Reposted by Kim BrillhartJustin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 7hOdd-looking trades happen all the time in markets that big. What's hard to explain is telling investigators to stop looking. youtu.be/puXEsuVyIQM 629573
Reposted by Kim BrillhartJacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Aaron Swartz, coding prodigy and hacktivist who helped develop RSS and was a co-founder of Reddit, died by suicide after facing $1 million in fines and 35 years in prison for felony charges, just for downloading pdfs of research papers with the intention of making them accessible to the public. 74147615540
Reposted by Kim BrillhartJoseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 14/10/2026My heart breaks for mathematicians whose lives and careers are being destroyed by AI — and especially this PhD student, who doesn’t even know he is a poet 8174031495
Reposted by Kim BrillhartKim Wexler's Ponytail 🐝💛🎗 @madisonkittay.bsky.social · 12/10/2026MacKenzie Scott donated $7 billion in 2025 bringing her five-year total to $26.2 billion, even as she stays out of the spotlight. fortune.com/article/mack...fortune.comMacKenzie Scott alone accounted for one-third of America's $19.2 billion in megagifts last year | FortuneMacKenzie Scott donated $7 billion in 2025—a third of all U.S. megagifts—bringing her five-year total to $26.2 billion, even as she stays out of the spotlight. 1794727991
Reposted by Kim BrillhartMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 14/10/2026ESPN producer Nicole Noren quits over sports broadcasting's increasingly predatory promotion of gambling: “I’m not going to work for a gambling company and have blood on my hands.”cjr.orgNicole Noren: “I’m not going to have blood on my hands.”Why Nicole Noren, a decorated ESPN producer, quit in protest. 12451991074
Reposted by Kim BrillhartJustin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Real wages are falling, and have been falling for months. 27581224
Reposted by Kim BrillhartMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 14/10/2026The job description: Be blonde and smile at the dictator. 61422102
Kim Brillhart @keepitbrill.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Dementia is so very sad. Of course he could just be flat out lying 🤔 000
Reposted by Kim BrillhartThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Perfect 13540701800
Reposted by Kim Brillhart4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Zelensky is awesome 👇 658164724259
Reposted by Kim BrillhartMichael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 12/10/2026ORSON WELLES’ 3rd completed feature film as director centres on a war crimes investigator tracking a high-ranking Nazi fugitive to a Connecticut town. It was the first Hollywood film to incorporate actual documentary footage of the Holocaust. THE STRANGER (1946) #EdwardGRobinson 751910491
Reposted by Kim BrillhartJoanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Omar is up for election this year. Interesting that this absolutely had to happen a mere 22 days before that election. 2022670
Reposted by Kim BrillhartSchooley @schooley.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Just thinking about this as the state harasses Ilhan Omar over 40 year old paperwork.washingtonpost.comElon Musk, enemy of ‘open borders,’ launched his career working illegallyInvestors in Musk’s first company worried about “our founder being deported” and gave him a deadline for obtaining a work visa. 13374912571
Reposted by Kim BrillhartM Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Senator Patty Murray Posted This Yesterday, As Well As Before...... 33289612368
Reposted by Kim BrillhartBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/10/2026You can kill as many people as you want, but you target a beautiful precious data center? The one that hosted all 40,000 Sexy Ladies For Ken Paxton accounts? 224154782611
Reposted by Kim BrillhartKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Weird that Donald Trump's message is that people who are being assaulted can stop it all by giving up and submitting to the aggressor, so weird, so so weird 17245231001
Reposted by Kim BrillhartJake 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 151151526523
Reposted by Kim BrillhartChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 09/10/2026I love this so much❤️ 122 new dads met their babies for the very first time yesterday when the USS Abraham Lincoln finally returned to San Diego. Families waited almost a year for this moment. 1033260844
Reposted by Kim BrillhartMarc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 09/10/2026🚨BREAKING: Federal court BLOCKS Dept. of Justice policy of collecting unredacted voter rolls, checking them against federal citizenship databases, and urging states to remove voters flagged as ineligible. www.democracydocket.com/cases/doj-na...democracydocket.com🚨 Common Cause v. U.S. Department of JusticeLearn more. 7047251654
Reposted by Kim BrillhartTom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Millions of Americans literally bet their life that RFK Jr, a complete crackpot, knew science better than the CDC and Jonas Salk and just about every living doctor 79828210
Reposted by Kim BrillhartKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/10/2026“Every member of this ethnic group is a criminal who needs to be imprisoned by the state” is just pure uncut Nazi shit 10549821208
Reposted by Kim BrillhartAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026Ossoff: "I think Pete Hegseth is frankly a deeply unwell person who seems to relish this kind of brutality all the while he's running a department that is falling into chaos. The guy cannot run the military competently and is spending his time with this kind of obscene medieval spectacle." 427181304783
Reposted by Kim BrillhartRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Part (but far from all) of what's horrific here is: a woman weighing the consequences of speaking up about being sexually assaulted, because speaking up imposes burdens and costs (and so does not speaking up).phoenixnewtimes.comCongressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signsEmbarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing. A Phoenix New Times exclusive. 231962503
Reposted by Kim BrillhartHoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 07/10/2026“Look what I got you Maine.” — “Rock Salt Suzie” 943775942
Reposted by Kim BrillhartMatt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026the tech industry is about to invent books 574216354218
