Reposted by Here'sEmmaBrodyKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 23/09/2026Haven't seen a better AI explainer than this one (even if it somewhat overstates the AI safety stuff) www.instagram.com/reel/Ddlt1kR... 8240118
Reposted by Here'sEmmaBrodyBenjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 08/09/2026SPECIAL REPORT Last month, Alpha School invited people to follow student social media accounts "if curious about life in our high schools." I accepted their offer. What I've found shocks me. Forget the AI and ask instead: Is Alpha Schools a cult? Follow along for a summary of my findings.buildcognitiveresonance.substack.comSPECIAL REPORT: My So-Called Alpha SchoolWhat is it like to be a student in Alpha School’s high school boot camp? 481006385
Reposted by Here'sEmmaBrodyBrendan Ballou @brendanballou.bsky.social · 26/07/2026If you’re interested in our legal strategy for suing Paramount over its allegedly corrupt acquisition of Warner Bros., I recommend this interview with @legalafmtn.bsky.social 02410
Reposted by Here'sEmmaBrodyJonathan O'Callaghan @astrojonny.bsky.social · 25/02/2026SpaceX's 1 million AI satellites could cause "massive ozone depletion" and change the night sky forever - but the FCC has no requirement to check before approving them. Astronomers are now scrambling to submit their concerns. Story by me in New Scientist www.newscientist.com/article/2516...newscientist.comSpaceX's 1 million satellites could avoid environmental checksThe environmental impact of SpaceX's planned gargantuan mega-constellation is still being grappled with, but the FCC isn’t required to study it 11208158
Here'sEmmaBrody @emmabrody.bsky.social · 20/02/2026And now that his criminal empire has stolen our Department of Justice...... 000
Reposted by Here'sEmmaBrodyChris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 19/02/2026They saw France bust down the doors of X for being pedophiles and immediately started developing the national sex crime VPN. 1041851173
Reposted by Here'sEmmaBrodyBrendan Ballou @brendanballou.bsky.social · 05/02/2026Here's my conversation on MS NOW. Local politicians need to identify now the state laws that prohibit military and militia forces at polling places, and make clear that ICE agents will be prosecuted if they attempt to illegally commandeer voting locations. www.ms.now/the-weeknigh...ms.now'Appalling': Fulton County sues for return of 2020 ballots seized in FBI raidThe Supreme Court rejected a Republican effort to block California’s new congressional map as the fight over election control intensifies ahead of the midterms. In Georgia, Fulton County is demanding ... 053
Reposted by Here'sEmmaBrodyGreg Olear @gregolear.bsky.social · 25/01/2026One of the best things I’ve read in a while: 412870110667
Reposted by Here'sEmmaBrodyAaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 25/01/2026A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son. 10054690018038
Reposted by Here'sEmmaBrodyMusicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 24/01/2026holy crap youtube.com/shorts/hyqtA...youtube.comICE is full of COWARDS. They are all absolute, pathetic, untrained COWARDS. DEFUND AND PROSECUTE.YouTube video by Seth Moulton 242291472
Here'sEmmaBrody @emmabrody.bsky.social · 21/01/2026He's so utterly out of his mind. Everyone, he's tanking our economy. He's the insatiably, needy, greedy sick one who needs to be confined to a mental institution. Send him away before we lose everything to his madness. 011
Here'sEmmaBrody @emmabrody.bsky.social · 20/11/2025This cannot stand: www.latimes.com/california/s...latimes.comCalifornia's child farmworkers: Exhausted, underpaid and toiling in toxic fieldsState officials are failing to protect the health and safety of thousands of young field laborers, an investigation has found. 030
Reposted by Here'sEmmaBrodyAdam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 13/11/2025The next time someone tells you that America isn’t a sick & racist country, just remind them that this nation is willing to accept treason, rape, and child abuse from a white president but not healthcare from a Black one. 10240931425
