Reposted by @angieleaf.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/08/2026The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it. 670252238961
Reposted by @angieleaf.bsky.socialGwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Timely heat wave reminder that if you have a car, is not expensive to get a 24 pack of supermarket brand bottled water and keep it in your trunk and pull over to offer it to people who look like they are having a hard fucking time. Helping also makes you feel a little less helpless 10597176
Reposted by @angieleaf.bsky.socialNew Scientist @newscientist.com · 29/03/2026Hundreds of millions of people live close enough to data centres used to power AI to feel warmer average temperatures in their local areanewscientist.comAI data centres can warm surrounding areas by up to 9.1°CHundreds of millions of people live close enough to data centres used to power AI to feel warmer average temperatures in their local area 69840514
Reposted by @angieleaf.bsky.socialAparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 24/03/2026"AI cannot coexist with education--it can only degrade it" YES OMG YES 13905258
Reposted by @angieleaf.bsky.socialSteven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 28/02/2026A pedophile. An adjudicated rapist. A convicted felon. A pathological liar. A sociopath. A malignant narcissist. A sadist. A racist. A fascist. A traitor. An insurrectionist. A war-monger. A demagogue. A despot. An enemy of the Constitution. An American nightmare. 17529291062
Reposted by @angieleaf.bsky.socialshauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 20/02/2026someone in AI fucked up and actually told the truth 252349691
Reposted by @angieleaf.bsky.socialJustin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 20/01/2026Some perspective: The S&P opened down -1.3% on Trump's Greenland saber-rattling. That's $750 billion of wealth destroyed -- roughly equal to estimates of the value of Greenland. And so ~in dollar terms~ his shenanigans have already cost the US one Greenland, and we've got nothing to show for it. 582146215792
Reposted by @angieleaf.bsky.socialColleen Mondor @chasingray.bsky.social · 14/01/2026I know it's unhealthy, but I love everything about the pure humanity of this moment. 51944157
Reposted by @angieleaf.bsky.socialThe Onion @theonion.com · 12/01/2026Study Finds Crows Able To Recognize Faces Had Work Done theonion.com/study-finds-crows-able… 131226104
Reposted by @angieleaf.bsky.socialPaul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 30/12/2025Open up this picture fully. Then look at the surface of Mars. Then look up to the top right. Spot Mars' moon Phobos high in the sky. Then notice the bright spot beside Phobos. That's Earth. 7647351855
angieleaf.bsky.social @angieleaf.bsky.social · 13/12/2025Who, exactly, thinks it’s a good idea? 10 minutes of emergency vehicles cruising through the neighborhood - sirens blazing - at 7:30 on a Friday night? For a fucking Xmas parade? Gaaah! 010
Reposted by @angieleaf.bsky.socialTony Corsentino @notalegalrecord.net · 07/12/2025💯 public libraries can play a role in popular resistance to the reduction of culture to bitstreams, but it’s important to remember that public libraries have a mandate to develop their collections, and that means regular weeding. this is why resource sharing (i.e. ILL) is essential. 📚 226787
Reposted by @angieleaf.bsky.socialZeddy @zeddary.bsky.social · 25/11/2025First Secretary of Defense you could defeat by painting a tunnel on the side of a boulder. 1293531885
Reposted by @angieleaf.bsky.socialJon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 12/11/2025Important to remember!!! 👇👇 14883573133
Reposted by @angieleaf.bsky.socialkritty krat nyahah >w< @ BLFC @spookybiscuits.com · 10/11/2025spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans" 5475503232
Reposted by @angieleaf.bsky.socialMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 10/11/2025The people showed up in the streets for "No Kings." They did their part. The people showed up at the polls on Tuesday. They did their part. 8 Democrats in the Senate surrendered last night. They did not do their part. 32561271860
Reposted by @angieleaf.bsky.socialZack Furness @punkademic.bsky.social · 09/11/2025“The Fox News guy texted the Road Rules guy to talk about half-baked solutions for keeping all our planes from crashing” is a cool sentence to have to say in 2025 19323
Reposted by @angieleaf.bsky.socialJill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 07/11/2025Love this Pelosi anecdote via @semafor.com www.semafor.com/newsletter/1... 6969193
Reposted by @angieleaf.bsky.socialemptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 06/11/2025Reup: I've added quotes from the transcript in my summary of yesterday's tariff argument at SCOTUS. We're on the Unfuck Stage of Trump's Abuse of Power www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/05/w...emptywheel.netWe're on the Unfuck Stage of Trump's Abuse of Power - emptywheelThe Supreme Court hearing on tariffs increases my optimism that at least five Justices will reverse the tariffs. A more interesting moment of the hearing, though, came when Amy Coney Barrett asked how... 422561
Reposted by @angieleaf.bsky.socialGarrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 30/10/2025Really stunning that the British Royal Family — just about the most insulated institution in the free world! — has managed to enact stronger consequences for an Epstein friend than anything the US has managed at all. 451617379
