Reposted by @5280heather.bsky.socialMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 15/10/2026I know every generation has their whiny "kids these days" gripes but I do think this will become a problem for humanity long term. www.wsj.com/opinion/amer... 1713422
Reposted by @5280heather.bsky.socialRaffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 15/10/2026I know I'm a broken record on this, but one part of what is going on is that people have literally no idea what the US immigration system actually is; effectively, that there are no pathways into the country legally for someone who wants to wait in line. 261396372
Reposted by @5280heather.bsky.socialDave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Feel free to correct me but I'm pretty sure he is the only politician in history where the actual words coming out of his mouth do not matter in the least to his supporters. Coherence is simply not a requirement. 661603290
Reposted by @5280heather.bsky.socialBrendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 14/10/2026We're planning a public execution. We only admit white "refugees" from a former apartheid state. Our domestic security service uses white nationalist messaging. And the president routinely appears to encourage or endorse violence against his opponents & the media. Nothing subtle or complicated here. 10561224
Reposted by @5280heather.bsky.socialVictor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Elon's apparent cutting off of Ukraine's Starlink access underscores the dangers of the U.S. contracting with an unstable Nazi. There is no way a deranged civilian (or any civilian) should have that much power over an ostensible American partner. 461578453
Reposted by @5280heather.bsky.socialSteve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Real wages are shrinking year-over-year for the sixth month in a row. The Iran War brought an end to three years of real wage growth. 321562657
Reposted by @5280heather.bsky.socialSean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 14/10/2026This chart in this morning's NYT is awfully misleading. Suggested edits in red to avoid any confusion. 131088280
Reposted by @5280heather.bsky.socialshauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 05/10/2026“every time someone is sleeping on a subway bench in a city, the rest of america can sort of say ‘ugh, look at these cities.’ but we are holding a lot of your people who you failed to love and take care of.” 👏 👏 👏 461935439
Reposted by @5280heather.bsky.socialKen Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I said this in a NY Times story last week about the WA millionaire tax, but let’s bring back shame. Even if billionaires don’t know it’s wrong to do shit like this, they should know it’s embarrassing.fortune.comGoogle co-founder Sergey Brin has now spent $100 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses | FortuneThe state’s ultrawealthy, including Larry Page and Peter Thiel, have similarly donated to efforts opposing the wealth tax. 491678234
Reposted by @5280heather.bsky.socialnickforbrains 🏳️🌈 @nickforbrains.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Trump is what happens when you don’t punish people appropriately. 421143
Reposted by @5280heather.bsky.socialBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint. 308122482240
Reposted by @5280heather.bsky.socialRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026We are paying CNN and MS NOW to run ads for Donald Trump right before the midterms. You and I are paying for them. And CNN and MS NOW are taking the cash while their hosts and guests say the scheme is illegal. That is the current state of corporate media in America. 30754661897
Reposted by @5280heather.bsky.socialMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026If you've ever wondered how ridiculously profitable tech companies avoid paying taxes . . . 771650782
Reposted by @5280heather.bsky.socialPam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026America.gov launched today--a DOGE initiative to use AI to deliver public services. Child lying facedown on a frozen lake as the image accompanying the question: "How can I invest in my child's future" is just incredible. Way to go AI 932512665
Reposted by @5280heather.bsky.socialMark Histed @markhisted.org · 27/09/2026Doing the January 6th Commission but for DOGE could splash this on TV and social media for weeks. Imagine the impact. 6309100
Reposted by @5280heather.bsky.socialProfessa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I guess we now why Russ Vought is stealing 810 million dollars: you gotta pay for those expensive ads. 14413
Reposted by @5280heather.bsky.social🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota. 125123815269
Reposted by @5280heather.bsky.socialElizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The person who thinks that he has the ability to decide which science to fund out of hundreds of subfields is exactly the person who should not make that decision. There is a reason that expert committees of scientists review and give recommendations for funding. No one person can know all of it. 13466100
Reposted by @5280heather.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026The difference between, say, the opioid epidemic and shoving gambling apps in front of everyone is that no-one has plausible deniability about the effects of gambling. It will absolutely ruin lives and families. They may as well be promoting cigarettes. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/19/b...nytimes.comHow DraftKings Uses A.I. to Target the Gamblers Likeliest to Lose 9606108
Reposted by @5280heather.bsky.socialMolly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 19/09/2026The fact that Jeff Bezos ruined the Washington Post for nothing is just peak 2026 19463511244
Reposted by @5280heather.bsky.socialRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19/09/2026It just never ends. 28250011652
Reposted by @5280heather.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Straight-up extortion seems like a losing political strategy 1182144476
Reposted by @5280heather.bsky.socialsarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 17/09/2026hugging face is the most terrifying indicator of where the ai race is, in the sense that the industry is facing completely solvable collective action problems while guided by entrenched, unoustable leaders with the foresight and moral fortitude of above-average pigeons 8719126
Reposted by @5280heather.bsky.socialRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17/09/2026The worst human being to ever occupy the office. Just reprehensible scum. 2230187154914
Reposted by @5280heather.bsky.socialthe babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026rip annie dillard 1134431142
Reposted by @5280heather.bsky.socialJoe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Utter bullshit. And he knows if. But he doesn’t care. His oath is to Donald Trump. Not the Constitution or the rule of law. 2751952468
Reposted by @5280heather.bsky.socialJustin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 14/09/2026A little explainer how energy costs ripple to the consumer. Oil goes up, then gas prices go up, then airfare goes up, then diesel followed by shipping goes up, and eventually your avocado is somehow charging a fuel surcharge. 17477148
