Reposted by Ken TidwellChad Loder @chadloder.dev · 16/01/2026Californians are NOT going to vote for Gavin Newsom. They're telling you now, with YEARS to go before the election. Fair warning. Please support better candidates, there will be many to choose from. 25369931424
Reposted by Ken TidwellKai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 08/01/2026I ask this every now and then and I’ve yet to get a good answer. How long does it take for people to realize they’re on the wrong side of history? 2572044311
Reposted by Ken TidwellRobert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 08/01/2026I understand the pressures on the BBC, but Radio 4's coverage of the Minneapolis shooting is an example of "bad balance". It's all "the Trump regime says she was a terrorist, but Democrats say it was murder". The BBC has the footage. It doesn't have to treat truth and falsehood as equally valid. 1123540963
Reposted by Ken TidwellThe Onion @theonion.com · 05/01/2026Nicolás Maduro Charged With Felony Oil Possession 332268336308
Reposted by Ken Tidwellthe Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 16/12/2025Primary them all and block anybody who comes with the “at this crucial juncture the most important thing is that we win.” if they believed that they wouldn’t do this and with friends like them nobody needs enemies 393467977
Reposted by Ken TidwellDamien: Omen II the Joy Fantastic @mrmunchertoyou.bsky.social · 15/12/2025Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen. 180160616462
Reposted by Ken TidwellEric Moran @deveric.net · 09/12/2025I can't believe I have to say this, but if you have COVID don't go to public gatherings/events. 5361100
Reposted by Ken TidwellPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 27/11/2025It would be so nice if we had a Congress whose members did something besides appear on talk shows. 25883106
Reposted by Ken TidwellPhilip Bump @pbump.com · 24/11/2025You have to keep giving money to avoid collapse and if there’s collapse you have to give more money. It’s called the free market. 15151801207
Reposted by Ken TidwellTim Clare @timclare.bsky.social · 24/11/2025Of course I would say this, but we need to talk about the moral & ideological case for play & leisure more than ever. So much political discourse - especially from the super-rich - assumes we ought to construct society around forcing citizens to spend most of their one, unrepeatable life working. 721766
Reposted by Ken TidwellJustin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 22/11/2025"Look, the Fed can do a lot of things, but what it can't do is lower the price of imports. It can't make it so there are more workers for California farmers to help pick the crops." These are self-inflicted supply shocks, and the Fed can't magically undo them. (The White House can.) 14820271
Reposted by Ken TidwellBrendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 20/11/2025Any President who calls for the opposition party to be hanged should be immediately impeached and removed from office. 10551661341
Reposted by Ken TidwellAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 19/11/2025Underrated thing that's been flying under the radar: ICE's hiring spree, by necessity since there are so few others willing and able, has been hiring away local cops, which infuriates the departments by causing manpower problems and is, ironically, removing the worst of the worst from their ranks. 302225467
Reposted by Ken TidwellJohn Kostyack @kostyack.bsky.social · 19/11/2025@ddayen.bsky.social on the "perverse and irrational" private credit deals financing the AI boom, w "huge mismatches between the life cycle of the assets being funded and the amount of time it will take to pay them off." prospect.org/2025/11/19/a...prospect.orgThe AI Bubble Is Bigger Than You Think - The American ProspectIt’s not just OpenAI that looks overhyped. There’s a whole mountain of sketchy financial engineering underneath. 24821
Reposted by Ken TidwellAri Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 19/11/2025Of all the terrible things Roberts has done, this was the most shocking stat: "the right-wing majority has used the shadow docket to uphold Trump’s actions roughly 90 percent of the time, repeatedly bailing him out of any obligation to follow the law" 451595616
Reposted by Ken Tidwellderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 20/11/2025when I was young, i used to wonder how people like this would fare in life, as they didn't seem suited for gainful employment. it turns out, the internet allowed them to accumulate a massive audience of similar idiots, enriching them and turning them into a presidential advisor 366161043079
Reposted by Ken TidwellJason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 18/11/2025Restaurant advocates have warned that if every supplier insisted on being paid for ingredients, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry 03314
Reposted by Ken TidwellBill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 17/10/2025Administrators at Indiana University baselessly fired the student media director and ordered the student paper to cease its print edition, so it'd sure be a shame if this excellent digital front page were to be widely shared today issuu.com/idsnews/docs... 2620891393
Reposted by Ken TidwellMerriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 01/10/2025We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25. 647249378241
Reposted by Ken TidwellRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2025Mike Johnson continues to refuse to swear in a Democrat who won in a landslide. 47693483457
Reposted by Ken Tidwellmaura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 22/09/2025*mournfully shooting off a tshirt cannon into the sadly cheering funeral crowd* 945642768
Reposted by Ken TidwellMolly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 14/09/2025This story feels like it’s going to have huge repercussions 1058176185008
Reposted by Ken TidwellJordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · 15/09/2025A totally serious commitment and not at all extended in only one direction. 10250001070
Reposted by Ken TidwellSteve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 08/09/2025#SCOTUS all-but overruled a unanimous, 90-year-old precedent through an unexplained "administrative" stay this morning, and that's only the second-most-problematic thing it did before lunchtime. 333107883161
Reposted by Ken TidwellMatt McDermott @mattmfm.bsky.social · 06/09/2025Nothing sums up America under Republican rule like turning a place of history and strength into a strip mall food court. 1443207645
Reposted by Ken TidwellDavid Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 05/09/2025Reality has a liberal bias, it seems. 861264204
