Reposted by @gonzo18.bsky.socialWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 3hremember: it saved no net money, social services US citizens are getting cut, and left the US in a weaker place geopolitically. none of the debates about fiscal responsibility, obligation to US citizens first, or 'hard choices' actually apply. they're all bullshit. killed people for nothing at all. 312559616
Reposted by @gonzo18.bsky.socialJulie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The literacy crisis is not just referring to people's ability to literally read and write. It's also people's inability to read for context. I've been a public educator for over 20 years and I have never, ever seen it this bad. 8246671163
Reposted by @gonzo18.bsky.socialGuardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026At the height of the ICE raids earlier this year, agents in armored military vehicles rolled through residential neighborhoods. Masked agents patrolled public parks and stationed themselves outside elementary schools; squadrons of ICE agents snatched pedestrians off the streets. 🧵 54854518
Reposted by @gonzo18.bsky.socialJesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 27/09/2026“Michael, I have great affection for you and you live a very rich and interesting life, but you live in a bubble. What you're describing is a self-curated bubble. If you haven't heard the song that's been #1 on the charts for 23 weeks, you live in a bubble and you should probably be aware of that.” 967375
Reposted by @gonzo18.bsky.socialMicah @rincewind.run · 26/09/2026you know what? I agree with him my moral and ethical story about how we live together in this moment is we throw all of these assholes out of office and then we put them in jail 522378282
gonzo18.bsky.social @gonzo18.bsky.social · 25/09/2026It cannot be stressed enough: these people are liars. Some also happen to be incompetent but they are first and foremost inveterate liars. 020
Reposted by @gonzo18.bsky.social"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 24/09/2026It's hilarious that Huang things not knowing his address, zip-code and phone number are a mark of how he is cognitively off-loading to technology and Klein doesn't seem to press him that what he's actually obviously doing is using the fact that he's rich to off-load onto other humans. 451425232
Reposted by @gonzo18.bsky.socialMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 24/09/2026We simply are not going to get out of this by just winning the next election & going back to governing. We can't keep doing this total failure of elite accountability. We've been doing it since Iran-Contra, & really since 1865. And we keep not fixing our broken anti-democratic institutions. Enough. 13427111
Reposted by @gonzo18.bsky.socialJonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 21/09/2026The government moving or hiding jailed people to avoid review by courts isn't some loophole in our habeas corpus rights. This government behavior has been considered a violation of the people's habeas corpus rights since at least the Habeas Corpus Act of 1679. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeas_... 4827861158
Reposted by @gonzo18.bsky.socialAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Symbols matter. White House isn't a palace. Kennedy Center is for the general public to enjoy. We don't have a triumphal arch in DC because that's imperial. We don't put the president's face on money because it's monarchical. It's about tearing down everything that says we're a democratic republic. 292554659
Reposted by @gonzo18.bsky.socialCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026This is such a great thread because it tells you instantly how to answer the supposedly intractable regulation problem: liability, potentially joint liability, for the person who set up the AI system. 17868200
Reposted by @gonzo18.bsky.socialheadfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 19/09/2026people are always saying anti-AI arguments don’t understand the full nuances of the technology. which is correct. but only because it stole everyone’s work, exists solely to get you fired, has made the entire internet unusable and has been forced on everyone without consent 7359071662
Reposted by @gonzo18.bsky.social"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Embrace 'they do not have enough goons' thought. 1873897
Reposted by @gonzo18.bsky.socialA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Same people who seem to think it’s bad for China to beat us at AI are perfectly fine with China beating us at high speed rail, solar energy, wind energy, shall we go on 8685352209
Reposted by @gonzo18.bsky.socialG Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 17/09/2026When will the people who argued in April 2025 that Democrats should stay silent on immigration own up to being frankly just disastrously wrong about the politics of mass deportations? Their punditry basically bordered on enablement 904654842
