copperbook.bsky.social @copperbook.bsky.social · 10hThe problem isn’t that Schmitt didn’t prove that Smith was in Atlanta Nor that Atlanta is large and being there doesn’t mean he was colluding w Fani Willis it’s that it is routine for federal and local prosecutors to confer in related crimes: “parallel coordination” or “cooperative federalism” 000
copperbook.bsky.social @copperbook.bsky.social · 10hThis didn’t age well…only 22 hours old Eric Schmitt as a “trustworthy, intelligent, articulate and a deft political operator….” www.axios.com/2026/09/29/e...axios.comSen. Eric Schmitt is drawing buzz as a possible Vance VP in 2028Vance views the Missouri senator as trustworthy. 000
copperbook.bsky.social @copperbook.bsky.social · 10hKennedy was one of six Republican senators to object to the certification of Arizona's electors in the 2020 presidential election. The other five: Josh Hawley, Ted Cruz, Tommy Tuberville, Roger Marshall, and Cindy Hyde-Smith. 000
copperbook.bsky.social @copperbook.bsky.social · 10hCan we please make more of the Robin role that Senator Kennedy took in rushing over to hold up that poster behind Senator Schmitt’s head? It’s like a beta who really wants to be in the MAGA social media photo. 000
copperbook.bsky.social @copperbook.bsky.social · 10hWhy does ICE keep using unmarked cars to pull people over? Asking for a friend 000
copperbook.bsky.social @copperbook.bsky.social · 11hJack Smith was chosen for a reason. Super impressive. Knowledgeable on law. Captain America. Why do republicans keep calling him to the hill to testify hoping it will make them look good? It reminds everyone of Trump’s culpability on January 6. Seems like an own goal. 001
copperbook.bsky.social @copperbook.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Who could have predicted that a political philosophy of “I’ll irritate the people who irritate you” would prove to be a weak governing philosophy? 000
copperbook.bsky.social @copperbook.bsky.social · 28/09/2026“Free Palestine” can mean Two states, one democratic and the other, we’ll see a more democratic Israel with rights for all A Palestinian state that includes all of Israel, we’ll see what system of government later Right of return for descendants Expulsion of Jews Which does it mean to you? 000
copperbook.bsky.social @copperbook.bsky.social · 28/09/2026We desperately need to regulate AI the way we regulate anything else that dangerous But don’t ban data centers because AI could be dangerous …we don’t ban cash, we prosecute tax evasion 100
copperbook.bsky.social @copperbook.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The anti-data-center moral panic parallels climate change conversations with republican friends (and older liberals) When climate change comes up, they change the subject to recycling the way we change the AI subject to data centers It has to be something we can touch to understand it? 100
copperbook.bsky.social @copperbook.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Some early reports: the online data centers backlash was orchestrated by, or at least amplified by, Chinese bots hoping to catch up with US frontier models. If that turns out to be true, AOC, Hochul, Pritzker, and others may regret jumping on this moral panic. www.axios.com/2026/08/28/c...axios.comChina is secretly fueling America's data center ragePolling shows that the opposition is already widespread. 000
copperbook.bsky.social @copperbook.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Why do we pay for gas in the weirdest, most stressful way? Imagine if your milk price went up, on a screen, in 0.1 cent increments, as you poured it. Or you could see your electric meter readout increasing in real time on a screen in your kitchen. Or your doctors visit, mortgage, childcare … 100
copperbook.bsky.social @copperbook.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I can’t believe that the wheel was invented 5,500 years ago and no one thought to put them on luggage for non-pilots until the 90s 000
copperbook.bsky.social @copperbook.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Dear Forbes wealthiest humans list: You know how much this list means to the people on it Please include charity-given-away as counting toward an individual’s wealth instead of counting against it 000
copperbook.bsky.social @copperbook.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Was the whole press ban story created to derail this close-call-with-China narrative, which was burgeoning and looking like it would dominate the news cycle….then Voldemort changed the subject…did it really work? Again? www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...cnn.comExclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN PoliticsThe episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war 000
copperbook.bsky.social @copperbook.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I feel like the Bo French UT-Austin bigotry story didn’t get as much attention on this platform as I would have expected. Tell me again why the illiberal left defined assimilation and melting pot narratives as either untrue or racist? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/o... 000
copperbook.bsky.social @copperbook.bsky.social · 20/09/20261/ I’m all in on pure science, no short term benefit needed to justify….but manned space exploration is so dangerous and so so expensive Someone please convince me of the scientific justification for manned space exploration? 200
