Reposted by mkbrooksJake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Whenever you see a pollster or consultant give a take like this, it’s always worth following the money. In this case, Emanuel has paid Anzalone’s firm nearly $300k (maybe more but that’s what I found so far). A consultant class is devouring the Dem Party www.elections.il.gov/CampaignDisc... 2253383829
Reposted by mkbrooksMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Who says they “don’t make enough money”? Compared to what? You don’t need to grant the far right authoritarian party’s premise. You can write that they’re using arbitrary numbers based on no standards that should not be taken seriously, & you can just say that plainly instead of stenographizing 24592154
Reposted by mkbrooksAmbassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 28/09/2026As Trump and his Republican minions revive the language of the "Red Scare" and "threat of communism" in the elections, Trump is actively supporting the world's largest communist dictatorship, including by offering to sell them American weapons. Insanity is too mild a word.theguardian.comTrump asked Xi Jinping if China would like to buy US weapons, American ambassador saysDavid Perdue’s remarks come after a Taiwanese minister spoke of the ‘severe’ military threat posed by Beijing to the self-ruled island 1626180
Reposted by mkbrooksDean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Remember, they prosecuted Aaron Swartz and drove him to suicide for hacking one system with the goal of making academic articles freely available to the public. Sam Altman hacked 1000s of sites with the goal of being a trillionaire. 7401172
Reposted by mkbrooksJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Glad about the result, but I don’t think it speaks well of us as a country that after two years of human rights violations, war crimes, naked gangster corruption, and contempt for the Constitution, he’s finally unpopular because gas got expensive. 383888760
mkbrooks @mkbrooks.com · 25/09/2026@duckworth.senate.gov I am your constituent, and I’m not reposting this lightly 010
Reposted by mkbrooksLuke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 23/09/2026It costs money to run this newsletter and pay my writers. Subscriptions of late are – I wouldn't say "in free fall" or "taking a nosedive" – but not exactly great. If you've ever wanted to support our work here now would be a good time. Here's 33% off www.welcometohellworld.com/33offwelcometohellworld.comWelcome to Hell World 56137
Reposted by mkbrooksHarrison @zombatkins.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I subscribe and heartily recommend 194
Reposted by mkbrooksDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say 6336761438
Reposted by mkbrooksParis Marx @parismarx.com · 24/09/2026Just when I think I can’t hate OpenAI and Sam Altman any more, new details come out about how ChatGPT helped a shooter plan one of the worst mass shootings in Canadian history in Tumbler Ridge, BC. OpenAI made an explicit decision not to report the user to authorities.motherjones.comChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation revealsOpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre. 1633421484
Reposted by mkbrooksParis Marx @parismarx.com · 24/09/2026I read this story and can’t help think of the breathless coverage media has given these delusional fantasies about superintelligent AI killing humanity in ten years, when companies are releasing tools coaching mass shooters and helping people kill themselves. People need to wake the fuck up. 4928169
Reposted by mkbrooksMark Histed @markhisted.org · 24/09/2026Kids are still going to need to learn reasoning: verbal comprehension and expression, and mathematical reasoning. And it’s not just for a few. *Everyone* assesses trust by communication. Self-governance requires it. 67413
Reposted by mkbrooksMark Histed @markhisted.org · 24/09/2026Cognitive surrender on oral and written communication makes people less able to advocate for their own interests, and thus weakens democratic self-governance. 1121
Reposted by mkbrooksKeith Law @keithlaw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026🎶I never thought the leopards would eat my face🎶 71025
Reposted by mkbrooksErin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026😉theguardian.comGoogle says its Gemini AI model hacked three other companiesDisclosure comes after OpenAI and Anthropic hacks amid fears that tech firms unable to control powerful AI models 5479
Reposted by mkbrooksAmanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 20/09/2026AI needs to be regulated, but not based on bullshit. A lot of this is a distraction to evade regulations on the theft of intellectual property and investment fraud issues that make AI a serious threat to our economy. Don't get this twisted. 3537
Reposted by mkbrooksAnil Dash @anildash.com · 17/09/2026I would like media to care more about the reality that tech tycoons want to kill people than what they’re imagining about AI wanting to kill people. We have multi-millionaires (with support from billionaires!) calling for ethnic cleansing, a thing that has happened in living memory. Not theoretical! 292660821
Reposted by mkbrooksWalker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I don’t know, but I feel like in normal times, being so devastatingly wrong about lifesaving technology would be completely discrediting. I mean, Robert Kennedy Jr. called the COVID vaccines “the deadliest” ever. Now, mRNA vaccines are solving cancer. 411924
Reposted by mkbrooksMaggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Big tough heroic cops celebrate their great victory over teenagers armed with bog rolls. 215320
mkbrooks @mkbrooks.com · 18/09/2026defector.com/theres-nothi...defector.comThere's Nothing Like September In The American League | DefectorWell, Pope Leo gave it a hell of a go, we’ll give him that. The former Father Bob, or something, kept the Chicago White Sox in first place in the American League Central for 73 consecutive days, or at... 000
Reposted by mkbrooksKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16/09/2026I'm just going to keep yelling this louder and louder until it clicks: weird overpaid AI nerds hand-wringing about human extinction are trying to distract you from the extremely deadly and serious harms they are causing yesterday, today and tomorrow www.bloomberg.com/news/article... 181287594
mkbrooks @mkbrooks.com · 14/09/2026If you can’t champion civil rights for everyone, you aren’t fit for office. 000