Reposted by @gonzo18.bsky.socialClaire ✦ RPG Estelle Igni @azilyn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026It's not even some 4D chess conspiracy: - Rich dorks concluded in 2013 that AI would kill us all. - Decided the only fix is to build it themselves before someone else could. - Met regularly, pooled money to hire researchers. - Researchers made something that impressed billionaires. 18930
gonzo18.bsky.social @gonzo18.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Buying a car has to be the most singularly miserable experience of the American consumer. The dealership cartel must be broken and Americans must be free to purchase vehicles from manufacturers (other than Tesla). 010
Reposted by @gonzo18.bsky.socialAsawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I need younger generations to understand how weird it is that trump is such a unique terrible fuck up that it’s actually correct to blame the president for a demonstrably shittier economy and costs 525528950
Reposted by @gonzo18.bsky.socialPatrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026One of the things I miss most about older iterations of the internet is smaller communities built around shared interests. Our Past Lives Discord is bringing back so many fond memories of good conversations; if you like history, it's a fun place to hang out with smart people! Subscribe for access!patreon.comPast Lives — History ContentGet more from Past Lives on Patreon. History Content. Support Past Lives and get exclusive access to their work. 412810
Reposted by @gonzo18.bsky.socialHunter @hunterub.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Again, the AI corps are in a very tight financial spot right now, with massive debt, investments drying up, and still no clear path to profitability. They're angling for govt bailouts/stakes b/c all the other $ is drying up. "or we might accidentally kill you all" is the pitch. 43810
Reposted by @gonzo18.bsky.socialG Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 11/09/2026Over the last couple of days we have got several polls of Dems leading by double digits in the national environment, and ahead in states and districts Trump won by 15+ points. Starting to get hard to deny that Nov could very likely be a bloodbath for the GOP 451134160
Reposted by @gonzo18.bsky.socialvictoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 11/09/2026anyway, the American id understander himself, Hunter S. Thompson, the next week for goddamn ESPN of all places. the party's over, folks. 282204667
Reposted by @gonzo18.bsky.socialex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 29/08/2024POV: you asked a millennial something 141138157
Reposted by @gonzo18.bsky.socialPatrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Maybe this really was Elissa Slotkin's experience in the weeks after 9/11, but it sure as hell wasn't mine. People lost their fucking minds, and pretending they didn't, that everybody wanted to sit around and sing kumbaya, is revisionist insanity. 3046945
Reposted by @gonzo18.bsky.socialIan Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 11/09/2026Pretending the days after Sept. 11, 2001 were some kind of gauzy Hallmark special when we came together as a country is nauseating and ahistorical. The country went completely insane and has not recovered 13877991481
Reposted by @gonzo18.bsky.socialDavid_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Obviously this is a hilarious and obvious lie but it's instructive in that Trump knows he's supposed to care about this thing, and manifestly does not and cannot care about it, and so he has to put himself into the story just to make it something he can talk about. He almost died that day! 1163246548
Reposted by @gonzo18.bsky.socialFriendly Neighborhood Mouse @missmouse.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Friday morning, I was gardening when I checked my phone. A request had gone out for help. For 25+ hours, ICE had been laying siege to a quiet neighborhood in Frederick, MD. Community members were afraid, some didn’t want to leave their homes. ICE vehicles seemed to be lurking on every corner. 3520321028
Reposted by @gonzo18.bsky.socialHagerstown Rapid Response @hagerstownrapidresponse.com · 05/09/2026Tonight we joined our comrades in nearby Frederick, Maryland where #ICE had been camped out for days, terrorizing a neighborhood. At around 2:17 in the video is when they start beating the shit out of peaceful protestors with batons. How is this allowed to happen? @maddow.bsky.social 22361217
Reposted by @gonzo18.bsky.sociallauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 04/09/2026i don't think we should be listening to the Please Don't Prosecute The Tech Billionaires lobby on the subject of who to prosecute 291821300
