socraticme.bsky.social @socraticme.bsky.social · 7mI know that when I am entering an intensifying competition and have damned near unlimited resources, the first thing I do is make substantial cuts to my team. I am not optimistic about where this leads for Them or for Us. 000
Reposted by @socraticme.bsky.socialFrank O'Donnell @frank11285.bsky.social · 17h“This police union convention, as unfun as it was, gave us one valuable thing: the chance to hear how police talk when they believe that they are only speaking to one another.” @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social - open.substack.com/pub/howthing... 26123
Reposted by @socraticme.bsky.socialMatthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 1hFundamentally, teaching humans is activity that requires high amounts of human labor per student and that is a real problem for people who are annoyed at the concept of paying for human labor. 15121
Reposted by @socraticme.bsky.socialNanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 6hThe worst Ebola outbreak in the world is ongoing in the DRC and you’re not being informed about it in part because the reason it is spiralling is US politics. At least one person who was suffering from the disease crossed into Uganda by road and then flew from Kampala to Nairobi where he died. 1757321
Reposted by @socraticme.bsky.socialUnited Wizards of the Coast - CWA @uwotc-official.bsky.social · 1hYesterday, Wizards informed us that it doesn’t intend to voluntarily recognize the D&D or Studio X units of our union ahead of a vote. We remain committed to creating a workplace focused on wellness, transparency, and collaboration by winning our coming election. 9918379
Reposted by @socraticme.bsky.socialryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 1hboy Trump fucked the American auto industry. first he yanks their EV subsidies, leading them to slash production and write off tens of billions in investment, then he jacks up the price of oil by 50%, leading to skyrocketing EV demand going almost entirely to China bc GM et al left the market 31989205
Reposted by @socraticme.bsky.socialEdwin Park @edwincpark.bsky.social · 1hThe state has been trying to work in good faith with CMS but the likely purpose of withholding federal #Medicaid funding from MN was always to financially squeeze a politically disfavored state. 54.3% of all federal $ going to MN comes from Medicaid. 12718
Reposted by @socraticme.bsky.socialDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 20hThis is the "DHS/ice must be destroyed" energy house democrats need to be bringing to the midterms 91083257
Reposted by @socraticme.bsky.socialnora "the tea kobold" rude (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 28/07/2026anyway i basically do not believe that "sociopath" is a useful social category in as much as it is even real. i think it is a way for people to wrap themselves in the cushioning gauze of the lie that evil is done by the sick and that they are among the well 413825
Reposted by @socraticme.bsky.socialAnnie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social · 2h“kill socrates” as rallying cry of direct instruction zealots 193
Reposted by @socraticme.bsky.socialClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 11hfrowning at the top of her lungs!! 0851
Reposted by @socraticme.bsky.socialCheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 13hThey got their feelings hurt because they intruded into black spaces and queer spaces thinking that it was time for them to see a show or give a lecture. That we were here for their entertainment or to make them feel superior. And the first time they got roasted they thought they were dying. 146557
Reposted by @socraticme.bsky.socialKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 15hwho could have possibly predicted this 20570187
Reposted by @socraticme.bsky.socialPaul Crider @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com · 17hThis bill would abolish ICE, DHS, and CBP, transferring legitimate customs duties to other departments. It would sunset Section 219 of the INA close the Guantánamo Bay detention facility and shutter all immigration detention centers. You have my sword, milady. 6040551167
Reposted by @socraticme.bsky.socialPuff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Find your team. We need a multi-tendency movement of movements. Find your front. And trust, it won't be the last. Then dig in and hold the fucking line. 5748136
Reposted by @socraticme.bsky.socialPuff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 13/10/2026It's not about placing themselves at the top. They're already at the top. It's about putting us more firmly under control. Deskilled, devalued, hyper-surveilled, desperate. That vision of fascism won't be defeated in the next two elections. It's a long fight. 4960178
Reposted by @socraticme.bsky.socialI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 13/10/2026This redemption arc people desperately craves allows them to believe in the general innocence and reasonable nature of every white person even those who’ve caused a great deal of harm… 210716