Reposted by Here'sEmmaBrodyInstitute for Policy Studies @ips-dc.org · 12/11/2025NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected. And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.* Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:bloomberg.comMillionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in MassachusettsA millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing... 7570883112
Reposted by Here'sEmmaBrodye.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 18/09/2025if Jimmy Kimmel's political humor is too hot for you to handle, I'm not sure "snowflake" even cuts it as a term of derision for the level of fragility you've achieved 300299026119
Here'sEmmaBrody @emmabrody.bsky.social · 15/08/2025Surprise! Elon's SpaceX which rakes in billions of the taxes you pay, doesn't pay corporate taxes. He's the biggest parasite in the world. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/t...nytimes.comSpaceX Gets Billions From the Government. It Gives Little to Nothing Back in Taxes. 010
Here'sEmmaBrody @emmabrody.bsky.social · 14/08/2025Mayor Young and xAI lied relentlessly to Memphis. Time Mag's superb report on NASA's discovery that proves hugely increased poisons in Memphis air since xAI's arrival and deployment of gas turbines: time.com/7308925/elon...time.comInside the Memphis Community Battling Elon Musk’s xAIA TIME investigation reveals data tying Musk’s AI data center to pollution surges in a historically Black Memphis area. 000
Reposted by Here'sEmmaBrodyLea Teagarden aka @tencentdress @leateagarden.bsky.social · 09/08/2025jfc, let us stop these corrupt fascists from crashing the economy! People with 401ks have some power here to stop trump. Let us do all we can to avoid this utter corruption. It's relatively easy, but we must act. @brendanballou.bsky.social tells us how. slate.com/business/202...slate.comThis Trump Executive Order Might Just Set Up the Next Financial CrisisPrivate equity and credit firms need new investors. This is where Donald Trump—and you—come in. 141
Reposted by Here'sEmmaBrodyLora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 02/08/2025this warms the cockles of my heart. "These giants are standing tall against fossil fuels, rising up out of the ocean like a middle finger against CO2." 542654623
Here'sEmmaBrody @emmabrody.bsky.social · 02/08/2025This is a huge deal and one more reason why I love California. No more masked ICE arresting w/o cause: 👇👇👇 www.latimes.com/california/s...latimes.com9th Circuit keeps freeze on Southern California ICE patrolsThe 9th Circuit Court of Appeals dealt a stinging blow to the Trump administration's mass deportation project Friday night, upholding a lower court's block on "roving patrols" across much of Southern ... 042
Reposted by Here'sEmmaBrodyMolly White @molly.wiki · 24/07/2025Sundog, a memecoin by crypto billionaire Justin Sun, just posted a meme depicting its mascot controlling the White House. Sun has spent (or will shortly spend) a total of $213 million on Trump-connected crypto projects. 781968723
Reposted by Here'sEmmaBrodyThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 17/07/2025Inside Elon Musk’s plan to rain SpaceX’s rocket debris over Hawaii’s pristine waterstheguardian.comInside Elon Musk’s plan to rain SpaceX’s rocket debris over Hawaii’s pristine watersTexas has long been under threat from the launches and explosions of SpaceX rockets. Now Hawaii is emerging as another possible victim 1411364
Reposted by Here'sEmmaBrodyLora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 17/07/2025Enviro groups including NAACP, Young, Gifted & Green filed to appeal xAI's permits in Memphis. The permits allow Elon Musk's co. to keep using gas-burning turbines to power their Colossus "supercomputer" facility, which in turn helps run the Grok chatbot. www.cnbc.com/2025/07/16/m...cnbc.comElon Musk’s xAI permits challenged by NAACP, environmental groups in MemphisEnvironmental groups in Memphis filed a permit appeal to stop xAI from using gas-burning turbines to power its supercomputer facility in the area. 410546
Reposted by Here'sEmmaBrodyJoseph Fink, we're going to win @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 09/06/20251 in 12 Americans live in California. 1 in 35 Americans live in LA County. LA is America 110154133731
Reposted by Here'sEmmaBrodyMichael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 25/05/2025Fed Chair Powell graduation remarks to Princeton nod toward our current predicament: "Look around you. I urge you to take none of this for granted. When you look back in 50 years, you will want to know that you have done whatever it takes to preserve and strengthen our democracy." 6970371730
