Reposted by Stephen MalloyJohn Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 2hRemember: ICE lied so often about people posing threats to them, to justify their violence in Chicago, that a Chicago federal judge wrote it was "difficult, if not impossible, to believe almost anything" ICE said. Do you know what it takes to get a Fed district judge to WRITE THAT in a ruling? 3359130
Reposted by Stephen MalloyEric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 4hWatch an ICE agent run down and then run over a man. The man was was then writhing on the ground, saying "You broke my leg! You broke my leg!" Agents didn't help him. And btw, the man wasn't the target of their operation. 951475739
Reposted by Stephen MalloyEric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 3hThis is exactly what ICE said: "Parra-Hernandez ran in front of an ICE vehicle and was struck." Now watch the video. They're no other word for it: They're lying. 12927691188
Reposted by Stephen MalloyJake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854 143144046198
Reposted by Stephen MalloyAlex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social · 09/10/2026When Edward Teller was chair of the early AEC Reactor Safeguards Committee, he was considered extremely conservative in his safety demands. His reasoning was that even one catastrophic accident could destroy all public enthusiasm for a technology he believed was important. 1136093
Reposted by Stephen MalloyAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren... 8751141855
Reposted by Stephen MalloyJacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I remember a decade-long panic about undergraduates, activists, or Tumblr pages declaring new language rules and denouncing people for violating them. 571082196
Stephen Malloy @stephenmalloy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026You gotta weigh "not being married to that woman any more" against "once decided to marry that woman". 100
Reposted by Stephen MalloySteve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Justice Alito devotes an entire chapter of his new book to the emergency docket—and to responding to people like me (“the most prolific academic critic of the emergency docket”). As I explain over at “One First,” it … didn’t go well: www.stevevladeck.com/p/256-so-une... 1133733758
Stephen Malloy @stephenmalloy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026"Contemplate your betrayal, my sisters. Forever." 000
Reposted by Stephen MalloyBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint. 308122462244
Reposted by Stephen MalloyJeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Nope. To hell with AI slopaganda, for any cause. Using AI to fight fascism isn't fighting fascism. It's just rolling around in the fascism. 718323
Stephen Malloy @stephenmalloy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026No, you defended you position by basically saying that we had go start thinking about reintegration at "square one", and then said that's not for everyone. 100
Stephen Malloy @stephenmalloy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Alright. I just tried to explain why your takes on this issue/ article were rubbing people the wrong way, since you were complaining about it. Some people can take constructive criticism; others not so much. 100
Stephen Malloy @stephenmalloy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026My point has been consistent throughout: focusing on the perpetrator's redemption now, like you did, is irresponsible & insensitive & will piss people off because it prematurely focuses on his rehabilitation instead of the harm he caused. You got defensive. I dug in. bsky.app/profile/step... 100
Stephen Malloy @stephenmalloy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Like, I said your post centered the "perpetrator['s path forward]" because you tried to argue that the "path forward" was a broader question you were asking about "what we do", and I dont think it was. 000
Stephen Malloy @stephenmalloy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026You're getting dangerously close to disingenuousness here. You've been focusing on the perpetrator's reintegration/redemption, and I've been consistently pushing back on that as premature and irresponsible. My issue was never who the convo focused on; it was what. 200
Stephen Malloy @stephenmalloy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026You're "path forward" post definitely centered the perpetrator, but the question "what do we do?" is weird. What do you think we can, or should, do? He's been deplatformed; we wait and see what else happens or comes out, and we reeavuate. 100
Stephen Malloy @stephenmalloy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026And- once again - focusing on a "path forward" immediately focuses on the perpetrator's needs and wants, instead of the victim's. That's backwards, and bad, and reinforces the expected inevitability of a redemption. 100
Stephen Malloy @stephenmalloy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I think it's easier to perform redemption with a road map, especially when there's an expectation that redemption is inevitable. I think it can be weaponized. I think it has been weaponized, to varying effect, many times. Reintegragion can't be a foregone conclusion. It can be a possibility. 100
Stephen Malloy @stephenmalloy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Immediately talking about a "path forward" for the perpetrator just gives them a road map. The victims don't know whether they'll ever be able to move on, I don't think it's unreasonable to expect the perpetrators to feel the same. 100
Stephen Malloy @stephenmalloy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I think we can both agree there are many examples. I'd argue the only way to truly reintegrate is by accepting that it might never happen, and for good reason. 100
Stephen Malloy @stephenmalloy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026They can have hope that they'll find redemption, but too often I think it's considered a foregone conclusion that they'll get it. I think we've seen that lead to performative, by-the-numbers redemption arcs that are later proved insincere. 100
