Erick Heroux

ex-professor of Literature, guitarist, doting daddy of demanding toddler

[Erick Heroux @HerouxErick]

@robbystarbuck Robby Starbuck is an average homophobe. He appeals only to others of his ilk.

[Damian Carrington @dpcarrington]

The future world envisaged by many respondents is frankly terrifying: famine, conflict, mass migration. They also said the world is woefully unprepared for increasing climate disasters.

7/n

[Vatnik Soup @vatniksoup]

In today's #vatniksoup, I'll iterate on the Kremlin's main narratives and how they're currently being used to legitimize Russia's sham election, protest military aid to Ukraine, and confuse people with "whataboutism" ("What about the US/Gaza/Iraq/Israel/Ukraine?").

1/15

[Erick Heroux @HerouxErick]

I have to block another fake account follower everyday.

[Vatnik Soup @vatniksoup]

In today's #vatniksoup, I'll discuss about X's massive problem with social media manipulation, paid shills, bots, and trolls.

Due to the upcoming US election in Nov 2024 and Elon's disregard of the problem, X is seeing more trolls and bots than ever before.

1/21

[Erick Heroux @HerouxErick]

From the white suburbs to the psychotic antisocial media. https://t.co/bHZMQb6i2n

[Erick Heroux @HerouxErick]

Climate scientist Michael Mann awarded $1 million in defamation lawsuit https://t.co/HUybmPL5RJ

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

In 2012, Mike Flynn commissioned a white paper to collect all the latest research on radicalizing populations with psychological warfare in order to destabilize nation-states.

For decades, Flynn ran psyops as part of his intelligence missions, especially in Afghanistan—where he partnered with international terrorist Erik Prince, under the command of Stanley McChrystal.

Mike Flynn’s brother Charles was McChrystal’s Chief of Staff.

Flynn used this knowledge and experience to run psychological warfare tactics on Americans in 2016. At the center of his calculated psyops were the emails of John Podesta.

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

In 1940, the book “Psychic Dictatorship in America” described the “I AM Activity” — nearly a million strong at its peak — an authoritarian cult born from the Nazi terrorist group Silver Shirts In the 1930s that tried to overthrow the government.

CUT was a direct descendant.

[Charles P. Pierce @CharlesPPierce]

OK, it's just lying there. I'll pick it up.
A Confederacy Of Dunces.

[Democracy Now! @democracynow]

.@pressfreedom says more journalists were killed in the first 10 weeks of Israel’s bombardment than have ever been killed in a single country over an entire year.

"The number only goes higher,” says @CPJMENA’s Sherif Mansour.

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

Mike Flynn has been threatening “black swan events” for many months.

This is not a guy with a cardboard sign. It’s a retired 3-star general officer with a mobilized death cult tens of millions strong — and a brother who commands the US Army Pacific.
#ArrestAllFlynns

[Erick Heroux @HerouxErick]

I’ve been saying this since 2014. What we need instead of expensive bodycams pointed the wrong way, is to institute a special prosecutor to bring cops to court before a jury.

[ProPublica @propublica]

LA has spent $60M on body cams since 2016. Philadelphia has spent $20M. NYC has spent more than $50M.

But whether citizens benefit from the cams is often up to police, who've often been able to hide footage from the public in even the most extreme cases. https://t.co/HbLQmoBhtJ

[𝚊𝚍𝚖𝚒𝚗:𝚊𝚍𝚖𝚒𝚗 @RadSoftGroup]

when negri fled the cops and went to france.. and crashed with guattari .. and started calling himself "tony guattari".. and then they wrote a book together about how great it is to be a communist.. RIP to a real one

[Al Gore @algore]

The decision at #COP28 to finally recognize that the climate crisis is, at its heart, a fossil fuel crisis is an important milestone. But it is also the bare minimum we need and is long overdue. The influence of petrostates is still evident in the half measures and loopholes included in the final agreement.

Fossil fuel interests went all out to control the outcome, but the passionate work of millions of climate activists around the world inspired and motivated delegates from many nations to loosen the industry’s grip.

Whether this is a turning point that truly marks the beginning of the end of the fossil fuel era depends on the actions that come next and the mobilization of finance required to achieve them.

We must ask ourselves how much longer will the world have wait before all nations summon the political will to overcome these narrow special interests and act on behalf of the future of humanity. It is up to all of us to hold our leaders accountable to their promise to transition away from fossil fuels once and for all.

[Erick Heroux @HerouxErick]

Now that the ice is broken and Congress actually expelled an elected member, we can all think of at least a dozen more deserving of expulsion. Keep rolling.

[Erick Heroux @HerouxErick]

I love how the whole world is just waiting patiently for Elon to inevitably lose this site so it can go back to being Twitter.

[Erick Heroux @HerouxErick]

Forget Growth. Let's Optimize for Resilience https://t.co/VhEEKOFYsz

[Erick Heroux @HerouxErick]

@areidross The promise of fascist violence proves that he’s totally not even fascist. He’s probably the most non-fascist person who has ever lived, ask anyone. Or else!

[Nate Bear @NateB_Panic]

Climate scientists just said the failure to tackle global warming is because democracy is rigged by capitalists. You didn't hear about it🧵