Reposted by Blake BrownRep. Maxwell Alejandro Frost @frost.house.gov · 21hThe nation’s largest food distributor, Sysco, is buying Restaurant Depot—a deal that could drive up costs for restaurant owners and, ultimately, consumers. I’m calling on the FTC and DOJ to put a pause on this merger and protect independent restaurant owners and the communities they serve. 20516191
Reposted by Blake BrownKen Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 19hDiplomatic cable leaked to me shows Marco Rubio order embassies to bar people from the US for speech-related reasons. Hours later, Rubio gave a speech at the Acropolis celebrating "free debate and public discussion": www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-speech...kenklippenstein.comThe Speech That Gets You Banned From AmericaLeaked Rubio cable details “far-left” speech that bars people from entering the U.S. 311323402
Blake Brown @antiquequaalude.bsky.social · 23hThere is nobody else in sports I can think of that goes from a standard rotation player to one of the best to ever do it in the post season the way we see with Kike Hernandez. Unreal #Dodgers 000
Reposted by Blake BrownProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/20264/ Fernando Vasquez, an 18-year-old citizen, was on break from work when agents chased and handcuffed him, then put him in their truck. After realizing their mistake, the agents left the teen alone in the woods, with no way to get home. Then they threw his ID out of the truck. 6725451246
Reposted by Blake BrownRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026ICE is now separating children from their parents in the nation’s interior and deeming them “unaccompanied.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...motherjones.com“You kidnapped my son”ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.” 44159103752
Reposted by Blake BrownTara Calishain @researchbuzz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026#politics #money #oligarchs #California '...the top 99 individual and corporate political donors in California spent more on campaigns and lobbying from 2005 to 2024 than did the bottom 99.9% of the state’s residents, businesses and organizations combined.' capitalandmain.com/new-oligarch...capitalandmain.comNew ‘Oligarch Index’ Tracks California’s Biggest Political SpendersOver two decades, the top 99 individuals and business organizations spent more on campaigns and lobbying than the bottom 99.9%. 0168
Blake Brown @antiquequaalude.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Reminder that Peter Thiel hates you and probably wants you to die 021
Reposted by Blake Brown404 Media @404media.co · 03/10/2026USPS says the cameras, put on USPS truck dashboards, will scan roads, signs, and more. www.404media.co/usps-to-put-...404media.coUSPS To Put Cameras in Trucks That Scan Roads for ‘Community Safety’USPS says the cameras, put on USPS truck dashboards, will scan roads, signs, and more. 3618999
Reposted by Blake BrownNOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 03/10/2026A Russian Mi-2 helicopter was spotted being transported on the roof of a pickup truck in Russia’s Krasnodar region. Something went wrong. #Russia 73830120
Reposted by Blake BrownThe Verge @theverge.com · 29/09/2026Every single one of 21 tested vehicles sent data to a third-party domain over Wi-Fi. Over half contacted domains specializing in advertising, tracking, or analytics. These companies gather details about your vehicle or driving behavior to sell to insurance companies or target you with ads.theverge.comYour car’s data privacy problems are worse than you think“There’s a lot to be worried about,” the project lead said. 691291713
Reposted by Blake BrownRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Still wondering why people are fed up with the system? 8836711423
Reposted by Blake BrownEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 28/09/2026Cannot insist you listen to this enough, this conversation condenses everything going on with AI and its wider economic effects tightly. One of the best in the show’s history. 743578
Reposted by Blake BrownPhillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The pay for a US Secretary of Defense is $246000 a year. They don’t even bother to hide the corruption these days 37883311
Reposted by Blake Brown@amybisinthewoods.bsky.social 🍄🍄🟫 @amybdogsandfungi.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I keep telling everyone that Thiel is the most dangerous and most out of his mind of any of these evil tech billionaires. He needs to be stopped. Period.codastory.comPeter Thiel is building a parallel justice system — Powered by AI - Coda StoryHis investment in Objection.ai points to a new model: private investigations, AI verdicts, and accountability mechanisms that operate outside democratic institutions. 1315367
Reposted by Blake BrownDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Wtaf is this question my university just asked me about my project? 15145881293
Reposted by Blake BrownRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Just a remarkable choice, this headline. No other leader of any other country in the history of the UN would get that headline after giving an address with that quote. 451365337
Reposted by Blake BrownDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026This seems like a pretty big deal: donors made illegal contributions to Susan Collins and then were awarded lucrative contracts after her office intervened with the Navy. An FBI investigation was dropped under Trump. www.propublica.org/article/fbi-... 6226691083
