Mark Sumner 🌒 @devilstower.bsky.social · 7hAs a longtime Missouri resident, I can assure you that Eric Schmitt doesn’t need anyone’s help to look like an idiot. 0231
Mark Sumner 🌒 @devilstower.bsky.social · 7hI’m getting so much stronger in my old age. Just carried in $161 of groceries in a single trip. 1384
Reposted by Mark Sumner 🌒Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 9hThe funniest thing about the Schmitt rake stomp is that if it'd been a Dem we'd have a week of think pieces about how Dems lack of hoops literacy was alienating them from real America. 372311353
Reposted by Mark Sumner 🌒Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 12hAmerica.gov launched today--a DOGE initiative to use AI to deliver public services. Child lying facedown on a frozen lake as the image accompanying the question: "How can I invest in my child's future" is just incredible. Way to go AI 922386634
Reposted by Mark Sumner 🌒ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 17hPathetic Weak Sauce 😡 39099673839
Reposted by Mark Sumner 🌒Anonymous @opsnowcrash.bsky.social · 19hMeta’s ad ban on progressive Lula shows US #tech #billionaires aren't just aiding far-right figures—they ARE the transnational #oligarchy seizing power across borders. Big Tech, Donald #Trump, and jailed Jair Bolsonaro’s son Flávio operate as one global network targeting democracies. #Zuckerberg 54543
Reposted by Mark Sumner 🌒Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026IMPORTANT: There are 15 states that require in-person registration 28–30 days before an election, meaning this maybe your last week to register. Check your registration at Vote.gov.vote.govRegister to vote in your state | Vote.govFind the information you need to make registration and voting easy. Official voter registration website of the United States government. 10132432584
Reposted by Mark Sumner 🌒Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 27/09/2026These people have no idea what’s happening in America right now. And, they don’t care. White House Deputy Chief of Staff post last night ⬇️ 28930651090
Reposted by Mark Sumner 🌒Paul Voosen @voosen.me · 28/09/2026New Horizons is now *three days away* from shutting off its two heliophysics instruments, simply because NASA has not provided the $2M in funding it had promised to the mission last year or this year. There is no science basis for shutting these off. Our earlier coverage:science.orgNASA’s New Horizons mission may shut down two instruments over lack of fundingDecision risks “incalculable loss” of data from the edge of the Sun’s influence, scientists say 15643389
Mark Sumner 🌒 @devilstower.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Very well stated reminder from Astrid at @oddpride.comyoutu.beyou don't believe in rights, you believe in privileges #philosophy #abolitionYouTube video by Astrid Lundberg 170
Mark Sumner 🌒 @devilstower.bsky.social · 28/09/2026How different would things look if AI was entirely a scheme to extract the last drops of capital from a failing system while covering up how quickly everything was falling apart? 0141
Reposted by Mark Sumner 🌒Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026US social media companies are interfering in the Brazilian elections in favour of the Far Right’s Flávio Bolsonaro. Meta is the latest. It’s just blocked the campaign account of President Lula in the final stretch of the election.elespectador.comMeta restringe la cuenta de Lula y su partido alerta por posible injerencia extranjeraDe cara a las elecciones en Brasil, Lula enfrenta a Meta por restringir su cuenta mientras su partido alerta por posible injerencia extranjera. 421001639
Mark Sumner 🌒 @devilstower.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Experiencing an ocular migraine for the second time in recent weeks. This one appears like an arc of very bright red and blue triangles connected by glowing lines. Fortunately, no other symptoms, but it did take a scary long time to spread out so I could see well enough to read. 2250
Reposted by Mark Sumner 🌒Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Maybe if you don’t make your former golf caddie the Deputy White House Chief of Staff then he wouldn’t be in a position to do dumb shit that can hurt your entire party right before the midterms. But hey, Caligula made his horse a senator. 602332426
Reposted by Mark Sumner 🌒Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The empathetic folks at Mar-a-Lago react to hearing you lost your healthcare, your child has measles, and you can't afford to gas up your truck: 28362131823
Reposted by Mark Sumner 🌒Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/09/2026Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWaycnyti.msDid Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work. 892105854
Reposted by Mark Sumner 🌒DaughterOfDefiance @z-buck.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I really, really hate this timeline... Also, why the hell was this NOT reported on when it happened (Mar 2026)??? 500120814527
Mark Sumner 🌒 @devilstower.bsky.social · 27/09/2026This is an image from Ann Wagner’s congressional ad. Dem candidate Fred Wellman is a West Point graduate and Desert Storm veteran who lost his wife in a car accident when she was 7 months pregnant. Wagner displays pictures of Wellman laughing over claims he “wants boys in girl’s sports.” And this— 2156
Reposted by Mark Sumner 🌒Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 26/09/2026chat is this good? 11442811082
Reposted by Mark Sumner 🌒𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 27/09/2026The affordability crisis looks very different from their table. 45462201946
Mark Sumner 🌒 @devilstower.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The “Love Me” commercial ran this morning during CBS Sunday Morning. How much are we spending on this national tongue bath? 0141
Reposted by Mark Sumner 🌒Tony @tiletony.bsky.social · 27/09/2026It was a crime the first time he made the offer, and it's still a crime tonight. 25340021024
Mark Sumner 🌒 @devilstower.bsky.social · 27/09/2026You’d get a lot more support of Medicare For All from people already on Medicare if the plan didn’t require them to read a 131-page book every fall detailing thousands of small, unintelligible rule changes to make literally life or death decisions while never knowing if they made the right choices.… 3384
