Reposted by Ariel Kalishman WalshMikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Thank God for Zohran Mamdani and Abdul el-Sayed, who are unbelievably good examples for what principled anti-Zionism rooted in care for human rights and dignity including that of Jews looks like. 530627
Reposted by Ariel Kalishman WalshChris Conaton @conatonc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026A familiar story for anyone who follows @volts.wtf. “The Chronicle spoke to more than half a dozen grid experts…to try to understand why Texas’s notoriously unreliable grid had a remarkably reliable summer. The answer was unanimous: solar panels and batteries.”houstonchronicle.comTexas shattered energy demand records this summer. Here's why the grid held up.Texas repeatedly broke electricity demand records this summer, but ERCOT avoided emergencies as booming solar and battery capacity helped keep the grid stable. 352250767
Reposted by Ariel Kalishman WalshRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I feel you, Daniel L 434356673
Reposted by Ariel Kalishman WalshSteve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Here's a graphic that does a better job of conveying the point than my original post: even by the (insane) standards of the first Trump administration, #SCOTUS is receiving—and granting—a truly unprecedented number of applications for emergency relief from the federal government: 38815399
Reposted by Ariel Kalishman WalshRoman Mars @romanmars.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Slow Horses is best show on TV in which I don’t remember a single thing that has happened in a previous season 818012
Reposted by Ariel Kalishman WalshDavid Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 24/09/2026the @forbidden-stories.bsky.social investigation is so deeply important. put the illegality to one side. the trump admin is brazenly sending ppl to third countries, lacking any cxn, without any guarantee they won't be sent on for torture, abuse, persecution... it's horrible.forbiddenstories.orgThe Deportation Project: Inside the Trump administration's secret deals to expel people worldwide - Forbidden Stories72 journalists, 26 news organizations, 15 countries: a global investigation into the Trump administration’s secret third-country deportation system 214052
Reposted by Ariel Kalishman WalshDavid Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 24/09/2026to be clear, the admin is alleged to have deported AT LEAST 25,447 individuals TO COUNTRIES THAT ARE NOT THEIR OWN with, evidently, ZERO PROTECTIONS. this is a scandal and crime of historic proportions.forbiddenstories.orgThe Deportation Project MapBetween 2025 and August 2026, the Trump administration deported over 25,000 people to countries other than their country of origin. Very few of these removals were publicly announced by the US. The De... 3822411169
Ariel Kalishman Walsh @arielbkw.bsky.social · 20/09/2026New forever reply to ever supposed feel good news story that is actually an example Of our failure to protect the most vulnerable despite having the resources to do so. 011
Reposted by Ariel Kalishman WalshKashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026Americans: oh, look, a systemic issue. I will solve it individually 11996991920
Reposted by Ariel Kalishman WalshPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever 188136412895
Reposted by Ariel Kalishman Walsha slug🍚🐝🌱🦌💽🫙🚉 @drunk.moe · 19/09/2026This is my favorite picture on the internet (Former French Prime Minister Édouard Philippe defeats children in a game of dominoes during a visit to a school, September 2019) 29771150
Reposted by Ariel Kalishman WalshClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026every day of my life I think about the people using “she” to describe this computer program who still need to be convinced to use it for trans women 6138793687
Reposted by Ariel Kalishman Walshamanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 16/09/2026“The worst place ever I’ve been in my life," Sakariye Abdi Mohamed, a Somali asylum seeker, told me over the phone from Guantanamo Bay last week. Sakariye is one of 7 or 8 Somalis who are being held at Gitmo. They say guards tell them the order to keep Somalis at the facility comes from DC.motherjones.comThe Trump administration is imprisoning Somali immigrants in Gitmo“Nobody tell us that we’re going to Guantanamo Bay.” 121507704
Reposted by Ariel Kalishman WalshAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/09/2026This is APPALLING. The Trump administration is detaining multiple random Somali immigrants with no criminal record at Guantanamo Bay, seemingly because the White House ordered ICE specifically to detain Somalis at Gitmo as part of its effort to punish an ethnic group Trump has attacked. 6330131672
Reposted by Ariel Kalishman WalshLaura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I am very worried that AI will destroy wide swaths of society's ability to think, and thus render the masses docile, pliant and helpless in the face of technofeudalism I am not at all worried about Roko, his Basilisk, or any other AI superintelligence myth, and you cannot change my mind 2453182
