Reposted by Jay RedingThe Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 4hThis man is doing more harm to the US military through screaming incompetence than most foreign adversaries could manage through the use of force. 913722
Reposted by Jay RedingBill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 1hWatching Hegseth, I think of Eco's 'Ur-Fascism': "Since war and heroism are difficult, the Ur-Fascist transfers his will to power to sexual matters. This is the origin of machismo (which implies both disdain for women and condemnation of nonstandard sexual habits)." www.nybooks.com/articles/199...nybooks.comUr-Fascism | Umberto EcoI think it is possible to outline a list of features that are typical of what I would like to call Ur-Fascism, or Eternal Fascism. These features cannot be organized into a system; many of them contra... 514541
Reposted by Jay RedingMara Abolish I.C.E. @mauratwit.bsky.social · 09/09/2026“Bringing this facility online, adding 1,600 beds is really taking Minnesota’s current detention capacity and multiplying it by a factor of seven or eight” ‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️ Dfl silence on this is deeply disturbing.sahanjournal.comAs hiring begins for Appleton ICE facility, CoreCivic offers to pay city and county more than $1.5M a year for lost tax dollarsCoreCivic has offered the Appleton and Swift County more than $1.5M million per year to cover tax revenue they would lose following the sale of the shuttered Prairie Correctional Facility. 22314
Reposted by Jay RedingDavid Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 2hwas just having a conversation about this. it's true. of all the trump admin crimes since 1/2025, these killings are among the clearest cut, with the most law/jurisprudence to support prosecution of a whole range of ppl involved, from leadership to subordinates. 012135
Reposted by Jay RedingPwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 4hAI xrisk people: ok we are particularly concerned about AI autonomous weapons Normal people: in principle I agree, but seems a bit far fetched that will happen tbh USG: today we are announcing we are doing AI autonomous weapons on purpose 521643
Reposted by Jay RedingSam @samd.bsky.social · 20hshould be instructive for democrats that Magyar is living up to his promise to prosecute Orban officials for corruption and is continuing to poll extremely highly 231580439
Jay Reding @jayreding.bsky.social · 4hstatic.klipy.comFuturama Bender Laughing at Leela MemeALT: Futurama Bender Laughing at Leela Meme 010
Reposted by Jay RedingJack Lynch @jacklynch000.bsky.social · 8hTeaching Swift today, and will always share this on “Modest Proposal” day. 451262267
Jay Reding @jayreding.bsky.social · 6hHere's a race to watch. MN-1 would normally be a safe GOP district. Beyond Rochester (home of the Mayo Clinic donchaknow...) it is mainly rural ag communities. But due to the Iran War and tariffs farmers in MN-1 have gotten hosed. If MN-1 goes blue, expect a wave. www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...cbsnews.comCook Political Report downgrades Finstad's reelection odds in Minnesota's 1st DistrictDemocrat Jake Johnson, a high school math teacher, is running a competitive race against Republican Rep. Brad Finstad, prompting analysts to downgrade Finstad's reelection outlook. 010
Reposted by Jay RedingSteve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 8hJust a reminder that the last time DOJ filed a misconduct complaint against a district judge, it was dismissed in a ruling by Chief Judge Sutton that was all but dripping with contempt (for the government): www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/internet/jud...opn.ca6.uscourts.gov 13449121
Reposted by Jay RedingDaniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 7hSUSAs final primary poll had Angie Craig up by 2. That was a 22 point miss. PPP (Flannigan +14) was closer to the final margin for the primary even while having more undecideds than SUSA. Whatever theyre doing there rn, its pretty clear theyre not actually getting a good picture of the MN electorate 3194
Reposted by Jay RedingGabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 6hDOJ's complaint about at least seven fed. judges in Minnesota for talking to the NYTimes about the Trump administration's mismanagement of immigration enforcement complains of these ten truthful statements on the ground that some immigration cases are pending appeal. www.justice.gov/sites/defaul... 617365
Reposted by Jay RedingCharlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 8hThere is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o... 8854311597
Jay Reding @jayreding.bsky.social · 7hJudge Schiltz is a conservative judge in just about every sense of the world. He is incredibly well-liked in the Minnesota legal community and has a sterling reputation. The DOJ sounds like a crazy pro se litigant here. This is not going to play well for them. 013
