC 3 §§ 76h - 76s.
Kennedy Center to be renamed Trump-Kennedy Center —Karoline Leavitt x.com/PressSec/sta...
December 18, 2025 at 6:54 PM
It almost goes without saying, but this is illegal. The name "John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts" is established by law and the board doesn't have the power to change it. 20 USC 3 §§ 76h - 76s.
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Dems release more Epstein photos as DOJ faces deadline to publish files
Dems release more Epstein photos as DOJ faces deadline to publish files
Dems release more Epstein photos as DOJ faces deadline to publish files
www.independent.co.uk
December 18, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Dems release more Epstein photos as DOJ faces deadline to publish files
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These are the people who are willing to go on the record.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
December 18, 2025 at 5:26 PM
These are the people who are willing to go on the record.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
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CBS picked the right person to lead them into insolvency. Main reason is that aside from snobby right wing cranks, no one connects to her couture culture war content, especially working class people. CBS audience are non-degreed boomers on $50k fixed income, 90% of whom never heard of Bari
December 18, 2025 at 5:38 PM
CBS picked the right person to lead them into insolvency. Main reason is that aside from snobby right wing cranks, no one connects to her couture culture war content, especially working class people. CBS audience are non-degreed boomers on $50k fixed income, 90% of whom never heard of Bari
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The collective delusion here is useful in that it has provoked conservatives to dispense with decades of bootstrap rhetoric and reveal what they would say if they thought black people were people, that is to say, if these things were happening to them
December 18, 2025 at 3:42 PM
The collective delusion here is useful in that it has provoked conservatives to dispense with decades of bootstrap rhetoric and reveal what they would say if they thought black people were people, that is to say, if these things were happening to them
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Oceans of data on job, education and housing discrimination:
Try harder, losers, stop blaming everyone else
Anecdotal evidence and innumeracy:
There's no point in trying, the deck is stacked against us and it is a great injustice that must be rectified
Try harder, losers, stop blaming everyone else
Anecdotal evidence and innumeracy:
There's no point in trying, the deck is stacked against us and it is a great injustice that must be rectified
December 18, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Oceans of data on job, education and housing discrimination:
Try harder, losers, stop blaming everyone else
Anecdotal evidence and innumeracy:
There's no point in trying, the deck is stacked against us and it is a great injustice that must be rectified
Try harder, losers, stop blaming everyone else
Anecdotal evidence and innumeracy:
There's no point in trying, the deck is stacked against us and it is a great injustice that must be rectified
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Republicans fought release of Epstein materials every step of the way, are now refusing to release the second strike boat video, and won’t let Jack Smith testify in public. They constantly hide everything they are doing from the American people.
December 18, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Republicans fought release of Epstein materials every step of the way, are now refusing to release the second strike boat video, and won’t let Jack Smith testify in public. They constantly hide everything they are doing from the American people.
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I'm watching his speech and it's wild he has no idea what's going on in the country.
54% of Americans say they won't be able to pay for health care next year.
25% skipped a meal because they couldn't afford it.
The economy is good for billionaires. That's all he cares about.
54% of Americans say they won't be able to pay for health care next year.
25% skipped a meal because they couldn't afford it.
The economy is good for billionaires. That's all he cares about.
December 18, 2025 at 2:31 PM
I'm watching his speech and it's wild he has no idea what's going on in the country.
54% of Americans say they won't be able to pay for health care next year.
25% skipped a meal because they couldn't afford it.
The economy is good for billionaires. That's all he cares about.
54% of Americans say they won't be able to pay for health care next year.
25% skipped a meal because they couldn't afford it.
The economy is good for billionaires. That's all he cares about.
“He was so mean to Rob Reiner” isn’t grandpa’s real reason, but let’s not talk him out of it, right?
December 18, 2025 at 1:55 PM
“He was so mean to Rob Reiner” isn’t grandpa’s real reason, but let’s not talk him out of it, right?
People are saying he rambled bc they punted on the invasion… But what if he pretended to green light the invasion bc he was simply that desperate to ramble
December 18, 2025 at 3:25 AM
People are saying he rambled bc they punted on the invasion… But what if he pretended to green light the invasion bc he was simply that desperate to ramble
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I think that he should do this every day until the midterms.
December 18, 2025 at 2:22 AM
I think that he should do this every day until the midterms.
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All of Trump's core policies (tariffs, deportations, tax cuts for rich, slashing social safety net) make life less affordable for Americans.
December 17, 2025 at 3:55 PM
All of Trump's core policies (tariffs, deportations, tax cuts for rich, slashing social safety net) make life less affordable for Americans.
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True, however, there were plenty of people at that time who did really believe.
All the Turing test exposes is that anthropomorphism is real. Plenty of humans fail it, which shows further that it's not a good metric. www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
All the Turing test exposes is that anthropomorphism is real. Plenty of humans fail it, which shows further that it's not a good metric. www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Human misidentification in Turing tests
This paper presents some important issues on misidentification of human interlocutors in text-based communication during practical Turing tests. The study here presents transcripts in which human j...
www.tandfonline.com
December 17, 2025 at 7:14 PM
True, however, there were plenty of people at that time who did really believe.
All the Turing test exposes is that anthropomorphism is real. Plenty of humans fail it, which shows further that it's not a good metric. www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
All the Turing test exposes is that anthropomorphism is real. Plenty of humans fail it, which shows further that it's not a good metric. www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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218 members signed the discharge petition to force a vote to extend ACA tax credits.
If Speaker Johnson refuses to bring forth the vote, he’s telling the American people loud and clear that rising health care costs are acceptable to him.