Reposted by Ariel Kalishman WalshZack Labe @zacklabe.com · 13/09/2026Another year full of climate extremes... Did you know the last 100 days have all set new daily records for global sea surface temperatures? Learn more about our rapidly warming oceans in our webinar this week, & bring your questions! 📣 Register in advance: climatecentral-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi... 251041532
Reposted by Ariel Kalishman Walshmattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 11/09/2026sure, everything on earth sucks fucking shit but on the bright side at least i’m not mentally tough enough to handle any of it 71099216
Reposted by Ariel Kalishman WalshJacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 14/09/2026After 9/11, law enforcement conducted mass surveillance of Muslims based on little to no suspicion. The surveillance apparatus has only expanded since. Under Trump, it's now sweeping up anti-ICE protesters, data center critics, and left-leaning groups. www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_FH...youtube.comFrom mosques to data center protests: How the post-9/11 surveillance machine came for us allYouTube video by MS NOW 415367
Reposted by Ariel Kalishman WalshTyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 24/08/2025Hey so just fyi, if you're abandoning trans rights you're abandoning all civil rights At that point what the fuck is the point of the democracy you're willing to sacrifice trans people for This actually isn't hard at all, quit making it pretend hard because you finally feel scared too 243092911
Reposted by Ariel Kalishman WalshRachel Alter, MD MPH @rachelalter007.bsky.social · 12/09/2026This infectious disease doc in training encourages you to get your flu and COVID shots this season! Preferably somewhere you get paid to do so. Thrilled with my $20 credit toward groceries for protecting myself from severe flu and covid infections! 1624130761
Reposted by Ariel Kalishman WalshRyan Bernardoni @dangercart.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I’ve invented a slot machine that always pays out more than it takes in and opened a casino filled with them and revenue growth is through the roof! 061
Reposted by Ariel Kalishman WalshJohn Washington @jwashing.bsky.social · 12/09/2026New story: a group of people deported from the US to Liberia and then Equatorial Guinea faced threats, guns, and have now gone silent. Latest for @lookoutnews.bsky.social www.lookoutnews.org/ice-sent-gay...lookoutnews.orgICE Sent a Gay Brazilian Man to Equatorial Guinea. Now He’s Gone Silent.Pietro Graza was granted protection from deportation to Brazil because he feared torture due to his sexuality. He says he was shackled for 36 hours and taken to a hotel where he and other deportees re... 06040
Reposted by Ariel Kalishman WalshDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 08/09/2026Always a good time to remind ourselves that the US Confederacy was, even judged in historical context, evil -- a pathetic, morally repellant movement led by some the smarmiest narcissists ever known. It had no redeeming features & should forever be regarded with disgust & contempt.washingtonpost.comTrump officials strip military language criticizing Confederate memorialA new sign at Arlington National Cemetery omits wording that said the 32-foot bronze statue “mythologized” the Confederacy and gave “sanitized” depictions of slavery. 281449366
Reposted by Ariel Kalishman Walshemptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 06/09/2026DHS is stealing Haitians money while they deport them. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/w...nytimes.comHaitians Deported From U.S. Are Left Broke and Stranded (Gift Article)Hundreds have been deported to Haiti in recent weeks, and some say they have been left with no money, no protection from gangs and no place to go. 12930991996
Reposted by Ariel Kalishman WalshKashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 07/09/2026Possibly the most American news of all timelocal12.comPrison inmates donate more than $4,000 to pay children's school lunch debtResidents at the prison contributed $3,810 of their own money, while Kansas Department of Corrections employees added another $457. 280173914953
Reposted by Ariel Kalishman WalshProPublica @propublica.org · 06/09/2026ProPublica spoke to dozens of people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote: 10547761907
Reposted by Ariel Kalishman WalshMartha Smith @mostlymartha.bsky.social · 03/09/2026"Well, Elon Musk is a Nazi, but at least he's good at business - - -" NO HE IS NOT MONEY JUST MAKES MORE MONEY AS LONG AS NOBODY CALLS IN ALL THE DEBTS 4182
Reposted by Ariel Kalishman WalshKevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Death by intentional neglect is the characteristic method of murder in concentration camps MOREOVER, using "emergency" conditions to degrade the conditions in concentration camps was partly how death rates went from a few percent to catastrophic (via www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...) 112467
Reposted by Ariel Kalishman WalshGregory Hays @aristofontes.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Four out of nine Supreme Court justices find the Constitution unconstitutional, what a time to be alive 12144091111
Reposted by Ariel Kalishman WalshHey Spirits! @heyspirits.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Good morning and happy Pride, Trans women are women, and they belong in sports. 111846
