Reposted by @sortedandlost.bsky.socialTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 7hStabs this whole interview with a copy of The Caliban and The Witch. 13977194
Reposted by @sortedandlost.bsky.socialNick Offerman @nickofferman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Please get off your ass and vote. Indifference is what the billionaires hope you’ll display. If you want to weigh in as a citizen, show some gumption. It’s not a perfect system, it never will be, but that doesn’t let you off the hook from trying your best. Please and thank you. 821858
Reposted by @sortedandlost.bsky.socialDhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.socialwired.comICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir DatabaseDHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say. 12629761777
Reposted by @sortedandlost.bsky.socialAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This will be one of the most important immigration cases in a generation. The Trump admin claims that a 1996 law mandates the detention of millions of people without any right to a bond hearing; every person who entered illegally, no matter how long in the past. If they win, it's a nightmare. 351242506
Reposted by @sortedandlost.bsky.socialRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 30/09/2026These ads go in the same category as brazen, easily disproven lies after ICE killings. It’s not about persuasion. It’s a display of power. They could have passed them off as PAC-funded. They added “paid for by the U.S. government” because they want us to know they can break the law with impunity. 351629478
Reposted by @sortedandlost.bsky.socialTyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026A key component of the Cambridge Analytica outrage was your friends subjecting you to data theft without your consent or knowledge. Facebook is running the same playbook on your text messages. Even if you’re not on Meta properties, they’re ingesting your interactions. 182010975
Reposted by @sortedandlost.bsky.socialLizard @lizardky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026No matter how bad you think AI is, it’s worse. This technology is not fit for purpose, and the nature of LLMs means it likely never will be. 317356
Reposted by @sortedandlost.bsky.socialJared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes. 16992943068
Reposted by @sortedandlost.bsky.socialSanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Happy Stanislav Petrov day! He saved the world from nuclear annihilation on this day in 1983. My freshman year in college would have been so much worse without his courage.🧵 5601187
Reposted by @sortedandlost.bsky.socialPlanned Parenthood Alliance Advocates - West @ppaawest.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Friends don’t let friends vote for I-638 or any of the harmful initiatives on our ballots— spread the word by sharing, commenting, and volunteering with our voter outreach team! Learn more about I-638 at plannedp.info/wa-vote-no #Washington #WAelectplannedp.infohttps://plannedp.info/wa-vote-no 002
Reposted by @sortedandlost.bsky.socialNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Good to see this national AI conversation get going. But it’s still too much on Silicon Valley’s terms. The rest of us don’t have to act like everything is computer. We can talk real world instead of sci fi. We don’t need to put tech companies’ power and profit first, and societal impacts second. 7712104
Reposted by @sortedandlost.bsky.socialAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026My grandfather, who is 102 and a medical doctor, has told me about the times before polio was cured. Most years, upon returning to school after summer’s break, there would be some children would didn’t make it back to school because of polio. 16637121038
Reposted by @sortedandlost.bsky.socialDavid A. Graham @dgraham.bsky.social · 17/09/2026If anyone should know what happens when companies are left to do the right thing on their own, it's Rick Scott, whose healthcare company paid nearly $2 billion in lawsuits related to fraud that occurred while he was CEO 24837202
Reposted by @sortedandlost.bsky.socialRyan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Not sure if people know Wakefield was trying to sell a competing measles vaccine when he made up his fraudulent study about the MMR. It was only after that failed (because he is a complete fraud) that he started grifting off opposing all vaccines. It’s all just a grift. Antivaxxers are their marks. 291927724
Reposted by @sortedandlost.bsky.socialRyan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 14/09/2026The rule they are overturning was predicted to give $120 billion in public health benefits by 2047, with projections that by 2035, it would would prevent up to 1,200 premature deaths, 870 hospital and emergency room visits, 360K asthma attacks, 48K school absence days and 57K lost workdays each year 10632621549
Reposted by @sortedandlost.bsky.socialNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Usurping Congress’ power of the purse blatantly violates not only the US Constitution and the American Revolution’s “no taxation without representation,” but the Glorious Revolution as well. The very idea of a legislature and public funds. They’re taking us back to pre-United States. Good thread: 919452
Reposted by @sortedandlost.bsky.socialHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 09/09/2026I’m old enough to remember people calling them the ethical ai company.prospect.orgAnthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists - The American ProspectNew hires and comments in interviews show that the AI giant is using its capabilities against dissenters. 31830274
Reposted by @sortedandlost.bsky.socialpublic health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 08/09/2026CDC’s 9/11 world trade center health program was one of the first things this regime purged. just something to remember when republicans get really into the performative nationalism this weekabcnews.comNew York Republicans scold Trump for CDC cuts that affect 9/11 respondersCritics say the Trump administrations cuts to CDC staff will negatively affect a health fund for 9/11 first responders. 6409200
