Reposted by Peter GriesarDominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 15h"The current level of political animosity is exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s citizens." There are not enough exclamation points to convey how I felt reading this paragraph 31043415
Peter Griesar @griesar.bsky.social · 12h“Polarization is the country's immune response to an unpopular, antidemocratic, and intentionally divisive faction grabbing for disproportionate power to the detriment of national success, reputation, and democratic self-government.” 020
Peter Griesar @griesar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026That time of year when the starlings have their evening meetings in Esmont 1110
Reposted by Peter GriesarWaldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 01/10/2026Pareidolia is absolutely cooking people’s brains. I am so embarrassed for humanity.nytimes.comReligious Scholars Met With Anthropic. What They Heard Stunned Them. (Gift Article)In a series of private meetings, the company consulted religious scholars to help instill morality into its A.I. models — and make the case that Claude could be conscious. 8558
Reposted by Peter GriesarChris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This child is 13 and was testifying without an attorney present. Monsters. 16543185
Peter Griesar @griesar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Imagine if we had invested in science all the money we've invested in science fiction. 051
Peter Griesar @griesar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The phrase “botched execution” is truly disgusting. Do better media. Also John Roberts et al should live in shame until they burn in hell. 080
Reposted by Peter GriesarBarred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026the whole point of exercising "equitable powers" on the shadow docket is to quickly address imminent, irreparable harm it is infuriating and disgusting for the GOP justices to deploy that to block the harm of, what, insufficiently slow ethnic cleansing? ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/ketan...ballsandstrikes.orgKetanji Brown Jackson Is Getting Tired of the Supreme Court’s Shadow Docket AbusesThe conservative supermajority keeps refusing to take the real-world harms of its work seriously. 523474
Peter Griesar @griesar.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Hadn’t checked this since the pandemic and wow, what a trend 270
Reposted by Peter GriesarAngilee Shah @angshah.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Hearing from Kori Price at Descendants Day in Charlottesville and I’m so grateful for her lessons of resiliency. She told one of those stories here: www.cvilletomorrow.org/her-downtown...cvilletomorrow.orgHer downtown art exhibit was vandalized. Here's why she's keeping the damagePhotographer Kori Price says that we, as a society, are capable of healing while acknowledging harms of the past and present. 044
Reposted by Peter GriesarAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026Klobuchar has Schmitt dead to rights: "The game in fact was in Maryland. For a senator to have false information & imply, based on confusion about name of a team, that you were in another city & somehow involved that day in what was happening in Georgia & call you a 'dirtbag' deserves an apology" 20971311512
Reposted by Peter GriesarJim Duncan @jimduncan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026What the hell is happening to Albemarle County schools? dailyprogress.com/news/local/e... (also, thanks to the Daily Progress)dailyprogress.com3 Albemarle principals out 'extended period of time' with zero explanationThree Albemarle County principals will be "out of the building for an extended period of time," the school division announced Monday with no explanation. 031
Peter Griesar @griesar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Of course Mark Warner voted for this because it was what private equity wanted. 081
Reposted by Peter GriesarImani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026fucking reallythehill.comEducation Department formally rescinds Title IX protections for LGBTQ studentsThe Education Department announced Monday it has formally rescinded the Biden-era Title IX interpretation that gave sex-based discrimination protections to students on the basis of sexual orientati… 672166717
Reposted by Peter GriesarUrvi @theurv.com · 28/09/2026There were more men in a single documented gang rape at one school than the number of competitive trans athletes nationally. But I’ve heard a lot more politicians being asked about protecting girls from one of these scenarios and not another… I’ll let you guess which is which. 142515874
Peter Griesar @griesar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The Cornell story is precisely why University police departments should be abolished everywhere. 0130
Peter Griesar @griesar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026"That is why messaging discipline is essential. Charlie Brown should not criticize Lucy for pulling the football away. He should say he is disappointed that some stakeholders have chosen not to participate in good-faith autumn recreation." 0111
Reposted by Peter Griesarleon @leyawn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026ceo of burger king: our burgers have gone rogue again and infected people with e coli 5356201276
Peter Griesar @griesar.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I was ready to be mad at Beck and the I got to this and was completely on his side tbh www.vulture.com/article/beck... 040
Peter Griesar @griesar.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The thing about announcing a restaurant closing well in advance is that it‘s almost never done. Usually restaurants shutter suddenly and a whole lot of people are left scrambling. In this case I wanted to make sure everyone was prepared and we could all end together on a high note. 4260
