Reposted by @baroneddie.bsky.socialIan Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 2hThe promise of slavery has had a long-standing presence in AI and Big Tech, where boosters and researchers have been steeped in eugenics and white supremacy for generations now. 23425
Reposted by @baroneddie.bsky.socialBikepedantic @pedantic.bike · 2hThis article does a really really poor job of backing up any rationale for banning e-scooters, by telling a bunch of stories about crashes involving motor vehicles. 2193
Reposted by @baroneddie.bsky.socialMelissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 6hso many of us saw this coming (Radley included), from January 2025:newrepublic.comThe Laken Riley Act Spells Chaos for the Immigration SystemThe U.S. immigration system isn’t ready for the havoc and expense this bill could unleash. But the real pain will be felt by the immigrants the bill targets. 5896299
Reposted by @baroneddie.bsky.socialErica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 14/10/2026The groups' primary concerns were that opponents exaggerated how common child marriages are, that banning people under 18 from getting married does not address coercion, abuse, and rape, and that the focus on child marriage ignores the real problem of the loss of reproductive rights and autonomy. 0484
Reposted by @baroneddie.bsky.socialErica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Kristof loves nothing more than telling a lurid story about abuse of young girls, then finding a twist like "can you believe the left is JUST AS BAD as the right on this?" Not true. And his misrepresentations give away the game. Girls and women don't need Kristof white-knighting for them. 28010
Reposted by @baroneddie.bsky.socialDavid M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 13/10/2026More of this 544666740
Reposted by @baroneddie.bsky.socialDavid Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 12/10/2026This is what collaboration looks like. Trump is trying to denaturalize & deport political opponent, claiming irregularities with political asylum claim of her dead father from 31 years ago, and NYT legitimizes all of that by claiming only issues is that it violates norms in timing of investigation. 215357
Reposted by @baroneddie.bsky.socialGlonzo the Bureaucrat 🇬🇱 🌹 @snarkranger.bsky.social · 12/10/2026all the people who are like "the middle class was better off in the 1950s" have not reckoned with the census data that says 33% of American households used chamber pots in 1950. 3967496
Reposted by @baroneddie.bsky.socialKate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Today Russia celebrated the lifting of sanctions on diesel exports by dropping five glide bombs on residential buildings in Zaporizhzhia. At least 15 people are killed, among them 3 children. The number may rise as rescuers check the rubble‼️ 18520257
Reposted by @baroneddie.bsky.socialProfessa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 12/10/2026And for everyone: our government’s reliance on Starlink has become a national security issue, www.reuters.com/business/aer....reuters.comEXCLUSIVE: Pentagon spars with SpaceX over Starlink price hike during Iran warAs U.S. kamikaze drones guided by Elon Musk’s Starlink network began to make visible gains in the war against Iran, senior SpaceX officials reached a conclusion: The Pentagon should be paying more for... 1520568
Reposted by @baroneddie.bsky.socialDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 11/10/2026Doing it would mean *calling out the media* -- identifying these "calm down" narratives, holding them up to the light, explicitly refuting them. If they just get drawn into one mini-argument after another (is *this* little thing worth *this much* time & anger?) they'll be worn down. 470363
Reposted by @baroneddie.bsky.socialDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 11/10/2026Adding: this will be *doubly* true if Dems win big in 2028 and are in a position to impose some accountability. The whole RW media blob, the NYT, the Atlantic, all the Very Serious outlets filled with Very Serious People will be scolding them to calm down, don't dwell on the past, look forward, etc. 101147152
Reposted by @baroneddie.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Every single bit of this thread. 1141766
Reposted by @baroneddie.bsky.socialSteve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 11/10/2026Brutality and violence are indeed foundational American values. 38626117
Reposted by @baroneddie.bsky.socialmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 11/10/2026cults aren't the only type of organization that uses vocabulary control — inventing a jargon specific to the cult to distinguish insiders and separate and alienate them from the outside world — as a method of controlling its members, but all cults do vocabulary control. 833151
Reposted by @baroneddie.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Every word of this from @drewmagary.bsky.social. Democrats will likely retake Congress, but what they do next is an open question. That's why it's important for us all to press Democrats -- right now -- to commit to an aggressive agenda of oversight and accountability. 441038272
Reposted by @baroneddie.bsky.socialJan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026NEW BRIGHT SPOTS: How countries with hot climates, fast-growing economies, expensive energy, and fragile grids turn to solar. Not because of policy. People and businesses voted with their feet. janrosenow.substack.com/p/the-solar-...janrosenow.substack.comThe solar boom outrunning the gridHow countries with hot climates, fast-growing economies, expensive energy, and fragile grids turn to solar. 618067
