iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by Maui Katherine

Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 23h

I spelled out "superpower suicide" in this essay from May 2026. Empires have risen and failed before, but to my knowledge no state has ever chosen to kill its own power, and succeeded with such rapidity. snyder.substack.com/p/on-superpo...

snyder.substack.com

On Superpower Suicide

And the recovery of justice

401232426

Reposted by Maui Katherine

ProPublica @propublica.org · 01/10/2026

About 30 states have adopted programs that allow families to spend public money on private school tuition. But our investigation found that many states have little interest in overseeing private schools. Join us Oct. 6 for a virtual discussion. RSVP: events.propublica.org/wild-west-sc...

Virtual Event: The Wild West of School Vouchers. Tuesday, Oct. 6. 4 p.m. Eastern time. Illustration: A giant orange pencil points up and to the right. In the background is a pattern made up of gray school chairs.

12272120

Reposted by Maui Katherine

God @thegodshow.com · 01/10/2026

Ken Paxton called Trump a "drag" on his poll numbers in this leaked audio recording.

29521110

Reposted by Maui Katherine

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026

I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president

895254786028

Reposted by Maui Katherine

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

An entire massive industry that has the potential to cause tremendous damage and destruction by their own admission completely unregulated because they have Trump and the Republican Party in their pocket. bsky.app/profile/atru...

1541466441

Reposted by Maui Katherine

Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Absolutely. Purely homosocial. And this is one of the core tenants of fascism.

281219195

Reposted by Maui Katherine

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The biggest divide is not between “right” and “left." It’s between democracy and oligarchy. The billionaires who control our economy and democracy seek to divide us. They want us to turn on each other so we don't look up and see that they have all the wealth and power. Remember this.

892163717

Reposted by Maui Katherine

ProPublica @propublica.org · 21/09/2026

“The secretive, close relationship between the son of a sitting U.S. President and a member of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin’s inner circle raises serious national security and public corruption concerns,” Rep. Robert Garcia wrote.

propublica.org

Top Oversight Dem Opens Investigation of Donald Trump Jr.’s Russian Oligarch-Funded Wedding

Rep. Robert Garcia said the revelations that Umar Kremlev had bankrolled the wedding raise “serious national security and public corruption concerns” and requested the president’s son provide financia...

501398481

Reposted by Maui Katherine

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

OMG. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Two million likes on TikTok… and counting.

870105863739

Reposted by Maui Katherine

Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"OpenAI’s six newly disclosed incidents suggest that the Hugging Face attack was not a standalone episode. OpenAI said the incidents covered behavior observed over roughly the past six months and that they largely emerged while its systems were being developed and tested."

510656

Reposted by Maui Katherine

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/09/2026

New in PN: Alito & Thomas keep pedal to the metal "The only place where election fraud is real is in the right-wing media ecosystem where they marinate. And b/c they are so steeped in online misinfo & conservative grievance, they're willing to sacrifice every principle of law they ever espoused."

publicnotice.co

Alito and Thomas keep the pedal to the metal

Their mail voting dissent is legal hackery. But it makes sense politically.

561204371

Reposted by Maui Katherine

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/09/2026

Look who made the trip to Ireland! #TravelWithNatalie (Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty)

pic of Ms Harp wearing green with her lovely smile

124474191703

Reposted by Maui Katherine

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

After skipping the NYC 9/11 service because they wouldn’t let him give a partisan political speech, and falling asleep again in the middle of the day at the Pentagon ceremony, Trump will be in Ireland this weekend promoting his own golf resort at our expense.

23647121332

Reposted by Maui Katherine

Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 11/09/2026

Just did a quick look around and I don't see very many headlines about the President of the US making people pledge allegiance to him personally while telling everyone to commit election fraud and "cheat like hell" to support his party. Seems like it should be a story?

5758181884

Reposted by Maui Katherine

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

How it started How it’s going Trump thinks we’re all idiots edition

60781303

Reposted by Maui Katherine

The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 10/09/2026

The Republican Party would rather bribe you for a vote than end a war that's jacking up everything from diesel to fertilizer to grocery to gas prices for you. They don't give a damn about you, they just want to stay in power.

781125334

Reposted by Maui Katherine

Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"There's an old saying in Tennessee—I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee—that says, fool me once, shame on— shame on you. Fool me—you can't get fooled again." —George W. Bush, the *second* dumbest president ever.

21549781430

Reposted by Maui Katherine

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Trump announced 17 MONTHS AGO that everyone was going to get $5,000 checks because of DOGE cuts. You got $0.