Reposted by Peter GriesarBetcy Jose @betcy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Still so hard to believe an Office of Remigration and 3rd country deportations exist in 2026 in a country that boasted about its democratic qualities not that long ago 08020
Peter Griesar @griesar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Kids with guns are kids with high serum lead. www.cbs19news.com/news/unknown...cbs19news.comUnknown shooters keep disrupting Buckingham internetBUCKINGHAM COUNTY, Va. (CBS19 NEWS) -- People in Buckingham County keep losing their internet connections, and it's because people keep shooting at the power lines. 120
Peter Griesar @griesar.bsky.social · 21/09/2026This is how I’m voting… Senate - writing in Jamelle because Warner centrism sucks House - Periello Amendments 1-3 - Yes, Yes, Yes Sales Tax - No. ACPS needs to get its shit together first. Come back next year 480
Reposted by Peter GriesarThe Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026From the people who told you that straight white male privilege doesn’t exist… 811137203284
Reposted by Peter GriesarProPublica @propublica.org · 20/09/2026Oregon has given developers an unprecedented $1.4 billion, and the cost of developing each low-income apartment has nearly doubled since 2021. But the details of that spending are kept secret. Lawmakers say they want to change that.propublica.orgOregon Lawmakers Seek to Open Up Affordable Housing Records Following ProPublica’s ReportingLeaders of the state’s House and Senate housing committees said they want to eliminate a law that exempts the detailed financials of subsidized housing projects from public disclosure requirements. 9379145
Peter Griesar @griesar.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Would be very supportive of Jay Jones issuing a blanket subpoena to all manufacturers that track their vehicles to give up instances of anyone exceeding the indefensible and criminal speed of 100mph. 023
Reposted by Peter GriesarMatt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Very quick and dirty Jev test for hiring bias. One resume for a Wall Street job; asked whether the applicant should get a first-round interview. 76 evaluations, changing only the first name. 19 of each: White-associated men/women, Black-associated men/women. console.typesafe.ai/playground?s... 19475116
Peter Griesar @griesar.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Robert Kraft really connects everything – the Paradise Papers (tax-evading billionaires), the Epstein files, ICE rendition flights, Gaza genocide, attacks on US colleges by the DOJ, attacks on the Kennedy Center, and his good friends Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. 060
Peter Griesar @griesar.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Someone start a streaming studio with all practical sets and effects, music played by musicians, and mostly unknown actors and I will subscribe in a second. 130
Peter Griesar @griesar.bsky.social · 19/09/2026If Americans don’t care about this then are “Americans” even a thing anymore? 020
Reposted by Peter GriesarTony Stark @tonystark.bsky.social · 18/09/2026This article is really burying the lede which is not that the AI did anything surprising but that rotten culture and bad operational habits get accelerated at machine speed. “Did you interrogate the analysis before you launched the mission” “Why would we do that” www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...cnn.comExclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN PoliticsThe episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war 8457148
Reposted by Peter GriesarTuring Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴 @dov.bsky.social · 18/09/2026This is just NATO membership. 719643
Peter Griesar @griesar.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Good idea to eliminate any reason for them to pull punches to protect their access. 010
Reposted by Peter GriesarMinnesota House DFL @mnhousedfl.bsky.social · 22/01/2026Nasra Ahmed, a 23-year-old US citizen, was arrested and detained by ICE. She was held for TWO DAYS. ICE agents handcuffed her, called her a racial slur, and she was knocked to the ground so hard she got a concussion. This cannot continue happening. ICE needs to leave. 16075293341
Reposted by Peter GriesarCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18/09/2026* VIRGINIA GOVERNOR SAYS STATE IS BANNING NON-DISCLOSURE AGREEMENTS FOR DATA CENTERS, REQUIRING STRICTER PERMITTING AND CLEAN ENERGY MANDATES FOR THE SERVER WAREHOUSES @reuters.com 483451732
Reposted by Peter Griesarspeedspublic.bsky.social @speedspublic.bsky.social · 18/09/2026It's nuts to think we're at war with you. Crack one open and chill out. 041
Reposted by Peter GriesarDemocracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 17/09/2026💭 Can you think of an ominous sign that the U.S. is backsliding on democracy? Here's one: An international election watchdog group that has observed every federal election for two decades won't be doing so for this year's midterms. All because the Trump administration didn't invite them.democracydocket.comExclusive: These international observers have monitored US elections for decades. This time, the Trump admin didn’t invite themIt’s the latest ominous sign that the U.S. is backsliding on democracy — and adds to concerns that the administration wants to undermine the vote. 25341215
Peter Griesar @griesar.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Somehow the word “elevate“ everywhere in marketing these days is reinforcing my trash experience. 1110
Reposted by Peter GriesarMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026New — I wrote about this weird thing where people within the Republican party keep being exposed as Nazis and the party then tries to claim each one is an aberration. The facts, as I lay out here, indicate otherwise:thehandbasket.coRepublicans don’t have a Nazi problem—they are the Nazi problemA spate of recent revelations have shown the ideologies and their adherents are one and the same. 10182542701