Eric Corey Freed

I’m going to be very honest and clear.

I am fully preparing myself to die under this new American regime. That’s not to say that it’s the end of the world. It isn’t. But I am almost 50 years old. It will take so long to do anything with this mess that this is the new normal for *me*.

5. Everyone repeats same script.
6. More truth comes out showing cover up.
7. Lie more by telling you not to believe your own eyes.
8. Followers parrot the messaging. /2

One of his common patterns:
1. Desperation to shape a narrative.
2. Premature announcement.
3. Truth (inevitably) comes out.
4. Attack the truth.
Attack the messenger(s).
Lie and cover up. /1

Given the massive embodied carbon emissions of concrete, there are some low-carbon options to achieve that amorphous shape (that you might be looking for with shotcrete.)

@geoship.bsky.social is a wonder material;
Plus there’s the whole mass timber route.
Let me know how I can help!

Fascism sets in EXACTLY like this. Days go by. Nothing improves. The people wait with bated breath for SOMETHING or SOMEONE to help. Court orders, but no enforcement. Time passes. We become desensitized. Life goes on. Rights are chipped away. Life goes on. People die. Life goes on.

Star Wars Intro Scroll Episode IV It Was All So Stupid Seriously, you would not believe how stupid it was. Every day, unrelentingly, just the dumbest stuff by the absolute worst people. And what made it worse was knowing that we’d brought this on ourselves.

E.P.A. Set to Cancel Grants Aimed at Protecting Children From Toxic Chemicals The cancellations, set to apply to pending and active grants, also affect research into “forever chemicals” contaminating the food supply.

Let them eat cake, I mean toxic chemicals. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/c...

Trump Administration Aims to Spend $45 Billion to Expand Immigrant Detention A request for proposals for new detention facilities and other services would allow the government to expedite the contracting process and rapidly expand detention.

So we can’t afford clean air, or science, or cancer research, or weather tracking, or space exploration, or feeding the poor, or healthcare… but THIS we can afford?! Got it.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/u...

The American Age Is Over Emergency Triad: The United States commits imperial suicide.

Wow: “It took just 71 days for Donald Trump to wreck the American economy, mortally wound NATO, and destroy the American-led world order.”

www.thebulwark.com/p/the-americ...

I love Venn diagrams, so I attempted to create a literary Venn to describe where we are.

Imagine hearing from your president that “we’re here for you” and not the usual performative, low class, ratings seeking, pathetic and weak messaging designed to solely divide Americans.

and 1% feta cheese.

So what happens if, sometime in the future, he decides to switch the name from “Washington DC” to “Trump DC”?
Do Google and Apple Maps just blindly oblige?

I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky

We import 60% of our oil from Canada.
Trump slapped a 25% tariff on everything Canadian.
Trump gutted incentives for renewables.
Trump eliminated the incentives for Electric Vehicles.

Explain to me how this plays out.

Is America Great Again yet?!

How long until Trump simply points at a black person and shouts, “You’re DEI!”?

I’m thinking this week.

(Remember when he pointed at Jim Acosta and said, “You’re Fake News.”?!)

Dept of Transportation memo ordering all personnel to "identify and eliminate" every order, policy, funding arrangement, or program that even mentions climate change, diversity, or environmental justice

Department of Transportation orders all personnel to "identify and eliminate" every order, directive, rule, regulation, policy, notice, guidance document, funding arrangement, or program that even mentions climate change, diversity, or environmental justice

www.transportation.gov/sites/dot.go...

So the “King” makes a list of words he doesn’t like and the entire government scrambles to undo the past and block anything mentioning those meddlesome words, regards of the lives it ruins?!

This type of chaos isn’t sustainable.
(Oops, that’s one of the bad words the king hates!)

Trump took down the HHS webpage on their Climate Pledge program that hundreds of our clients had enrolled. Maddening. Try it: www.hhs.gov/climate-chan...

But if you confirm him, he says he’ll give up drinking (and if you don’t, he’ll drink more!)

As always, his numbers are fake: The Soviet Union lost around 27 million people during WWII, including 8.7 million military and 19 million civilians.

Unbelievably petty! The Spanish language version of the White House website was deleted after the inauguration yesterday.

Look what happens when you hit the “go home” button!

What next? Activists on how to move past the grief of defeat. If the elections didn’t work out the way that you had hoped, you may feel depressed and lost. We asked longtime activists how they move forward.

Seems a fitting first post given how Kafkaesque this week has been: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...