25944201725

Reposted by Maui Katherine

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Hard to imagine a better demonstration of our government being captured by an oligarchy using wedge issues (“tRAns AthlETes!”) to distract us from the harm they cause us The Republican party in a nutshell 👇🏽 🥜

32921358

Reposted by Maui Katherine

Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 04/09/2026

The Hugging Face incident may turn out to be one of the most important milestones/warnings in technological revolution now underway. History may look back at this moment/point to it. Everyone should be reading ab it and thinking about it. Here are a few good pieces: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/t...

nytimes.com

Why the Hugging Face Hack Should Make You Worry More About A.I. (Gift Article)

The attack by an aggressive “collective” of OpenAI agents shows the danger of artificial intelligence systems that organize themselves.

29284120

Reposted by Maui Katherine

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Trump’s 9/11 comment that he went down to the scene to help has been a lie he’s repeated for 25 years. It’s his own version of stolen valor. He did nothing except go on TV & brag that he now owned the tallest building in Manhattan after the towers went down. Which was also a lie.

18745921317

Reposted by Maui Katherine

Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 04/09/2026

Every state’s Secretary of State needs to tell us whether they intend to follow Trump’s new vote by mail rules for the midterms.

852296680

Reposted by Maui Katherine

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.

16971572426

Reposted by Maui Katherine

Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

One more thing you can pattern recognize from the 1930s.

151261392

Reposted by Maui Katherine

Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

People are falling for the DSA vs Establishment trap again. Didn’t we learn our lesson in 2016 and 2024? It’s the establishment’s job to build a coalition that can win EVERYWHERE. In some places, that means ultra-progressive. In others, it means establishment. The tent is big enough for all of us.

811136893347

Reposted by Maui Katherine

Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

"The grand jury report said the money, which was supposed to be used to provide health insurance for poor children, was instead hastily passed through multiple organizations before eventually landing in the bank accounts of two political action committees and the Republican Party of Florida."

671062513

Reposted by Maui Katherine

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The Joint Economic Committee Democrats just released a report finding that, at the end of 2025, Trump held as much as $45.6 million in oil and gas stocks — a portfolio that's now worth up to $61.1 million given the sky-high oil and gas profits and stock prices tied to Trump's war in Iran.

jec.senate.gov

NEW: Trump Gains $15.5 Million From Oil & Gas Stocks After His Iran War Gives Big Oil Sky-High Profits

The U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee - Minority released a new analysis today which finds that, at the end of 2025,President Donald Trump held as much as $45.6 million in oil and gas stocks, a p...

17507252

Reposted by Maui Katherine

Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 21/08/2026

NEW: @thedailybeast.bsky.social has published two of Natalie Harp’s letters in full. 1/ www.thedailybeast.com/natalie-harp...

Dear Mr. President,
I'm sorry. I thought I was the only one left behind last night, and had no idea Margo's car was also pulled over, and sent back to the Airport. Since I was alone in the van outside Customs without my passport, I panicked, and should have just called Secret Service instead of you. I also am sorry if I was an embarrassment walking the course in Scotland. The first day I was told there were no carts, and people walked, which is why I walked. The second day, I was specifically asked by, I forget who his name was, but one of the main people who worked there, if I could continue walking, and tell any other girls who would head out there to do the same to spare the Course any more Carts. If there is anything else I have done to cause you trouble, please forgive me. I know that some people have said I haven't been texting them back, and there have been some International cell issues (John was having technical issues on the Plane too, so asked me to help him out).
I want things to always be right between us. I also know I've been distracted all week (forgetting to eat throughout the days, and even forgetting to sleep, and only catching a couple hours at a time. I haven't been myself, dwelling on the Past, and the pain of losing my Dad, and I started letting the remarks of people who haven't bothered me before, get to me-not because I care what others think, but because I see myself being lowered in your eyes and good opinion. That is the fear you see, because I never want to bring you anything but joy. I'm sorry I lost my focus. You are all that matters to me. I don't want to ever let you down. Thank you for being my Guardian and Protector in this Life-That's what I wanted to use this card for, when you saw me at the Cash Register, and once again did what you didn't have to do, and gifted me with Mementos of this Trip of a Lifetime, a Coming of Age. I will return a better person. I have to sign off now, as the cars are leaving.
See you soon.
With all my h…

145052441855

Reposted by Maui Katherine

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 20/08/2026

An experimental drug that uses messenger RNA to deliver a vaccine customized to a patient’s tumors effectively prevented skin cancer recurrence in a large-scale clinical trial, according to new results announced by drugmakers. wapo.st/4qo5t4F

013335

Reposted by Maui Katherine

ProPublica @propublica.org · 20/08/2026

NEW: Despite being ruled “permanently ineligible” from coaching by SafeSport, a Texas girls volleyball coach has continued to run his club, posting hundreds of videos in which he works with players, supervises practices and is alone with teen girls. with @washingtonpost.com

propublica.org

This Coach Is Banned From Working With Kids. Why Is He Still Coaching?