Reposted by @baroneddie.bsky.socialCas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 10/10/2026This is a public service announcement for junior non-U.S. (based) political scientists. You will see several jobs advertised at U.S. universities that are in (relatively) new Centers for “Civil Leadership” or “Western Thought” etc. These are GOP-created Centers with a clear political motivation! 37135
Reposted by @baroneddie.bsky.socialNina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 10/10/2026RUSSIA TARGETED A BUS FULL OF CIVILIANS AND MULTIPLE APARTMENT COMPLEXES THIS WEEK ALONE. Maybe the ingrate is the guy who made the decision to fund that terrorism by purchasing oil in a last ditch attempt to boost his poll numbers? 833002827
Reposted by @baroneddie.bsky.socialArs Technica @arstechnica.com · 09/10/2026A batch of previously undisclosed documents also reveals Exxon promoted climate-solution claims, such as its work on biofuels and carbon capture and storage, that its own scientists said were unlikely to reach commercial scale: arstechnica.visitlink.me/tPZG9Varstechnica.visitlink.meInternal files add to evidence of an ExxonMobil climate deception campaignCourt filings reveal new details about Exxon's decades of internal climate deliberations. 301116682
Reposted by @baroneddie.bsky.socialCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10/10/2026Here is my pitch for anyone who has worries about rail: I think that building out rail is a necessary (but not sufficient) step in transforming American cities from totally car dependent to slightly walkable, in a way that no other form of transit is. 231502206
Reposted by @baroneddie.bsky.socialCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10/10/2026The argument against trains is that our cities are insufficiently dense to support trains, and that is certainly true for many cities at this moment. However, we should not be designing and zoning for this moment. We should be thinking about our infrastructure in thirty years. 744436
Reposted by @baroneddie.bsky.socialDan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Trump has picked a side in the Russia Ukraine war. News organizations should make that clear. And every single Republican running for office should be forced to answer whether they, too, support Russia, and how much of Ukraine Russia should be allowed to rule. 22455179
Reposted by @baroneddie.bsky.socialBrian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 10/10/2026It's World Homeless Day, and I'll just say: Homelessness isn't some great unsolvable mystery. People are homeless because they don't have homes. This suffering persists not for lack of solutions, but because enormous wealth and power are invested in maintaining the very structures that produce it. 212344925
Reposted by @baroneddie.bsky.socialJames Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I'm taking my "Norway's wealth tax didn't reduce tax revenue" victory lap. 181614364
Reposted by @baroneddie.bsky.socialJonathan Mingle @jmingle.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Your periodic reminder that phasing out fossil fuels would largely pay for itself in avoided death and disease from air pollution alone: 112346
Reposted by @baroneddie.bsky.socialJake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854 152151226510
Reposted by @baroneddie.bsky.socialGreg Pollock @gregpollock.bsky.social · 09/10/2026@kleinman.bsky.social 's work inspired me to dramatize the future Republicans want as an Oregon Trail -like journey across a country ravaged by rightwing legislative extremism. It sucks! games.gregpollock.net/state-of-the... 518459
Reposted by @baroneddie.bsky.socialProf Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 09/10/2026There is no faster way to lose the future than to turn away the people who will help build it. www.nature.com/articles/d41...nature.comUS proposes $100,000 charge for international students to do post-graduate workProposed rule would choke off a crucial STEM talent pipeline, policy specialists say 1120869
Reposted by @baroneddie.bsky.socialSeth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Hey Wikipedia, tell me about Francis Bellamy, the minister who wrote the Pledge of Allegiance that Linda McMahon wants school children to recite every morning. 14673218
baroneddie.bsky.social @baroneddie.bsky.social · 09/10/2026It's great that folks are fighting to make Oklahoma a better place. I did my time 010
Reposted by @baroneddie.bsky.socialMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Again, you (& I) live in a country where there are concentration camps & people are being disappeared. We can argue about what exactly to call this particular form of partially autocratic political regime, but it’s not a full democracy. 241489449
Reposted by @baroneddie.bsky.socialCameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026the Vice President of the United States has gone on record citing this man as one of his biggest intellectual influences if you didn't know this, it's probably because for some reason literally no mainstream political media outlets think it's worth mentioning 8140331017
Reposted by @baroneddie.bsky.socialPeter Flax @pflax1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026So Alito writes that gay marriage harms other people's "religious liberties." Yet another example of how modern conservatism is all about framing shit these folks don't like or agree with as an attack on their liberties. abcnews.com/Politics/thr...abcnews.comAlito calls same-sex marriage a 'decisive' turn 'against religious liberty' in new bookA new book by Justice Samuel Alito presents his view of the Constitution, the Supreme Court, and the country with a focus on religious freedom. 3322
Reposted by @baroneddie.bsky.socialThree Scary Rogue Agents in a Trenchcoat @alexhanna.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Why isn't this on every TV screen and not the fairy tale of killer robots 402116587
