iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by Jason Rashaad

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 30/09/2026

Trump on the AI meeting yesterday: "They're going to police each other. And they're going to self police. They're going to police themselves. It's going to work out very well."

4218642

Jason Rashaad @ilookbetterthanyourdad.com · 29/09/2026

Not calling things what they are helped bring us here. “Truth and reconciliation” is what is needed. Softening the language diminishes potential impact.

000

Reposted by Jason Rashaad

Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Article 25 (3)(e) of the statute establishing the International Criminal Court criminalizes incitement to genocide. If someone can walk into the United Nations and say this, they’re daring the court to act.

13241041198

Reposted by Jason Rashaad

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/09/2026

Dr Oz: "CMS is announcing a temporary national moratorium. There will be no new brokers for Obamacare in this country for the next months."

242728307

Reposted by Jason Rashaad

Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 21/09/2026

Trump & Vought are politicizing critical medical research and make no mistake: in the long run, this will cost lives. Their continued attacks will put future cures and treatments at risk in service of their own political agenda. Shameful.

nytimes.com

White House Moves to Take Control of N.I.H. Grants

Federal officials are drafting an executive order that would place grants under review by an outside panel, the latest effort to redirect billions of dollars in research spending.

1826192

Reposted by Jason Rashaad

Nicole LaFond @nicolelafond.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

@sarahposner.bsky.social has a new piece out on TPM today about border czar Tom Homan's speech before an evangelical crowd in Georgia last week that was heavy on profanity & an overall celebration of Trump's anti-immigrant brutality:

talkingpointsmemo.com

Homan Stumps for Georgia GOPers by Promoting ICE Brutality in Speech to Evangelicals

In Church, Merch, and State, Sarah Posner writes about the intersection of religion and...

86829

Jason Rashaad @ilookbetterthanyourdad.com · 22/09/2026

Someone told him when you rename something you can pretend it was yours all along.

2241

Reposted by Jason Rashaad

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/09/2026

Trump tells the UN he is officially changing the name of Artificial Intelligence to "Super Intelligence" and says all US government documents will now be changed to refer to "SI"

17492139533

Reposted by Jason Rashaad

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

“That was one of the best experiences of my life.” 🚽 A New Yorker uses one of the 17 public bathrooms @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social had put in around NYC👇🏽 — this must be that “SoCiALiSm” we’re supposed to be afraid of! Again: The big problem the fearmongerers have is @ZohranKMamdani exists

691304352

Reposted by Jason Rashaad

PBS News @pbsnews.org · 20/09/2026

President Donald Trump has renewed his attacks on the Federal Reserve after it hiked its benchmark interest rate Wednesday, but the Fed matters less than broader economic trends when it comes to longer-term borrowing costs, economists say. to.pbs.org/4y6Ogzu

to.pbs.org

Federal Reserve rate hike reflects new world of sticky inflation and faster growth

The low interest-rate, low-inflation world that lasted for nearly 15 years after the Great Recession is over and a higher-priced, higher-rate world is taking its place.

66614

Reposted by Jason Rashaad

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Since Trump claims that it was “the military” that requested to use the arch to store sniper ammo & drones, these are the times when a Democratic majority could bring Gen. Dan Caine before Congress to find out from him if that is true & why. As usual, Republicans will do nothing.

16545541130

Reposted by Jason Rashaad

Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It’s not “third-country deportation,” it’s an extraordinary rendition, complete with torture and enforced silence by the “host” country’s thugs. And it’s a direct consequence of never imposing punishment on the CIA for doing this during the War on Terror.

nytimes.com

A Central African Hotel Has Become a Nightmare Prison for U.S. Deportees

Witnesses say men were hooded and beaten in Equatorial Guinea. The autocratic government there is a partner in President Trump’s deportation program.

3225291032

Reposted by Jason Rashaad

Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

“Jesus doesn’t hear the prayers of those who wage war.” — Pope Leo XIV

854796903

Jason Rashaad @ilookbetterthanyourdad.com · 20/09/2026

I feel, irrationally, like everything is suddenly much worse.

010

Reposted by Jason Rashaad

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

My man looks like a rageaholic who coincidentally happens to be an alcoholic

347118

Reposted by Jason Rashaad

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

My man looks like he's worn a friar's cloak in a candlelit basement

548213

Reposted by Jason Rashaad

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

My man looks like one of Biff Tannen's sidekicks

1090320

Reposted by Jason Rashaad

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

My man looks like he's insisting the pledge died *with* alcohol poisoning, not *from* alcohol poisoning

8137167

Jason Rashaad @ilookbetterthanyourdad.com · 16/09/2026

This is where I lost consciousness

000

Jason Rashaad @ilookbetterthanyourdad.com · 15/09/2026

OK thank you I was sitting here blinking trying to reconcile what I was reading.

