Reposted by Trip Grassmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 07/09/2026An underrated way to secure leverage over many in the billionaire class would genuinely just be to search their yachts and private jets for illegal drugs and firearms. 16909125
Reposted by Trip GrassRobert Suits @robertsuits.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Anyway, this is your fun hobo fact for the day. Buy my book, etc., etc. (I assume you've been pre-ordering an additional copy every time you see one of these posts?) press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...press.princeton.eduThe HoboA panoramic history of America’s first climate migrants 043
Reposted by Trip GrassNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 23/05/2026(1/X) I would argue that the vast majority of all commentary is essentially pro-Trump. I don't mean pro-Trump in the sense of liking Trump, I mean it in the sense of them not holding him to the anything close to the same standards as Democratic politicians.... 421375322
Reposted by Trip GrassYashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 23/05/20261. London Underground station flooding has reportedly been reduced by around 90% thanks to a group of engineers: beavers. After conservationists reintroduced a family of beavers into a nearby city park, the animals built dams and restored wetlands that now absorb and slow floodwater naturally. 6442591360
Reposted by Trip GrassGareth Roberts @garicgymro.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Here's an example of a linguistic fact that I think should be straightforward and obvious when pointed out, but which a lot of people seem surprisingly resistant to: Colloquial Latin never died. In fact it's spoken extremely widely across the world. 🧵 821761
Reposted by Trip GrassMax Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 30/04/2026The next reconstruction: - Expand the House to 700 Seats - Use MMP to create a multi-party system with PR - Use RCV for US Senate elections - End the filibuster + add DC - Limit the power of the Supreme Court - Expand the court to 13 Justices - Term limits and ethics rules for the court 1271966439
Reposted by Trip GrassMolly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 04/04/2026Read @clairewillett.bsky.social right now www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/o... 602256729
Reposted by Trip GrassNaomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 21/03/2026Has my generation's women's movement failed? In some ways yes for stupid reasons. Ruth Bader Ginsburg should have given up her Supreme Court seat under Obama. What's the name for that kind of failure? Perhaps: a lack of hard-nosed realism. A lack of respect for the real boundaries. 87 is 87. 2442
Reposted by Trip GrassProPublica @propublica.org · 21/03/2026THREAD: Cherise Doyley was in her 12th hour of contractions at the hospital when a tablet was brought to her bedside. On the screen was a Zoom call with a judge and several lawyers and doctors. She was in court, a nurse told her. The reason? For failing to agree to a C-section. 52863963392
Reposted by Trip GrassModernism in Metro-Land @modinmetro.bsky.social · 08/03/2026Today is International Women’s Day, so we thought we would go through some of our Anatomy of a House blogs that explore houses designed by women. First up, Georgie Wilton’s steel house in Surrey from 1969, now dismantled and in storage www.modernism-in-metroland.co.uk/blog/anatomy... 1309
Reposted by Trip GrassMallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 14/02/2026You turn up with your unwashed ass and your 50 pull requests generated by your shitty slop code generating machine you bought off the internet and you want some unpaid volunteer on the internet to wipe your ass and pick through the garbage code you've generated and be grateful to you contributed. 225432
Reposted by Trip GrassErin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 13/02/2026There seems to be a lot of discussion about Gavin Newsom today. I wanted to re-share this piece that I wrote, because I have a lot of center-to-left Dems that follow me that want to understand. There are very good reasons transgender people do not like Gavin Newsom.erininthemorning.comWhy Transgender People Are Not Feeling Gavin NewsomWe have seen this song and dance before. 20854271679
Reposted by Trip GrassDan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 13/07/2025Yep; I think people are underestimating the extent to which AI might improve the productivity of people who create problems as well as people who solve them. 713755