Reposted by mkbrooksDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I wrote this quickly at a bus stop and didn't realize it would go viral, or else I would have worded it better. But the point is that the media is too credulous about AI killing everyone in 10 years (how?) when climate change is killing people now and will only get worse (we know exactly how). 4156791559
Reposted by mkbrooksCait 🦇 @gendercoffin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026OMG Infowars figured it out!!! 076572
Reposted by mkbrooksPitcher List @pitcherlist.com · 11/09/2026250 people are already in. Don’t you think it’s time you joined them? Our PL Pro free trial is still active through the end of today. Come see all that we have to offer! pitcherlist.com/premium/pl-p...pitcherlist.comTry PL Pro For Free! No Credit Card required.We're giving everyone free access to PL Pro for one day only! 021
Reposted by mkbrooksPaul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 11/09/20269/11 ANOTHER WORLD WAS POSSIBLE We could have responded by putting the terrorists on trial—as the overwhelming majority of our NATO allies’ population (and the rest of the world) wanted. Instead, we responded with war—just what the terrorists wanted. It made them warriors, not criminals. 10278100
Reposted by mkbrooksEric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 08/09/2026The president is plainly illegimate according to the text of the 14th Amendment and his pardons are null and void. (Start saying it now, so a reformed SCOTUS can put it to paper in 2029.) 213746
Reposted by mkbrooksKashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 07/09/2026Possibly the most American news of all timelocal12.comPrison inmates donate more than $4,000 to pay children's school lunch debtResidents at the prison contributed $3,810 of their own money, while Kansas Department of Corrections employees added another $457. 280173944955
Reposted by mkbrooksHoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 07/09/2026It’s not funny. It’s not clever. It’s covering up a very sick-minded man who is running this country into the ground. 2086104482886
Reposted by mkbrooksDrew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Why Your Team Sucks 2026 is in the books. Read up on all 32 NFL teams right here. defector.com/tag/wyts-2026defector.comwyts 2026 Archives | Defector 4516
mkbrooks @mkbrooks.com · 03/09/2026Pls read this positive affirming feature about reading: What Do Booksellers Make Of “The End Of Reading”? - defector.com/what-do-book...defector.comWhat Do Booksellers Make Of “The End Of Reading”? | DefectorIf you haven’t yet encountered the cover story for the August issue of The Atlantic, I have some bad news to share: “The End of Reading Is Here.” It’s an intentionally provocative headline for a sligh... 000
Reposted by mkbrooksZoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 02/09/2026It's embarrassing cyberwoo for press to write in this voice that assigns all agency to brainless programs and not the people and companies making them irresponsibly. 19723131
Reposted by mkbrooksMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Why do people in national media, such as Jen Psaki tonight on MSNOW, act like Rahm Emanuel would be a legit option for president? Here in Chicago, we recall his administration's cover-up of the police murder of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald as well as many other reasons to say no fucking way to Rahm. 1821736349
mkbrooks @mkbrooks.com · 01/09/2026Brutal ruination. What a sadistic, petty awful group of people. 010
Reposted by mkbrooksRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/08/2026We are projected to spend $268 BILLION on deportations — costing the average American taxpayer about $2,358 (according to @epi.org). But somehow we “can’t afford” to make sure hungry children can eat or ensure everyone, no matter their income, can access healthcare. Priorities. 26263773320
Reposted by mkbrooksKelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Vaccines really are amazing scientific accomplishments. The shingles vaccines reduces risk of heart disease. The HPV vaccine has made cervical cancer virtually obsolete. We’re close to an mRNA vaccine for pancreatic cancer. Science for the win! www.nature.com/articles/d41...nature.comDoes the shingles vaccine cut heart-disease risk? Mounting evidence suggests a linkLarge study finds that people who received the ‘recombinant’ vaccine for the viral condition had a lower risk of cardiovascular problems. 12352711529
Reposted by mkbrooksEric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 01/09/2026As @brianbeutler.bsky.social keeps warning us: They are not going to prioritize fighting Trump. They’re trying to pretend things are normal and do normal things in an abnormal time. Trump’s actions will stand. And Jeffries is leading that. He has to go 30934257
mkbrooks @mkbrooks.com · 31/08/2026"There was an old lady who swallowed a fly... 🎶 www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...tomshardware.comSpaceX starts in-house turbine blade manufacturing to boost gas-powered generator output for Elon's AI data centers — new manufacturing strategy cuts generator delays by 18 monthsFine, I’ll do it myself. 000
Reposted by mkbrooksKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/08/2026That's not how executive orders work and that's not how naming things work and this isn't how political reporting should work either. This event should be covered, yes, but as another sign of the president's steady descent into complete ineffectiveness and utter insanity. 1934124999
Reposted by mkbrooksAbdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Let’s talk about Medicare for All. What would it mean for the individual American? ⬇ The day you’re born you get a card that gives you health insurance with no premium, co-pay, or deductible. Doesn’t matter if you get a job, lose a job, turn 26 or 65, get married or divorced — it's there for you. 1001174944399
Reposted by mkbrooksRodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 24/08/2026The Trump-endorsed IndyCar race on the DC streets into a great unintentional advertisement for the effectiveness of raised crosswalks as a traffic calming measure 331689331
Reposted by mkbrooksBits @bitshammer.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Spider-Man throwing spider hands 1341897
Reposted by mkbrooksDeb Chachra @debcha.bsky.social · 23/08/2026This explainer out of Australia is genuinely useful background and analysis of what happened with the Canada-US trade deal last night. Note that it is extremely and delightfully sweary. Also there’s an appended glossary of Australian slang. ifloz.substack.com/p/king-carne...ifloz.substack.comKING CARNEY ACTIVATES KONG MODE WITH ZERO FUCKSCarney Reads the Clock Like a Pro Wrestler 1002005768