Reposted by @bskippen.bsky.socialSara Mitchell @sbmitche.bsky.social · 4hYes, let’s continue to decapitate our military leadership until we have no one left with combat experience 🤷♀️ 85111
Reposted by @bskippen.bsky.socialQuinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 6h"Ukrainian intelligence agencies estimate that about 50,000 North Korean troops have been sent to fight for Moscow, along with ballistic missiles and heavy artillery systems." www.ft.com/content/8a45...ft.comSeoul accuses Ukraine of violating secrecy pact on North Korean soldiersSouth Korea demands apology after Volodymyr Zelenskyy discloses prisoner transfer 393
Reposted by @bskippen.bsky.socialJoey Politano🏳️🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 7hOfficial monthly data is in, and US solar power generation hit a new record high, up 21% compared to this time last year! 12905187
Reposted by @bskippen.bsky.socialQuinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 6hFeel like we don't talk enough about the 50,000 North Koreans fighting in Ukraine. 1242191
Reposted by @bskippen.bsky.socialCult MTL @cultmtl.com · 27/09/2026In an attempt to further divide Quebecers, Paul St-Pierre Plamondon has confirmed that his party will push ahead with a referendum on Quebec independence — even if the PQ only wins a minority government in the upcoming election. A large majority of Quebecers (69%) oppose Quebec sovereignty. #polqccultmtl.comQuebecers don't want a referendum — the Parti Québécois will hold one anywayA large majority of Quebecers oppose Quebec sovereignty. 157744
Reposted by @bskippen.bsky.socialmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 6hits worth asking why posts like this — a purported leftist warning others not to trust elected left-wing politicians — consistently do so well on the site where racist Trump ally Elon Musk controls the algorithm that chooses what posts people see 211867285
Reposted by @bskippen.bsky.socialCooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 6hThird Way are weathervanes and this is what it feels like to have the wind at your back again 456768
Reposted by @bskippen.bsky.socialAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"The Indian Question" now joins "The Jewish Question" as a shorthand for a dream of ethnic cleansing. As with the mass purge of Haitians, Christopher Rufo again seeks to play a central role in this descent into ethnonationalist fascism. 29528151
Reposted by @bskippen.bsky.socialIsaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 13hI dont think this is contested at all. But i think its moreso that shipping has gotten so expensive people are just risking it. Whereas before it wasnt worth it 3748
Reposted by @bskippen.bsky.socialScoiattolo @scarnecchia.net · 9hAnthropic is just directly fearmongering about the open weight models that are eating their lunch on price now huhanthropic.comGLM-5.3 and the Spread of Advanced Cyber CapabilitiesGLM-5.3 can autonomously build end-to-end cyber exploits, but unlike other frontier models, it was released without meaningful safeguards to limit misuse. 1723133
Reposted by @bskippen.bsky.socialDavid W (aka Flex NP) @rnflex.bsky.social · 5hFull Retatrutide phase 3 obesity data published today. It's gonna take a minute to fill dissect this. The appendix alone has 70 pages of data. Long story short we created a drug that's almost too good. Huge chunks of people stopped or reduced doses from excess weight reductions.nejm.orgRetatrutide, a Triple Hormone Receptor Agonist, for Treatment of Obesity | NEJMRetatrutide is a triple-receptor agonist of glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide, glucagon-like peptide-1, and glucagon receptors. In this phase 3, randomized, double-blind trial, we assign... 930392
Reposted by @bskippen.bsky.social#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 7hSince 2022, Israel has done all of these in the WB •Killed over 1,300 Palestinians. •Killed 9 American citizens. • Detained over 30,000 Palestinians in military prisons • Displaced over 45,000 Palestinians • Established over 260 illegal settlements and settler outposts on stolen Palestinian land. 314549
Reposted by @bskippen.bsky.social#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 4hSchumer and Gillibrand just voted yes for Van Hollen's resolution demanding a State Department human rights report on Israeli conduct in the illegally-occupied West Bank. 1750570
Reposted by @bskippen.bsky.socialShawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 8hThere is something here to leverage in the ontario / quebec re opposing to Alto. If Alberta can do it, the eastern bastards mustn't be left behind. 3475
Reposted by @bskippen.bsky.socialSecretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 8hOh, oh my 3744860
Reposted by @bskippen.bsky.socialJohn Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 7hMcGrath brand maintenance: this is bad for Tory housing policy, Aitchison seemed to at least mostly get it 1185
Reposted by @bskippen.bsky.socialLauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Adam Brody, star of breakout Jewish comedy, "Nobody Wants This" “Put me down as thinking it’s a genocide. Put me down as wanting a free Palestine" deadline.com/2026/09/adam...deadline.comAdam Brody Declares Support For "Free Palestine"As Netflix prepares to release another season of 'Nobody Wants This', leading man Adam Brody is using his platform to speak up for Palestinians. 13210
Reposted by @bskippen.bsky.socialMy IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 15h"we’ve learned that the real threat to our security, our prosperity, and indeed our very existence isn’t just Trump. It’s the America that elected him twice, the second time by even larger margins than the first." 0144
