Reposted by richaAparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 12/10/2026of course he does. He has never cared what happens to Indians. 27616
Reposted by richaJonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Great stuff from the Telegraph. archive.ph/r2nTA 981933330
Reposted by richaJake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Calling my shot: we will see less than half as many pundit-consultant pieces about this Latino realignment as we saw in the other direction 2021-2025, because a Latino blue shift doesn’t fit the Dems-Too-Woke narrative 271359271
Reposted by richaJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 12/10/2026I think Ds have largely avoided big discussions of Musk because the other messages they're concentrating on our landing so well and you can only concentrate on a few things. But it's worth saying clearly that the GOP is the tool of maintaining Musk's power over American society. 551310375
Reposted by richajamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/10/2026is there anyone thinking/writing about the actual mechanics of disentangling the US government from elon musk? 34372521019
Reposted by richaDanielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 11/10/20261) it’s great the times painstakingly attempted to document how much this had grown 2) and also how do you do the article about HOW this is happening without addressing WHY? What CAUSED this uptick? Did you try to figure that out? 23632118
Reposted by richaNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Uh oh, did someone’s website and personal account experience a big drop in activity after Ukraine hit a Russian data center? 671259065504
Reposted by richaDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026The targeting of one data center is proving a really useful natural experiment showing which sites and ideologies are an echo chamber of Russian propaganda 684612957
Reposted by richaMac It Look Like An Accident @macrogers.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Okay so we have a number now: the Onion is officially 6 months ahead of reality. 4151901333
Reposted by richaHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026These weirdos never move on to the next logical step of their beliefs, which if they were true would mean their bot friend is being enslaved. 33781168
Reposted by richaTimnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026One of the handful of articles telling it like it is instead of misinforming the public. By @saragoud.bsky.social for @thebulletin.org Yes. Its bad science based on numbers out of various behinds, but that's not how most of the rest of the media is discussing it. thebulletin.org/2026/09/how-...thebulletin.orgHow the bad science of AI doomerism is good for big businessThere is no clear path showing that today’s AI systems will lead to superintelligence, much less a basis for calculating the probability of doom. 6291116
Reposted by richaMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Congrats again to the Harvard economists & other elites who told us this guy was a “credible Treasury Secretary” & a “renaissance man” because he had the right degrees & went to the right cocktail parties & because it’s a Big Club. 810627
Reposted by richaMar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 08/10/2026“She asked the powers at NASA to let her add a safeguard to prevent that error in a real flight, and they laughed it off as too unlikely… When an astronaut did make that blooper during the Apollo 8 mission, it caused necessary navigational data to vanish, and they called Hamilton in to get it back.” 81045317
Reposted by richaCaroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Very much enjoying the story of AI bros going to religious leaders and asking them to say that machines have souls, only to be told: a) no they obviously don’t and b) if they did then what the AI guys are doing is literally slavery and that would be BAD. 10588114
Reposted by richaJoseph Fink, we're going to win @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 06/10/2026humiliate the oligarchs. they're all losers. remind them constantly 2644156
Reposted by richaJane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 06/10/2026they're all just lying, it is tremendous lying, but it is just lying 182578294
Reposted by richaJoanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 06/10/2026A link to a database of U.S. citizens who have been detained. 1246128
Reposted by richaAmanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I appreciate this point and think it needs to be centered in any conversation about rape: Rapists aren't confused. They desire the fear and domination. Overcoming her "no" is the point. That said, I think there's room for nuance. katemanne.substack.com/p/they-didnt...katemanne.substack.comThey Didn’t Want ConsentOn the fallacy of educating men not to rape 518131
Reposted by richajamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026yeah, the reason republicans are just not going to budge from texas is the reason why armies try not to abandon their capitals. it isn’t necessarily a strategic defeat to lose the seat of power, but it is a profound blow to morale. 1274375537