Reposted by Blake BrownAmbassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 19/09/2026The accounting is in: In Oregon there are 111 data centers. The TOTAL number of people employed at data centers is just 2,630, or 0.1% of the labor force. Those 100 data centers consumer 23% of all electricity used in Oregon. Meanwhile, electricity rates skyrocket as more centers are built.opb.orgOregon data centers by the numbers: 111 facilities consume nearly one-quarter of state’s power, according to new reportA first-of-its-kind report details the footprint of the controversial facilities. 7931181843
Reposted by Blake BrownJoshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 19/09/2026It should be illegal to buy a company with debt and then sell it off to a foreign owner, but that fight was lost long ago. Anyway, now the Saudis own a truly distressing portion of American entertainment, from Hollywood to Video Games to Sports. This is not neutral behavior. Anyway.arstechnica.comFCC lets Paramount sell 49.5% equity stake to Saudi Arabia, UAE, and QatarFCC rejects concerns about repressive governments buying influence over CBS owner. 1251392355
Reposted by Blake Brown404 Media @404media.co · 18/09/2026It’s easy to see why the AI companies wanted to hide this from the public. The statements are some of the most damning indictments of the ways LLMs were trained, how they work, and the immediate threat they pose to human labor. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social reports. www.404media.co/doom-loop-op... 171375746
Reposted by Blake BrownThe Real News Network @therealnews.com · 16/09/2026“Palantir has no place in our hospitals, no place in our community… Nurses are advocates first. We’re trained to advocate and to speak up when something is wrong, and that’s what we’re doing.” @nationalnurses.bsky.socialtherealnews.com'Purge Palantir!': Union nurses warn Big Tech and Big Brother are invading our healthcare system“Palantir has no place in our hospitals, no place in our community... Nurses are advocates first. We're trained to advocate and to speak up when something is wrong, and that's what we're doing.” 4832531266
Reposted by Blake BrownDavid Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026It's Monday, so a deeply compromised Kirsten Gillibrand is trying to enable Trump fraud www.politico.com/live-updates...politico.comGillibrand privately urges Dems to advance crypto billSen. Kirsten Gillibrand's posture on the legislation puts her at odds with progressives in her party. 55900295
Reposted by Blake BrownDavid Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Elon Musk's lawyer is running for Congress. He's also a lobbyist for military tech and data center energy companies. One client was Viktor Orban's U.S.-based nonprofit. And he helped draw the district he's running in! His Dem opponent thinks she has a shot in a seat that went 60% for Trump in 2024.prospect.orgElon Musk’s Lawyer Seeks Seat in Congress - The American ProspectChris Gober, who helped draw Texas’s gerrymandered maps, is now running to represent one of those districts. His AI and defense industry ties could pose problems. 9186115
Blake Brown @antiquequaalude.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Guys, I think maybe we've gone a bit overboard with all the capitalism stuff... 100
Reposted by Blake BrownMinor Spear Carrier @tyrellmayfield.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Perspective: The National School Lunch Program feeds 30M kids a day at a cost of ~$16B per year. We just spent an extra $100B on energy for no reason. Think about the choices America is making right now. www.axios.com/2026/09/07/i...axios.comIran war drives $100 billion in extra energy costs for U.S. consumersThe average cost burden is more than $760 per household. 1228
Reposted by Blake BrownCarl 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... 384129915475
Reposted by Blake BrownDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 07/09/2026christpolitico.comCrypto billionaire among dozens to back startup from Gillibrand’s sonChris Larsen, John Griffin and Mark Ein are angel investors in a new financial exchange led by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand’s 22-year-old son. 3037091
Reposted by Blake BrownIan Kremer @wolverinebear.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Bring back the corporate death penalty www.salon.com/2026/08/19/b... #corruption #law #Bluessalon.comBring back the corporate death penaltyWe have a mechanism to punish corporations that harm us. We should use it 391485554
Reposted by Blake BrownJill Sargent Russell, PhD @jsargentr.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Hegseth is clearly in neck deep shit with the budgets. All of the unprogrammed activity...sweet baby cheeses, it must be stunningly bad. Just setting fire to dollars everywhere - Middle East, Venezuela, Maritime Murder Spree, the Occupation of DC, the LA campaign... 410436
Reposted by Blake BrownDavid Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 02/09/2026NEW ICE wants to build a nationwide database of voters, their voting history and, potentially, their party affiliations too. ....and it's willing to pay someone up to $5M to do it www.wired.com/story/ice-pl...wired.comICE Plans to Pay $5 Million to Create National Voting DatabaseAs part of a broader DHS surge to investigate alleged voter fraud, ICE has announced it plans to pay up to $5 million to create what amounts to a federal voter database. 135939602
Blake Brown @antiquequaalude.bsky.social · 02/09/2026In some ways I am happy we have mass surveillance because watching this guy is funny as fuck www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnM4...youtube.comSerial ‘butt sniffer’ arrested again in San Fernando ValleyYouTube video by ABC7 100