010

Reposted by Jason Rashaad

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Safe to say the people of Kentucky are not being represented properly

2917146433619

Reposted by Jason Rashaad

The Economist @economist.com · 15/09/2026

After nine years of decline, democracy scores have risen in more than half of the countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. That trend may happen elsewhere, too

bit.ly

Global democracy is in better shape than you think

EIU’s annual index suggests an end to the democracy recession

2188

Reposted by Jason Rashaad

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Oh. Makes sense! (Friends of the IDF is also the org the CBS-owning Ellisons give millions to)

421028394

Reposted by Jason Rashaad

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

this statemement robert kraft gave to @wgbh.org re: macklemore and ed sheeran is so gross, framing his ultimatum to sheeran as though he was doing jews a service by protecting us from "hate speech." there is nothing hateful about saying "free palestine." www.wgbh.org/news/politic...

401505280

Reposted by Jason Rashaad

kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Very rare to see someone like this with principles

macklemore
-
I didn't need 10 shows from Ed. I needed 2. Two chances to stand in front of 90,000 people and say the words that somehow became too dangerous to
say.
Free Palestine.
But if those words cost me the stage, while turning the conversation back to Palestine, then it was the most successful tour I've ever been on.

7287891844

Reposted by Jason Rashaad

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

If Trump wanted to crown himself emperor in the national cathedral alito and thomas would support it

1093966558

Reposted by Jason Rashaad

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 14/09/2026

Katie Phang on a Russian oligarch bankrolling Don Jr.’s wedding: “They’re so dumb, we see it happening in real time. But because there’s no consequence or accountability, they just do it in the wide open.”

613173575394

Reposted by Jason Rashaad

kingkurt42.bsky.social @kingkurt42.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I think Elie Wiesel said it best: "We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented."

217735

Reposted by Jason Rashaad

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Ms. Rachel: "Ed Sheeran had an opportunity…Instead he caved to people who refuse to accept what the world knows." "If more than 20,000 white children were killed…everyone would be shouting…Treating some children's lives as less worthy of outrage is racist. Silence during a genocide is not neutral."

Ms. Rachel post:
"Ed Sheeran had an opportunity show that we won't be bullied into punishing people for supporting Palestine. Instead he caved to people who refuse to accept what the world knows. A genocide is happening in Gaza. We all need to speak out against it.

"If more than 20,000 white children were killed in another part of the world, everyone would be shouting about it at their concerts. Treating some children's lives as less worthy of outrage is racist. Silence during a genocide is not neutral."

7763701782

Reposted by Jason Rashaad

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The amount of Amazon workers relying on SNAP and Medicaid has nearly tripled since 2020. — while Amazon’s annual profits soared by over 550%. It’s the same story everywhere: corporate profits are at record highs, while workers’ share of the economy is at a record low. We must unrig the system.

518153165867

Reposted by Jason Rashaad

ProPublica @propublica.org · 14/09/2026

NEW: Donald Trump Jr.’s Bahamas Wedding Was Secretly Bankrolled by Russian Oligarch Close to Putin Umar Kremlev footed the bill for hundreds of thousands of dollars of wedding expenses at Donald Trump Jr.’s lavish wedding, including renting out a private island and paying for the fireworks show.

propublica.org

Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch

The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...

21826881395

Reposted by Jason Rashaad

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

New: Macklemore says Robert Kraft — who owns Gillette Stadium, where Macklemore & Ed Sheeran were to perform later this month — called Sheeran. Kraft rallied other owners together behind an ultimatum for Sheeran: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you won't be allowed in our venues.

I'm not sure how to start this. So I'm going to speak from the heart and share the truth. Ed Sheeran and his team have made the decision to remove me from The Loop tour.
But before I get into it, I want to say something that should be obvious. In this moment I think it matters. I am not a victim. Ed Sheeran is not a victim. Pink is not a victim. We have careers, money, opportunities, safety and audiences around the world. Whatever consequences any of us face for what we say, we get to go home to our families.

The victims are the Palestinian people. The men, women and children who have been killed, starved, displaced and forced to live through unimaginable violence. More than 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza alone. People are being killed today, and people will be killed tomorrow. I want to make sure that as I tell this story, we don't lose sight of that.

