Rik Scarce
@rikscarce.bsky.social
I'm a Licensed Battlefield Guide at Gettysburg National Military Park and a retired sociology professor who's eager to build a better world. ("Scarce" like money: does not rhyme with "farce," although sometimes....)
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An absolutely magnificent Freudian slip! 🤌🏼
December 21, 2025 at 12:10 PM
An absolutely magnificent Freudian slip! 🤌🏼
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Neither is herpes, but I’ll keep doing my work without either.
AI is not going to go away
December 21, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Neither is herpes, but I’ll keep doing my work without either.
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Encouraging undergraduates to *start* with AI, robs them of the skills they need to begin learning how to be a history detective. And when you move up to the graduate level, AI doesn't have access to actual archives. And it cannot produce new knowledge. *YOU* have to do that.
December 21, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Encouraging undergraduates to *start* with AI, robs them of the skills they need to begin learning how to be a history detective. And when you move up to the graduate level, AI doesn't have access to actual archives. And it cannot produce new knowledge. *YOU* have to do that.
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Chicago is having none of this administration's BS.
December 20, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Chicago is having none of this administration's BS.
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Illinois created civil rights tool HB 1312, allows residents to sue ICE agents who violate constitutional limits and for unlawful arrests within 1000' courthouse protection zones. Contact your state AG now and demand they adopt policies modeled on Illinois HB 1312.
open.substack.com/pub/wendy664...
open.substack.com/pub/wendy664...
Illinois Just Made It Legal To Sue ICE Agents For $10,000 Per Unlawful Arrest
Free states once defied the Fugitive Slave Act by blocking federal overreach. California and Illinois now revive that resistance through modern civil rights law.
open.substack.com
December 19, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Illinois created civil rights tool HB 1312, allows residents to sue ICE agents who violate constitutional limits and for unlawful arrests within 1000' courthouse protection zones. Contact your state AG now and demand they adopt policies modeled on Illinois HB 1312.
open.substack.com/pub/wendy664...
open.substack.com/pub/wendy664...
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“NPR identified more than a dozen files released by the DOJ on Friday that are no longer available Saturday afternoon, including one that shows President Trump's photo on a desk among several other photographs.“
The FBI put a thousand agents (their own words) on trying to hide all the links between Trump and Epstein. They failed. When people found some additional photos of Trump in the release, the DOJ promptly DELETED THEM FROM THE DOCUMENT RELEASE.
www.npr.org/2025/12/20/n...
www.npr.org/2025/12/20/n...
Available to download Friday, some Epstein files no longer there Saturday afternoon
An NPR analysis of the Epstein files shows some documents, originally available on Friday, are no longer on the Department of Justice's "Epstein Library" website as the DOJ releases more files.
www.npr.org
December 20, 2025 at 10:16 PM
“NPR identified more than a dozen files released by the DOJ on Friday that are no longer available Saturday afternoon, including one that shows President Trump's photo on a desk among several other photographs.“
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Outstanding news!
www.fastcompany.com/91461983/ind...
www.fastcompany.com/91461983/ind...
Indie bookstores are making a shocking, triumphant comeback
Since 2020, the number of independent bookstores in the U.S. grew by 70%.
www.fastcompany.com
December 20, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Outstanding news!
www.fastcompany.com/91461983/ind...
www.fastcompany.com/91461983/ind...
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rfk will not rest until your kid is dead wapo.st/4s2l2zn
U.S. plans to stop recommending most childhood vaccines, defer to doctors
The plan, which is not finalized, suggests children get fewer shots and shifts to a model telling parents to consult doctors to make their own vaccine choices.
wapo.st
December 20, 2025 at 12:25 AM
rfk will not rest until your kid is dead wapo.st/4s2l2zn
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UMich consumer sentiment (current conditions) at 50.4 is a new all-time low -- going back to data from the 1970s.
