henry sholar
@mapablue.bsky.social
eugene, oregon • cruiser on a beater • bookish hippie • great great great great grandson of isaac harby • rorty-esque flexibility in my anticipatory resoluteness • progressive • choice • LGBTQIA2S+ • BLM • fight fascism • social media doggerel • he/him/old
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henry sholar
@mapablue.bsky.social
· Nov 22
January 2017 — March 2020
every Tuesday, Eugene, OR
(i need to make another sign)
every Tuesday, Eugene, OR
(i need to make another sign)
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NC rates an F. An "F." Let that sink in. #ncpol
Education Law Center "Making the Grade" report rates North Carolina last in the nation for school funding effort and gives the state an F. #WFDD #Education #SchoolFunding
NC ranks dead last in the country for school funding effort, new report shows
The Education Law Center has released its annual "Making the Grade" report on school funding across the country — and North Carolina is getting an F.
www.wfdd.org
December 17, 2025 at 6:48 PM
NC rates an F. An "F." Let that sink in. #ncpol
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11 months ago I was diagnosed with moderate hearing loss
This scenario happened in June 😠
I've just got my hearing aids fitting appointment for the end of January, soon I'll be able to hear all the idiots 😀🦻
#hearing #hearingloss #rude #disabilities #deafness #bekind
This scenario happened in June 😠
I've just got my hearing aids fitting appointment for the end of January, soon I'll be able to hear all the idiots 😀🦻
#hearing #hearingloss #rude #disabilities #deafness #bekind
December 17, 2025 at 4:19 PM
11 months ago I was diagnosed with moderate hearing loss
This scenario happened in June 😠
I've just got my hearing aids fitting appointment for the end of January, soon I'll be able to hear all the idiots 😀🦻
#hearing #hearingloss #rude #disabilities #deafness #bekind
This scenario happened in June 😠
I've just got my hearing aids fitting appointment for the end of January, soon I'll be able to hear all the idiots 😀🦻
#hearing #hearingloss #rude #disabilities #deafness #bekind
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Were I the head of an organization linked in several different ways to the most horrifying sexual abuse story in recent memory my sole aim would be to avoid a headline that includes the idea that I am "secretly investigating" the people who help expose it.
Harvard officials are reportedly secretly investigating two students for their roles in drawing scrutiny to the relationship between Jeffrey Epstein and ex-president Larry Summers
Harvard Secretly Investigates Students Over Larry Summers Video on Epstein
www.nytimes.com
December 17, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Were I the head of an organization linked in several different ways to the most horrifying sexual abuse story in recent memory my sole aim would be to avoid a headline that includes the idea that I am "secretly investigating" the people who help expose it.
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This Day in Labor History: December 17, 1953. The National Labor Relations Board ruled in the Livingston Shirt Corporation Case that companies could force workers to sit through anti-union meetings. Let's talk about this horrible ruling and how Eisenhower sucked!
December 17, 2025 at 4:13 PM
This Day in Labor History: December 17, 1953. The National Labor Relations Board ruled in the Livingston Shirt Corporation Case that companies could force workers to sit through anti-union meetings. Let's talk about this horrible ruling and how Eisenhower sucked!
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Here's a quartet hollering in my swamp this chilly morning. Along with Limpkins, they make the best alarm clocks ever! #birds #SandhillCranes
December 16, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Here's a quartet hollering in my swamp this chilly morning. Along with Limpkins, they make the best alarm clocks ever! #birds #SandhillCranes
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US Coast Guard officially stops classifying swastikas as hate symbols...
The new policy went into effect Monday, according to written correspondence that the Coast Guard provided to Congress this week, a copy of which was reviewed by The Washington Post.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
The new policy went into effect Monday, according to written correspondence that the Coast Guard provided to Congress this week, a copy of which was reviewed by The Washington Post.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
US military branch officially stops classifying swastikas as hate symbols
Coast Guard Admiral Kevin Lunday issued a memo on November 20 denouncing symbols like swastikas and nooses, and insisted that both will remain prohibited for Coast Guard personnel
www.independent.co.uk
December 17, 2025 at 4:30 AM
US Coast Guard officially stops classifying swastikas as hate symbols...
The new policy went into effect Monday, according to written correspondence that the Coast Guard provided to Congress this week, a copy of which was reviewed by The Washington Post.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
The new policy went into effect Monday, according to written correspondence that the Coast Guard provided to Congress this week, a copy of which was reviewed by The Washington Post.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
real disappointment that our regional 'net server, Hunter, got bought by a gang of vultures. sad that in this corrupt society everything is turnin' tuh shit.
most popular refrain, 'oh, well…'
so on with the show, as we watch how Hunter turns into waste product.
most popular refrain, 'oh, well…'
so on with the show, as we watch how Hunter turns into waste product.
December 16, 2025 at 6:43 PM
real disappointment that our regional 'net server, Hunter, got bought by a gang of vultures. sad that in this corrupt society everything is turnin' tuh shit.
most popular refrain, 'oh, well…'
so on with the show, as we watch how Hunter turns into waste product.
most popular refrain, 'oh, well…'
so on with the show, as we watch how Hunter turns into waste product.
