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Peter Griesar

@griesar.bsky.social
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Creator of things you know and you don’t.

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Dominique 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
Screenshot of article which reads: From this perspective, the “both sides” frame falls apart. The prob-
lem is not that the parties are divided. The problem is the existential 
threat that a reempowered ethnonationalist strain poses to pluralistic 
U.S. democracy writ large. 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. The only way to re-oppress most of a country is to use anti-
democratic and authoritarian tactics. And the only way to oppose those 
tactics is to push back as a population and clearly reject them. This is 
the argument happening in the United States, and its pathology is not 
anger—it is the movement to undermine a generation of rights.
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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.”
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wow
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Peter Griesar @griesar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
That time of year when the starlings have their evening meetings in Esmont
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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 01/10/2026
Pareidolia is absolutely cooking people’s brains. I am so embarrassed for humanity.
nytimes.com
Religious 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.
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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This child is 13 and was testifying without an attorney present. Monsters.
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Peter Griesar @griesar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Imagine if we had invested in science all the money we've invested in science fiction.
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Peter Griesar @griesar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The phrase “botched execution” is truly disgusting. Do better media. Also John Roberts et al should live in shame until they burn in hell.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026
the 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.org
Ketanji Brown Jackson Is Getting Tired of the Supreme Court’s Shadow Docket Abuses
The conservative supermajority keeps refusing to take the real-world harms of its work seriously.
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Peter Griesar @griesar.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Has AI broken containment?
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Peter Griesar @griesar.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Hadn’t checked this since the pandemic and wow, what a trend
US men labor force participation rate showing a decline from 87% in 1950 to 67% in 2025
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Angilee Shah @angshah.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Hearing 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.org
Her downtown art exhibit was vandalized. Here's why she's keeping the damage
Photographer Kori Price says that we, as a society, are capable of healing while acknowledging harms of the past and present.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Klobuchar 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"
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Jim Duncan @jimduncan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What the hell is happening to Albemarle County schools? dailyprogress.com/news/local/e... (also, thanks to the Daily Progress)
dailyprogress.com
3 Albemarle principals out 'extended period of time' with zero explanation
Three Albemarle County principals will be "out of the building for an extended period of time," the school division announced Monday with no explanation.
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Peter Griesar @griesar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Of course Mark Warner voted for this because it was what private equity wanted.
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
fucking really
thehill.com
Education Department formally rescinds Title IX protections for LGBTQ students
The 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…
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Urvi @theurv.com · 28/09/2026
There 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.
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Peter Griesar @griesar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Recalled to RFK Jrs dinner table
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Peter Griesar @griesar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Cornell story is precisely why University police departments should be abolished everywhere.
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Peter Griesar @griesar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
SCOTUS begging to be packed
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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."
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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
ceo of burger king: our burgers have gone rogue again and infected people with e coli
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Peter Griesar @griesar.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I 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...
He hung up and ran to tell her he'd just gotten an incredible opportunity: David Bowie
wanted him to remix a new song called "Seven." Indeed, Bowie wanted Beck to come
up with two remixes, each in a different style.
He said he had to cancel the camping trip. It was at that moment Leigh decided it was over between her and Beck.
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Peter Griesar @griesar.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The 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.
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Betcy Jose @betcy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Still 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
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Peter Griesar @griesar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
ACAB (all covers are blown)
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Peter Griesar @griesar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Kids with guns are kids with high serum lead. www.cbs19news.com/news/unknown...
cbs19news.com
Unknown shooters keep disrupting Buckingham internet
BUCKINGHAM COUNTY, Va. (CBS19 NEWS) -- People in Buckingham County keep losing their internet connections, and it's because people keep shooting at the power lines.
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Peter Griesar @griesar.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This 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
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
From the people who told you that straight white male privilege doesn’t exist…
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 20/09/2026
Oregon 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.
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Oregon Lawmakers Seek to Open Up Affordable Housing Records Following ProPublica’s Reporting
Leaders 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.
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Peter Griesar @griesar.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Would 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.
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Peter Griesar @griesar.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
When your spirit animal is a cybertruck
SUV w trailer parked across 4 spaces including a handicapped space
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Matt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Very 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...
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Peter Griesar @griesar.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Robert 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.
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Peter Griesar @griesar.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Someone 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.
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Peter Griesar @griesar.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
If Americans don’t care about this then are “Americans” even a thing anymore?
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Tony Stark @tonystark.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This 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.com
Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics
The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war
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Turing Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is just NATO membership.
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Peter Griesar @griesar.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Good idea to eliminate any reason for them to pull punches to protect their access.
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Minnesota House DFL @mnhousedfl.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Nasra 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.
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Carl 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
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Peter Griesar @griesar.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
America’s Mayor
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speedspublic.bsky.social @speedspublic.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It's nuts to think we're at war with you. Crack one open and chill out.
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Peter Griesar @griesar.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Landru!
Landru, computer god from Star Trek that humans worshipped in return for making no more social or intellectual progress
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Democracy 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.com
Exclusive: These international observers have monitored US elections for decades. This time, the Trump admin didn’t invite them
It’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.
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Peter Griesar @griesar.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
As an American you should want justice for all.
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Peter Griesar @griesar.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Somehow the word “elevate“ everywhere in marketing these days is reinforcing my trash experience.
A label that says “elevate your trash experience”
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Peter Griesar @griesar.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Virginia is the 2nd best state for teachers.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
New — 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.co
Republicans don’t have a Nazi problem—they are the Nazi problem
A spate of recent revelations have shown the ideologies and their adherents are one and the same.
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