Reposted by Ben PlumeAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2hTech industry is laser focused on solving the problem of humans enjoying each other’s company bsky.app/profile/down... 472410380
Ben Plume @pittbaster.bsky.social · 14hYeah, so much focus on the obvious blunder (deservedly) that it’s easy to gloss over how even without the mistake it would be nonsense. Are we all now implicated in everything that happens in every city we travel to? 000
Reposted by Ben PlumeScott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 15hThe White House Accord on AI: • We Do Not Want to Be Regulated • We Will Not Be Regulated • Donald Trump is really, really smart • We promise to pay him in crypto all he wants 715167
Reposted by Ben PlumePrincess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 18hJack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort." 🎯 #pinks 6238117
Reposted by Ben PlumeFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 16hoh man, I just tried it and america.gov really does get REAL weird when you tell it to “play Minecraft”america.govAmerica.govFind answers from official government sources and clear next steps for the services you need with America.gov. 61620134
Ben Plume @pittbaster.bsky.social · 16hAverage investor class: Right, but like, I get all the money first right? 000
Reposted by Ben PlumeSimon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 23hIf this goes ahead it is Trump overtly taking Russia's side in the war against Ukraine and Europe, aligning the United States with China, Iran, and North Korea. Like the Putin G20 visit, it cannot be allowed to happen. We must fight. 21352185
Reposted by Ben PlumeRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 21hyes when i think of the people in my life I've watched weep in despair for lack of affordable childcare options i think "urban, affluent voters" 311239133
Reposted by Ben PlumeRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 21hthis kind of policy is going to primarily help single parents. single parents, particularly single moms, can use more help than almost any other category of people I can name. it's an inconceivably demanding job and i would love if my tax dollars helped make it easier. 1392957
Reposted by Ben PlumeMichelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 22hSometimes political ads just write themseleves. 2266
Reposted by Ben Plumecapillariancrest.bsky.social @capillariancrest.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Ironically, it’s the rich people I know who don’t understand money. They don’t understand that other people are constrained by it and they don’t understand the value of a dollar because they have infinite dollars, essentially. Poor people understand money very well in my experience. 239323
Reposted by Ben PlumeChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 22hThis was like watching a 4 minute murder mystery with an incredible reveal at the end 81059
Reposted by Ben PlumeMollie Katzen @molliekatzen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026There are more Cornell frat boys accused of raping one woman than there are trans athletes competing in all of NCAA sports. 121083319
Reposted by Ben PlumeLish McBride @lishmcbride.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Oh, it’s even worse. To be very clear—I support trans people and think this whole thing is bullshit. But title 9 also creates a pathway on campuses and federal spaces for people who have been sexually harassed, stalked and assaulted to be protected and seek investigation. 216064
Reposted by Ben PlumeAnna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026Let the history books show that STUDENT reporters brought national attention to unchecked abuse. I hope that their cups and opportunities forever overfloweth.This is courage.abcnews.comDistrict attorney reopens case of alleged Cornell University 'gang rape'Prosecutors in central New York say they are reopening the case of alleged gang rape at a Cornell University fraternity. 31371368
Reposted by Ben PlumeWes Smith Ω 🧢 @wessmith123.bsky.social · 28/09/2026New Poll: 37% of Americans have brain damage. 46323
Reposted by Ben PlumeKaren Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 28/09/2026In an age when the Peter Thiels of the world are smiling and saying evil does good because it is competent, we are entering a time when we will need to be aggressively "pro-human." Or at the very least, Pro-Good. And we have to build power, unapologetically. 1051091
Reposted by Ben PlumeProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/20268/ As the @nytimes.com reported, DraftKings uses machine learning and data scientists to entice losing customers with promos to keep them going — even if those are the customers at risk of becoming addicts. The company says it doesn’t unfairly target people.nytimes.comHow DraftKings Uses A.I. to Target the Gamblers Likeliest to LoseData science helps determine who receives betting incentives, but the company has resisted using similar technology to protect gamblers at risk of addiction. 91297190
Ben Plume @pittbaster.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I know CBS is in the bag and all, but really “some lawmakers called” is a funny way of saying “which appears to be explicitly and clearly” 000
