Reposted by @nathanbreiten.bsky.socialJoey Politano🏳️🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Sort of insane fact about how broken US urban planning is—America now spends more building *just the lights for roads and highways* than on all subways & ground mass transit combined Spending on roadway *pavement* is 18x transit spending 502926795
Reposted by @nathanbreiten.bsky.socialDjango Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Volition is irrelevant. If the headline was "vicious dog breaks out of OpenAI office and bites man" there would be no question who was responsible. "But the dog is its own entity making its own choices!" Fuck off, either it's property you own or not, you can't have it both ways. 514638
Reposted by @nathanbreiten.bsky.socialCorey Atad @coreyatad.com · 22/09/2026“If you are staring at an example of social disorder or social inefficiency, and the left refuses to explain either why it has happened or how they will fix it, then the right gets to point at someone in the immediate area and say, ‘That’s who did it.’” crazy how much Mamdani speaks my language 5951571223
Reposted by @nathanbreiten.bsky.socialAdam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 19/09/2026@aoc.bsky.social just put out a great statement on AI. Refreshing to see a major politician on the left nail this. "Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity. But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves." 🎯 221563597
Reposted by @nathanbreiten.bsky.socialDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 17/09/2026christbloomberg.comTrump Made 29,000 Securities Trades, More Than All of CongressDonald Trump made nearly 29,000 securities trades in 17 months — more than every member of Congress combined. The stock-purchasing ban he’s pushing would leave him exempt 18429160
Reposted by @nathanbreiten.bsky.social"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 16/09/2026This, absolutely sincerely. Most of these guys are doing high crimes and misdemeanors. A bunch of them are involved in waging an illegal, unauthorized war. Congress' investigatory powers are at their *peak* in an impeachment context. So impeach, impeach, impeach. 17924211
Reposted by @nathanbreiten.bsky.socialDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 15/09/2026It's difficult to pick apart fears about AI & data centers that are intrinsic to the technologies vs. those that are connected to the fact that giant, fateful decisions about these things are being made by a small handful of insular brain-cooked oligarch narcissists. 848188
Reposted by @nathanbreiten.bsky.socialRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 10/09/2026ok but "the future" they are promising is "we destroy your jobs and maybe build a dark god of genocide" so perhaps winning these people back is not the wisest electoral move 963535569
Reposted by @nathanbreiten.bsky.socialPaul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I look forward to the 2028 Democratic nominee turning to him in a debate and saying "Oh, you were secretly against the war? That means you were too weak to do anything about it. You couldn't remove your lips from Trump's ass long enough to stand up like a man, you pathetic coward." 401645260
Reposted by @nathanbreiten.bsky.socialMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 08/09/2026If only the media had as much interest in the world's richest person, the primary funder of the Republican Party, who spoke at Trump's Inauguration and gave a Sieg Heil, once again declaring his belief "white solidarity is the only way to survive" as they do some Twitch streamer. 322673671
Reposted by @nathanbreiten.bsky.socialonekade @onekade.bsky.social · 04/09/2026The New York Times is mad that Mamdani is using social media to communicate with New Yorkers because they want him to instead use the NYT to do that. But Mamdani is right to focus on social media, because the billionaire media cannot be trusted and is an enemy of the people. 818041
Reposted by @nathanbreiten.bsky.socialDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/09/2026The fight for true egalitarian democracy is *intrinsically* a fight against conservatism. That is the core truth that the entire edifice of both-sides media & political institutions is meant to obscure. 310223
Reposted by @nathanbreiten.bsky.socialAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 02/09/2026The arguments against impeaching Trump next year are all bad and spurious, but they're even weaker as applied to all the other impeachable members of the Cabinet, etc. And impeaching Hegseth for literal murder should be top of the list. 523427896
Reposted by @nathanbreiten.bsky.social"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 29/08/2026I would argue that, on balance, US hegemony has been less damaging than most (any?) similar period of regional hegemony (there has never been a similar period of global hegemony) and much less damaging than interstate anarchy, which does not mean the USA always or even often does the right thing. 323523
Reposted by @nathanbreiten.bsky.socialBarred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 29/08/2026reskeeting with alt text bc this is a funny as hell way to dismiss someone's dumbass argument to their face 464239782
