Reposted by So Ordered?Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 10hBREAKING A federal judge ordered the Kennedy Center's Trump-installed board to UNSEAL the 163-page report (with redactions) on the $250M+ renovation plan and two year closure. The Board also must unseal a related Powerpoint. Doc buff.ly/E6jyjGl 9242751136
Reposted by So Ordered?The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Sometimes my wife and I like to send each other text messages as though they’re democratic fundraising messages, and I believe she has produced the jewel of the form. 179105811766
Reposted by So Ordered?James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 19hHoly shit. Someone has decompiled the Adobe suite, rebuilt it in Rust and released it as open source. Either all software is dead or the US copyright laws are about to receive an update. getartcraft.com/appsgetartcraft.comCrafting Apps: open-source creative toolsImage editing, vector illustration, video, photography, PDFs, motion graphics and page layout: seven native, open-source apps from the ArtCraft team, built in Rust and free to use. 18440991162
Reposted by So Ordered?WIRED @wired.com · 17hThe National Design Studio has been something of a successor agency to DOGE. A WIRED investigation finds some of its members are on loan from a nonprofit run by SpaceXAI’s general counsel.buff.lyA Mysterious Nonprofit Run by SpaceXAI’s Top Lawyer Is Paying the Salaries of Government WorkersThe National Design Studio has been something of a successor agency to DOGE. A WIRED investigation finds some of its members are on loan from a nonprofit run by SpaceXAI’s general counsel. 310370
Reposted by So Ordered?Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Something unprecedented happened during my visit to the Gulf. For the first time in 20 years in Congress, I was denied entry to U.S. military facilities and even meetings with military leaders. An order from Hegseth - that applies to both parties - to hide the cost of the war. 22045012037
Reposted by So Ordered?jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/10/2026interesting that conservatives were militantly “we must reward hustle” when the target was affirmative action at elite universities and now, when faced with the success of south asians and other groups, it is “i think we are too meritocratic” 19269281084
Reposted by So Ordered?Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Another thing to tear down in 2029: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...nytimes.comInside Trump's Plan to Fence Off a Historic Protest SiteThe president’s proposal to enclose a park in Washington could alter how the space has been used for generations. 1624980
Reposted by So Ordered?Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026In the last hours of Kristi Noem's tenure as Homeland Security secretary, her agency delivered a windfall to one of her political donors by buying five airplanes from the man's firm at a substantial markup, documents show.nytimes.comKristi Noem’s Agency Gave Her Donor a Lucrative Contract Just Before She LeftThe Homeland Security Department signed a multi-million dollar agreement to buy five aircraft from a company owned by a political contributor of the secretary on her last day, documents show. 1201940945
Reposted by So Ordered?Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Just saw someone say their AI runs their fantasy football team and I can’t stop laughing. Like, I’m sure everyone’s doing it or something but it’s very funny to me that pretending to be a team manager was so hard that you needed to pretend to pretend to be a team manager 214103911648
Reposted by So Ordered?Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I understand that paywalls are annoying, but the grim reality for everything right now, is if you want something to exist, you have to put money towards it. Every creative person is having their life's work hoovered up by AI companies. Layoffs never end. Private equity keeps making things worse. 25858218
Reposted by So Ordered?Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026“[W]hen a majority of the justices on our highest court show themselves to be consistently indifferent to the growing chasm between law and justice, it is not “public rhetoric” that causes Americans to distrust the Court. It is the Court that surrenders its own legitimacy in the eyes of the public.”sherrilyn.substack.comThe New SCOTUS Term Begins Today. But Let’s Not Move on Too Quickly From What SCOTUS Did Last WeekThe new Supreme Court term begins this week. 01911
Reposted by So Ordered?Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026In 1997 I was at an art conference where everyone was saying cozy things about close-knit deeply rooted small communities so I stood up and said "I am a San Franciscan and I live among people those close-knit deeply rooted small communities wanted to kill."cityarts.netAnand Giridharadas | City Arts & Lectures 952160
Reposted by So Ordered?David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026I could hug @anandwrites.bsky.social for this. This is so true but you NEVER hear it in US media. Never. Truly doing god's work. 515268309
Reposted by So Ordered?Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.ms.nowOutgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump. 25797173020
Reposted by So Ordered?Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026"South Korea has already run the experiment. Its law requires the National Assembly to vote on presidential impeachment by anonymous ballot, and that rule has now removed two presidents." [@andycraig.bsky.social]theunpopulist.netA Democratic Senate Should Adopt Secret Impeachment Ballots on a Priority BasisSuch a change, requiring no constitutional amendment, would free senators to vote their judgment instead of their fears 9497180
Reposted by So Ordered?Rachel Rothschild @profrrothschild.bsky.social · 05/10/2026After listening to oral arguments in Suncor v. Boulder just now, I hope someone will give Justice Kavanaugh my @yalelawjournal.bsky.social Essay on the case. It provides a detailed history of Ouellette & the other precedents invoked in Suncor. These cases do not say what Justice Kavanaugh asserted. 36028