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Formerly actively going and doing punk things that means; joke now that I've made a smooth transition from punk all-black to Buddhist all-black, but I'm def. hopepunk.
December 16, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Formerly actively going and doing punk things that means; joke now that I've made a smooth transition from punk all-black to Buddhist all-black, but I'm def. hopepunk.
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The Republican propaganda that Trump “inherited” a bad economy from Biden and is making it better is the exact opposite of true. The numbers don’t lie and people know what they are experiencing.
December 16, 2025 at 5:50 PM
The Republican propaganda that Trump “inherited” a bad economy from Biden and is making it better is the exact opposite of true. The numbers don’t lie and people know what they are experiencing.
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Some of the most useful insights into what’s happening to America are coming from political analysts outside the United States. Here’s a particularly lucid essay that I think you should read.
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-true-catastrophe-of-trump
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-true-catastrophe-of-trump
December 16, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Some of the most useful insights into what’s happening to America are coming from political analysts outside the United States. Here’s a particularly lucid essay that I think you should read.
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-true-catastrophe-of-trump
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-true-catastrophe-of-trump
morning thought:
the funnest read on susie wiles today is speculating on all the lies she's tellin'. it's trash to put in your head, & that's okay if you go touch grass at some point.
hug somebody.
admit a truth.
the funnest read on susie wiles today is speculating on all the lies she's tellin'. it's trash to put in your head, & that's okay if you go touch grass at some point.
hug somebody.
admit a truth.
December 16, 2025 at 4:07 PM
morning thought:
the funnest read on susie wiles today is speculating on all the lies she's tellin'. it's trash to put in your head, & that's okay if you go touch grass at some point.
hug somebody.
admit a truth.
the funnest read on susie wiles today is speculating on all the lies she's tellin'. it's trash to put in your head, & that's okay if you go touch grass at some point.
hug somebody.
admit a truth.
morning thought:
it's real simple, my countrywomen & men:
we've all got to smarten up, be a lot more compassionate with one another (& "the stranger" in our midst) in order to save our democracy.
& then we'll bring the bad actors working for trump's criminal mob to justice — big shots & thugs.
it's real simple, my countrywomen & men:
we've all got to smarten up, be a lot more compassionate with one another (& "the stranger" in our midst) in order to save our democracy.
& then we'll bring the bad actors working for trump's criminal mob to justice — big shots & thugs.
December 16, 2025 at 1:10 PM
morning thought:
it's real simple, my countrywomen & men:
we've all got to smarten up, be a lot more compassionate with one another (& "the stranger" in our midst) in order to save our democracy.
& then we'll bring the bad actors working for trump's criminal mob to justice — big shots & thugs.
it's real simple, my countrywomen & men:
we've all got to smarten up, be a lot more compassionate with one another (& "the stranger" in our midst) in order to save our democracy.
& then we'll bring the bad actors working for trump's criminal mob to justice — big shots & thugs.
a little harsh, but true
December 15, 2025 at 11:35 PM
a little harsh, but true
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Every single reporter there needs to hold the line on this too.
Don't throw him a lifeline with another question if he dodges. Have each other's backs and demand he answer the question.
Don't throw him a lifeline with another question if he dodges. Have each other's backs and demand he answer the question.
Just to get ahead of this: Print the post out and bring it to the next Mike Johnson presser. You already know what his move will be. There’s no excuse to not be prepared for it.
December 15, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Every single reporter there needs to hold the line on this too.
Don't throw him a lifeline with another question if he dodges. Have each other's backs and demand he answer the question.
Don't throw him a lifeline with another question if he dodges. Have each other's backs and demand he answer the question.
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Trump's Rob Reiner is not about a failure of empathy or good taste. Trump bragged that Reiner was murdered because he criticized Trump! That's a seismic shift in political rhetoric. He wants people to believe that MAGA will murder his critics. He wants MAGA to believe it.
December 15, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Trump's Rob Reiner is not about a failure of empathy or good taste. Trump bragged that Reiner was murdered because he criticized Trump! That's a seismic shift in political rhetoric. He wants people to believe that MAGA will murder his critics. He wants MAGA to believe it.
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what is happening at Brown is horrific. And the Supreme Court conservatives helped cause it by making up a new second amendment in 2008
You know what shouldn’t be controversial?
That there is no — zero — right to own a gun. Zero. Antonin Scalia made that up when he made up an entirely new second amendment in 2008.
No right to a gun. Scalia made it up. Say that, @delauro.house.gov
That there is no — zero — right to own a gun. Zero. Antonin Scalia made that up when he made up an entirely new second amendment in 2008.
No right to a gun. Scalia made it up. Say that, @delauro.house.gov
Safe storage isn’t controversial; it’s responsible. If you keep a firearm at home, kids should not be able to access it.
No parent should have to bury a child because of an unlocked gun. Ethan’s Law is the standard our children deserve.