Reposted by @nathanbreiten.bsky.socialQuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 29/08/2026techno-optimists befuddled by declining popular support for “the robot that tells you to kill yourself”, “the pervert glasses“, and “the camera network that stalks you” 3148041546
Reposted by @nathanbreiten.bsky.socialryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 28/08/2026if I had presidential aspirations, I would be making clear that anyone who tries to take this sale has another thing coming 382327521
Reposted by @nathanbreiten.bsky.socialDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/08/2026Genuinely abundant, cheap, accessible energy has vastly more liberatory potential than AI, for vastly more people -- especially more poor people. Which, I guess, is your answer. 171795474
Reposted by @nathanbreiten.bsky.socialA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Nor will it end at ethnic cleansing. A machine built to eat people will keep eating people. Those who run it will always find a new category of unwanted humans. 5129831157
Reposted by @nathanbreiten.bsky.socialW.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 27/08/2026ICE has fallen out of the headlines but July marked the largest number of migrant detentions ever on record. Five migrants have died in ICE custody in the last two months. It's also currently impossible to legally migrate to this country, as 100% of visa applications have been paused. 4049142534
Reposted by @nathanbreiten.bsky.socialDr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 27/08/2026this is why we should be running on corruption, because corruption--and accountability--is the red thread that ties together so much of their fuckery into an intelligible narrative 722128
Reposted by @nathanbreiten.bsky.social"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 25/08/2026I mean, I realize everyone else did too, but c'mon. Even Tulsi got this one right? 10769119
Reposted by @nathanbreiten.bsky.socialAmanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Tech execs do not have, like, a theory of mind for people who aren’t tech execs. If they did, they wouldn’t be so frequently baffled by how repulsive normal people think their whole deal is right now 816501914
Reposted by @nathanbreiten.bsky.socialWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 22/08/2026start bulldozing the ballroom on day one, dare the court to enjoin you, and make clear that if they do enjoin you, you will use the double standard to openly accuse them of complicity in Trump’s criminal cult of personality and call for the institution’s complete gutting on that basis 291161171
Reposted by @nathanbreiten.bsky.socialFischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 18/08/2026I would like to strongly endorse the kotek victory lap on this. arguably the nation’s best housing governor 79517
Reposted by @nathanbreiten.bsky.socialmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 17/08/2026A fun and surprising fact is that there is actually plenty of water for human habitation in the southwest! In fact, Phoenix peaked in water use in the 1970s even though its population has exploded, because converting farmland to housing or industrial uses SAVES tons of water bsky.app/profile/jdba... 91367168
Reposted by @nathanbreiten.bsky.social"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 16/08/2026History is endlessly replete with people assuming that the big affairs of state will remain forever far away right up until those huge forces roar through their town or village, burning and killing. Then suddenly it matters quite a lot. As a pundit or journalist it is *your job* to remind them! 760898
Reposted by @nathanbreiten.bsky.socialJason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 14/08/2026I remember when Bill Clinton—a FORMER president—met Obama’s sitting AG on an airplane and it was a massive scandal. Now, here’s Trump’s new AG just doing Trump political rallies like it’s NBD. 14245701426
Reposted by @nathanbreiten.bsky.socialGOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 14/08/2026i have no idea how many times service members and their families need to hear from trump that he thinks they're all worthless, disposable pissants, but i know this won't be the last time he tells them 1026349
Reposted by @nathanbreiten.bsky.socialThe Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Not to be some wild-eyed innocent, but I think it should be slightly bigger news that The Lancet have crunched the numbers and found that Musk's USAID cuts will kill 14 million people. And that's just by 2030. That's 9,600 people a day, every day, until the next world cup rolls around. 7350462752
Reposted by @nathanbreiten.bsky.socialWaldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 13/08/2026Congress passed the Corporate Transparency Act. Trump vetoed it. Congress overrode his veto on a bipartisan vote. So Trump has decided to simply not enforce the law. I do not understand the role of Congress anymore. I guess they just make suggestions?nytimes.comTreasury Scales Back Scrutiny of U.S. Shell Companies (Gift Article)The Trump administration will not enforce reporting requirements of the 2021 Corporate Transparency Act, which was intended to crack down on money laundering. 892659891
