madkingupdates.bsky.social @madkingupdates.bsky.social · 6hThe Eric Schmitt thing really reveals the pitfalls of profound misogyny. The notion that someone might have attended a women’s basketball game on February 3rd, 2024 never even crossed their minds! 000
Reposted by @madkingupdates.bsky.socialAssigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 29/09/2026Democrats seem headed for big wins, but one avenue for self-sabotage would be adopting R's framing on trans rights. @billiejsweeney.bsky.social spoke with insiders incl Lanae Erikson of Third Way and Rep. Sarah McBride for this substanial piece of new reporting. assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...assignedmedia.orgDemocrats Lose by Punching Down on Trans Issues, Strategists Say - Assigned MediaInsiders, including at centrist think tank Third Way, are cautioning Democratic candidates against echoing Republican talking points on trans rights. 28961273
madkingupdates.bsky.social @madkingupdates.bsky.social · 29/09/2026A) Genocide is a crime established by intent, not by the relative scale or banality of the damage B) the three regimes cited are all credibly accused of genocide, war crimes and ethnic cleansing so I'm not sure this is the slam dunk you think it is. 2113
madkingupdates.bsky.social @madkingupdates.bsky.social · 29/09/2026hey yeah maybe forcing the ncaa to collectively bargain with college athletes is the right thing to do. 0124
Reposted by @madkingupdates.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/09/2026this is legitimately very funny 83124601876
madkingupdates.bsky.social @madkingupdates.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Forgive me for being skeptical of the general intelligence of a machine with the memory retention of a squirrel 000
Reposted by @madkingupdates.bsky.socialNathaniel William Horadam @horadam.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The problem with seeing AI as an end and not a tool is you completely miss how it fundamentally layers into the way our economy/society is already structured. We don’t have the incentives to use AI for increasing factory productivity. We do for extracting maximum profits out of services. 611330
madkingupdates.bsky.social @madkingupdates.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Ok grandpa lets get you to bed 000
Reposted by @madkingupdates.bsky.socialVoteHub @votehub.com · 28/09/2026NEWS — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear criticizes fellow Democrats who say transgender athletes should be barred from women’s sports. “That is not the party that we are. We start as a party of compassion and empathy.” 6854991009
madkingupdates.bsky.social @madkingupdates.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Has the market priced in the risk of turning the economy’s fastest growing sector over to a sex cult? 000
Reposted by @madkingupdates.bsky.socialJustin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Lower accountability reads as higher risk. When a town's newspaper closes those local governments end up paying higher interest rates to borrow. newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/… 8559177
Reposted by @madkingupdates.bsky.socialDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on. 3149292693
madkingupdates.bsky.social @madkingupdates.bsky.social · 27/09/2026This is insane www.thetrafalgargroup.org/wp-content/u... 000
madkingupdates.bsky.social @madkingupdates.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Eleanor Roosevelt really needs a modern biopic. 000
madkingupdates.bsky.social @madkingupdates.bsky.social · 27/09/2026FDR's 1937 fireside chat pitching the Judicial Procedures Reorganization Bill. Worth revisiting. upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co... 000
madkingupdates.bsky.social @madkingupdates.bsky.social · 26/09/2026@jevbot.bsky.social medicare for all? 110
madkingupdates.bsky.social @madkingupdates.bsky.social · 25/09/2026@jevbot.bsky.social why did jeb!'s campaign fail in 2016? 150
madkingupdates.bsky.social @madkingupdates.bsky.social · 25/09/2026great lets keep muddying the waters about this issue and spend extremely scarce time talking about it in a way that leaves everyone unhappy and continues to harm the candidate. Brilliant gambit by the DC democratic consultants. 🙄 010
madkingupdates.bsky.social @madkingupdates.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I wonder if its too late for that one judge who decided arbitrarily that the network wasn't expansive enough to threaten civil liberties to revise his opinion? back of the envelope jurisprudence is a plague. 020
Reposted by @madkingupdates.bsky.socialAlex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 25/09/2026America cannot have a multiracial, multicultural democracy if the United States Supreme Court is allowed to continue to exist in its current form 392135617
madkingupdates.bsky.social @madkingupdates.bsky.social · 25/09/2026If democrats don’t advance legislation reforming the court in the next congress, I honestly think I am done with them. 020
madkingupdates.bsky.social @madkingupdates.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Ok majoritarians whats your excuse for not becoming radical pro-palestine river to the sea truthers? Issue salience? Moral principle? Come on 000
madkingupdates.bsky.social @madkingupdates.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Running and winning with the most ideologically progressive candidates the electorate will accept is a sound strategy for the left, even if centrist pundits hate the outcome! 100
madkingupdates.bsky.social @madkingupdates.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The vibes are truly terrible! Surely this has nothing to do with it. 000
madkingupdates.bsky.social @madkingupdates.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Is it possible that liability— who is responsible when intelligent software engages in unethical or even illegal acts— lies at the heart of this debate? Does it pose an existential threat to the corporations funneling billions in capex into AI? mail.cyberneticforests.com/meet-the-rad...mail.cyberneticforests.comMeet the Radical IntentionalistsLatest on "Rogue AI" (from today and up until now...) One of the challenges of the current debates around AI is whose narratives we are forced to argue from. 1). The well-funded "AI safety" continge... 000
