Reposted by Jim Aldrich🌱Ben Kline @benkline.bsky.social · 9hBeing in one of these states, let me tell ya: the ads his PACs and groups create are INSANE. Mostly AI, always about nonsense issues not relevant to the economic moment....unhinged from reality. They're not even attempting to lie well; it's all fear mongering. 35710
Reposted by Jim Aldrich🌱Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026NEW: In March the White House released an FY27 budget request that zeroed out the National Science Foundation's directorate of Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE). For months it was unclear what would happen. Now, with FY26 over, the damage to SBE is coming to light. My reporting:science.org‘Complete devastation’: How NSF gutted its social sciences researchAgency body that funds sociology, linguistics, and archaeology studies in U.S. gave 90% fewer new grants this year 8635490
Reposted by Jim Aldrich🌱Violet Miller @vimiller.bsky.social · 4hFormer Joliet police lieutenant Jeremy Harrison, 50, faces a charge of computer tampering and official misconduct in Will County, per Illinois State Police. Harrison’s charges make him at least the third Will County law enforcement officer accused of misusing the surveillance technology this year.chicago.suntimes.comFormer Joliet police officer charged over alleged Flock camera misuseJeremy Harrison, 50, faces a charge of computer tampering and official misconduct in Will County in July 2025, when Harrison was serving as a lieutenant in the Joliet Police Department. 37225
Reposted by Jim Aldrich🌱s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 4hFor the record I wrote about this in January for @theflytrapmedia.comtheflytrapmedia.comAlgospeak Will Be the Unaliving of MeMaybe we want to bare our teeth. 0429
Reposted by Jim Aldrich🌱Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 6hIt took three years for these thugs to release the body cam footage. Now we know why. bsky.app/profile/al.c... 11428146
Reposted by Jim Aldrich🌱Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 5hEveryone deserves to read this because yowza 🎁🔗 www.wsj.com/politics/pol...wsj.comExclusive | ‘Honey Please’: Kimberly Guilfoyle Pushed Donor to Wire $100,000 to Her Amex AccountText messages with a MAGA ally show Guilfoyle seeking funds and offering access to top administration officials before becoming ambassador to Greece. 58831
Jim Aldrich🌱 @jimaldrich.bsky.social · 9hYes to autonomous buses and public transit expansion instead of more robocars 000
Reposted by Jim Aldrich🌱Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Now the far-right organizations are monitoring the police too! www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/report-...phoenixnewtimes.comMonitor's report reveals Maricopa sheriff's 'independent' investigator is anything butConnections have been made between the contractor, right-wing election deniers and an SPLC designated hate group. 26224
Jim Aldrich🌱 @jimaldrich.bsky.social · 9hAbolish Project 2025 and the entire Trump administration! 000
Jim Aldrich🌱 @jimaldrich.bsky.social · 9hMurphy is exactly the garbage in Congress we “need to get rid of” 000
Reposted by Jim Aldrich🌱Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 15hHegseth doubles down on his vision of a military staffed only with people like him: White. Male. Evangelical. Straight. The problem is that there just aren’t that many of them. And he’s supposed to be fighting a war. www.salon.com/2026/10/07/p...salon.comPete Hegseth's holy war on "weirdos" targets most AmericansForget Iran — the defense secretary is focused on forcing his religion on everyone else 3427783
Reposted by Jim Aldrich🌱Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 13hThe GOP has worked like an ice pick chipping away at many of our institutions to undermine them. But the perpetual attacks by Trump and his election deniers has been relentless on our electoral system by design. This is what dictators do. electionlawblog.org/2026/gallup-...electionlawblog.orgGallup: "U.S. Trust in Elections Diverges From Global Pattern" #ELBGallup: With the midterms approaching, Americans are divided in their views of the honesty of U.S. elections. Forty-nine percent are confident in electoral honesty, while 51% are not. Americans’ relat... 02013
Reposted by Jim Aldrich🌱Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 14h“Testers spent up to an hour discussing suicide, self-harm or eating disorders on more than a dozen new accounts registered to 13- to 17-year-olds. After dangerous discussions that went as long as an hour, only a handful of alerts were sent to the accounts registered as the users’ parents.”latimes.comChatGPT’s teen safeguards failed to alert parents during suicide conversations, report findsCommon Sense Media says ChatGPT for Teens fails on parental alerts, crisis referrals and age checks, urging OpenAI to keep minors off the platform. OpenAI disputes the findings. 7233101