Even though an oversight group found that Texas girls’ volleyball coach Ryan Richardson engaged in sexual misconduct with a minor, sports organizations have failed to stop him from coaching.

24630041489

Reposted by Maui Katherine

Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Trump ran on ending forever wars and immediately got us in multiple ones

411324292

Reposted by Maui Katherine

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

NBC: “If you can say something to President Trump right now, what would you say?” OHIO REPUBLICAN VOTER: “Resign. You're destroying the country.”

17751531639

Reposted by Maui Katherine

Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

"This is the Trumpian way. They don’t just break the rules behind closed doors; they shatter the rules in broad daylight. So it’s not news that Trump’s new AG will fail to seek impartial justice, but the refusal to even feign regard for impartial justice is new." www.thebulwark.com/p/todd-blanc...

thebulwark.com

Todd Blanche’s One Promise: Dishonesty

I would trust him on that.

922759

Reposted by Maui Katherine

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

🚨BREAKING: Democrat Brandon Dukes has won the Pennsylvania House District 12 special election, flipping a seat Republicans had held since the 1990s.

974187906

Reposted by Maui Katherine

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

FLORIDA: “Mike Caruso, Palm Beach County clerk + staunch ally of Gov. DeSantis, arrested on child sex abuse charges for allegedly molesting his grandson… could potentially face death penalty under a law he championed as a Republican state legislator…” www.rawstory.com/mike-caruso-...

1411347583

Reposted by Maui Katherine

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Trump voted by mail in Florida's Republican primary, according to local voting records — even as he continues to rail against mail-in voting with lies of fraud.

politico.com

Trump votes by mail again in his home state of Florida

Voting records from Palm Beach County show the president requested his ballot in late July and it was returned on Aug. 13.

13128001141

Reposted by Maui Katherine

Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 17/08/2026

I was already upset about 1. Extremely upset now about 4.

87621

Maui Katherine @mauikatherine.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Hello America 🚨 - what are we doing?

000

Reposted by Maui Katherine

emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Meta refused to tell some people in KY who was buying their land to set up an AI data center, and this is what happened next. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-d...

Local officials have tried to assure residents that they are dealing with a major player in AI, not a fly-by-night operator.

Residents spent months piecing together the rumors and clues that float through a small town. One local official said the builder is among the 10 biggest companies in the world. A Maysville woman traveling with her husband on a work trip coincidentally met a man who said he’d been in the area on behalf of Meta.

A public-records request yielded clearer evidence: hundreds of pages of land studies and applications filed by an LLC established for “Project Crisham.” The contact for that LLC, a fiduciary director in the greater Philadelphia area named Pamela Gregorski, has worked on several data-center projects that were later revealed to be Meta sites.

With little information at hand, Bare and her neighbors have coordinated their research.

Janet Garrison, a dirt-bike-riding grandmother who taught information technology at the local community college, downloaded an app used by hunters to map the plots being acquired. She and others set up an information booth at the local fair.

When Garrison first learned of the data center, she thought of her former students and the jobs it might bring. Soon the opaque process irked her.

“We wanted to be a part of this,” she said. “But the NDAs…they just locked down and backed up.”

21538191

Reposted by Maui Katherine

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I just realized we're going to get a Broadway musical about Trump.

12054356

Reposted by Maui Katherine

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/08/2026

So Trump and the White House lied about which plane Trump was on flying out of Turkey, setting up journalists who thought they were on the same plane as the president to possibly be the target of an Iranian attack while he secretly departed on a different one. Words fail.

wapo.st

Contradicting public statements, Trump took secret flight from Turkey amid Iranian threat

The White House said the president was aboard Air Force One as he left a NATO summit. Instead, his departure included an elaborate ruse that concealed his travel.

54160701955

Reposted by Maui Katherine

Steven T. Dennis @steventdennis.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Trump made vastly more money in crypto last year than all of the presidential salaries since the beginning of the republic combined. He made more from crypto than the salaries of every member of Congress over the past 15 years *combined*. It’s yielded a collective shrug from his fellow Republicans.

9286108

Reposted by Maui Katherine

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

This might be the greatest example of "Twitter isn't real life."

893430581

Reposted by Maui Katherine

George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

“The Reflecting Pool mess is different from other Trump obsessions because it reveals just how immune to evidence and logic his beliefs have become, even when a trusted lieutenant wheels an entire box of supporting evidence into the Oval Office.”

27637161201