Sarah Kay Wiley @sarahkwiley.bsky.social · 18/09/2025If you’re looking for a way to support independent comedy, check out @dropout.tv ❤️ Start with Game Changer - Season 7, Ep 1. Thank me later. 000
Reposted by Sarah Kay WileyBrian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 18/09/2025KEY to the story about ABC suspending Kimmel's show: Nexstar and Sinclair, two big owners of ABC-affiliated stations, both need FCC approval for pending deals. With a lot of $$ on the line, both have reason to curry favor with the Trump admin. Both decided to yank Kimmel's show. 1051426602
Reposted by Sarah Kay WileyGabby Giffords @gabbygiffords.bsky.social · 10/09/2025I'm horrified to hear that Charlie Kirk was shot at an event in Utah. Democratic societies will always have political disagreements, but we must never allow America to become a country that confronts those disagreements with violence. Mark and I are praying for Charlie's recovery. 27174928
Reposted by Sarah Kay WileyTech Justice Law @techjusticelaw.bsky.social · 26/08/2025🚨BREAKING: We filed a lawsuit in California state court against OpenAI for defective product design and wrongful death after ChatGPT encouraged and aided a 16-year-old California boy’s suicide — including by providing detailed instructions on how to hang himself in the final hours of his life. 🧵nytimes.comA Teen Was Suicidal. ChatGPT Was the Friend He Confided In. 48428
Reposted by Sarah Kay WileyKashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 26/08/2025The exchanges between Adam and ChatGPT are devastating. This, in my mind, is the worst one. One of his last messages was a photo of the noose hung in his bedroom closet, asking if it was "good." ChatGPT offered a technical analysis of the set up and told him it 'could potentially suspend a human." 351697362
Reposted by Sarah Kay WileyTech Justice Law @techjusticelaw.bsky.social · 23/07/2025The Trump administration’s forthcoming AI action plan will center industry interests & lead to the unrestrained, unaccountable roll-out of AI into every part of our lives. With @ainowinstitute.bsky.social, we’re among the 90+ orgs demanding AI policy that puts the people first. peoplesaiaction.compeoplesaiaction.comPeople's AI Action Plan 073
Reposted by Sarah Kay WileySteve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 14/07/2025Since April 4, #SCOTUS has issued 15 rulings on 17 emergency applications filed by Trump (three birthright citizenship apps were consolidated). It has granted relief to Trump ... in all 15 rulings. It has written majority opinions in only 3. Today's order is the 7th with no explanation *at all.* 30458592797
Reposted by Sarah Kay WileyAdam Steinbaugh @adamsteinbaugh.bsky.social · 12/07/2025I think you should be able to say things the president doesn’t like and still be a citizen. Maybe we should write that down somewhere. 24878851643
Reposted by Sarah Kay WileyGravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 10/07/2025When ICE targets one vulnerable community (immigrants), it has a cascading effect on other vulnerable communities (children, the disabled, etc.). This is great reporting from @19thnews.org showing exactly how ICE is destroying families and communities.19thnews.orgAfter a child care worker is detained by ICE, a community is left reelingNicolle Orozco Forero is one of the thousands of immigrant women who provide child care for American children, and one of the few who cares for children with disabilities. Now she and her seriously il... 27026
Sarah Kay Wiley @sarahkwiley.bsky.social · 10/07/2025Thinking a lot lately about how the bar has moved even lower for transparency - from “who wrote/said/did what” to “is it even a person?” And this occurs in all sorts of scenarios and industries - customer service chat, journalism, law, and policing. 130
Sarah Kay Wiley @sarahkwiley.bsky.social · 08/07/2025They won’t because Musk will sue them. www.wsj.com/business/med...wsj.comX’s Sales Pitch: Give Us Your Ad Business or We’ll SueElon Musk and CEO Linda Yaccarino launched a campaign to strong-arm advertisers back onto the platform. 060
Sarah Kay Wiley @sarahkwiley.bsky.social · 03/07/2025This in a state where the rich like to come and play while polluting our rivers and cutting access to public land. I'm so fucking sick of this inhumanity and bottomless greed. 041
Sarah Kay Wiley @sarahkwiley.bsky.social · 03/07/20251 in 5 Montanans rely on medicaid. Reading estimates that 31,000 Montanans alone will lose their healthcare because of the BBB. Not to mention the $5.4B that our rural hospitals could lose. Daines, Sheehy, Zinke, and Downing this is on YOU. 153
