Reposted by Jeff HauserMurshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 11hI am also just amused that what this episode showed - the right wing despite all their bravado - don't know ball. They are who Tim Walz said they were: bunch of weirdos. 1315
Reposted by Jeff HauserMurshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 13h15 members of Senate Democratic Caucus voted to confirm Bessent which includes Presidential wannabes Booker, Gallego, and Kelly - and member of Senate Democratic Leadership like Gillibrand. To this date we haven't heard these folks show any sense of remorse bc there is no accountability in DC. 0104
Reposted by Jeff HauserJodi Jacobson @jljacobson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This guy has got to go. And yesterday is not soon enough Durbin pours cold water on Democratic hopes for SCOTUS hardball www.courthousenews.com/durbin-pours...courthousenews.comDurbin pours cold water on Democratic hopes for SCOTUS hardballThe top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee said that any future Supreme Court nominees should get a vote, regardless of which party controls Congress. 42710
Reposted by Jeff HauserBen Raderstorf @raders.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This poll from Cook is bonkers. A *huge* plurality of voters (43% overall, 61% of Ds) want Dems to focus on changing the political system overall vs. just opposing (21%, 36% of Ds) or working with Trump (35%, 3% of Ds). 23778189
Reposted by Jeff HauserMurshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Smart and strategic organizing works. 1133
Reposted by Jeff HauserErik Schlenker-Goodrich @riogranderift.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Folks weakening the Endangered Species Act to lock in a permitting reform deal (looking at you, @whitehouse.senate.gov & @heinrich.senate.gov) do so at their peril. conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 1219
Reposted by Jeff HauserRevolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Our @hannahstoryb.bsky.social first laid out Exxon's unethical play to get Justice Alito to take up this case, despite his conflicts of interest, for @prospect.org in 2023...prospect.orgExxon’s Unethical Supreme Court Play - The American ProspectOil company lawyers are pushing Justice Alito to indirectly decide cases he should recuse himself from. 1229
Reposted by Jeff HauserRevolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Bad news for Exxon, and a win for the power of public pressure calling out the blatant corruption of the Roberts Court: Justice Alito is stepping down from further participating in Suncor v. Boulder, a week before oral arguments. We've been calling for his recusal from this case for YEARS: 🧵 720266
Jeff Hauser @jeffhauser.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Shot/chaser--more than three years of work from @HannahStoryB and others! 254
Reposted by Jeff HauserAbdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Mike Rogers is a corporate sellout who moves back to Michigan every few years to run for office to take another swing at the revolving door of corporate politics. 290154304249
Reposted by Jeff HauserMurshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Mike’s bosses - Trump and Musk - days partied with Xi Jinping at the Whitehouse dining over sesame-crusted sea bass and braised baby bok choy finishing it off with vanilla crémeux and White house honey ice cream. 12610
Reposted by Jeff HauserDylan GL @dylangyauchl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026For @theslingutah.bsky.social, I reviewed new books from @lindsayowens.bsky.social and @isabellamweber.bsky.social, two of my personal econ policy heroes! The two of them are working to recenter human welfare in economics and just maybe save the discipline from itself.thesling.orgIt’s the Economics, Stupid: A Review of Gouged and Anti-Fascist Economics - The SlingWeber’s Anti-Fascist Economics and Owens’s Gouged help to flesh out a heterodox way of thinking about economic policy. 11610
Reposted by Jeff HauserLinda Enerson ♥️🕊️ @helloellee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026“‘strange looks…we met w/ [Iowa congress member]…ALL 6!’… *[InsurePAC gave]…* *$67K to Hinson...* *held $1-5M…* *private equity insurance* HINSON HUSBAND MEET LOBBY @iowademocrats.bsky.social @joshturek4iowa.bsky.social ♥️ www.washingtonsun.com/congress/ash... 101
Jeff Hauser @jeffhauser.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Satya Nadella on down: I suspect Microsoft, like its peers, knowingly violates the law serially. www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comNew Jersey datacenter fined $1.1m after visual investigation showed dozens of unpermitted generatorsState regulator’s record fine for DataOne facility in Vineland follows Floodlight investigation with the Guardian 030
Jeff Hauser @jeffhauser.bsky.social · 28/09/2026CORE CRYPTO USE CASE: A $357 million hack of crypto exchange Bitget on Thursday was likely carried out by North Korea-linked hackers, pushing the nation-state’s haul from digital-asset thefts above $1 billion this year, according to analytics firm Elliptic www.bloomberg.com/news/article...bloomberg.comBitget Hack Pushes North Korean Crypto Haul Past $1 BillionA $357 million hack of crypto exchange Bitget on Thursday was likely carried out by North Korea-linked hackers, pushing the nation-state’s haul from digital-asset thefts above $1 billion this year, ac... 112