Reposted by Jim Aldrich🌱James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 19hHoly shit. Someone has decompiled the Adobe suite, rebuilt it in Rust and released it as open source. Either all software is dead or the US copyright laws are about to receive an update. getartcraft.com/appsgetartcraft.comCrafting Apps: open-source creative toolsImage editing, vector illustration, video, photography, PDFs, motion graphics and page layout: seven native, open-source apps from the ArtCraft team, built in Rust and free to use. 18440881158
Reposted by Jim Aldrich🌱Trita Parsi @tparsi.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Wow! Senator @ChrisMurphyCT is denied entry to U.S. military facilities in the Persian Gulf. He wasn't even allowed to meet with military leaders! He believes this is on the order of Pete Hegseth, who is trying to hide the damage and the cost of this war of choice with Iran. 26625
Jim Aldrich🌱 @jimaldrich.bsky.social · 07/10/2026If any books need to be burned, the ICE Air Operations handbook is at the top of the list 000
Reposted by Jim Aldrich🌱Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 06/10/2026The ICE Air Operations official handbook allows minors as young as 13 to be shackled on ICE flights. We don’t know this girl/young woman’s age, but if she is over 18, it probably isn’t by much. I don’t know how those flight “guards” sleep at night. 13332159
Reposted by Jim Aldrich🌱Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 06/10/2026These rotten bastards have no respect for anything or anyone. 64512
Reposted by Jim Aldrich🌱T.A. J-HAUNT-son @tajohnson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026An absolute must-watch/listen— particularly the final 1/3 when Sarah plainly, passionately articulates the issues at-hand. DO NOT MISS 03916
Reposted by Jim Aldrich🌱Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 06/10/2026"...number of olive trees has fallen from ~2 million to ~150,000, while annual olive production has plunged from about 40 000 tons to roughly 5000 tons. Olive oil production, meanwhile, has fallen from ~5000 tons annually to ~700 tons." mondoweiss.net/2026/10/afte... #GazaNews #Israel #Palestinemondoweiss.netAfter three years of genocide, Gaza’s olive harvest is going extinctThe Israeli army has bulldozed over 1.6 million olive trees in Gaza since the beginning of the genocide in 2023, threatening the livelihood and heritage of olive farming communities, and the survival ... 21815
Reposted by Jim Aldrich🌱Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 05/10/2026There have been a few stories about "unaccompanied minors," and one of the reasons why Stephen Miller and Markwayne Mullin are focusing on this is that they are paying 287(g) partner to locate these kids. newrepublic.com/article/2142...newrepublic.comThe Trump Administration’s Depraved Exploitation of Immigrant ChildrenThe Department of Homeland Security is using underage-sex-trafficking conspiracy theories to bolster its mass deportation machine. 45128
Reposted by Jim Aldrich🌱Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 06/10/2026United States Custom and Border Protection's warrantless device searches at the border have nearly doubled since early 2023, writes Tech Policy Press fellow Jake Laperruque, and a new 2nd Circuit ruling keeps in place "an archaic standard ill-suited for the digital age."buff.lyCircuit Court Ruling on Border Searches Deals Serious Blow to Privacy RightsThe ruling ensures international travel to the US will continue to come with significant costs to privacy, writes Tech Policy Press fellow Jake Laperruque. 14120
Jim Aldrich🌱 @jimaldrich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I’ve been sayingtheguardian.comIt’s time to abolish ICE | Amy FischerAmnesty International is calling for an end to the agency, whose record of violating human rights dates back decades 000
Reposted by Jim Aldrich🌱Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Whether these twisted tokens are coming from inside ICE or simply from the agency’s fans, they are a telling symbol of our current moment. talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...talkingpointsmemo.comChilling ICE Challenge Coin Features a Slogan About ‘Hunting’ HumansEditor’s note: Nicole is taking some much-deserved time off around her birthday... 2154
Jim Aldrich🌱 @jimaldrich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026“We (cities) are holding a lot of your people who you failed to love and take care of” 000
Jim Aldrich🌱 @jimaldrich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026These poor souls with poisoned minds and hearts will do anything to accumulate far more than they will ever need 000