Reposted by @sortedandlost.bsky.socialChad Loder @chadloder.dev · 08/09/2026In late 2017, the New York Times was blasted for its sympathetic profile of a relatively obscure neo-Nazi that described him as "polite" with "Midwestern manners" the article said "would please anyone's mother." I'm noticing the UK media now normalizing white supremacists like US media did in 2017.businessinsider.comThe New York Times is getting slammed for its 'sympathetic' profile of a suburban neo-NaziThe New York Times faced backlash over the weekend after publishing what critics said was an overly sympathetic portrait of a neo-Nazi from Ohio. 3458147
Reposted by @sortedandlost.bsky.socialTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Until noon today. (Thank you, Beth.) 812729
Reposted by @sortedandlost.bsky.socialBradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 28/08/2026These people had protected status. They lived here legally. They worked, they paid taxes. They made lives. Raised families. Now we’ve dehumanized them. Ripped away that protection and told them to get out. This is a stain on the soul of this Nation. 440107123484
Reposted by @sortedandlost.bsky.socialTarZangief @tarzangief.bsky.social · 26/08/2026"Neutral in the culture war" 111155775321
Reposted by @sortedandlost.bsky.socialDr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 25/08/2026Do not normalize children dying from measles. Measles was previously eliminated in the US, thanks to vaccines. When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science. 339163555426
Reposted by @sortedandlost.bsky.socialAdanedhel🌹 @danielwaweru.bsky.social · 21/08/2026IMHO, this is because actual practices of blame and responsibility attribution have very little to do with what the agent actually caused. This is especially true in radically unequal societies 214740
Reposted by @sortedandlost.bsky.socialJohn Kostyack @kostyack.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Bezos' WaPo has an editorial today saying data center concerns are overblown and we should celebrate all of the benefits they bring to communities. To avoid providing the outlet more clicks, I'm not providing a link but instead pasting here its deceptions about water impacts. 1111732
Reposted by @sortedandlost.bsky.socialDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 17/08/2026Elon Musk should never be able to show his face in public again without getting asked about this. 11600185
Reposted by @sortedandlost.bsky.socialDuncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Remember, America… Benjamin Franklin gave you the key rule to having a free country, back in 1787. "A Republic, if you can keep it.” South Korea got the message. 320437
sortedandlost.bsky.social @sortedandlost.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Tacoma's is huge and super awesome - 2 days, 2 neighborhoods and over a couple hundred bands participating: www.tacomaporchfest.orgtacomaporchfest.orgTacoma PorchfestTacoma Porchfest is a free, walkable music festival that takes place on porches in Tacoma, Washington. 000
Reposted by @sortedandlost.bsky.socialRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Rudy Giuliani is why a lot of people died during and after 9/11. Has anyone said he shouldn't show up? How about George W. who cut anti-terrorism measures that might've prevented it? Why does racist fantasy harm matter more than real harm; the answer is racism, including in amplifying these voices. 301930469
Reposted by @sortedandlost.bsky.socialNaomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 06/08/2026So NYT reports that Third Way will spend $15-million to discredit democratic socialism ahead of the presidential elections. “Their fear: Dr. El-Sayed was paving a path for a progressive to seize the party’s presidential nomination in 2028 — and then go on to lose the general election.” Except... 23969223
Reposted by @sortedandlost.bsky.socialJess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 05/08/2026The Heritage Foundation asserts that women never needed sports in the first place. To prove that Title IX has become a tool of “feminist social engineering.” To demonstrate that women don’t need sports and that “clubs, intramurals, and exercise classes” is enough. open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...open.substack.comGive Them an Inch...And they'll take away women's sports... 54245651924
Reposted by @sortedandlost.bsky.socialHansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Today is the start of the "quiet period" before the midterm election, a longstanding legal protection for eligible voters. Forty-four states, plus Washington, D.C., are banned from doing mass purges of voter rolls within 90 days of a federal election under the 1993 National Voter Registration Actnpr.orgA federal law bans late voter roll purges. Republicans are pushing to reinterpret itThere's a ban on most states systematically purging voter rolls within 90 days before Election Day. Republicans are pushing courts to reinterpret that longstanding protection for eligible voters. 114350
Reposted by @sortedandlost.bsky.socialThanh Neville, MD, MSHS @thanh-neville.bsky.social · 04/08/2026I did not work countless hours in an ICU full of proned patients and go back to my hotel crying because we lost more patients in a day than a typical week to hear a moron with a worm in his brain say that the ICU's were empty. I AM SO FUCKING ANGRY. 13484122
Reposted by @sortedandlost.bsky.socialAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Don’t be chickenshit. nl.nytimes.com/f/a/tB6640Jg...nl.nytimes.comFIFA scraps World Cup private investment plans as Infantino fights for his futureGianni Infantino's plans to sell stakes in the World Cup and other FIFA tournaments were met with strong backlash. 1631934