Reposted by Ben Plumepost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026just a quick reminder that this fuckhead was the proximate trigger for thousands of National Guardsmen being deployed to DC 643149699
Reposted by Ben PlumeOregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026That's a headline for you cmarmitage.substack.com/p/big-balls-...cmarmitage.substack.comBig Balls Now Exposed to Serious Criminal Charges in at Least Six StatesFired at 17 for leaking secrets. Served a cybercrime ring. Named by the Social Security whistleblower. Now the government's model employee. 1162503566
Reposted by Ben Plumeteamhamiltonhq.bsky.social @teamhamiltonhq.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Meischa was Roger Marshall's patient. This is her story. 412013736
Reposted by Ben PlumeDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Ellison has gone all in on extending his family’s entertainment empire. Genuinely wonder how vulnerable his core business is to collapsing if a hostile govt starts cancelling his contracts. (On the flip side, he is ever more dependent on GOP govts, which is not good for the owner of CNN & CBS) 2021152
Reposted by Ben PlumeMatthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Multi-billionaire tech bro Peter Thiel, right winger who financed JD Vance's Senate race, today called Pope Leo "a useful idiot for the Chinese Communists". Pope Leo has put out various warnings of AI and tech being a danger to our hearts and humanity. 36284102
Ben Plume @pittbaster.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Shouldn’t, IDK, literally anyone else be making this decision? 000
Reposted by Ben PlumeDan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026"The Trump administration’s decision not to invite the leading international election observation body to monitor crucial US midterm polls fuels fears of serious human rights concerns around the upcoming elections, Human Rights Watch said today." www.hrw.org/news/2026/09...hrw.orgUS: Trump Administration Rejects External Election ObserversThe Trump administration’s decision not to invite the leading international election observation body to monitor crucial US midterm polls fuels fears of serious human rights concerns around the upcomi... 10303162
Reposted by Ben PlumeTo-wen Tseng @twtseng.bsky.social · 25/09/2026As a former education reporter and current teacher, I’m concerned about how AI is being introduced into our schools. When Education Secretary Linda McMahan points to Alpha School as a model, I have questions. www.towentseng.info/post/our-stu... #AIinEducation #EducationPolicy #K12Educationtowentseng.infoOur Kids Shouldn't Be Guinea Pigs For ChatbotsWhy it concerns me, a mother and an education reporter, when McMahon backs classroom AI use by referencing Alpha School. 263
Reposted by Ben PlumeSweetWitch2697🔮🎱🪄-MY OPINIONS ARE MY OWN BEASTLY CONCOCTIONS! @sweetwitch2697.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Russell Vought once said he wanted federal workers “traumatically affected.” Now Trump wants Vought on a board that can block NIH grants. When a president turns health research into leverage against political enemies, families pay in delayed cures. #TrumpsCorruptCongress 198
Reposted by Ben PlumeStan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Coming around to the idea that the biggest priority for Americans interested in keeping liberal democracy alive for the next several decades is whole scale reform of the Supreme Court and the judiciary. We can't afford to have Reconstruction 2.0 hampered by the SCOTUS like Reconstruction 1.0 was. 626562
Reposted by Ben PlumeWendy the Woke @nomorex61.bsky.social · 25/09/2026“underline the damage that Mr. Trump is doing to American influence and global well-being. He is an undisciplined politician who puts his personal interests above the nation’s” Climate change, AI and the Middle East. Trump not is leading on any of these. #sheshed www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Trump’s Failure to Lead Is Costing America and the World (Gift Article)Trump’s flailing presidency leaves Americans with the thinnest of hopes for this week’s summit: that he does not further damage the national interest. 46943
Reposted by Ben PlumeNathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026A lot of people said a lot of things about the ineffectiveness of production limitations for generating greenhouse gas reductions and speeding up renewable adoption for the past decade which were clearly false. May "keynesianism means we have to keep building oil and gas infrastructure" finally die 8376103
Reposted by Ben PlumeBenjamin Ahr Harrison @benjaminahr.mobi · 25/09/2026If we made this tee shirt for @greatesttrek.com how many would you buy? Like for one shirt. Reskeet for ten shirts. Quote skeet other quantities. 13437
Reposted by Ben PlumeJon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Holy crap. Susan Collins is finished. What a corrupt POS. I hope she goes to prison for this. www.propublica.org/article/fbi-... 699100123651
Reposted by Ben PlumeSubscribe to Radio Free America (link in bio) @kleinman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Thought this was newsworthy enough to post a Twitter screenshot 35897183
