Reposted by @bikbio.bsky.socialryandevereaux.bsky.social @ryandevereaux.bsky.social · 7hIn July, I took a ride through the Arizona desert with Verlon Jose, chairman of the Tohono O’odham Nation, a sprawling reservation on the U.S.-Mexico border that may soon be changed forever. It was the beginning of an investigation that ProPublica is publishing today. THREAD ⬇️ 7282119
Reposted by @bikbio.bsky.socialAdam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 7hThe people who don’t want you to watch miss rachel want you to watch a public execution 1053467849
Reposted by @bikbio.bsky.socialRuha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I’m in DC scheduled to give this talk today. But the organizers flagged slides in my deck that mention racism, structural gaslighting, New Jim Code and other themes that are off limits in the Land of the Free. 727441150
Reposted by @bikbio.bsky.socialBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 09/10/2026There are many ways in which every billionaire is a policy failure, but the most corrosive and destructive way in which billionaires are policy failures is this: billionaires, despite being unelected and unaccountable, possess the power to control - and ruin - millions of peoples' lives. 828683
Reposted by @bikbio.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026huh, interesting that vance thinks this is the worst terrorist attack and not oklahoma city 1755428780
Reposted by @bikbio.bsky.socialA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 09/10/2026They’re live-streaming the execution of the person they think they can get away with doing that to first. It’s a test. If they can do that, they’ll expand the margins of permission. 10849191470
Reposted by @bikbio.bsky.socialleftylady.bsky.social @leftylady.bsky.social · 07/10/2026 182117223100
Reposted by @bikbio.bsky.socialBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 07/10/2026Up until very recently indeed, airlines were the only businesses that I dealt with regularly that practiced "price discrimination," charging different customers different prices for the same seats. 9327109
Reposted by @bikbio.bsky.socialLaura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books 4083478710484
Reposted by @bikbio.bsky.socialMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now. 11545159713426
bikbio.bsky.social @bikbio.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I was gifted this recently. Full of childhood memories. 000
Reposted by @bikbio.bsky.socialAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026my main comment is, do they remember who won the battle of the alamo bsky.app/profile/dber... 1501798251
Reposted by @bikbio.bsky.socialDmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 08/10/2026Not sure why anyone bothers with anti-AI activism when the most effective strategy would be to just point as many microphones as possible to its most vocal champions. 28813151
Reposted by @bikbio.bsky.socialElizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026It’s simply unimaginable that CDC Director Dr. Erica Schwartz has just bowed to RFK Jr. and approved funding for an utterly unethical clinical trial that will withhold the birth dose of HepB vaccine in Guinea Bissau. It is to be conducted by researchers accused of academic misconduct.rollingstone.comCDC Is Moving Forward With a Previously Shelved Controversial Hepatitis B Vaccine Study“It’s a wholly unethical trial, and it shouldn’t be allowed,” says Dr. Paul Offit of Guinea-Bissau study 791415667
Reposted by @bikbio.bsky.socialNE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 30/09/2026these river otters are blissfully unaware the Cuyahoga has 13 fires in its history 1756493
Reposted by @bikbio.bsky.socialArs Technica @arstechnica.com · 07/10/2026arstechnica.comPediatricians renew call to ban raw milk as anti-science rhetoric reignsIn renewed policy, pediatricians review the benefits of heating milk to kill germs. 631852691
Reposted by @bikbio.bsky.socialMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The main lesson of the last 25 years of the GOP holding power is that they are totally incompetent at governing & everything breaks & many people die as a result (Katrina, wars, Covid, ICE, etc). Ask yourself if that ever appears as the central frame in media coverage of politics & the two parties. 515552
Reposted by @bikbio.bsky.socialChris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Something unprecedented happened during my visit to the Gulf. For the first time in 20 years in Congress, I was denied entry to U.S. military facilities and even meetings with military leaders. An order from Hegseth - that applies to both parties - to hide the cost of the war. 23446822146
Reposted by @bikbio.bsky.socialThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Alarming — 🇺🇸 Senator @chrismurphyct.bsky.social denied access to military facilities in the Middle East: “Unprecedented. Hegseth is trying to cover up the extent of the damage from a war spiraling out of control. This should be unacceptable to everybody, Republican or Democrat.” 30084664030
Reposted by @bikbio.bsky.socialThe Dallas Morning News @dallasnews.com · 05/10/2026Some Republicans fear French could hurt the GOP ticket. His allies say his critics are out of step with today’s party, a feud now headed to voters in November. bit.ly/4z7sITE 121
Reposted by @bikbio.bsky.socialThe Dallas Morning News @dallasnews.com · 06/10/2026She says nothing at all about the elephant in the room.bit.lyAngela Paxton’s ‘whole team’ ad gets politics totally wrongShe says nothing at all about the elephant in the room. 0133
Reposted by @bikbio.bsky.socialElizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026never the wrong time for this classic 56120143571
Reposted by @bikbio.bsky.socialJustin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Labor's share of income just hit an all-time low. That means for every dollar a company brings in, workers are taking home smaller and smaller slices. Income keeps shifting to the owners. With @svaneksmith .bsky.social newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/… 16585217
Reposted by @bikbio.bsky.socialemptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026One reason I stay on Xitter is to test if I can trigger people's amygdala over there. So far it's not working that well. 21437107