Reposted by @5280heather.bsky.socialMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 08/09/2026What are the chances that this is true and he's telling it for the first time 25 years later? I mean, good god, people. The president's brain is broken. We have to stop him now before our national disaster gets even worse. 3221061
Reposted by @5280heather.bsky.socialChiara Di Lello @chiaradilello.bsky.social · 08/09/2026"If someone had broken into my office and stolen books from my shelves, I’d call campus security. My college, meanwhile, is paying Anthropic to come into my classroom." (Ty @jeffsharlet.bsky.social for this piece) www.chronicle.com/article/my-s...chronicle.comOpinion | My Students Hate AI. But They Can’t Stop Using It.Big Tech has gotten them addicted to cheating, and they’ve internalized the blame. 07426
Reposted by @5280heather.bsky.socialSpencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Extremely important story. Predictive policing is a euphemistic way of saying DHS is doing pre-crime, because of its improper access to your data. As @jakelaperruque.bsky.social says here, this takes a sledgehammer to the concept of probable cause of the commission of a crime. It can’t be reformed. 221054557
Reposted by @5280heather.bsky.socialCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/09/2026(NBC News) — It is now the least rewarding time to be a worker in the U.S. economy since the government started keeping track. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/business/eco... 383129905473
Reposted by @5280heather.bsky.socialAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 06/09/2026Not beating the nazi allegations. 2453772640
Reposted by @5280heather.bsky.socialJames Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 04/09/2026This is why North Korea is the richest country of all. 401048187
Reposted by @5280heather.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026To succeed in higher education leadership in Florida that you have to be a part of the dominant political regime, which hands out well-paid positions to unqualified officials. Rodeo cowboy who impersonated a police office becomes college President! donmoynihan.substack.com/p/which-stor... 721172
Reposted by @5280heather.bsky.socialElizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 02/09/2026“I did not sell the Klan on hatreds. I sold it on Americanism”. -D.C. Stephenson, convicted rapist and murderer, who had incredible “success” in recruiting people to join the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920’s. If it sounds familiar, it’s because it is happening again 100 years later, all across the US. 12281100
Reposted by @5280heather.bsky.socialJust Security @justsecurity.org · 02/09/2026The universal view of experts, @becingber.bsky.social explains, is that the Trump administration's killings at sea are murder under domestic law, extrajudicial killings under international law, and given their systematic nature, may well be crimes against humanity. 7209122
Reposted by @5280heather.bsky.socialGarrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Americans really don’t understand how evil Canadians view this rhetoric. We think it’s just “Trump being Trump” and trolling for lulz, but Lutnick here is threatening the sovereignty of our closest ally and biggest trading partner. This is a catastrophe, not easily remedied. 1251577443
Reposted by @5280heather.bsky.socialAtticus Finch (of Georgia) @atticus59914029.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Okay that does it. We are officially living in an alternate universe! What’s next, Baptist youth group leaders encouraging teens to get it on and have babies?!? 3110811
Reposted by @5280heather.bsky.socialmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 02/09/2026The media gave more coverage to a totally fake, invented idea that the federal government was withholding aid to Hurricane Helene victims in 2024 than to Trump actually doing it in 2025/26. Why did the fake story get more coverage than the real one? 653132938
Reposted by @5280heather.bsky.socialGreg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 02/09/2026JD Vance can rage at Abdul El-Sayed for invoking Usha all he wants, but AES's larger point is 100% correct: JD really has made craven compromises with vicious MAGA racists. For JD to submerge all that to his personal ambition really is disgraceful. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/2149...newrepublic.comWhat JD Vance’s Eruption of Rage over Usha and El-Sayed Really RevealsVance is posing as a chivalrous defender of his wife. What he’s hiding is the craven compromises he’s made with the racist and white nationalist elements within the MAGA coalition. 831756508
Reposted by @5280heather.bsky.socialKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 02/09/2026There are endless studies showing this and also the financial and societal benefits of universal basic income and or housing-first policies but the U.S. never goes for any of it because it would require allowing the poor to receive benefits that the rich consider “undeserved” 20491013162
Reposted by @5280heather.bsky.socialStephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 31/08/2026If hypocrisy were a power source, JD Vance, Donald Trump, and every MAGA Republican in the executive branch, Congress, the Supreme Court, right-wing media, and the public at large, would provide Earth with a limitless supply of energy. 0283
Reposted by @5280heather.bsky.socialMichael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Gaslighting that outshines the sun 25910
Reposted by @5280heather.bsky.socialAndrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 30/08/2026Growing up with the phrase “Wikipedia isn’t a valid source,” only to end up in a daily life where everyone says, “Just ask ChatGPT.” 382593863
Reposted by @5280heather.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/08/2026"The unpopular President calls upon government regulators of the media to make the bad polls disappear" is a statement that can only possibly describe an authoritarian regime. 412572669
Reposted by @5280heather.bsky.socialMark Thompson @sonofathomp.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Holding office is a “private business” if you’re collecting bribes. 0147
Reposted by @5280heather.bsky.socialMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Ron and Cassie DeSantis: These two crooks stole $10 million from a settlement with a charity, wired it to Cassie’s fake “charity,” laundered it through two puppet organizations, and then used it for political ads in an election year. They should be in jail. 18783420512023
Reposted by @5280heather.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/08/2026Pathetic -- Google is now referring to Lake Ontario as "Lake America" 3433143262986
Reposted by @5280heather.bsky.socialBradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 29/08/2026We’re stealing another country’s oil. Sure, OK. 91811279
Reposted by @5280heather.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/08/2026I wonder if the dementia-ravaged president keeps calling things "America" because he can't remember the real names 571374148
