Reposted by Mannwich🪷MsGrumpyBunny🪷 @msgrumpybunny.bsky.social · 8hSusan Collins is showing just how out of touch she is. “I spent a whole year without health insurance…in ‘94” That was 3 decades ago, Susan, when insurance was $1500 annually… Thanks to Susan’s vote that helped pass Trump’s murderous budget bill, premiums are $1500 a month now for some folks. 991102403
Mannwich @mannwich.bsky.social · 5hA cool billion on elections. Seems suboptimal. Hideous and obscene. 000
Mannwich @mannwich.bsky.social · 17hAnd no other person would get away with it, much less the president of the country. 010
Mannwich @mannwich.bsky.social · 17hShe’s the biggest phony in the senate. And that’s saying a lot. 000
Mannwich @mannwich.bsky.social · 23hThey sure are feeling themselves these days. Want more don’t want to pay more. America’s new sink-or-swim era of work is here - Business Insider stocks.apple.com/AHBRStvv9S1G...stocks.apple.comAmerica's new sink-or-swim era of work is here — Business InsiderCapitalism is alive and well in the private sector, where many employers have higher expectations and care less about loyalty. Updated Oct 6, 2026, 1:48 PM GMT A few years ago, HR practitioner T. Tara... 000
Mannwich @mannwich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Live Updates: Student Protests Expand to More Than 40 French Cities www.nytimes.com/live/2026/10...nytimes.comFrance Protests Live Updates: Unions Join Student Demonstrations (Gift Article)Union members, parents and teachers joined the demonstrations, broadening the student-led protest movement that has closed hundreds of French high schools since late September. 000
Reposted by MannwichCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 06/10/2026(FT) - A sharp sell-off in US government bonds is starting to reverberate across corporate America, forcing companies to overhaul their borrowing plans and even raising the spectre of defaults among the most lowly rated businesses. @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/7c7c... 13448187
Mannwich @mannwich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026It’s great they have their tentacles in everything now. 091
Reposted by MannwichNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Article 1 is Congress. The presidency comes second, in Article 2, and explicitly requires the president to faithfully execute the law as passed by Congress. But that structure implies that the president can break laws without consequence. Or, well, at least this one can. -Sam Alito, paraphrased 8584120
Reposted by MannwichNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The great Dennis Hastert has died. I hope the dirty snitches are happy. by Jim Jordan 16856108
Reposted by MannwichThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026WATCH: “Did you go to public schools? Did you drive here on roads?” 🔥 @abdulelsayed.bsky.social expertly handles Fox propagandist martha maccallum’s fearmongering about socialism (From @acyn.bsky.social ) 38382502395
Reposted by MannwichProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️ 9458823368
Mannwich @mannwich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026McDonald’s hit with class action alleging AI-powered menu price-fixing - Reuters stocks.apple.com/AUMjy1p5eSFO...stocks.apple.comMcDonald's hit with class action alleging AI-powered menu price-fixing — ReutersMcDonald's (MCD.N) has been sued in federal court in Chicago in a proposed nationwide class action alleging the fast-food company illegally coordinates menu prices across its franchises and company-... 000
Mannwich @mannwich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The surge in rates is blowing up commercial real-estate deals - The Wall Street Journal stocks.apple.com/AucVVjfCaQDi...stocks.apple.comThe Surge in Rates Is Blowing Up Commercial Real-Estate Deals — The Wall Street JournalProperty buyers are demanding sellers renegotiate terms because of higher mortgage rates, signaling broader market distress 000
Mannwich @mannwich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Texas Pediatricians Face Paxton Investigations for Vaccinating Children www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/h...nytimes.comTexas Pediatricians Face Paxton Investigations for Vaccinating Children (Gift Article)Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general and Republican Senate candidate, has alleged a sprawling profit-driven conspiracy. Pediatricians say the accusations are an attempt at intimidation. 000
Mannwich @mannwich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026In Pennsylvania, the epicenter of online gambling, anger over addiction and loss fuels a backlash - Philadelphia Inquirer stocks.apple.com/ADE17ngOoQke...stocks.apple.comIn Pennsylvania, the epicenter of online gambling, anger over addiction and loss fuels a backlash — Philadelphia InquirerIn Pennsylvania, the epicenter of online gambling, anger over addiction and loss fuels a backlash 000
