iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by Mathew Strack

Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026

Man, imagine you're minding your own business, getting kind of drunk with your friends at a picturesque brewery in Maine, when suddenly John Roberts walks by and you get to start heckling him. Must have felt incredible. That's the dream. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...

The chief justice used to preside over a Supreme Court whose members were afforded more privacy and freedom than many other public officials. Once, years ago, Mr. Lipson and the chief justice found themselves up the peninsula from Port Clyde without a car, Mr. Lipson recalled in an interview. So he stuck out his thumb by the side of the road and a pickup truck pulled over. He and the nation’s top jurist hopped in the back and hitchhiked back to town.

Now, Mr. Lipson said, he is cautious about introducing his friend to strangers. This year, on an outing to nearby Monhegan Island, people recognized the chief justice as he walked by a brewery and started to chant: You should be ashamed.

1515362809

Mathew Strack @gs-badger.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“Every once in a while, a book comes along that is so transformative and so persuasive that it has the potential to shape our institutions and our democracy. Supremacy is one such book.”

074

Reposted by Mathew Strack

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s also really clear to me this week that the people telling us that AI will transform work…haven’t seen a lot of jobs where people work.

211254216

Reposted by Mathew Strack

ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social

178124452669

Reposted by Mathew Strack

Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

NEW AD: Listen to this sh*t.

38191192847

Reposted by Mathew Strack

Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

How are there any defenders of the Roberts Court left? I can think of only two reasons: 1) Hates democracy, disdains rule of law, hopes for permanent overthrow of the Constitution, glad to see more backsliding 2) Deep denial, a psychological and/or professional need to pretend 1 isn’t happening

3053695

Reposted by Mathew Strack

Alex Gibney @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The trailer for my new film, "Musk," has just been released.

7935751368

Reposted by Mathew Strack

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

WSJ: The AI build-out is on track to become the biggest economic bet in US history, dwarfing the investments made to fund other huge US infrastructure projects — such as the railroads, the highway system and the plumbing for the internet.” (via Jefferies)

37503181

Reposted by Mathew Strack

Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The full trailer for You Can See Everything is out today. And my first thought is that it should be required that Nathan Fielder film for 48 hrs at every tech CEO’s home.

411620283

Reposted by Mathew Strack

Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This aired just the once in 1998 on the live SNL show for which McKay wrote it. It was effectively banned as it never aired again. I wonder why. MEDIA-OPOLY

257143956830

Reposted by Mathew Strack

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Big Tech is using panic to suck the air out of the room just as people are demanding transparency and accountability for the sector’s egregious, monopolistic overreach into every facet of our lives. My latest column with bonus track open.spotify.com/track/403oiK...

open.spotify.com

Thieves in the Temple

Prince · Music from Graffiti Bridge · Song · 1990

71368309

Reposted by Mathew Strack

Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

HAHAHAHAHAHAHHA WAT

1091414162

Mathew Strack @gs-badger.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Dick Durbin reminds everyone why he won’t be missed

000

Reposted by Mathew Strack

DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · 08/09/2026

Trey Parker & Matt Stone announce that ‘SOUTH PARK’ will be renamed to ‘SOUTH AMERICA’. “Inspired by the bravery & patriotism of Apple & Google, we are changing the name of South Park to SOUTH AMERICA. We especially want to thank our parent company Paramount -- a Skydance Capitulation.”

613723916

Reposted by Mathew Strack

Tommy Tomlinson @tommytomlinson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

So here's a quote from @pablo.show that applies to not only his Clippers investigation but the best of what journalism can be: www.nytimes.com/athletic/756...

"I think that we have the ability to do something that the rest of our culture is yearning for, which is make people who are too rich to care about anything resembling the public interest worry that maybe they need to tell us the truth."

203669884

Reposted by Mathew Strack

Pablo Torre @pablo.show · 03/09/2026

Accountability for the wealthiest people on Earth is hard to come by. Thank you for believing in the power of independent journalism to accomplish it. (And, yes, more to come.) www.pablo.show/p/it-happened

pablo.show

It Happened.

EPISODE 423: The biggest punishment in NBA history.

1153548453

Reposted by Mathew Strack

Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

What Pablo Torre did was ridiculously impressive. Uncovered a conspiracy between rich guys, withstood a propaganda campaign by one of the richest guys in the world with a pretty good reputation, didn't buckle or panic, and just kept reporting. That's some Pulitzerin' right there.

146142252079

Reposted by Mathew Strack

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.