No parent should have to bury a child because of an unlocked gun. Ethan’s Law is the standard our children deserve.
December 14, 2025 at 3:02 AM
what is happening at Brown is horrific. And the Supreme Court conservatives helped cause it by making up a new second amendment in 2008
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Piedmont Raging Grannies singing the health insurance blues at our Greensboro die in today! #raginggrannies #healthcareblues
December 14, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Piedmont Raging Grannies singing the health insurance blues at our Greensboro die in today! #raginggrannies #healthcareblues
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Congresswoman Ramirez rips ICE Barbie a new one👇🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼💙💙💙✊🏼👊🏻
December 13, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Congresswoman Ramirez rips ICE Barbie a new one👇🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼💙💙💙✊🏼👊🏻
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Replacing working men with billionaires.
Hard to imagine a better way of summing up 2025.
Hard to imagine a better way of summing up 2025.
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
December 12, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Replacing working men with billionaires.
Hard to imagine a better way of summing up 2025.
Hard to imagine a better way of summing up 2025.
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so, this right here? this is one of the absolutely most lawless, brazenly unconstitutional impeachable offenses ever committed by any president other than trump in the history of our country.
like, this is an open and shut case. and it's a case which targeted *republicans.*
like, this is an open and shut case. and it's a case which targeted *republicans.*
This should be the biggest story in the country right now. The sitting US President was extorting state lawmakers from his own party by threatening to withhold public money if they didn’t gerrymander for him.
I don’t know how else to say it…
I don’t know how else to say it…
December 12, 2025 at 4:55 AM
so, this right here? this is one of the absolutely most lawless, brazenly unconstitutional impeachable offenses ever committed by any president other than trump in the history of our country.
like, this is an open and shut case. and it's a case which targeted *republicans.*
like, this is an open and shut case. and it's a case which targeted *republicans.*
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Today is Tom Hayden's 86th birthday. He was born OTD in 1939 in Detroit.
On his 22nd birthday, he was arrested at a bus terminal in Albany, GA, as part of the Freedom Rider movement. He also began working on a first draft of the Port Huron Statement that week.
On his 22nd birthday, he was arrested at a bus terminal in Albany, GA, as part of the Freedom Rider movement. He also began working on a first draft of the Port Huron Statement that week.
December 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Today is Tom Hayden's 86th birthday. He was born OTD in 1939 in Detroit.
On his 22nd birthday, he was arrested at a bus terminal in Albany, GA, as part of the Freedom Rider movement. He also began working on a first draft of the Port Huron Statement that week.
On his 22nd birthday, he was arrested at a bus terminal in Albany, GA, as part of the Freedom Rider movement. He also began working on a first draft of the Port Huron Statement that week.
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The tragic thing about this is that none of the people who refuse to get their kids vaccinated will change their minds unless a bunch of kids die and even then for a lot of these people this is cultural religious and ain't nothing gonna work
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/w...
Hundreds Quarantined in South Carolina as Measles Spreads
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 12:18 AM
The tragic thing about this is that none of the people who refuse to get their kids vaccinated will change their minds unless a bunch of kids die and even then for a lot of these people this is cultural religious and ain't nothing gonna work
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/w...
thread on jeffries et impeaching the old nazi clown & his minions.
The final paragraph of this statement is FASCINATING.
Dem leadership is clearly trying to imply, in pretty strong terms, that they'll launch an aggressive, vigorous, public impeachment effort if they take back control of the House. But without actually, you know, saying that.
Drip. Drip. Drip.
Dem leadership is clearly trying to imply, in pretty strong terms, that they'll launch an aggressive, vigorous, public impeachment effort if they take back control of the House. But without actually, you know, saying that.
Drip. Drip. Drip.
Significant statement from Jeffries and House Democratic leaders saying they will vote “present” on the motion to table Al Green’s resolution to impeach President Trump. They say they’re “laser-focused on fighting to lower the high cost of living” plus on health care and corruption.
December 11, 2025 at 8:24 PM
thread on jeffries et impeaching the old nazi clown & his minions.
morning thought:
we'll need 20-years of progressive democratic governance to survive-built-to-thrive in the future.
Progressive?
First we remove, substantially, the change purses of the billionaires & Corps, & set up we the people to do some serious work to restore society & kind cultural practices
we'll need 20-years of progressive democratic governance to survive-built-to-thrive in the future.
Progressive?
First we remove, substantially, the change purses of the billionaires & Corps, & set up we the people to do some serious work to restore society & kind cultural practices
December 11, 2025 at 4:09 PM
morning thought:
we'll need 20-years of progressive democratic governance to survive-built-to-thrive in the future.
Progressive?
First we remove, substantially, the change purses of the billionaires & Corps, & set up we the people to do some serious work to restore society & kind cultural practices
we'll need 20-years of progressive democratic governance to survive-built-to-thrive in the future.
Progressive?
First we remove, substantially, the change purses of the billionaires & Corps, & set up we the people to do some serious work to restore society & kind cultural practices