Eric Nordstrom
@eric-nordstrom.bsky.social
Vail, CO/Suttons Bay, MI
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Seems too on the nose
Trump: "We've got a lot of stupid people in this country running things."
September 23, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Seems too on the nose
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The extent to which this history has been rewritten by right wing propagandists while MSM slept for 2 yrs—so much so that the NYT doesn’t even catch it now.
When the “Censorship Industrial Complex” supposedly formed, silenced conservatives, & stole elections, THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION was in power.
When the “Censorship Industrial Complex” supposedly formed, silenced conservatives, & stole elections, THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION was in power.
Trump had his accounts suspended on January 7, 8, and 9th 2020. WHEN HE WAS STILL PRESIDENT. It was not Joe Biden because Biden was not President.
It says something about Trump’s all-out war on free speech that the New York Times couldn’t find a more credible person than “presidential historian” Craig Shirley to defend it. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/u...
September 22, 2025 at 2:31 AM
The extent to which this history has been rewritten by right wing propagandists while MSM slept for 2 yrs—so much so that the NYT doesn’t even catch it now.
When the “Censorship Industrial Complex” supposedly formed, silenced conservatives, & stole elections, THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION was in power.
When the “Censorship Industrial Complex” supposedly formed, silenced conservatives, & stole elections, THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION was in power.
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Let's say it again:
1) Harvard said "No," and Trump has backed off.
2) Chicago (and Illinois) said "No," and Trump has backed off.
It's day by day. But those who said "OK, sure," have gained nothing at all. Except shame.
1) Harvard said "No," and Trump has backed off.
2) Chicago (and Illinois) said "No," and Trump has backed off.
It's day by day. But those who said "OK, sure," have gained nothing at all. Except shame.
(CNN) - President Donald Trump shelved his plans to target Chicago as the next city for his domestic crime push after advisers warned him that sending in troops .. could create legal headaches they want to avoid, sources familiar with the matter told CNN.
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@cnn.com
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September 14, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Let's say it again:
1) Harvard said "No," and Trump has backed off.
2) Chicago (and Illinois) said "No," and Trump has backed off.
It's day by day. But those who said "OK, sure," have gained nothing at all. Except shame.
1) Harvard said "No," and Trump has backed off.
2) Chicago (and Illinois) said "No," and Trump has backed off.
It's day by day. But those who said "OK, sure," have gained nothing at all. Except shame.
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Lowering the flags on 9/11 at the Guantanamo Bay McDonald's for Charlie Kirk is the most dril tweet thing that's ever happened
The flags were lowered last night around the base by order of President Trump after the killing of Charlie Kirk and will stay at half-staff on this U.S. outpost in southeast Cuba until sunset on Sunday.
September 11, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Lowering the flags on 9/11 at the Guantanamo Bay McDonald's for Charlie Kirk is the most dril tweet thing that's ever happened
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Quick question: what the fuck is anyone talking about anymore
September 11, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Quick question: what the fuck is anyone talking about anymore
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Someone shot up my kid's school today, and our governor is paying tribute to a guy who thought that is an acceptable price to pay for having the Second Amendment.
Jared Polis has failed Colorado.
Jared Polis has failed Colorado.
September 11, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Someone shot up my kid's school today, and our governor is paying tribute to a guy who thought that is an acceptable price to pay for having the Second Amendment.
Jared Polis has failed Colorado.
Jared Polis has failed Colorado.
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What's crazy is that we don't know who the shooter is, or what the motivation for shooting Kirk was.
But already, rhetorical charges of political terrorism, and blaming the left.
But already, rhetorical charges of political terrorism, and blaming the left.
Here we go. Trump just made it unmistakably clear that it will now be absolutely open season on whoever they decide to label "the left," and that this will be pursued with the full force of the government. This could get very, very bad.
September 11, 2025 at 10:41 AM
What's crazy is that we don't know who the shooter is, or what the motivation for shooting Kirk was.
But already, rhetorical charges of political terrorism, and blaming the left.
But already, rhetorical charges of political terrorism, and blaming the left.
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Kirk's murder is getting the treatment it's getting because media types still live on Nazi Twitter and have a warped idea of his significance -- and the significance of a lot of stuff -- to regular people.
September 11, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Kirk's murder is getting the treatment it's getting because media types still live on Nazi Twitter and have a warped idea of his significance -- and the significance of a lot of stuff -- to regular people.
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Just a reminder: Kirk’s organization established the Professor Watchlist, which even the NYT framed as a threat to academic freedom.
I don’t get why ppl keep describing him a a good-faith debater.
One can say “Kirk should not have been murdered” (which is true!) without engaging in hagiography.
I don’t get why ppl keep describing him a a good-faith debater.
One can say “Kirk should not have been murdered” (which is true!) without engaging in hagiography.
