Reposted by @evrythingcounts.bsky.socialHoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 8hRepublican Congressman Mike Collins signals his intent to end Social Security: "[Old people need to] get off of Social Security [and] get back into the workforce." 48316311023
Reposted by @evrythingcounts.bsky.socialCharles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 9h🚨🚨🚨 MICHIGAN VOTERS: For the love of God, vote *NO* on Proposal 1!! Glad to see there's a coordinated effort to shoot down this horrible idea. info.protectmiconstitution.cominfo.protectmiconstitution.comVote NO on Proposal 1 — Michigan Constitutional Convention (Con-Con) 2026, Explained | Protect MI ConstitutionProposal 1 on Michigan's November 3, 2026 ballot asks whether to hold a constitutional convention (Con-Con). A bipartisan coalition urges a NO vote: 148 partisan delegates could rewrite the entire con... 02214
Reposted by @evrythingcounts.bsky.socialBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Pete is lost in terms of modern war. I use the example of this outgunned Ukrainian army officer who successfully terrorized a Russian unit for weeks because she "did the math." At the time, someone commented, "yeah, in combat, 'I did the math' beats 'I can do 100 pushups' every time." 2248031111
Reposted by @evrythingcounts.bsky.socialSenator Elissa Slotkin @slotkin.senate.gov · 22hSome cool things happening up at Michigan Tech – from cars to lunar rovers to clouds! 2205
Reposted by @evrythingcounts.bsky.socialAbdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Tomorrow, on October 1, the biggest transfer of wealth from the working class to the wealthy hits a critical milestone. Many of the provisions from the Big Ugly Bill will go into effect, harming hundreds of thousands of Michiganders in order to create tax cuts for the richest people in America. 15980053581
Reposted by @evrythingcounts.bsky.socialffrf.org @ffrf.org · 30/09/2026It’s remarkable how consistently an “ineffable, mysterious, hidden” God behaves exactly like a God who isn’t there. 610717
Reposted by @evrythingcounts.bsky.socialJosh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026they DIDN'T REFUND her fucking TUITION????? 1454451446
Reposted by @evrythingcounts.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants. 20752391427
Reposted by @evrythingcounts.bsky.socialMichigan Jill @whitchmi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026As Michigan's next AG, Eli Savit will continue & expand the work done by AG Nessel to protect communities from data centers, their developers, & the monopoly utilities bullying their way into places that can least afford to stop them. A vote for Eli is one of the most important in your ballot. 02011
Reposted by @evrythingcounts.bsky.socialEmma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Just want to remind people that Kamala Harris wanted to protect the ACA and her platform included expanding medicaid coverage for in-home nursing expenses so people could more easily keep elders at home for age care AND hospice. (She also had a home ownership program too!) 614865
Reposted by @evrythingcounts.bsky.social Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 28/09/2026Claude making a scientific discovery 182100483
Reposted by @evrythingcounts.bsky.socialAparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I keep coming back to this clip against the background of AI companies infesting higher education. And I feel like I need to show this in class to students, for them to understand why not to trust these bastards 61376422
Reposted by @evrythingcounts.bsky.socialAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 26/09/2026a president planning military operations based entirely on election cycles is actually a giant scandal 412452577
Reposted by @evrythingcounts.bsky.socialMichael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Every. F*cking. Time. The. Same. Story. Make a big fraud claim that doesn't hold up on inspection. The goal is to create doubt, not provide truth www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/u...nytimes.comFrom 15,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada FizzleIt was the Trump administration’s latest stumble in its effort to find proof of widespread noncitizen voting, despite decades of evidence that it is extremely rare. 341462559
Reposted by @evrythingcounts.bsky.socialThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026they really think we are all idiots 424101692862
Reposted by @evrythingcounts.bsky.socialMother Frog Slut // Steward of Giant Reptiles @toadcialism.bsky.social · 24/09/2026In light of AI making CEOs and users dumber and insisting kids don’t need to know square roots and long division: Who wants to learn about bib necklace math? I have a formula behind the maximalist joys you all know and love! 🧵: 45622
Reposted by @evrythingcounts.bsky.socialWhitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English. 42103464406
Reposted by @evrythingcounts.bsky.socialBrian Cardone @cardonebrian.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Wiley Nickel (D-NC) makes such a valid point here about voting all the way down ballot and not leaving any race without a vote. In 2020 Cherie Beasley lost her election for NC Supreme Court by 401 votes. Let’s get a #BlueWaveIn40Days by voting for every Democrat on the ballot. 29648302