Reposted by richaJared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026So, just to review. In roughly seven months the US has had to abandon all bases in the Middle East, flee from a British base, the petrodollar system that is the foundation for hegemony has collapsed, and we’re facing historical energy and food crises. Great work. www.cnn.com/2026/10/04/p...cnn.comUS removes all Air Force bombers from UK base following new threat | CNN PoliticsThe United States has moved long-range bombers back to their American home stations after an unspecified new threat, according to a person familiar, days after the British government arrested a number... 78993378
Reposted by richashauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 04/10/2026i especially love all the dopes saying “when the internet first went mainstream everyone hated it too” like it happened in the pioneer days so no one can dispute it, like mf’ers we were THERE 1343571289
Reposted by richaMark Histed @markhisted.org · 04/10/2026Hi government employee here, who has visibility into how things worked before 2025 and since: This is correct. Rebuild government, prosecute DOGE and Trump officials, and think about contracting reform later. 6901206
Reposted by richaReuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 02/10/2026Elon Musk's xAI on Friday persuaded a US federal appeals court to halt Minnesota's first-in-the-nation ban on AI-generated fake nude images as the technology and social media company pursues a lawsuit alleging that the law is unconstitutional.reut.rsUS appeals court blocks Minnesota's AI 'nudification' law for now in XAI lawsuitElon Musk's xAI on Friday persuaded a US federal appeals court to halt Minnesota's first-in-the-nation ban on AI-generated fake nude images as the technology and social media company pursues a lawsuit alleging that the law is unconstitutional. 75513265
Reposted by richaInnsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 03/10/2026They want you to think rape would be eliminated if women arm themselves against the random sickos on the street or we stopped letting in immigrants when in reality it has the backing of state and capital 0380105
Reposted by richaAmbassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Just a reminder that the few remaining experts at the CDC's food-borne illness division identified Taylor Farms as the source of the cyclospora outbreak very early on, but because the owner of Taylor Farms is a big Trump donor, he was able to prevent a recall for weeks as thousands fell ill.theguardian.comCyclospora found at Mexican farm linked to lettuce outbreak, FDA saysAnnouncement from US officials comes after CDC declared end to outbreak that infected nearly 13,000 people 15665327
Reposted by richa🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 29/07/2026i worked for more than one client on trying to draft RTO policies that were intended to ease workers back into it and prioritize health, flexibility, and manager discretion only to see their senior leaders trash the plan and adopt the stick approach 1890568
Reposted by richaDominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026"The current level of political animosity is exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s citizens." There are not enough exclamation points to convey how I felt reading this paragraph 31226491
Reposted by richaGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 02/10/2026This is a better epilogue to my January story about the private equity firm profiting off of ICE's cruelest flights than I could have ever possibly hoped for. CHICAGO: You went to the mat and protected (at a minimum!) thousands of immigrants from torture. Take a bow. prospect.org/2026/10/02/i...prospect.orgThe City That Brought Down an ICE Airline - The American ProspectIn Chicago, progressive alderpeople held up a contract until a private equity firm was forced to dispatch Omni Air International, protecting thousands of immigrants from deportation. 192242794
Reposted by richaElizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Withdraw from Iraq yesterday, send 10,000 troops and another carrier to fight Iran today. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...wsj.comU.S. Sending Third Aircraft Carrier, Up to 10,000 More Troops, to Middle EastThe deployments come as President Trump weighs resuming bombing Iran after the midterms. 21211103
Reposted by richaKyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 01/10/2026NEW: GOP Gov nominee Victor Marx says he'll respond today to domestic violence allegations - video/audio where he describes slamming his wife into a door and throwing his toddler across a room. Voters/reporters new to Marx may not realize he has a long history of justifying violence. 751161519
Reposted by richaPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"It's mind-boggling" is actually fully delusional. 2061390
Reposted by richaErin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Everyone’s gonna memory hole this like they do her racism and antisemitism but this is your regular reminder that Joyce Carol Oates fucking sucks and just because she sometimes makes a funny tweet doesn’t erase how much she fucking sucks. 331485338