Reposted by So Ordered?Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026If the lessons Democrats (& democrats) draw from DOGE is “right idea, wrong implementation,” we are doomed. Everyone involved in the unprecedented crime that was DOGE needs to go to jail forever, & Democrats need to rebuild all of the programs & agencies first, not do digital management consulting 🤦♂️ 381346290
Reposted by So Ordered?The Washington Sun @washingtonsun.com · 03/10/2026DOGE overhauled the federal workforce and slashed government spending — moves that inspired nationwide protests and lawsuits. The backlash has given Democrats nationally an opportunity to reclaim the government efficiency mantle.washingtonsun.comDemocrats Are Plotting Government Efficiency in a Post-DOGE WorldRising stars in the Democratic Party are promoting their tech modernization teams in a post-DOGE political landscape. 496511
Reposted by So Ordered?The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 03/10/2026The White House will send $90 this month to more than 20 million older Americans who are enrolled in Medicare Part B. Democrats have questioned the legality of dipping into government accounts to send payments to Americans. washingtonpost.comTrump announces plan to send $90 payments to millions of seniorsThe White House said the one-time payments would be drawn from a fund set up to improve Medicare. 254310
Reposted by So Ordered?Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Trump’s TIME interview should have been treated about like Biden’s debate performance. That it mostly wasn’t says a lot about the media’s ongoing normalization of Trump’s cognitive downward spiral. 361606404
Reposted by So Ordered?Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Sophie is an extraordinary writer and one of the most important voices on our modern culture of misogyny. Go read her. Also Girl On Girl is a revelation 0123
Reposted by So Ordered?Sophie Gilbert @sophiegilbert.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Wrote about Cornell, the burnerverse, and how the distinct behaviors of fraternities—sexual aggression as an expression of male bonding and male power—now define male communities all over the internet. www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...theatlantic.comIs College Getting Less Safe for Women?A lawsuit about an alleged gang rape at Cornell University and a Wired story about sexual cyberharassment reveal how campus rape culture and online misogyny are colliding. 1619949
Reposted by So Ordered?Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Laser focused on the key issues (Also, the Senate is out until after the election, so it can’t vote “NOW”) 2427859
Reposted by So Ordered?Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 02/10/2026Scoop: At a secret meeting this summer, an aide to Stephen Miller laid out Trump administration's plan to make it easier for states to round up and institutionalize mentally ill homeless people — by pushing a drastic policy change that would weaken the rights of millions of disabled Americans.nbcnews.comHow Trump’s homelessness crackdown became a sweeping retreat from disability rightsAfter issuing a memo making it easier to institutionalize homeless people, the Justice Department began abandoning cases protecting disabled people’s right to live in the community. 501249693
Reposted by So Ordered?David @dchandler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Every time someone makes an unforced error like this, I'm going to reflect on Coates' wisdom: 325029
Reposted by So Ordered?Kate Redburn @kredburn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I’m delighted to share that my article The Equal Right To Exclude was awarded a Dukeminier Award for 2026 by the Williams Institute. As an avid reader of the award issue each year, it’s a real treat to be selected! williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/programs/duk...williamsinstitute.law.ucla.eduCurrent Issue 6374
Reposted by So Ordered?Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026POPE LEO <turns chair around, sits, placing his arms on the back>: You want to hear about an Influencer, one with a direct connection to a superior intelligence? 1434464
Reposted by So Ordered?David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I don’t think everyone realizes how bad things are for US science: For the fiscal year that just ended, the Trump regime withheld $1.4 billion from the National Science Foundation’s research budget, which is about 1/5 of its primary research budget.nytimes.comNational Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress (Gift Article)The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants. 201836908
Reposted by So Ordered?David Ryan Miller @davidryanmiller.com · 03/10/2026Trump II is about many things, but one of the major recurring themes is that Donald Trump is intent on using his office--a public trust--to enrich himself and his allies Rank corruption beneath the office of the presidency and clear grounds for impeachment, conviction, and removal 05323
Reposted by So Ordered?Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 03/10/2026This Lukoil pending deal has a tie-in to the billionaire Syrian-born Qatari brothers that I wrote about earlier this year-- who have teamed up with Ivanka and Jared on a real estate project in Albania. Yes, it's an intricate web. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/u...nytimes.comSyrian Billionaires Needed a Favor in Washington. They Invoked the Trump Name. (Gift Article)The attempt by the Khayyats to influence foreign policy while discussions are underway about potential Trump family deals is an increasingly common feature of the president’s second term. 9387160
Reposted by So Ordered?Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 03/10/2026Witkoff and Kushner discussed the deal last month during a meeting at the Kremlin with Putin. Here is a shorter overview of our investigation. With my NYT Washington Bureau colleague Anton Troianovski www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...nytimes.comTrump, Putin, Ukraine and an Oil Deal: 5 Takeaways (Gift Article)A proposal to bolster relations with the Kremlin through the purchase of Russian energy assets is striking even for an administration that regularly mixes personal business interests with foreign poli... 6329136