Reposted by @evrythingcounts.bsky.socialMichigan Democrats @michigandems.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Get ready for even higher housing prices. The Trump-GOP economy is a disaster, unless you're a billionaire. michiganindependent.com/economy/us-m...michiganindependent.comUS mortgage rates brush 7%, further straining a bleak housing marketThe Federal Reserve’s decision Wednesday to increase its key interest rate and other factors could set the stage for a further slowing in the housing market this year. 052
Reposted by @evrythingcounts.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026As a reminder, Democrats picked up 41 seats in the House in 2018, while losing two seats in the Senate. We should see a bigger pickup in both chambers this time, to put it mildly. But do not get cocky and coast here. Run through the tape. 481127202
Reposted by @evrythingcounts.bsky.socialCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23/09/2026WAPO: The architect quit “after warning repeatedly that Trump was insisting on a preliminary design that did not provide adequate emergency exit routes or fire-containment measures .. .. ‘I am the code,” Trump said.” @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio... 28325511041
Reposted by @evrythingcounts.bsky.socialAlanR @alan2210.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Trump Ordered Illegal Removal of Braille "Get rid of the [expletive] braille. No blind people are going to live in Trump Tower," Trump shouted, according to Res. "Just do it." www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...newsweek.comTrump Vetoed Braille and Blind People at Trump Tower"Get rid of the [expletive] braille," Trump apparently shouted. "Just do it." 314642
Reposted by @evrythingcounts.bsky.socialBryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 21/09/2026A student informed me recently that they use ChatGPT to summarize books to save time reading them. I responded that I do the same with video games. So much faster than playing them. 1243757
Reposted by @evrythingcounts.bsky.socialJames Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I know almost everything is terrible, but this year really could be world-historic in a good way. It’ll be several more years before it can be definitively called, but there are encouraging signs emissions really are peaking. www.businessgreen.com/news/4535893...businessgreen.comStudy: Global fossil-fuel emissions to fall 0.5 per cent this yearStrait of Hormuz crisis has led to lower oil and gas demand that should more than offset any increased emissions from higher coal power generation, Carbon Brief calculates 723265
Reposted by @evrythingcounts.bsky.socialsouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Yes having our fertilizer shipped from a Russian proxy dictator half the world away is surely a better way to arrange things than getting it from our democratic, once-friendly neighbor here in the North America 752246480
Reposted by @evrythingcounts.bsky.socialU.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 21/09/2026It's beautiful that so many people will choose to express themselves through the medium of pumpkin. If only there was less stabbing involved. 1336957
Reposted by @evrythingcounts.bsky.socialDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026Also getting really tired of people just uncritically repeating the "AI math breakthrough" thing without referencing the responses from the math community alleging misconduct and outright theft and plagiarism. www.scientificamerican.com/article/open...scientificamerican.comOpenAI’s latest math breakthroughs commit research misconduct, experts sayOpenAI released 10 AI-generated results over the weekend. Some mathematicians are unhappy with their approach 318677
Reposted by @evrythingcounts.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026The Aggies losing to Kentucky at home is the equivalent of the US losing to Iran. What sort of genius could pull both off? bsky.app/profile/cjze... 21642109
Reposted by @evrythingcounts.bsky.socialJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 19/09/2026Finally saw that Converse ad. My dudes, I'm the whitest of white people and even I saw what the fuck that looked like (don't post the ad in my comments, thanks) 1603456297
Reposted by @evrythingcounts.bsky.socialMichigan Democrats @michigandems.bsky.social · 19/09/2026"What I learned clerking for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg." Take a minute to read @esavit.bsky.social's beautiful tribute. In his remembrance of a mentor, he shows exactly the kind of people-focused AG he'll be. www.detroitnews.com/story/opinio...detroitnews.comhttps://www.detroitnews.com/story/opinion/2026/09/17/what-i-learned-clerking-for-ruth-bader-ginsburg-savit/91808061007/ 0105
Reposted by @evrythingcounts.bsky.socialCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 19/09/2026When we talk about the costs that LLMs impose on society we should not forget the fact that nothing works anymore because everyone is so scared of getting their shit scraped. I can't even use google scholar from my university or starlink because they send too much traffic. 984457966
Reposted by @evrythingcounts.bsky.socialthe hills have vrunt @vrunt.social · 19/09/2026sure yeah, can't even make a stick figure without fucking up and no one at the company gives enough of a shit to even give it another pass but go ahead and take my money so i can use this lazy shit technology every day too 643645675
