Reposted by Carolyn SissokoYael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 13hI am in Cap Haitien interviewing people deported from the United States. I have been doing this kind of work for almost a decade and it literally does not get more dire than this. People have lost everything they built in the U.S. and are terrified and have no place to go or way to live. 181435678
Reposted by Carolyn SissokoCollins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 14hHoly smokes. What on earth is going on here? This is not fact-checking! At best it's poorly-informed nonsense but it feels very much like calculated misinformation. #MEpolitics 1519830
Reposted by Carolyn Sissokoe.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 14hgood morning, today is October 9 and Alex Gibney's documentary film "MUSK" is now playing at select theaters in New York and Los Angeles it's happening! 171051191
Reposted by Carolyn SissokoDan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 13hGet that digital euro up and running internationally lads 513333
Reposted by Carolyn SissokoSimon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 23hInteresting that they’ve learned that people will react positively to socialism if it is defined correctly so they’ve had to stop doing that. 631150
Reposted by Carolyn SissokoKhashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Of course the Trump Savings Accounts for kids turns out to be scam. In effect, "our president is helping rich donors offload overvalued stocks onto children, who are forced to hold the stocks for five years whether they want to or not." www.rawstory.com/trump-accoun...rawstory.comTrump rigs kids’ piggy banks so billionaires can dump falling stock on them: analystA quiet change to President Donald Trump's namesake savings program for children amounts to a gift for billionaires, according to an economic analyst.In an article for The Bulwark on Thursday, economi... 851822885
Reposted by Carolyn Sissoko🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 18hI ask again, why are national Dems letting Elon "quietly" fund these races? We have two test cases. 2024 when Dems didn't make his money an issue. And 2025 Wisconsin, where they did. Guess which time they won by double digits?wired.comElon Musk’s America PAC Is Quietly Funding November’s Most Consequential ElectionsAmerica PAC’s approach has been unusual: for every dollar it has spent supporting GOP Senate candidates, it has spent almost three dollars attacking Democrats. 442128712
Reposted by Carolyn SissokoIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 18hThis is a really serious piece of investigative work. Thank god someone is doing it. 9326127
Reposted by Carolyn SissokoEric Levai @ericlevai.bsky.social · 23hNow THIS is how you write a story. Devastating. 16664401900
Reposted by Carolyn SissokoThe Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 20hNo, competitive tendering and transparency in the award of public contracts would do. 19641144
Reposted by Carolyn SissokoMurshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Absolutely wild. Why did ABC 404 this story? 610254
Reposted by Carolyn SissokoMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 09/10/2026This would sink a presidency in any other era. I would bet most Americans will never hear it even happened.wapo.stTrump bought over $1 million in SpaceX debt days before unveiling space policyThe purchase, revealed in his latest financial disclosure, involved a firm directly affected by his administration’s actions — and led by presidential ally Elon Musk. 6236641338
Reposted by Carolyn SissokoElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026When I started writing about Supreme Court expansion, you couldn’t get the question *asked* in a poll. The first time I saw it actually polled, it was 8%. Now, we here. 462801683
Reposted by Carolyn SissokoTrevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026The victory over Reconstruction was not confined to one state. By the last decade of the 19th century it was complete. The violence was targeted, and the terrorists won. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...cambridge.orgWhitelashing: Black Politicians, Taxes, and Violence | The Journal of Economic History | Cambridge CoreWhitelashing: Black Politicians, Taxes, and Violence - Volume 83 Issue 2 04116
Reposted by Carolyn SissokoAsawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 08/10/2026This is petty and least important aspect of this but: I reported on this years ago and the trump campaign falsely denied the reporting, and now via Hegseth they’re just doing it. Monstrous 261568431
Reposted by Carolyn Sissokostacy-marie ishmael @smi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026“Lynchings were frequently committed with the most flagrant public display” www.pbs.org/wgbh/america...pbs.org 0117
Reposted by Carolyn SissokoChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I've been immersed in research on Reconstruction in Lousiana and it's a very difficult truth to absorb that the white terrorist movement in the South was among the most successful terrorist movements in global history. Took 10 years but it won a total & complete victory through murder and atrocity. 16659551448