Ezra Klein is trying in this column to argue that Kirk was doing politics correctly if you just ignore the content of what he was advocating. That he was contributing to American democracy by arguing civilly for the subjugation of women, gay people, trans people. It simply doesn’t work.
I feel like I am taking crazy pills. Charlie Kirk’s ultimate goal, which he said time and time again, would have been the suppression, through threat of violence and the use of state power, of the rights of those he disagreed with, including freedom of expression.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...
September 11, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Just a reminder: Kirk’s organization established the Professor Watchlist, which even the NYT framed as a threat to academic freedom.
I don’t get why ppl keep describing him a a good-faith debater.
One can say “Kirk should not have been murdered” (which is true!) without engaging in hagiography.
I don’t get why ppl keep describing him a a good-faith debater.
One can say “Kirk should not have been murdered” (which is true!) without engaging in hagiography.
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No better evidence that "The Cathedral" is fake than allegedly liberal journalists tripping over their dicks to praise, as a champion of free discourse and expression, a guy who made one of his central accomplishments a blacklist of professors
What Elon Musk bought for $44 billion was the ability to fill the brains of people like Ezra Klein with this kind of bullshit www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...
Opinion | Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way
www.nytimes.com
September 11, 2025 at 11:47 AM
No better evidence that "The Cathedral" is fake than allegedly liberal journalists tripping over their dicks to praise, as a champion of free discourse and expression, a guy who made one of his central accomplishments a blacklist of professors
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Glenn Beck’s media outlet The Blaze just gave an interview last month to the person who killed the politicians in Minnesota
September 10, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Glenn Beck’s media outlet The Blaze just gave an interview last month to the person who killed the politicians in Minnesota
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that book came out dude we know what they are trying to hide, the president molested a whole lot of teenagers in the 80s and 90s could you just say that now instead of this shit please
Senate Republicans just voted to block an amendment to release the Epstein files. What are they trying to hide and why?
September 10, 2025 at 11:17 PM
that book came out dude we know what they are trying to hide, the president molested a whole lot of teenagers in the 80s and 90s could you just say that now instead of this shit please
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Political violence is bad. It usually begets more political violence.
Celebrating political violence is bad. It usually encourages more political violence, against various targets.
Campus shootings are bad. They make everyone on campus less safe.
It's bad that what I wrote here is controversial.
Celebrating political violence is bad. It usually encourages more political violence, against various targets.
Campus shootings are bad. They make everyone on campus less safe.
It's bad that what I wrote here is controversial.
September 10, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Political violence is bad. It usually begets more political violence.
Celebrating political violence is bad. It usually encourages more political violence, against various targets.
Campus shootings are bad. They make everyone on campus less safe.
It's bad that what I wrote here is controversial.
Celebrating political violence is bad. It usually encourages more political violence, against various targets.
Campus shootings are bad. They make everyone on campus less safe.
It's bad that what I wrote here is controversial.
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The scale of the alleged corruption is staggering - here is the total value of the most serious alleged direct benefit to past presidents or family members as compiled by o3.
May 4, 2025 at 9:00 PM
The scale of the alleged corruption is staggering - here is the total value of the most serious alleged direct benefit to past presidents or family members as compiled by o3.
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Our NEA grant was canceled.
Here’s a letter from our development director about what’s happening.
Here’s a letter from our development director about what’s happening.
May 4, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Our NEA grant was canceled.
Here’s a letter from our development director about what’s happening.
Here’s a letter from our development director about what’s happening.
WILD!!!
"Has the election not been rigged, I would have been out of here. I would have been gone. But they have me for another four years."
May 4, 2025 at 12:16 AM
WILD!!!
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I'm kind of ambivalent about the value of shame and shunning as a way to convince the person being shamed to abandon harmful beliefs and absolutely convinced of its effectiveness in discouraging others to adopt those harmful beliefs.
I’m pretty sure this take is backwards. Cognitive dissonance theory holds that people become *more* invested in beliefs that have cost them dearly, such as losing important relationships or social standing—and beliefs are *more* resistant to shocks when buffered by a community of fellow believers
I think this comes from a good place but I disagree. A common thread in deradicalization stories is stigma: Once people start losing friends and jobs they reconsider their beliefs.
Obviously you should try to be nice to people but you also need to draw a line where you won’t engage anymore.
Obviously you should try to be nice to people but you also need to draw a line where you won’t engage anymore.
May 3, 2025 at 8:57 PM
I'm kind of ambivalent about the value of shame and shunning as a way to convince the person being shamed to abandon harmful beliefs and absolutely convinced of its effectiveness in discouraging others to adopt those harmful beliefs.
