Reposted by Jeff EdmeadesJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 1hHere's a new Bain study which essentially says that the US needs a massive crash course in innovation to find these to do with AI so that it can pay for itself. $6T needed about $1.4T realistically in sight by 2031. They list four areas of critical innovation opportunity. And if you note here ... 86418
Reposted by Jeff EdmeadesCJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · 3hLatest: I wrote about internal ICE reviews---now deleted from ICE's website---revealing new details medical neglect in detention centers. The reports contradict DHS' public statements both generally and specifically about in-custody deaths reason.com/2026/10/01/i... 216457
Reposted by Jeff EdmeadesAlex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 2h@politico.com headline: "…Dems say" @politico.com article: "Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine)… also told reporters that the ad spend was not under the jurisdiction of her committee but 'was taken out of funding that was supposed to be for Customs and Border Protection.'" 511330
Reposted by Jeff EdmeadesMikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 5hThe way he tried to ape Trump but just comes off as a creepy freak... 6564881
Reposted by Jeff EdmeadesJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 11h.@cnn hard to believe there’s another source here. Wtf? Give an attribution if this is what you’re doing. 313323
Reposted by Jeff EdmeadesKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11hSort of a darker different meaning to “burying the lead” here 1234469
Reposted by Jeff EdmeadesSeth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 14hWhen the US State Department is doing such great work to project a friendly American face to the world, it’s a total mystery why fewer people are choosing to visit. 3455893
Reposted by Jeff EdmeadesProPublica @propublica.org · 20hNick Adams’ Foundation for Liberty and American Greatness has brought in millions in donations and helped him land a State Department appointment, but records show there is almost no indication FLAG was spending that money on its stated mission. (Published July)propublica.orgThis MAGA Influencer Runs a Charity to Teach Kids Civics. Much of the Money Goes to Him Instead.Nick Adams’ Foundation for Liberty and American Greatness has brought in millions in donations and helped him land a State Department appointment, but records show there is almost no indication FLAG w... 49494191
Reposted by Jeff EdmeadesJay Willis @jaywillis.net · 21hThe death penalty is a moral abomination. State-sanctioned barbarism pushed by incompetent morons and sanctioned by the Supreme Court. Absolute ghoul shit. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news... 11945731136
Reposted by Jeff EdmeadesDemocracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 21hMarc Elias was called an alarmist for saying Trump would refuse to concede in 2020. Then came Jan. 6. “They want you to believe that Donald Trump may say some things, but in the end, he’ll accept the results,” Marc says. “I don’t believe that.” Stay in the know: demdock.com/3T3Owjg 371173363
Reposted by Jeff EdmeadesJulie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 19hCapital punishment is cruel and unusual punishment and has no place in a civilized nation. But even if you don’t object to it on moral grounds, the number of times we have botched convictions AND executions should be enough to convince you that it should be abolished. 1805
Reposted by Jeff EdmeadesCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 18h"An ambulance was seen arriving at the prison where Pike was to be executed and then leaving. Medical aid was being administered, according to online federal court records." The utter absurdity of the state trying twice to kill someone and then calling an ambulance. We must end the death penalty.nbcnews.comTennessee inmate still alive after being administered two lethal injections, her lawyer saysChrista Pike, 50, was 18 when she murdered a classmate. She would be the first woman the state has executed in more than 200 years. 24643159
Reposted by Jeff EdmeadesDavid Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 18hThis is just state barbarism. Nothing less. 30757160
Reposted by Jeff EdmeadesTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 19hIn light of the news of Tennessee’s botched execution tonight, revisiting my colleague @laurengill.bsky.social’s piece on witnessing Alabama attempt to experiment with execution methods to kill a man. boltsmag.org/alabama-nitr...boltsmag.org“Agony” and “Suffering” as Alabama Experiments with Nitrogen Executions - BoltsAlabama said Alan Miller’s execution by lethal gas would be “more humane.” He writhed and gasped for air in his final moments. 12417153
Reposted by Jeff EdmeadesChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 19hI've been covering the death penalty in depth for a dozen years now, and few nights have been as disturbing and dispiriting as tonight. This was a moral, ethical, and legal failure on several different fronts from many different actors. It wasn't *just* SCOTUS, though they sure were a key part.lawdork.comAfter SCOTUS allowed Tennessee execution to go ahead, Tennessee botched the executionSCOTUS, over the liberals’ dissent, cleared the way for Tennessee to kill Christa Pike. The alarming order from DC was followed by even more disturbing developments in Tennessee. 71043266
Reposted by Jeff EdmeadesPeter Green @petergreen.bsky.social · 19hWorth remembering that if it costs the government $4.5b to reverse the gender pay tax, then it costs the women affected $4.5b to leave it in place. 515287
