Reposted by JonS253Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 4hAmerican taxpayers are funding Trump campaign commercials and Republicans in Congress refuse to block it. 87629
Reposted by JonS253Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 3hThe way Donald Trump talks about groceries is like he's from another planet and just learning about them for the very first time. 149024
Reposted by JonS253Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7hRep. Rich McCormick blames OBAMA for high gas prices in the year of our lord 2026 5572760580
Reposted by JonS253Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 1hJust like they chose to make the biggest cuts to Medicaid in history, and chose to let the ACA tax credits expire, Republicans are once again CHOOSING to rip away people's health care coverage. Democrats will keep fighting back. 06923
Reposted by JonS253Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 22hWired just did a story noting that an influencer named Kurt Schlichter is a “civilian government advisor” (?) to Hegseth. This dude has been around forever in internet time and writes the worst novels that are basically Turner Diaries fanfic www.wired.com/story/a-pent...wired.comA Pentagon Influencer Called Liberal Women a ‘Pestilence’ Who Will End Western CivilizationKurt Schlichter was part of a task force rooting out so-called woke ideologies at the military’s war colleges. He has called to bar childless adults from voting. 1626890
Reposted by JonS253Micah @rincewind.run · 4hit is extremely funny every time they try this “look at this malevolent, sinister agent of communism” *smash cut to the most cheerful man alive* 969285
Reposted by JonS253David K Smith @professor-dave.bsky.social · 13hOne of the most interesting biographies I discovered during my #DecolonisingChemistry project for the @chemistryatyork.bsky.social curriculum was that of Alice Ball a black chemist, whose leprosy treatment, using carbonyl chemistry to build on traditional medicine, was stolen by a male colleague. 25524
Reposted by JonS253Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 8hThe current huge story about the gang rape at Cornell University, a crime originally brushed off and covered up by the administration, is SOLELY the product of the student paper, the Cornell Daily Sun, which doggedly pursued the story. Not the NYT or CNN. An independent student paper. #Cornellcornellsun.comLETTER FROM THE EDITOR | Cornell Won’t Listen, We WillThe Sun's Editor-in-Chief Sophia Dasser '28 calls on the Cornell community to share its reactions to the Chi Phi lawsuit and the University's response, on the record, for a permanent public archive. 7447133
Reposted by JonS253Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 6hSo corrupt he cannot even fathom how bad this sounds 1295
Reposted by JonS253Kate Hagen 🦂 𓋹 🦂 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 21h"Meanwhile, Jane Doe dropped out of Cornell and was denied her request to get her tuition refunded so that she could transfer to a different college. She hence faced more severe consequences than most of the men who she alleges gang-raped her." www.thecut.com/article/what...thecut.comWhat It Feels Like at Cornell Right NowAs a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big. 582808918
Reposted by JonS253Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 22hYup, absolutely. I think it’s wrong to treat the Iran War as simply one bad error that happened to the Trump Admin rather than the entirely logical consequence of the way it operates. If it wasn’t Iran, it would almost certainly have been something else 51197173
Reposted by JonS253Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me · 21hHow many times must we say this? AI* software does not “go rogue” any more than your printer “got religion” when it stopped working Sunday. Software does not have intent or agency. People do. And this feels like some people might be exposed to liability. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/t... 721773
Reposted by JonS253Katrina Lehto @lithera.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Heard this story this morning. I know I've said it before but there MUST be a reckoning for these misanthropes. 1127
Reposted by JonS253John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 29/09/2026It's not "super intelligence." It's not even "intelligence." It continues to fuck up easy questions, like to whom I dedicated my most recent book. Also, Mike Johnson is a craven, simpering weasel and none of the people standing near him in this video respect him even the tiniest bit. 4080086
Reposted by JonS253Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Pass a law clarifying that the supreme court’s appellate jurisdiction does not begin until a final ruling has been made by district and appeals courts. 23761146
Reposted by JonS253Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 29/09/2026Trump is stealing nearly $1 billion from the American people, plain and simple. Republicans don't care. It seems like every time Trump says “stoop” The only response most Republicans can muster is: “How low?” 1624275
Reposted by JonS253John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 23hA thing I learned not too long ago is that when an LLM selects a token that leads it down an incorrect path (factually), it has no way to back up, or even know that it should back up, it's just on to the next likely bit. Literally every LLM is just posting their way through it. What an image. 431227182
Reposted by JonS253Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The underlying theory Senate Republicans are going with is that Joe Biden secretly ordered DOJ to investigate Trump, something they have produced no evidence to support and also they're all fine with Trump publicly ordering DOJ to investigate his enemies. 25596169
Reposted by JonS253Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Gobsmacked by the elite levels of not knowing ball in the Senate today, thinking an NBA team is called the Hawkeyes then, refusing to Google it, then accusing a guy of treason because you didn’t know the Iowa Lady Hawkeyes aren’t in the NBA. Somehow I don’t trust these people to Save Girls Sports. 273127502098
Reposted by JonS253Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 29/09/2026Congress passes a law to fund health care research, housing, and more. The President signs it into law. Now Trump wants to illegally refuse to spend it, STEALING from the American taxpayer. A top nonpartisan government watchdog agrees: this is ILLEGAL.washingtonsun.comCongressional Watchdog Says Trump’s ‘Pocket Rescissions’ Violate the LawThe GAO has the power to sue the Trump administration over the Impoundment Control Act. 1019273
Reposted by JonS253Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026Send Stephen Miller to The Hague. 21074482427
Reposted by JonS253Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026With alt text. I yelled 1297123