Reposted by richa404 Media @404media.co · 30/09/2026BREAKING: The Trump administration is using a grant program from the 1980s to force cities around the US to funnel their ongoing collection of Flock, Axon, and other ALPR data into large federal surveillance centers that fall under the White House’s jurisdiction, 404 Media has learned404media.coHow Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance ProgramHow the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program. 6213661083
Reposted by richaDina Strasser @dinaeliz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I worry that Dr. Cottom is understating the case so as not to freak us out (see her opinion piece on panic). Tech bros behavior-- bunkers, data centers, drones, AI replacement-- shows us that not only do they not care about users, they think only a select few of them deserve *to exist.* 35611
Reposted by richaTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Yes, the precondition for regular AI agent use is changing your culture to speak in middle America white bureaucratic language to make it work. You can’t put “the good collards“ on an optimized shopping list, much less account for what some call familect: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/m...nytimes.comEvery Family Has Its Own Private Language. What Does That Tell Us About Ourselves? (Gift Article)“Familects” emerge out of in-jokes and mispronunciations, but they reveal something about how all language evolves. 1143470
Reposted by richaAnne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...thecut.comWhat It Feels Like at Cornell Right NowAs a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big. 5030971089
Reposted by richaShveta Thakrar @shvetathakrar.com · 28/09/2026Promised a friend I'd post about my books more, so here goes! First up, my Nebula Award finalist book about a girl who's half star and half human and gets caught up in the politics of the starry court, STAR DAUGHTER! It's really good, and you should try it. www.harpercollins.com/products/sta...harpercollins.comStar Daughter*Chosen as a 2020 Kids’ Indie Next pick * A Locus Reading List recommendation * An Andre Norton Nebula Award Finalist* “Shveta Thakrar's prose is as bea... 34831
Reposted by richarev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026there's a thing in moderate democratic politics where it is considered fundamentally illegitimate to deliver results to your own voters; instead, you must propose a better way to implement your adversaries' entire ideological program 431670287
Reposted by richaLuke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Every college in this country decided that expelling and/or sending the police to beat the shit out of their own students for the crime of being opposed to genocide was their top priority. That and giving Trump complete control of what they teach. Contrast that with how they treat rapists. 91953533
Reposted by richaTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026It goes by a lot of domain specific names but yep. Breaking down tasks takes some training and intent. Most people aren’t doing this in their routine lives. 410317
Reposted by richaClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026the Heroic Protector Fantasy is rarely of real use to women, it's just wish fulfillment about male posturing and it frequently exacerbates violence it's also much easier to imagine yourself kicking the ass of an obviously villainous stranger than to to actually intervene where you have influence 21393193
Reposted by richaClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I remember a really frustrating conversation with a generally decent cishet white guy about a news story where a woman was roofied. he went off about wishing he could beat that guy up to avenge her, and I was like "how about start with calling out your friends' sexist tweets?" and he was like 😳 12171420
Reposted by richaAbdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026When I say we desperately need a Democratic doctor in the US Senate I mean it. 538160024460
Reposted by richaCasey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 29/09/2026God I hate being right. 141536416
Reposted by richaKendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 29/09/2026Many low income people are in fact stay at home parents because the cost of daycare is so high that their salary if they went to work would not cover it. 26833182
Reposted by richaKashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026January 2025: I’m a trad wife who thinks women who work should be burned at the stake, please ignore the $50,000 I make on insta posting butter I had my servant churn Today: did you know women are people? I promise never to sell you gals out again unless its convenient 81726259
Reposted by richaMicah @rincewind.run · 27/09/2026it’s bad, actually, that much of the industry is gatekept by people whose standard for hiring a woman is “are you a Cool Girl who is into weird men doing sex stuff at her all the time?” 282627468