Reposted by @bskippen.bsky.socialLauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 15hThis is partly why “not cool mate” works Because men mistakenly believe their friends hold harmful beliefs about women, and act accordingly Men can correct that mistaken belief and change their friend’s behaviour 0155
Reposted by @bskippen.bsky.socialZecharias Zelalem @zekuzelalem.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I went on the BBC to provide some updates and context on Ethiopia's new war and how it broke out in the first place. As I pointed out here, yesterday bank accounts opened in Tigray were collectively frozen, which prevents millions from accessing funds. The situation is becoming increasingly dire. 04026
Reposted by @bskippen.bsky.socialMy IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 9h"Until now, ending a legal strike required MPs to stand in the House and vote for it, in public, with their names recorded. That accountability was a guardrail. Bill C-39 removes this and calls the removal reinforcement. Parliament, and Canadians, should not accept the vocabulary." #CdnPoli 02316
Reposted by @bskippen.bsky.socialMy IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 6h"Doctors, nurses and other front-line workers gathered for a news conference at University Avenue and Gerrard Street to explain the risks of a lack of proper road infrastructure for cyclists, pedestrians and drivers — and to tell stories of those impacted by road violence." #BikeTO #ToPoli #OnPoli 44826
Reposted by @bskippen.bsky.socialBlayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · 16hLet’s be clear: Saying that your chatbot may give bad advice leaves it on the patient, who by definition isn’t an expert, to figure out if they can trust the chatbot’s advice. 192
Reposted by @bskippen.bsky.socialBlayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · 16h“A disclaimer notes the responses may have mistakes and aren’t meant to replace medical advice.” If you can’t trust the chatbot’s output, WHY IS THIS ON THE MARKET? The regulatory cognitive dissonance around AI is astonishing and shameless. 1174
Reposted by @bskippen.bsky.socialBlayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · 16hThe true wonder of any health chatbot is that it is simultaneously sold as providing reliable health information, but is somehow never liable when it doles out bad health information. 1115
Reposted by @bskippen.bsky.socialBlayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · 16hThis isn’t a case of AI moving too fast or being too complicated to regulate. It’s a deliberate choice to rely on liability-dodging terms of service and to lower regulatory standards below what we would expect anywhere else, because AI. 1113
Reposted by @bskippen.bsky.socialHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 15hMany people are asking.prospect.orgWhy Is Sam Altman a Free Man? - The American ProspectOpenAI’s models aren’t “going rogue” from their creators as much as they are mimicking them. 319461
Reposted by @bskippen.bsky.socialTyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026A key component of the Cambridge Analytica outrage was your friends subjecting you to data theft without your consent or knowledge. Facebook is running the same playbook on your text messages. Even if you’re not on Meta properties, they’re ingesting your interactions. 131167596
Reposted by @bskippen.bsky.socialDeva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 22hAs a person who has been writing about joy as a political resource for a decade, I’ll say two things: first, I told you so. And second, yay, party on. Play is a serious part of the business of political change. 15413
Reposted by @bskippen.bsky.socialSpokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 23hSend Stephen Miller to The Hague. 19969282231
Reposted by @bskippen.bsky.socialMikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 14hThis is the strongest piece of evidence for my thesis imo. People perceive "the economy," i.e., the generalized state of the world, as very bad. Their own personal material conditions, which they can evaluate more normally, are different. 71655
Reposted by @bskippen.bsky.socialMikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 23hDuring and after COVID everyone was mad and sad and didn't know why, now everyone is terrified. But the only way people know how to express anything is "economy bad!" 254827
Reposted by @bskippen.bsky.socialMikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 23hPeople are also upset about non-economic things that get expressed in economic terms, like the fact that everything seems wildly out of control and we have a maniac in charge of the country 141077123
Reposted by @bskippen.bsky.socialMikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 23hThe Trump era has really fucked everyone up in profound ways. Turns out electing the physical embodiment of the most demonic things about American society to the Presidency was a mistake 111383200
Reposted by @bskippen.bsky.socialrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 13hthere's a thing in moderate democratic politics where it is considered fundamentally illegitimate to deliver results to your own voters; instead, you must propose a better way to implement your adversaries' entire ideological program 381379231