Reposted by JonS253Dinosaur Comics! @qwantz.com · 29/09/2026if you believe in yourself you can work within the existing constraints imposed upon you to, in some cases, accomplish a subset of your dreams www.qwantz.com/index.php?co... 214524
Reposted by JonS253Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This man is a monster. He seeks out women survivors because he hates them. And he hates them because he hates himself. He has harassed me and other women survivors many times over the years. It must end. He should never have a job anywhere. 12478241949
Reposted by JonS253Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026literally the only impact it would have on my life would be to spare me the aggravation of all the slop I run across. 1950276
Reposted by JonS253Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 29/09/2026God I hate being right. 141530414
Reposted by JonS253AppleInsider @appleinsider.com · 28/09/2026In a completely unsurprising turn of events, Meta's Muse AI is stealing Apple Messages, past and present, and uploading the contents to its cloud, even if explicitly told not to.appleinsider.comMeta's new AI agent blatantly ignores users permissionsIn a completely unsurprising turn of events, Meta's Muse AI is stealing Apple Messages, past and present, and uploading the contents to its cloud, even if explicitly told not to. 30398252
Reposted by JonS253Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 28/09/2026REMINDER: Democrats have legislation to END Trump's war with Iran. Republicans keep blocking it.nbcnews.comThe Iran war will have a chilling effect on your wallet this winterSky-high airfare, rising gas prices and soaring home heating costs are all squeezing consumers heading into the holiday season. 916462
Reposted by JonS253Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026There's no real point in arguing with his mouth noises, particularly not when preaching to the Bluesky choir, but this is *noteworthy* nonsense. If the revenue were real (it's not), then it would be revenue *of the United States government,* equally available to a Democratic Congress to spend. 772046434
Reposted by JonS253nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays. 3949061934
Reposted by JonS253Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/09/2026This is a formal request to SCOTUS to forcefully detransition dozens of incarcerated trans people and to subject them to medical experimentation. That's what this is. 7431172
Reposted by JonS253Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026"Enough with the niggers, enough with the jewrats" This important message on X the Everything App has been brought to you by Home Depot, McDonalds and Disney. 35890170
Reposted by JonS253Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The timing on this ruling, as we are all learning more about the assault perpetrated by young men at Cornell, is just impeccable 618682
Reposted by JonS253Micah @rincewind.run · 27/09/2026it’s bad, actually, that much of the industry is gatekept by people whose standard for hiring a woman is “are you a Cool Girl who is into weird men doing sex stuff at her all the time?” 282630467
Reposted by JonS253Dinosaur Comics! @qwantz.com · 28/09/2026IN THE BIBLE HE'S MOSTLY JUST A PLACE AND NOT A GUY BUT REST ASSURED THERE IS IN FACT A DUDE NAMED "JORDAN" JUST OFF-SCREEN IN SEVERAL IMPORTANT SCENES THAT I DIDN'T WRITE ABOUT / HE DOESN'T SAY ANYTHING BUT HE DOES NOD HIS HEAD REAL VIGOROUSLY AT ALL THE BEST PARTS www.qwantz.com/index.php?co... 718318
Reposted by JonS253Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 28/09/2026Trump's nominee to lead the FDA refused to say whether she thinks mifepristone—which has been approved by the FDA for DECADES—is safe. Medication abortion is the most common way women access abortion in America. Every Senator must vote NO. 1018271
Reposted by JonS253raycorrigan.bsky.social @raycorrigan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"When an industry that is eating itself alive through hyperscaling demands that the government bless a conspiracy to halt competition and ban open-source alternatives, you should be suspicious." @doctorow.pluralistic.net 16618
Reposted by JonS253Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Nobody seems to bat an eye that Rufo's podcast partner is a longtime anonymous troll who called gays "f*ggots," referred to Asians as "mongoloids," and explicitly sees his partnership with Rufo as a strategy of normalizing what most of us would see as bigotry www.vox.com/politics/368...vox.comAn inside look at how the far right is mainstreaming itselfAn radical troll got unmasked — and then spilled the beans. 14592187
Reposted by JonS253Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Reminder that this is the dude who is calling *other* people the antichrist 1299
Reposted by JonS253Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 28/09/2026As Trump and his Republican minions revive the language of the "Red Scare" and "threat of communism" in the elections, Trump is actively supporting the world's largest communist dictatorship, including by offering to sell them American weapons. Insanity is too mild a word.theguardian.comTrump asked Xi Jinping if China would like to buy US weapons, American ambassador saysDavid Perdue’s remarks come after a Taiwanese minister spoke of the ‘severe’ military threat posed by Beijing to the self-ruled island 1626180
Reposted by JonS253Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The one thing that AI models definitely cannot do is develop its own experimental data… and researchers are just handing that data to the plagiarism machine 0226
Reposted by JonS253Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Masked gunmen threaten elementary school kids. Are they Feds? Or are they extremist posers? Unclear. Either way, horrifying hoodline.com/2026/09/colo...hoodline.comTurman Elementary Colorado Springs ICE Incident Alarms ParentsMasked men with guns confronted kids walking to a Colorado Springs elementary school. No agency has confirmed who they were. 617679
Reposted by JonS253Asher Elbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I don't mean what I'm about to say in a sappy way, but a fairly hard-nosed one: natural ecosystems are often remarkably good at recovering from serious local natural disasters *if they are given the chance.* 21414402
Reposted by JonS253Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Forget grandiose talk of curing cancer - this is what AI is actually doing to healthcare. In the words of one cardiologist: “it’s bots fighting bots, agents fighting agents, a horrible dystopic future nobody wants to live in.” 282159853
Reposted by JonS253Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Brazil should ban X. In fact, every country would be better without it. 11577170
Reposted by JonS253Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026It was so nice for that little time where he had no microphone. 922440308