Reposted by JoeTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 9hKansas has 4 former, living GOP governors. Two have now endorsed Adam Hamilton, the Dem, for Senate. Mike Hayden just penned this oped in the Kansas City Star this morning; Adam Graves had done the same last month. 171446363
Reposted by JoeJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 9hIt's hard to tell which is weirder: the fact that these guys seriously suggest that models like Claude have consciousness/sentience or that they actually invest time and money (weird!) trying to convince the Pope as well as theologians and legal scholars of this belief. 80951232
Reposted by Joehammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow 340194424687
Reposted by Joedarth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026trump going on an emergency 17 state media tour to support republican candidates before the midterms and he is going with “nobody knows that dumb has a b on the end” 1773615594
Joe @tenaciousgoat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026🎵 Been drivin all night, my hands wet on the wheel... 🎵 000
Reposted by JoeHelen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 02/10/2026Trump is going all out, speeding down rural highways, to rush to a critical campaign rally in.....Oklahoma. 2120821
Reposted by JoeElizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 30/09/2026At no point while reading this sentence did I correctly predict what was coming next. 571569259
Reposted by JoeChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 01/10/20261/ Hundreds of Russian soldiers near Lyman surrendered because they were starving and drinking their own urine, according to first-hand accounts from frontline soldiers. The officers are said to have taken the radios and ran away, while ordering the men not to retreat. ⬇️ 17761243
Reposted by JoeSteve Saideman @smsaideman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This is some of the gaming that the Trump regime will try to perpetuate competitive authoritarian rule 04223
Joe @tenaciousgoat.bsky.social · 01/10/2026They're drinking less water, so data centers can use it all. 010
Reposted by JoeKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This might be the best one they've ever done. Flawless. 941377
Reposted by JoeOlivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This 33-year-old nurse told the FBI she knew she was “going to set him free” after border patrol agents brought in a man whose face was bloodied and seriously injured. She treated him and helped him escape, and she faces charges now. He got away, and they never relocated him. 18181001763
Reposted by Joec0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The smallest bat in North America is the canyon bat (Parastrellus hesperus), also called the western pipistrelle or American parastrelle. They weigh about 3–6 grams, the weight of a US penny, sheet of paper, or teaspoon of sugar. In flight, they're sometimes confused for moths or butterflies. 5376110
Reposted by Joedamniel spookradski @self.agency · 01/10/2026THEY'RE DEPORTING AN ISRAELI HASID FOR BEING ANTI-ZIONIST 1342112
Reposted by JoeEarth @earthin24.bsky.social · 30/09/2026🌏 2026 🗓 29th - 30th September 🕛 12:00Z 🛰 Himawari8 111724
Reposted by JoeWIRED @wired.com · 30/09/2026Lost time. Lost jobs. Lost friends. Lost family. Lost lives. Checkpoints are suffocating Palestinian life in the occupied West Bank. Over 18 months, WIRED and our reporting partners investigated the full scope of the system that has carved the West Bank up. www.wired.com/story/how-is...wired.comHow Israeli Checkpoints Choke Palestinian Life in the Occupied West BankLost time. Lost jobs. Lost friends. Lost family. Lost lives. Our joint investigation reveals the system that has divided the West Bank and measures what it cost people to move through it. 20275130
Reposted by JoeMatthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The common thread in Pete Hegseth's rant to the troops, JD Vance suggesting Talarico is a pedophile, Brendan Carr calling the Trump ads aired with tax dollars "normal force PSAs," and Eric Schmitt fabricating a Jack Smith conspiracy is the whole GOP is incentivized to be performatively evil. 391392324
Reposted by Joemtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026it's cool that Bill Gates' own wife thought the Epstein Files stuff was bad enough that she divorced him, but for the Thought Leaders he's still a guy in perfectly good standing 151093172
Reposted by JoePhillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The most notable thing of the last so hours and the Schmitt-Hawkeye screw up of epic proportions, is how Trumpites are primed to pump out any narrative handed to them without thought or reflection. It’s Putinesque. 411022203
Reposted by Joe404 Media @404media.co · 30/09/2026BREAKING: The Trump administration is using a grant program from the 1980s to force cities around the US to funnel their ongoing collection of Flock, Axon, and other ALPR data into large federal surveillance centers that fall under the White House’s jurisdiction, 404 Media has learned404media.coHow Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance ProgramHow the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program. 6213611075
Reposted by JoeRadley 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. 331626477
Reposted by JoeRex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 30/09/2026if you listen to Trump, everyone supports the construction of a data center near them! Or, as a recent University of Massachusetts Amherst Poll put it, “just 11% of Americans say they would support the construction of a data center" near them. Potato, potahto! www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...usatoday.comTrump says data centers are great. I found 330 acres for one | OpinionI'm pretty sure President Donald Trump would love to see a sprawling data center go up near his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida. 57915