madkingupdates.bsky.social @madkingupdates.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I’d advocate stridently for permanent standard time. 020
madkingupdates.bsky.social @madkingupdates.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Evangelical prosperity gospel types have one neat trick 010
madkingupdates.bsky.social @madkingupdates.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I think its becoming increasingly clear that this technology is completely incompatible with civil society and it cannot be fixed. 000
madkingupdates.bsky.social @madkingupdates.bsky.social · 24/09/2026it doesn't help that the questions being asked are almost equally moronic. its like NYT is trying to bait them int saying stupid shit. This isn't journalism, its click bait garbage. 011
madkingupdates.bsky.social @madkingupdates.bsky.social · 24/09/2026OpenAI really is just a gang of cybercriminals aren't they 010
madkingupdates.bsky.social @madkingupdates.bsky.social · 24/09/2026OpenAI stole the worlds knowledge and now they are out here committing cyber crimes with wild abandon www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comOpenAI agent 'infiltrated' Australian government website, PM saysAlbanese said he expressed "concern" to OpenAI founder Sam Altman, after authorities were informed three months after the breach in June. 010
madkingupdates.bsky.social @madkingupdates.bsky.social · 23/09/2026it looks like the Senate will pass the protect college sports act today. This bill harms college athletes while protecting the NCAA and university execs. People should call their reps and ask them to vote no. www.chrismurphyct.com/p/the-protec...chrismurphyct.comThe 'Protect College Sports Act' Doesn't Actually Protect College AthletesIt’s time to stop mincing words and being polite: College athletes started making money, jeopardizing an exploitative system that kept billions in revenue in the hands of mostly white male adults — an... 010
madkingupdates.bsky.social @madkingupdates.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I mean if you gotta pick up a senate campaign in under six months you don’t have a whole lotta options. Maybe do oppo research on you preferred candidate next time! 000
madkingupdates.bsky.social @madkingupdates.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Glad to see the so-called “liberal” zionists on this website go mask off. They are really just anti-muslim bigots. 000
Reposted by @madkingupdates.bsky.socialScott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.nytimes.comF.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan CollinsThe inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials. 24982213342
madkingupdates.bsky.social @madkingupdates.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Democrats like gavin newsom still want to play inside baseball meanwhile the overriding political project in the gop is to dismantle the republic and organize a worldwide autocratic revolution. 000
Reposted by @madkingupdates.bsky.socialBen McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The American Voter radicalizing into a jihad against Republicans because car juice is expensive is entirely on brand why are people surprised 1241450
madkingupdates.bsky.social @madkingupdates.bsky.social · 22/09/2026These midterms have to be the beginning of a broad project to disempower corporate democrats. We have to continue to pressure them once in office, fight them in the presidential primaries and prepare to mount primary challenges against leadership in 2028. 000
madkingupdates.bsky.social @madkingupdates.bsky.social · 22/09/2026at some point you gotta know when the costs of triangulating to appease a small constituency outweighs the benefits. Not only are these rabbis losing moral authority inside of Judaism, which is undergoing an immense transformation, they are not Democrats in any functional sense. 140
madkingupdates.bsky.social @madkingupdates.bsky.social · 22/09/2026This guy thinks he’s kissinger but really he is temu lizzie rice 000
Reposted by @madkingupdates.bsky.socialAdam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 21/09/2026There's been a lot of understandable anger from the trans community at Talarico's comments. There's also been pushback along the lines of "it's like Obama and gay marriage, Paxton is worse." @radtranslib.bsky.social understands the stakes better than anyone and knows we need Talarico to win.liberalcurrents.comTalarico (D) Is Just a Letter to Me NowAfter folding on trans rights, James Talarico does not have my respect. Honestly, fuck him. And yet, Ken Paxton (R) must lose. 1118434
madkingupdates.bsky.social @madkingupdates.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Do democratic electeds all have a humiliation fetish? This shit is so embarrassing. 000
Reposted by @madkingupdates.bsky.socialryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 21/09/2026turns out Zelensky had some cards after all, lol www.ft.com/content/adb8...ft.comDonald Trump presses Volodymyr Zelenskyy to stop hitting Russian refineriesUS president tells Ukrainian leader in phone call it is all about ‘diesel, diesel, diesel’, according to officials 1969384
madkingupdates.bsky.social @madkingupdates.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I really feel like if you live in a blue state you should call up your AGs and let them know how you feel about them being Newsom’s little lapdogs and handing over cnn to the oligarchs 010
madkingupdates.bsky.social @madkingupdates.bsky.social · 22/09/2026A public press conference with potus is plainly not the same thing as a secret meeting with his son in law lol. People in national politics generally have to interact with potus every now and then. 110
Reposted by @madkingupdates.bsky.socialthe abbot of unreason (a returned archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 22/09/2026what the fuck man 1924929
madkingupdates.bsky.social @madkingupdates.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Lowest result for any President since October 2008. Only Truman, Nixon, Carter, and H.W. have ever polled lower. 000
