Reposted by Tom Cross 🇨🇦🇺🇸Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"Trump [may] belong [to] the era of Marius and Sulla, the men who brought force and corruption into Roman politics on a scale nobody had yet seen...If America ends up an autocracy, Trump will not be its culmination but something closer to its forerunner." open.substack.com/pub/theunpop...open.substack.comAmerica Can Pull Back From the Slippery Slope to RomeThe decline of the rule of law and our republic is not inevitable 916345
Reposted by Tom Cross 🇨🇦🇺🇸Jaz @jaz.sh · 27/09/2026Okay so I've built a new Atlas, this time it lets you explore the conversations on Bluesky over the past 7 days graphically. It should update every ~6 hours and help you navigate the information environment that exists on here. I've learned a LOT about what people do here today... atlas.jazco.devatlas.jazco.devAtlasA living map of what Bluesky is talking about: the past week's conversations, grouped into topics and regions and rebuilt every six hours. 1161397413
Tom Cross 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @decius.bsky.social · 27/09/2026What happened this weekend is the Trump Administration attempted to tack to a more moderate position on ICE enforcement because they’re losing the midterms, and they had to reverse course because of pushback from the agents themselves. They don’t have control over the thing they’ve set in motion. 010
Reposted by Tom Cross 🇨🇦🇺🇸Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 27/09/2026My quote of the day How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. Anne Frank 117640
Tom Cross 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @decius.bsky.social · 26/09/2026This is extremely weird. America has 99 problems but a House of Lords ain’t one of them. 000
Reposted by Tom Cross 🇨🇦🇺🇸Netzschleuder @netzschleuder.skewed.de · 26/09/2026highschool: Illinois high school students (1958). A network of friendships among male students in a small high school in Illinois from 1958. 70 nodes, 366 edges. networks.skewed.de/net/highschool Ridiculogram: 001
Reposted by Tom Cross 🇨🇦🇺🇸Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ringen.wikipedia.orgIron Ring - Wikipedia 2073412287
Tom Cross 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @decius.bsky.social · 24/09/2026“When we asked about the prospect of riots if Trump tries to overturn the election results, Ticktin said he was not concerned. “Believe me, our armed forces are a lot bigger than they are,” he said.” 020
Reposted by Tom Cross 🇨🇦🇺🇸Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is where the next big shoe drops www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/w... 1188
Reposted by Tom Cross 🇨🇦🇺🇸Rachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social · 23/09/2026chat is this good www.axios.com/newsletters/... 41818220
Reposted by Tom Cross 🇨🇦🇺🇸ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵 410113476033
Tom Cross 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @decius.bsky.social · 22/09/2026A string of losses at SCOTUS has liberals talking about ending judicial review. Advocacy for these solutions makes them sound ideal because you aren't presented with a complete picture of the consequences. 000
Tom Cross 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @decius.bsky.social · 21/09/2026There is going to be this flood of people who are furious about Citizens United who will show up "on here" gushing about this Elon Musk documentary. The left certainly has its intellectual blindspots, and they deserve to be called out when they are this obvious. 000
Reposted by Tom Cross 🇨🇦🇺🇸Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Also, censorship in the name of “national security” is the first refuge of scoundrels. 0283
Reposted by Tom Cross 🇨🇦🇺🇸Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 20/09/2026From the official Dept of Education account on X, an endorsement of Bo French's racist tweet about Indian students at a University of Texas football game. Just awful. 46974250
Reposted by Tom Cross 🇨🇦🇺🇸Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Within Lake Ontario, according to First Nations mythology, a great serpent lives under the waters. Known as Gá:šöje:ta’ (Gaasyendietha), the serpent is said to have arrived on Earth in a meteor. This is the story of the Meteor Dragon. 📸 NASA 🧵 1/6 4284111
Tom Cross 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @decius.bsky.social · 19/09/2026The future will look different than the past. No one ... no one seems to want to accept that and move on to imagining it. 000
