Reposted by AJPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026A problem is that many people know that the vast majority of the people who voted for the fascist in chief in 2024 would vote for him again today. So folks know that many people are politically untrustworthy. It adds to the malaise. 941051
Reposted by AJThe Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows... 193112092131
Reposted by AJDr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The 2019 'World scientists warning of climate emergency', which Bill led, has been hugely influential Let's hope this one has a greater impact still - please sign! 01816
Reposted by AJRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Everything the pro-Trump billionaire Ellison family will now own: Paramount+ CBS CNN Showtime HBO Warner Bros TNT TBS MTV DC Studios Nickelodeon Comedy Central And more... With this comes the power to decide which stories get told, but more importantly, which stories DON'T get told. Shameful. 47371693222
Reposted by AJJack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Today in @thenation.com: a harrowing piece written from inside the Dilley ICE detention center by Maryam Tahmasebi, a green card holder who's been locked up along with her husband and son for months despite none of them committing any crime. www.thenation.com/article/soci...thenation.comOne Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE DetentionMy husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare. 11835232210
Reposted by AJChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Remember why they are in the US in the first place: the Trump administration lobbying on their behalf to free them from Romania. 33459151504
Reposted by AJRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 19/07/2026The epic investigation in the New Yorker by Heidi Blake seems to have lit a fire under UK criminal justice bureaucrats, who'd messed up last time they had a chance to prosecute the Tates (including some pretty horrendous victim blaming Blake recounts). Journalism matters for justice.newyorker.comAndrew Tate’s Empire of AbuseHow the defining figure of the manosphere built a fortune—and became a political force—by systematically exploiting women. 282482541
Reposted by AJshauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 14/07/2026at this point i think we can stop calling it “highly unusual” 594297742
Reposted by AJCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 12/07/2026My coauthor Jay Falk's postdoctoral fellowship was terminated by the Trump administration for documenting the hummingbird example in this paper. 9915392
Reposted by AJDan Gautsch @gautsch.codes · 11/07/2026Absolutely terrible www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/c...nytimes.comTrump Cuts Habitat Protections for Endangered SpeciesThe rule change ends a safeguard that had been in place for 50 years and could hasten the demise of imperiled animals. 011
Reposted by AJKyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 10/07/2026BREAKING: The Trump White House just ousted all three sitting members of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission — hamstringing the bipartisan agency ahead of the midterms. The EAC helps state and local officials run elections, including by certifying election equipment.nbcnews.comTrump ousts remaining members of the Election Assistance Commission ahead of midtermsThe dismissals hamstring a key bipartisan agency just months before the midterms. 25028791601
Reposted by AJBYTESEU @byteseu.bsky.social · 04/07/2026After the Great Wall of China, Africa is building an 8,000-km ‘Wall of Trees’ to fight climate change, restore land and feed millions | www.byteseu.com/2165520 Stretching from the Atlantic coast of Senegal to the shores of Djibouti on the Red Sea, Africa is undertaking one of the most …byteseu.comAfter the Great Wall of China, Africa is building an 8,000-km 'Wall of Trees' to fight climate change, restore land and feed millions | - Bytes EuropeStretching from the Atlantic coast of Senegal to the shores of Djibouti on the Red Sea, Africa is undertaking one of the most ambitious environmental projects 011
Reposted by AJArjun Basu @arjun.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Tremendous effort from former NOAA folk. www.climate.usclimate.usClimate.us Homeindependent, nonprofit, and immune to politics 0147
Reposted by AJGrantham Research Institute at LSE @granthamlse.bsky.social · 23/06/2026We regret that our event on Extreme Heat: Improving governance and strengthening action around the world has been cancelled due to the red extreme heat warning issued by the UK Met Office. Our apologies to everyone who was planning to attend the event. 7719981152
Reposted by AJColson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com · 22/06/2026I talked — at length! — with Julian Lucas of the New Yorker and this is what happened: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...newyorker.comColson Whitehead’s Big ScoreAs he closes out his Harlem crime trilogy with “Cool Machine,” the two-time Pulitzer winner turns again to the city that made him, and to the private ghosts behind his restless reinventions. 848787