Reposted by Sarah Kay WileyAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing. 43709649737477
Reposted by Sarah Kay WileyPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 27/06/2025I mean, if everything is going in the shitter, there’s no reason to have anti-gay people have all the fun; start making religious objections to all sorts of stuff. The Ten Commandments getting put into class all over, for instance. That’s at least 40% religious orthodoxy. 1823063607
Sarah Kay Wiley @sarahkwiley.bsky.social · 27/06/2025I feel like incoherent confidence is the current theme of the last decade... 010
Reposted by Sarah Kay WileyCristiano Lima-Strong @viacristiano.bsky.social · 22/06/2025News: Senate Parliamentarian OKs the revised reconciliation provision tying federal broadband subsidies (BEAD) to states not enforcing AI laws for 10 years, according to Dems on the Budget committee www.budget.senate.gov/ranking-memb... 6128
Sarah Kay Wiley @sarahkwiley.bsky.social · 14/06/2025Seeing cowboys, farmers, first-time protesters turnout in small towns in red states like MT is filling my heart with hope. Let’s go! 031
Reposted by Sarah Kay WileyElectronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 14/06/2025If you're heading out to a protest, there are a number of concepts to keep in mind to keep yourself—and your data—safe.ssd.eff.orgAttending a ProtestFor quick reference, we've created a handy guide designed to be printed, folded, and carried in your pocket (PDF download). Now, more than ever, citizens must be able to hold those in power accountab... 216495
Reposted by Sarah Kay WileyCheck My Ads @checkmyads.org · 12/06/2025📢 Big news: Check My Ads just launched our first-ever Policy Platform. checkmyads.org/policy/checkmyads.orgPolicyCheck My Ads Institute Policy Platform The digital advertising industry has grown into a $750 billion juggernaut. It is largely unregulated, deeply opaque, and increasingly harmful. Adtech companies e... 2169
Reposted by Sarah Kay Wileydr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 09/06/2025in so many videos out of LA i am seeing officers aiming rubber bullets right into crowds, this is filling me with a deep and anxious rage knowing what happens when they do that www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...cbsnews.comJournalist shot by Minneapolis police during 2020 protests dying from injuriesLinda Tirado was in Minneapolis from out of state covering the protests and rioting when police shot her in the face with a rubber bullet, also known as a "less-lethal" round. 5138081633
Sarah Kay Wiley @sarahkwiley.bsky.social · 05/06/2025Doing the lord’s work @rachelgilmore.bsky.social 🙏 160
Reposted by Sarah Kay Wileytaylr @taylordahlin.com · 03/06/2025at lake and bloomington where ICE were seen. large group of angry people 10136911144
Reposted by Sarah Kay WileyNPR @npr.org · 26/05/2025Science is an economic driver in Hamilton, Mont., thanks to Rocky Mountain Laboratories, a federal research lab. Now, layoffs and funding cuts are having an impact in this town far from Washington.npr.orgA small Montana town grapples with the fallouts from federal worker cutsScience is an economic driver in Hamilton, Mont., thanks to Rocky Mountain Laboratories, a federal research lab. Now, layoffs and funding cuts are having an impact in this town far from Washington. 802108173276
Reposted by Sarah Kay WileyMatthew Lawrence @mblawrence.bsky.social · 21/05/2025"Within only a couple months, Sewell became addicted to the app." Big decision denying motion to dismiss on 1A grounds today in Garcia v. Character A.I., the first case against a chatbot for allegedly contributing to a teen's death. Full opinion here: tinyurl.com/496s4epn 1135
Reposted by Sarah Kay WileyMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 23/04/2025In case you hadn't noticed: 7874632610710
Sarah Kay Wiley @sarahkwiley.bsky.social · 17/04/2025Link to ruling here: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...documentcloud.orgGoogle ad antitrust ruling 000
Sarah Kay Wiley @sarahkwiley.bsky.social · 17/04/2025🚨Google declared a monopolist once again! This time, in the ad exchange and publisher ad server markets. More analysis to come but there are some fantastic nuggets in this case - especially around market definition. 110