If Speaker Johnson refuses to bring forth the vote, he’s telling the American people loud and clear that rising health care costs are acceptable to him.
December 17, 2025 at 4:58 PM
218 members signed the discharge petition to force a vote to extend ACA tax credits.
If Speaker Johnson refuses to bring forth the vote, he’s telling the American people loud and clear that rising health care costs are acceptable to him.
If Speaker Johnson refuses to bring forth the vote, he’s telling the American people loud and clear that rising health care costs are acceptable to him.
Emerson on Steam:
“It already walks about the field, like a man… irrigates crops, and drags away a mountain. It must sew our shirts, it must drive our gigs; taught by Mr. Babbage, it must calculate interest and logarithms… to render many higher services of a mechanico-intellectual kind.”
“It already walks about the field, like a man… irrigates crops, and drags away a mountain. It must sew our shirts, it must drive our gigs; taught by Mr. Babbage, it must calculate interest and logarithms… to render many higher services of a mechanico-intellectual kind.”
December 17, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Emerson on Steam:
“It already walks about the field, like a man… irrigates crops, and drags away a mountain. It must sew our shirts, it must drive our gigs; taught by Mr. Babbage, it must calculate interest and logarithms… to render many higher services of a mechanico-intellectual kind.”
“It already walks about the field, like a man… irrigates crops, and drags away a mountain. It must sew our shirts, it must drive our gigs; taught by Mr. Babbage, it must calculate interest and logarithms… to render many higher services of a mechanico-intellectual kind.”
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The media needs to stop writing headlines like “The CDC changes course on vaccines and autism” and “The CDC defends measles response”.
NONE of this is coming from legitimate scientists at the CDC.
ALL of it is coming from RFK Jr.
Every such headline is causing further harm to public health.
NONE of this is coming from legitimate scientists at the CDC.
ALL of it is coming from RFK Jr.
Every such headline is causing further harm to public health.
December 17, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The media needs to stop writing headlines like “The CDC changes course on vaccines and autism” and “The CDC defends measles response”.
NONE of this is coming from legitimate scientists at the CDC.
ALL of it is coming from RFK Jr.
Every such headline is causing further harm to public health.
NONE of this is coming from legitimate scientists at the CDC.
ALL of it is coming from RFK Jr.
Every such headline is causing further harm to public health.
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CBS News staffers might want to check into how things are going at their boss’s anti-woke “university” in Austin.
Via @ngluckman.bsky.social
www.chronicle.com/article/at-t...
Via @ngluckman.bsky.social
www.chronicle.com/article/at-t...
December 17, 2025 at 12:53 PM
CBS News staffers might want to check into how things are going at their boss’s anti-woke “university” in Austin.
Via @ngluckman.bsky.social
www.chronicle.com/article/at-t...
Via @ngluckman.bsky.social
www.chronicle.com/article/at-t...
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The Pulitzer Board is actually fighting back against one of Trump’s vexatious lawsuits, saying, ‘If you were harmed, prove it — with medical and financial records.’
Not rolling over like some of the capitulating companies we’ve seen.
newrepublic.com/post/204475/...
Not rolling over like some of the capitulating companies we’ve seen.
newrepublic.com/post/204475/...
Pulitzer Board Demands Trump’s Tax and Psych Records in Lawsuit Twist
Donald Trump isn’t going to be happy about this one.
newrepublic.com
December 17, 2025 at 1:06 PM
The Pulitzer Board is actually fighting back against one of Trump’s vexatious lawsuits, saying, ‘If you were harmed, prove it — with medical and financial records.’
Not rolling over like some of the capitulating companies we’ve seen.
newrepublic.com/post/204475/...
Not rolling over like some of the capitulating companies we’ve seen.
newrepublic.com/post/204475/...
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NEW: Humanitarian officials staged a last-minute plea to Trump officials at their fancy hotel to re-start food aid $ for a huge refugee camp in Kenya.
The Trumpers blew it off and babies starved.
@annamaria.bsky.social & Brett Murphy
www.propublica.org/article/keny...
The Trumpers blew it off and babies starved.
@annamaria.bsky.social & Brett Murphy
www.propublica.org/article/keny...
December 17, 2025 at 12:36 PM
NEW: Humanitarian officials staged a last-minute plea to Trump officials at their fancy hotel to re-start food aid $ for a huge refugee camp in Kenya.
The Trumpers blew it off and babies starved.
@annamaria.bsky.social & Brett Murphy
www.propublica.org/article/keny...
The Trumpers blew it off and babies starved.
@annamaria.bsky.social & Brett Murphy
www.propublica.org/article/keny...
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This is the most important political, legal and democracy story right now. Yet, it has garnered relatively little coverage from legacy media outlets. The outcome in these cases may decide whether we have free and fair elections in 2026. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/as-...
As DOJ Sues More States For Voter Rolls, Federal ‘Power Grab’ Comes into Focus
Read about the fight for democracy from activists, elected officials, legal experts and others.
www.democracydocket.com
December 17, 2025 at 1:19 AM
This is the most important political, legal and democracy story right now. Yet, it has garnered relatively little coverage from legacy media outlets. The outcome in these cases may decide whether we have free and fair elections in 2026. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/as-...
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It sounds like the most deranged Latin American caricature of yankee imperialism come to life. It would be comical if it weren’t serious.
Trump: "Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled ... It will only get bigger, and the shock to them will be like nothing they have ever seen before — Until such time as they return to the USA all of the Oil, Land, and other Assets that they previously stole from us."
December 17, 2025 at 12:14 AM
It sounds like the most deranged Latin American caricature of yankee imperialism come to life. It would be comical if it weren’t serious.