Reposted by Jeff EdmeadesRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 21h“A lawyer for Christa Pike said executioners have administered two syringes of lethal injection drugs to Pike but that she remains alive and breathing.” It’s been over an hour. 44748238
Reposted by Jeff EdmeadesAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21hOssoff: "You played earlier the tape of Mike Collins, a sitting member of Congress and the Republican candidate for senate in Georgia, supporting the deployment of federal troops to polling places in Georgia this fall. Folks, this is a 5 alarm fire." 3631771001
Reposted by Jeff EdmeadesAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21hOssoff on Mike Collins: "This is a congressman who called for executing immigrants by throwing them out of helicopter. He is a fanatic and Trump puppet." 7439701168
Reposted by Jeff EdmeadesKai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 22hHoly crap. Can’t make this stuff up 3259785
Reposted by Jeff EdmeadesCraig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 21hI took graduate-level seminars as a senior and made it through law school and I did the reading. But, brother, 30 years later and I'd simply walk into the sea if I had to work half this hard again. Everyone's trying to break higher education, but it's everything to an advanced society. Go students. 628224
Reposted by Jeff EdmeadesBarred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 21hThis is exactly the shit I was talking about Apparently, as @chrisgeidner.bsky.social just put it, "harm is a feeling that Republican officials are not allowed to suffer," yet "an execution carried out while a case challenging that execution is still pending" is not www.lawdork.com/p/the-big-pr...lawdork.comThe big problems with Wednesday’s SCOTUS order allowing a Tennessee executionSCOTUS cleared the way for Tennessee to kill Christa Pike over the dissent of the Democratic appointees. The order from the court’s Republican appointees is alarming on several fronts. 229086
Reposted by Jeff EdmeadesRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 21hHe sure as hell did all he could to keep innocent people in prison, even when the DA offices that won the convictions said they should be released. www.injusticewatch.org/archive/2020...injusticewatch.orgMissouri Attorney General’s Office pushes to keep innocent people in prisonIts decades-long commitment to upholding convictions—even those marred by police or prosecutorial misconduct—has left Missourians languishing in prison for years. 228388
Reposted by Jeff EdmeadesRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 21hThey made her wait all day to kill her, and now they’re torturing her. 20813181
Reposted by Jeff EdmeadesAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026Hegseth: "Send me to right the Redcoats, send me to fight the communists, send me to fight the Islamists. Send me." 10781150203
Reposted by Jeff EdmeadesAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026surreal scenes -- Trump is out while Howard Lutnick frantically glazes him 68749146
Reposted by Jeff EdmeadesTPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 30/09/2026An IRS proposal to add a citizenship and work authorization question to a crucial tax form coincides with Census Bureau efforts that would use tax information to exclude most immigrants from the 10-year population count.talkingpointsmemo.comNew IRS Citizenship Question Could Make It Easier for Census Bureau to Shift Political PowerA proposed change to a key tax form could help the Trump... 56441
Reposted by Jeff EdmeadesChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This is another big story today. I was waiting on @kelciemmorris.bsky.social's report, excellent as always, as I knew she was on it. —> 825698
Reposted by Jeff EdmeadesAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026alert the press -- Trump is conked out in the Oval Office again 4093229797
Reposted by Jeff EdmeadesJoseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 30/09/2026New: USPS is to put cameras in its trucks that continuously record. This is to gather data on roads, signage, and to improve "community safety," the agency tells me. The cameras are marketed to capture passing license plates too, but don't run ALPR software www.404media.co/usps-to-put-...404media.coUSPS To Put Cameras in Trucks That Scan Roads for ‘Community Safety’USPS says the cameras, put on USPS truck dashboards, will scan roads, signs, and more. 44364152
Reposted by Jeff EdmeadesChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/09/2026Shocker. The Trump admin’s story doesn’t match reality. not even close. Trump on Mesabi Metallics’ proposed $15 BILLION steel plant in Lee County, Iowa: “They’ve already started building.” REALITY: No permits, disclosed site, or major land purchase. Financial incentives still unresolved. 1731677818
Reposted by Jeff EdmeadesDavid Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Conversions and intermarriage play their role. But the diaspora from the Levant is exactly that. Palestinian Arabs and Jews have their origins nowhere else. They're going to figure out how to shout down their extremists and share a future there or it's more of the horror show. 3302
Reposted by Jeff EdmeadesCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Four-byline alert: “.. Meta claimed that $4.1 billion of stock options exercised by Mr. Zuckerberg counted as a research expense ..” @nytimes.com $META www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t... 14626361186