Reposted by Here'sEmmaBrodyAdam Rifkin 🐼 @ifindkarma.bsky.social · 25/03/2025“DOGE has already squandered half a trillion dollars… Not billion. Half a trillion, $500 billion… In other words, in about eight weeks DOGE managed to lose the U.S. government — more or less light on fire — more than half of what goes to all non-defense discretionary spending.” @joshtpm.bsky.social 20756473
Here'sEmmaBrody @emmabrody.bsky.social · 15/04/2025It seems that Elon's DOGE boys may be involved in at least one illegal heist of information. You have to wonder if Musk has been squirreling our data at Colossus xAI all along: www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...npr.orgA whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor dataA whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official. 020
Here'sEmmaBrody @emmabrody.bsky.social · 12/04/2025Who wants to take bets that every American's info is being used to train Musk's xAI in Memphis? Or that Musk is holding your data on his own company servers? 010
Reposted by Here'sEmmaBrodyPaul Gowder @gowder.io · 11/04/2025COMPARE: the results of fighting back to the results of not fighting back 159103893342
Here'sEmmaBrody @emmabrody.bsky.social · 10/04/2025Musk’s Supervillain laugh…thinks stealing water is funny. Get ready, Memphis @thetnholler.bsky.social @justinpearson.bsky.social @niedermeyer.online 020
Reposted by Here'sEmmaBrodyTerry @setmycompassnorh.bsky.social · 06/04/2025And they thought they would be getting away with all of it too. 1455278
Reposted by Here'sEmmaBrodyIan Denton @iand777.bsky.social · 05/04/2025I didn't have to wait long for the LTTs to find the feathers. I placed them last evening & were found at dawn. This pair have a huge task ahead of them to locate 1000+ feathers & they are very choosy about which feathers they will use for nest lining. @nicwilson.bsky.social @ianparsons.bsky.social 0688
Reposted by Here'sEmmaBrodyChris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back. 9052800213787
Reposted by Here'sEmmaBrodyRodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 02/04/2025We simply had to intentionally destroy the world’s strongest economy while dismantling our scientific and educational infrastructure to ensure that a team with a trans girl would never finish second place in the Mountain West volleyball standings again 146232207079
Here'sEmmaBrody @emmabrody.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Trump has passed his "malignant narcissist" stage and gone full blown into his "I don't care who gets destroyed because they tried to destroy me" stage. And that extends to his own supporters. He's that sick. 000
Here'sEmmaBrody @emmabrody.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Trump/DOE punishing CA and Blue States for working toward clean energy. All as we pay more in taxes (going to Red States) than we get back: www.latimes.com/environment/...latimes.comTrump’s Department of Energy targets California and other blue states for budget cuts, according to internal documentsA major national effort to develop clean hydrogen energy is facing funding cuts — but only in Democratic states. 000
Here'sEmmaBrody @emmabrody.bsky.social · 31/03/2025Ps: using enough power in future scale-ups to power 1-3 million homes😳 001
Here'sEmmaBrody @emmabrody.bsky.social · 30/03/2025Elon The Parasite sucking off your tax dollars...Again: “We are going to be able to take astronauts to Mars ...And ultimately build a self-sustaining civilization on Mars. That is the long-term goal of the company: make life multi-planetary.” Ruining the US for $$$. www.wsj.com/business/elo...wsj.comElon Musk’s Mission to Take Over NASA—and MarsThe billionaire is in position to speed up plans for a voyage to the planet, with a potentially huge impact on SpaceX. 131
Reposted by Here'sEmmaBrodyThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/03/2025🤔👇🏽 731229448061
Here'sEmmaBrody @emmabrody.bsky.social · 28/03/2025Surprise! Elon spewing absolute bullshit when it comes to his gov fraud claims: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/u...nytimes.comAssessing Elon Musk’s Misleading Claims About Fraud in Government SpendingThe world’s richest man made inaccurate claims about entitlement fraud, how a government payment system works and government survey costs. 111
