Reposted by Ted T.Totoro @nigelsq.bsky.social · 21hIn my informed, professional opinion, the amount of data Facebook maintains hot per user is simply not affordable UNLESS they were receiving significant breaks in storage costs. I imagined a factory that was sending them drives far below market prices. However, tax breaks work too. 2618
Reposted by Ted T.Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026They are shutting this down by the end of the day. 131303284
Reposted by Ted T.emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Tho I actually like this post better. IMO, one smart response to these ads is to taunt GOP MoCs that Trump is still sitting on mountains of $$ and instead using taxpayer dollars to remind voters what a corrupt asshole he is. 1318105
Reposted by Ted T.hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 28/09/2026GOP Consultants : what do you mean she just fucking tweeted it out 733508750
Reposted by Ted T.David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026One of the biggest media failures (among many) of the past year has been the failure to cover the Venezuela "operation" for what it was--a smash-and-grab mafia state theft by the U.S. that violates international law and the rights of Venezuelans while achieving very damn little for the U.S. 24606219
Reposted by Ted T.Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026THERE IT IS: Group of January 6 riot defendants have filed each filed federal civil lawsuits in DC seeking taxpayer-funded compensatory and punitive damages for alleged violations of their righrs They claim they were "targeted..and punished" for "protected expressive" activity 28521041108
Reposted by Ted T.BeshearStan @beshearstan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026God I love Angie Nixon. I hope she wins 4559261097
Reposted by Ted T.mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"i'm james talarico and i approve this message" 161570205
Reposted by Ted T.Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/09/2026ICE BEHIND THE MASKS HAVE NAMES 2 masked agents threatened to arrest Robert Peck for legally observing them. He sued. “And now, because of a lawsuit, the (ICE) agents have names.” A Hylton 📌Nicholas Lapointe 📌Christopher Semler I hope more people take ICE to court when their rights are violated. 532202048120
Reposted by Ted T.Michael Bazemore @deepwatermike.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Remember this shit next time some billionaire or billionaire's lickspittle warns about class war. There's never not been one, and they wage it openly against us. 310642
Reposted by Ted T.🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota. 121121715157
Reposted by Ted T.AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.apnews.comhttps://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d 5542251620
Reposted by Ted T.Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Yet another way in which Trump's corruption (pardoning cronies) specifically harms everyday Americans (freeing them from paying $1.7 billion—BILLION—owed to victims). 28740
Reposted by Ted T.Mat Germain @matgermain.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Please, Baseball gods, give us all a #Brewers vs #Rays #WorldSeries. #MLB needs it more than they know. 041
Ted T. @tathompson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026TIL that if you're donating via ActBlue you need to read the blurb on the donation page carefully to make sure you're not sending $ to a PAC. It looks like the Hamilton campaign has paid Google to put their link first (for now) but the AI result points to TWO scam PACs and NOT the campaign. 020
Reposted by Ted T.House Judiciary Dems @democrats-judiciary.house.gov · 19/09/2026A new DHS report revealed that detainees at Trump’s beloved Alligator Alcatraz were held in metal cages as punishment, and were denied adequate medical care, food service and personal hygiene. The cost of this cruelty? $1 million per day, paid for with your tax dollars. 44432
Reposted by Ted T.whattheactualf.bsky.social @whattheactualf.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Trump needs to keep his grubby little hands off of it. 23313
Reposted by Ted T.Rep. Jim McGovern @repmcgovern.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Being more hostile to democracy than the Chinese Communist Party is not something to be proud of. 1533969
Reposted by Ted T.Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 18/09/2026‘Students have dogs that eat homework. AI companies now have the fate of humanity to worry about before they can hit analysts' estimates or investors' expectations.’ www.businessinsider.com/ai-leaders-s... 311822
Reposted by Ted T.Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Sir this is your political advisor I highly advise you to ban fishing before the midterms. 721443
Reposted by Ted T.Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1 4253422317
Reposted by Ted T.Constantine @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 14/09/2026The Epstein President will go to any lengths to protect the real victims of child sexual abuse -- the perpetrators.dailymail.comUS flew diplomat out of UK after he was found with child abuse imagesThe ex US serviceman, who was working at the American Embassy in Nine Elms, south London, was allegedly taken from his flat in Putney on August 25. 04216
Reposted by Ted T.Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14/09/2026(WSJ) - American oil executives warned for months that the prolonged closure of the Strait of Hormuz was bound to cause a fuel crisis. Now, they say it is here. @wsj.com $CVX www.wsj.com/business/ene... 35847381802
Reposted by Ted T.Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes 4059762384
Reposted by Ted T.WRMS Traffic & Weather Reporter on the 2’s @carnegro.blacksky.app · 13/09/2026Full performance from their YouTube channel. youtu.be/X_yP0Os1EwM?...youtu.beFAMU Marching 100 University of Miami 2026 Halftime Performance YouTube video by The Marching 100 735488
