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Jeff Meyer

@jeffme.bsky.social
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Refusing to take refuge in cynicism. USAF, intel, techie, map lover & fan of fair representation. Facts & science matter. He/him. Was @meyerjef on Twitter

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 5h
During the World Cup.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 12h
If you need a refresher about the issues involved in release of Vol. 2 of Jack Smith’s report, you’re not alone. The case was briefed months ago, but has been sitting on the court’s docket waiting for oral argument. I wrote about it back then: joycevance.substack.com/p/trumps-pas...
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Trump's Past Is Catching Up With Him
We’ve discussed Trump’s ongoing efforts to prevent the release of former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s report on the now-dismissed classified documents prosecution against the president.
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delfin @thedelfinclutch.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Jim Jordan Rule applies. To their base, it doesn't have to be plausible or factual or even sane. It simply needs to be loud and public and what they want to hear and believe. What rational people believe is irrelevant to the noise machine.
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Law is a moral practice. And there are many ghouls amongst us.
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is a human rights abuse worthy of prosecution under intentional law. Minimally, they should be impeached and removed for this alone.
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Can’t do student loan relief. Can’t mandate vaccines. Can’t help home owners. Can commit human rights abuses.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Other states besides Texas with voter registration deadlines over the next 7 days: Arkansas, Arizona, Alaska, Florida, Georgia, Indiana , Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Rhode Island, Tennessee, South Carolina.
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Melissa Murray @profmmurray.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
On @strictscrutiny.bsky.social, we noted that Alito hadn't recused in Suncor (he owns stock in 2 oil companies, & he flew on a PJ owned by someone w interests in one of the companies in the case). He's now recused. . . which likely means there are still 5 votes for Big Oil. tinyurl.com/2425sh73
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Justice Alito Recuses Himself Days Before Major Climate-Change Case (Gift Article)
Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. had faced pressure to recuse himself from the climate case because he owns stock in oil companies.
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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Remember, on November 3, a vote for Republicans is a vote for Elon Musk
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VoteHub @votehub.com · 28/09/2026
NEWS — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear criticizes fellow Democrats who say transgender athletes should be barred from women’s sports. “That is not the party that we are. We start as a party of compassion and empathy.”
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The idea that people want AI oversight to happen "all of a sudden" ignores years of research, warnings, and policy efforts. The delay hasn’t been a lack of awareness; it’s been because of years of industry lobbying against regulation, political resistance, and inaction.
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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“The notion that somehow this museum or any part of the Smithsonian is done by people who don’t love America, don’t care about America, is unbelievably wrong,” Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch said. “You cannot understand the greatness of a country without understanding the totality of a country."
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‘Let’s tell the truth’: Smithsonian head given standing ovation as he hits back at Trump attacks
Outgoing secretary Lonnie Bunch rejects claims the institution is unpatriotic, telling audience ‘You cannot understand all without illuminating the dark corners’
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026
It is no coincidence that rationalists and EAs tend to be straight white guys from well-off families, because for everybody else, the world usually conspires to knock some sense into you about your inherent god-emperor genius by the time you’re old enough to drink.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026
As a former pretentious little shit who grew out of it, rationalists (et al) annoy the piss out of me because they are adults with the mentality of tweens - they are somehow still convinced they are the greatest geniuses who have ever walked the earth. It is the worldview of an arrogant baby.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 27/09/2026
I have a theory about how many of the world's problems are caused by people who were told they were the smartest people alive as kids, believed it, and then when they became adults and couldn't accept that maybe they weren't that special, started breaking shit if only to prove they were special
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Jeff Meyer @jeffme.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Roger's correct. A perfect article. So well done.
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Carl Feher @carlfeher.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
😂😂😂
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 26/09/2026
That last one, from Sean Davis of TheFederalist is particularly stupid. After Google *temporarily* removed TheFederalist from its ad program BECAUSE THE FEDERALIST VIOLATED GOOGLE'S RULES, he ran to the media and to Congress about how it was "CENSORSHIP"
TESTIMONY OF
THE FEDERALIST CEO AND CO-FOUNDER SEAN DAVIS
For the
UNITED STATES SENATE COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE, SCIENCE, AND
TRANSPORTATION
OCTOBER 8, 2025
SHUT YOUR APP: HOW UNCLE SAM JAWBONED BIG TECH INTO SILENCING
AMERICANS
Chairman Cruz, Ranking Member Cantwell, and members of the committee, thank you for
inviting me to testify on behalf of First Amendment speech and press rights and against
authoritarian censorship designed to shut down the free speech rights of American citizens.
My name is Sean Davis, and I am the CEO and co-founder of The Federalist, a conservative
digital media company focused on politics, culture, and religion. I am a Christian, a conservative,
and a political commentator and reporter. I am also the victim of illegal and unconstitutional
censorship by my government which was targeted at my publication, my publication, and me
personally.