Reposted by AJProf. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 13/06/2026Insane self-blinding of the US. They are throwing away their investment in the ocean observation system and the benefits it provides. The only explanation I can think of: they don’t want the people to know what their fossil emissions are doing to our oceans. easternherald.com/2026/06/13/u...easternherald.comThe US Is Pulling Up a $386 Million Climate Ocean Sensor NetworkNSF dismantling Ocean Observatories Initiative as very strong El Niño forms. Edson, Robbins, McLean: an irreparable blind spot in U.S. climate observation. 33553732556
Reposted by AJACLU @aclu.org · 07/06/2026There are currently more bills attacking trans youth’s right to play sports across the U.S. than there are trans youth in school sports. 85110714471
Reposted by AJalexvonwitzleben.bsky.social @alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social · 06/06/2026"France passed a single law and instantly unlocked 11 gigawatts of #solarenergy — without using new land. In 2023, France's government mandated solar canopies over all car parks larger than 80 spaces. The scale was enormous: There are 400,000 parking areas across France #ActOnClimate #Renewables 413122764136
Reposted by AJBrad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 29/05/2026The Arctic Ocean food chain is collapsing. Exposure to sunlight of vast shallow regions of the ocean previously covered by ice breaks down the nutrient nitrate and removes it from seawater, limiting plankton growth.phys.orgArctic Ocean food chain is disrupted as a key tipping point has now been passedAn irreversible shift in the chemical makeup of the Arctic Ocean driven by climate change is disrupting the region's food chain, a study suggests. Widespread loss of Arctic sea ice has led to a sharp ... 16738
Reposted by AJBrian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 28/05/2026And we are live! Massive thanks to everyone who contributed to this. Reading your posts made me so much madder than I ever knew was possibletheringer.comThe 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in TechThe bugs, broken apps, and nightmare customer-service bots we can't escape, presented as a blessed and sacred addendum to Pope Leo XIV’s new encyclical on AI 932484836
Reposted by AJMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Another reminder: if there exists *any* class of people who don't have due process rights, then *nobody* actually has due process rights because the government can always just say you're in that class. 152129815103
Reposted by AJSchooley @schooley.bsky.social · 18/05/2026In an unusual flight path, jet flies into World Trade Center. 17469881634
Reposted by AJderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 14/05/2026In 2017, Criselda Vasquez painted this portrait of her parents and titled it "The New American Gothic." Last month, her father, the man in this portrait, was abducted by ICE after being in the US for 30+ years. The family is now struggling with bills. A GoFundMe has been started: gofund.me/456d8a193 49100614919
Reposted by AJanil oza @aniloza.bsky.social · 14/05/2026wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖 9458111914
Reposted by AJClara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 15/05/2026This is a very good essay from Helen Lewis, with a Bluesky easter egg 🎁 www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...theatlantic.comThe Men Who Want Women to Be QuietA virulent form of misogyny has become the single most important force holding together the American right. 812252
Reposted by AJEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Some reflections on frequently unasked questions about stochastic parrots (the phrase and the paper): medium.com/@emilymenonb...medium.comStochastic Parrots 🦜: Frequently Unasked QuestionsIt’s been a bit over five years since the Stochastic Parrots paper (Bender, Gebru et al 2021) was published (and somewhat longer since… 613347
Reposted by AJScientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Margaret Hamilton designed safety features for NASA inspired in part by her four-year-oldscientificamerican.comNASA’s Apollo moon missions relied on this computer scientist and differential equationsMargaret Hamilton designed safety features for NASA inspired in part by her four-year-old 29024
Reposted by AJJeremy Bergen @jeremybergen.bsky.social · 09/05/2026Quite a comprehensive and devastating analysis by Timothy Snyder on the "Superpower Suicide" currently in motion. substack.com/@snyder/p-19...substack.comOn Superpower SuicideAnd the recovery of justice 182