Reposted by @bskippen.bsky.socialNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 5hIt is remarkable *how* self-inflicted it was, this wasn't an ongoing crisis that they mismanaged or something that blew up in their faces unexpectedly, they really could have just done *nothing* and it would have been immeasurably better. 1505
Reposted by @bskippen.bsky.socialNute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 5hI mean we saw this in the first term where people were doing “oh he would have won if not for COVID” - COVID was good for incumbents everywhere else! The issue wasn’t COVID, it was the admin response to COVID, which was the entirely natural result of how Trump operates 421124
Reposted by @bskippen.bsky.socialNute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 5hYup, absolutely. I think it’s wrong to treat the Iran War as simply one bad error that happened to the Trump Admin rather than the entirely logical consequence of the way it operates. If it wasn’t Iran, it would almost certainly have been something else 5974134
Reposted by @bskippen.bsky.socialJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 7hI’ve been saying for a while, someone needs to estimate the net cost of millions of people having to spend a chunk of every day worrying about what the insane president has done or will do. 7593136
Reposted by @bskippen.bsky.socialJacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 5hUnlike many other longtime critics of liberalism, Philip Pettit doesn't take its contemporary crisis as an opportunity to kick in when it's down or to try to make common cause with the forces of autocracy. iai.tv/articles/dem...iai.tvDemocracy without liberalism is not democracy<p><em>Chinese philosopher Tongdong Bai recently argued in IAI News that democracy and liberalism are fundamentally at odds. Electoral majorities often support illiberal policies, and this, he thinks,... 33911
Reposted by @bskippen.bsky.socialJim Lokay @jimlokay.com · 7hIf you want to really know how the outrage machine gets fired up: 1. Schmitt plans to drop “bombshell” on Smith 2. Someone plants story that Schmitt is a Vance VP contender to run same day 3. Right-wing Twittersphere gets talking points 4. Schmitt steps in it 5. Scheduled tweets go out anyway 2233455935
Reposted by @bskippen.bsky.socialJonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 9hPeople really want the story of Trump's second term to include a lack of grass-roots protests (outside of the handful of No Kings events) and it's just not true. Listen to @chenoweth.bsky.social, folks. 25027
Reposted by @bskippen.bsky.socialGarrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 9hFBI Director Kash Patel this week has faced the worst data breach in FBI history, a deputy who quit because Patel was doing too many unconstitutional things, and partied with a suspected double agent. And it's only Tuesday. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-disgra...doomsdayscenario.coThe Disgrace and Danger of Kash Patel, Part IIA quick check-in on the FBI director's latest raft of scandals (including, of course, the bestiality). 281127407
Reposted by @bskippen.bsky.socialCatherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 8hWhy are we in a trade war with Canada, exactly? What was the country's alleged transgression? Check out my conversation with @samsteindc.bsky.social: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...podcasts.apple.comTrump’s War With Canada Has Officially Lost the Plot (w/ Sam Stein)Podcast Episode · Receipts with Catherine Rampell · September 29 · 40m 1214226
Reposted by @bskippen.bsky.socialIan Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 9hNew way for trillionaires to debase themselves in breathless servitude to another man just dropped 4544779
Reposted by @bskippen.bsky.socialBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 9hGobsmacked by the elite levels of not knowing ball in the Senate today, thinking an NBA team is called the Hawkeyes then, refusing to Google it, then accusing a guy of treason because you didn’t know the Iowa Lady Hawkeyes aren’t in the NBA. Somehow I don’t trust these people to Save Girls Sports. 233107831828
Reposted by @bskippen.bsky.socialHayes Brown @hayesbrown.bsky.social · 13hnew from me: i dug into the White House’s “uh these are just public service announcements” defense for the taxpayer-funded propaganda ads. it’s all bad but the wildest part is them using LITERAL WARTIME PROPAGANDA as a historical precedent to say this is all finems.nowOpinion | The White House says these propaganda ads are PSAs. They’re not.Government-funded ads praising President Trump are the opposite of “educational.” 29635
Reposted by @bskippen.bsky.socialDaniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 6hI mean, sure, if he’s unqualified for one position, why not double up his responsibilities with another area where he’s unqualified?! www.axios.com/2026/09/29/a...axios.comTrump floats Jay Clayton as AI czar as he looks to fill the position in daysTrump says DNI Jay Clayton would be a good AI czar 4286
Reposted by @bskippen.bsky.socialJacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Scott Lemiuex @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social reinforcing Jamelle Bouie @jamellebouie.net on this point; they're both 100% correct www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/09/john...lawyersgunsmoneyblog.comJohn Roberts's royalist presidency - Lawyers, Guns & MoneyWe discussed yesterday how Trump using taxpayer money to fund campaign ads is yet another illustration of his total contempt for any legal restraints. As Jamelle Bouie explains [gift link], one critic... 14620
Reposted by @bskippen.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants. 20452011402