Not only is this system astonishingly untested, USPS has simultaneously implemented an
impracticable zero percent failure rate.
13 When ballots are submitted to USPS in large-volume
batches, if any one ballot in the batch cannot be verified against the Portal, all ballots in that
batch will be rejected. For example, if a state election official brings a batch of 10,000 ballots to
USPS and USPS is unable to match just one of those ballots against the Portal – because, for
example, someone has recently changed their name after marriage or they’ve moved – then
USPS would refuse to mail the remaining 9,999 ballots as well. As the whistleblower notes,

34895864678

Reposted by Mathew Strack

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 31/08/2026

the clyburn endorsement was a legitimately big deal for court reform (or court "smashing" if you prefer)

youtu.be

It looks like Democrats are getting serious about Supreme Court reform

YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie

431916274

Reposted by Mathew Strack

David Kurtz @davidkurtz.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The gig is up in the very first sentence of the Supreme Court's per curiam opinion on the Trump ballroom (emphasis added): "In October 2025, the *federal government* started a project to replace the East Wing of the White House." They've collapsed the legislative branch into the unitary executive.

622873720

Reposted by Mathew Strack

Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Three’s a trend, so Goldman, Conway, and Vindman all losing their primary supposedly signifies the death knell of resistance. I think that analysis is wrong and Dems will suffer if they assume their voters no longer care about Resistance One style procedural and bureaucratic fighting.

offmessage.net

The #Resistance Is Dead; Long Live The Resistance

Pro-democracy Americans don’t think resistance failed; they think it was failed by frauds and cowards.

2121135

Reposted by Mathew Strack

MapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026

We're not changing the name of Lake Ontario. Name it whatever you want at your leisure: gulfof.mapquest.com/lakeontario (tag us so we can see your work 🙂)

982101582400

Reposted by Mathew Strack

Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

In the midst of an awful lot of ever-so-sophisticated equivocating and oh-so-thoughtful-chin-stroking and too-clever-by-half-over-thinking, I just want to say, simply and unequivocally and for the record: The Resistance Libs Were Right.

2154893819

Reposted by Mathew Strack

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

"WASHINGTON, Aug 27 (Reuters) - The ‌U.S. Postal Service said ⁠on Thursday that new requirements for mail-in voting ‌are ⁠now in effect ⁠as court challenges ⁠continued." Well, is this illegal travesty ripe now, John?

311834446

Mathew Strack @gs-badger.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

this type of machine will always need a new category of people to go after

001

Reposted by Mathew Strack

William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026

[Exit Queen.]

2063894511013

Reposted by Mathew Strack

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Algorithms killed the spectrum of emotional valences. Everything now is set to 10. Bring back the eyeroll, the exasperated sigh, the hand wave, the shoulder shrug. Some stuff is just mildly annoying or blandly dumb. You don’t need to blow every emotional outburst on the mundane.

251893270

Reposted by Mathew Strack

Martha Smith @mostlymartha.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

That an opposition party should be adversarial instead of constantly compromising partners in government is not a new or impossible idea. "Reaching across the aisle" as a political value is something of a global and historical political abberation that only benefitted one specific 20th C cohort.

39213

Reposted by Mathew Strack

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 24/08/2026

"There’s nothing in the Constitution that makes the Supreme Court the sovereign monarch of everyone and everything in America. We’ve just grown to tolerate it because, so far, it hasn’t been abjectly abused. Those days are (tragically) over."

lnk.thebulwark.com

John Roberts Gives Trump a License to Bulldoze the Law

The chief justice’s order turns the president’s illegal ballroom construction project into a fait accompli.

1726094

Mathew Strack @gs-badger.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

pack the Court or lose the Republic

000

Reposted by Mathew Strack

Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

On the Jeffries imbroglio, it looks at the very least like he got played for a sucker; to regain trust, he’d have to debrief House Dems and free them to talk to the press (or just discuss the Kushner meeting directly). But it’s a bad omen. www.offmessage.net/p/hakeem-jef...

offmessage.net

We Need To Hear From Jeffries

He needs to be drawing redlines, not signaling compromise. Did he get snookered, or does he really intend to work cooperatively with thieves?

70862184

Reposted by Mathew Strack

ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 23/08/2026

you can’t really ask for a more iconic set of images than spiderman vs. jake lang

spiderman beating the shit out of jake lang

281557272

Reposted by Mathew Strack

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/08/2026

WELKER: Do you think democratic socialists have a place in the Democratic Party? VAN HOLLEN: Yes they do as part of the debate. I think that those in the Dem Party who are afraid of a healthy debate are missing the point, because Democratic voters do not want a return to the pre-Trump status quo

31657721015

Mathew Strack @gs-badger.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

pathetic behavior from the Dem leader

000

Reposted by Mathew Strack

Chase Madar @madar.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Remarkable how little political noise it's made here in the US that a major American naval base in Bahrain was basically destroyed, and that this was kept quiet for five months www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/u...

nytimes.com

Navy Carrier’s Problems Are Tied to Attacks on U.S. Base Early in War

Diego Garcia, a tiny island 2,200 miles from the Gulf of Oman, took over as the Navy’s logistics hub after Iran damaged a base in Bahrain.

591846758