Reposted by MannwichJessy Edwards @jessyedwards.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The grilling of the AI execs has begun. Speaker Menin asks OpenAI to quantify the worst risks of AI. Exec: "I don't know." Menin: "I'm sorry, but to say you don't know and it doesn't matter is flippant at best... I honestly am incredulous at that answer." hellgatenyc.com/ai-execs-fac... 1121058
Reposted by MannwichJessy Edwards @jessyedwards.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Menin asks the AI execs to "raise your hand if your company has insurance for catastrophic risks." No one does. "Okay, I'm going to take that as a no... So then the public, I assume, will be asked to absorb the costs." Each of the execs then scramble to clarify that they actually don't know. 9209103
Reposted by MannwichDare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Only 11% of companies could accurately forecast their AI spending. A separate study found cheaper AI models cost more 32% of the time. So dollars per token is less relevant than dollars per task. AI is like getting a contractor, you know the hourly rate but not how many hours the job will take. 310617
Reposted by MannwichDavid 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. 441668495
Mannwich @mannwich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Feels like we should default to taking the other side of anything they claim. 000
Reposted by MannwichEric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 05/10/2026ICE has disclosed another detainee who died We know: -After 17yrs, he'd only ever been busted for... *an expired car tag.* He was in a camp run by for-profit w/ history medical neglect An American died at one of its jails *after strep-throat.* austinkocher.substack.com/p/julian-cur...austinkocher.substack.comJulian Curo-Churata Is the 37th Person to Die in ICE Custody This Fiscal Year, Capping Off the Agency’s Deadliest Year on RecordAccording to ICE, 47-year-old Peruvian national Julian Curo-Churata died in Louisiana on Tuesday, September 29. 7736386
Mannwich @mannwich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026www.theguardian.com/technology/2...theguardian.comAccept ‘bad things’ in return for benefits of AI, says Sam AltmanBoss of OpenAI calls for a regulatory light touch because of the ‘good stuff’ the technology can deliver 130
Mannwich @mannwich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Live Updates: Spain Calls Early Election After Housing Crisis Roils Government www.nytimes.com/live/2026/10...nytimes.comLive Updates: Spain Calls Early Election After Housing Crisis Roils Government 000
Mannwich @mannwich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Your car’s data-privacy problems are worse than you think - The Verge stocks.apple.com/AKZcgYQmuQa2...stocks.apple.comYour car’s data privacy problems are worse than you think — The VergeYou hear it all the time: Modern cars are basically smartphones on wheels. And just like the phone in your pocket, the car in your driveway collects vast amounts of data — tracking where you drive, ho... 000
Mannwich @mannwich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Google pushed AI into schools—and even students say it’s gone too far - The Wall Street Journal stocks.apple.com/A6B9FZ5mVQm6...stocks.apple.comGoogle Pushed AI Into Schools—and Even Students Say It’s Gone Too Far — The Wall Street JournalThe risks of cognitive and emotional dependence, along with falling test scores, are fueling a backlash 000
Mannwich @mannwich.bsky.social · 04/10/2026www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...theatlantic.comA Reckoning in SpringfieldA truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become. 000
Reposted by MannwichOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026If you have $100 million to spend on ads saying you shouldn’t be taxed you’re not being taxed enough Google cofounder Sergey Brin has spent $102 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses fortune.com/article/how-...fortune.comGoogle co-founder Sergey Brin has now spent $100 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses | FortuneThe state’s ultrawealthy, including Larry Page and Peter Thiel, have similarly donated to efforts opposing the wealth tax. 10041551260
Reposted by MannwichJustin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 04/10/2026In 1989 CEOs made 60x the average worker. Today it's 325x. I guess the corporate ladder is getting taller. With @svaneksmith.bsky.social newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/… 28456133