Reposted by AJMark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 01/05/2026Terrific thread. I’ll just add: 1. I think there’s a good chance the Supreme Court will stay this decision, allowing providers to keep mailing mifepristone for the time being. 2. The Trump administration didn’t want this! Its plan was to wait until after the midterms to crack down on mifepristone. 261487445
Reposted by AJRusting in Oregon🇺🇸🇨🇦🇫🇷🇺🇦🇪🇺 @or-rust.bsky.social · 23/04/2026..."Cassandras have seen the elephant. Obviously, being a woman, or Black, or trans makes it more likely that one has experienced explicit bigotry or predatory behavior. Beyond that, Cassandras tend to have lived in very conservative areas..." newrepublic.com/article/2042...newrepublic.comThe Americans Who Saw All This Coming—but Were Ignored and MalignedCall them the Cassandras: the people—mostly not white and male—who smelled the fascism all over Trump from jump street. Why were they “alarmists,” and how did “anti-alarmism” become cool? 083
Reposted by AJWillow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Every time I see someone talk about Claude I think about how they switched from female to male names as soon as they wanted the robots to seem like experts vs personal assistants. 11107043143
Reposted by AJ𝕊𝕜𝕖𝕝𝕖𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕂𝕖𝕪 @skeletonkey.bsky.social · 20/04/2026The oldest known image of Keith Richards, published around 1140 AD ... 497156612377
Reposted by AJAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 17/04/2026We're watching the open web as it existed die in real time. 171216341
Reposted by AJSteve Held @peoplesfabric.bsky.social · 07/04/2026“To be confronted by this, the President of the United States threatening to wipe out an entire civilization for reasons that could range anywhere from prediction market manipulation to a sincere desire and willingness to kill millions of people, is as humiliating as it is terrifying.” 315556
Reposted by AJSenator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 07/04/2026Donald Trump is deranged. He must be impeached and removed from office. Republicans who don’t stop him will have blood on their hands, and anyone who carries out an order to bomb civilian targets will be complicit in war crimes and will be held accountable. 31960031503
Reposted by AJBlacktop Angel 🪽🖤 @ohhdahlia.bsky.social · 30/03/2026I really do think we need to add it to the constitution that you can’t declare war through a tweet 1554467664
Reposted by AJjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20/03/2026i have no inside knowledge but this has the vibe of the villain in a thriller executing one of the hostages just to discipline the rest 1025701972
Reposted by AJNikhil Venkatesh @nikvenkatesh.bsky.social · 19/03/2026Harriet Taylor Mill officially recognised as co-author of 'On Liberty'! dailynous.com/2026/03/19/o...dailynous.com“On Liberty” Now Officially Has Two Authors - Daily NousAn edition of On Liberty published this month is the first to officially name Harriet Taylor Mill as a co-author alongside John Stuart Mill. The new volume is edited by Piers Norris Turner (Ohio State... 11828286
Reposted by AJJen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 17/03/2026V-Dem: US is no longer a liberal democracy.theguardian.com‘Trump is aiming for dictatorship’. That’s the verdict of the world’s most credible democracy watchdog | Martin GelinSweden’s V-Dem Institute warns that the US is no longer a liberal democracy. And autocracy is creeping across Europe too, says writer Martin Gelin 4215134
Reposted by AJTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/03/2026If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us. 520269358469
Reposted by AJ404 Media @404media.co · 14/03/2026Videos included DOGE members unable or unwilling to define DEI; discussing how they used ChatGPT and terms such as “black” and “homosexual” to flag grants for termination but not “white” or “caucasian,” and acknowledgements they failed to achieve the stated goal of lowering the government deficit.404media.coThe Removed DOGE Deposition Videos Have Already Been Backed Up Across the InternetOn Friday, a judge ordered those who uploaded the videos to YouTube to remove them. By Saturday, a backup of the videos was available online as a torrent and on the Internet Archive. 391025432
Reposted by AJSenator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 13/03/2026Just so we're all clear, this is a war crime and would be punishable by life or death under U.S. law. 787112433572
Reposted by AJTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Yes. This is transparently the plan. It is a destructive and unconstitutional plan. And it can be stopped. It can even be turned into an electoral issue that hurts Trump. But only if we face this now. 4921021020
Reposted by AJA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Women: We live in a constant state of vigilance because men pose a constant threat to us, here are literally millions of corroborating stories. Men: What a scary time for men this is. 363554758