Ed is my friend. I've known him for 13 years. We've shared late nights, studio sessions and stages. He has this infectious magic about him that I've grown to love. I consider him a brother. And because of that, we've had some difficult conversations this past week. The type of talks rooted in love and respect for one another that still end in a place of fundamental disagreement. Nothing I'm writing here is out of spite or because I want to tear down his character. But as I told Ed multiple times on the phone, our friendship can't change my responsibility to tell the truth about what happened.

Last Monday, in the middle of all the media attention surrounding Pink and what I said at MetLife, Ed told me that Robert Kraft called him. We were scheduled to play Gillette Stadium later this month, which is owned by the Kraft Group. Ed told me that Kraft said I would not be allowed to perform in his stadium. Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other
stadium owners and collectively they gave him an ultimatum: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues.

Ed was in …

What I said at MetLife I have been saying on stages around the world for almost three years. So why is it an issue now? Because now I'm sharing a stage with one of the biggest artists in the world, in some of the biggest stadiums in America. At a certain level of exposure, "Free Palestine" becomes too much of a risk. If I kept doing the shows, saying Free Palestine, with Ed implicitly supporting it, the crowd getting loud and showing undeniable support for Palestinian liberation, what artist might speak out next? The stage becomes resistance. Maybe that's why this time it became so important to silence me.

And one of the most effective ways to enforce that silence has been to weaponize the accusation of antisemitism. Antisemitism is real. And that is exactly why the word matters too much to be used as a shield against criticism of the Israeli state. When criticizing Israel, opposing Zionism or saying "Free Palestine" gets conflated with hatred of Jewish people, it doesn't protect Jewish people. It protects Israel from accountability.

I hope this isn't the end of my relationship with Ed.
Thirteen years of friendship doesn't disappear because of one painful disagreement. I hope we both continue listening, studying what is happening in Palestine and wrestling with what neutrality means in a moment like this. My door will always be open to continuing that conversation.

When my brother Omar was doing the subtitles for the video I posted from MetLife, I thanked him. He told me there's a phrase in Arabic:
لا شكر على واجب
"La shukra ala wajeb." There is no thanks for a duty.
That stayed with me. Because that's what this has become for me and millions of others around the world. A duty. Not something deserving of praise or gratitude. Not brave. Human.

Who is winning the internet, who is getting canceled, who gets to play the stadium and who doesn't, all of it becomes so small when held against what we are actually witnessing in Gaza and the West Bank. An entire people be…

31570512531

Reposted by Jason Rashaad

kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

He cooked Ed Sheeran on IG

macklemore
Follow
•••
5/12
Ed was in a fucked up position. He knew it. His typical apolitical stance was being challenged in a way it never had been before. He told me that the words
"Free Palestine" and the image of the Palestinian flag were hurtful to a lot of people he spoke with. I told him that if those words were more offensive than tens of thousands of Palestinian children being killed by Israel, then there was a fundamental disconnect between where those people stood and where I stood. But he couldn't get past his public facing, "I don't take sides."

189145593029

Reposted by Jason Rashaad

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

And if you think this is wrong and needs to be addressed they call you a communist

393109814168

Reposted by Jason Rashaad

Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

“Good,” said Frog.

312018

Jason Rashaad @ilookbetterthanyourdad.com · 07/09/2026

April. What was April...who even knows at this point.

000

Reposted by Jason Rashaad

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft are all planning huge layoffs. Amazon got $17.5B in federal tax breaks last year. Jeff Bezos is worth $271B. Meta saved $13.7B in taxes. Mark Zuckerberg is worth $231B. Microsoft saved $12.5B last year. Its CEO is worth $1.3B. This is what a rigged economy looks like.

399126594994

Reposted by Jason Rashaad

Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Oligarchs have always been a threat, but tech oligarchs represent a new level of danger. Their wealth dwarfs historical tycoons and their control over algorithms allows them to curate human reality. They own the digital infrastructure of thought

83392393501

Jason Rashaad @ilookbetterthanyourdad.com · 24/04/2026

Marvelous. "Experts have warned that these groups, which mix rightwing extremism with fitness and combat sports to recruit and radicalize members of communities across the US, pose a potential public danger." @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

theguardian.com

Members of neo-Nazi ‘active clubs’ join combat events at secretive Virginia compound

Licensed school teacher and one-time police officer among those participating in riot-style gatherings as experts warn of threat to public safety

000

Reposted by Jason Rashaad

Russell England @russellengland.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

France is switching from Microsoft to Linux "We must become less reliant on American tools and regain control of our digital destiny. We can no longer accept that our data, our infrastructure, our strategic decisions depend on solutions whose rules, pricing, evolution, and risks we do not control."

numerique.gouv.fr

279104862255