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Brandon Comstock

@calmstock.bsky.social
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Husband & Father Living in Acton, MA | Experience Strategy & Design | Sustainability fellow | AI wonk

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 31/05/2025
Elon Musk may be stepping back from the government, but we’re not done reporting on the impact of his DOGE wrecking ball. If you have information to share with us, we want to hear from you. ➡️ propublica.org/tips
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How to Contact ProPublica or Send a Tip Securely — ProPublica
Our job is to hold people and institutions accountable. To do that, we need evidence.
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Brandon Comstock @calmstock.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Meanwhile let’s green light more rapid unplanned disassemblies, ya? #FFS #HerrPlugs #MAGAAfterDark #DogeDaysAreOver www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/u...
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On the Campaign Trail, Elon Musk Juggled Drugs and Family Drama
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Brandon Comstock @calmstock.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
“The cruel irony is, the thing I perceived as the sellout move is in free-fall.” #genx www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/s...
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The Gen X Career Meltdown
Just when they should be at their peak, experienced workers in creative fields find that their skills are all but obsolete.
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Brandon Comstock @calmstock.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
So true. We are at the inflection point. Further progress feels, in a way, punitive.
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Brandon Comstock @calmstock.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
“He made 2.5 million today and he made $900 million. That’s not bad.” Sounds like market manipulation to me. That’s bad.
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Brandon Comstock @calmstock.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
“The people who bought when they saw that post made a lot of money.” apnews.com/article/trum...
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Trump's 'buy' tip on social media before his tariffs pause made money for investors who listened
President Donald Trump offered some financial advice on Wednesday morning that ended up making a lot of money for any lucky investor who listened to him.
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Brandon Comstock @calmstock.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Nothing to see here, just a little transfer of wealth from middle class 401k's to the billionaire class.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 04/04/2025
"And just like that, the age of American empire, the great Pax Americana, ended." @jvl.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/the-americ...
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The American Age Is Over
Emergency Triad: The United States commits imperial suicide.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 03/04/2025
If Trump is willing to hurt the economy, he must be getting something he wants even more in return. That thing is power. With tariffs, Trump can exercise a kind of corruption that the country hasn’t experienced in some 150 years. Read @pemalevy.bsky.social.
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Trump’s tariffs give him a new way to dole out reward and punishment
The president's latest power grab will devastate America's economy—and its democracy.
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Brandon Comstock @calmstock.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
“Trump Administration Has Begun a War on Science.” Fixed it.
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Brandon Comstock @calmstock.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Billionaire’s stock tanking vs. a person losing their job.. 🤔
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Texting war plans to reporters is clearly bad But the fact that America’s top leaders communicate about 40% via emojis is also freaking me out
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Brandon Comstock @calmstock.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Ilya Sutskever, ex-OpenAI, gets $2b funding not to release anything until he has ‘super intelligence’ pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/06/i...
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Ilya Sutskever, ex-OpenAI, gets $2b funding not to release anything until he has ‘super intelligence’
Ex-OpenAI cofounder Ilya Sutskever’s new startup Safe Superintelligence just closed another funding round. For $2 billion, Sutskever promises not to release any product at all until SSI has develop…
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Brandon Comstock @calmstock.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Real platforms, real people, real conversations. www.joanwestenberg.com/the-fedivers... #fediverse
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The Fediverse Isn’t the Future. It’s the Present We’ve Been Denied.
For years, the internet has been shrinking. Not in size, not in data, but in ownership. A vast, decentralized network of personal blogs, forums, and independent communities has been corralled into a h...
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
👏👏👏 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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‘I’m on the side of the workers’: the Minnesota senator calling out Trump and Musk
Tina Smith is leaving at the end of her term, and says she would call Musk a dick even if she had to face re-election
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 09/03/2025
A couple of golf outings could pay for over 300 federal jobs for an entire year.
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Brandon Comstock @calmstock.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
The @nrdc.org had a nearly 90% success rate in legal battles against anti-environmental policies during the previous #fdt administration. #givewhatyoucan www.nrdc.org/court-battle...
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Here’s How NRDC Is Fighting Back Against the Trump Administration in Court
A timeline of lawsuits in defense of our health, environment, and climate.
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Brandon Comstock @calmstock.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
“At least Bezos didn’t say the Post needed more masculine energy?”
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Brandon Comstock @calmstock.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
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Brandon Comstock @calmstock.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Dumb from the start. The ‘shining city’ had a burnt-out bulb problem
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Brandon Comstock @calmstock.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
If you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu.. ft.pressreader.com/article/2816...
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Financial Times
News, analysis and comment from the Financial Times, the worldʼs leading global business publication
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Brandon Comstock @calmstock.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Slightly buoyed by this one.. #signsoflife
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Brandon Comstock @calmstock.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
He, of course, initially started to say *l* am the federal law…
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Brandon Comstock @calmstock.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
"Due to the executive order, the JFK Library will be closed until further notice"
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 18/02/2025
"News isn’t just any business, it’s a constitutionally protected public service. And the moment calls for the Fourth Estate to do whatever it can to preserve transparency," @seth-stern.bsky.social writes.
