Reposted by 𝑨̸𝒃̸𝒐̸𝒍̸𝒊̸𝒔̸𝒉̸ 𝑰̸𝑪̸𝑬̸James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 2hTurns out the friction of having to learn photoshop was a crucial firewall protecting society from the terrible taste of small business owners 171508268
Reposted by 𝑨̸𝒃̸𝒐̸𝒍̸𝒊̸𝒔̸𝒉̸ 𝑰̸𝑪̸𝑬̸Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 6hIt's already illegal. Congress banned it near-unanimously in 2022. That law allows the ban to be lifted only if Russia withdraws from Ukraine. He's simply breaking the law that's already on the books. 272396706
Reposted by 𝑨̸𝒃̸𝒐̸𝒍̸𝒊̸𝒔̸𝒉̸ 𝑰̸𝑪̸𝑬̸geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 8hwhat i want out of the next two years of an at least partially democrat-controlled congress is robust dossiers on every criminal in this administration ready for relevant agency heads and state governments at 12pm on january 20, 2028. impeachments are one avenue to help build them 827536
Reposted by 𝑨̸𝒃̸𝒐̸𝒍̸𝒊̸𝒔̸𝒉̸ 𝑰̸𝑪̸𝑬̸James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 15hWe’re already helping to fund the Russian war effort and we’ve basically ended all other aid to Ukraine. Why the fuck should the Ukrainians care about our threats anymore. 321500310
Reposted by 𝑨̸𝒃̸𝒐̸𝒍̸𝒊̸𝒔̸𝒉̸ 𝑰̸𝑪̸𝑬̸Isaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 10hAnyway, if youre ukraine, light them the fuck up with everything you have 215218
Reposted by 𝑨̸𝒃̸𝒐̸𝒍̸𝒊̸𝒔̸𝒉̸ 𝑰̸𝑪̸𝑬̸Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 08/10/2026“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.” “Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million/yr on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” Investing in bike infrastructure saves money.grist.orgOne mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 lossCopenhagen, the bicycle-friendliest place on the planet, publishes a biannual Bicycle Account, and buried in its pages is a rather astonishing fact. 39941
Reposted by 𝑨̸𝒃̸𝒐̸𝒍̸𝒊̸𝒔̸𝒉̸ 𝑰̸𝑪̸𝑬̸Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 23hone difference with newsom is he doesn't actually hit Rs that hard in person. his social media team does, but they're not him. and in fact when pressed in person he has repudiated them. 611417
Reposted by 𝑨̸𝒃̸𝒐̸𝒍̸𝒊̸𝒔̸𝒉̸ 𝑰̸𝑪̸𝑬̸Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 10/10/2026They do this even though it is obvious beyond a shadow of a doubt that Musk rigs the algorithm however he pleases. 723034
Reposted by 𝑨̸𝒃̸𝒐̸𝒍̸𝒊̸𝒔̸𝒉̸ 𝑰̸𝑪̸𝑬̸damniel spookradski @self.agency · 09/10/2026what i believe is that the a.i. industry is run by an anti-human cult and that they are the actual threat to humanity, not their technology 47615
Reposted by 𝑨̸𝒃̸𝒐̸𝒍̸𝒊̸𝒔̸𝒉̸ 𝑰̸𝑪̸𝑬̸Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 09/10/2026ICE kidnaped father from his family, chased him inside the house. Absolute monsters. San Diego 1051308910
Reposted by 𝑨̸𝒃̸𝒐̸𝒍̸𝒊̸𝒔̸𝒉̸ 𝑰̸𝑪̸𝑬̸Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Sam Altman said people are just gonna have to die in order to implement AI. In the very same week, Anthropic claimed it’s a human rights violation to be mean to the computer. These people need to be held accountable. They think lines of code are a person with rights but living people are debris. 18868191924
Reposted by 𝑨̸𝒃̸𝒐̸𝒍̸𝒊̸𝒔̸𝒉̸ 𝑰̸𝑪̸𝑬̸Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 09/10/2026New report on economic cost of anti-immigration campaign projects 8.6% reduction in retirement payments by 2034theguardian.comTrump immigrant purge could cut social security for Americans by $2,000 a year 56859
Reposted by 𝑨̸𝒃̸𝒐̸𝒍̸𝒊̸𝒔̸𝒉̸ 𝑰̸𝑪̸𝑬̸Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 09/10/2026nationalize everything Elon Musk owns. 702877585