Reposted by Tom Cross 🇨🇦🇺🇸Orin Kerr @orinkerr.bsky.social · 17/09/20262d Circuit holds that no warrant and no suspicion is needed to search a citizen's cell phone at the border. According to the court, per Judge Menashi, the border search exception authorizes searches to find criminals crossing the border, and Riley does not apply. ww3.ca2.uscourts.gov/decisions/OP... 112116
Reposted by Tom Cross 🇨🇦🇺🇸Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I think there is a good chance that if Democrats sweep Congress one of the first things they'll do is try to pass an Australia-style social media ban for under 16s. We need to start organizing against this right now. Ron Wyden can't be the only Senator who will understand this is terrible. 823689
Reposted by Tom Cross 🇨🇦🇺🇸Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 16/09/2026As part of his broader push to make Canada less dependent on U.S. infrastructure & attract large-scale investment, today Mark Carney announced Ottawa support for a nationwide "sovereign internet" or a "sovereign broadband backbone." But what exactly does he mean by a sovereign internet? 43618
Reposted by Tom Cross 🇨🇦🇺🇸Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 16/09/2026One reason behind this push for digital independence is the fact that Canadian-to-Canadian Internet traffic doesn't necessarily stay entirely inside Canada. Research cited in reporting by the Globe & Mail found that roughly 1/4 of the studied Canadian data journeys passed through U.S. interchanges. 1179
Reposted by Tom Cross 🇨🇦🇺🇸Patrick C Miller @patrickcmiller.bsky.social · 17/09/2026You don’t have to join the hack-back program to inherit its risk www.csoonline.com/article/4222...csoonline.comYou don’t have to join the hack-back program to inherit its riskWashington's new private offensive cyber program gives vetted vendors an untested criminal shield while leaving substantial residual risk in private hands. Underwrite that exposure before the… 011
Tom Cross 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @decius.bsky.social · 17/09/2026There's a warnin' sign on the road ahead There's a lot of people sayin' we'd be better off dead Don't feel like Satan, but I am to them So I try to forget it any way I can 000
Reposted by Tom Cross 🇨🇦🇺🇸Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I sent this to Cato as my statement on this evening’s Supreme Court decision rejecting Trump’s mail voting rule. 618033
Reposted by Tom Cross 🇨🇦🇺🇸Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026NEW: DHS's Inspector General releases a scathing report about the Everglades detention camp known as "Alligator Alcatraz." The OIG finds that the now-closed camp, violated multiple ICE standards. The OIG also confirms detainees were punished with placement in a metal cage in the Florida heat.🧵 69286014169
Reposted by Tom Cross 🇨🇦🇺🇸Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 15/09/2026BREAKING: SCOTUS denies the Trump administration’s request to enforce the new U.S. Postal Service rule for the 2026 elections. Justices Alito and Thomas dissent. More to come at Law Dork. www.lawdork.com 532656753
Reposted by Tom Cross 🇨🇦🇺🇸Daily Harbinger @dailyharbinger.bsky.social · 14/09/2026My theory is that they want the government to be the scapegoat here. My suspicion is that it all boils down to the money spent training frontier models. There are likely diminishing returns. stopping out of the blue would cause more alarm than “the government said stop” 211013
Reposted by Tom Cross 🇨🇦🇺🇸Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 13/09/2026A Cloudflare co-founder launched the company due to OPT. This crushing fee probably means Zatlyn starts Cloudflare or another company elsewhere. Add in all the int’l PhD grads who stay for postdocs, often on OPT. Lots of US Nobel Prizes come that way. This is a stupid and destructive policy 620163
Reposted by Tom Cross 🇨🇦🇺🇸Jay Nordlinger @jaynordlinger.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Hong Kong is off the front pages. The city is now an "ordinary" Chinese city -- unfree, totalitarian. But remember its political prisoners, including Jimmy Lai and Joshua Wong. I have written a piece on the latter. He turns 30 next month. A great man. www.thenextmove.org/p/remember-h...thenextmove.orgRemember Hong KongAnd remember Joshua Wong: political prisoner, democracy champion, braveheart. 03920
Reposted by Tom Cross 🇨🇦🇺🇸Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 10/09/2026My take is that having a Muslim immigrant preside over ceremonies commemorating 9/11 in New York City is one of the beautiful things about America. 212169254
