Reposted by Josh RosenauPaul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 1hNot to be a party pooper but a Democratic Congress is absolutely not going to lower costs; it just won't be in their power no matter how much they'd like to. Hard to tell what the political consequences of being unable to follow through on their central campaign promise will be. 2611720
Reposted by Josh RosenauChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 3hThis is priceless. Check out how local news is reporting on Sen Eric Schmidt’s clown-show grilling of Jack Smith. They found Jack Smith at the game… “Top corner, section 109, row 1. In fact, that seat doesn’t even exist in Atlanta.” 32566882306
Reposted by Josh RosenauDrew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 7hIt's a bit of a bummer that the story today has been "look at this absolute doofus of a senator" and not "Jack Smith once again credibly accuses the president of many serious crimes" 411635343
Reposted by Josh RosenauEmily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.wisn.comSkydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airportFour people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m. 120100072570
Reposted by Josh RosenauProfessa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 7hThe Democrats can put a rider into the Appropriations Bill that: (a) renames the Office; and (b) defunds its ability to engage in third-party deportations to other countries through defunding airplane contracts. 7474141
Reposted by Josh RosenauMicah @rincewind.run · 11hthird way figured out dems should stop attacking trans people? third way?! 362419477
Reposted by Josh Rosenaueva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 7hDO NOT ASK THE AMERICA.GOV AI TO PLAY MINECRAFT 51774176
Reposted by Josh RosenauDoug Trumm @metropolitanglide.bsky.social · 5hI'm at the ribbon cutting ceremony for Pinehurst Station with local dignitaries. The infill light rail stop opens tomorrow morning. 2508
Reposted by Josh RosenauJim Lokay @jimlokay.com · 8hIf you want to really know how the outrage machine gets fired up: 1. Schmitt plans to drop “bombshell” on Smith 2. Someone plants story that Schmitt is a Vance VP contender to run same day 3. Right-wing Twittersphere gets talking points 4. Schmitt steps in it 5. Scheduled tweets go out anyway 2253507940
Reposted by Josh RosenauMike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 14hthe median home value in seattle today is $833k (higher for detached houses) with 10% down at today's national average for mortgage rates... your monthly housing costs would be almost: $7,000 a month (incl utils) this puts the income needed to buy a home in seattle at $275k a year 910423
Josh Rosenau @joshrosenau.org · 8htfw you definitely didn’t just guarantee that a bunch of Iowans will never caucus for you because you mixed up their college women’s basketball team with Atlanta’s men’s NBA team. 031
Reposted by Josh RosenauHelen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 13hTrump’s new AI website is kinda fun, it turns out. 5339231055
Reposted by Josh RosenauMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 13hTogether, we will ensure Jewish New Yorkers are safe and celebrated. We will invest in their protection, their history, and their future. Our safety and our thriving are tied together. 111812157
Josh Rosenau @joshrosenau.org · 12hNext time someone sets themself up as a defender of women’s sports, make sure they can tell a college women’s basketball team from a men’s NBA team. 041
Josh Rosenau @joshrosenau.org · 29/09/2026I’m not saying I single-handedly beat Rep. Jim Ryun in 2006, but blogging daily about his townhouse in DC that he bought from Jack Abramoff and how Mark Foley was his neighbor and they did fundraising parties together absolutely destroyed his re-election campaign for KS-02 in a bad year. 161
Josh Rosenau @joshrosenau.org · 29/09/2026The important thing here is that Kansas voters are talking about whether Sen. Dr. Roger Marshall had a pregnant woman arrested over a $50 debt or whether there’s more to the story about the pregnant lady Sen. Dr. Roger Marshall had arrested over a $50 debt. kansasreflector.com/2026/09/28/r...kansasreflector.comRoger Marshall alleges defamation in new ad about former Kansas patient arrested while in debt • Kansas ReflectorLawyers for U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall, a Republican running for reelection, sent his opponent a cease-and-desist letter demanding the Democrat stop airing an ad featuring one of the senator’s former pa... 020
Reposted by Josh RosenauTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Roger Marshall has sent a 'cease-and-desist' letter to Adam Hamilton saying Hamilton's ad featuring a former patient of Marshall's talking about his debt collectin practices is 'defamatory': kansasreflector.com/2026/09/28/r...kansasreflector.comRoger Marshall alleges defamation in new ad about former Kansas patient arrested while in debt • Kansas ReflectorLawyers for U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall, a Republican running for reelection, sent his opponent a cease-and-desist letter demanding the Democrat stop airing an ad featuring one of the senator’s former pa... 4536374