Reposted by Ken TidwellRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/09/2025Big Oil donates to his campaign...Trump hands out tax breaks and guts clean energy funding. Fraudsters donate to his Super PAC...Trump hands out pardons. Airlines donate to his inaugural fund...Trump cancels a rule requiring them to refund passengers. Everything is for sale. 12238321250
Reposted by Ken TidwellSarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social · 05/09/2025Britain's running on empty after years of neoliberalism and austerity - more tax cuts and more cuts in public spending would turn the UK into a ghost town. #r4today 0122
Reposted by Ken TidwellSiva @sivav.bsky.social · 03/09/2025The @nytimes.com ran a whole story about the murder of Venezuelan civilians on a ship as if it were a military matter and we were at war with Venezuela. It was a crime. The story never mentioned that Trump ordered a criminal act and the Navy followed an illegal order. This is a major event. 592018735
Reposted by Ken TidwellJJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 03/09/2025So Texas is going to invade Illinois 34900263
Reposted by Ken TidwellRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/09/2025Under Dr. Oz, Medicare is launching a pilot program that will use AI to determine whether patients would be covered for certain procedures. Companies running the program will be paid a share of the savings from rejecting claims. Who in their right mind voted for this? No one. 41370012726
Reposted by Ken TidwellMartha Wells @marthawells.com · 01/09/2025Don't forget about the DRM-free Humble Bundle from Tor (with Murderbot, Witch King, and more), benefiting World Center Kitchen. The donation is now at over 58,000. It would be awesome to get it up to $100,000. www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...humblebundle.comHumble Book Bundle: Martha Wells' Murderbot and More by TORFall in love with Martha Wells’ The Murderbot Diaries series—the engine behind the hit AppleTV adaptation—and help support World Central Kitchen. 8837579
Reposted by Ken TidwellAnnalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 31/08/2025This seems weirdly unsustainable at first, but it's OK because we're building a Dyson sphere around the solar system to host it. 231188189
Reposted by Ken TidwellAngry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 27/08/2025Jesus Christ. If your credit isn’t frozen at all three bureaus, I would strongly consider doing that now 41863083004
Reposted by Ken TidwellAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 25/08/2025id be slightly less angry at dem leadership saying theyre only interested in throwing political punches on “kitchen table issues” if they were currently out there landing punches on “kitchen table issues” 1936615922
Reposted by Ken TidwellThe New Yorker @newyorker.com · 25/08/2025An M.I.T. study found that 95% of companies that had invested in A.I. tools were seeing zero return. It jibes with the emerging idea that generative A.I., “in its current incarnation, simply isn’t all it’s been cracked up to be,” johncassidysays.bsky.social writes.newyorker.comThe A.I.-Profits Drought and the Lessons of HistoryLike the steam engine, electricity, and computers, generative artificial intelligence could take longer than expected to transform the economy. 44780722538
Reposted by Ken TidwellNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 23/08/2025Trump's splotchy hand and swollen ankles raise new questions about Joe Biden's health. 1016327982
Reposted by Ken TidwellJon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 23/08/2025Way to go, San Francisco!! 👏👏 483187847077
Reposted by Ken TidwellBill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 24/08/2025“Freedom is a fragile thing and it's never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by way of inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation.” — Ronald Reagan, Inaugural Address as CA Governor, Jan. 5, 1967. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...washingtonpost.comPentagon plans military deployment in Chicago as Trump eyes crackdownPresident Donald Trump said Chicago is his next likely target to crack down on urban crime. Military planning has been ongoing for weeks, officials say. 981315378
Reposted by Ken TidwellMartha Wells @marthawells.com · 24/08/2025Humblebundle to support World Central Kitchen, and get a bunch of my books from @tordotcom.bsky.social including Murderbot and Witch King! #booksky www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...humblebundle.comHumble Book Bundle: Martha Wells' Murderbot and More by TORFall in love with Martha Wells’ The Murderbot Diaries series—the engine behind the hit AppleTV adaptation—and help support World Central Kitchen. 2516301097
Reposted by Ken TidwellKori Schake 🎃 @kschake.bsky.social · 20/08/2025The more this happens, the less Americans will like and respect our military. 25458103
Reposted by Ken TidwellJacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 18/08/2025I always wondered what kind of idiots would get tricked by the near ubiquitous "FBI surveillance van" WiFi name, and I can't say I'm surprised 32741144
Reposted by Ken TidwellGarrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 15/08/2025This shouldn’t be a controversial position in the United States. 161379258
Reposted by Ken TidwellRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/06/2025In case you missed it, Trump's CFPB has quietly dropped 18 lawsuits against banks, mortgage firms, and subprime lenders accused of offering predatory loans to millions of vulnerable consumers. Trump is making his corporate backers even richer by letting them swindle you. 9434381583
Reposted by Ken Tidwellemptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 15/07/2025Let's review Trump's staffing: 1) His FBI DD has to take days home from work bc he's too emotional 2) His NASA Administrator is terrified of the NY Subway 3) His FEMA Administrator was AWOL for the first week after a flood killed over 20 girls at Christian summer camp 641984595
Reposted by Ken TidwellBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/07/2025This is very good. www.404media.co/the-medias-p... 5356881442
Reposted by Ken TidwellKori Schake 🎃 @kschake.bsky.social · 12/07/2025Powerful and poignant from Ambassador Fried: “Vance’s argument would overthrow the meaning of the Gettysburg Address, the speech that restored America to its original principles from the Declaration of Independence after its bloodiest war.” nationalinterest.org/feature/jd-v...nationalinterest.orgJD Vance’s Dangerous View of American NationhoodThe power of the American ideal comes not from Americans being a “particular people” with a common heritage—an ethnically-rooted nation like others—but from its being different. 1720047