Reposted by Tom Cross 🇨🇦🇺🇸ABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au · 10/09/2026Stunning feather discovered in fossilised dinosaur poo is first of its kindabc.net.auFeather discovered in fossilised dinosaur poo is first of its kindA well-preserved feather discovered inside fossilised dinosaur faeces could help explain why ancestors of modern birds survived the mass extinction. 1910236
Reposted by Tom Cross 🇨🇦🇺🇸Steven Lemongello @stevelemongello.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Calm down, everybody 2155
Reposted by Tom Cross 🇨🇦🇺🇸Kim Lane Scheppele @kimlanelaw.bsky.social · 07/09/2026For those following the panic about the German election - in which an overtly neo-Nazi party declared an extremist group by Germany's intelligence service won big in an election in one of Germany's 16 federal states . . . here are some reasons not to panic: 35821245
Reposted by Tom Cross 🇨🇦🇺🇸Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026"New Mexico officials are talking to FedEx and UPS about using their companies to deliver mail ballots instead of the Postal Service, said Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver (D). The cost would be manageable because the state sends out a relatively small number of mail-in ballots, she said."washingtonpost.comTrump appeals to Supreme Court as time runs out on push to restrict mail votingWith November midterms approaching, two swing states are sending ballots, and other states plan to send theirs soon. 33717
Tom Cross 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @decius.bsky.social · 06/09/2026I show the ad on the left in one of the classes I teach at @defcon.bsky.social. Students often haven’t seen it, and aren’t aware of the countercultural ethos underpinning the early personal computer movement or the way that Apple in particular once marketed itself to people who “think different.” 352
Reposted by Tom Cross 🇨🇦🇺🇸Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe.techdirt.comHackers Had A Live Feed Of Every ID This Verification Company Scanned. For Over A Year.From the very beginning of this recent obsession with identifying everyone online (yes, they like to call it "age" verification, but it always ends up as identity verification), we've been pointing out that it was a huge privacy nightmare waiting to happen. Or maybe it wasn't waiting. Maybe it was already happening. This week a... 80148257732
Reposted by Tom Cross 🇨🇦🇺🇸cee @cee.wtf · 04/09/2026throng.cee.wtf i've invented a new way to browse bluesky 35482021905
Reposted by Tom Cross 🇨🇦🇺🇸Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Signs that you might be living in an authoritarian state 283159994
Reposted by Tom Cross 🇨🇦🇺🇸Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Past events exist, after all, only in memory, which is a form of imagination. The event is real now, but once it’s then, its continuing reality is entirely up to us, dependent on our energy and honesty. 13716
Reposted by Tom Cross 🇨🇦🇺🇸TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 02/09/2026MapQuest is now the No. 1 U.S. app after bucking Trump’s ‘Lake America’ renamingtechcrunch.comMapQuest is now the No. 1 U.S. app after bucking Trump’s ‘Lake America’ renamingThe once-dominant mapping app has surged to the top of Apple’s U.S. App Store after refusing to adopt Trump’s “Lake America” name, drawing more than half of its 2026 U.S. downloads in just six days. 852650665
Reposted by Tom Cross 🇨🇦🇺🇸MapQuest @mapquest.com · 01/09/2026Them too.static.klipy.comSnow White: The Poisoned AppleALT: Snow White: The Poisoned Apple 43874198
![SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
No. 26A305
UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE, ET AL. U.
CALIFORNIA, ET AL.
ON APPLICATION FOR STAY
[September 14, 2026]
The application for stay presented to JUSTICE JACKSON and by her referred to the Court is denied. The Government is unlikely to succeed on the merits of its challenge to the District Court's preliminary injunction. And the equitable factors applicable for obtaining emergency relief from this Court do not favor a stay.
JUSTICE KAVANAUGH, concurring.
In my view, based on the briefing the Court has received at this interim stage, there is at least a fair prospect that the final rule falls within the Postal Service's statutory authority. See 39 U. S. C. §401(2). But applying the rule in the 2026 elections would be arbitrary and capricious in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act because state and local election officials do not have sufficient time to reasonably implement the rule before the elections. See 39
U. S. C. §3001(m); 5 U. S. C. §706(2)(A). For that reason, I concur in the denial of the application for stay.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreicqn5lewxb2bkaazujt77bmsjfq4ultwu2alo3emhvgsnpkotnwoy)