Here'sEmmaBrody @emmabrody.bsky.social · 27/03/2025Memphis Mayor Paul Young dodges Q’s re Musk’s xAI polluting gas turbines & and this vid got him ouchy👇 030
Here'sEmmaBrody @emmabrody.bsky.social · 27/03/2025Here's a ton of good money news. We just have to go for it: www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comTackling climate crisis will increase economic growth, OECD research findsThird of global GDP could be lost this century if climate crisis runs unchecked, says report 010
Here'sEmmaBrody @emmabrody.bsky.social · 27/03/2025Just a reminder that Trump's government of thieves knows Greenland has enough mineral reserves to supply the Western world for decades. And that there are massive amounts of lithium that Musk badly needs for Tesla batteries. www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comInside the race for Greenland's mineral wealthThe territory's untapped mineral wealth has caught the eye of both mining firms and Donald Trump. 010
Here'sEmmaBrody @emmabrody.bsky.social · 24/03/2025DOGE fraud (gee, ya think?) in the firing of IRS agents for their job "performance" without any review. Great @propublica.org piece by @andykroll.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/trum...propublica.orgEmails Reveal Top IRS Lawyer Warned Trump Firings Were a “Fraud” on the CourtsThe Trump administration cited “performance” failures to justify its mass firing of IRS workers. But this claim was “false,” a senior agency attorney warned officials, because the administration had n... 020
Here'sEmmaBrody @emmabrody.bsky.social · 21/03/2025Memphians, get thee to tomorrow's chat with Mayor Young and make your feelings known about Musk's presence and our city's water, grid and air. Ask the Mayor why he's not protecting Memphians from Elon Musk's vandalism of the air we breathe. And Musk's plans are scaling waaaay up. 010
Here'sEmmaBrody @emmabrody.bsky.social · 16/03/2025Reminding everyone how Musk deliberately lies when he comes to build in a new community, then sucks up massive amounts of water, robbing towns of their precious resource, to make his businesses run. Memphis, beware, he'll do it to you. Via Bloomberg: www.insurancejournal.com/news/southce...insurancejournal.comMusk's Massive Tesla Lithium Plant Hunts for Water in Drought-Hit TexasTwenty miles outside Corpus Christi, Texas — an area so dry the local water company distributes shower timers at high school football games — the world's 051
![Tweet screenshot: SunDog @SUNDOG_TRX You never truly know who’s pulling the strings… 🤫 [AI-generated image of a corgi dog with a collar depicting the Tron logo, paws raised above the White House, with strings attached to the paws like a marionette] 2:30 AM Jul 24, 2025](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:exrxvyu6bpoym6mbnctke5tn/bafkreigsccsb3rboe3qjtuuicshmrhyho65cwntbj4syjn5y2gkil5m45a)
![Talking Points Memo: IRS Predicts DOGE [and Elon Musk] Lost Half a Trillion Dollars for the USA
By Josh Marshall, March 23 2025
The Washington Post reports today that the IRS’ internal projections estimate that the DOGE-driven disruptions to the IRS since the inauguration are on track to have reduced tax receipts by more than $500 billion by April 15th. This, to be clear, is not a final tally. It’s not April 15th yet. It’s a projection based on historical data, the number of people who’ve filed, paid owed amounts of tax, etc.
It’s worth taking a moment to put this number into some context in case half a trillion dollars doesn’t do it for you. Non-defense discretionary spending is the cost to fund the U.S. government once you take out mandatory spending (mostly Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid) and the cost of the U.S. military.
For 2023 that number was $917 billion. So that’s most of the stuff we think of as the government, apart from those payment programs and the military. In other words, in about eight weeks DOGE managed to lose the U.S. government — more or less light on fire — more than half of what goes to all non-defense discretionary spending.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:um3dlpu4s64lwq4lmqyo3dni/bafkreigjof3im6tjcrrja5cwq5t636d5bm7i2vnz5b2ugzxmb5ioz5arii)