Reposted by Trip GrassMdDoogie3 @mddoogie3.bsky.social · 11/02/2026So it’s a race: how quickly can a person’s family realize they were snatched and find a lawyer, and how quickly can that lawyer get a habeas petition of file? And is that faster than ICE can load the detainee on a plane to Texas? It’s exhausting and terrifying. It can be life and death. 18/ 72193491
Reposted by Trip GrassHeather Burns @heatherburnstech.bsky.social · 03/02/2026Anyway, speaking of ...parenting. I've written a blog post about what's happening in the world right now, and what on earth it has to do with Alan Turing. It's a bit heavy, so consider yourself warned. heatherburns.tech/2026/02/02/t...heatherburns.techthe other Turing test – Hi, I'm Heather Burns 1169
Reposted by Trip GrassRedshift @redshiftsinger.bsky.social · 03/02/2026ABOLISH LEGAL GENDER ENTIRELY We can still have social gender but legal gender only serves to enable discrimination and should be done away with like we did away with legal race for the same reason. 4662208
Reposted by Trip GrassThe Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 31/01/2026If you get pepper-sprayed, avoid rubbing your eyes. Instead, irrigate them with lots of water, says Dr. Trisha Pasricha, our Ask a Doctor columnist. 591208533
Reposted by Trip GrassAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 31/01/2026This is just insane. It’s only a matter of time before DHS kills another innocent person here. (clip via MPR and @davidjbier.bsky.social on X) 17432908813126
Reposted by Trip GrassAthena Gabriel ❌👑 @athenagabriel.bsky.social · 30/01/2026🎧 listen this is heartbreaking 💔 @coldfishstix on TikTok for the whole track 13321121036
Reposted by Trip GrassTim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 30/01/2026there's this new dynamic where the DOJ cannot win in court and is (relatedly) incapable of meeting the minimum threshold of professional legal conduct, and so an increasing percentage of its actions are purely for intimidation and content 8367401803
Reposted by Trip GrassJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 30/01/2026The fact that the cases are meritless actually makes them MORE effective for intimidation. Prosecuting actual criminals sends no broader message. They’re saying: “Piss us off and we’ll find some bullshit reason to tie you up in court whether or not we have any chance of making it stick.” 8786178
Reposted by Trip GrassSenator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 27/01/2026I am. But there are three things at play here regarding ICE collecting private data. Quick rundown on the issue, why you should be paying attention, and what I'm doing about it: 16367112261
Reposted by Trip GrassHaymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 27/01/2026Abolish ICE. Abolish the border. Abolish the police. A better world is possible if we fight for it. 115442
Reposted by Trip GrassBaldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 26/01/2026Because, now, they aren't just stuck with the volatility caused by non-deterministic automation but also large-scale dysfunction: stress, burnout, overloaded departments, and product defects would still continue even if they excised the source of volatility and stopped using "AI" 15/ 121
Reposted by Trip GrassBaldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 26/01/2026Non-deterministic automation with high variability can't be left unattended, so they don't increase capacity directly: you still need the worker. Unless the output doesn't matter, but in that case it's wasted effort in its entirety and you'd get more gains from finding ways to avoid it completely 9/ 132
Reposted by Trip GrassJonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 24/01/2026Just contacted @kaine.senate.gov and @markwarner.bsky.social urging them to co-sponsor the Abolish ICE, MELT ICE, and Qualified Immunity Abolition Acts, support Noem's impeachment, and oppose DHS funding in the names of Alex Pretti, Renée Good, and Silverio Villegas González. 213930
Reposted by Trip GrassRoxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 24/01/2026I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off. 287238866169
Reposted by Trip GrassSolomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 22/01/2026If you were to distill the Plot to a continuous series of actions... not as a movie ... but as a series of actions there is only a single question, given our shared histories together, one might ask Who leaves Black children in the care of white men? 121219
Reposted by Trip GrassJoseyRider @joseyrider.bsky.social · 22/01/2026We ran high-level US civil war simulations. Minnesota is exactly how they starttheguardian.comWe ran high-level US civil war simulations. Minnesota is exactly how they start | Claire FinkelsteinDevelopments in Minnesota closely mirror a scenario explored in a 2024 exercise conducted at the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law at the University of Pennsylvania, which I direct 12822