Reposted by Josh Rosenauevacide @evacide.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Meta Muse appears to read your Apple messages and upload them to the cloud even if you explicitly tell it not to: appleinsider.com/articles/26/...appleinsider.com 1001895967
Josh Rosenau @joshrosenau.org · 29/09/2026If Tillis didn’t follow up by co-signing a friendly House member’s impeachment resolution, or whipping a dozen or so fellow GOP Senators to publicly pledge their votes for removing Trump, who cares that he recognizes these important parallels? 051
Reposted by Josh RosenauMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Sure, the 2024 election was one too, but 2026 might be the clearest intelligence test ever presented to the American electorate. Taken at face value, he's saying he stole hundreds of billions from the gov't, hid it somewhere Congress can't reach, and he pinky swears he will give you a piece. Really. 762832757
Reposted by Josh RosenauAlberto Cairo @albertocairo.com · 28/09/2026Lovely and deep visual op-ed by Giorgia Lupi: "A.I. is a different kind of technology, because it can deliver an end result before creative thinking has happened at all" www.nytimes.com/interactive/...nytimes.comOpinion | A.I. Shortcuts Are Ruining How We Think (Gift Article)Anything worth remembering came from a person who did not know where she or he was going until arriving. 24924
Josh Rosenau @joshrosenau.org · 28/09/2026Can’t believe the software manufactured by people who all met at rape kink orgies and encourage new employees to explore nonconsensuality would create software that gives out your address online without asking first. 0224
Josh Rosenau @joshrosenau.org · 28/09/2026I need to know if she also searched for “McArgleBargle” or if those cancelations all vanished like tears in the rain. 031
Reposted by Josh RosenauDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026So uhhhhhh… Apparently meta's muse "AI" is just straight up doxxing people to strangers on FB marketplace??? This has the potential to hurt so so many people, and I genuinely wonder how long before they roll out a fix for it. 11141301409
Reposted by Josh RosenauAMR - Alexis Mercedes Rinck @alexis4seattle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Take action now against two harmful initiatives that will be on the Washington ballot in November! You can help by sharing this video, donating to No Hate in Washington State, or telling someone the truth about these initiatives. nohateinwastate.org 217666
Josh Rosenau @joshrosenau.org · 28/09/2026I don’t know how big a wave we’ll see in November and you don’t either because it depends what people like you do. Polls don’t vote. Poll aggregators don’t vote. Make your plan to vote now, get your friends to do the same. Then every time you feel an urge to see polls, just go canvass or phonebank. 021
Reposted by Josh RosenauAiny @ainy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026state legislatures are where the action happens. this is HUGE—and we should be tackling boards of education next. credit: @amandalitman.bsky.social on the hellsite. 03711
Reposted by Josh RosenauRyan Hisner @ryanhisner.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Mink farming is a massive pandemic risk. It's insane that they are allowed to exist. Now we have an active H5N1 outbreak on a mink farm, & "state officials have no clear plan to rein it in." Imagine if uncontrolled H5N1 transmission in mink were allowed in a research lab... 1017879
Josh Rosenau @joshrosenau.org · 28/09/2026Weird how the software build by people who developed the entire industry by throwing rape kink parties are also constantly violating people’s privacy and consent. 098
Reposted by Josh RosenauCarl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/09/2026Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWaycnyti.msDid Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work. 892105854
Reposted by Josh RosenauRobert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 27/09/2026The biggest conspiracy theory in Washington State isn’t Sasquatch. Or chemtrails. It’s the MAGA claim that the millionaires tax would somehow become an income tax on us all. It won’t - unless we all agree to it.instagram.comRobert Cruickshank on Instagram: "The biggest conspiracy theory in Washington State? That an income tax on the rich would somehow become an income tax on everyone. That’s what MAGA wants you to think....21 likes, 0 comments - robert_in_seattle on September 27, 2026: "The biggest conspiracy theory in Washington State? That an income tax on the rich would somehow become an income tax on everyone. That’... 0242
Reposted by Josh RosenauOlraca @olraca.bsky.social · 27/09/2026If only there was some undeveloped land in North Seattle located near mass transit that could support building affordable housing. Anyway vote for Nilu Jenks. 211317
Reposted by Josh RosenauScott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The related trademarks of "the party left me" hacks are 1)dealing entirely in random and often apocryphal personal anecdotes and 2)discussing entirely imaginary versions of both parties axios.com/2026/06/03/r...axios.comRepublican support for marriage equality, LGBTQ+ rights sinks: pollJust some four years ago, more than half of Republicans backed same-sex marriage. 917047