copperbook.bsky.social @copperbook.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Blaming grocery stores (1% profit margins) for high prices is the ultimate “shoot the messenger” populism The left’s equivalent of antivax The problem isn’t that public stores can sell it cheaper and make a profit…it’s that public stores can sell it cheaper without needing to profit. 000
copperbook.bsky.social @copperbook.bsky.social · 19/09/2026It was never a business decision It remains a bribe from Gulf petro monarchies to Trump Orban playbook to silence independent media voices arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...arstechnica.comFCC lets Paramount sell 49.5% equity stake to Saudi Arabia, UAE, and QatarFCC rejects concerns about repressive governments buying influence over CBS owner. 000
copperbook.bsky.social @copperbook.bsky.social · 19/09/2026My God, what have we done? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/w...nytimes.comA Central African Hotel Has Become a Nightmare Prison for U.S. Deportees (Gift Article)Witnesses say men were hooded and beaten in Equatorial Guinea. The autocratic government there is a partner in President Trump’s deportation program. 110
copperbook.bsky.social @copperbook.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I have to assume that Trump announced the CNN, Politico & MSNOW bans because he didn’t want the top story of the news cycle to be that we almost slip-and-falled our way into war with China this spring. It kinda worked 000
copperbook.bsky.social @copperbook.bsky.social · 18/09/2026It turns out that the political philosophy, “I’m the guy that irritates the kind of people that irritate you”…. Doesn’t translate well into a governing philosophy that delivers for that same irritated constituency. Who could have seen that coming? 000
copperbook.bsky.social @copperbook.bsky.social · 17/09/2026What Israel does in the occupied territories is cruel The antisemitism: when portrayed as UNIQUELY cruel Rohingyas murdered in Myanmar for ethnicity “But the US doesn’t give $ to them” The US gives billions per year to Egypt, they imprison relatives of dissidents living abroad Nuance pls 000
copperbook.bsky.social @copperbook.bsky.social · 15/09/2026My colleague, who teaches a large course w political content was terrified of landing on Turning Point’s Professor Watchlist from 2017 on. Any student could report a prof as liberal, then the harassment commenced. Charlie Kirk’s project Never about free speech Created to chill free speech 000
copperbook.bsky.social @copperbook.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I used to think private property rights were overrated …then I read Turns out that they are surprisingly necessary for democracy. Without them, the local magistrate confiscates the citizen’s land 💯 and gives it to his brother-in-law. (And just the threat of that chills all enterprise) 000
copperbook.bsky.social @copperbook.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Appropriation has been the enlightenment gold standard since the 16th C Swedish meatballs, Indian Vindaloo, Japanese tempura….all appropriated. Why are white people opening an Asian restaurant different than South Koreans singing hip hop? Let’s get everyone using everyone’s art to make their own! 000
copperbook.bsky.social @copperbook.bsky.social · 13/09/2026The Illiberal left took up Alex Jones’ Epstein conspiracy; think the problem with Israel is European descent; cheered on Luigi; reflexively reject expertise; forget that JFK and FDR were billionaires; reduce complex issues to colonizer/colonized; and invented a moral panic over data centers. 000
copperbook.bsky.social @copperbook.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Why do so many on Bsky seem to prefer “A free people” to “free people ?” 110
copperbook.bsky.social @copperbook.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I wish football color commentators spoke at a more advanced level. Even if it is over my head, I want someone to explain how offensive linemen know who to block…how often stunts work….how a free safety picks which side to run to. 000
copperbook.bsky.social @copperbook.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Can someone explain why Biden put 100% tariffs on Chinese electric cars and photovoltaics? Ford was the 375th largest US company and GM was 425th. When he said climate change poses an existential threat….does existential mean the same thing to him that it does to me? Why no blowback at the time? 000
copperbook.bsky.social @copperbook.bsky.social · 07/09/2026You don’t want billionaires in public life? Fair enough. But be nuanced enough to recognize the downside risk. No FDR, no John or Edward Kennedy, no JB Pritzker, no Makenzie Scott…no one to bankroll The Atlantic, Open Society Foundation, or ProPublica. 000
copperbook.bsky.social @copperbook.bsky.social · 06/09/2026The verdict has been announced in the case of Dabo Sweeney v. The Transfer Portal www.espn.com/college-foot...espn.comSwinney says Clemson has 'long way to go' after loss to LSUClemson coach Dabo Swinney made no excuses after his team's 51-10 loss to LSU on Saturday, saying simply, "We didn't do football stuff well enough." 000
copperbook.bsky.social @copperbook.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Those of you not-so-secretly rooting for Iran’s government to win the war because you hate Trump … you sure? apple.news/ALauZ7FadQsC...apple.newsBroken feet, ripped-out hair and now a death sentence: the fate of twin sisters jailed over Iran protests — Guardian USTaraneh Rahimi was told prison guards would rape her sister, Romina, if she did not sign a confession 010
