Reposted by Kimberley IsbellMei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence. 46147224823
Reposted by Kimberley IsbellThe Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 6hMore than a dozen kittens from the Bitty Kitty Brigade, a no-kill rescue, took part in their sixth annual field trip to SEA LIFE at Mall of America. 712229
Reposted by Kimberley IsbellSunflower state of mind @blueintheheartland.bsky.social · 6hlol. Then he tries to act magnanimous by saying they paid double but they paid less than the interest he charges women in rural Kansas for medical procedures. It’s be over $2000 in interest if figured on what he charges and that’s without 6 years in penalties. 🤡 122025
Reposted by Kimberley IsbellMother Jones @motherjones.com · 8hThe police said she lied about being raped. Then she hit record.motherjones.comPolice didn’t believe a 12-year-old who said she'd been raped. Then she hit record.“If I didn’t find the evidence for them, I wasn’t too sure they would find it.” 301042336
Reposted by Kimberley IsbellRachel Fairbank @sweetsciencewriter.bsky.social · 9h“The children who are randomly selected not to receive the birth dose of the vaccine, those who “lost the lottery”, face in their earliest days the risk of contracting hepatitis B, which can cause irreversible lifelong damage.” No words. I am speechless. This violates all ethical boundaries.theguardian.comControversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-BissauRecommended dose of hepatitis B vaccine will be withheld from thousands of newborns by Danish researchers 641322597
Reposted by Kimberley IsbellRuha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 09/10/2026So let me know if you want to come to a virtual talk next wk on “Reimagining Leadership.“ Time tbd. The focus is on cultivating critical, creative, and caring capacities in medicine, but I think it applies beyond that. I’m pretty sure we can do this without any leaders. 11616199
Reposted by Kimberley IsbellGil Durán @gilduran.com · 10/10/2026"Do not obey in advance. Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given...individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do." @timothysnyder.bsky.social 14606206
Reposted by Kimberley IsbellNatasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 23hYou know those ‘spot the difference’ puzzles? I’m thinking of launching a ‘spot every racism in this political cartoon’ alternative…. 48627108
Reposted by Kimberley IsbellJake 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 127127775432
Reposted by Kimberley Isbell🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 22hWe need a 2028 primary about who is best able to make this exact argument. No Kings = checking all massive wealth, or it means nothing. And I know one candidate who'd never say this unless he's chasing a middle that's pulled very far in that direction. 2499
Reposted by Kimberley Isbell🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 22hTrying to track where Elon is spending most, and the answer is pretty obviously Texas, but I still think Ohio is where it can make the biggest difference. stopthetrillionaires.com 48228
Reposted by Kimberley IsbellElizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 08/10/2026Wall Street and corporations have schemed for decades to stack the bench with judges who rule against consumers and workers. Result? Federal courts have distorted the law to further rig the economy—and you're paying the price. Democrats must be clear-eyed about this challenge. 16637212
Reposted by Kimberley Isbell🦇🎃💀 Riana-mator 💀🎃🦇 @riana.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Microsoft gave $1 million to the inauguration fund and Satya Nadella sat two seats away from Vance at the WH AI luncheon nine days ago. This is what bending the knee gets you. 215155
Reposted by Kimberley IsbellRewire News Group @rewirenewsgroup.com · 08/10/2026While we await a federal ruling on a potential telehealth abortion ban, anti-abortion activists are preparing plans for laws that would require women to go to a doctor's office, have an ultrasound, or wait before receiving the abortion pills. From @stateline.org.rewirenewsgroup.comAbortion Foes Plan to Push Pill Restrictions in the StatesEven if the FDA preserves telehealth abortion, they want mandatory ultrasounds, waiting periods and in-person visits. As they await a federal decision on a potential nationwide ban on telehealth abort... 3179
Reposted by Kimberley IsbellGreg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 08/10/2026“We want people to come in the right way,” they said — and then barred every entry except a hatch labeled “white South Africans only.” 516650
Reposted by Kimberley IsbellBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Private mercenary company now monitoring and enforcing U.S. elections. Very good sign for democracy.newrepublic.comUSPS Hires Security Service With History of Human Rights AbuseAlmost 1,000 armed security officers have been sent to at least 55 post office facilities. 415484
Reposted by Kimberley IsbellJameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026If you know talented law students who would be interested in spending a summer working on the most important and interesting First Amendment cases, please send them our way! knightcolumbia.org/page/summer-...knightcolumbia.org | Knight First Amendment Institute 01719
Reposted by Kimberley Isbelldan sinker @dansinker.com · 06/10/2026Might I point you at kickbezosintheballs.org 26221
Reposted by Kimberley IsbellGuardian US @us.theguardian.com · 06/10/2026Water prices rose 1.6 times faster than overall inflation between 2015 and 2025. Consumer prices increased 39% during that period, compared with a 62% jump in water bills, according to the study. Water costs also rose more than twice as fast as groceries, which increased 30%.theguardian.comUS households pay 62% more for water than they did a decade ago, study findsFor-profit water corporations, federal cuts and climate crisis are ‘supercharging water rate hikes’, study co-author says 22516
