Tom @tombomb.bsky.social · 13/07/2026It looks like ICE killed someone in my neighborhood this morning. As always, fuck ICE. www.wmtw.com/article/sign...wmtw.comPerson killed in shooting involving ICE in Biddeford, official saysPolice closed part of busy Pool Street in Biddeford on Monday morning and there was a significant police presence. 021
Tom @tombomb.bsky.social · 03/06/2026My mother was a career journalist and editor who very much shared this opinion 000
Tom @tombomb.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Crazy that the AG is like “you said he was planning to take money from the slush fund, which aforementioned slush fund did not yet exist, ergo no harm no foul” and it’s just like, dawg you are the AG and you are defending a crime fund, is that what you dreamt of in law school 0103
Reposted by TomFred, His Enemy Getting a Vote @thefred.bsky.social · 06/05/2026A state that redraws its legislative maps before every election to maximize advantage for the incumbent party is not a democracy or a republic and in any case obviously violates the guarantee clause, among many others. No country does this. No country ever thought of doing this. It is a total farce. 4756981414
Tom @tombomb.bsky.social · 20/02/2026The Times’ dumbest econ reporter carrying water for the Trump administration 020
Tom @tombomb.bsky.social · 31/01/20261. Presocratic philosophy 2. Intro to Shakespeare 3. The Civil War and Reconstruction 4. Aesthetics 5. Art in the Dutch Golden Age 000
Tom @tombomb.bsky.social · 31/01/2026I feel like it’s notable that Elon wrote one of these emails to Epstein at dawn on Christmas morning. 011
Tom @tombomb.bsky.social · 22/01/2026NYT framing an historically embarrassing and disastrous 48 hours for the country as some sort of triumph for Trump is certainly a choice 012
Tom @tombomb.bsky.social · 03/01/2026Of course this will be bad in its own very special way, but the obsequiousness from the press is straight out of Iraq 2.0, baby. 010
Reposted by TomSarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 19/09/2025I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment. 638301046809
Reposted by TomMatthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 12/08/2025Instead of regurgitating the bromide that LLMs are just "autocomplete on steroids" (even by people who know better), maybe we can actually engage in some public education. The problem with genAI is better expressed through a classic computer science concept, known as SYMBOL GROUNDING. 🧵 35845293
Reposted by TomMaia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 03/08/2025The US economic model it's offering to the world is fartcoin, sports betting, and natural oils, the Chinese economic model is high speed rail and solar panels. Americans have rejected Geist and their country won't survive it 241064214
Tom @tombomb.bsky.social · 02/08/2025Project 2025 is a jumble of policies, too, but the right has a trifecta and the policies are mostly destructive rather than constructive, so they are easier to implement. 000
Reposted by Tomhilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 22/07/2025Better late than never. -- In honor of this, which is genuinely wonderful news if it holds, a story. Once upon a time, there was a boy who was born in a tiny village in eastern Turkey. I have been to this village. To get there from the nearest town, you catch a minibus going somewhere else ... 25919
Reposted by Tomderek van vliet @derek.bike · 17/07/2025they're calling it the greatest thread of all time 05010
Reposted by TomHoratio Pornviewer @stuntbirdarmy.bsky.social · 03/07/2025ICE is going to end up being basically a Civilian Conservation Corps-style makework program for downwardly mobile young men, but instead of making nice parks and stuff, it will make human misery. 718831
Reposted by Tomstuart @stuartp.bsky.social · 01/07/2025you have been visited by "Le Boulanger Quebecois" repost to receive his blessing 6646761863
Reposted by TomScott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 27/06/2025The Court had no problem with nationwide injunctions from District judges when, say, the Biden administration used its explicit statutory authority to "waive or modify" student loan payments, but when Trump wants to nullify the explicit text of the Fourteenth Amendment the practice must end 627876
Reposted by TomI may be invisible, but you're transparent. @invisiblelad7.bsky.social · 11/05/2025The most grotesque image imaginable is the President flying around on a gilded plane while his Republican allies take away our families Medicare. 302137393
Reposted by TomJenna C. Hill @chillocean.bsky.social · 17/04/2025NOAA just announced a long list of datasets that are going away🧪⚒️🌊: www.nesdis.noaa.gov/about/docume... Download what you need asap and send comments to: ncei.info@noaa.govnesdis.noaa.govNotice of ChangesNotices of changes are formal public announcements of planned services changes to applications and other products. 411026947
Reposted by TomJonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 13/04/2025The bipartisan belief that America would be a better place if *other people* worked in a factory. www.ft.com/content/8459... 23291252809
Reposted by TomMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 12/04/2025If an administration can get away with falsifying social security records to target individuals, then there is no bottom. There's also no such thing as a "citizen" because that can be changed with a couple button presses too. Mark your SSN and passport as dead then ship you to El Salvador. 181999777
Reposted by TomDan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 11/04/2025These are the worst pigs in the universe torturing all children in a not very wealthy state because the chief pig feels personally slighted, and also is demanding other children be tortured and humiliated as he demands. Of course we can't frame it this way in polite discourse for some reason. 9812231
Reposted by TomSantiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 07/04/2025All I’m saying is that President Harris wouldn’t have us looking at the futures market on a Sunday night. 586407085696
Reposted by Tomsouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 27/03/2025They’ll never accept it, but everyone who cast a vote for Donald Trump did real, generations-long damage to the United States and the west in exchange for essentially nothing of value. 456189794828
Reposted by TomJames Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 15/03/2025There’s a lot of great stuff coming out about “abundance” and meanwhile the titans of the tech industry have embraced bizarro world degrowtherism, blocking housing in their backyards, destroying basic science research, and fearmongering about vaccines. Sad! 1077885
Reposted by TomJTGator @jtgator813.bsky.social · 03/03/2025Oh man, the economy is where I keep all my stuff 121624
Reposted by TomJesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 31/01/2025It should be obvious, but let's be clear: if a new president can arbitrarily nullify existing federal contracts, they aren't real "contracts" at all and they aren't worth the paper they're printed on. 🧵 101636400
Reposted by Tomsouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 21/01/2025The White House ordering DOJ to drop pending prosecutions is a breach of the department’s traditional independence that would be an earthshaking scandal under ordinary circumstances. 13756891627
