Reposted by JSThomas HD @degolierthomas.bsky.social · 4hTX-10 Poll (Change Research) 613 LV (18 Sep 2026-22 Sep 2026) 48% Chris Gobar (Republican) 46% (Caitlin Rourk) (Democratic) Trump favorability 47% Favorable 50% Unfavorable 2499
Reposted by JSZoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 23/09/2026We need to do a goddamn puritanical anticorruption drive the moment we have a real fucking government again. That, or just get used to ubiquitous public corruption like nothing since the worst outrages of the Gilded Age. 212835
Reposted by JSBen K. @benjaminkabak.com · 22/09/2026In an administration of very racist things, the treatment of the refugee program is perhaps the most racist thing Trump and Co. have done. The depths of this depravity haven't really broken through to the mainstream as far as I can tell. 35121
JS @jsplaceholder.bsky.social · 21/09/2026This is the Annie Dillard essay I've been waiting for www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/m...nytimes.comAnnie Dillard Will Live on Forever (Gift Article)Annie Dillard died this week. But her voice — wild and holy and hilarious — continues to live in my head, my soul, and somehow, my dog. 021
Reposted by JSOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026according to the article, it took hours after the personal intervention of the mayor for his family to even get basic information about him. that information included that he had been transferred to ICE custody hours after being shot. no amnesty 3035901148
Reposted by JSRobert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026And then there's the emotional aspect: That UT win was one of the most joyous moments in Texas sports history. We were absolutely losing it. And then it got spoiled by Bo French, an avatar for the far right's vision for America. In a few tweets he showed how joyless that vision is. 312613
Reposted by JSRobert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I think it also gave away what remained of the game. People here know UT as a model for meritocracy. Those kids earned the right to be there, "assimilated" in all the right ways and still woke up to a fire hose of hate. There's no ambiguity about what drove it. 21179
Reposted by JSRobert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Cant quantify it but, as someone who covers this stuff, I have yet to see universal disgust like I have re: Bo French. Going after kids doing quintessentially "Texan" stuff really bothered people. I dont think its a "mask off" moment as much as a moment where people just go "I'm so sick of this." 5967
Reposted by JSJason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 20/09/2026You're in charge of a war that you're losing, the Houthi are on the march to Riyadh, you've run the Navy ragged, you've lost almost all your bases in the Middle East, you're out of missiles (mostly) that you need in case China steals a march on Taiwan...and you're at a fucking football game. 571671422
Reposted by JSCaitlin Rourk @caitlinrourk.bsky.social · 19/09/2026While Pete Hegseth is enjoying the Aggie football game today, our servicemembers will still be fighting a war in the Middle East with no clear purpose, that Congress never authorized. A war that has cost taxpayers more than $37.5B, killed at least 18 Americans, and wounded over 750 more. 144
Reposted by JSDan Ancona @danancona.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Strong email from @aoc.bsky.social putting down a marker on how to deal with both the proximate economic risks from AI and the longer term ones. 810748
Reposted by JSMikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 19/09/2026We need to purge the military of everyone who went along with Hesgeth's bullshit. Forced retirements and tribunals. I don't care if it impacts "readiness," can't have a fascist army and a republic as the same time. 16698113
Reposted by JSColin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026One of the stupidest truths I’ve learned from now seven years working in biosecurity is that this is, actually, the entire psychological basis for securitization 1567
JS @jsplaceholder.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I am giving it a solid 50% chance Hegseth is plastered when he gives a speech at the Aggie game tomorrow 000
JS @jsplaceholder.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Been trying to scream this from the rooftops but this is a nice thread compiling hard data 110
Reposted by JSFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 17/09/2026Great piece illustrating how sick, sad, and depraved the "effective altruist" movement - which is extremely intermeshed with the massively powerful U.S. AI industry - has become.strangecosmos.substack.comThe sad decline of effective altruismA once wholesome and inspiring movement has become entangled with cults and has lost years chasing dead-end ideas 416141
Reposted by JSDavid Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Great feature by @anamariecox.com on the Texas Senate race. It's a good story to say that James Talarico is using progressive Christian language to ju-jitsu the religious right. But the boring, accurate reality is that Texans are fed up with being governed by Republicans.prospect.orgA Path to a Texas Breakthrough - The American ProspectJames Talarico is deploying his Christian faith in his bid for the Senate. But he’s winning because Texans have been pummeled by inflation and corruption. 1115438
JS @jsplaceholder.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I am personally against a Macklemore news cycle because I *just* got my partner to stop buying busted mopeds in cash like two years ago and now he's gonna start doing it again 150
Reposted by JSpost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 15/09/2026i feel like a plurality of the most devoted college football fans i know are second-gen immigrants, with particular representation from the desi diaspora i would read a dive into that but it's also possible it's not more sophisticated than "you grew up in a land-grant university town, idiot" 1719814
Reposted by JSMikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 14/09/2026One thing that's convinced me AOC should go for the big chair this year is that if she doesn't win, she's got a glide path to yeeting Whisky Kris from office. 836047