Reposted by Carolyn SissokoJohn Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Minnesota is beautiful. All the people here are beautiful. You should come visit. In the end, we will win because of course we will. We will outlast whatever this is because way more people everywhere are good. 345655
Reposted by Carolyn SissokoWIRED @wired.com · 07/10/2026These findings raise questions about whether NDS, like DOGE, is skirting rules and regulations to bring its chosen staff into government and is functioning as an arm of the tech industry as much as a government initiative. Read the full story: www.wired.com/story/myster...wired.comA Mysterious Nonprofit Run by SpaceXAI’s Top Lawyer Is Paying the Salaries of Government WorkersThe National Design Studio has been something of a successor agency to DOGE. A WIRED investigation finds some of its members are on loan from a nonprofit run by SpaceXAI’s general counsel. 18332
Reposted by Carolyn SissokoCAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Decades of disinvestment and austerity is actually a significant reason why stuff is so expensive! We don't invest in in-house staff, fund projects piecemeal, and do everything as a one-off, so everything costs more. 210115
Reposted by Carolyn SissokoMark Histed @markhisted.org · 08/10/2026“This kind of fake-public company should not exist. Every public share should be valued the same. Dual-class shares should be banned outright… The reason founders like Zuckerberg set up a dual-class structure is that they want all the benefits of being publicly traded with none of the drawbacks…” 18025
Reposted by Carolyn SissokoWill Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The Hague is far too good for Stephen Miller 501434445
Reposted by Carolyn SissokoJW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Here is a question for Jason and other believers in crowding out: If the AI bubble bursts and data center investment collapses, do you think that construction spending in other sectors will go up or down? I think it will go down. 2406
Reposted by Carolyn SissokoGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 08/10/2026BREAKING: A Trump-appointed judge has ruled DHS violated the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment when it removed Ahmed Soliman to Equatorial Guinea and must facilitate his return to the US. prospect.org/2026/10/07/f...prospect.orgFederal Judge Rules DHS Must Bring Back Gay Arizona Man Imprisoned in Africa - The American ProspectA Trump-apppointed judge ordered Ahmed Soliman must be returned to the United States. 233479993
Reposted by Carolyn SissokoAnna Stansbury @annastansbury.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Paul's really careful empirical work is a very important contribution to this discussion: it shows the huge unintended consequences when an intervention designed to improve safety fails to consider the broader set of pressures and incentives workers are under. 111
Reposted by Carolyn SissokoHetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Noooo Almost two-thirds of the population of chinstrap penguins have disappeared from a remote volcanic island near Antarctica, aerial surveys suggest. The research team say climate change is affecting the birds' food supply and survival www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukWorld's largest penguin colony hit by climate-driven declineClimate change is blamed for dramatic decline of chinstrap penguins living on a remote volcanic island. 12615
Reposted by Carolyn SissokoJames M. Thomas (JT) @insurgentprof.bsky.social · 07/10/2026This is a death blow to social scientific research in the US 01410
Reposted by Carolyn Sissokopublic health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026oh my GODphoenixnewtimes.comCongressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signsEmbarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing. 671796518
Reposted by Carolyn SissokoAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 07/10/2026The court is basically saying that knowledge of the victim being trans is potentially exculpatory for a self defense legal claim. This is explicitly greenlighting the panic defense and saying a victims trans status might excuse a murder. 16574119
Reposted by Carolyn SissokoAnn Monster Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026this is great papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... 33611
Reposted by Carolyn SissokoJonathan Tannenwald @jtannenwald.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Could not be prouder of my union. 726730
