Reposted by @satjones.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026the sum total of Sam Alito’s jurisprudence on voting adds up to “You have the right to vote for a Republican and if you aren’t likely to vote for a Republican, then Republicans are allowed to disenfranchise you.” 312657439
Reposted by @satjones.bsky.socialTom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 30/08/2026The next time you guys crap on the media, remember that almost everything you're learning about this war and this administration is coming from journalists who are routinely threatened by this White House and its minions. (And I don't mean me; I mean the DC reporters who get these stories.) 671339204
Reposted by @satjones.bsky.socialAngry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Respectfully, “give me what I want or I’ll elect more Republicans” isn’t the winning strategy. We all want to change the country for the better - the first step to any meaningful change is getting the GOP out of power. That’s the only way anything works. 1602687524
Reposted by @satjones.bsky.socialDr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 30/07/2026You can log on to Bluesky where the Classicists, Archaeologists, Historians, and Culture critics are all yelling at one another about The Odyssey you can log on to X where people are debating if women are "real people" 211844311
Reposted by @satjones.bsky.socialCasey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Rogue OpenAI agents are leaving notes to themselves on company servers to help them escape their test environments (!!!) www.reuters.com/business/its... 341034360
Reposted by @satjones.bsky.socialMuseum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 19/07/2026 13797127
Reposted by @satjones.bsky.socialLincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 12/07/2026The big literary discourse on twitter right now is whether The Hobbit—a children’s book that won children’s lit awards and was literally written for the author’s children—is appropriate reading for children or in fact such a difficult book most adults can’t “get their head around” it. 2374071608
Reposted by @satjones.bsky.socialMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/07/2026I don’t think this ends well . . . 1874984542
Reposted by @satjones.bsky.socialElder Taylor @taylornewc.bsky.social · 18/06/2026If Waffle House doesn’t make this their new slogan, then capitalism has failed 123138663805
Reposted by @satjones.bsky.socialmaxwell 🌛 @filtercoffee.cc · 07/06/2026statistics is the science of fitting as many pre-and-postfix sub-and-superscripts onto a variable as possible #math #statistics 062
Reposted by @satjones.bsky.socialrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 02/06/2026really he's just going to coffee with friends. excel mistakes everything for a date 131370181
Reposted by @satjones.bsky.socialMore Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Nearly 50,000 people in the Lake Tahoe area have been told that their utility will stop providing power to them, because it's redirecting that power to data centers. /1fortune.com'It's like we don't exist': Nearly 50,000 Lake Tahoe residents face power loss as utility redirects lines to data centers | FortuneRoughly 49,000 Lake Tahoe residents could lose 75% of their power after their energy provider said it's directing energy to neighboring data centers. 13226731590
Reposted by @satjones.bsky.socialMikeasaService @ilk.org · 17/05/2026I don’t agree with Reagan on much, but when he said “someone who agrees with you 8 times out of 10 is a strong ally, not a 20% enemy” he was dead right. 2463
Reposted by @satjones.bsky.socialTom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 17/05/2026And I can tell you, as a former Republican, that the GOP counts on that, and actively promotes cultural hot-button issues to bait Democrats into fighting among themselves. Works like a charm. 25445117
Reposted by @satjones.bsky.socialDemtotheBone @demtothebone.bsky.social · 17/05/2026Pragmatism is an anathema to many progressives who believe withholding their vote is a way to express their anger that their minority views are not adopted. This, of course, elects Republicans who would never win otherwise. Republicans always vote for Republicans despite any disagreement. 48416
Reposted by @satjones.bsky.socialEddie Yang @eddieyang.bsky.social · 13/05/2026New paper in Nature. The more a government controls its domestic media, the more it dominates AI training data, the more pro-regime outputs we get from AI. By scraping the open web, LLMs are unwittingly laundering state-coordinated narratives into seemingly objective answers. 25879450