Reposted by Kim BrillhartThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Alarming — 🇺🇸 Senator @chrismurphyct.bsky.social denied access to military facilities in the Middle East: “Unprecedented. Hegseth is trying to cover up the extent of the damage from a war spiraling out of control. This should be unacceptable to everybody, Republican or Democrat.” 29884714032
Reposted by Kim BrillhartDave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I'm just gonna bookmark this for future reference when Dem pundits complain about how the party has trouble communicating its message to voters. The reason you keep running into trouble with your branding isn't campus radicals. The reason is that your opponents purchased all the media outlets. 8039131131
Kim Brillhart @keepitbrill.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Travelled south for the always fun, sold out Manhattan Bch 10k. A quiet morning on the beach. 000
Reposted by Kim BrillhartDonovan Schaefer @feelingtheory.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Musician Charles Manson, who led a religious revival in Los Angeles during the counterculture era of the 1960s and later became embroiled in controversy, has died. 511505233
Reposted by Kim BrillhartRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Who's really paying the price for those killer Amazon Prime Day deals? 18835971683
Reposted by Kim BrillhartMarc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Justice Alito is confusing a desire to reform the court with an effort to intimidate it. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...democracydocket.comSupreme Court expansion is ‘a concerted effort to intimidate the court,' Justice Alito saysDespite Americans' eroding trust in the Supreme Court, Alito says he's not discussed growing calls for expanding the court and setting term limits. 25745491341
Reposted by Kim Brillhartderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 04/10/2026please do not post photos of barbour jackets in early october if you're not also voting for policies to address global warming 494505385
Reposted by Kim BrillhartCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 03/10/2026“I am the house.” - Sept 8 “I can’t control the bond market.” - Oct 3 @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article... 1461883559
Reposted by Kim BrillhartBluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Well Done Germany! =============== The Cornell University case has highlighted the need to better protect women from rapists. This is a great idea for remote/hidden areas. ---------------------- 28155991449
Reposted by Kim BrillhartAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/10/2026A tiny bit of gentle advice for the men: before you try to explain or pontificate anything about the Cornell 7 to a woman, please remember chances are she’s already an expert 🙏🏻 371111222230
Reposted by Kim BrillhartRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good. I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement. 378121113493
Reposted by Kim BrillhartJustin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026And so it continues... Our economic debates seem utterly disconnected from the reality. That reality: This is an economy mostly creating healthcare jobs, and it does so month after month, and everything else is just noise. 661047406
Reposted by Kim BrillhartKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Listening to Al Michaels and Kirk Herbstreit wave away the sexual assault charges against DeShaun Watson — even saying “winning is the best deodorant” — was pretty jarring, especially this week. 1001456295
Reposted by Kim Brillhartebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Reminder 💥 More White trash maggots no doubt. 1022717761
Reposted by Kim BrillhartMichael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026James Burke with one of the greatest pieces if timing in Television history as he turns, points, and Voyager 2 takes off from Cape Canaveral in August 1977. 942656484
Reposted by Kim BrillhartSenator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 01/10/2026It's not a PR problem when people can read their grocery receipts. 1415438
Reposted by Kim BrillhartMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026do men understand the extent to which women are ready to burn it all down right now 56099121498
Reposted by Kim BrillhartRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Cowboys past and present are: Black, Indigenous, Latino, immigrant, queer, trans, radical, female (and the ones in rodeos rely on rodeo clowns to keep them safe). And that pro-democracy pro-Constitution patriots despise this dimwitted pile of hatreds. I've met cowboys and you, sir, are no cowboy. 581293256
Reposted by Kim BrillhartSenator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 30/09/2026Before the ACA, you couldn't get health insurance if you had a pre-existing condition, and that included everything from just being pregnant to having cancer. Obamacare was a giant step forward. Next: universal health care. 3328770
Reposted by Kim BrillhartRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Maybe time for those who don't experience this directly to return to this thread (which I posted when PTSD was being weaponized to relieve Graham Platner of responsibility for his actions). 6726223
Reposted by Kim BrillhartGoldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 29/09/2026In 2027 Seattle's minimum wage will be $22.14 per hour. That's more than THREE TIMES the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour—a rate that hasn't been raised since 2009. And yet somehow we're not the jobless wasteland orthodox economics would predict. Weird.seattletimes.comSeattle announces 2027 minimum wageThe minimum wage in Seattle will increase 3.9% next year. 10038761149
Reposted by Kim BrillhartMadGreek 🧿 @madgreek2024.bsky.social · 29/09/2026What did we learn today? That Jack Smith is a Caitlin Clack fan and that Senator Eric Schmitt is a dirtbag! The senator mistook the Atlanta Hawks for the Iowa Hawkeyes and tried to accuse Jack Smith of perjury. Epic fail. I'm still a fan of Jack Smith. A real American patriot. 🇺🇸 31891602285
Reposted by Kim BrillhartKat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you. 768286795984
Reposted by Kim BrillhartA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Hard to imagine what that would be like 23775241267
Reposted by Kim BrillhartGod @thegodshow.com · 29/09/2026Robert Reich just dropped a Rahm Emanuel diss-track and it goes hard af. Not saying it’s a Kendrick / Drake level beef, but it’s close. 1835413692
