Reposted by John CrowleyJacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 20/09/20261) Every damn things he's built without Congressional authorization gets demolished on the first day. 2) Christ, he's like a 7-year old. "Oh yeah? Well MY arch is going to be a FORTRESS with GUNS and DRONES and LASERS, you'll be able to CONTROL THE WHOLE CITY from there." 681996365
Reposted by John CrowleyCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Cost of diesel for a typical Los Angeles-to-Dallas truckload: $1,430 — up about $600, or 72%, from the day before the Feb. 28 strikes on Iran.” @bloomberg.com ⛽️ 22943801937
John Crowley @jcrowley.bsky.social · 18/09/2026If what Trump said were true, capitalism would fall apart. The act of purchasing the bananas (as an asset) would convert them to zero value. They would not be a product that an importer could sell to retailers AND they would have zero nutritional value to consumers. 000
John Crowley @jcrowley.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Historically, the strategy of appeasement has (checks notes)... oh. 000
Reposted by John CrowleyBab @bab102.bsky.social · 17/09/2026FOLLOW!!! @bab102.bsky.social @cathyhadenough.bsky.social @fireeyebooks.bsky.social @rammolo.bsky.social @mlipsitt.bsky.social @57kev.bsky.social @kaplanikids.bsky.social @ohpleeznotagain.bsky.social @thmpsnnancy.bsky.social @lenny60.bsky.social @bluestormcomin1.bsky.social @raykwong.lol 93917
John Crowley @jcrowley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Federal websites must provide a trusted way to access official data and information. If the US government is moving fully to AI for design and content, that trust must now be questioned. 020
Reposted by John CrowleyJohn Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 17/09/2026Well they finally did it. DOGE got rid of my friend Anne, the only remaining person at the web design system for the entire US government. The replacement appears to be AI-generated code with no dedicated human oversight.nextgov.comGSA’s web design system head replaced with Treasury AI engineerThe U.S. Web Design System is intended to help the federal government build accessible and mobile-friendly websites. 23740393
Reposted by John CrowleyAngry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 01/09/2026People need to go to jail for this. Full stop. 30765692411
Reposted by John CrowleyKatie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 02/09/2026omg someone just sent me this 1632557
Reposted by John CrowleyNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Liberals say the Supreme Court is hastening the end of our democracy. They’re wrong— the Supreme Court is hastening the end of our republic. 382799421
John Crowley @jcrowley.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Is the Kennedy Center site wanted for a permanent Cagematch Colosseum or a large outdoor parade ground with braziers and eagles? 010
Reposted by John Crowleysouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 25/08/2026This is both what you should probably expect if your fellow countrymen repeatedly empower an iconoclastic authoritarian movement and in and of itself, of course, completely bugfuck insane. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...nbcnews.comTrump administration says it might demolish the Kennedy Center if court blocks renovationsThe DOJ attorneys called the Kennedy Center “structurally unsound, fundamentally unsafe, and embarrassing to the Nation’s Capital.” 41646171
John Crowley @jcrowley.bsky.social · 25/08/2026As a humanitarian, I deal the consequences of underfunded health systems, well-funded armed groups, economic collapses, persecuted refugees, and climate-driven famines and fires. I see pestilence, war, poverty, injustice, and famine. It is time to pay attention to who rides these five horses... 0213
John Crowley @jcrowley.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Greer either has no idea how interdependent our nation's energy and auto industries are, or he is mistepresenting the situation. 010
John Crowley @jcrowley.bsky.social · 16/08/2026As I put together a playlist for That Day, I realized that the US is going to have a serious supply chain problem the week after the celebrations in the streets. Millions of car speakers will be destroyed from playing dance music at volume setting 11. 020
Reposted by John CrowleyMarc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Notice DOJ doesn't talk about its efforts to obtain state voter files anymore. They are 0-20 in those cases and today is the beginning of the quiet period -- states can no longer do systematic removals of names from the voter rolls. TLDR: We won!🥳 543167564241
