Robert Godfrey
@holbein.bsky.social
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Robert Godfrey
@holbein.bsky.social
· Nov 19
Religion is like a penis. It’s ok to have one, it’s ok to be proud of it. But do not pull it out in public, do not push it on kids, do not write laws with it, do not think with it.
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If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.” https://cnn.it/4b6g3rd
Oklahoma instructor removed from teaching for failing a Bible-based gender essay | CNN
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.”
cnn.it
December 24, 2025 at 6:21 PM
If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career
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As a recovering catholic, I can say that this is easily the coolest fucking priest I’ve ever seen.
December 25, 2025 at 4:27 AM
As a recovering catholic, I can say that this is easily the coolest fucking priest I’ve ever seen.
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My good friend Howie Klein passed away today and I am bereft. He was a fierce progressive, music impressario, creative organizer, passionate world traveller and the mensch of all mensches.
Howie always fought the good fight and inspired many to do the same. I will miss him terribly.
Howie always fought the good fight and inspired many to do the same. I will miss him terribly.
December 25, 2025 at 3:57 AM
My good friend Howie Klein passed away today and I am bereft. He was a fierce progressive, music impressario, creative organizer, passionate world traveller and the mensch of all mensches.
Howie always fought the good fight and inspired many to do the same. I will miss him terribly.
Howie always fought the good fight and inspired many to do the same. I will miss him terribly.
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Oh no! What a loss, one of the OG prog bloggers, Howie Klein, has passed away. 😔
Rest in power.
@downwithtyranny.bsky.social
Howie, spot-on, from 2019:
🌐 downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2019/06/how-...
Rest in power.
@downwithtyranny.bsky.social
Howie, spot-on, from 2019:
🌐 downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2019/06/how-...
December 25, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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yes. she investigated the case of why everyone at the new york times hated her and discovered that it was because she was too smart and too brave.
Asking this seriously: has Bari Weiss ever in her career reported out an investigative story?
December 22, 2025 at 6:00 PM
yes. she investigated the case of why everyone at the new york times hated her and discovered that it was because she was too smart and too brave.
I wonder, is this optimistic bias in action or based on any IRL examples?
Don’t be so sure Nepo Mogul and Big Daddy & their hackish minions will win this. Their craven and sloppy and really incompetent stylings here are devastating in ways that will eventually become clear. They just suck at every bit of this and explicitly look like the pathetic power grabbers they are.
"The crisis of democracy is a crisis of information—citizens make bad decisions, in part, because they are starved of the facts. And it can get worse."
The world is not outraged enough that Trump is using his power to force CBS and CNN to mold to his views. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
The world is not outraged enough that Trump is using his power to force CBS and CNN to mold to his views. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
December 22, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I wonder, is this optimistic bias in action or based on any IRL examples?
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Yeah including you, you sonuvabitch
Ben Shapiro: "Today I want to talk about something even more important — how to discern those attempting to speak truth from frauds and grifters…The conservative movement is in danger from charlatans who claim to speak in the name of principle but actually traffic in conspiracy and dishonesty."
December 19, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Yeah including you, you sonuvabitch
It’s happening!
December 19, 2025 at 2:11 PM
It’s happening!
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It’s always worth remembering that even in the past, people knew this shit was wrong. Civil War fanboys say it’s unfair to judge the south by the standards of our time. Well, what if we judge them by the standards of the people *in the same time* who knew it was wrong and FOUGHT A WAR to stop it.
December 19, 2025 at 1:51 PM
It’s always worth remembering that even in the past, people knew this shit was wrong. Civil War fanboys say it’s unfair to judge the south by the standards of our time. Well, what if we judge them by the standards of the people *in the same time* who knew it was wrong and FOUGHT A WAR to stop it.
Yup!
“But the Republicans are worse” is not a viable argument for why the Democrats should keep sucking so hard
Mark Kelly is being targeted by the administration for pointing out a clear facet of military tradition and American law. Kelly then voted to support a nomination offered up by the administration that is trying to censor and prosecute him. And people wonder why there’s so much cynicism.
December 19, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Yup!
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Defunding the American Academy of Pediatrics? This will lead to increased disease and demise of children! Trump and Republicans don't give a damn about children. What more evidence do you need?
The Trump administration is punishing the American Academy of Pediatrics.
I have enough thoughts about this for an entire feature length documentary but here are two minutes of them.
(Spoiler alert: you can’t fight bad politics by staying apolitical.)
I have enough thoughts about this for an entire feature length documentary but here are two minutes of them.
(Spoiler alert: you can’t fight bad politics by staying apolitical.)
December 18, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Defunding the American Academy of Pediatrics? This will lead to increased disease and demise of children! Trump and Republicans don't give a damn about children. What more evidence do you need?
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I've been waiting to find out exactly how Trump was going to personally profit from the AI greed frenzy he has unleashed because there was no way he was *not* going to get a piece.
Now we know: a $6-billion merger of his failing media corp with an AI energy corp
www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025...
Now we know: a $6-billion merger of his failing media corp with an AI energy corp
www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025...
Trump Media to merge with nuclear fusion company to power AI
The all-stock deal comes amid growing energy needs for the tech sector.
www.aljazeera.com
December 18, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I've been waiting to find out exactly how Trump was going to personally profit from the AI greed frenzy he has unleashed because there was no way he was *not* going to get a piece.