Reposted by Sarah Kay WileyAlex Abdo @alexabdo.bsky.social · 10/04/2025ICE appears to have deleted its X post making clear (if we needed more proof) that it believes its mission is to stop certain "IDEAS" from crossing the border. Here's a perma.cc link to the post: perma.cc/2FLY-4S6J 22912
Reposted by Sarah Kay WileyData Bear 🏳️🌈 @dataandpolitics.net · 03/04/2025Today feels like March 13, 2020 when we were all going to work from home for a few days. 210411
Reposted by Sarah Kay WileySzabolcs Panyi @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social · 01/04/2025💥🇭🇺 Police have given up guarding Budapest’s Liberty Bridge as anti-government protesters shut down traffic on four major bridges, rallying against Viktor Orbán’s new law curbing freedom of assembly and banning the Pride march. They vow to escalate with a 24-hour shutdown next week. 10081682370
Sarah Kay Wiley @sarahkwiley.bsky.social · 01/04/2025🍿Tune in to watch the hearing entitled “Big Fixes for Big Tech" at 2:30 ET here: www.judiciary.senate.gov/committee-ac...judiciary.senate.govBig Fixes for Big Tech | United States Senate Committee on the JudiciaryUnited States Senate Committee on the Judiciary 111
Sarah Kay Wiley @sarahkwiley.bsky.social · 01/04/2025⚡ In less then an hour the Sen Judiciary Cmty will discuss how we can break up entrenched power & bring transparency to the heart of the internet economy - efforts that are crucial to preserving a healthy democracy where no single entity holds outsized influence over public discourse & our data. 352
Reposted by Sarah Kay WileyJason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Last minute edit to the testimony for 2:30. I’m thinking he’s tied up. 052
Reposted by Sarah Kay WileyKarl Bode @karlbode.com · 31/03/2025Ezra Klein and Jon Stewart over-simplify and caricature the restrictions on this $42.5 billion broadband grant program to falsely paint the whole thing as an irredeemable waste. But they fail to mention a lot of important stuff because they didn't actually understand what they were talking about...mediaite.com‘Oh My F**king God!’ Jon Stewart Left ‘Speechless’ As Ezra Klein Breaks Down Biden Era Red TapeJon Stewart was thrown into a state of shock as he listened to Ezra Klein break down the red tape involved in Biden's Build Back Better Act. 1151859491
Reposted by Sarah Kay WileyJameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 25/03/2025Not just "proactively threatening" but firing them, canceling their grants, rescinding their security clearances, and arresting, imprisoning, and threatening to deport them! 4591168
Reposted by Sarah Kay WileyAdam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 18/03/20251/🧵 Judges across ideological lines are ruling against Trump at strikingly similar rates (84% liberal, 86% centrist, 82% conservative). This isn't partisan opposition to Trump—it's the judiciary functioning as intended by cutting across partisan lines to uphold the Constitution. 188114953810
Reposted by Sarah Kay WileyCraig Silverman @craigsilverman.bsky.social · 16/03/2025BREAKING: The head of the $42 billion federal BEAD program that aims to bring broadband internet to rural and unserved areas has left the Commerce Dept. He sent a departing email warning of "deeply negative outcomes" for people if the Trump admin shifts $$ from fiber internet to Musk's Starlink: 9548532163
Reposted by Sarah Kay WileyJustin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 15/03/2025NIST has issued new instructions to scientists that partner with the US Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute (AISI) that eliminate mention of 'AI safety,' 'responsible AI,' and 'AI fairness' in order to reduce 'ideological bias, to enable human flourishing and economic competitiveness.'wired.comUnder Trump, AI Scientists Are Told to Remove ‘Ideological Bias’ From Powerful ModelsA directive from the National Institute of Standards and Technology eliminates mention of “AI safety” and “AI fairness.” 1513174
Sarah Kay Wiley @sarahkwiley.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Extremely proud listening to @ariellesgarcia.bsky.social testify before the VT legislature on the privacy harms posed by adtech middlemen. “The false promise of precision targeting only props up the tangled web of adtech middlemen not small businesses.” 🔥🔥 011
Reposted by Sarah Kay WileyChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Big ruling out of federal court in DC, on DOGE and records, finding that it is likely subject to FOIA. —> 10920236