Reposted by Jay RedingCharlie Thomas @cthomasjamh.bsky.social · 10hIt still amazes me that people saw signs that said “Mass Deportation Now!!” waved by supporters of an administration who has already been detaining children and law abiding immigrants previously, and thought “oh they just mean the *bad* people!” 0226
Reposted by Jay RedingSukie 💙🇺🇸🇺🇦🌊 @froggybottompond.bsky.social · 11h''I'd like to go ahead and solve it. The Atlanta Hawks.'' 16098382240
Reposted by Jay RedingEric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 11hNot a great sign when your 12-person private fundraiser includes someone who hates you enough to leak damaging audio 562464495
Reposted by Jay RedingDavid M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 11hMotion on the floor is to rename a Minnesota team - I don’t care which one and whether it’s college or pro - the Walleyes. 6531
Reposted by Jay RedingEvan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Definitely click through on this story for the quotes from the Third Way spokesperson, who AGREED Democratic candidates should NOT adopt Republican language on trans issues. I was floored - even tried to get Billie to put it in the headline. This is not just analysis, these quotes are news. 211298419
Reposted by Jay RedingGreg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 13hSomething remarkable is happening: James Talarico is running an expansively pro-immigrant campaign in Texas, a state Trump won by 14 points, speaking in Biblical terms about our duty to "the stranger." And it's resonating. That's seismic. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2160...newrepublic.comIn Texas, Something Seismic Is Happening—and It’s All Trump’s FaultThanks to the economy and ICE, Trump has lost Texas Latinos. And James Talarico is developing a humane pro-immigrant message that’s resonating—even in this ultra-Trumpy state. 883422875
Jay Reding @jayreding.bsky.social · 22hBear is home! Thanks so much to everyone who offered suggestions and prayers. Small things like that are more meaningful than you know. My daughter is so happy he’s back! 041
Reposted by Jay RedingScoiattolo @scarnecchia.net · 29/09/2026Anthropic is just directly fearmongering about the open weight models that are eating their lunch on price now huhanthropic.comGLM-5.3 and the Spread of Advanced Cyber CapabilitiesGLM-5.3 can autonomously build end-to-end cyber exploits, but unlike other frontier models, it was released without meaningful safeguards to limit misuse. 1926838
Reposted by Jay RedingAnthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This is a human rights abuse worthy of prosecution under intentional law. Minimally, they should be impeached and removed for this alone. 15482157
Jay Reding @jayreding.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Bear is still out there. I am covered in brambles and mud. It's pouring rain. Luckily I found a motion detecting camera in storage to put by the door. I saw him at 3am and he came to the door at 6am. Maybe he'll come back at dark again. Telling the kids he's not home yet is going to be so tough. 000
Reposted by Jay RedingPolitical Poll Bot 📊 @pollresults.org · 29/09/2026National House Sep 25 - 28, 2026 Generic Democrat (D) 53% (+15.0%) Generic Republican (R) 38% Don't know 6% Someone else 3% Would not vote 0% YouGov (B) 1003 LV Sponsor: Economist View Poll 410714
Reposted by Jay RedingPaul Voosen @voosen.me · 28/09/2026New Horizons is now *three days away* from shutting off its two heliophysics instruments, simply because NASA has not provided the $2M in funding it had promised to the mission last year or this year. There is no science basis for shutting these off. Our earlier coverage:science.orgNASA’s New Horizons mission may shut down two instruments over lack of fundingDecision risks “incalculable loss” of data from the edge of the Sun’s influence, scientists say 16650398
Reposted by Jay RedingJoshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026no one should use this thing but I just cannot stress enough that you have to stay away from it if you’re a practicing attorney 3520178
Jay Reding @jayreding.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Our cat got out tonight and hasn’t come back. My daughter is distraught. This has been a very tough year on us all, and losing Bear would be terrible. If you are the praying type, we would appreciate it. 4135
Jay Reding @jayreding.bsky.social · 29/09/2026We are at the point where if there isn’t a rapid effort to hold people accountable under the law there’s going to be a rapid effort to hold people accountable by extralegal means. The latter will get horribly out of control. We cannot afford to let these monsters go unpunished. 000
Reposted by Jay RedingKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This is absolutely correct, but I worry that "truth and reconciliation" will sound too foreign to Americans who have long been allergic to truth and/or reconciliation. I'd just say "we're finally going to hold people who broke the law and violated the Constitution accountable for their crimes" 1152661527
Reposted by Jay Redingevacide @evacide.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Meta Muse appears to read your Apple messages and upload them to the cloud even if you explicitly tell it not to: appleinsider.com/articles/26/...appleinsider.com 1001913984