Reposted by @bikbio.bsky.socialYour Local Epidemiologist @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social · 03/10/20261/ Last weekend, I received an email from someone whose friend was being treated for cancer. The doctor advised her friend to get the flu shot, but said to skip the Covid vaccine. So the friend asked me if risks from the Covid vaccine are still a concern. 15819
Reposted by @bikbio.bsky.socialChance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Texas bragging about eliminating the "Delaware-style" implied covenant of *good faith and fair dealing* in contracting is about all you need to know concerning where we are in the race to the bottom. 1855278
Reposted by @bikbio.bsky.socialAbdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I'd rather have an economy that makes 1,000 millionaires than 1 billionaire. 22486982217
Reposted by @bikbio.bsky.socialMingTheMerciless @mingthemercyless.bsky.social · 02/10/2026And he didn't do it alone. 281127643537
Reposted by @bikbio.bsky.social𝐇𝐢𝐛𝐛𝐲 🌊 𝐇𝐢𝐛𝐛𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐯𝐚𝐫𝐤 @hibbardvark.bsky.social · 01/10/2026#epistemiccrisis analysis. 36925
Reposted by @bikbio.bsky.socialDiane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 01/10/2026Available now at #Ebooks Direct as part of our #Autumn #Reading #Sale: Our Whole Store package, including all non-new release works in our inventory—37 award-winning novels and shorter works. Grab this fabulous bargain before the price changes! 🙂 ebooks.direct/products/ebo... #ebookskyebooks.directEbooks Direct Whole Store BundleThis ebook bundle (not available in the UK: details below) contains our complete inventory of non-new-release* works. All our ebooks are DRM-free, and come with the usual EBD lifetime replacement g... 09150
Reposted by @bikbio.bsky.socialJames Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.) 9853472189
Reposted by @bikbio.bsky.socialProPublica @propublica.org · 01/10/2026NEW: Emma Joyce died at 3 years old. The next year, her sister Ava Joan died. Then their brother died from the same complication of untreated diabetes that killed Ava Joan. Later, a fourth sibling died. Their parents believed in prayer, not medicine.propublica.orgFour Kids in One Faith-Healing Family Died. Authorities Could Do Nothing.An exemption in Idaho law shields faith-healing parents from criminal prosecution for conduct that otherwise would be charged as neglect. It also keeps police and social workers from stepping in to pr... 49832741477
Reposted by @bikbio.bsky.socialJ Sutton @jlsaz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Kozinski was right on the firing squad. Want to kill someone? Do it so everyone can see exactly how it works. 3341
Reposted by @bikbio.bsky.socialTeam Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Ken Paxton offered plea deals to at least 10 students accused of raping their classmates. 561264611
Reposted by @bikbio.bsky.socialRobert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 27/09/2026This is quite an anecdote about how our current Secretary of Education got the job. www.politico.com/news/magazin... 26231
Reposted by @bikbio.bsky.socialJoseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 30/09/2026New: USPS is to put cameras in its trucks that continuously record. This is to gather data on roads, signage, and to improve "community safety," the agency tells me. The cameras are marketed to capture passing license plates too, but don't run ALPR software 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. 46365153
Reposted by @bikbio.bsky.socialNorm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026lol, is it? 201166132
Reposted by @bikbio.bsky.socialAsher is left to face the fall alone @asherball.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I love doing this when I see quotes from these people 0323
Reposted by @bikbio.bsky.socialJoe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This. It has always been this. A sitting American president did this. And because he did this, he should have been convicted and put behind bars. And the fact that we never held him accountable for these crimes will forever stain this country. And we may never recover from it.👇 900264999108
Reposted by @bikbio.bsky.socialAbdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Mike Rogers has the audacity to lie to you about his plan like he didn't vote 4 times to stop you from getting cheaper medication from Canada, take $1M from Big Pharma, and vote 19 times to keep prescription drug prices higher. GTFOH. 214113264011
Reposted by @bikbio.bsky.socialGreg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Something remarkable is happening: James Talarico is running an expansively pro-immigrant campaign in Texas, a state Trump won by 14 points, speaking in Biblical terms about our duty to "the stranger." And it's resonating. That's seismic. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2160...newrepublic.comIn Texas, Something Seismic Is Happening—and It’s All Trump’s FaultThanks to the economy and ICE, Trump has lost Texas Latinos. And James Talarico is developing a humane pro-immigrant message that’s resonating—even in this ultra-Trumpy state. 9739631000
Reposted by @bikbio.bsky.socialtaber @kvetch.gay · 28/09/2026Here's a map of how iron ore mined in Minnesota moves (the red lines). Note the markers for where steel facilities are located, they're where they are because you have to move the stuff on ships. There are no steel mills in Iowa of any size because you can't get the fucking stuff it's made of there 72566217
Reposted by @bikbio.bsky.socialColette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Hey btw, these students deserve a Pulitzer Prize for their work exposing the Cornell R@pists: Editor-in-Chief Sophia Dasser ’28, Associate Editor Sophia Romanov Imber ’28 and Opinion Editors Zara Cheek ’28 and Rayen Zhou '29. www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...cornellsun.comEDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We WillThe Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies. 37920
Reposted by @bikbio.bsky.socialRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 28/09/2026While you are getting up and going to start the work week, members of the Trump Admin are planning their next lavish taxpayer funded parties, trips and personal vanity projects while searching for new ways to turn their govt appointment into another grift to enrich themselves. 401651473
Reposted by @bikbio.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.theintercept.comDoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam 6594022011831