Reposted by Carolyn SissokoRoger Sollenberger @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026DOJ hired these prosecutors: -A gambling exec turned conspiracy theorist podcaster -A guy found liable for selling fraudulent insurance leads -A guy who violated attorney-client privilege in a high-profile murder trial -A guy currently facing animal neglect charges www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/u...nytimes.comJustice Dept. Turns to Partisans and Conspiracists to Fill Depleted RanksThe civil rights unit has recruited people whose questionable work histories and dearth of education and experience might have disqualified them in the past, former officials said. 471192500
Reposted by Carolyn SissokoBenjamin Braun @benbraun.social · 07/10/2026Serious fiscal state capacity is when it’s shock and awe among offshore wealth holders. (“They” are the Communist Party.) 13110
Reposted by Carolyn SissokoNPR @npr.org · 07/10/2026Researchers uncovered the graves of more than 1,000 children next to juvenile detention facilities in 29 states. At one Maryland gravesite, 230 Black boys are buried. n.pr/4zauALan.prOver 1,000 children are buried at juvenile detention centers nationwideResearchers uncovered the graves of more than 1,000 children next to juvenile detention facilities in 29 states. At one Maryland gravesite, 230 Black boys are buried. 6519931198
Reposted by Carolyn Sissokomtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 07/10/2026imagine if the mainstream media covered Republicans' number one donor — the biggest political donor in US history! — and his controversial views with as much scrutiny as they covered Hasan Piker's 312298600
Reposted by Carolyn SissokoSteve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 07/10/2026“When Rosa Luxemburg asked ‘socialism or barbarism?’ she was posing too stark a choice. Ours is between mild reform and barbarism. And it’s not clear which our ruling class will choose.” @chrisdillow.bsky.social 072
Reposted by Carolyn SissokoErica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The mayor of Saint-Denis, Bally Bagayoko, literally used himself as a human shield to protect students from police violence 5556591749
Reposted by Carolyn SissokoChris Dillow @chrisdillow.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Tories on Tuesday: "we'll spend £10bn on a missile system we don't understand". Tories on Wednesday "we'll cut taxes!" These are not serious people. 311537
Reposted by Carolyn SissokoUnicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 07/10/2026“No warrants are shown, as far as we can tell there’s no legal ground for them to come onto private property. It seems like they’re pushing through the construction process quickly and will deal with the law later,” said Rachel, a land defender who spoke with UR about the raids. 3249149
Reposted by Carolyn SissokoJohn Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 07/10/2026This is great work from Will, breaking down the evidence on the impacts of rent control according to the finer details of the policy 👇 5448
Reposted by Carolyn SissokoChris 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. 23446772142
Reposted by Carolyn SissokoDiane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Yes! Excellent post. Standards aren’t regulation or red tape. Europe’s success with the GSM standard (while the US allowed standards competition) helps explain success in mobile tech. 0638
Reposted by Carolyn SissokoDiane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social · 07/10/2026An interesting thread on AI and maths proofs 0274
Reposted by Carolyn SissokoDan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026ABC lawyer says Trump administration threats are working, and that editorial decisions “are being affected right now” in coverage of the midterm elections “that the American public has a right to hear about.” Kudos for transparency, but fuck you for obeying in advance. deadline.com/2026/10/abc-...deadline.comABC To Judge In FCC Lawsuit: Trump's Regulatory Threats Chill SpeechAt a hearing for ABC's First Amendment lawsuit against the FCC, the network's attorney said "we are watching everything we do" in spat with agency. 1121978
Reposted by Carolyn Sissokojosh mckenzie @amonns.bsky.social · 06/10/2026you may have noticed that animation has never been more in-demand & in the zeitgeist and yet, seemingly, never have media conglomerates been less willing to produce it. you may also notice these guys get multimillion dollar severance packages after they gut a studio. there is probably no connection 2030201090
Reposted by Carolyn SissokoRebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Economists may correct me, but I think this is what’s called a monopoly. #BustTheTrusts 2297
Reposted by Carolyn SissokoCongresswoman Lori Trahan @trahan.house.gov · 06/10/2026We will hold this administration accountable for ALL of their crimes. 0157
Reposted by Carolyn SissokoDave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I'm just gonna bookmark this for future reference when Dem pundits complain about how the party has trouble communicating its message to voters. The reason you keep running into trouble with your branding isn't campus radicals. The reason is that your opponents purchased all the media outlets. 7939021133
Reposted by Carolyn SissokoMark 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. 2335108