Reposted by Jay RedingGreg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Lots of talk about defending "Western civilization" these days, so here's Richard Wright on what it means to be Western: 14574128
Reposted by Jay RedingAntijen @antijen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I'm going to be talking to my middle schooler about this tonight. It will be an awkward conversation but 12 is not too young to understand that this kind of horror happens and over the course of his life he will *almost certainly* hear someone brag about assault, or invite him to join in. 2235
Reposted by Jay RedingMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026It's difficult to engage in diplomacy when you're too simple-minded to think about anyone except yourself . . . 39456911596
Reposted by Jay Reding@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026We should expect a lot more of this 'i was wrong about trump' bullsh*t especially after the midterms. Sarah is completely correct: don't fall for it. 26366107
Reposted by Jay RedingRyan @sweetcainmusic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately, and the conclusion I think I’ve come to is that even if it’s not God, we won’t win if we don’t sustain this fight with the faith that what we are saving and the future we are building are righteous. You have to believe in something bigger than yourself. 65511
Jay Reding @jayreding.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Starship Flight 14 made its deorbit burn, meaning the ship is now headed back to Earth for what will hopefully be a controlled splashdown off the Hawaiian cost. The ship is not intended to be recovered on this flight, so an explosion after landing is likely. 000
Jay Reding @jayreding.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Starship Flight 14 is going to make an early de-orbit burn, coming down in a pre-planned splashdown site near Hawaii. No idea why, but it could be due to the engine failure early in the mission. The flight achieved its objective of making orbit and deploying satellites. 100
Jay Reding @jayreding.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Apropos of nothing... www.bbc.com/culture/arti...bbc.com'No one showed any sign of remorse': The heroic US lawyer who put Nazi death squad members on trial at NurembergOn 29 September 1947, the "biggest murder trial in history" began. Seventy years on, the chief prosecutor, Ben Ferencz, told the BBC how he fought to bring 22 killers to justice. 121
Reposted by Jay RedingPhil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 28/09/2026SpaceX just launched the 14th Starship test flight, and it's now successfully in orbit for the first time. This is an amazing achievement, and I absolutely detest how Musk has ruined this sort of thing both for me and for humanity. 3477099
Reposted by Jay RedingLoren Grush @lorengrush.bsky.social · 28/09/2026It's not a Starship flight without a little drama. At first, it seemed like SpaceX might call off orbit insertion after an engine cut out. But the team pressed on and successfully inserted 26 Starlink V3s in orbit www.bloomberg.com/news/article...bloomberg.comSpaceX Launches First Starship Flight to Orbit in Key TestSpaceX’s massive Starship rocket reached orbit for the first time on Monday morning, achieving a milestone for the program after the mission briefly looked at risk because an engine failed during asce... 9314
Jay Reding @jayreding.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Stock buybacks need to be outright banned. The SEC's decision to allow them back in 1982 was a mistake. It is absolutely a way of manipulating markets rather than efficiently allocating capital. 042
Reposted by Jay RedingMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The Pentagon never disclosed that eight US Marines were injured when an Iranian cruise missile hit their vessel in the Strait of Hormuz on September 14, NBC reports. Injuries were eventually added to the casualty record with no announcement ten days later. 501602648
Reposted by Jay RedingKaren Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Haven't thought this out all the way through, but now would be a good time for an aggressive humanitarian movement to combat the death cults, the rise of AI, and otherwise anti-life impulses coursing through our politics and society. 24987214
Reposted by Jay RedingJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026These sound like non-trivial problems. 63940227
Reposted by Jay Redingscottmanley.bsky.social @scottmanley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026After polling engineers, they decided to proceed to orbit, it's now among one of the largest objects ever placed in orbit. 4407
Jay Reding @jayreding.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Looks like Starship Flight 14 is in orbit. Waiting to confirm that Starship has made it to the correct periapsis (lowest point in its orbit). The goal is to have a 275km circular orbit. 000