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🧵 Holy shit. I knew that Arizona had some truly terrible utility regulators, but get this:
1. Arizona Public Service cuts off electricity service to elderly lady in 100° heat; she subsequently dies.
2. Children of dead lady ask utility regulator why he does nothing to prevent things like this.
1. Arizona Public Service cuts off electricity service to elderly lady in 100° heat; she subsequently dies.
2. Children of dead lady ask utility regulator why he does nothing to prevent things like this.
May 3, 2025 at 9:12 PM
🧵 Holy shit. I knew that Arizona had some truly terrible utility regulators, but get this:
1. Arizona Public Service cuts off electricity service to elderly lady in 100° heat; she subsequently dies.
2. Children of dead lady ask utility regulator why he does nothing to prevent things like this.
1. Arizona Public Service cuts off electricity service to elderly lady in 100° heat; she subsequently dies.
2. Children of dead lady ask utility regulator why he does nothing to prevent things like this.
Honestly, good! Enough cheap Chinese bullshit that gets thrown away shortly after being bought.
May 3, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Honestly, good! Enough cheap Chinese bullshit that gets thrown away shortly after being bought.
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NEW: US weather forecasting is in worse shape than previously known, with 30 NWS forecast offices missing meteorologists-in-charge and about a dozen offices at risk of no longer serving their communities 24/7. www.cnn.com/2025/05/02/w...
US weather forecasting is more crippled than previously thought as hurricane season nears | CNN
Several current and former agency meteorologists and staff told CNN they are concerned warnings won’t be issued in time as hurricane season nears.
www.cnn.com
May 2, 2025 at 1:47 PM
NEW: US weather forecasting is in worse shape than previously known, with 30 NWS forecast offices missing meteorologists-in-charge and about a dozen offices at risk of no longer serving their communities 24/7. www.cnn.com/2025/05/02/w...
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chatbot flattery isn't a glitch — it's the whole plan nymag.com/intelligence...
May 1, 2025 at 3:06 PM
chatbot flattery isn't a glitch — it's the whole plan nymag.com/intelligence...
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Just to be clear, this is a violation of the fundamental ethical principle in clinical trial design called "equipoise."
Equipoise means that no-one is exposed to excess risk just to test the therapy. That's specifically *why* vaccine trials don't use placebo arms.
Ethical violation as POLICY.
Equipoise means that no-one is exposed to excess risk just to test the therapy. That's specifically *why* vaccine trials don't use placebo arms.
Ethical violation as POLICY.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr will require all new vaccines to undergo placebo testing, WaPo reports
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr intends to shift the way vaccines are tested, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing a spokesperson from the HHS.
www.reuters.com
May 1, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Just to be clear, this is a violation of the fundamental ethical principle in clinical trial design called "equipoise."
Equipoise means that no-one is exposed to excess risk just to test the therapy. That's specifically *why* vaccine trials don't use placebo arms.
Ethical violation as POLICY.
Equipoise means that no-one is exposed to excess risk just to test the therapy. That's specifically *why* vaccine trials don't use placebo arms.
Ethical violation as POLICY.
One of the stupidest people to ever come out of the Real World/Road Rules ecosystem, which is truly saying something. How did he and theo von end up being the most impactful castmates from those series?!? America is so dumb.
Duffy: "She wants to take people off the road and she's taxing people to do it, raising money for the subway system in New York. But then, to put people in the subway -- the subway is dirty! There's violence. There's criminals. It's not safe ... By the way, I like freedom. Let me drive my car."
April 29, 2025 at 10:17 PM
One of the stupidest people to ever come out of the Real World/Road Rules ecosystem, which is truly saying something. How did he and theo von end up being the most impactful castmates from those series?!? America is so dumb.
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*The government run by the president who lied and said the 2020 election was stolen* cancelled this funding.
The framing of these stories needs to be a lot more precise.“Misinformation on social media” is not the same problem as what we are confronting there.
The framing of these stories needs to be a lot more precise.“Misinformation on social media” is not the same problem as what we are confronting there.
The US National Science Foundation cancelled funding for research on misinformation, disinformation and AI-generated deepfakes, even as misleading information runs rampant on social media
US government defunds research on misinformation
The US National Science Foundation cancelled funding for research on misinformation, disinformation and AI-generated deepfakes, even as misleading information runs rampant on social media
www.newscientist.com
April 27, 2025 at 9:05 PM
*The government run by the president who lied and said the 2020 election was stolen* cancelled this funding.
The framing of these stories needs to be a lot more precise.“Misinformation on social media” is not the same problem as what we are confronting there.
The framing of these stories needs to be a lot more precise.“Misinformation on social media” is not the same problem as what we are confronting there.
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If there’s one thing I’ve taken away from reporting on the current DOGE collection of govt data, it is that the people who’ve previously spent their careers carefully handling this information believe there is almost no limit to how it could be abused (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
American Panopticon
The Trump administration is pooling data on Americans. Experts fear what comes next.
www.theatlantic.com
April 27, 2025 at 8:13 PM
If there’s one thing I’ve taken away from reporting on the current DOGE collection of govt data, it is that the people who’ve previously spent their careers carefully handling this information believe there is almost no limit to how it could be abused (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...