Reposted by @gonzo18.bsky.socialCharm City Slicker @sprawlhater.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Baltimore, one of our great civic orgs needs us. Asylee Women Enterprise, which helps asylum seekers, torture + trafficking survivors, and other forced migrants, rebuild their lives here, must rapidly leave their space of 10+ years. Please give to help them move to their own forever home in Hampden!givebutter.comA Forever Home for Asylee Women Enterprise (AWE)We’re asking people who believe in our mission to help us reach our goal and build a permanent home for AWE and the communities we serve. 29073
Reposted by @gonzo18.bsky.socialRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 30/08/2026It’s mind-blowing that we have literal white nationalists in the White House carrying out unfathomably cruel, abusive, white nationalist policies, and the punditariat has spent the last two weeks debating if some people were too intemperate after a Black man was murdered by cops six years ago. 153109082686
Reposted by @gonzo18.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/08/2026tl;dw: the job of the dem majority over the next two years, should it materialize, is to make life hell for the white house, not find points of cooperationyoutube.comWhat Democrats can learn from Mitch McConnellYouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie 15360241281
Reposted by @gonzo18.bsky.socialDr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 24/08/2026i do think a lot of mainstreamers have missed the ball on how musk has moved past "rich guy with funny opinions on race science" and into "literally just a nazi" 674227902
Reposted by @gonzo18.bsky.socialAllison Hantschel @allisonhantschel.com · 23/08/2026This is how all the AI guys sound. 401119161
Reposted by @gonzo18.bsky.socialPhilip Bump @pbump.com · 20/08/2026There is no functional difference between people looking for rampant voter fraud and ghost hunters. 1313614787
Reposted by @gonzo18.bsky.socialmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 17/08/2026cool we finally discovered what the military equivalent of bankrupting a casino is 5948481130
Reposted by @gonzo18.bsky.socialustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · 16/08/2026POV: it’s the ninth century and you’re a Chinese customer at a Silk Road caravanserai and you’ve encountered a very sincere Sogdian merchant 11097147
Reposted by @gonzo18.bsky.socialMichael Clemens @mclem.org · 12/08/2026Incredible. When E—n M—k & his crew obliterated USAID in a weekend, they deleted a vast trove of publicly-funded knowledge: the Development Experience Clearinghouse. A Canadian high school student (!) happened to have downloaded the entire thing for a project. AidData has now posted it for all.aiddata.orgBefore reimagining development data, remember what we’ve learnedWhy we’re publishing a free, searchable, and ungated archive featuring a quarter-century of USAID evaluation reports. 374442808
Reposted by @gonzo18.bsky.socialJohn Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 10/08/2026We need to prosecute white collar crime in the US with utter ruthlessness and zeal. One of the reasons we’re here (pick the “here” hellscape you prefer) is because we not only socially but legally accepted elite impunity. 191203369
Reposted by @gonzo18.bsky.sociallauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 10/08/2026thinking about what one trillion dollars of investment in clean energy would look like and getting so mad i need to lie down with the lights off 494114916
Reposted by @gonzo18.bsky.socialBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 07/08/202612 percent? do you know how detached from reality something has to be for only *12 percent* of Americans to believe in it? 3364576
Reposted by @gonzo18.bsky.socialNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 05/08/2026A stock market is where shares in companies are bought and sold based on economic data such as “did the president say war words or peace words last night?” and “can you imagine a future where computers do all your work for you much better than you do would but you keep all the money?” 617337
Reposted by @gonzo18.bsky.socialPBS News @pbsnews.org · 31/07/2026The State Department said it takes "full responsibility" for "hastily" altering and then presenting a map of Africa at a global AIDS conference that mislabeled every single country it highlighted. An analysis by Reuters found a watermark in the map image that suggests it was made with OpenAI. 2042637975
Reposted by @gonzo18.bsky.socialA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 18/07/2026It's the fraud economy. A bubble made of bubbles. A puff pastry of whipped bullshit with a nothing filling, held up with stilts that are resting on a plummeting grand piano. 251303263
Reposted by @gonzo18.bsky.socialDEI Speedwagon @myrrlyn.net · 17/07/2026you stupid mother fucker (markwayne not eugene) we tricked the entire world into sending their smartest hardest working people here and then tricked those same people into staying permanently instead of going back to their home country you are BLOWING UP OUR SPOT 753906843