Jeff Hauser @jeffhauser.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Inside Trump’s Failed Hunt for Noncitizen Voters www.propublica.org/article/nonc...propublica.orgInside Trump’s Failed Hunt for Noncitizen VotersTo prove the president’s claims of illegal voting, the government has harnessed the power of Homeland Security Investigations, a branch of DHS established to combat the worst cross-border crime. So fa... 043
Reposted by Jeff HauserPam Spaulding @pamspaulding.bsky.social · 27/09/2026⚠️ Boeing AGAIN puts planes in the air w/known software issues (a prior issue caused 2 fatal Boeing 737 MAX crashes). Boeing failed to publicly disclose this new “glitch” — in the 737 Max's automated nav — that can fail *while planes are landing*. Boeing: "not a safety risk." 🎁 t2m.co/MUXqU01wsj.comExclusive | New Boeing 737 MAX Software Glitch Could Disrupt Navigation FeatureThe issue is prompting concerns about a potential safety risk while planes are landing. Boeing is working on a procedure for pilots and a software fix. 11911
Reposted by Jeff HauserGreg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 27/09/2026Trump v. United States, 603 U.S. 593 (2024). 46426
Reposted by Jeff HauserTomi Oladipo @tomioladipo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026If your dog attacks someone, you’re held responsible. 078
Jeff Hauser @jeffhauser.bsky.social · 26/09/2026THIS! To Wary Working People, AI Preemption Is the New Nafta newrepublic.com/article/2156...newrepublic.comTo Wary Working People, AI Preemption Is the New NaftaWhat I’m hearing on the campaign trail suggests a deep divide between how the people and the powerful are thinking about AI. 062
Reposted by Jeff HauserNYTimes: affirmative action for mediocre editors angry at MeToo @originalist.bsky.social · 12/08/2026"Klein wrote "David Shor is Telling Democrats What They Don't Want to Hear" in 2021 comical, because Shor was/keeps saying exactly what party establishment always want to hear. Progressives pulling party too far left." bsky.app/profile/perr... Shor with Andreesen, Lonsdale, Rufo, Hanania, Shapiro: 6777
Reposted by Jeff HauserCliff Pervocracy @pervocracy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026can i buy a ticket to the universe where Democrats are too concerned about trans issues and abortion ("Democrats" here means elected or candidate members of the Democratic Party, not anyone on social media who seems democratty to you) 32687
Reposted by Jeff HauserMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026A sentence like this appears in every one of these articles: "Sure I object to everything Trump has ever done, but on the other hand I also disagree with some things about Democrats I made up." 431175170
Jeff Hauser @jeffhauser.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I don't understand the claim that AI is safe so long as "sandboxing, monitoring, evaluation and alignment are improved." But... they often won't be, right? Open source distillates built upon by bad actors are inevitable. If a technology is dangerous "in the wrong hands," then it is DANGEROUS. 132
Jeff Hauser @jeffhauser.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Archie Manning is such a nepo baby. How many years is he going to be the purported number 1 draft pick despite lacking understanding of the sport? 060
Reposted by Jeff HauserStef73 @stef73.bsky.social · 26/09/2026England's number 1 starts against Spain tonight! #lufc 182
Reposted by Jeff HauserBrian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Wild. This should create a Streisand effect, which Dem ranking members can enhance by sending the companies document preservation demands. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...hollywoodreporter.comThe Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing. 211196348
Reposted by Jeff Hauser🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Data Center Don: Trump’s AI Debacle is a Big Opportunity AI. Crypto. Trump. All three are the same con with different wigs. New from me in @gilduran.com and @george-lakoff.com’s FrameLab There needs to be one party that puts people over data. And it better be Democrats.theframelab.orgData Centers Isuse Hurts Trump—If Democrats PounceAI. Crypto. Trump. All three are the same con with different wigs. 213653
Reposted by Jeff HauserMurshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026🚨🚨🚨LMAOO!! Oh man - Trump comes on during Tennessee-Texas game and sideline reporter starts talking about communication issues being resolved and immediately ABC’s audio gets really fucked up. Ahahahahaha. 1345
Reposted by Jeff HauserMurshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Wonder where all the free speech abolitionists are these days?hollywoodreporter.comThe Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing "political" content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing. 43417
Jeff Hauser @jeffhauser.bsky.social · 26/09/2026What's crazy about the AL West being so poor is that you have 3 major cities with wealth & only a single team (Seattle, Houston, Dall-FW), the Bay Area expats (okay, I get the self-imposed flux).. and one of 2 teams in America's second biggest market (LA). Can't cry poverty! Feel bad for Jays, Os. 030
Jeff Hauser @jeffhauser.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Is it just a coincidence that the Man City judgement came out on the Friday before the first of two weekends without club competition? 000