Reposted by So Ordered?Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 03/10/2026The pending oil deal involves Russian Lukoil international assets (now sanctioned by the US) that would be acquired at a big discount by a Trump campaign donor, a UAE-based investor in Trump/Witkoff family crypto company, and Kushner/Ivanka's Qatari-based real estate partners. 18531219
Reposted by So Ordered?Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 03/10/2026JUST POSTED: Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff have pushed a multibillion oil deal with Russia as part of peace talks that will bring profits to their family business partners. A new front for Trump-era conflicts of interest. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...nytimes.comU.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter... 24730621797
Reposted by So Ordered?Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026🔴 Manchester City is what happens when the rich and powerful believe money trumps any rules or regulations I've written about club football's biggest ever scandal, and interviewed the brilliant @migueldelaney.bsky.social, for Democracy for Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/manchester...democracyforsale.substack.comManchester City: club football's "biggest ever scandal"I spoke to author Miguel Delaney about the UAE, industrial-scale cheating and football's “financial wild west.” 1522366
Reposted by So Ordered?Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026the evergreenest of posts: 022755
Reposted by So Ordered?ceej @ceej.online · 03/10/2024Zombie fiction is, at its core, about the fear of seeing your own body age and decay. Ghost stories are about the impossibility of grappling with the past. Vampires are about what if you got so horny you died 11495302816
Reposted by So Ordered?derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Neiman Marcus closed its downtown Dallas flagship on Wednesday. The store played a notable role in the history of desegregation in Dallas. Previously, Black shoppers across the US could enter department stores, but they weren't allowed to try on clothes without adhering to certain conditions. 🧵 10459811691
Reposted by So Ordered?Reuters @reuters.com · 02/10/2026A US government effort spanning intelligence agencies, the FBI and the Justice Department sought proof that voting machines were used to rig the 2020 election. It ultimately found no evidence votes were altered reut.rs/4hHBkcA 811067509
Reposted by So Ordered?Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026There is mounting evidence to show that a crypto firm in which Howard Lutnick and his sons (and also the Trump sons) are invested is making a mint helping the Iranians dodge sanctions. This is a major form of war profiteering, and more obviously criminal than most.blumenthal.senate.govBlumenthal Releases PSI Report Detailing how Lutnick-Linked Crypto Firm Tether Props Up Iran's Shadow Banking System | U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut[WASHINGTON, D.C.] – U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Ranking Member of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI), today... 16143107
Reposted by So Ordered?Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever 41120203121
Reposted by So Ordered?Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse. 20462952895
Reposted by So Ordered?Oriana González @oriana.bsky.social · 02/10/2026SCOOP: White House officials, led by Susie Wiles, have told DOJ to delay any abortion-related action until after the midterms Wiles suggested to Todd Blanche that an aggressive approach on abortion would be negative for the GOP in November @washingtonsun.com www.washingtonsun.com/campaigns/ab...washingtonsun.comWhite House Officials Told the DOJ to Delay Action on Abortion Ahead of the MidtermsAttorney General Todd Blanche has moved slowly in abortion pill litigation and department officials have told advocates to wait until after the election. 1051206637
Reposted by So Ordered?Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 02/10/2026When nearly all private payroll growth in the last five years has been in health-care or education --> 39649176
Reposted by So Ordered?Jesse Raub @jesseraub.online · 02/10/2026i really liked @samthielman.com’s @flaminghydra.com piece on the new Spider-Man. it’s easy to rag on the MCU movies; it’s harder to approach them from a thoughtful critical angle flaminghydra.com/issue-623/flaminghydra.comSpidey sensibilitySam Thielman and his son saw SPIDER-MAN 3135
Reposted by So Ordered?Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Read the full essay belowblog.cryptographyengineering.comIs sandboxing sufficient to contain rogue agents?Quick caveats: this is a post on AI safety, written by a cryptography professor. If that troubles you, you should read something else. I try hard not to work on AI (except when the topic occasional… 0175
Reposted by So Ordered?Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Software engineers see AI agents as tools. We have decades of experience restricting tools with least privilege and access controls. AI researchers have a dual hubris, they’re creating a smarter-than-human god that can defeat any sandbox, but believe they can teach it to obey. So far, not great. 🥴 3556
Reposted by So Ordered?Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026BREAKING WSJ: The Trump Justice Department is reviewing whether the special prosecutor's office that investigated Watergate committed misconduct. A revisionist historian went to DOJ HQ to present his case that Richard Nixon and his associates weren't treated fairly.wsj.comExclusive | Decades After Watergate, Justice Department Reviews Whether Nixon Got a Raw DealA revisionist historian went to the DOJ headquarters to present his case that the former president and his associates weren’t treated fairly. 4991501555