Reposted by Gayle TurnerAaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 3hThis crowd demanded a government bailout because they couldn't manage the risk of having checking accounts. CHECKING ACCOUNTS! And the loudest libertarian demanding a government safety net, David Sachs, failed up to be in charge of US AI policy. 27111
Reposted by Gayle TurnerDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 6hNew open-access paper: Direct File showed that govt could build its own user-centered platform without relying on contractors. But the product was killed after a DOGE lead spoke with the private tax preparation industry lobbying against a private option. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 10673241
Reposted by Gayle TurnerBrent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 13h“EU drops sponsorship of disinformation conference at Trump officials’ request. Lithuania/Canada were also pressured to withdraw…days before #Disinfo2026, logos were wiped off website.” So the US used disinformation to undermine a disinformation conference telling the truth about US disinformation.theguardian.comEU drops sponsorship of disinformation conference at Trump officials’ requestLithuania and Canada were also pressured to withdraw, and days before #Disinfo2026, logos were wiped off website 24130
Reposted by Gayle TurnerJack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 09/10/2026NEW: The head of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has issued a statement firmly condemning plans to livestream the execution of Nidal Malik Hasan. Archbishop Paul Coakley calls the decision “a barbaric promotion of a culture of death and must be reconsidered.” www.usccb.org/news/2026/us... 722299603
Reposted by Gayle TurnerChris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 17hOne or more human beings are responsible for the code they wrote, and those are the people who should be held accountable. These programs are not acting “on their own” 832805642
Reposted by Gayle TurnerDan Ancona @danancona.bsky.social · 21hMotherfuckbuckets, this is giving me feels. I absolutely love this one. The combination of the time theme and the decades of everything feeling like it's getting more difficult, just super powerful. His rough around the edges delivery is so perfect for this. 15672157
Reposted by Gayle TurnerGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 19hat this point people getting carjacked are gonna assume it’s ICE 5514126
Reposted by Gayle TurnerDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Carson is the second female Nobel winner in recent years to have been denied tenure. Katalin Karikó was denied tenure at Penn www.forbes.com/sites/conorm...forbes.comResearcher Demoted By University Of Pennsylvania Wins Nobel Prize For mRNA Discoveries—And Some Academics Urge Penn To ApologizeKatalin Karikó’s research laid the foundation for both the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna Covid-19 vaccines. 13424149
Reposted by Gayle TurnerAnna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 08/10/2026This is really compelling 117342
Reposted by Gayle TurnerTom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026There is nothing comparable to this level of corruption in American history. 9468184
Reposted by Gayle TurnerKevin Maguire @kevmag.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Quelle surprise a super-rich exodus recent story is shown to be complete bollocks This billionaire said to have quit Britain over fears of a potential Labour wealth tax actually moved to Monaco in 2014 when the Conservatives were in power. Next. www.theguardian.com/news/2026/oc...theguardian.com‘I reside in Monaco’: billionaire said to have quit UK over potential wealth tax had already leftTaxWatch contradicts claims about David Reuben’s departure and questions stories of super-rich exodus 824381
Reposted by Gayle TurnerAl Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 09/10/2026Award-winning filmmaker, detained last month, is released on bond with next hearing set for October 27, campaign says.aljazeera.comUS ICE releases Kashmiri filmmaker Arfat Sheikh from custodyAward-winning filmmaker, detained last month, is released on bond with next hearing set for October 27, campaign says. 18344
Reposted by Gayle TurnerGareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Good thing this won't happen - the global economy is on solid ground because AI is an actual guy who lives in my computer and he is strong and he is my friend. 1184
Reposted by Gayle TurnerFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 09/10/2026nationalize everything Elon Musk owns. 682863584
Reposted by Gayle TurnerThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/10/2026🔥 @angieforfl.bsky.social : “Let’s talk about the Black Panther Party…” 12429291022
Reposted by Gayle TurnerChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 09/10/2026WTF. Even I am just seeing this now. 191089370
Reposted by Gayle TurnerClara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 08/10/2026This is insane www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...gadgetreview.comOne of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data CenterA rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land. 13250132