Reposted by @nathanbreiten.bsky.socialJudd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 13/08/20261. Mitch McConnell suffered a fall on June 14 and has not been in the Senate for two months. But he's continued to get paid his salary of 174K/year. Since he entered the Senate in 1985, McConnell has voted against creating or expanding medical leave — paid and unpaid — at least 23 times. 24584213879
Reposted by @nathanbreiten.bsky.social"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 13/08/2026FWIW, I think the question of "Did Woke 1 go to far?" it depends on where you ask! On college campuses? Sometimes. In making cops responsible for bad behavior? Obviously not! In holding sex pests and criminals to account? Clearly incomplete, look at the damn White House. 411008103
Reposted by @nathanbreiten.bsky.socialJames @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Tremendous insight into the inner workings of the Trump administration that the NSA/SecState was allowed to go down in a fireball but the person who posts AI slop for the President qualified as needing to survive at all costs. 883341881
Reposted by @nathanbreiten.bsky.social[Christopher M. Federico] @chrispps.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Lots of overfitting from the commentariat on this one, as Ryan notes. The margin here is hardly 'stunning.' If anything, it's (relatively) strong evidence of openness to left-insurgent candidates, offset in this case by an idiosyncratic candidate who was of lower skill than, say, AOC or Mamdani. 710123
Reposted by @nathanbreiten.bsky.socialMagenta @magentab.bsky.social · 12/08/2026just a note: if you are a swing race democratic primary candidate and there is a poll showing a different candidate has better GE chances, you should prepare for an underperformance 410613
Reposted by @nathanbreiten.bsky.socialRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 10/08/2026It's just insane that the president tells absurd, easily disproven lies on a daily basis, and at this point we all just expect it. 912293491
Reposted by @nathanbreiten.bsky.socialMike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 10/08/2026it continues to be so fucking funny watching the "this war shit is easy just stop the woke, change the name, and run it like a business" crowd being tripped up by a war of choice against a third rate regional player implementing consequences literally everyone with two brain cells said would happen 530347
Reposted by @nathanbreiten.bsky.socialamb @amb.fyi · 06/08/2026“In 2024, we found that clean-energy manufacturing lifted Harris’s vote share by roughly 1.5 percentage points—a swing of 2.5 million votes across the 234 districts. For context, Trump won the national popular vote by just 2.3 million.” 0123
Reposted by @nathanbreiten.bsky.socialDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 06/08/2026Weird how women won't choose a life of meek domestic servitude when there are other choices available. Every fundie religion and/or cult knows this deep in their bones, which is why they try so hard to make those other choices invisible or inaccessible. 935169
Reposted by @nathanbreiten.bsky.social"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 05/08/2026It seems really clear that by 2028, we're going to have an empty SPR, substantial munitions shortages, greater strategic challenges, a larger national debt and substantially higher bond rates which will massively constrain future administrations. 1766966
Reposted by @nathanbreiten.bsky.socialBrian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Had the tab open for weeks but finally read the New Yorker's Tate brothers expose. Among many thoughts: that reporting ought to be an existential emergency for MAGA and the international far right, but the reaction is eerily mute due (perhaps) to the decline of reading and weak political opposition. 1953980
Reposted by @nathanbreiten.bsky.socialJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/07/2026what jumped out to me was a 10% drop among partisan republicans in a month. that's almost the bigger number. 48810
Reposted by @nathanbreiten.bsky.socialGOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 29/07/2026i get really tired of the savvy cynicism about how congressional dems will do nothing when you watch how the younger members of both chambers are very actively practicing at being aggressive questioners and a few of the older members are talking about nuremberg trials 627431
Reposted by @nathanbreiten.bsky.socialDave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 28/07/2026"Everybody deserves a say in the future of AI. We don’t have to resort to NIMBYism and questionable environmental arguments to get it. Even if one community succeeds in keeping the data centers out, another community will let them in." TRANSLATION: the datacenter backlash is working. Please stop. 358178
Reposted by @nathanbreiten.bsky.socialDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/07/2026The GOP is trying to kill public transit, full stop. 17429131
Reposted by @nathanbreiten.bsky.socialNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 25/07/2026A lot of criticism of the White House press corps on Bluesky tonight, primarily coming from a journalism as fourth estate, truth to power, informing the public, valuing free speech perspective. In case you were wondering why many prominent media figures prefer spending time on X. 127859131