The First Amendment affirms and protects five God-given rights: free speech, religion, press,
assembly, and petition. In my capacity as the publisher of a major national media outlet which
produces news and opinion, an infringement on or abridgement of any one of those five rights
can be cataclysmic.
Unfortunately, my publication, our writers, and I were all directly targeted for destruction by my
own government, using my tax dollars. Even worse, much of the targeting was done in secret, by
individuals and institutions who were desperate to hide their illegal and unconstitutional actions
against us. This long-running conspiracy to deprive us of our God-given First Amendment rights
is illegal, unconstitutional, and unconscionable. Sadly, many senators who sit on this committee
either refused to condemn and fight these censorship efforts, or outright supported them.
In the summer of 2020, at the behest of foreign government-connected organizations, Google
attempted to demonetize The Federalist for the apparent crime of criticizing American
government response to and media coverage of COVID-19 and the violent B…
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Rachael Hamlet @karmamylanta.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The two best things you can do are watch the trailer and go to the movie. Here's the trailer:
youtu.be
Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street
YouTube video by Musk
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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 02/08/2024
I think most professions don’t read, but scientists can be spectacular examples
You have to realize that most physicists don't read. Reading is not part of our culture. When we see a book or a paper we dip into it here and there and make a decision. If it looks uninteresting we put it down. We forget about it. If it looks interesting we also put it down. Then we try to figure out for ourselves where it's heading. This technique fails as an approach to reading Derrida (for example). It can also lead to serious trouble in attempts to assess less byzantine texts whose authors are, however, labouring under the illusion that they are addressing a reader who is following everything that is being said. Sociologists should bear this in mind when addressing scientists. While I'm not advocating sound bites, 1 do urge you to recognize that you are writing for text-surfers, who fancy themselves more skilled at interpolation and extrapolation than they actually are. You have to spell things out very carefully and emphatically.
(Talk given at UC Santa Cruz and private communica
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RR Edmonds @rredmondsart.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
WHAT!!!!!
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 26/09/2026
On September 9 or 10, someone staged this protest at the Dallas Fort Worth airport ahead of the GOP midterm convention. Does anyone know which organization was behind it? We would love to speak with them. Please share widely!
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LAL @lindli.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
What a cool project!! 🤩
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
4/ But over the next 10 weeks, I’d mimic the patterns of a problem gambler with the help of a panel of gambling experts and learn just how much DraftKings would encourage my recklessness — and just how little pushback I’d get as I spiraled downward.
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I Deliberately Bet Like a Problem Gambler. DraftKings Made Me a VIP.
Amid growing public health concerns, operators like DraftKings have touted “responsible gaming” tools and prompts. But as I went off the deep end, I found they were no match for the incentives and pro...
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Every accusation is a confession. The dumbest man ever to Be Senator Tommy Tubberville is warning about “furries” Flying planes even as Kash Patel removes bestiality as a disqualification for serving in the FBI. Fun times people!
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 26/09/2026
Committing multiple felonies and hacking into government systems is just marketing though. /s www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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ChatGPT-maker’s AI probed federal government websites
OpenAI said that its artificial intelligence agents inappropriately accessed sites for the Commerce Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me · 26/09/2026
Once again, software does not “go rogue,” as it has no intent or agency. OpenAI’s management and employees, however, have both, and are where investigations for liability should immediately begin. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/t...
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OpenAI’s A.I. Went Rogue and Meddled With U.S. Government Websites (Gift Article)
The company did not learn until recently that its technology had meddled with websites for the Education and Commerce Departments and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Christopher McKnight Nichols @cmcknichols.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Reported potential US military staging, assessing options and stockpile buildup in advance of action against Cuba is extraordinarily worrisome.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"RKF took money earmarked to provide health care for Black infants and spent it on his personal security detail" is a ludicrous headline. Comic book villainy.
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Exclusive | RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health Office
The cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Strong endorse: Thomas has been fighting the good fight with some excellent analysis of the threats to American democracy.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is a bad ruling for all of the reasons Justice Jackson’s dissent make clear. But as both the majority and dissent point out, it’s not likely to have major effects *this* cycle because we’re inside the 90-day NVRA purge window.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 25/09/2026
🚨 BREAKING: In a major loss for voters, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to allow the Trump administration to initiate voter roll purges using a flawed database involving Americans' private data. The ruling will disproportionately impact naturalized citizens who've been wrongly flagged in the system.
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Balls & Strikes @ballsandstrikes.org · 25/09/2026
Oil companies want the Supreme Court to finish what the Trump administration started
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How the Supreme Court Could Slam the Courthouse Door On Climate Accountability
The justices’ decision in Suncor Energy could leave cities and states ravaged by climate change with no meaningful recourse.