Reposted by Gayle TurnerDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Lol. Princeton University praised Nobel laureate Anne Carson, a former classics professor at the school, on social media, despite denying her tenure in the 1980s.nytimes.comPrinceton Celebrates Anne Carson, a Nobel Prize Winner Who Was Denied Tenure (Gift Article)Carson, who was awarded the Literature prize on Thursday, was denied tenure when teaching at the university in the 1980s, leading social media users to mock a congratulatory message. 141251279
Reposted by Gayle TurnerGil Durán @gilduran.com · 09/10/2026Remember when Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale called for public executions? www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...thenerdreich.comJoe Lonsdale Calls For Public HangingsSilicon Valley radicalization escalates 2632114896
Reposted by Gayle TurnerRebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Just yesterday a student told me how interesting she found the evolutionary psychology module a colleague teaches at Brunel. Her enthusiasm won’t survive reading this textbook. Surely it’s a matter of self-interest for the discipline to guard against harbouring this kind of unscientific nonsense 410734
Reposted by Gayle TurnerNicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 09/10/2026The initial Pentagon announcement noted SECARMY (currently a person in the acting position) sets the time and place. Livestreaming it might come from higher up but the date and location is specifically an army decision 1186
Reposted by Gayle TurnerEric Levai @ericlevai.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Now THIS is how you write a story. Devastating. 17966741944
Reposted by Gayle TurnerEric Levai @ericlevai.bsky.social · 09/10/2026The article www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/u...nytimes.comFort Hood Shooter’s Execution Will Be Public and Streamed Live, Pentagon Says (Gift Article)If carried out, the public execution of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan by firing squad set for Dec. 3 would be the first in modern U.S. history. 735655
Reposted by Gayle TurnerRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The rhetoric of tech in a nutshell: I value convenience, efficiency, ease first and also have no capacity to recognize humanity, my own or others, but feel qualified to run the world. Someone send an army of divorce lawyers; after all this guy already wants to disconnect. 521069236
Reposted by Gayle TurnerAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/10/2026This thing has made me go do a lot of reading tonight, and the Wikipedia page about the last public execution in the United States is well-written. It was Rainey Bethea, a Black man hanged in front of a crowd of 20,000 in 1936, a spectacle which embarrassed Kentucky enough that they ended hangings. 412384827
Reposted by Gayle TurnerJack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 09/10/2026“A member of Congress at the scene confirmed to The Intercept that there was a child in the victim’s car when ICE agents shot at it.” theintercept.com/2026/10/08/i...theintercept.comICE Agent on Scene of NYC Shooting Was Posing as Construction Worker, Eyewitness SaysA member of Congress at the scene confirmed to The Intercept that there was a child in the victim’s car when ICE agents shot at it. 191015460
Reposted by Gayle TurnerProPublica @propublica.org · 09/10/2026“There was zero plan, except causing pain,” said one U.N. official about the Trump administration’s decision to stop funding the group with no notice or communication. “And that is not forgivable.” (Published Dec. 2025)propublica.orgAfter Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death“Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death. 521778941
Reposted by Gayle TurnerSteve Saidemonster 🧌🧛🦇⚰️👻👹 @smsaideman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I love the glee with which Ossoff is pinning Collins to all of Collins's far right pals. 446773
Reposted by Gayle TurnerAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren... 8550701839
Reposted by Gayle TurnerRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $8 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of American households is worth just $4.27 trillion. Read that back. When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem. 14140801852
Reposted by Gayle TurnerITEP @itep.org · 08/10/2026NEW: Americans in nearly every income group are paying more under President Trump's second term in 2026. The overall impact of inflationary policies, OBBBA's top-heavy tax cuts, and expiring health care tax credits have left savings only for the wealthiest Americans. 5317136
Reposted by Gayle Turnerevacide @evacide.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Wikimedia Foundation: "AI companies are not doing enough to secure their systems and protect the public from the harm they cause. That burden is falling onto everyone else, including smaller organizations." wikimediafoundation.org/news/2026/10...wikimediafoundation.orgOpenAI “rogue” agent activities found on Wikimedia projects – Wikimedia FoundationWikimedia Foundation found “rogue” OpenAI agents on its wikis, raising concerns about risks to its free knowledge projects and the open web. 322183