Reposted by @satjones.bsky.socialJoyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 17/05/2026The stories & photos from today’s voting rights marches in Alabama deserve to be seen by people who weren’t able to stand there in person. If this piece moves you, please share it widely & help make sure these voices aren’t lost in the noise of a crowded news cycle. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...open.substack.comSelma Rejects Jim Crow 2.0Half of the population in Dallas County, Alabama, where Selma is located, was African American in 1965. 225178929062
Reposted by @satjones.bsky.socialElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 17/05/2026After Plessy v Ferguson it was 58 years before we got a court willing to overturn it. I don’t think Black people who want to vote and women who want to have rights to their bodies and trans people who want to EXIST should have to wait that long because it offends your sense of propriety. 51302281
Reposted by @satjones.bsky.socialPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Watching a series of former Confederate states rush to eliminate any vestige of black representation in the House pretty much answers the question whether the Voting Rights Act was still necessary. 233168315157
Reposted by @satjones.bsky.socialJay Willis @jaywillis.net · 02/05/2026Very broadly speaking, the Court leaves its biggest cases to the end of the term. Shelby County was June 25, 2013. Brnovich, July 1, 2021. Those dates would be too late for Callais to matter. But with midterms looming and a GOP House majority looking fragile, this decision came in late April. Huh!ballsandstrikes.orgSix Conservative Activists Killed the Voting Rights ActThe Supreme Court's conservatives have spent their careers working to kill the Voting Rights Act. They just did it. 10590142
Reposted by @satjones.bsky.socialDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 29/04/2026Men will say "honor us or else we'll engage in a bunch of stupid brutal violence" and then do the stupid brutal violence regardless. 202666228
Reposted by @satjones.bsky.socialVikram Bath @vikrambath.bsky.social · 24/04/2026You do not get to vote on math 2447871
Reposted by @satjones.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 @satjones.bsky.socialAiyana White @aiyanaewhite.bsky.social · 17/04/2026I do not want to create an account or open a subscription I just want to buy a thing and never hear from you again why is this so hard. 271118822246
Reposted by @satjones.bsky.socialSarah Longwell @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social · 25/01/2026A thread of MAGA protesting with guns and not getting murdered for it... Arizona, November 2020 27469523328
Reposted by @satjones.bsky.socialJay Kirell @jasonkirell.bsky.social · 23/01/2026Two women trained as first responders were abducted by three ICE agents. One of the agents starts seizing. The other two don’t know what to do. The women jump into action and save the agent’s life, only to be re-handcuffed and processed. www.startribune.com/detained-by-...startribune.comDetained by ICE, two women became first responders during agent’s seizureThe women say they guided agents through the emergency, later raising concerns about medical protocols, weapons safety and accountability. 33389304811
Reposted by @satjones.bsky.socialMike Masnick @masnick.com · 22/01/2026This story gets worse and worse. 5876275
Reposted by @satjones.bsky.socialCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 18/01/2026Ok I'm going to bed Bill Kristol is quoting Karl Marx 391215180
Reposted by @satjones.bsky.socialPeter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 17/12/2025This is not an exaggeration: There is not a single weather forecaster, TV meteorologist, airline pilot, computer scientist, or climate scientist in the WORLD whose work or life wasn't directly or indirectly improved or influenced by the science done at NCAR. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...usatoday.comTrump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in ColoradoThe Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs. 325896
Reposted by @satjones.bsky.socialPhilip Bump @pbump.com · 17/12/2025Two shootings on opposite sides of the planet shed light on America's exceptional culture of gun violence. www.pbump.net/o/twin-shoot... 415739
Reposted by @satjones.bsky.socialAaron Weiss (no relation) @aweiss.bsky.social · 14/12/2025The moment when AI news summaries accidentally create the murder mystery we deserve 12457104