Reposted by 𝑨̸𝒃̸𝒐̸𝒍̸𝒊̸𝒔̸𝒉̸ 𝑰̸𝑪̸𝑬̸James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026For the past two years I've been tracking every bill proposed in state legislatures across the country to figure out what Republican plans for the future are. The answer, based on these 1,182 bills, is that they want to repeal the 20th Century heartlandsignal.com/2026/09/09/b...heartlandsignal.comProof from the states: the right wing attempt to repeal the 20th century – Heartland SignalRepublicans are in Dallas this week making the case that the other side is the extreme one. We read the legislation they introduced in all 50 states and built a searchable record of what we found: 1,1... 492034794
Reposted by 𝑨̸𝒃̸𝒐̸𝒍̸𝒊̸𝒔̸𝒉̸ 𝑰̸𝑪̸𝑬̸James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Banning electric cars, abortion, gay marriage, fluoridation, chemtrails and vaccines, promoting the gold standard, corrupt giveaways, water pollution, tax cuts for the rich, quack medicine and child labor - this is the GOP vision for the country based on the legislation they've actually proposed 5535133
Reposted by 𝑨̸𝒃̸𝒐̸𝒍̸𝒊̸𝒔̸𝒉̸ 𝑰̸𝑪̸𝑬̸Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 09/10/2026The fever will never break. These people must be conquered 617435
Reposted by 𝑨̸𝒃̸𝒐̸𝒍̸𝒊̸𝒔̸𝒉̸ 𝑰̸𝑪̸𝑬̸Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I love that it's totally cool and legal to use social media to rile up an angry hateful mob and incite them to attack doctors and send in bomb threats to children's hospitals but texting Shrek dong to a politician gets you hauled into court 201572324
Reposted by 𝑨̸𝒃̸𝒐̸𝒍̸𝒊̸𝒔̸𝒉̸ 𝑰̸𝑪̸𝑬̸Glonzo the Bureaucrat 🇬🇱 🌹 @snarkranger.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I am sick and tired of seeing this shit. DOGE was not a "missed opportunity," it was an intentional effort by billionaire oligarchs to destroy the federal government's capacity to do good things for the American people. 241719394
Reposted by 𝑨̸𝒃̸𝒐̸𝒍̸𝒊̸𝒔̸𝒉̸ 𝑰̸𝑪̸𝑬̸Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854 123120855155
Reposted by 𝑨̸𝒃̸𝒐̸𝒍̸𝒊̸𝒔̸𝒉̸ 𝑰̸𝑪̸𝑬̸Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026The funniest thing on here this afternoon is the people who are responding to news of a televised lynching with “omg, I feel like I live in some foreign country” 321914336
Reposted by 𝑨̸𝒃̸𝒐̸𝒍̸𝒊̸𝒔̸𝒉̸ 𝑰̸𝑪̸𝑬̸season of the bitch @m01r4.bsky.social · 08/10/2026strongly believe leo should excommunicate vance + court members for even countenancing the firing squad stuff. 133553
Reposted by 𝑨̸𝒃̸𝒐̸𝒍̸𝒊̸𝒔̸𝒉̸ 𝑰̸𝑪̸𝑬̸Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/10/2026This is so dangerous! President Trump is deliberately inciting race hatred against an ethnic minority, calling on the people of Minnesota to "fight back" against "Somali immigrants." This must be a terrifying moment for the Somali community (who are overwhelmingly US citizens). 982043575
Reposted by 𝑨̸𝒃̸𝒐̸𝒍̸𝒊̸𝒔̸𝒉̸ 𝑰̸𝑪̸𝑬̸Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I've been immersed in research on Reconstruction in Lousiana and it's a very difficult truth to absorb that the white terrorist movement in the South was among the most successful terrorist movements in global history. Took 10 years but it won a total & complete victory through murder and atrocity. 17160961486
Reposted by 𝑨̸𝒃̸𝒐̸𝒍̸𝒊̸𝒔̸𝒉̸ 𝑰̸𝑪̸𝑬̸Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 07/10/2026A life in service to Craft is one of endless humility. 082
Reposted by 𝑨̸𝒃̸𝒐̸𝒍̸𝒊̸𝒔̸𝒉̸ 𝑰̸𝑪̸𝑬̸Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I fear that any midterm “mandate” angry voters give them will be squandered on dinner party invites instead of building the accountability regime people are desperate for and are putting their bodies and lives on the line to get. 201130224