Reposted by JSpost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 14/09/2026anyway we’re going to win huge in November and it isn’t going to solve everything right away, or even later, but it will make things meaningfully better in both the short term and the long term for ~everyone, and I know this because I remember 2006 271057123
JS @jsplaceholder.bsky.social · 13/09/2026On the Brandon Hererra stuff: he actually is running a very effective campaign and Katy Padilla-Stout is a bad candidate running a very bad campaign. The environment may carry her but nobody, least of all the national orgs who have flooded her with outside money, should be surprised if Herrera wins. 110
JS @jsplaceholder.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Topics from conversations with voters at the doors today. Campaign jargon but we're cutting down to DNC scores of 25, here. 010
JS @jsplaceholder.bsky.social · 11/09/2026For those who may want to help metaphorically kick Elon's lawyer in the teeth, a donation link is below: prospect.org/2026/09/10/e...prospect.orgElon Musk’s Lawyer Seeks Seat in Congress - The American ProspectChris Gober, who helped draw Texas’s gerrymandered maps, is now running to represent one of those districts. His AI and defense industry ties could pose problems. 044
Reposted by JSThe American Prospect @prospect.org · 10/09/2026Entering Congress would give someone at the nexus of Musk, AI’s growing ubiquity in commerce and warfare, and global MAGA politics another foothold on power in Washington. prospect.org?p=144417 067
Reposted by JSDavid Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Elon Musk's lawyer is running for Congress. He's also a lobbyist for military tech and data center energy companies. One client was Viktor Orban's U.S.-based nonprofit. And he helped draw the district he's running in! His Dem opponent thinks she has a shot in a seat that went 60% for Trump in 2024.prospect.orgElon Musk’s Lawyer Seeks Seat in Congress - The American ProspectChris Gober, who helped draw Texas’s gerrymandered maps, is now running to represent one of those districts. His AI and defense industry ties could pose problems. 9187116
Reposted by JSBrad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 10/09/2026The Musk-MAGA lawyer Chris Gober is running for #TX10, a district he drew. The person who stands in his way? Caitlin Rourk @caitlinrourk.bsky.social 1179
Reposted by JSColin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026"Oh these agents? Did we create these agents? Sir, I think you'll find that the only true creator of these agents is the Creator, that Divine Providence set in motion a series of evolutionary algorithms no different than the ones that gave rise to the Worldwide Dialysis Machine Exploder 3000" 1242
Reposted by JSColin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026By the way, I would guess that the in-house counsel of every AI company has independently wagered that framing agents as intelligent and independent will make it harder to hold firms liable for what a 2nd or 3rd generation chunk of escaped code does, so there's value in curtailing that narrative now 1406
Reposted by JSLouis @louisevans.bsky.social · 08/09/2026The reason I think you need to crack maha not win maha is you can no longer beat the republican death cult in a bidding war for the votes of antivaxxers 35411
JS @jsplaceholder.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Don't get me wrong, I loathe these people, but opinions on how that energy should be channeled on here are very gendered for a reason 000
Reposted by JSMikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Yeah we gotta end his whole deal. 536972
Reposted by JSKelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 07/09/2026The first Monday in September is the Wario of May 1st. 1234
JS @jsplaceholder.bsky.social · 06/09/2026I love a well-designed study in pursuit of a creative research question. 050
JS @jsplaceholder.bsky.social · 05/09/2026It's been a long time since I've felt my mind react to an academic paper in this way. Extremely cool. 1131
Reposted by JSPatricia Zengerle @reuterszengerle.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Here’s some context to what the country used to be: the U.S. sent $185 million in aid after the 2023 Turkey-Syria earthquake. Plus expertise and first responders. 34415
Reposted by JSMatt Wisnefske @mattwisnefske.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Now this is some Political Science! 011
Reposted by JSRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 03/09/2026i don't think it was chiefly or just the inconvenience, but that they couldn't buy their way out of the safety measures and restrictions everyone else faced (they actually could, but not everyone and not every restriction) 412392289
Reposted by JSdan solomon @dansolomon.com · 02/09/2026new poll from texas public policy foundation and overton insights finds that twenty percent of republican primary voters strongly disapprove of donald trump 1336
JS @jsplaceholder.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Man, this is a move typically reserved for "watery diarrhea" in, like, Eritrea 140
JS @jsplaceholder.bsky.social · 30/08/2026I live under a rock and only just learned today that Jack Antonoff got divorced and IMMEDIATRLY bought tickets to the ACL Nights Bleachers show in case Lorde shows up 110
Reposted by JSJonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 29/08/2026The recovery didn’t so much “stumble” as it was never designed to succeed. The initial response was all band-aids; the medium-term recovery was all about whimsical attempts at exploiting labor to shore up US supply chains. And cholera was brought by UN peacekeepers there as a proxy for US troops. 510424
Reposted by JSFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/08/2026so Trump 2.0’s war on every single non-evil job did destroy my career and traumatize me a lil bit, but the thing is that, like many people in my position, I’m quite capable of synthesizing that trauma into a single-minded thirst for revenge 292190294