Reposted by Ariel Kalishman WalshThe Denver Post @denverpost.com · 30/06/2026Colorado wildfires: ‘Critical fire weather conditions’ to spur wildfire growthdenverpost.comColorado wildfires: ‘Critical fire weather conditions’ to spur wildfire growth 083
Reposted by Ariel Kalishman WalshSam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 27/06/2026“Why is Mamdani getting all the attention for doing stuff every municipal Democrat does?” Because he brags about it and they brag about means-testing playgrounds! People don’t want that shit any more! 201792256
Reposted by Ariel Kalishman WalshSaeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 27/06/2026I now fervently believe this. Relatedly, I think celebrating good news and embracing joy are equally radical. You have to remember what you’re fighting for. We cannot sustainably organize around sorrow. 8165731920
Reposted by Ariel Kalishman WalshMental Misplay @mentalmisplay.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Damn IHOP kids placemat. You didn't have to do me like that Tag yourself. I'm #cd-rom 1513427
Reposted by Ariel Kalishman WalshLaurens @laurenshof.online · 22/06/2026turns out that the end result of "lets connect all the people from the world together and learn about each others cultures and politics :)" is that i now know a lot about algae 6949
Reposted by Ariel Kalishman WalshJoshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 18/06/2026Every so often I'm reminded that I made this feed 831638
Reposted by Ariel Kalishman Walshryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 08/06/2026I thought people were kidding, turns out Elon really did axe the screwworm containment program back in March 25. fucking imbecile www.agri-pulse.com/articles/226...agri-pulse.comBird flu, screwworm monitoring among foreign aid programs killed by TrumpAmong the more than 5,300 grants and programs killed as a result of the Trump administration’s USAID cuts are a slate of U.S.-funded programs at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, including eff... 26792823693
Reposted by Ariel Kalishman WalshRaider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Named by FIFA to officiate during the World Cup, the Somali referee Omar Artan, elected best African referee for 2025, was denied entry to U.S. territory despite holding a diplomatic passport. 65695388
Reposted by Ariel Kalishman WalshOlga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 07/06/2026Welcome to FIFA World Cup Iraq's World Cup striker, Aymen Hussein, was held and questioned for nearly seven hours at Chicago's O'Hare airport after arriving with the squad early on Saturday, an Iraqi sporting official said. 37948282064
Reposted by Ariel Kalishman WalshThe Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 31/05/2026Imagine if a woman president crashed the economy and started a war with no end in sight, and her biggest, seemingly ONLY concern was building a ballroom and redecorating the White House. 638228825841
Reposted by Ariel Kalishman WalshJonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Never forget that YOU are a data center. Drink some water ffs. 202074436
Reposted by Ariel Kalishman WalshJordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · 23/05/2026If this was a blind ballot and you only saw a campaign's backers, which side would you pick? But this isn't a hypothetical. On the left are Xavier Becerra's backers. Tom Steyer's endorsements on the right. 41615125
Reposted by Ariel Kalishman WalshMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/05/2026NEW — My first true foray into AI haterdom is about how those of us not convinced by AI’s inevitability are a real constituency worthy of a voice. Give it a read:thehandbasket.coHating AI is good, actuallyLinkedIn may be awash with boosters, but shunning AI is the human choice. 12769331720
Reposted by Ariel Kalishman WalshThe Onion @theonion.com · 20/05/2026Think Tank Called ‘The Himmler Institute’ Assures Nation This All Legal bit.ly/44aNdkq 4666361011
Reposted by Ariel Kalishman WalshIan James @ianjames.bsky.social · 19/05/2026In May, the Leona Valley is usually bustling with families who arrive from across Southern California for an annual tradition: U-pick cherries. But climate change is bringing warmer winters, and this year has been so warm that the trees produced no cherries. www.latimes.com/environment/...latimes.comFor the first time, a warm winter just wiped out SoCal's little-known cherry harvestMay is usually cherry-picking season in parts of Southern California. But Leona Valley orchards has announced there are none to pick because it's been so warm. 55326
Reposted by Ariel Kalishman WalshBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Experts aren't always right. That's why I put my faith in morons who are never right 294886762
Reposted by Ariel Kalishman Walshmuscular baby jeb lund @mobute.bsky.social · 16/05/2026james lipton IS shia labeouf IN curtis sliwa: renegade angel 452419254
Reposted by Ariel Kalishman WalshMatt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 10/05/2026Retractions never get proportional attention. This one should.arstechnica.comInfluential study touting ChatGPT in education retracted over red flagsThe retracted study on ChatGPT in education was already cited hundreds of times. 2325491388