Gayle Turner @gmturnerphd.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Got this email today from Medicare. It's really an ad for Trump. As usual, the man can't do math and can't think beyond the end of his nose. I can't do much of anything with $90. But if we combine all that money there is apparently $2B that Medicare could use to improve itself. Improve Medicare, plz 001
Reposted by Gayle TurnerDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Not beating the eugenics accusations 17956297
Reposted by Gayle TurnerScott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Before he was appointed, Kash Patel was flagged by FBI counterintelligence agents as being deeply enmeshed in influence operations run by the Russians and Chinese. After he took over, Patel began systematically eliminating all Russian and Chinese counterintelligence capacity. What to make of that?npr.orgAs Trump focuses the FBI on immigration, counterintelligence is falling behindThe cuts come as a consequence of President Trump and FBI Director Kash Patel's focus on violent crime and immigration, leaving other priorities understaffed. 421263638
Gayle Turner @gmturnerphd.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Armed guards from a company with alleged human rights abuses abroad now stationed at domestic United States Postal Service locations. Election surveillance, interference and intimidation on the way. Read & follow the story. 000
Reposted by Gayle TurnerBrian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Oh. newrepublic.com/post/216331/...newrepublic.comUSPS Hires Security Service With History of Human Rights AbuseAlmost 1,000 armed security officers have been sent to at least 55 post office facilities. 1221595
Reposted by Gayle TurnerMorgan Fischer @morgfisch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Democrat congressional candidate Bernadette Greene-Placentia was hit over the head and raped in Maricopa County while repairing a damaged campaign sign in August. "I need to let women know that it's okay to talk about it," she told me. Full story: www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/congres...phoenixnewtimes.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. 10253112
Reposted by Gayle TurnerMatt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026When Trump posted a video of the Obamas as apes the NYT claimed "it was unclear if Mr. Trump was aware" that he posted it 491871395
Reposted by Gayle TurnerDr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds. 7070011915
Reposted by Gayle TurnerGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 06/10/2026The ICE Air Operations official handbook allows minors as young as 13 to be shackled on ICE flights. We don’t know this girl/young woman’s age, but if she is over 18, it probably isn’t by much. I don’t know how those flight “guards” sleep at night. 13335160
Reposted by Gayle TurnerWill Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026A list of 250-year-old things that Trump has destroyed in 2026 1. The Grandmother Tree 2. The United States of America 1727098
Reposted by Gayle TurnerProPublica @propublica.org · 07/10/2026As budget director, Russell Vought has often ignored Congress by … not signing the checks. At other times, he’s been able to take money Congress intended for one thing and use it for something else by justifying it as a “national emergency.” Listen to our latest episode:propublica.orgPodcast: Who’s the Shadow President? 48849415
Reposted by Gayle Turner@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Tell me again how many private dinners Ellison had with trump this past year? 04713
Reposted by Gayle TurnerTina-Desiree Berg @tinadesireeberg.com · 06/10/2026The LAPD union is spending millions to defeat a half cent sales tax that would fund firefighters www.latimes.com/california/s... 641121359
Reposted by Gayle TurnerBarred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 06/10/2026ah more of those harmless "brief investigative stops" Kavanaugh told us about ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...ballsandstrikes.orgBrett Kavanaugh’s Imaginary Immigration Stops Opinion Gets More Embarrassing Every DayThe fact that ICE officers do not allow wrongfully detained people to “promptly go free” is a surprise to only one man in America. 212750
Reposted by Gayle TurnerNoah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 06/10/2026"providing you with television content" and "transparency" are not in fact the same thing. 416636
Reposted by Gayle TurnerSteve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Justice Alito devotes an entire chapter of his new book to the emergency docket—and to responding to people like me (“the most prolific academic critic of the emergency docket”). As I explain over at “One First,” it … didn’t go well: www.stevevladeck.com/p/256-so-une... 1133733758
Reposted by Gayle TurnerThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/10/2026JON STEWART: “So in the FUTURE we WILL use A.I. to cure diseases… but right now it’s mostly murder, surveillance, and surge pricing for the McRib — What a trade! I’m getting the sense you guys might be full of shit.” 17999143218
Reposted by Gayle TurnerSave Standard Time @savestandard.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Daylight Saving Time makes us set alarms an hour earlier than we would on Standard Time. Morning is when sunlight is most essential to health, safety, and prosperity. #DitchDST 26122