U.S MICHIGAN CONSUMER SENTIMENT (DEC) ACTUAL: 52.9 VS 53.3 PREVIOUS; EST 53.5
December 19, 2025 at 3:04 PM
UMich consumer sentiment (current conditions) at 50.4 is a new all-time low -- going back to data from the 1970s.
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If China can do it so can we. China is crushing this market right now and the fossil fuel industry here in the USA has bought the Trump Presidency to make sure we are left out.
New paper:
China's current rate of Wind-Water-Solar (WWS) installations puts it on a trajectory to transition to 100% WWS across all energy sectors by 2051
US & India won't get there until past 2130
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
China's current rate of Wind-Water-Solar (WWS) installations puts it on a trajectory to transition to 100% WWS across all energy sectors by 2051
US & India won't get there until past 2130
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
December 19, 2025 at 9:06 PM
If China can do it so can we. China is crushing this market right now and the fossil fuel industry here in the USA has bought the Trump Presidency to make sure we are left out.
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awful. this is a policy choice, to kill people.
FOUR new deaths in ICE detention. That puts the total this year at 30 people dead; the highest in ICE's history and worse than even during the COVID years.
It's clear that the system is breaking down. Many of these are preventable deaths.
It's clear that the system is breaking down. Many of these are preventable deaths.
In the 90 minutes since I posted this, I've gotten two more death notifications.
ICE has a responsibility to take care of these people, something they are clearly disregarding. This is beyond horrifying. We must ensure dignity and humanity for detained people in this country.
ICE has a responsibility to take care of these people, something they are clearly disregarding. This is beyond horrifying. We must ensure dignity and humanity for detained people in this country.
December 18, 2025 at 7:57 PM
awful. this is a policy choice, to kill people.
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To all the young people in New York and across our country who count on gender-affirming care:
I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.
Your health care is still legal and protected.
I'll always fight for you.
I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.
Your health care is still legal and protected.
I'll always fight for you.
December 18, 2025 at 4:22 PM
To all the young people in New York and across our country who count on gender-affirming care:
I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.
Your health care is still legal and protected.
I'll always fight for you.
I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.
Your health care is still legal and protected.
I'll always fight for you.
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Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol - who commutes to Seattle from CA using a company-provided private jet - made $96 million for just 4 months of work.
Brian makes 6,666 times the average Starbucks worker. That's the largest CEO-to-worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500!
The visuals write themselves...
Brian makes 6,666 times the average Starbucks worker. That's the largest CEO-to-worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500!
The visuals write themselves...
December 18, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol - who commutes to Seattle from CA using a company-provided private jet - made $96 million for just 4 months of work.
Brian makes 6,666 times the average Starbucks worker. That's the largest CEO-to-worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500!
The visuals write themselves...
Brian makes 6,666 times the average Starbucks worker. That's the largest CEO-to-worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500!
The visuals write themselves...
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Antisemitic violence like this has no place in Michigan. We stand together with our Jewish sisters and brothers against antisemitism and hate in all forms.
Police investigating swastika painted on Jewish Center at MSU as hate crime
The swastika appeared on the Jewish Center on Albert Street in recent days, East Lansing police said.
www.lansingstatejournal.com
December 19, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Antisemitic violence like this has no place in Michigan. We stand together with our Jewish sisters and brothers against antisemitism and hate in all forms.
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A former immigration judge alleged to DOJ that Trump fired her bc of her sex & national origin
DOJ said equal employment opportunity laws don't supersede Trump's removal powers under Article II
this is literally a claim to constitutional power to discriminate
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
DOJ said equal employment opportunity laws don't supersede Trump's removal powers under Article II
this is literally a claim to constitutional power to discriminate
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
How the Trump Administration Is Quietly Resegregating the American Workforce
The Justice Department’s rollback of disparate impact is just one new policy that makes it harder for people of color to challenge illegal discrimination.
ballsandstrikes.org
December 17, 2025 at 6:34 PM
A former immigration judge alleged to DOJ that Trump fired her bc of her sex & national origin
DOJ said equal employment opportunity laws don't supersede Trump's removal powers under Article II
this is literally a claim to constitutional power to discriminate
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
DOJ said equal employment opportunity laws don't supersede Trump's removal powers under Article II
this is literally a claim to constitutional power to discriminate
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
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This is extraordinary, heartbreaking, and a red alert warning sign for our democracy.