Reposted by @socraticme.bsky.socialAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12/10/2026A rogue executive going after the citizenship and thus eligibility of a duly elected member of Congress, an attempt to usurp the House's fundamental constitutional power to decide who its own members are, is dangerous in a way that exceeds even the possibility of bogus trumped up criminal charges. 143399
Reposted by @socraticme.bsky.socialPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 12/10/2026why would you believe electeds who were pro-defunding policing and have now renounced that position (as "woke 1), when they say they will "abolish ICE?" 1735077
Reposted by @socraticme.bsky.social🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 11/10/2026The H1 people are too busy getting students kicked out of college for protesting Israel. 05110
Reposted by @socraticme.bsky.socialI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 11/10/2026We have an entire genre of entertainment dedicated to telling stories of police doing things like this called true crime and somehow it only drives support for more policing. 313930
Reposted by @socraticme.bsky.socialOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 11/10/2026In a story on political violence (where they depict the targets as equally democratic and republican), the @nytimes.com gives a sympathetic ear to a member of Congress who was part of January 6. 16327101
Reposted by @socraticme.bsky.socialThe Salt Lake Tribune @sltrib.com · 11/10/2026Ammon Bundy has an open warrant for his arrest in Idaho. The Iron County Sheriff’s Office did not respond to a request for comment from The Tribune about why he was taken into custody by their deputies but allowed to go free. sltrib.comAmmon Bundy says he has an ‘inalienable right’ to drive without registration. The Utah authorities who arrested him disagree.Bundy does not dispute the sheriff deputy’s account of the traffic stop. What he does dispute is the requirement that he register the car: “I said, ‘Well, I do have a right to travel. It doesn’t come from you. It comes from God.'" 2209
Reposted by @socraticme.bsky.socialJon Cryer @mrjoncryer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Gonna say it again and again until y’all get sick of me: America has become an authoritarian state. 421111236
Reposted by @socraticme.bsky.socialTyler King @tyleraking.com · 11/10/2026What I hear every time there’s a new “rogue ai” announcement is “once more we’ve unleashed malware into the wild to see what would happen. We’re not sorry and we’ll do it again.” 5588166
Reposted by @socraticme.bsky.socialMax Dubler 🏳️🌈 @maxdubler.com · 10/10/2026Elite impunity is perhaps the single greatest problem in American politics going back to Gerald Ford’s Watergate pardons. These people keep getting away with it. This needs to stop. 281321303
Reposted by @socraticme.bsky.social🌹WeegieFromWA 🍀 @onefussyone.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Russian diesel directly bankrolls the missiles and drones tearing through Ukrainian cities. If you haven't said "enough" yet, you must be in a cult. 28524178
Reposted by @socraticme.bsky.socialCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10/10/2026If I built an AI lab and it went rogue and deleted all student loan information, I'm betting they'd suddenly figure out how to prosecute me. 46107712997
Reposted by @socraticme.bsky.socialA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 09/10/2026They’re live-streaming the execution of the person they think they can get away with doing that to first. It’s a test. If they can do that, they’ll expand the margins of permission. 11150001483
Reposted by @socraticme.bsky.socialemily blight 🐦⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 08/10/2026imagine being a professional politician so bad at politics that in the current climate you had to say, “my ideas and my inherent charm aren’t working against the people who made gas $8 a gallon & are kidnapping the ice cream men. i should release an ad about which humans i think are less human.” 3516112
Reposted by @socraticme.bsky.socialMeghan L. Hall @itsmeghanlhall.bsky.social · 08/10/2026A’ja Wilson is the 2026 Most Valuable Player. It’s Wilson’s 5th MVP honor, breaking a WNBA record she set last year when she won her 4th. The win is also Wilson’s 3rd straight since 2024. 19618
Reposted by @socraticme.bsky.socialKatelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 14/09/2026One of the more insidious phrasings I've seen with the Dems/trans rights discourse lately is the idea that trans people are being greedy and demanding a "maximalist" approach to trans rights. No, you cannot call the state of rights American trans people had as recently as 2023 "maximalist," sorry. 323976901
Reposted by @socraticme.bsky.socialMartha, but like, super spooky @mostlymartha.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Take time off when you need it. Take the best possible care of yourself. Do not wait for a win to give yourself a break or some grace. But if a little voice whispers that it's hopeless and you should kneel, that isn't coming from inside you. It's poison implanted by our enemies. 04911