Reposted by 𝑨̸𝒃̸𝒐̸𝒍̸𝒊̸𝒔̸𝒉̸ 𝑰̸𝑪̸𝑬̸Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 06/10/2026🚨NEW: The Trump admin has demanded local & state collusion on immigration enforcement, promising to pull back on community arrests in return. But new data reveal that it never delivered on that promise, and ICE's assault on communities only worsened 🧵prisonpolicy.orgCooperation with ICE doesn’t stop community arrests: New data on the results of state strategiesThe Trump administration has demanded local and state collusion on immigration enforcement, and promised to pull back on community arrests in return. But our analysis ... 12319
Reposted by 𝑨̸𝒃̸𝒐̸𝒍̸𝒊̸𝒔̸𝒉̸ 𝑰̸𝑪̸𝑬̸Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 07/10/2026okay i've taken this too seriously on its own terms. when a billionaire says "dictatorship is efficient" what he means is that it's easy to bribe. 523169
Reposted by 𝑨̸𝒃̸𝒐̸𝒍̸𝒊̸𝒔̸𝒉̸ 𝑰̸𝑪̸𝑬̸Dave Against The Machine🏴 @johnbrownbread.bsky.social · 06/10/2026ICE is a terrorist organization no different from its predecessors in the KKK. There will be no amnesty for their crimes against humanity. They will face trial, and I and millions of others will take great pleasure in their punishment. 34924
Reposted by 𝑨̸𝒃̸𝒐̸𝒍̸𝒊̸𝒔̸𝒉̸ 𝑰̸𝑪̸𝑬̸Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Truly incredible that this is how the media is choosing to eulogize the longest-serving Republican Speaker of the House in US history, who was a serial sexual abuser of children. For all the talk about "deep state" plots to abuse children, no one even remembers this case. 941790490
Reposted by 𝑨̸𝒃̸𝒐̸𝒍̸𝒊̸𝒔̸𝒉̸ 𝑰̸𝑪̸𝑬̸Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I do not mean to single out LeBron James, but it feels completely bizarre to me that an active player is allowed to promote "prediction markets" but would get banned for life for using that service to bet ten dollars on their own team to win a game. 1963664678
Reposted by 𝑨̸𝒃̸𝒐̸𝒍̸𝒊̸𝒔̸𝒉̸ 𝑰̸𝑪̸𝑬̸David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026The press will do stories on Republican sex creeps, but it will never, ever point out -- much less make an ongoing narrative out of -- the fact that the GOP has been *ridden* with sex creeps for decades. You have to be blind not to see the pattern.nytimes.comDennis Hastert, Powerful Politician Disgraced by Child Sexual Abuse, Dies (Gift Article)The longest-serving Republican speaker of the House admitted in 2016 to abusing teenage boys decades earlier. He was 84. 441673495
Reposted by 𝑨̸𝒃̸𝒐̸𝒍̸𝒊̸𝒔̸𝒉̸ 𝑰̸𝑪̸𝑬̸Anil Dash @anildash.com · 05/10/2026Exactly this. And in fact, many models *have* been created this way, and decades of prior machine learning systems *were* created this way, consensually. These things are choices! People are STILL working this way! It’s not just that a better world is possible — it already EXISTS. We can nurture it. 171756473
Reposted by 𝑨̸𝒃̸𝒐̸𝒍̸𝒊̸𝒔̸𝒉̸ 𝑰̸𝑪̸𝑬̸Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I think the problem is that for whatever reason, society/the media/whoever have correctly determined we need a way to reintegrate millions of people into society and from that incorrectly determined the way to do so is for the people who were wronged to apologize to the people who wronged them. 14794180
Reposted by 𝑨̸𝒃̸𝒐̸𝒍̸𝒊̸𝒔̸𝒉̸ 𝑰̸𝑪̸𝑬̸jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026feels like at least part of what is happening is that a lot of people want politics to solve the "my life feels empty" problem and the populist right is directly appealing to them 973726438
Reposted by 𝑨̸𝒃̸𝒐̸𝒍̸𝒊̸𝒔̸𝒉̸ 𝑰̸𝑪̸𝑬̸W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Why is reducing ideological bias a goal? To what end? Politics is almost always a fight over values, not facts. I don’t care if I am “biased” towards social justice, whatever that means. 421369175
Reposted by 𝑨̸𝒃̸𝒐̸𝒍̸𝒊̸𝒔̸𝒉̸ 𝑰̸𝑪̸𝑬̸Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail. 22997283099
