prof @uchicago. The Measure of Man: Liberty, Virtue and Beauty in the Florentine Renaissance @rowman.com bit.ly/3eECsxx He/him.
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Larry Rothfield @larryr@mstdn.social retweeted
30 Dec 2025
Less than 24 hours after the meeting between Trump and Netanyahu, Israel suspends most international humanitarian organisations working in Gaza. Independent Humanitarian Aid is ending. Israel’s genocide continues. apnews.com/article/gaza-huma…
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Larry Rothfield @larryr@mstdn.social retweeted
29 Dec 2025
Battery pack storage costs for WindWaterSolar are dropping so low that they eliminate the argument for using fossil fuels or nuclear moving forward.
Battery pack prices for stationary storage now down to $70/kWh in 2025, a 45% decrease in just one year.
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Larry Rothfield @larryr@mstdn.social retweeted
30 Dec 2025
Baltimore will be ending the year with the lowest number of homicides in DECADES. We know that this work isn't finished yet. We have a long way to go. But this is real progress.
29 Dec 2025
Analysis: Baltimore homicides declined furthest, fastest in the country as killings could reach a 48-year low buff.ly/uCm8Ak9
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Trump in press conference with Netanyahu now on third minute going off on a rant about Powell cost overrun (sic) on the new Fed Reserve building. Scary.
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Don't look now, but while we're playing pretend war, China is setting up for a possible invasion of Taiwan.
Hey Whiskey @PeteHegseth?
This is what your dumbass Venezuela operation invited.
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Trump thinks a peace deal involving Ukraine becoming dependent on Russian oil shows Russia wants Ukraine to succeed.
28 Dec 2025
🤡 This press conference is honestly so unserious. It’s painful to see President Zelenskyy have to listen to this nonsense.
Trump is literally just yapping about his 2hour conversation with Putin, pushing pure russian talking points, even managing to say;
- Look, russia wants Ukraine to succeed.
Yeah, murdering Ukrainian civilians, bombing their cities and stealing their land definitely screams success 🤦🏼♀️
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Larry Rothfield @larryr@mstdn.social retweeted
28 Dec 2025
I don't think attacking the Russian oil industry-the working engine of russia's war machine, is the same as burying 4-year-old girls under the rubble of their homes before Christmas, or plunging a city of a million people into cold and darkness in the dead of winter.
28 Dec 2025
Q: Some are saying that Russia's recent attacks on Ukraine show Putin isn't serious about peace
TRUMP: I believe Ukraine has made some very strong attacks also. I don't say that negatively. You probably have to. There have been explosions in various parts of Russia. I don't think it came from the Congo. I don't think it came from the USA.
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Verboten.
28 Dec 2025
“Women” and “disability” and “black” and “minorities” are now banned from all pre-Kindergarten Head Start school programs by Trump WH. This is how society dies and new a Hilter rises.
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JFC.
28 Dec 2025
Trump: "I saw a very interesting President Putin today. I mean, he wants to see it happen. He wants to see it. He told me very strongly. I believe him. Don't forget, we went through the Russia Russia Russia hoax together and he'd call me, I'd call him, I'd say 'Can you believe the stuff they're making up?' It turned out we were right. They made it all up."
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IMPORTANT.
28 Dec 2025
Note the connection between Trump’s Venezuelan campaign and Stephen Miller’s immigration crackdown, as foreseen by Asha Rangappa. (Hat tip to @EricColumbus for spotting)
nytimes.com/2025/12/27/us/po…
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"I'm doubtful it will (brain)pan out."
28 Dec 2025
Do you know about LVA surgery that is being done to increase brain waste product drainage, with intent to treat or prevent neurodegenerative diseases?
In conversation with @jonykipnis
erictopol.substack.com/p/how…
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Larry Rothfield @larryr@mstdn.social retweeted
27 Dec 2025
🚨HORRIBLE: The tents of displaced families in Gaza City are being torn apart by strong winds and rain, while Israel continues to block the entry of caravans and building materials, leaving civilians with no safe shelter.
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Larry Rothfield @larryr@mstdn.social retweeted
27 Dec 2025
Kyiv this morning. Putin’s message to Zelensky and Trump.
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Trying to understand how a battleship is going to deliver troops to occupy a country, if the country prepares by investing in drones.
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Larry Rothfield @larryr@mstdn.social retweeted
26 Dec 2025
In the first nine months of this year, the United States Forest Service slowed its rate of prescribed burns, tree thinning and other fire-prevention work across its hundreds of millions of acres of land.
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Larry Rothfield @larryr@mstdn.social retweeted
26 Dec 2025
Scientists analysing samples from asteroid Bennu have detected ribose, completing the suite of molecules needed for RNA and confirming that primitive asteroids can generate complex organics. buff.ly/cWa6HGN
#ShareGoodNewsToo
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Larry Rothfield @larryr@mstdn.social retweeted
24 Dec 2025
Hallmark movie where big city professor returns to small town and falls in love with first person to show slight interest in research
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Merry Christmas, Baby! youtube.com/playlist?list=PL…
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Larry Rothfield @larryr@mstdn.social retweeted
23 Dec 2025
This man broke no laws. He went to a port of entry in 2024 to seek asylum — what the first Trump admin told people to do. A CBP officer accused him of being a gang member on flimsy evidence and had him detained. Then the second Trump admin sent him to torture with no due process.
23 Dec 2025
Another one that was not even included on my list! The canceled 60 Minutes report included an interview with a man who entered legally and never violated any laws but was nonetheless rendered to El Salvador for torture without due process. No wonder they canceled it.
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Larry Rothfield @larryr@mstdn.social retweeted
24 Dec 2025
Mind you, Sarah Rogers at State explicitly linked these visa bans to recent fine by European Commission imposed on X owing to the platform’s lack of transparency. Here is Musk in 2022, a few months before he bought Twitter, telling Thierry Breton, one of the now-sanctioned EU officials at the time, he agreed with the Digital Services Act, the provisions of which led to the fine.
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