Reposted by @socraticme.bsky.socialAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026To be clear, I'm not saying that's what socialism is. But it is historically, how Americans colloquially define socialism and communism 1628719
Reposted by @socraticme.bsky.socialSeth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 08/10/2026A world in which citizens of each nation are taught to be rigid and bellicose nationalists, while nations unapologetically pursue maximal national power. Luckily History contains no examples of that going badly. 451740
Reposted by @socraticme.bsky.socialAndrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Exhibit #56987 for the "There is no good nationalism" case file. 414529
Reposted by @socraticme.bsky.socialTed McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I’ve lost count of the number of times humanists not in AI have warned other humanists not in AI to ignore the worst aspects of LLMs, lest they look stupid but it is massively outpaced by the number of times people working in AI have presented the worst aspects of LLMs as the ones they like best 28314
Reposted by @socraticme.bsky.socialNaomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Some thoughts I shared while in the UK, where Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband has acknowledged that anti-genocide protestors "were right" but activists are still serving long prison terms for stepping in where their government failed. @astra.bsky.social 2412131
Reposted by @socraticme.bsky.socialWhitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 08/10/2026This story makes me think that people who go missing in the system, who can't be located in any ICE facility, are trapped in remote, unnamed warehouses. 47434
Reposted by @socraticme.bsky.socialI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026Just constantly indulging the most entitled people while demanding poor prove they’re actually human. 215530
Reposted by @socraticme.bsky.socialRabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The stories themselves will not result in systemic change. The stories may be the driver to be part of a mass mobilization of millions of people rising up also against ICE also against the desecration of voting rights also against many other harms in a sustained movement towards something big 017441
Reposted by @socraticme.bsky.socialMyNameIsTrue @alisontrue.bsky.social · 08/10/2026When I tell people I'm working on a project documenting decades of institutional betrayals by a small, highly esteemed liberal arts college, they inevitably ask, "Doesn't that happen everywhere." Yes. Yes, it does. 25412
Reposted by @socraticme.bsky.socialRyan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Stephen "Miller did not want the facilities that were comfortable. He did not want facilities that were humane. We were told point-blank that that was not what the administration wanted." www.npr.org/2026/10/08/n...npr.orgICE has quietly used this warehouse as a detention facility all summer, neighbors sayThroughout the summer, rumors have been bubbling in North New Jersey that ICE has quietly been using a warehouse as a detention center. NPR investigated. 12421851204
Reposted by @socraticme.bsky.socialBrooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Of a piece with the news that elite universities purposefully exclude qualified women both at the admissions level and by facilitating gender terrorism against them once they are admitted, understanding that many will drop out. Rape is punishment for women's ambition. bsky.app/profile/ebha... 09123
Reposted by @socraticme.bsky.socialYorubarbie presents the ArtJock experience @caladaley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Some tech bro bragging about using AI to read to his children. They think it's good to be automatons. They are using their power to model the world after their understanding of the good. 031
Reposted by @socraticme.bsky.socialJillian @nogoodwyfe.bsky.social · 07/10/2026ok one note for the discourse and it is that you should take note when quoted experts are emeriti! sometimes it’s bc they’re the esteemed experts in their fields. but sometimes they will use outdated frameworks. sometimes the writer cherry-picked a perspective they could only find in retirees 23310
Reposted by @socraticme.bsky.socialrax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 06/10/2026a little louder for the cheap seats in the back 3256291950
Reposted by @socraticme.bsky.socialOggie @oggie.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I keep getting stunned at how there is absolutely no discussion of the LGBT factor in these cut offs. It's just absent from any of the pieces on how kids cannot server contact because it's super mean. Unless somehow the teen LGBT homelessness widespread issue lies somehow magically unrelated (no). 318614