Reposted by Jeff EdmeadesDavid Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026More precisely, Kash Patel was paid $25,000—and Rudy Giuliani $100,000—by a pro-Russia propagandist who led a project financially supported by Putin's office. To get the full story, see my new book, "How Russia Won: Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and the Fight for America." Go to HowRussiaWon.com. 11583207
Reposted by Jeff EdmeadesJon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I hope this headline haunts Eric Schmitt for the rest of his pathetic political career. 1148158954496
Reposted by Jeff EdmeadesGeorge Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 29/09/2026💯. But the press won't bother itself to start reporting what experts think of this. Instead they try to make sense of it and recast his gibberish in failed efforts to make it cohere. 30951207
Reposted by Jeff EdmeadesAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 30/09/2026State Department employees were falsely accused of "censoring" Americans. When do they get justice? thehill.com/opinion/nati...thehill.comWe need accountability for federal employee purges made on false pretensesI was grilling chicken on a sweltering summer night in the Washington, D.C. suburbs, when I peeked at my phone and saw that a senior official in the administration had just accused me of lying to C… 17846230
Reposted by Jeff EdmeadesLuca Maria Pesando @lucampesando.bsky.social · 30/09/2026📢 Job: I am hiring *TWO* 3-year Postdocs to join us at #NYUAD to work on household demography in Africa and school segregation in the Global South. More information below. Great research and family benefits. Deadline: Jan 15, 2027. To apply: apply.interfolio.com/193571 apply.interfolio.com/193489apply.interfolio.com Apply - Interfolio {{$ctrl.$state.data.pageTitle}} - Apply - Interfolio 1109
Reposted by Jeff EdmeadesProPublica @propublica.org · 29/09/2026There’s no scientific basis to many of the public health concerns some critics have with solar development, an expert told ProPublica. “People try to come up with a rationale to justify their dislike of things they dislike for other reasons.” (Published April)propublica.orgUnfounded Health Concerns Are Powering a Solar BacklashAcross the U.S., critics are pressuring public officials to stop or stall new solar projects, often citing unfounded health concerns. 28584208
Reposted by Jeff EdmeadesGeorge Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/09/2026“The president has repeatedly exhibited bizarre conduct in the public eye. Not only does that include taking naps during public events, but also erratic behavior, slurred speech, appearing lost or disoriented, and sporting mysterious bruises.” newrepublic.com/post/215938/... 919120734040
Reposted by Jeff EdmeadesThe Devil @iamdevil.bsky.social · 29/09/2026For “not being a dictator”, he sure does a lot of things a dictator would do. 26740031300
Reposted by Jeff EdmeadesProPublica @propublica.org · 30/09/2026The DOJ indicted “Bitcoin Jesus” Roger Ver in one of the largest-ever crypto tax fraud cases. Those familiar with the case said the evidence was “rock solid” and that prosecutors were confident of a conviction. Then Donald Trump won a second term. (Published January)propublica.orgHow “Bitcoin Jesus” Avoided Prison, Thanks to One of the “Friends of Trump”Billionaire fugitive Roger Ver was facing federal criminal charges until he sought the services of a select club of President Donald Trump’s former personal attorneys who have easy access to top Justi... 8449202
Reposted by Jeff EdmeadesKarly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Nicki Minaj isn’t a U.S. citizen, so she can’t even vote herself. For a network that pushed false claims about noncitizens voting, you’d think they’d mention that. If this is about getting Black women to vote red, I’m here to tell you that black women are smarter than all of us. 4053799998
Reposted by Jeff EdmeadesRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Tennessee plans to execute a woman tomorrow. She was 18 when she committed the crime. She's now 50. Like most on death row, she's also a victim. And like most on death row, she's a far different person now than she was then. No one humanizes the condemned better than @lilianasegura.bsky.social.theintercept.comThe “Satanic Panic” Made Her a True-Crime Obsession. The Truth Is More Haunting.After 30 years on death row, Christa Pike faces execution for a grisly murder she committed at 18. 3337114
Reposted by Jeff EdmeadesMark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 29/09/2026It's inconceivable to me how someone who lost in a free & fair election can incite an angry mob to attack his own government, (the very definition of treason) & be allowed to run for any office ever again. 859295548608
Reposted by Jeff EdmeadesJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026omg. yes, they actually have video of him at the game. when does marshall mcluhan walk out and dunk on sen schmitt? 30915170
Reposted by Jeff Edmeadestherreport.bsky.social @therreport.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Say what now? One officer wasn't wearing a camera & other's was turned off. There is no record other than the officers' accounts, which we are supposed to believe? W/ICE's history of murder? Does anyone really believe this? www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...washingtonpost.comImmigrant shot by ICE in Austin is charged with assaultAn affidavit unsealed on Tuesday said the officer who shot Wilber Garcés Pérez was not wearing a body camera and that another officer turned his camera off. 612060