Stephen Malloy @stephenmalloy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Restorative justice isn't just about reintegration though. In fact, I'd argue that it's the least important part of the process. 120
Stephen Malloy @stephenmalloy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026We don't know whether his apparent allyship was sincere or a smokescreen, like Gaiman's. It's frankly irresponsible to assume any of it was sincere, at this point in time. Maybe that sucks for him, but them's the breaks, and he's not & has never been the victim. 020
Stephen Malloy @stephenmalloy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I think what you're running into is people being (rightly, imo) alarmed at anyone talking about a "path forward" for a redemption literal days after this came out. Just like you don't have to write an essay that equivocates - at all - immediately after discovering the barest details of past abuse. 210
Reposted by Stephen MalloyUrsula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safe for children to grow up in. 08934
Stephen Malloy @stephenmalloy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I may not have stated it strongly enough, but I think *not* being cynical about it at this point in the timeline is akin to giving the abuser the benefit of doubt, and i think that's what people see Ty doing. 011
Stephen Malloy @stephenmalloy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I think a lot of people- myself included- tend to be cynical about the answer because a) he only addressed the issue because people recently found out about it, and b) he's done nothing but make a statement. "Reparative justice" shouldn't mean immediately giving the abuser the benefit of the doubt 120
Stephen Malloy @stephenmalloy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026This is interesting because "a decade later" seems to be a load-bearing phrase here, but didn't this just come to light? Like, if he had done it last month, would you be thinking about this differently? If so, why? 190
Stephen Malloy @stephenmalloy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Short of locking him up forever (which afaik no one is suggesting), you can't "prevent" it. Removing social cachet and influence would certainly remove possible opportunities and limit it, though. 1240
Reposted by Stephen MalloyRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 325-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down. 329111004314
Reposted by Stephen MalloyCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 03/10/2026Not to insomnia-weigh-in on the concept of restorative justice, but I thought long and hard ten years ago about what I would say if someone asked what Alex Kozinski could do by way of restorative justice. (Nobody ever asked.) 3435104
Reposted by Stephen MalloyCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 03/10/2026Restorative justice doesn't mean "nothing bad ever happens to you." It means, "in determining what happens from here on out, we center the needs of your victim to repair what happened to them over your own needs." 1691170
Reposted by Stephen MalloyRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good. I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement. 379121103494
Reposted by Stephen MalloyJared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Michael Tracey published what he said was the ID of the "Jane Doe" in the Cornell case. Then he took it down, claiming he just wanted to make a point and didn't want to see harm to the person he named. What he hasn't admitted is that he mistook info on a sketchy site for official NY court records. 1143333689
Reposted by Stephen MalloyBill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The BEST thing that true believers in AI could do is stop evangelizing to people, like me, who think it sucks. Do the hard, years-long work of detaching your beloved technology from the worst people in the world right now: shameless fascists driven by greed and domination. They’re YOUR partners. 212044382
Reposted by Stephen MalloyBill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Also do the honest work of eliminating any trace of plagiarism in your beloved product. How? Not my fucking problem! If you can’t run your business / technology without stealing other people’s work, it deserves to die. Personally I’m happy to see it die, so don’t try to make it my responsibility. 51032128
Stephen Malloy @stephenmalloy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026What if using AI regularly limits the ability to comment usefully on it's capabilities and limits though? Because that seems like something that's not only happening but is infinitely more dangerous psychologically. 011
Reposted by Stephen MalloyClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I mean yeah, a decade of no one holding Trump accountable for his much more obvious crimes, combined with both Nazi and Confederate rehabilitation projects on the right, was always going to lead to “actually we’ve never done ANYTHING wrong and you guys owe us apologies for every check on our power” 3442140
Reposted by Stephen MalloyAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 01/10/2026My god, SCOTUS acted within hours to clear the way for this execution and Tennessee completely botched it and tortured her. She's still alive. This barbaric practice needs to end. www.tennessean.com/story/news/c...tennessean.comCourt stays Christa Pike execution in Tennessee: UpdatesChrista Pike was sentenced to death for the 1995 killing of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer. A court stayed her lethal injection that was scheduled for Sept. 30. 671802415
Stephen Malloy @stephenmalloy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Can you point out the generalization in the original post you responded to? 030
Reposted by Stephen MalloyChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The Supreme Court’s majority gave no reason for its literal life-and-death decision to wipe out an appeals court order issued earlier today and which was, on its face, intended to be temporary in nature. Sotomayor wrote tonight’s dissent. Order and dissent: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p... 21667165