Reposted by @sortedandlost.bsky.socialPhilip Bump @pbump.com · 31/07/2026As I've said before: What high-paying long-term jobs do they pretend exist here? A data center isn't a place where execs come and do Big Deals. Go to the server room at your workplace; are there lots of rich people in there spending money? 54163401547
Reposted by @sortedandlost.bsky.socialNext door in Silicon Valley @nextdoorsv.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Here's the teaser trailer for CBS's upcoming tv series "Cupertino" As you watch it, keep in mind the actual demographics of the City of Cupertino: -Asian 70.8% -White 20.4% -Hispanic 4.4% -Black 0.5% www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jWy...youtube.comCupertino: Official Teaser Trailer | CBSYouTube video by CBS 10389
Reposted by @sortedandlost.bsky.socialPhilip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Trump kicked millions off health insurance while failing to check inflation & hiking gas prices so uninsured forego care or end up in ERs racking up unpaid bills & hospital profits fall & they raise rates on the insured & insurers hike premiums - a hell spiral. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/b...nytimes.comAfter Obamacare Cuts, Hospitals Are Treating More Uninsured PatientsMore people who lost coverage after congressional Republicans ended enhanced federal subsidies are now seeking care in emergency rooms and unable to pay bills. 12567176
Reposted by @sortedandlost.bsky.socialBill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Running out of body bags, using forklifts to transfer corpses into makeshift morgues, a mortician conducting 200 funerals in a month when he usually does 30, crematories running at double capacity… And these senators just want to memory-hole it all www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/n...nytimes.com‘We Ran Out of Space’: Bodies Pile Up as N.Y. Struggles to Bury Its Dead (Gift Article)The coronavirus crisis is overwhelming New York’s system for burying the dead. 22182752839
Reposted by @sortedandlost.bsky.socialRyan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 29/07/2026I’ve treated thousands of COVID patients who needed to be hospitalized but I’ve never seen a single person who needed to be hospitalized for a complication from a COVID vaccine. Cause these people are always lying. 34945260
Reposted by @sortedandlost.bsky.socialAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Last year, TSA began sharing passenger manifests with ICE, and ICE began arresting people at airports. After some initial arrests led to backlash, ICE pulled back a bit. But with the pressure on from the White House right now, we're seeing a lot more arrests at airports recently. 161152662
Reposted by @sortedandlost.bsky.socialTom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 17/07/2026The documents Trump cited don't even make his case - and actually refute much of it. But that didn'tg matter. No foreign regime, no spies, no saboteurs have yet matched the damage that America’s own president just did tonight to faith in U.S. elections. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...theatlantic.comTrump Just Did More Damage to Elections Than ChinaHis speech was a mashup of charges that aren’t supported by the documents he released. 13540261214
Reposted by @sortedandlost.bsky.socialAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 15/07/2026the food safety stuff is another reminder that a large, huge, gigantic part of being a republican is going “lmao why are we spending money to prevent horrifying disasters from happening if they never happen 🤪” 10796312465
Reposted by @sortedandlost.bsky.socialAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Wrote about the Roberts Court’s highly selective aversion to identifying racism, echoing the logic of the infamous Korematsu decision, which the Roberts Court has both condemned and imitated. Call it Neo-Korematsu doctrine. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... 442169581
Reposted by @sortedandlost.bsky.socialInfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Look closely. Do you see it? This is not the same man. 2957927814
Reposted by @sortedandlost.bsky.socialRoblee14 @vegasdude83.bsky.social · 11/07/2026I don't think you necessarily need violence to topple an authoritarian regime especially one that is not fully established what you need is a populace that is continuously engaged in acts of civil disobedience that makes it impossible for them to function 41555130
Reposted by @sortedandlost.bsky.socialChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 11/07/2026The White House was never supposed to be a palace. George Washington and architect James Hoban deliberately rejected the lavish style of European monarchies. Instead, they designed a President’s House that reflected the ideals of a republic: dignified, restrained, and accountable to the people. 1232144085543
Reposted by @sortedandlost.bsky.socialJ.C. Bradbury @jcbradbury.com · 12/07/2026Back-to-back World Cup games held at 40 and 50-year-old stadiums, one of which was privately built. Remember that the next time a politician tells you they need a new taxpayer-funded stadium to attract world-class mega-events. It's bullshit. 121078259
Reposted by @sortedandlost.bsky.socialGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 09/07/2026We can see this in the ICE flight data. Domestic “round-up” flights are spiking, and some activist flight watchers report the flights are getting fuller. But deportation and removal flights remain steady. This means the concentration camps are getting packed to the brim. It’s awful to comprehend. 1129301559
Reposted by @sortedandlost.bsky.socialChad Loder @chadloder.dev · 07/07/2026California Cops Tracked Protesters Using Orange County Sheriff's Flock System For over 19 months, cops across the Golden State continuously used OCSD’s Flock system to track protesters, almost all linked to anti-ICE demonstrations.inadvertent.newsCalifornia Cops Tracked Protesters Using Orange County Sheriff's Flock SystemFor over 19 months, cops across the state continuously used OCSD’s Flock system to track protesters, almost all linked to anti-ICE demonstrations. 16621941344