Reposted by JoeNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I've gotten a lot of requests from faculty about how to talk to their students about the Cornell 7. I'll post a few resources I've built over the years that I've heard are the most helpful: 4264126
Reposted by JoeLuke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 30/09/2026If you want "personalized music" made just for you pick up a fucking guitar. Or else break the heart of someone who already has. 131364220
Reposted by JoeKate Hagen 🦂 𓋹 🦂 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"Meanwhile, Jane Doe dropped out of Cornell and was denied her request to get her tuition refunded so that she could transfer to a different college. She hence faced more severe consequences than most of the men who she alleges gang-raped her." www.thecut.com/article/what...thecut.comWhat It Feels Like at Cornell Right NowAs a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big. 652988979
Reposted by JoeFrank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I might be a little less distrustful of AI if the dudes promoting it, supporting it, insisting on it, and advocating for it weren’t the worst fucking people on the planet. 171016199
Reposted by JoeNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Whether it’s Benjamin Netanyahu empowering Hamas, presiding over a massive intelligence failure that let them kill 1,200 Israelis on October 7th, and then killing 74,000 Palestinians in response or Zohran Mamdani pointing out that he did this, both men have fueled their bitter feud. 221663305
Reposted by JoeAllen Orr @allenorr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Trump did not retreat on mass deportation. He refined it. There are outsourced arrests, rushed hearings, and hidden cruelty. In darkness is the new strategy. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comFrom mass raids to quiet crackdown: a timeline of Trump’s strategic ICE pivotAfter switching tactics, federal agents are detaining and deporting record numbers of people from the US 417390
Reposted by JoeJeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-... 119114372840
Reposted by JoeRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Two Schmitt staffers realizing this might be their last day. 1542180883458
Reposted by JoeMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Scoop — I've ID'd the two men sitting behind Sen. Eric Schmitt during his botched attack on Jack Smith this morning. Ethan Harper (left) is Chief Counsel to Schmitt, and Andrew Ceonzo (right) is Counsel to Schmitt and the Senate Judiciary Committee. 2994562985
Reposted by JoeThe Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026It’s a close race but this might be one of the dumbest things he’s ever done and that’s saying A LOT. 5853381
Reposted by JoeDave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026A fuckup so dumb even NYT homepage/headline writers have no choice but to describe it accurately 832713421
Reposted by JoeAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 29/09/2026Jonathan McKinsey, a transgender New Times executive who was head of engineering at NYT games, was murdered by his in laws over the weekend. This follows years of allegations that the in laws were abusive to him over his gender identity. edition.cnn.com/2026/09/28/u...edition.cnn.comNew York Times executive killed by his elderly in-laws, police say | CNNA couple in their late 70s gunned down their son-in-law in a California city park over the weekend, authorities said, and court documents showed the victim had been in a bitter custody dispute with th... 14730244
Reposted by JoeKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The Eric Schmitt Vice Presidential Boom (September 29, 2026-September 29, 2026) 50793135
Joe @tenaciousgoat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Alpha School is a horrible cultish private school, so it's no surprise McMahon is hyping them buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com/p/special-re...buildcognitiveresonance.substack.comSPECIAL REPORT: My So-Called Alpha SchoolWhat is it like to be a student in Alpha School’s high school boot camp? 000
Joe @tenaciousgoat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Washingtonian here. The reason our prices didn't rise is they're already sky high due to some weird shit with refineries that I don't fully understand. Diesel is $8 here 110
Reposted by JoeHannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward 10133903762
Reposted by JoeCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Anyone who suggests we just turn the page is in league with the GOP. This guy is telling you they tried to overthrow the government. You don't just pretend it never happened @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social 161203311
Reposted by JoeStephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Siri, show me the deliberate destruction of eight decades of American-led international diplomacy and cooperation in one photograph: 20464191
Reposted by JoeOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026yeah man if only republicans would finally use black people to demonize welfare. what in the ronald reagan are they thinking? 68514
Reposted by JoeMatthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Trump last week touted "one of the Biggest and Most Beautiful Events to take place in many years, the arrival at the White House of the Highly Respected President of China, Xi Jinping, and his beautiful wife, Madam Peng." The U.S. switched sides. 681343369
Reposted by JoeCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026“.. Very good one sentence summary of the economy.” - Kyra Scanlon 852341762
Reposted by JoeKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants. 20752411427