Reposted by @satjones.bsky.socialJohn Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 11/12/2025Similar thing for me and the NICU. Oh, my kid needs to be transferred within three hours to stay alive? Hold on, let me call around on Christmas Eve for the best price on a condition we haven’t even ID’d yet. These people are deeply unserious. Signed, another economist who generally likes markets 25921207
Reposted by @satjones.bsky.socialClara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 11/12/2025well this does not seem good. but just as long as everyone is well-dressed, we should be ok www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u... 917273
Reposted by @satjones.bsky.socialCameron @cameron.stream · 16/09/2025Our Discord support agent was kind of annoying, so I asked it to pretend to be a 58-year old systems administrator from Ohio that wrote on forums a lot. Turns out -- this makes your support bot extremely competent. The quality of its support responses are now far better. 734732
Reposted by @satjones.bsky.socialThe New Yorker @newyorker.com · 06/11/2025One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNScnewyorkermag.visitlink.meThe Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of ThousandsThe short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes. 42792135979
Reposted by @satjones.bsky.socialJPWeiland @jpweiland.bsky.social · 17/09/2025Happy Pythagoras day to all you nerds! (9/16/25) 3^2 + 4^2 = 5^2 313022
Reposted by @satjones.bsky.socialJulie Parsonnet @julieparsonnet.bsky.social · 30/08/2025Deaths averted by vaccination since the 1970’s 10660299
Reposted by @satjones.bsky.socialMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 12/08/2025Republicans can lie & say dehumanizing things about urban 🇺🇸/Americans with impunity The second Democrats are even accused of saying something derogatory about rural 🇺🇸, it is a nonstop National Conversation™️ about "civility" & What Democrats Must Do to respect/engage Real Folkz Happy week, everyone 1110929
Reposted by @satjones.bsky.socialDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 21/07/2025Now many times are we gonna have to dance this dance before these people learn the goddam steps. "AI" reproduces, exacerbates, and iterates the biases and values it was trained on. Those biases and values are, largely, very bad. There for the reproductions will most often be as bad and worse. Jfc. 141172530
Reposted by @satjones.bsky.socialE. Rosalie @erosalie.infoepi.com · 14/07/2025If a free or low-cost test caught your lung, breast, colon, or cervical cancer, thank the 16-member panel that approved these life-saving screenings and made them affordable. RFK Jr. canceled that panel's meeting. 313767
Reposted by @satjones.bsky.socialRyan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 01/07/2025Planned Parenthood is the only place for many Americans to access things like Pap smears, and routine health maintenance and cancer prevention. Anyone who thinks they just provide abortions or mostly provide abortions doesn’t know anything 19840211
Reposted by @satjones.bsky.socialRyan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 01/06/2025If the US stops fluoridating water, in 5 yrs American children would suffer an additional 25.4 million cavities, with an added cost of $9.8B, and loss of 2.9 million quality-adjusted life years, disproportionately borne by children currently on public health insurance or who lack insurance entirely.jamanetwork.comProjected Outcomes of Removing Fluoride From US Public Water SystemsThis cost-effectiveness analysis evaluates a large sample of US children to determine the associations of fluoridation cessation with oral health and national dental care costs. 18525250
Reposted by @satjones.bsky.socialSenator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 20/05/2025I don't want this to get lost: after RFK Jr. finished with his tantrum, he ADMITTED he is blocking BILLIONS in federal child care funding. That needs to change IMMEDIATELY. 24161662164
Reposted by @satjones.bsky.socialRegina Schrambling @gastropoda.bsky.social · 20/05/2025Pretty certain if a Dem was in the WH and FEMA was not on the ground in KY after a lethal tornado NYT would not be running a P1 feel-good piece on volunteers doing the cleanup… 12845195
Reposted by @satjones.bsky.socialEli Perencevich @eliowa.bsky.social · 20/05/2025The US doesn’t have universal health insurance for all citizens like every other country. Let’s do that before cutting access to life-saving vaccines. If you don’t have insurance you might have undiagnosed diabetes or hypertension, and so won’t be eligible when you should be eligible for vaccine 36220
Reposted by @satjones.bsky.socialAlonso Duralde @aduralde.bsky.social · 17/05/2025Your periodic reminder to add “ -ai” at the end of every Google search to avoid their dumb AI thing. 212246