Reposted by Kimberley IsbellWill Oremus @willoremus.com · 06/10/2026Fun fact: Tesla went with a giant touchscreen instead of knobs for the Model 3 purely to save time and money. Knobs would have required spinning up a whole supply chain. The company spun it as a luxury feature and much of the industry followed suit. But it was always an inferior substitute. 421999384
Reposted by Kimberley IsbellRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026It's almost like putting a quack anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist in charge of the nation's health policy has consequences. "The United States has now had more measles deaths in the past two years than we have had in the previous three decades combined...": www.ms.now/news/pennsyl...ms.nowPennsylvania’s measles outbreak is the largest in decades in the U.S.The state has surpassed 1,000 measles cases this year, health officials said Monday, making it the largest outbreak in the U.S. in more than three decades. 21852052293
Reposted by Kimberley IsbellGreg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 06/10/2026"Planned as part of the pleasure grounds surrounding the Executive Mansion … the park was separated from the White House grounds [in 1804], when third President Thomas Jefferson had Pennsylvania Avenue cut through east–west."en.wikipedia.orgPresident's Park - Wikipedia 1137
Reposted by Kimberley IsbellGreg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 06/10/2026Lafayette Park and the Ellipse exist as public parks because the nation's early leaders deemed it unnecessary and unseemly to fence off palatial grounds in the people's capital. "Trump's plan" is an insult to the nation's people and ideals.nytimes.comInside Trump's Plan to Fence Off a Historic Protest Site (Gift Article)The president’s proposal to enclose a park in Washington could alter how the space has been used for generations. 33825
Reposted by Kimberley IsbellKarl Bode @karlbode.com · 06/10/2026over at the newsletter I wrote about the useful bogeyman that is "polarization":karlbode.comThe Problem Is Right Wing Extremism, Not 'Polarization'Ambiguous media whining about "polarization" or "partisan tribalism" redirects attention away from the real cause of modern U.S. division: violent right wing extremism. 10545151
Reposted by Kimberley IsbellNieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 05/10/2026ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists’ signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons buff.ly/YJ1mAiPbuff.lyChatGPT is adding real cartoonists’ signatures to fake New Yorker cartoonsOpenAI's chatbot isn't just imitating the magazine's style. It's also falsely attributing AI-generated images to real artists. 30424293
Reposted by Kimberley IsbellAmanda Levendowski Tepski @tepski.tech · 05/10/2026My Intellectual Property and Information Policy Clinic is hiring a new teaching fellow! If you find joy in iPIP work; share our enthusiasm for collaborating; and demonstrate creativity through your work—maybe it could be you? Apply by the end of the month: apply.interfolio.com/194762 Share broadly!apply.interfolio.com Apply - Interfolio {{$ctrl.$state.data.pageTitle}} - Apply - Interfolio 22026
Reposted by Kimberley IsbellCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 05/10/2026This is what women on the right say about another woman who was gang raped. These are the same people our current Dem leadership thinks should be allowed to participate in normal society after we wrest control from the psychos. 591641331
Reposted by Kimberley IsbellRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026"Among the first to appear before the judge was Angel, a 13-year-old. He had no attorney. “Would you like to request voluntary departure, or should I issue a removal order?” the judge asked “I don’t know,” Angel said, bursting into tears: “I have no one. I have nothing.” www.cnn.com/2026/09/28/p...cnn.comInside the Texas courtroom where toddlers face immigration judges | CNN PoliticsMigrant children as young as 2 are showing up at immigration courts nationwide, many without attorneys, to try make their case to stay in the US and avoid deportation. 45137631891
Reposted by Kimberley IsbellSeth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026It’s interesting how the standard bearer for the party whose message used to be “Democrats suck because they just buy votes by giving people free stuff” has decided the closing message for the midterms will just be “how many more checks do we have to send you in order to earn your vote?” 991620454
Reposted by Kimberley IsbellUlrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 04/10/2026True, though Ezra Klein made a good point the other day when he said that Amodei and Altman etc talk about the frontier models they see in their labs, but the larger public thinks of AI as their free ChatGPT and thus of course we talk past each other. 128416
Reposted by Kimberley Isbell🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Why not run ONE ad exposing the Gang Who Couldn't Epstein Straight? Their crotch-sniffing isn't just about them being sick perverts. They think you're a sucker. They think you don't see Elon & his Reich soaking up trillions, building dirty data centers up your ass while your mom can't afford gas. 424951
Reposted by Kimberley IsbellBloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 04/10/2026Scientists are getting closer to controlling HIV without drugs after training the immune system to keep the virus in check. But US funding cuts are clouding the outlook for future research. Read more: bloom.bg/4e9tFT8 📷: Janet Fries/Getty Images/Archive Photos 36529
