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Mark Tyson

@markatyson.bsky.social
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Doing tech since early IBM PC days, former Elections Board member, interested in urbanism, health policy, green energy, travel, hiking…

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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 7h
Exactly 💯
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 6h
This is not the kind of thing you worry about if you're leaving office and accept the other party might win an election in a couple of years.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h
ALEXANDER: Why wouldn't McConnell's constituents be better served if he stepped down? TILLIS: It's the same Q people ask of Biden A: Biden is no longer POTUS T: But guess what? We're following the bad advice of people who supported him. The difference is Mitch's brain is as strong as it ever was
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 3h
Tim and I were pretty tough on Tillis on the pod Monday. But not tough enough!
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The Downballot @the-downballot.com · 3h
Mathing this out, the GOP super PACs were paying 3.8 times as much as the Talarico campaign. And the polls have actually gotten worse for Paxton since their spending spree began.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 4h
Important under-the-radar race. There's a big debate next week, given how Graham performed in the last one it could create a swing.
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Jonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 3h
Something people should realize: All 47 Dems have voted straight party line against a whole lot of Trump nominees. If there are 52 Dems, there won't be the votes to confirm typical Trump picks even without an active strategy to blockade positions.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 7h
I don’t think a 21X increase in the cost to get a tanker out of the Persian Gulf with lower total exports than before the war is an achievement. And I think it’s odd that so much of the press has been covering it as if we should see this as positive, with “Better Than You Think”-style “explainers.”
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 9h
Getting an education in America shouldn’t mean a lifetime of debt. In the Senate, I’ll fight for tuition-free public college & trade school programs, canceling student debt & higher teacher wages. Volunteer for our people-powered campaign: AngieNixon.com/volunteer #AngieForFlorida
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Maj @lif3asmaj.blacksky.app · 7h
Not that this is news to anyone, but I watched this debate and well...let's just say that the GOP will likely tell candidates to not debate Dems like they did in 2021 & this debate will likely be why. If they haven't outright done so already considering how Paxton is ducking Talarico.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 7h
‘But I got road salt exempted from Trump’s tariffs’ is really the perfect way to sum up Susan Collins during the Trump era. While he does hundreds of things to hurt Mainers, she brags about one small thing she did to help her reelection, while doing nothing on the big things.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 22h
There is a suspected outbreak of the plague in Russia. Yes, you read that right. And we cannot trust RFK Jr. and the Trump administration to be prepared to deal with this. We need a Democratic public health doctor in the US Senate.
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Scoop: White House monitors suspected plague outbreak in Russia
Administration is "aware, monitoring the outbreak, and assessing options," an official told Axios.
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 6h
I went the NHS emergency room in London over the weekend, it was free. Free to anyone. I'd have been charged only if I was admitted to the hospital. A cart in the waiting room went by me with some nice sandwiches, and I chose one. Before I could try to pay, the cart moved on. Sandwich also free.
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 6h
As American democracy backslides, fundamental principles of constitutional government give way. Here, we see a dictatorial administration freezing out congressional oversight *of the military*, which represents a major step in an autocratic revolution of US-style civilian-military relations.
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Mark Tyson @markatyson.bsky.social · 5h
Parts of my MAGA aligned family are learning this the hard way, as friends & co-workers have been deported, which is now placing their own jobs at risk. They deplore the situation without owning up to why it’s happening or their own personal responsibility in this.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 6h
One of the most important climate change risks: a slowdown or collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), which would transform Europe as we know it
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 6h
An authoritarian government forcing people to use new politically-driven language in their speech -- call it "newspeak," if you will
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Eddy Conroy @econroy.bsky.social · 8h
Insane. These jobs typically have a hundred or more applicants for every open role.
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Sam Wang @samwang.bsky.social · 8h
Voting today secures your ballot and frees you up to work on important races. Ciara's list includes key competitive Senate races in SD, ME, MN, NE, ME, & OH. Also, competitive Congressional races in VA, CA, NE, ME, MN & OH. And important legislative races in AZ! learn more: votemaximizer.org
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Mark Tyson @markatyson.bsky.social · 7h
I rather agree with this - I think sweeping Texas (Talirico/Hinojosa) could be the stale thru the vampire’s heart - if Texas ever flips blue, the GOP doesn’t see the White House for a long time.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 15h
imagine if the mainstream media covered Republicans' number one donor — the biggest political donor in US history! — and his controversial views with as much scrutiny as they covered Hasan Piker's
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 7h
Allowing Iran to destroy some (most?) of our bases in the Middle East, which we are now going to abandon sounds like something Fox would make up about Obama
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 7h
Iowa looking a lot like Michigan!
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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 10h
Holy shit. Someone has decompiled the Adobe suite, rebuilt it in Rust and released it as open source. Either all software is dead or the US copyright laws are about to receive an update. getartcraft.com/apps
getartcraft.com
Crafting Apps: open-source creative tools
Image editing, vector illustration, video, photography, PDFs, motion graphics and page layout: seven native, open-source apps from the ArtCraft team, built in Rust and free to use.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Lafayette Square isn't "a historic protest site." It's a fucking park. And it's packed on nice days. Calling it a protest site is White House framing. They're closing a popular public park to create a presidential palace Saddam Hussein would love.
nytimes.com
Inside 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.
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Jordan Howard @jordanahoward.bsky.social · 17h
Setting the completely unhinged nature of this aside, and Donalds depravity even entertaining it, how would the state enforce this? Her child is an adult and can do what they want. Grandparents don't have rights over their grandchildren unless they're the guardian.
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Steven T. Dennis @steventdennis.bsky.social · 16h
“We can’t eat road salt” -Troy Jackson. One line showed all the problems Donald Trump has caused Susan Collins. She’s bragging on carveouts she gets thrown by the Trump administration on tariffs, but his larger trade war with Canada continues.
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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 21h
Tonight is my first of four debates with Senator Susan Collins. Eight years ago today, she voted to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. He went on to help overturn Roe v. Wade—and she still says she doesn’t regret her vote. I’m fired up and ready to hold her accountable.
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The Heathen Historian 🔻 @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 23h
The fact that the tree is as old as the United States should not be lost on anyone. What a metaphor.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 22h
Cook Political Report just shifted the Kansas Senate race from Lean Republican to Toss Up. Trump won Kansas by 16 points, 57-41. Hard to know what to make of this, but it sure looks as if there are now many paths to a Dem majority.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 21h
congratualtions to every news outlet that wrote a "trump actually to pay for ads himself, says Trump" headline. Don't print lies in the newspaper
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 20h
You may be the hackiest reporter in a world of hacky reporters if you state a fact and then tell viewers "you can see if that's true or not." It's your *job* to know if what you just said is true or not. This is not acceptable cover for a lie.
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Kristin Kuster @kristinkuster.bsky.social · 23h
You will find this to be *breathtakingly* beautiful writing. I’d quote it to entice you; yet want you to enjoy each line while you read:
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 06/10/2026
I LOVE how @propublica.org dealt with official comment here, editorially and stylistically.
The Trump administration says none of this is happening. 