These people are about to be federal judges, and they refuse to answer whether the U.S. Capitol was attacked on January 6.
They say they can't comment because it's "a political controversy".
These people are about to be federal judges, and they refuse to answer whether the U.S. Capitol was attacked on January 6.
They say they can't comment because it's "a political controversy".
Sen. BLUMENTHAL: Was the U.S. Capitol attacked on January 6, 2021?
Trump nominee: *dodges*
Trump nominee: *dodges*
Trump nominee: Well, individuals entered the Capitol.
Blumenthal: You are in fear—how will you have the courage to be fair and impartial?
Trump nominee: *dodges*
Trump nominee: *dodges*
Trump nominee: Well, individuals entered the Capitol.
Blumenthal: You are in fear—how will you have the courage to be fair and impartial?
December 18, 2025 at 2:32 PM
This is extraordinary, heartbreaking, and a red alert warning sign for our democracy.
These people are about to be federal judges, and they refuse to answer whether the U.S. Capitol was attacked on January 6.
They say they can't comment because it's "a political controversy".
These people are about to be federal judges, and they refuse to answer whether the U.S. Capitol was attacked on January 6.
They say they can't comment because it's "a political controversy".
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Trump's new executive order will ban, over the next three years, more than 140,000 spouses, fiancés, and minor children of US citizens and legal permanent residents. Nearly 100,000 nuclear family of US citizens. Unconscionable
December 18, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Trump's new executive order will ban, over the next three years, more than 140,000 spouses, fiancés, and minor children of US citizens and legal permanent residents. Nearly 100,000 nuclear family of US citizens. Unconscionable
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BREAKING: The House of Representatives passed a bill that would criminalize gender-affirming care for transgender youth under 18 and put doctors in prison for providing this care.
This bill is an unjustifiable threat to the well-being of trans youth and their families. The Senate must reject it.
This bill is an unjustifiable threat to the well-being of trans youth and their families. The Senate must reject it.
December 18, 2025 at 12:39 AM
BREAKING: The House of Representatives passed a bill that would criminalize gender-affirming care for transgender youth under 18 and put doctors in prison for providing this care.
This bill is an unjustifiable threat to the well-being of trans youth and their families. The Senate must reject it.
This bill is an unjustifiable threat to the well-being of trans youth and their families. The Senate must reject it.
Disgusting. At both the high school and university level, sports funding is a drain on the core mission of educational institutions. There is no way to rationalize its damage to teaching, learning, and research. None.
All the centers they’re cutting add up to less than $7 million in spending.
UNC athletics budget is $185.4 million for the 2025-26 fiscal year.
UNC athletics budget is $185.4 million for the 2025-26 fiscal year.
December 18, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Disgusting. At both the high school and university level, sports funding is a drain on the core mission of educational institutions. There is no way to rationalize its damage to teaching, learning, and research. None.
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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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December 17, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Or rather, all too believable. If you want to suppress all knowledge of how a relatively small number are enriching themselves by destroying our shared home then this destruction, following on the heels of the funding freeze for the national Climate Adaptation Science Centers, is completely logical.
Trump officials shut off funding for climate adaptation centers
A third of the U.S. Geological Survey’s Climate Adaptation Science Centers are expected to drastically wind down and possibly close after Sept. 30.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 17, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Or rather, all too believable. If you want to suppress all knowledge of how a relatively small number are enriching themselves by destroying our shared home then this destruction, following on the heels of the funding freeze for the national Climate Adaptation Science Centers, is completely logical.
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April 7, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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