Reposted by Kimberley IsbellThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 04/10/2026When the Trump administration started dismantling a $368 million ocean monitoring system earlier this year, scientists, fishermen and Congress fought back. On Saturday, a 238-foot ship set sail to reinstall the first batch of monitors in the waters of the Pacific.nytimes.comAfter Outcry, Monitors the Trump Administration Tried to Scrap Return to SeaUnder pressure from Congress, a network of ocean monitors that provides vital data to meteorologists, climate scientists, oceanographers and the fishing industry is being restored. 842059747
Reposted by Kimberley IsbellThe Great Pumpkinsquatch - Scott Kelley Ernest 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ @mxscottkernest.bsky.social · 02/10/2026BOMBSHELL: WaPo reports Trump's ads were funded with money meant for slain officers' funerals youtu.be/GwqOZ0eaoDI?...youtu.beBOMBSHELL: WaPo reports Trump's ads were funded with money meant for slain officers' funeralsYouTube video by MS NOW 17123761127
Reposted by Kimberley IsbellRepresentative Becca Balint @balint.house.gov · 03/10/2026It’s offensive that Trump is doing such blatant corruption right in the open. Congress has the Constitutional responsibility of oversight and it’s a disgrace Republicans gave that up the last 2 years so that Trump feels above the lawwashingtonsun.comWant Dinner With the President? Buy His Meme Coin.The $Trump meme coin is offering buyers a new "exclusive" opportunity to meet the president. 711440
Reposted by Kimberley IsbellDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/10/2026You can't get anyone in political media to say it plainly, but GOP strategy for several decades now has been built around the fact that its core goals/policies are *wildly unpopular*. Everything depends on a) polluting the information environment, b) cementing unfair structural advantages, & c) $$$. 341622445
Reposted by Kimberley Isbellhilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026For anyone seeing this movie: of course any war involves the risk of civilian casualties. The issue is how many lives you’re prepared to risk to get a given enemy combatant, and the problem with Israel’s actions is that those numbers are REALLY high. See here. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/asse...lawfaremedia.orgAssessing Israel’s Approach to Proportionality in the Conduct of Hostilities in GazaThe Jabalia strike indicates that the IDF’s tolerance for civilian casualties is multiples greater than that of the U.S. in the ISIS war. 33710
Reposted by Kimberley IsbellCaptain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Microsoft branding nightmare re AI risks to humanity 725647
Reposted by Kimberley IsbellNoah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Hitler would have murdered every Jewish person in Germany, every queer person, every person on the left. Tucker doesn't care because he wants to murder all those people as well. 67695163
Reposted by Kimberley IsbellCNN @cnn.com · 03/10/2026"Twice this week, Trump has held White House events announcing a major economic project that happens to benefit a state holding a key, competitive Senate race — first in Iowa, then in Alaska," writes CNN's Aaron Blake. "And both times, his promises have proven to be overzealous, at best." | Analysiscnn.comTrump touted big economic projects in two key Senate states this week. Both announcements soon crumbled | CNN PoliticsPresident Donald Trump has made it abundantly clear that he’s happy to use official government resources in ethically dubious ways to try to win the 2026 midterm elections. 2312349
Reposted by Kimberley IsbellGreg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 03/10/2026I’ve seen untrained cloggers in an earthquake show more coordination than L.A. County government’s have managed on matters as basic as helping the unhoused. 2164
Reposted by Kimberley IsbellGuardian US @us.theguardian.com · 03/10/2026A Princeton researcher found that publicly available election records could be combined with AI to link voters to their ballotstheguardian.comGeorgia holds emergency meeting on AI exposing voters’ secret ballots 42715
Reposted by Kimberley IsbellCovie @covie93.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The man who took out full page ads demanding the death penalty for five Black and Latino teenagers falsely accused of rape is out here worried that the seven majority white Cornell frat boys accused of rape "won't get a fair shake". 8929961011
Reposted by Kimberley IsbellDiane Ademu-John @junkyardmessiah.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Well. Here we are. In IDIOCRACY TWO: ELECTRIC BUGALOO. 195
Reposted by Kimberley IsbellZander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 30/09/2026that's like $15k a MC. Seems fine to me tbqh 73113
Reposted by Kimberley IsbellDaniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Dear America.gov, Go fuck yourself. Dan 612128
Reposted by Kimberley IsbellChad Loder @chadloder.dev · 30/09/2026"If you hear in the next 34 days that there is a new security threat you’ve never heard of, one that somehow requires federal law enforcement or the military and not local police, an alarm bell should go off in your brain. Do not let him get away with that." 629288
Reposted by Kimberley IsbellJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026poor Mark was just making ends meet and had to do this 521138
Reposted by Kimberley IsbellRachel Vail @rachelvail.bsky.social · 30/09/2026A good rule is: Don't have sex with someone who isn't *enthusiastic* about having sex with you. The sex will be better and so will your lives. 1536