Reposted by @natanla.bsky.socialAri Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 12/05/2026This is absolutely outrageous. SCOTUS reinstated Texas gerrymander 15 weeks before primary because they claimed it was too close to election to block it but now allowing Alabama to gerrymander one week before primary after trial court found map was intentionally discriminatory against Black voters 20460442412
Reposted by @natanla.bsky.socialAdam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 10/05/2026Despite clear moral justification, the Civil Rights activists did not pick every possible fight on every possible front. This is because choosing your battles isn’t defeatist, it is the opposite. It’s the thing you do when you want to win. 824845
Reposted by @natanla.bsky.socialThe Downballot @the-downballot.com · 09/05/2026We don't ordinarily publish posts at [checks watch] 8:51 PM on a Friday night, but state constitutional law expert Quinn @yeargain.bsky.social has an outside-the-box idea for reversing the VA Supreme Court that is very much worth taking seriously: Dems can simply lower the retirement age.the-downballot.comHow Virginia Democrats can overturn the redistricting ruling: Retire the Supreme CourtThe state Constitution gives lawmakers complete latitude to set the judicial retirement age. They should use it. 541297538
Reposted by @natanla.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/05/2026horrible. this country’s turn away from science based medicine in the name of “wellness” is killing children and will kill a lot more. www.propublica.org/article/more...propublica.orgBabies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at BirthA lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement. 470160056038
Reposted by @natanla.bsky.socialRobert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 03/05/2026Tomorrow morning, we will be dropping a ~12,000 word story on Paul Pressler, the alleged sexual predator who remade the Southern Baptist Convention and helped ordain the marriage between the GOP and white evangelical voters. There is *a lot* in there and I hope you'll read it. 7649291329
Reposted by @natanla.bsky.socialalix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 28/04/2026when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters 163184365683
Reposted by @natanla.bsky.socialFred Guttenberg @fredguttenberg.bsky.social · 26/04/2026If you were horrified watching elected leaders run & scramble because of gun violence, just imagine how my daughter Jaime felt in school running from an active shooter before she was killed. Now, become a part of the solution & only vote for people determined to address gun violence in America. 8004111411464
Reposted by @natanla.bsky.socialSharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 25/04/2026i think biking or being a pedestrian in any major city is enough to polarize anyone sane against the idea that driving is an absolute right, especially when you see how many people are on their fucking phones 282603423
Reposted by @natanla.bsky.socialDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 23/04/2026Still feel like "Musk and his crew of incels destroyed a bunch of stuff they didn't understand and thereby hastened the deaths of millions of children" did not get the public attention it warranted.wired.comUSAID Whistleblower Says It Was Even Worse Than People KnewPolitical appointees wanted a quiet drawdown, the whistleblower says. DOGE wanted an execution. 19599414086
Reposted by @natanla.bsky.socialCameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 22/04/2026LMFAOOOOO BRO SHE'S THE GOAT 1047378
Reposted by @natanla.bsky.socialMarty Taylor @realmartyt7.bsky.social · 23/03/2026As a retired airline Captain I flew into LGA and NY airspace hundreds of times. It is some of the world’s busiest airspace. To have only one ATC in the tower at LGA is criminal negligance. Not only is the airspace crowded and chaotic, so are the ground operations. Sean Duffy’s FAA owns this 100% 8757451819
Reposted by @natanla.bsky.socialSam @samd.bsky.social · 23/03/2026the absolute litmus test for every democratic primary needs to be “do you support Supreme Court reform that would replace the current illegitimate majority with a liberal majority, and do you support filibuster reform to get us there” 292235441
Reposted by @natanla.bsky.socialWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 18/03/2026The amount of antisemitism on this website is growing incredibly fast. Calling Jews “Zionists.” The unrelenting AIPAC obsession. Someone - seemingly a left-winger - just straight-up called me a Jew as a term of derision. There’s something really bad happening here and we need to put a check on it. 1021559206
Reposted by @natanla.bsky.socialWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 17/03/2026This is just the left version of MAGA’s “they’re all corrupt, but at least Trump is honest about it” claim. Corrosive anti-institutional cynicism. Many elected leaders are sincere and thoughtful in their views and work hard to know their communities. But that’s less fun than being angry all the time 1721722
Reposted by @natanla.bsky.socialEd BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Every day I collect another piece of supporting evidence for the idea that the pandemic made a dangerously large plurality, if not an outright majority, of Americans go absolutely feral. Zero sense of or interest in how to interact with other humans in shared spaces. None. 601612214
Reposted by @natanla.bsky.socialG Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 11/03/2026Matthew Yglesias is poking fun at the White House finally realizing its policy is too unpopular to run on? The guy who spent all of 2025 and until circa February of 2026 arguing Democrats shouldn’t even talk about Trump’s immigration/deportation policy? That Matthew Yglesias? 482160318
Reposted by @natanla.bsky.socialpixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Happy Mario day! 5284731757
Reposted by @natanla.bsky.socialderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 08/03/2026me paying $30 in gas to buy imported things that have been hit with tariffs bc joe rogan is learning about politics at age 58 442394946953
Reposted by @natanla.bsky.socialKen Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 04/03/2026Jesse Singal: “I don’t understand why all these experts with degrees keep disagreeing with me. So demoralizing. What could the explanation be??” 15189211600