Reposted by Jeff HauserKaroli @karoli.bsky.social · 25/09/2026💯 and now that he’s not convenient for them they’re running away. It doesn’t work like that. Dems need to hammer them. 0147
Jeff Hauser @jeffhauser.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Republicans Had 690 Days to Oppose Trump prospect.org/2026/09/25/r...prospect.orgRepublicans Had 690 Days to Oppose Trump - The American ProspectThey’re trying to cram all the opposition into the last 40 before the election. 043
Reposted by Jeff HauserRevolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Unsurprising considering that the federal government's cybersecurity capacity was gutted during DOGE's destruction of the federal workforce. Hacks like this may become more common as cyber criminals add AI to their arsenal.nytimes.comHackers Say They Stole Thousands of Sensitive F.B.I. Personnel RecordsThe compromise, if confirmed, would be the latest in a string of cybersecurity failures at the F.B.I., which said it was investigating the matter. 186
Reposted by Jeff HauserGreg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 25/09/2026More and more people are saying it, in veteran progressive operative circles: none of us know who Evan Barker is. 2345
Reposted by Jeff HauserMatthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 25/09/2026Telling rich people they're the greatest geniuses in world history is actually quite a good strategy, especially is said rich people are actually not that smart. 1256
Reposted by Jeff HauserHarvey #LUFC (C) @harveylufc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026You thinking what I’m thinking? Haaland #lufc  121
Jeff Hauser @jeffhauser.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Our Senior Fellow & former full time colleague @dorothyslater.bsky.social wrote a piece about her perspective on contemporary public policy issues as a full time oncology nurse. You should read this article! And if a pro-data center Abundance person: debate her! dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...dissentmagazine.orgDeath by Data Centers - Dissent MagazineI’m an oncology nurse in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley. My patients and I breathe the same polluted air, and we can’t afford the toxic exposure from the gas-fired plants set to power the state’s proposed A... 020
Reposted by Jeff HauserMark Histed @markhisted.org · 25/09/2026The funny part (derogatory) is that these three are supposed to be the *moderate* faction. What, Alito, Thomas, and Gorsuch had other plans at the Heritage Foundation (or on a private compound somewhere) tonight? 011
Reposted by Jeff Hauser@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Guess who’s coming to dinner as Trump asks his SCOTUS for yet another favor 128066
Reposted by Jeff HauserRevolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026“Y’all are going to need a bigger hospital.” Already burdened by petrochemical plants, Louisiana is facing a wave of gas-powered AI data centers—and their pollution. Dorothy Slater, an oncology nurse, writes for @dissentmag.bsky.social about nursing her patients at the frontier of AI buildout.dissentmagazine.orgDeath by Data Centers - Dissent MagazineI’m an oncology nurse in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley. My patients and I breathe the same polluted air, and we can’t afford the toxic exposure from the gas-fired plants set to power the state’s proposed A... 26442
Reposted by Jeff HauserMurshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Relegate the cheating bast*rds. 4291
Jeff Hauser @jeffhauser.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Sports world sanctioning rich people for rule breaking a lot more in September than the US government has in the past twenty years. 030
Reposted by Jeff HauserEvan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026So Elon Musk can't attend at the launch of a product he's been hyping for a decade because he's... "with the president." His Super PAC has spent $17M for the GOP in under a month. Every reporter who credulously repeated that he was "done with politics" or "stepping back" should resign in disgrace. 010534
Reposted by Jeff HauserRevolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Attacks on the federal workforce are attacks on our collective well-being. Amid the Vought-led assault on civil servants, we must popularize that solidaristic notion. By our @kennystancil.bsky.social and Chris Dols of @fedworkersunited.bsky.social in @donmoyn.bsky.social's Can We Still Govern?donmoynihan.substack.comUnions Against VoughtismFederal unions can connect the dots to reveal the dangers of gutting government capacity. 13816
Reposted by Jeff HauserErik Schlenker-Goodrich @riogranderift.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Man, the framing of this bill is so rooted in insider DC politics. The idea that Ds have secured “major concessions”—i.e., a Trump promise to ease his oppo to renewables, esp. wind, which was lawless to begin with & unlikely to manifest beyond a handshake deal (not law)—strikes me as so bogus. 57612
Reposted by Jeff HauserMurshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026A Democrat voting for this piece of shit bill which even Republicans like Kennedy from LA knows is nothing more than a bill to make Nick Saban and SEC coaches happy - would be exposing himself as an out-of-touch moron (which I guess often is on brand for Schumer Democrats in DC). 24814