Now we know: a $6-billion merger of his failing media corp with an AI energy corp
www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025...
Now we know: a $6-billion merger of his failing media corp with an AI energy corp
www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025...
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All of the major broadcast news outlets have converted themselves into heavily biased MAGA mouthpieces — just as MAGA is falling apart. To be followed by more whining about lack of public trust in the media.
December 18, 2025 at 2:22 PM
All of the major broadcast news outlets have converted themselves into heavily biased MAGA mouthpieces — just as MAGA is falling apart. To be followed by more whining about lack of public trust in the media.
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The networks were afraid not to run Trump because they assumed he would use his office to punish them if they didn’t. The irony is that this is what Biden was warning about, a warning they chose not to share with America.
You'll remember that when Biden delivered an address in 2022, networks refused to air it because they said it was "political" www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/0...
As Biden warned about democracy’s collapse, TV networks aired reruns
Broadcasters NBC, CBS and ABC usually air presidential prime-time addresses live. But they found Biden's Philadelphia speech more "political" than newsworthy.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 18, 2025 at 1:30 PM
The networks were afraid not to run Trump because they assumed he would use his office to punish them if they didn’t. The irony is that this is what Biden was warning about, a warning they chose not to share with America.
A summary for the ages. A snapshot of where we are —and crossroads moment of deciding where will be going.
“There's a whole bunch of players in Trump’s circle… who are trying to put in place what I would call a Nazi worldview.”
Historian @hcrichardson.bsky.social explains how the Trump administration is encouraging a Nazi worldview.
Watch the full town hall: zeteo.com/p/heather-co...
Historian @hcrichardson.bsky.social explains how the Trump administration is encouraging a Nazi worldview.
Watch the full town hall: zeteo.com/p/heather-co...
December 18, 2025 at 2:42 PM
A summary for the ages. A snapshot of where we are —and crossroads moment of deciding where will be going.
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Well, this is an utter disaster for science.
This gutting of peer review is very likely driven by Project 2025/OMB/Vought, very likely is about funding junk science, and very likely is coming for #NIH and biomedical research next.
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This gutting of peer review is very likely driven by Project 2025/OMB/Vought, very likely is about funding junk science, and very likely is coming for #NIH and biomedical research next.
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December 16, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Well, this is an utter disaster for science.
This gutting of peer review is very likely driven by Project 2025/OMB/Vought, very likely is about funding junk science, and very likely is coming for #NIH and biomedical research next.
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This gutting of peer review is very likely driven by Project 2025/OMB/Vought, very likely is about funding junk science, and very likely is coming for #NIH and biomedical research next.
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Just a reminder that at least 600 Americans were fired for failing to show sufficient respect after Charlie Kirk's murder.
December 15, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Just a reminder that at least 600 Americans were fired for failing to show sufficient respect after Charlie Kirk's murder.
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real police state stuff
WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 13, 2025 at 4:06 AM
real police state stuff
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Best news of the day and a real sign of AI progress.
LOL... Pentagon released a new AI military chatbot and it immediately pointed out that Pete Hegseth is a war criminal.
abovethelaw.com/2025/12/pent...
abovethelaw.com/2025/12/pent...
Pentagon Unveils New GenAI Platform, It Immediately Starts Flagging Pete Hegseth's War Crimes - Above the Law
The Defense Department's new ChatJAG turned out to be better than the human chain of command.
abovethelaw.com
December 13, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Best news of the day and a real sign of AI progress.
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"This will hurt them a lot more than it hurts me" --
The Economic Populism and Affordability president
The Economic Populism and Affordability president
Q: At the end of this year, those extended Obamacare subsidies expire. What's your message to those 24m Americans who will see their premiums go up?
TRUMP: Don't make it sound so bad. Obviously you're a sycophant for Democrats. You're obviously a provider of bad news for Republicans.
TRUMP: Don't make it sound so bad. Obviously you're a sycophant for Democrats. You're obviously a provider of bad news for Republicans.
December 13, 2025 at 4:18 AM
"This will hurt them a lot more than it hurts me" --
The Economic Populism and Affordability president
The Economic Populism and Affordability president
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its really fucked every day to live in a country with a leader this openly racist and the msm just nods along with it and the dems hardly ever say anything about it
December 9, 2025 at 2:46 PM
its really fucked every day to live in a country with a leader this openly racist and the msm just nods along with it and the dems hardly ever say anything about it
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They want to repeat lies to make them true in people's minds. Every time you hear these lies, remind people that Biden left Donald Trump an economy that The Economist called envy of the world. ZERO% chance of a recession. Donald's regime has dragged it down into a stagflation.
Karoline Leavitt lies with impunity on Fox & Friends: "Don't forget -- a year ago, President Trump inherited the worst inflation crisis in modern American history from the Biden administration."
December 9, 2025 at 1:02 PM
They want to repeat lies to make them true in people's minds. Every time you hear these lies, remind people that Biden left Donald Trump an economy that The Economist called envy of the world. ZERO% chance of a recession. Donald's regime has dragged it down into a stagflation.
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That's called a Dictatorship.
December 9, 2025 at 2:09 AM
That's called a Dictatorship.