Reposted by John CrowleyM Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 29/07/2026ZERO 👇 LIES DETECTED....... 27914420
Reposted by John CrowleyJohn Smillie @johnsmillie42.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Big fan of red line go up, not so crazy about blue line stay flat. 1457
Reposted by John CrowleyMike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 20/07/2026"We're gonna do a command economy without any data and instesd rely on the volk's lived experience" continues to be an incredible bit 1660255
John Crowley @jcrowley.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Epic poems like the Odyssey changed with each story teller. Even after it was written down, each era made it relevant to the current context. Today, we remake so that it speaks to us now. Not that someone who owns Grok would understand that each retelling is customised to each audience... 030
Reposted by John CrowleyZack Labe @zacklabe.com · 06/07/2026El Niño continues to grow, with sea surface temperatures clearly at record high levels for the time of year... 📈 Sign up for our next monthly briefing to learn more, including Q/A: climatecentral-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi.... We'll also have an update on 2026's U.S. billion-dollar disasters so far. 19824399
Reposted by John CrowleyWill Burrows 🖖🥖🥀 @reforest-kelley.bsky.social · 28/06/2026By the Burning River Brigade in NE Ohio 162517488
Reposted by John CrowleyEugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 04/07/2026I have already met some number of people who are basically a front-end to an LLM 815618
John Crowley @jcrowley.bsky.social · 29/06/2026While busy with disaster response operations, I made the mistake of staring at today's SCOTUS decisions. I am now firmly moved to support Court reforms that save our country from a quest to institute a monarch. G. Washington would be appalled on all this landing on our 250th anniversary week. 064
John Crowley @jcrowley.bsky.social · 28/06/2026Tacit knowledge--the practical know-how that humans learn only through experience--is illegible to AI. There is no good way to write it down. One has to learn it. It appears that Ford management wanted to ignore the value of practical knowledge to save money. Predictably, it backfired. 2112
Reposted by John CrowleyT. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 28/06/2026🤖🫧💥 www.the-independent.com/tech/ford-ai...the-independent.comFord hired AI and sacked humans. It backfired badly‘We didn’t pay as much attention as we should have to the experience of our most knowledgeable engineers,’ says automaker 36431
John Crowley @jcrowley.bsky.social · 24/06/2026There is apparently a Maquette on the Mall. @musicologyduck.bsky.social walked to the National Mall and found that The Arch has gone full Spinal Tap. If we were in 19th-century Bohemian Paris, students would parade the maquette through the streets, to the consternation of the Bourgeoisie. 010
Reposted by John CrowleyMusicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 24/06/2026CHAT I AM SCREAMING 131986479
Reposted by John CrowleyRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 19/06/2026If you’re enjoying the Trump Administration’s energetic efforts to bring back - measles - whooping cough - screwworm flesh-eating maggots - and to give whole Air Force units the flu... then you’ll be super excited to see what they now have in mind for HIV/AIDS: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/h...nytimes.comNew Plan Scales Back C.D.C.’s Work on Diseases Abroad 12832141401
Reposted by John CrowleyNetty Bo Betty @jnetty.bsky.social · 16/06/2026This morning they’re pouring jugs of hydrogen peroxide to kill the algae and the wildlife in the reflecting pool. 374
Reposted by John CrowleyFinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 16/06/2026IFRC'S BRUNO MICHON IN CONGO: AFRAID IT COULD TAKE A YEAR TO END EBOLA OUTBREAK 011
Reposted by John CrowleyTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Again and again, Russia kills the people and destroys the cultural sites it says it went to war to protect. These crimes will end when the US supplies missile defense to Ukraine and enforces sanctions on Russian energy. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...theguardian.comKyiv monastery set on fire in night of Russian attacks across UkraineDormition Cathedral at Unesco world heritage site struck along with residential buildings across capital 521849690