Reposted by @baroneddie.bsky.socialHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026They are becoming more and more explicit that creating dossiers on you and graphing your relationships is the whole point. “Agents” indeed. www.cnbc.com/2026/10/07/m... 21395154
Reposted by @baroneddie.bsky.socialTaras Grescoe 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com · 06/10/2026Want some positive examples of how 21st-cent. urban transit is changing cities for the better? I look at #Montreal 's REM, now exceeding ridership targets: www.highspeed.blog/a-second-loo... ...and the Grand #Paris Express, a supermetro for the suburbs: www.highspeed.blog/the-new-fren...highspeed.blogThe New French RevolutionWhy the Grand Paris Express Is Next Level Urban Transport 03012
Reposted by @baroneddie.bsky.socialKarl Bode @karlbode.com · 06/10/2026over at the newsletter I wrote about the useful bogeyman that is "polarization":karlbode.comThe Problem Is Right Wing Extremism, Not 'Polarization'Ambiguous media whining about "polarization" or "partisan tribalism" redirects attention away from the real cause of modern U.S. division: violent right wing extremism. 10545151
Reposted by @baroneddie.bsky.socialMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Today would be a particularly great, long overdue day for the Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin - Madison to get up in front of microphones & explain to the public, voters, students, & their families that we are facing an existential crisis because of the GOP’s illegal federal funding cuts. 2336108
Reposted by @baroneddie.bsky.socialAmerica's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 06/10/2026𝟓𝟎𝟔 𝐔.𝐒. 𝐂𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐃𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝 That includes more than 100 Americans questioned about their citizenship status, at least 70 American children and teens detained, at least 63 Americans detained while recording, and roughly a dozen U.S. citizens (mainly children) deported. #AbuseOfPowerWatchprojects.propublica.orgMore Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublicaThe government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati... 145
Reposted by @baroneddie.bsky.socialDan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026And the NYT is so proud of its both-sidesing the article is leading the website. Readers are offended, as well they should be. Most recommended comment: 10542112
Reposted by @baroneddie.bsky.socialEric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 06/10/2026NEW FROM PP The Trump admin keeps denying immigration agents are grabbing Americans, so we tracked it 500+ Americans detained 70+ kids, some cuffed or zip-tied 60+ held after filming 36+ held for day+ w/o access to lawyer ~12 deported (yes, deported) projects.propublica.org/american-cit....projects.propublica.orgMore Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublicaThe government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati... 20962550
Reposted by @baroneddie.bsky.socialisaac @sevier.io · 05/10/2026Really important point i hadn't seen yet, which is that AI data center proposals are concentrated in gas reservoir basins, bypassing federal permitting altogether by avoiding the need for interstate pipelines. All of the smoke about transmission costs reforms look different in this light.oilchange.orgSenate permitting bill would be a gift to data centers and their massive gas buildout - Oil Change InternationalIn short: 27641
Reposted by @baroneddie.bsky.socialNathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026This piece highlights something that doesn't get talked enough: Progressives should put forward a proposed set of rules for a new congress to facilitate defeating the far right and actually legislate. 019957
Reposted by @baroneddie.bsky.socialMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026It’s confusing that @theatlantic.com described this man as a “a lifelong Democrat who had voted for Trump for the first time in 2024” who when these are some of his very easily findable FB posts: 17273071512
Reposted by @baroneddie.bsky.socialKevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 05/10/2026Side note: "LLMs screening LLM-generated content" is the basic structure that the Senate's draft bill would establish for federal energy permitting. It mandates building LLMs for generating and reviewing permit applications and provides little support for human civil servants to do permitting work. 44211
Reposted by @baroneddie.bsky.socialKevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 05/10/2026A UK research funder used LLMs to screen and desk-reject grant proposals with no human input, then (and this is the unique part) told rejected authors about it. I assume federal appointees in US research agencies are doing the same, though without the "tell people about it" bit.science.orgU.K. funder uses ‘AI triage’ to reject grant proposals—leaving researchers dismayedThe AI-based assessment, which wasn’t explicitly described in the funding call, has raised privacy and fairness concerns 88324
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"championed 'the rights of working people and the equal distribution of economic resources, which he believed was inherent in the teachings of Jesus!"[6. In 1891, Bellamy was
"forced from his Boston pulpit for preaching against the evils of capitalism" [3] and eventually stopped attending church altogether after moving to Florida, reportedly because of the racism he witnessed there. '0! Francis's
career as a preacher ended because of his tendency to describe Jesus as a socialist. In the 21st century, Bellamy is considered an early American democratic socialist.""]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:miczfsfixolk42l7343z3bpd/bafkreibwzxnzntp5jskbiiurhqcllcmhwk4i5lp2xuyxvwuaflhavoun4q)