Reposted by 𝑨̸𝒃̸𝒐̸𝒍̸𝒊̸𝒔̸𝒉̸ 𝑰̸𝑪̸𝑬̸Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026They really can’t make a case for why people would want these in their community except to invoke some scary foreign other and an undefined need to “win” in a way they can’t connect to the quality of life to the average person but only shareholder value. 112113
Reposted by 𝑨̸𝒃̸𝒐̸𝒍̸𝒊̸𝒔̸𝒉̸ 𝑰̸𝑪̸𝑬̸Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/10/2026"It could chill rights of contractors to make political contributions" -- unearthed footage shows Susan Collins in 2012 fighting to protect contractors from having to disclose political contributions (we recently learned she was under investigation for a pay-to-play scheme involving a contractor) 41997503550
Reposted by 𝑨̸𝒃̸𝒐̸𝒍̸𝒊̸𝒔̸𝒉̸ 𝑰̸𝑪̸𝑬̸Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 02/10/2026look, i think these people should just be honest and say that their kids are too dumb and lazy for their socioeconomic status to self replicate so they want to shrink the talent pool, (which wont work because it will also shrink the demand for talent) 528144
Reposted by 𝑨̸𝒃̸𝒐̸𝒍̸𝒊̸𝒔̸𝒉̸ 𝑰̸𝑪̸𝑬̸Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 02/10/2026What is the point of this stupid country if not that? Pack it up we’ve lost our reason to be 6721132
Reposted by 𝑨̸𝒃̸𝒐̸𝒍̸𝒊̸𝒔̸𝒉̸ 𝑰̸𝑪̸𝑬̸Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Fact Check: True www.cnn.com/2020/10/17/p...cnn.comSupreme Court is about to have 3 Bush v. Gore alumni sitting on the bench | CNN PoliticsJudge Amy Coney Barrett, once confirmed, will be one of three current Supreme Court justices who assisted the legal team of then-Texas Gov. George W. Bush in the Florida ballot-recount battle that cam... 27123
Reposted by 𝑨̸𝒃̸𝒐̸𝒍̸𝒊̸𝒔̸𝒉̸ 𝑰̸𝑪̸𝑬̸Sarah Burris @sarahburris.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Y'all I just caught the Kennedy Center claiming it isn't closing while telling vendors it's closing and now they're selling all of their Steinway pianos www.alternet.org/alternet-exc...alternet.orgKennedy Center moves to sell all of its Steinway pianosPhotos show piano movers rolling massive Steinway grand pianos through the red-carpeted halls of the Kennedy Center this week. 14916991006
Reposted by 𝑨̸𝒃̸𝒐̸𝒍̸𝒊̸𝒔̸𝒉̸ 𝑰̸𝑪̸𝑬̸Xero now with 100% more 🎃 @artificer-ind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick. 2120023387
Reposted by 𝑨̸𝒃̸𝒐̸𝒍̸𝒊̸𝒔̸𝒉̸ 𝑰̸𝑪̸𝑬̸Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 28/08/2026The correct question and narrative frame was never “why are we polarized?” It was “why are we so solicitous of evil, lawless people?” — and it was that all along. 68223
Reposted by 𝑨̸𝒃̸𝒐̸𝒍̸𝒊̸𝒔̸𝒉̸ 𝑰̸𝑪̸𝑬̸Gina Dalfonzo @ginadalfonzo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"Then the film’s Renée Good stand-in enters, slamming her Subaru into the ICE van. Described with the subtlety of a brick as 'MELANIE (40), a fat blue-hair,' the woman, blasting NPR, revs up again and fatally hits ICE agent 'Juan' with her car." 1/ 129234
Reposted by 𝑨̸𝒃̸𝒐̸𝒍̸𝒊̸𝒔̸𝒉̸ 𝑰̸𝑪̸𝑬̸Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Over 1,200 sexual assault cases in a six year period at Cornell. The current case involves 7 men gang raping and drugging a student and being assigned essays as punishment. In 6 years, only 7 students have been expelled or dismissed. That’s less than 0.006%. Cornell sides with rapists.usatoday.comCornell rarely expels students in sex assault cases | ExclusiveA third of undergraduate women say they've been sexually assaulted. But on average, Cornell reported expelling just one attacker per year. 6218105
Reposted by 𝑨̸𝒃̸𝒐̸𝒍̸𝒊̸𝒔̸𝒉̸ 𝑰̸𝑪̸𝑬̸Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 01/10/2026If we’re all going to have to make choices like this eventually, and we all will, each of us should hope to one day find out we have this kind of moral clarity. 3721167