Reposted by @evrythingcounts.bsky.socialStephanie 🍉 @ageofoddish.bsky.social · 18/09/2026mmygod 1207486639
Reposted by @evrythingcounts.bsky.socialStarfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026It’s very simple. A reality TV host became dictator because he turned down a role for Sharknado 4 and that’s why the king of outer space, who cheats at Diablo, got to kill Africa. Now the economy is controlled by a sex cult that has something to do with Harry Potter fanfic because of robots. 15786352557
Reposted by @evrythingcounts.bsky.socialEllipsus @ellipsus.com · 18/09/2026"The largest theft of labor in human history." We done knew it. (www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...) 8826344
Reposted by @evrythingcounts.bsky.socialHunter Dunn @hunterisntdunn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Current Republican Senator John Cornyn (Texas) is now vagueposting about a possible endorsement of James Talarico, instead of Ken Paxton (who gave a pedophile a plea deal to escape jail time). Be prepared for a truly nuclear October Surprise in the Texas Midterms 31868157
Reposted by @evrythingcounts.bsky.socialAriella Elm @ariellaelm.com · 18/09/2026Share this with someone who is on the fence about voting in the midterm elections 44320
Reposted by @evrythingcounts.bsky.socialSheera Frenkel @sheeraf.bsky.social · 17/09/2026“Largest theft of labor in human history.” What a quote. 161098363
Reposted by @evrythingcounts.bsky.socialMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 17/09/2026In a normal, functioning democracy, this would end his presidency tonight. 963767993
Reposted by @evrythingcounts.bsky.socialJonathan Feingold @jpygold.bsky.social · 16/09/2026@aaup.org @biblioracle.bsky.social & Katie Rainwater nails what everyone misses. Heritage Foundation hates college full stop. They bash DEI to get in the door, but the point is to close the door on everyone. That's why they want to own accreditation. Say no today: docs.google.com/document/d/1...academicfreedomontheline.substack.comWith Proposed Federal Rules, Heritage Foundation Upends Higher EducationWho is up for a little Christian Nationalism embedded into our higher education system? 02518
Reposted by @evrythingcounts.bsky.socialTim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Florida Man misses Michigan Senate debate 504469796
Reposted by @evrythingcounts.bsky.socialJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Something weirdly not noted in a lot of the coverage of the extortionate threats to murder the Kennedy Center unless it’s reimagined as a shrine to Trump: There was no dire fiscal crisis until Trump’s goombahs started mucking with it. Its finances were fine. projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/o...projects.propublica.orgJohn F Kennedy Center For The Performing Arts - Nonprofit Explorer - ProPublicaSince 2013, the IRS has released data culled from millions of nonprofit tax filings. Use this database to find organizations and see details like their executive compensation, revenue and expenses, as... 1428501046
Reposted by @evrythingcounts.bsky.socialPwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 15/09/2026The thing is you really don't have to study calculus if you don't want to! But you just don't get to complain that all the STEM spots at the university then go to the people who did 1155419
Reposted by @evrythingcounts.bsky.socialMichigan Democrats @michigandems.bsky.social · 15/09/2026How is Trump's latest trade war going over with Michiganders? "Not a single person said they felt there was something positive to gain from this tension with their northern neighbor." www.npr.org/2026/09/11/n...npr.orgThese Michigan swing voters are bracing for higher prices from trade war with CanadaPresident Trump's tariff standoff with Canada is rankling some key voters ahead of this year's midterm elections. 097
Reposted by @evrythingcounts.bsky.socialJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 14/09/2026If, as seems to be the majority view here, you dislike the prospect of a world where human journalism and analysis is displaced by AI slop, have the self-awareness not to act annoyed and offended that the human labor of writing sometimes requires compensation. 465078
Reposted by @evrythingcounts.bsky.socialMatt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online. 484297717665
Reposted by @evrythingcounts.bsky.socialRyan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 14/09/2026The rule they are overturning was predicted to give $120 billion in public health benefits by 2047, with projections that by 2035, it would would prevent up to 1,200 premature deaths, 870 hospital and emergency room visits, 360K asthma attacks, 48K school absence days and 57K lost workdays each year 10632621550
Reposted by @evrythingcounts.bsky.socialJeanne (she/they) @fangirljeanne.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I will maintain that people who advocate for the use of AI by claiming it is sentient are wanna be slave owners. It’s like trying to sell me a toaster by telling me it is self aware. That’s not impressive, that is horrifying.static.klipy.comThe Brave Little Toaster: You're WorthlessAlt: Thr junkyard scene, from the movie The Brave Little Toaster, where the sentient appliances (vacuum, blankie, lamp, toaster, and radio) are surrounded by broken cars that are saying “You're Worthless.” 09422