Reposted by Ben PlumeNatali Fani-González @natalifg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Thanks to the Montgomery County Department of Environmental Protection, Glenmont Shopping Center got a deep cleaning this last week. These photos don’t look like much, but they show a parking lot free of trash, after DEP engaged with property owners to remove trash from the area. 131
Reposted by Ben PlumeGreg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Awful: Trump's Office of "Remigration" has just been exposed making sordid payments to authoritarian governments to take third-country deportees, leading to serious abuses. Dems tell me they will try to defund the agency if they win power. They should. 1/ New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2157...newrepublic.comStephen Miller’s MAGA Terror Campaign Exposed by Damning New LeaksSordid revelations about the white-nationalist-themed Office of Remigration should galvanize Democrats: If they win power, they must try to shut it down. 13127761314
Reposted by Ben PlumeWhitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 23/09/2026@detentionwatchnetwork.org just put out a press release saying that Marchena Marchena died because ICE medically neglected his diabetes, an agonizing way to die. Torture. 02416
Reposted by Ben PlumeWhitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I am heartbroken to read that yet another person has died in Trump's concentration camps. Carlos Josue Marchena-Marchena was 36. He died on Sept. 18. The press release provides no details. It serves only to condemn the victim and absolve the government.ice.govCriminal illegal alien in ICE custody passes away at Winnfield Correctional Center in LouisianaCarlos Josue Marchena-Marchena, a 36-year-old criminal illegal alien from Costa Rica, passed away in ICE custody Sept 18, 2026. 13513
Ben Plume @pittbaster.bsky.social · 23/09/2026IDW HIRE GAIL FOR STAR TREK BOOKS TODAY PLEASE AND THANK YOU 000
Reposted by Ben PlumeMatthew Gault @mjgault.bsky.social · 23/09/2026wild scenes out of Springfield, Missouri. Two people were arrested for trying to voice concerns about Flock cameras. Video of it is in the story404media.coWoman Arrested After City Council Denies Residents Right to Speak on Flock CamerasCitizens of Springfield, Missouri showed up to a city council meeting to discuss the city’s Flock contract. The mayor shut them down and arrested two people for ‘disruption of meetings of city council... 5259109
Reposted by Ben PlumeDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Authoritarian regimes' mismanagement of scientific institutions consistently undermines the public interest. The only question here is whether the Supreme Court will extend unitary executive theory to "the president has a right to use NIH tax dollars to punish his enemies". bsky.app/profile/cram... 05919
Reposted by Ben PlumeDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Vought would sit on his proposed NIH review committee, which requires unanimity. And so a guy that Trump compared to the Grim Reaper would give himself a line-item veto over $48 billion in health spending. Expect the decisions to be good as the totalitarian kitsch in the Kennedy Center. 28820
Reposted by Ben PlumeYale Climate Connections @climateconnections.bsky.social · 22/09/2026A new study finds that climate pollution caused by just 122 companies led to a 15% decline in annual average Western mountain snowpacks. yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/09/scie...yaleclimateconnections.orgScientists link fossil fuel producers to the West’s worsening water shortages » Yale Climate ConnectionsA new study blames 122 companies for contributing to severe drought in the region. 12110
Reposted by Ben PlumeSarah Szalavitz💡 @dearsarah.bsky.social · 20/09/2026FCC says Paramounts request to override Congress’s 1934 national security restrictions on foreign media ownership is in the “public interest”—& permits MiddleEastern royal families & wealth funds to own 50%+ of WarnerMount www.latimes.com/entertainmen... what is more public interest than🇸🇦owning CNN?latimes.comFCC approves foreign owners for a merged Paramount-Warner Bros.Royal families of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Abu Dhabi will own nearly 50% of the equity of a merged Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery 188298
Reposted by Ben PlumeMad_as_hell (Maddie) @maddie-says.bsky.social · 20/09/2026More than 220 people have lost their lives in these strikes without ever facing a trial. Their families and the American public deserve answers. Hold Hegseth and all others accountable under the law, which they should have applied to the people whose lives were taken. #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks 26667312
Reposted by Ben PlumeMadGreek 🧿 @madgreek2024.bsky.social · 19/09/2026"Signs of Fascism" originated in my town. (Sequim, WA) I filmed it. I remember getting a call, "hey your video got 5,000 views." By the end of the day it had 60K. Over 100K in a few days from just one platform. Then my DM blew up! Everyone wanted to replicate the signs. Nice to see the signs today. 247102984289
Reposted by Ben PlumePITT BASKETBALL SHOUTING @shouting.bsky.social · 20/09/2026WOW. NONE OF THE TEAMS ON OUR SCHEDULE ARE GOOD AND ALSO WE'RE NOT GOOD. WHO KNOWS WHAT ADVENTURES AWAIT PITT FOOTBALL IN 2026 0134