Reposted by Ted T.Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 12/09/2026The national mall, post summer of Trump events 1674158
Reposted by Ted T.Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 13/09/2026So how about this for a "pause AI" proposal: "pause credulous AI reporting". No more media about "breakthroughs" or "rogue agent swarms" or ... UNLESS and UNTIL that media demands the actual empirical evidence and/or focuses on the motivations of & harms by these companies. 4744197
Ted T. @tathompson.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I've long thought that an easy step toward reducing incarceration at all levels might be to mandate that prison labor is subject to the federal minimum wage (along with raising said minimum wage, of course). 000
Ted T. @tathompson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026If you want to learn some background behind the predictions that AI will wipe out humanity, there's probably no better resource than this. 000
Reposted by Ted T.Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 09/09/2026In other news, thousands of climate scientists say for decades that climate change could kill huge numbers of people and destabilize the world, and experience shows they were right all along, but it's deemed less thrillingly doomy to tackle seriously, so here we are. 413834
Reposted by Ted T.Keith Law @keithlaw.bsky.social · 08/09/2026once again, this should be front-page news all over the world, the President of the USA just fabricated an entire story about himself 871895447
Reposted by Ted T.mwogulis.bsky.social @mwogulis.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Not surprised NYT missed this, but the proposal came the day after New Mexico AG sued the Trump admin for access to unredacted Epstein files (needed to investigate Epstein’s crimes in NM). It’s worth noting why he’s suddenly upset at NM. Kudos to @emptywheel.bsky.social for pointing this out 15314
Reposted by Ted T.David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 08/03/2026Having some of the most thoroughly redacted thoughts of my life. 15888452141
Reposted by Ted T.Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Had a student confused about how the feds could have suppressed the first KKK. They seemed to think, quite honestly, that racist terrorism is legally protected political activity/a free speech issue. I had to explain that, no, organized crime/terrorism is in fact against the law. 321511263
Reposted by Ted T.Tom Wallach @mdwallach.bsky.social · 04/09/2026I want to make sure everyone in the city is aware that SUNY Downstate operates a large and extremely skilled LGBTQ and gender affirming care clinic, and we have repeatedly reiterated our intention to go to jail before we stop. 3346831900
Reposted by Ted T.John Bolton's Mustache @jonboltonsmustache.bsky.social · 04/09/2026To trivialize the loss of those service members is a slap on the face to them, their familes and this nation. Its easy for a... person... who has had others fight this battles all his life to not give a crap about those who serve in uniform or gave their last full measure of devotion. Disgusting. 2269
Ted T. @tathompson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026So I guess the Cybercab demo didn't go so well last night? 😂 100
Reposted by Ted T.Nick Field @nickfield.bsky.social · 04/09/2026John Fetterman called in sick to avoid a meeting with three Pennsylvania paralyzed military veterans. Then he walked into the office less than an hour later to shoot a Fox News interview www.wsj.com/politics/pol... 1182367785
Reposted by Ted T.Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 01/09/20261. ICE has not paid outside medical providers that treat detainees SINCE LAST OCTOBER. It is leaving hospitals and other providers with millions in unpaid bills. 24633334
Reposted by Ted T.Leah Reich @leahreich.com · 31/08/2026I’m sure most of you aren’t watching the US Open right now which means you missed this instantly iconic moment, now available in gif form 349162153296
Reposted by Ted T.Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026It's like a parody, but it's deadly serious; the Commerce Department (which includes Census, NOAA, and others) has outright deleted "don't alter or suppress scientific findings for political reasons" from its scientific integrity rules. Seriously. 4331341632
Reposted by Ted T.Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 31/08/2026A 76-year-old green card holder with stage 4 cancer was arrested at his citizenship application interview and has been held by ICE for two months. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news... 10033791416
Reposted by Ted T.amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 30/08/2026This is my most viewed video on Instagram ever with 2.5 million views. No licenses. Never had such a big delta between public interest and media interest! 7516119
Reposted by Ted T.Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Nine-year-old Katherine Bracho and her dad Jesús have been released from the Dilley Trailer Prison! After Texas DPS stopped Jesús at his work and then called ICE, they locked him up. Minutes later, ICE returned to lure Katherine out after intimidating her dad. 10614165
Reposted by Ted T.Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 28/08/2026This is appalling. These Haitians were here legally under the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program. The Trump regime spread racist lies, ended the program, declared them illegal and rounded them up in chains for deportation. Now DHS is proudly posting videos of Black Haitians in chains. 631509561
Reposted by Ted T.Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/08/2026Trump defends Russia and China for helping Iran, saying America does stuff like that too 149785246