"DHS is NOT arresting U.S. citizens by mistake." "There are no 'indiscriminate' stops." Allegations of "racial profiling are disgusting, reckless and categorically FALSE." "The pattern is NOT of law enforcement using force." "ICE does not zip tie or restrain children." 

But that is precisely what is happening, and at a far larger scale than previously reported.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This may be the first time U.S. forces have retreated in Europe during a major conflict. Not before the Nazis. Not before the Soviets. Not before Al Qaeda. Not until the Trump administration.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
U.S. forces are retreating. That's what this means. "Pulled out and returned to their home stations in the U.S. as potential Iranian threats raise base security concerns" is a fancy way of saying the Iranian military has the U.S. military in retreat. This is unbelievably embarrassing.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/10/2026
my friend @juddlegum.bsky.social has put together a cool new tool that allows you to photograph political mail and immediately learn who paid for it. Check it out here:
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Who paid for this?
Find out who really paid for political mailers and TV ads.
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Geoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The IceCube neutrino detector has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in physics. The Trump administration has proposed slashing its budget in half in 2027.
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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 06/10/2026
#FunFact: Yes, it's now possible to drive a standard, mainstream EV from New York to Los Angeles in a reasonable amount of time without getting stranded with a dead battery and WITHOUT having to use a Tesla station!
Map of mainland U.S. with EV route from NYC to LA
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Look at just this one page from Trump's garbage 2027 budget. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/FY-202... And where's the money going instead? You guessed it: subsidizing corporate R&D that would happen without government involvement, but they prefer taxpayers cover it.
cuts to National Solar Observatory (NSO), NSF’s National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory (NOIRLab),IceCube Neutrino Observatory (ICNO),  National Center for Atmospheric
Research (NCAR),  Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI),
and Green Bank Observatory.Consistent with the vision of a new Golden Age of American Science and Innovation, NSF’s FY 2027
Budget will build on its FY 2026 investments to support the development of specific critical
technologies—artificial intelligence (AI); quantum information science (QIS); biotechnology (biotech),
including neuroscience; and advanced materials and manufacturing (AMM).
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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 06/10/2026
A year ago, @propublica.org told you immigration agents had detained more than 170 U.S. citizens. We’ve updated our count, and we’ve got all the receipts. The tally: At least 506 citizens detained. Sometimes held at gunpoint, handcuffed, or even deported. projects.propublica.org/american-cit...
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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Kansas Reflector @kansasreflector.com · 06/10/2026
Opinion by Amii Castle: Supreme Court’s recent ruling on voting means Kansans should check their registration status now #ksleg
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Opinion: Supreme Court’s recent ruling on voting means Kansans should check their registration status now • Kansas Reflector
Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that election officials can remove registered voters from their voter rolls using an inaccurate system called the SAVE database. If you are removed from a vote...
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 06/10/2026
📮 Your mail ballot could be postmarked too late to count, even if you mailed it on time. New USPS cost-cutting changes put tens of thousands of mail voters at risk of having their mail ballots rejected. Make a plan and check to see if your zip code is affected: demdock.com/4rMi8Ps
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 06/10/2026
Republicans in North Dakota and South Dakota have been frustrated by citizen-led initiatives they’ve disagreed with. In both states, they’ve placed measures on the November ballot to raise the threshold for constitutional amendments.
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"Disrespectful for Voters": The Dakotas Weigh Raising the Bar for Direct Democracy - Bolts
Frustrated that voters are bypassing the legislatures they control, the GOP is pushing two ballot measures this fall in North Dakota and South Dakota to require a supermajority to amend the state constitutions.
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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Curtis Yarvin, a major influence on Vice President JD Vance, is openly fantasizing about Hitler again. Extremism isn’t fringe on the right.
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 06/10/2026
How embarrassing. A super power has been forced to retreat.
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Thomas Spooks 🎃👻💀 @thomasfuchs.at · 06/10/2026
fwiw arstechnica.com/apple/2026/1...
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Command-line tool quickly removes Apple Intelligence from macOS 27
The tool can free up over 12GB of storage.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 06/10/2026
An American president is encouraging an enemy to destroy American cities. This is treason, though he will claim we are not at war.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Trump's crass incivility gets a scolding from one of the icons of the South Carolina GOP.
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