Reposted by John CrowleyKyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 15/06/2026BREAKING: New from Haberman and Swan: Secret memos show that the Trump White House debated last year, to a greater degree than previously known, whether to limit a constitutional right — suspending habeas corpus rights for undocumented immigrants to accelerate mass deportation efforts.nytimes.comFrustrated by Courts, Trump Weighed Suspending a Constitutional Right 1672115919
John Crowley @jcrowley.bsky.social · 15/06/2026The current US administration seems as if plutocrats mistakenly thought they were buying anti-regulatory kleptocrats, but have since discovered that they actually paid for kakistocrats who are so jealous of the oligarchs' wealth that they are building an autocratic kleptocracy, only incompetently. 030
John Crowley @jcrowley.bsky.social · 15/06/2026At the Kennedy School, negotiation was one of the most difficult classes to get into. It was where we studied how treaties like START came into being. Future students are not going to study the 2026 Iran agreements, unless they want to see incompetence in action. Will this 40th cease fire last 1wk? 021
Reposted by John CrowleyGuy Venables @guyvenables.bsky.social · 14/06/2026One of my cartoons for Monday's Metro 321197084270
Reposted by John CrowleyBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 13/06/2026Sharp thinking by the world’s most brilliant baby boys to create the biggest billboard projection opportunity in D.C. with the Kennedy Center tarp. 833574420
Reposted by John CrowleyAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 13/06/2026NEW: officials inform the court that Trump’s name has been removed from the Kennedy Center. 49969021510
John Crowley @jcrowley.bsky.social · 13/06/2026Thank you to everyone who bore witness to last night's events at the Kennedy Center! There will come a day when music will ring from that plaza, both in joy and sorrow. @repbeatty.bsky.social @musicologyduck.bsky.social @chrisgeidner.bsky.social @msnowevents.bsky.social 110
Reposted by John CrowleyStephen C. Smith @wordsmithfl.bsky.social · 13/06/2026#Politics #Trump Kyle Cheney of #Politico on X says the #KennedyCenter has certified to the judge that Trump's name has been removed. 011
Reposted by John CrowleyAndrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 12/06/2026A trillionaire isn’t a success story. it’s a policy failure. 14276781913
Reposted by John CrowleyFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 12/06/2026as someone who knows a bit about IHL, while Ukraine is right about this, I also will professionally state that I hate that they’re right about this 1425231
Reposted by John CrowleyKyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 12/06/2026The Washington National Opera, which recently severed its longstanding relationship with The Kennedy Center, has filed a lawsuit that demands more than $17 million from the center that the opera company estimates it's owed.nytimes.comOpera Company Sues to Collect $17 Million From the Kennedy Center 15708208
Reposted by John CrowleyScott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 13/06/2026Mike Luckovich, Atlanta Journal Constitution 112558
John Crowley @jcrowley.bsky.social · 13/06/2026When I first shifted from cello to research, I worked at the Watergate. So the Kennedy Center was a daily reminder of my connection to the arts. Seeing the removal of Trump's narcissistic graffiti has deep meaning to me, curtain be damned. 150
Reposted by John CrowleyDick Mac (alive!) @dickmac999.bsky.social · 13/06/2026Estimates are in that more Americans watched the removal of Trump’s name from the Kennedy Center than watched the USA v. Paraguay World Cup match. #KennedyCenter #WorldCup #USAPAR 411341300
Reposted by John CrowleyStephen C. Smith @wordsmithfl.bsky.social · 13/06/2026#Politics #Trump Overnight from AP: Workers started to remove Trump's name from the #KennedyCenter but left around 3:30 AM EDT. They placed tarps around the scaffolding so the public can't see, but a photographer found a gap and got a picture of a letter being removed. apnews.com/article/trum... 321043286
John Crowley @jcrowley.bsky.social · 13/06/2026This crew is going to take at least 2-3 more hours to enclose that structure, before they even prep for letter removal. It might even be a second crew with expertise in marble that replaces the scaffold crew. This will still be going at dawn. 100