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Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me · 25/09/2026
“Things have changed in the South.” — CJ Roberts, Shelby County v. Holder, 570 U.S. 529 (2013) www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/u...
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Justice Department Scraps Dozens of School Desegregation Cases (Gift Article)
Critics said the changes, mostly in the South, moved the nation “back toward the Jim Crow era.” Justice Department officials said the decrees were outdated.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026
the Court “cannot expect the public to have faith in our judicial system if, without clear explanation, we are consistently greenlighting harmful acts” i continue to think putting KBJ on the Court may be Biden's best decision, no other justice is doin it like her www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/u...
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Justice Jackson Calls Emergency Docket ‘Potentially Corrosive’
Hours after fielding the Trump administration’s latest emergency application, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson gave a speech urging the Supreme Court to rethink such requests.
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ct @cteeze-nuts.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I can't recommend highly enough this thread in which meta's muse model is shown to be so poorly hardened that it will tar its own VM filesystem and let you download it neuromatch.social/@jonny/11732...
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jonny (nonvenomous) (@jonny@neuromatch.social)
Attached: 1 image Not only confirming this, its extremely easy. Almost no prompt injection resistance lmao
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Balls & Strikes @ballsandstrikes.org · 24/09/2026
Not every federal judge is as willing to let Trump do whatever he wants in the name of "national security" as John Roberts is
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Federal Judge Baffled, Annoyed By Trump’s Lazy Crackdown On International Students
When a judge is describing your legal argument as “exceptionally weak” and “largely disconnected from academic or practical realities,” things are not going as you’d hoped.
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
senator, how will this lower prices
Senator Tuberville complaining about furries in the airline industry
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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Jon Husted just voted to continue the Iran war for the 14th time. While Ohioans are paying record high costs at the gas pump and the grocery store, Jon Husted is voting for more war – and costing you more money – every chance he gets.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 24/09/2026
Dog Can’t Believe Guy She Hooked Up With 10 Years Ago Now Head Of FBI theonion.com/dog-cant-believe-guy-s…
Dog Can’t Believe Guy She Hooked Up With 10 Years Ago Now Head Of FBI
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026
So this story is WAY wilder than I thought The Trump post I flagged this morning because it includes Natalie Harp is actually based on the Getty photo you can see below. But there is one key difference -- MONICA CROWLEY'S FACE HAS BEEN EDITED TO LOOK LIKE NATALIE HARP'S WTF is going on here?
Getty pic of Xi and TrumpTrump TS post featuring the mentioned edit of Monica Crowley's faceoriginal pic image of MonicaTrump TS post which shows Natalie's face where Monica's is on the original. very weird
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Paul Crider @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com · 24/09/2026
Always good to check in on Bari Weiss's Free Press.
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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
So, Banksy bought a used yacht, repaired it and retrofitted it to serve as a rescue boat to save migrants in the central Mediterranean. The whole project cost the artist $860,000. Since 2020, the boat has saved more than 3,800 people. londondaily.com/banksy-funds...
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Banksy funds refugee rescue boat operating in Mediterranean - London Daily
Exclusive: UK artist finances bright pink motor yacht that set sail in secrecy to avoid being intercepted by authorities
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Zeb Larson @zeblarson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I made the case for @damemagazine.bsky.social that the railroad boom and the data center boom look very similar a few months ago.
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The AI Data Center Boom Looks a Lot Like the Railroad Bubble
Across the U.S., massive data centers are powering generative AI. History suggests the boom may resemble the railroad bubble, with huge costs for the public.
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
On two fronts—WH press access and third-country removals—the administration appears to be ignoring court orders.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Mike Rogers' estimated net worth in 2013: $380,000 Mike Rogers' estimated net worth in 2026: $14,600,000 He cashed in and sold out Michiganders.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026
Hannity's list of "TRUMP'S TOP ACCOMPLISHMENTS" includes restoring Confederate names to military bases and releasing dietary guidelines
cap from Hannity
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Paul Crider @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com · 23/09/2026
If AOC waits, then in 2032 a Democratic incumbent (inshallah) will be seeking reelection. If the Dem wins, by 2036, Republicans will almost certainly be in a favorable position. So maybe she could run in 2036 *if* the MAGA wins in 2032. The good scenario is ... 2040, probably 2044?
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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Why does the working class account for only 1% of lawmakers in the US? Read this @us.theconversation.com piece by @noamlupu.bsky.social and @carnes.bsky.social, authors of Keeping Workers Off the Ballot: How Democracy Undermines Working-Class Representation (out October 6!): buff.ly/2Hyz9ay
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Why working-class people account for around 1% of lawmakers in the US – and only 2% in the average democracy around the world
Campaigning anywhere for any office at any level of government is personally burdensome.
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