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Journalists: Post public records without paywalls
News outlets can help preserve the public domain, and maybe even gain some subscribers
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Brandon Comstock @calmstock.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Driving a Tesla in Europe? Prepare for side-eye and swastikas. Maybe it’s time for a trade in.. #TeslaTroubles www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
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Elon Musk’s Toxicity Could Spell Disaster for Tesla
Staggering sales drops, swastika-daubed EVs, companies culling fleet models, and fan-forum owners selling their cars—Elon Musk's alt-right antics are seriously impacting his electric car business.
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Representative Becca Balint @balint.house.gov · 14/02/2025
Elon Musk is not a disinterested actor when it comes to our nation’s budget. He has tens of billions of dollars wrapped up in contracts and subsidies. The idea that he is meddling in government spending out of the goodness of his heart is pure fantasy.
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Brandon Comstock @calmstock.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Hold the line!!
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 12/02/2025
Five years of pandemic politics have divided the United States, kneecapped a generation of students, and returned a conspiratorial fringe to power, @davidfrum.bsky.social writes. What could we have done differently?
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Why the COVID Deniers Won
Lessons from the pandemic and its aftermath
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Brandon Comstock @calmstock.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
This is all a bit diverse, equitable, and inclusive... 👀 #SuperBowlLIX #SBLIX
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Brandon Comstock @calmstock.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
The Mitch McConnell feedback loop is perhaps the worst possible feedback loop.
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Brandon Comstock @calmstock.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
“My chief complaint against some practitioners of heavy metal guitar from the early 70s through the early 80s is that I can immediately tell their distorted sounds are not really placing their amps at risk.” 😎🔥 #timelinecleanse lithub.com/marc-ribot-m...
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Marc Ribot Makes the Case for Loud Music
Hi. My name is Marc. I’m a guitarist who points extremely loud amplifiers directly at his head. Very often. Sometimes as often as 200 nights a year for the past 45 years. Audiologists say this coul…
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Brandon Comstock @calmstock.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Just had the same thought ..
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Brandon Comstock @calmstock.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
How is this not bigger news?!? - Michael Bloomberg's philanthropy arm said on Thursday it will provide funding to help cover the U.S. contribution to the U.N. climate body's budget, filling a gap left by President Donald Trump. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
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Bloomberg philanthropy to cover U.S. climate dues after Paris withdrawal
Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's philanthropy and other U.S. funders said on Thursday they will cover U.S. financial obligations to the UN climate framework after President Donald Trump called for the U.S. to withdraw - for a second time - from the Paris climate agreement.
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Brandon Comstock @calmstock.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
“Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people” youtu.be/J7GY1Xg6X20
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Charlie Chaplin - Final Speech from The Great Dictator
YouTube video by Charlie Chaplin
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Indivisible Acton Area ❌👑 @indactonma.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Are we really surprised?
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Brandon Comstock @calmstock.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Go analog Make art Build community Engage Educate #ThisMachineKillsFascists
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
If Lisa Murkowski can say no to Hegseth what is wrong with Joni Ernst??
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Brandon Comstock @calmstock.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
New strategy: make Trump actually do his job. Because nothing says ‘accountability’ like expecting the President to, you know, president. #GrifterInChief newrepublic.com/post/190337/...
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Shove the Presidency Down Trump’s Throat
Liberals spent the president-elect’s first term trying and failing to kick him out of office. This time out, they need to turn the White House into a prison.
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Brandon Comstock @calmstock.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
“We did not simply elect an autocrat; we chose, as a nation, to usher in an oligarchy—the likes of which we have not seen since the Gilded Age.” contrarian.substack.com/p/of-for-and...
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Of, For, and By the Billionaires
Musk and Silicon Valley moguls gain unprecedented power
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Brandon Comstock @calmstock.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
“We will do what we have to do. And then we can - and should - tell them to fuck off.”
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Brandon Comstock @calmstock.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
“Because Trump believes nothing, he holds out the tantalizing prospect that he could do anything, and many people are willing to take him up on the offer.”
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 10/01/2025
A disaster is a function of three things: the hazard itself, people's vulnerability to the hazard, and their exposure. @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social explains eloquently how the LA fires are a perfect storm of all three. Read more:
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The chronicle of a fire foretold | Rebecca Solnit
The current fires in Los Angeles are reminders of the costs of forgetting
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Mike Luckovich gets it right as he always does
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Brandon Comstock @calmstock.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
The appeasement brigade marches on… “bank led” Pitiful. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Six big US banks quit net zero alliance before Trump inauguration
Exodus from target-setting group is attempt to head off ‘anti-woke’ attacks from rightwing politicians, say analysts
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 07/01/2025
What’s clear is that much of elite society is greeting Trump 2.0 with open arms. From media institutions to corporations to wayward Democrats with their tails tucked between their legs, the capitulation caucus has been growing. But on the ground, we see a wave of courageous opposition building.
Leah Greenberg on here: “Total capitulation to Trump. A profile in cowardice.”Brian Stelter on Twitter: “Meta is facing an antitrust trial in April. The company has lots of other business before the U.S. government. And Trump once threatened to send Zuckerberg to prison for "the rest of his life." That's just some of the background for today's big Meta announcements...”Kyle Griffin on here: “Not a joke: Meta says it will end its fact-checking program and instead rely on Facebook and Instagram users to “correct” posts.”Adam Serwer on here: “Instagram CEO excited about having a guy who hits his wife on the meta board”
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