Reposted by Mark Sumner 🌒The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026CARTOON OF THE DAY… 407126725403
Reposted by Mark Sumner 🌒Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Timothy Mellon, heir to Gilded Age tycoon Andrew Mellon's fortune, gave nearly $200M to elect Trump and Republicans in 2024 and over $20M so far this midterm cycle. Tax dynastic wealth now. 531700638
Reposted by Mark Sumner 🌒Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/09/2026This is actually hell, right? 200667082293
Reposted by Mark Sumner 🌒Hunter @hunterub.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Killing the for-profit health insurance industry would immediately improve American life, and is probably the single biggest improvement to Americans' lives govt could provide. It devolved into 'scam' 20 years ago; now it's a nest of scams within scams. 113136
Reposted by Mark Sumner 🌒Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Is this living forever, or is it just making the living you're doing seem like forever? 3112914
Reposted by Mark Sumner 🌒Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Another fight over who controls the nation’s purse strings. The White House announced that it plans to cancel $810 million in spending already approved by Congress, using a rarely used maneuver known as a “pocket rescission.” 28638381648
Reposted by Mark Sumner 🌒Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I think something to consider here is that Collins voted to confirm Russ Vought as OMB Director despite the fact that he said a billion times that he thought Trump had a constitutional right to illegally impound funds, and now she’s doing shocked Pikachu reactions. 11738521016
Reposted by Mark Sumner 🌒Arbaz Kakkar5 @arbazkakkar5.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Did you know that the United States officially withdrew from the Human Rights Council last Friday. The day after a UN group accused the Administration of multiple war crimes in Iran. Seems like something shithole countries do. 551399663
Mark Sumner 🌒 @devilstower.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Dang it. I forgot to wish everyone a Happy Devil’s Tower Day yesterday. On Sep 24, 1906, Teddy Roosevelt declared the first National Monument. 0223
Reposted by Mark Sumner 🌒vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 21/09/2026One of the problems with the AI industry being run by apocalyptic millenarian cultists isn’t that their end of the world scenarios are made up; it’s that like other similar millennialists, they think their desired end of the world is a utopia and they’ll do whatever they can to make it real. 5361105
Reposted by Mark Sumner 🌒Pema Levy @pemalevy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026In destroying the Voting Rights Act and gutting the 14th and 15th amendments, the Roberts court is recycling legal arguments once advanced by Confederates and white supremacists to destroy Reconstruction. From me and @ariberman.bsky.socialmotherjones.comJim Crow was on the ash heap of history. Then came the Roberts court.The disaster the justices have unleashed has its roots in one of the darkest periods of our past. 14803351
Reposted by Mark Sumner 🌒Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o... 58754651494
Reposted by Mark Sumner 🌒Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong. 21188013840
Reposted by Mark Sumner 🌒Claire Zagorski, PhD, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I hate it so much. This can happen to you too. A year ago, almost everyone doubted this would happen. I had faculty at other schools telling me I was hysterical. (Irony!) Watch for the installation of right wing figureheads without an academic background. Watch for assaults on faculty governance. 19721286
Reposted by Mark Sumner 🌒AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.apnews.comhttps://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d 5542221615
Reposted by Mark Sumner 🌒Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 24/09/2026There are two dieticians on local TV news right now talking about how you can buy potatoes and some cheap cuts of meat to really stretch your dollar and I feel like this is more devastating than any anti-Trump ad currently running. 43692116
Reposted by Mark Sumner 🌒🌊 Matt Gaetz’ Burner Account 🌊 @krisbouncedx.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Look at all the Texans that showed up AGAINST Ken Paxton! 😂😂 24275911816
Reposted by Mark Sumner 🌒Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/09/2026Zelenskyy: "For first time in Russia’s history, we now hear that its oil industry is running on fumes. Our target is Russia’s ability to finance this war, to drag it out, to make it more brutal & destructive. Russia’s finances & Russia’s production are what must be stopped if Putin is to be stopped” 511217305421
Reposted by Mark Sumner 🌒Kurt Weldon @kurtweldon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026"Apart from that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was The Art Of The Deal?" 032
Mark Sumner 🌒 @devilstower.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Somehow this seems an appropriate memorial to how Trump has put a bullet through the nation’s head.ms.nowTrump aides explore attaching president’s name to Ford’s TheatreThe playhouse where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated has been mentioned among federal properties that could carry the president’s name, people familiar with the effort told MS NOW. 10418
Reposted by Mark Sumner 🌒The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23/09/2026TALARICO: “The richest 1% now owns more wealth than the entire middle class. 3 dudes (Musk, Zuckerberg, Bezos) now own more wealth than 165 million Americans combined… they aren’t just buying yachts and jets anymore. They’re now buying power.” 🇺🇸 (From @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social ) 12347101804
Mark Sumner 🌒 @devilstower.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Donald Trump is Safety Inspector Dredd. “I am the code!”washingtonpost.com‘I am the code’: Trump clashed with ballroom architect over safety issuesJames McCrery II resigned in October after warning that the president was insisting on designs that violated fire and safety codes. 0133