Reposted by @angieleaf.bsky.socialemily north @north0fnorth.tgirl.gay · 30/10/2025lmao david byrne showed the video of the ice agents tripping over themselves while trying to run after a biker on wacker drive during the “life during wartime” segment of his chicago show tonight 106121832284
Reposted by @angieleaf.bsky.socialQasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 25/10/2025Food stamps are set to run out of funding in early November & I’m just here to remind you that if you catch someone stealing food at the grocery store then you should immediately call the ghostbusters because you clearly saw a ghost and they clearly vanished into thin air and you didn’t see nothin. 732035514
Reposted by @angieleaf.bsky.socialJohnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 24/10/2025This (moderate) level of racial competency is VERY rare for someone of this demo; white folks should’ve been listening to and learning from people like this for decades. Sadly, it’s too late to dismantle racism, now. Racism has won. White America chose it instead of a hyper-qualified Black Woman. 🙁 26651228
Reposted by @angieleaf.bsky.socialCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22/10/2025WEIL: “.. Circularity can be virtuous on the upside, and vicious on the downside. The deals can work fine, until they don’t.” @wsj.com $NVDA $ORCL @justinhendrix.bsky.social www.wsj.com/tech/ai/is-t... 49566163
Reposted by @angieleaf.bsky.socialClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 09/09/2025Q: but what if a full Epstein investigation also takes down Bill Clinton????? A: 245120912312
Reposted by @angieleaf.bsky.socialGregg D Caruso @greggdcaruso.bsky.social · 21/10/2025Researchers at Brown University found that AI chatbots routinely violate core mental health ethics standards, underscoring the need for legal standards and oversight as use of these tools increases. www.brown.edu/news/2025-10...brown.eduNew study: AI chatbots systematically violate mental health ethics standardsResearchers at Brown University found that AI chatbots routinely violate core mental health ethics standards, underscoring the need for legal standards and oversight as use of these tools increases. 49345
Reposted by @angieleaf.bsky.socialToni @focalpoint.bsky.social · 21/10/2025Got an answer from a lawyer buddy. 617229
Reposted by @angieleaf.bsky.socialKhashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 20/10/2025"As it turned out, she was texting me about a criminal case she is pursuing against one of the president’s perceived political enemies: New York Attorney General Letitia James." "Over the next 33 hours, Halligan texted me again. And again. And again. And again." 1326593
Reposted by @angieleaf.bsky.socialSenator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 20/10/2025New developments in my 3 year Epstein investigation, this time regarding JP Morgan Chase and its CEO, Jamie Dimon. This is a long thread, but worth sticking around for. 244108334389
Reposted by @angieleaf.bsky.socialThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18/10/2025CARTOON OF THE DAY 🇺🇸 #NoKingsInAmerica (From @billbramhall.bsky.social ) 11980162573
Reposted by @angieleaf.bsky.socialkristinaw1021.bsky.social @kristinaw1021.bsky.social · 14/10/2025This is a very scary bit of information. Think about this - no actual money. Worse, the centers rely on taking advantage of and destroying small communities with pollution (increasing health problems) and use of clean water (creating shortages). 515971
Reposted by @angieleaf.bsky.socialBethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 08/10/2025If anyone’s struggled to keep up with my threads on why the genAI bubble Is a bubble, here’s a simplified pictorial explanation, the plug is OpenAI and the sockets are Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, Nvidia, and AMD 0974280
Reposted by @angieleaf.bsky.socialBrian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 06/10/2025OpenAI's Sora gambit is somehow even more reckless and arrogant than we've grown accustomed to with the company. OpenAI is betting that it can spit in the face of creatives, workers, and the largest media companies on the planet—and bend copyright law to its whims.bloodinthemachine.comThe incredible arrogance of OpenAIWith Sora 2, OpenAI is betting it can spit in the face of workers, creators, and the biggest media conglomerates on the planet — and win 429692
Reposted by @angieleaf.bsky.socialWanda Hammoud @wandahammoud.bsky.social · 04/10/2025Thank you Jane! 1113
Reposted by @angieleaf.bsky.socialReality Winner @reazlepuff.bsky.social · 03/10/2025What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy 481264236697
Reposted by @angieleaf.bsky.socialKhashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 02/10/2025This is likely true. And they'll fight against any regulation, especially in campaigns. 113425
Reposted by @angieleaf.bsky.socialMike Suszek @mikesuszek.bsky.social · 30/09/2025Once again, this perfect @zeboydgames.bsky.social post comes to mind: 142682837
Reposted by @angieleaf.bsky.socialJonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 29/09/2025"Clean energy is affordability and anyone who doesn’t acknowledge that fact should be assumed to be on the payroll of the fossil fuel industry or looking for a job in the Trump administration." cepr.net/publications...cepr.netSlowing Global Warming Does Address AffordabilitySolar, wind, and batteries are now the cheapest energy, but Trump’s fossil fuel agenda could raise US power costs. 10769193