Josh Rosenau @joshrosenau.org · 27/09/2026Read the Rolling Stone article and listened to the Texas song and it’s…fine? I don’t listen to Top 40 radio and if it played on the loudspeakers at some store I honestly would not remember the experience. What the Rolling Stone article fails to do is explain why anyone should care about the song. 120
Reposted by Josh RosenauBrian Schefke @brianschefke.bsky.social · 27/09/2026So this Rolling Stone article is making The Rounds on Bluesky, and I might as well throw in my 2 cents, which is probably worth not even that, but whatever: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...rollingstone.comWhat Some Folks Really Mean When They Claim to Have Never Heard 'Choosin' Texas'Claiming to have never heard Ella Langley's record-setting country song 'Choosin' Texas' is similar to saying, 'I listen to anything but country.' 6218915
Josh Rosenau @joshrosenau.org · 27/09/2026Read this thread and ask yourself if the people who have appointed themselves as experts on AI “safety” actually understand that word in the way normal humans do. 37418
Reposted by Josh RosenauRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026“'You don’t live here,' the crowd shouted like they were in a basketball arena...” kansasreflector.com/2026/09/18/u...kansasreflector.comUS Sen. Roger Marshall leaves paper trail in Florida while calling Kansas home • Kansas ReflectorU.S. Sen. Roger Marshall established deeper roots than previously disclosed in Sarasota, Florida, where he had a vacation home that he traveled to on official business and said he used for visiting fa... 10633811183
Reposted by Josh RosenauJuan Escalante @juanescalante.com · 27/09/2026Trump administration considers building baseball park in Grand Teton National Park Major League Baseball contacted the administration about hosting a game in a national park, with an agency official scouting Grand Teton as a possible location.washingtonpost.comTrump administration considers building baseball park in Grand Teton National ParkMajor League Baseball contacted the administration about hosting a game in a national park, with an agency official scouting Grand Teton as a possible location. 7313087
Reposted by Josh RosenauAlex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 26/09/2026We need third spaces and dense walkable communities. That is the thing that fascists fear most: organic, informal relationships and networks that they can't control. It's also why they are doing everything they can to lock in another generation of American car dependency 421932
Reposted by Josh RosenauMaciek Hamela @maciekhamela.bsky.social · 26/09/2026With the Strait of Hormuz closed, Iraq has resorted to moving its oil across the desert to Syria in hundreds of tanker trucks, in true Mad Max style. From there, it will be shipped to worldwide markets. 1501941545
Reposted by Josh RosenauFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026This is another great, approachable explainer on “the rationalist wackos who have managed to take over much of the AI industry, and who now have tons of money and political power.” www.iankduncan.com/personal/202...iankduncan.comSex, AI, and the Apocalypse - Ian DuncanHow a community devoted to thinking clearly incubated salvation stories, abusive experiments, race science, and an affection for autocracy, and why that history matters now that its alumni are asking ... 551849447
Josh Rosenau @joshrosenau.org · 26/09/2026Shorter headlines are better, and “Altman’s OpenAI attacked government websites” is also clearer about what happened. 021
Reposted by Josh RosenauMayor Katie B. Wilson @mayor.seattle.gov · 26/09/2026Every family deserves access to healthy food. That’s why, in my first budget, I have proposed making permanent $10 million worth of investments to fight food insecurity in Seattle. Together, we’re building a city where no family has to choose between rent and groceries. 452768666
Reposted by Josh RosenauBecca @sciencelizard.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I am a single issue voter and that issue is: "tax the data centers and use the money to build a new resilient and clean grid" 082
Reposted by Josh RosenauMike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 26/09/2026chat is this good? 11442811082
Reposted by Josh RosenauAlex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Bullshit, and shame on @science.org for this tie-in to an agitprop engine for the freaks in the AI "safety" movement. Super gross look for the magazine. 73410
Josh Rosenau @joshrosenau.org · 26/09/2026Can cutting edge AI models dream of electric sheep? At this ketamine-fueled orgy in Berkeley, AI researchers worry that electric wolves, electric overgrazing, and electric range wars are sure to follow. 1134
Josh Rosenau @joshrosenau.org · 26/09/2026I don’t want to talk about what beverage someone brings to an interview, I want to talk about what business case there is for hiring someone based on what beverage they happened to drink on the day of their interview. Like, is there a justification someone wants to offer for openly arbitrary hiring? 210