copperbook.bsky.social @copperbook.bsky.social · 06/09/2026First I loved BlueSky Then I thought that the defending Luigi thing was off Then borrowing the Epstein obsession from Alex Jones seemed weird. Then the antisemitism seemed unkind Today I came across a thread denouncing utilitarianism in thinking about charitable giving. What is going on? 100
copperbook.bsky.social @copperbook.bsky.social · 03/09/2026A Californian in the 70s used the same amount of electricity per capita as the rest of us Their electricity prices doubled so now they use half what the rest of us use Until renewables win, we can be the party of low electricity prices or the party taking on climate change but we can’t be both 000
copperbook.bsky.social @copperbook.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Anyone else super uncomfortable with the new D talking point that we want lower gas prices? I want no more fossil fuels, I want the price of gas to reflect negative externalities of wars and climate change. 000
copperbook.bsky.social @copperbook.bsky.social · 02/09/2026It’s not really fare to take someone who has to vote yes or no on 10,000 bills, each one hundreds of pages long, with some provisions they support and others they don’t, and criticize a handful of votes for what history proved were bad bills. Unless the vote was to overturn an election. 000
copperbook.bsky.social @copperbook.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Can we get a shoutout for podcasts as a technology? Low barrier to entry No gatekeepers Healthy competition Algorithms don’t feed you too much rage bait Smart people got a bigger microphone No one’s yet made it so you can’t skip through the commercials 000
copperbook.bsky.social @copperbook.bsky.social · 30/08/2026I’d like the press, when talking about something as mathematical as costs, to look at the numbers, and debunk the vibes Not the other way around It’s not food, fuel, or electricity It’s education, housing, childcare, and healthcare that have spiked in the last 50 years 000
copperbook.bsky.social @copperbook.bsky.social · 30/08/2026We pay for gas in a way we don’t pay for anything else….watching that number on the pump climb by the cent to maximize its stress…imagine if we paid for food or housing by having to stare continuously at a number that increased by the penny. 000
copperbook.bsky.social @copperbook.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Inflation-adjusted costs today relative to 1980 Electricity -5% Food -3% Gas -2% Housing +25% Healthcare +90% Childcare +125% College +175% Can we stop talking about electricity, food, and gas prices already—and talk more about housing, healthcare, education, and childcare? 500
copperbook.bsky.social @copperbook.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Chilling www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...theatlantic.comThe Crisis for Democrats in MichiganThe Senate election presents liberals with a grim choice. 000
copperbook.bsky.social @copperbook.bsky.social · 27/08/2026I think Andrews is going to win the SC senate seat over Darlene Graham Lindsey only won by 10 points in 2020 (down from 17, then 15 the previous two elections) Darlene is a historically bad candidate and Democrats will crawl over glass to vote in this midterm Polymarket has Graham 86-14 010
copperbook.bsky.social @copperbook.bsky.social · 26/08/2026All taxing and all government spending is redistributive. The question: which direction will the redistribution move. 100
copperbook.bsky.social @copperbook.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Why does Bsky regularly quote Thomas Massie’s comments on Israel and the Epstein Files as wisdom? Massie also claimed that January 6 was perpetrated by the FBI. 100
copperbook.bsky.social @copperbook.bsky.social · 23/08/2026“Texas, where Mr. Trump’s primary endorsement of the state’s attorney general, Ken Paxton, over Senator John Cornyn, put that seat in play.” No Trump saw that Paxton was going to win already and endorsed him. That’s why he waited so long to endorse. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/u...nytimes.comThe Midterms Feel Like 2006 All Over AgainWith an unpopular war and high prices agitating voters, members of both parties see parallels to an election cycle when Democrats romped. But a lot has changed. 000
copperbook.bsky.social @copperbook.bsky.social · 22/08/2026The best discussion of AI I’ve yet heard. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...podcasts.apple.comat home in my headSociety & Culture Podcast · Updated Monthly · experience & meaning 000
copperbook.bsky.social @copperbook.bsky.social · 21/08/2026“It doesn’t matter if data centers are not worse than the average factory, people BELIEVE they are so we need to address the popular will” “It doesn’t matter if the 2020 election was fraudulent, people BELIEVE it was so we need to address the popular will” Horseshoe 000
copperbook.bsky.social @copperbook.bsky.social · 21/08/2026“Yes, the government imprisons thise who have committed no crime, but that’s okay because no outside group is in leadership. It’s just the way THEY do things there and Western ideas needn’t apply.” If that’s your position, you’ve been lucky enough to never live under tyranny. You’re a monster. 000
copperbook.bsky.social @copperbook.bsky.social · 19/08/2026What are the odds that AI will lead to a cure that wouldn’t have been possible without AI And that cure saves a loved one’s life sometime in the future? I’m looking for a best guess percentage 000