Reposted by Blake BrownSt. John Barned-Smith @stjbs.bsky.social · 02/09/2026ICE hasn’t paid for detainee medical care since October. Advocates call it the ‘death policy’ — my latest, w/ @kolyncheang.bsky.social. Spend some time with it www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...sfchronicle.comICE hasn’t paid for detainee medical care since October. Advocates call it the ‘death policy’ICE owes millions in unpaid bills to hospitals and, in some cases, detainees themselves have been directly billed for care, records show. 641517807
Reposted by Blake BrownKarly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 31/08/2026This is the most slop-tastic president in the history of presidents. Imagine posting this while US bases are under attack as if this is some sort of video game and not real life, with real humans getting hurt, and real consequences. 93261341576
Blake Brown @antiquequaalude.bsky.social · 23/08/2026There's a large wave of bot accounts that have just begun pushing bullshit in favor of billionaires and AI and it's creeping me tf out. Someone was arguing w/ me about why data centers aren't bad and...of course this is their pinned post at the top of their feed: 000
Reposted by Blake BrownBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 18/08/2026www.tumblr.com/brucesterlin... 215563
Reposted by Blake BrownThe Intercept @theintercept.com · 16/08/2026Somewhere in a sweltering desert, cockroaches scurry around the cell of Carlitos Ricardo Parias. He holds up a plastic bottle, gazing at the worm-like creatures swimming in his water. His other arm is turning purple from a gunshot wound for which he says he hasn’t received proper medical care. 3320531326
Reposted by Blake BrownChristiaan Triebert @trbrtc.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Ecuadorean fishermen say drones attacked them in the Pacific — English-speaking men in US-flag uniforms, no insignia. 8 missing, several injured. Flight data shows a patrol plane shifting course to stay pointed at all 3 boats. It's on no Pentagon roll, registered to a UPS store mailbox in Virginia. 271008492
Blake Brown @antiquequaalude.bsky.social · 12/08/2026I'm going to burn this whole thing down I swear to god I can only handle so much of this. Just what we need to boost mid-term results - tax cuts for capital gains! www.bloomberg.com/news/article...bloomberg.comTrump Weighs Call for Capital Gains Tax Cuts as Midterm BoostPresident Donald Trump is looking for new policy pledges he can present to voters ahead of the midterm election, according to a top economic aide and a former administration official, including potent... 102
Blake Brown @antiquequaalude.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Chuck Schumers's daughter is Amazons longest serving lobbyist...she is handling the bill Zohran is putting up to make contractors be given employment. It's a big club and you and I are not in it. 001
Blake Brown @antiquequaalude.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Fuck these people. We tax them heavily or we are going right back to the world we read about in Oliver Twist; extreme poverty for the vast majority and a handful of men controlling everything. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...bloomberg.comSergey Brin Crosses $100 Million in Spending to Fight Wealth TaxBillionaire Sergey Brin has now poured over $100 million into his fight to stop a wealth tax in California. 031
Blake Brown @antiquequaalude.bsky.social · 09/08/2026This is widespread and completely unsustainable for maintaining a coherent society that can agree on reality. 021
Reposted by Blake Brownonekade @onekade.bsky.social · 05/08/2026This is not a joke. This is a screenshot of the actual case management software used by Massachusetts' 11 District Attorneys. Must-read work here by @nasser.wiki nasser.blog/dial-up-just... 2442595464
Reposted by Blake BrownJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 05/08/2026www.404media.co/cops-used-fl...404media.coCops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines to Create Pretext to Search His Car for Weed"The vehicle travels to Michigan frequently which is a known source state for marijuana as it is legal there," a probable cause justification reads. 18626
Reposted by Blake BrownSenator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 04/08/2026Yep. Earlier this year I was interviewed by Sharyn Alfonsi of 60 Minutes about my Epstein investigation. Subsequently, CBS pulled the segment and fired the reporter. The MAGA buyout of media is aiding the Trump administration’s Epstein cover up. 7039141706
Reposted by Blake Brownworm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 03/08/2026the onion ass headlinearabnews.comIsraeli court halts crocodile transfer to Palestinian prison over animal welfare concernsLONDON: An Israeli court on Sunday temporarily blocked plans by the national security minister to install crocodile-filled moats around Ketziot Prison, following a legal challenge centered on the rept... 9601161
Reposted by Blake BrownElectronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 04/08/2026On Wednesday, the Senate Commerce Committee will vote on four bills that would expand age verification, increase online surveillance, and make it harder to access lawful speech online. Take one minute to tell your senators to vote NO. www.acteff.org/campaign/16...acteff.orgTell the Senate: Don't Turn the Internet Into an ID CheckpointTell the Senate to Reject Bills That Expand Age Verification 7214159
Blake Brown @antiquequaalude.bsky.social · 03/08/2026@gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social I think you're going to love this one. You will truly never, ever be happy again. 120
Blake Brown @antiquequaalude.bsky.social · 02/08/2026The number of bots on this site is too damn highstatic.klipy.comToo Damn High Jimmy Mc MillanALT: Too Damn High Jimmy Mc Millan 000