Reposted by Trip GrassBaldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 18/01/2026I stopped trying to debate software developers on LLMs a while back. It's fruitless. Even if they could be budged on empirical grounds, they are explicitly fine with using tools that are themselves deeply unethical. 58528
Reposted by Trip GrassAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/01/2026Any Democratic votes to fund DHS later this month as Minneapolis is being terrorized by DHS is going to be a major slap in the face to Americans living here. Demand major reforms or shut the government down. 583231166729
Reposted by Trip Grassdan sinker @dansinker.com · 11/01/2026really burying the lead here that Bovino needs an armed contingent to use the bathroom at Target 581270287
Reposted by Trip GrassCongressman Shri Thanedar @thanedar.house.gov · 09/01/2026The tragic death of Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year old mother fatally shot by ICE, shows that ICE can’t be reformed and must be abolished. I’ll be introducing the Abolish ICE Act as a step toward justice, accountability, and humanity in our immigration policy. Time to melt ICE. 332137342740
Reposted by Trip Grassgretared @gretared.bsky.social · 10/01/2026Woot! Woot! It’s the sound of anti-ICE. Woot! Woot! The sounds of the streets. 061
Reposted by Trip GrassRyan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 10/01/2026Protesters making as much noise as possible in front of the Hilton Canopy where ICE agents are staying in Minneapolis. 593044646
Reposted by Trip GrassDr Yannick Veilleux-Lepage @yveilleuxlepage.bsky.social · 08/01/2026🧵In my expert opinion as a researcher of vehicle ramming attacks, what has been publicly described in the video evidence does not support the claim that Renee Nicole Good was attempting a deliberate ramming attack when she was shot in Minneapolis on January 7, 2026. 1/7 10271172457
Reposted by Trip GrassAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/01/2026NEW: Data released by ICE shows that virtually the entire growth of detention in the last few months has been among people with no criminal record at all - no prior convictions (no matter how minor) and no pending criminal charges. 11353592814
Reposted by Trip GrassCongresswoman Maxine Dexter, M.D. @repdexteror.bsky.social · 08/01/2026I’m joining Rep. @robinkelly.house.gov to introduce articles of impeachment against Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem and will use every lever available to end the terror ICE has unleashed on our communities. Stay loud. 41283732153
Reposted by Trip Grassjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/01/2026kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life 92147763029
Reposted by Trip GrassCheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 07/01/2026Dad not there for breakfast because he died from trying to ration his insulin? Kitchen-table issue. Grandpa snatched up by ICE after coming up from the islands 40 damn years ago? Kitchen-table issue. Mom died during childbirth because black women get piss-poor medical care? No one's cooking now. 110626
Reposted by Trip GrassKevin Veale 😷 (Toitū Te Tiriti) @krveale.bsky.social · 06/01/2026Let's talk about generative AI, contaminated information, and rhubarb. Once upon a time, Europe was at war. Food was scarce, and the government of the quote-unquote United Kingdom looked for alternatives. 1/ 21262879
Reposted by Trip GrassCaptain Mark Kelly @captmarkkelly.bsky.social · 05/01/2026Four generations of my family have served our country. Service is in my blood. The President wouldn’t know anything about that. 18473791711581
Trip Grass @tripgrass.bsky.social · 05/01/2026From the author: "Here is the reality DOJ does not have to articulate: it does not need to win this case. Whether this case ever reaches trial is almost beside the point. The indictment itself is the punishment." 075
Trip Grass @tripgrass.bsky.social · 11/12/2025THOMPSON: You wouldn't come to this committee and say something you can't prove... But you did. 020
Reposted by Trip GrassIda Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 05/12/2025It might be easy to find things like this merely petty or superficial, but that would be a mistake. Demeaning, erasing or eliminating celebrations or acknowledgments of Black America is straight from Redemption playbook, and is intended to reinforce the racial hierarchy and signal its reinstatement.sfgate.comNational parks change prioritizes Trump birthday over days honoring Black peopleFree entrance days at national parks no longer include MLK Day and Juneteenth. 231423601