natanla.bsky.social @natanla.bsky.social · 01/03/2026looks like he addressed this here now xcancel.com/sama/status/...xcancel.comSam Altman (@sama)Enforcing the SCR designation on Anthropic would be very bad for our industry and our country, and obviously their company. We said to the DoW before and after. We said that part of the reason we wer... 010
natanla.bsky.social @natanla.bsky.social · 01/03/2026pretty sure he could get a job at anthropic making the same money if he wanted so it doesn't really seem like selling out. 010
Reposted by @natanla.bsky.socialtigard-stripes.bsky.social @tigard-stripes.bsky.social · 28/02/2026Post office run on the Brompton! 10 years ago, I would have piloted a giant pickup truck to purchase stamps and mail a letter. 😒 Bikes for the win! 🚲💌📬 916910
natanla.bsky.social @natanla.bsky.social · 28/02/2026not just that they had the original agreement (via Palantir!) but they also publicly admitted years ago to removing model guardrails for classified purposes. it's on their website! www.anthropic.com/news/claude-...anthropic.comClaude Gov models for U.S. national security customersAnthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. 120
natanla.bsky.social @natanla.bsky.social · 28/02/2026yeah exactly. i don't think there was ever a chance of a joint statement. i think sam would be really happy to see anthropic lose. but i also think that he would rather not have it happen like this. 130
natanla.bsky.social @natanla.bsky.social · 28/02/2026i think they hate each other and don't talk but it's also not in OpenAI's interest for the precedent to be set that the government can kill AI companies for being "woke". both companies are still subject to heavy pressure from their researchers who all live in san francisco. 020
natanla.bsky.social @natanla.bsky.social · 28/02/2026“Improved handling of classified materials, as the models refuse less when engaging with classified information" 110
natanla.bsky.social @natanla.bsky.social · 28/02/2026yeah it's right here www.anthropic.com/news/claude-...anthropic.comClaude Gov models for U.S. national security customersAnthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. 110
natanla.bsky.social @natanla.bsky.social · 28/02/2026anthropic leadership escalated on behalf of their researchers and palantir and DoD didn't like being second guessed. and so now we're here. 120
natanla.bsky.social @natanla.bsky.social · 28/02/2026so the only way this partnership would have realistically been possible is if anthropic provided palantir with a railfree model or model with a heavily nerfed safety stack. after it was revealed that claude was used in the maduro raid (via palantir), anthropic researchers (rightly) objected. 200
natanla.bsky.social @natanla.bsky.social · 28/02/2026i think this is actually the original source of the tension. i don't think the models are fungible for palantir despite what karp said. anthropic has been partnered with palantir in 2024 during like sonnet 3 era. if you ever used that model, you know how overbearing the guardrails were. 100
natanla.bsky.social @natanla.bsky.social · 28/02/2026they're business partners though -- palantir is the reason anthropic was available for classified use. investors.palantir.com/news-details...investors.palantir.comPalantir IRFoundational software of tomorrow. Delivered today. 010
natanla.bsky.social @natanla.bsky.social · 28/02/2026haven't they been selling claude to the defense department through *Palantir* for more than 2 years now? it's true those are not my principles 190
natanla.bsky.social @natanla.bsky.social · 28/02/2026i don't think that's right based on reading dario's statement -- for example, he objected to use for *domestic* mass surveillance. but anthropic is already the model that palantir uses to power all of their systems. so the models are already doing it now. 110
natanla.bsky.social @natanla.bsky.social · 28/02/2026aren't these the same guarantees that anthropic asked for also? i feel like this is a face saving path to deescalation for anthropic. 280
Reposted by @natanla.bsky.socialJanet Mills @janetmillsforme.bsky.social · 27/02/2026For what it’s worth, I don’t have any tattoos. 1012006446
Reposted by @natanla.bsky.socialAndy @andyoregon.bsky.social · 21/02/2026This 53 year old man who lived in my neighborhood w/no criminal record & who had been in the US for 30 years, was detained and thrown into a cold cell for days, caught pneumonia and COVID there and deported. He finally died. I am so angry. www.kptv.com/2026/02/21/n...kptv.com‘No one deserves this’: Beaverton father dies after deportation to MexicoA Beaverton family is grieving after the father, who was detained and deported by ICE, has now died. 388130326557
Reposted by @natanla.bsky.socialSam @samd.bsky.social · 16/02/2026the thing with Fetterman is that he was a pretty normie lib, got severe brain damage, and became a right winger. the takeaway seems pretty obvious to me 1551453
Reposted by @natanla.bsky.socialGabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social · 15/02/2026The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory 12642181853
Reposted by @natanla.bsky.socialMike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 13/02/2026On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast. The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me. But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff. 856108055497
Reposted by @natanla.bsky.socialFubar 🇨🇦 @captainfubar.bsky.social · 13/02/2026This is just unconscionable man 8463962456
Reposted by @natanla.bsky.socialG Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 07/02/2026trump creating the incentive and permission structure for democrats to do insane 2010-era gerrymandering of their own may turn out to be one of the biggest self-owns of all time. dems are now pretty likely to emerge with an advantage from the 2025-26 redistricting wars 864134719
Reposted by @natanla.bsky.socialG Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 06/02/2026if you spend any significant amount of time on X the everything app, your brain is being cooked 1093022723
Reposted by @natanla.bsky.socialCongresswoman Maxine Dexter, M.D. @repdexteror.bsky.social · 06/02/2026I was just denied entry to the Dilley detention facility while my constituent, seven-year-old Diana, remains inside. What kind of sick, horrific conditions are children being forced to endure in there? I will be back tomorrow. Accountability can’t wait. 953308759049
