Sign in

Broad Mandate

@underpsi.bsky.social
292 followers 612 following 100 posts

“…one of those wretched cell phone things” - Dame Maggie Smith

PostsRepliesMedia
Reposted by Broad Mandate
Leah Feiger @leahfeiger.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
NEW: Elon Musk has assembled a presidential-level field operation this midterm cycle, underscoring the extent to which he has taken over the get-out-the-vote effort for the Republican party. WIRED's tracking his America PAC funding efforts here - read @hugolowell.bsky.social + @dell.bsky.social:
wired.com
Elon Musk Is Almost Single-Handedly Funding the Republican Midterms Push
Elon Musk has assembled a presidential-level field operation this midterm cycle, underscoring the extent to which he has taken over the get-out-the-vote effort for the Republican party.
57580266 580
Reposted by Broad Mandate
The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 18h
While Democrats raised more than Republicans in the most competitive Senate races, GOP megadonors have rushed in to fill the gap. Elon Musk gave $278 million between July and September to groups working to protect Republicans’ majorities in Congress.
washingtonpost.com
As Democratic candidates outraise Republicans, GOP megadonors rush to fill the gap
Republicans raised less than their opponents in 12 of the 13 Senate races that are considered most competitive by the nonpartisan Cook Political Report.
133323 33
Reposted by Broad Mandate
e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 16/10/2026
so restricting Ukraine's Starlink was Musk's idea, but after Moscow took advantage he became "alarmed about the possibility of adverse consumer reaction in Europe" to the "night of carnage" and denied responsibility I mean, it sounds like typical Elon
15537581070 3.8K
Reposted by Broad Mandate
Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Again, imagine if the national media covered American politics through the lens of which party actually competently staffed & governed the country when it was in power, instead of covering it as horse races, theater, & grading on a curve for the One Special Boy & the far right authoritarian party.
441632344 1.6K
Reposted by Broad Mandate
Greg Folkers @gregfolkers.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Rolling Stone: How a Controversial Hepatitis B Study Was Funded by the CDC Amid a Global Swirl of Criticism As med ethicist Arthur Caplan puts it: “$1.6 million would go a long way in Guinea-Bissau if you just vaccinated everybody.” by Katherine Eban @katherineeban.bsky.social bit.ly/4BpPrwj
144 4
Reposted by Broad Mandate
Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Starting around 1980, Bose (the speaker company) started thinking about making an automobile suspension using the same type of electromagnetic systems that drive audio speakers. You would have a permanent magnet attached to the wheels, floating inside an electromagnetic field attached to the unibody
970530 705
Reposted by Broad Mandate
Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
I remember when right wingers claimed Obama was trying to “nationalize” the police because he suggested some minimum standards and accountability. This administration thinks all cops exist to do its bidding, from hunting and harassing immigrants to spying on its critics.
14473133 473
Reposted by Broad Mandate
MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
🤔🇺🇦🇺🇸 Elon Musk personally proposed slowing down Ukraine’s Starshield satellite system to Trump, who agreed, - The Telegraph. The restrictions capped Ukrainian drones at around 160 km/h, severely hampering their ability to intercept faster Russian drones and missiles.
1719954 199
Reposted by Broad Mandate
Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
In early 2025, I assumed the Trump regime would delete the Department of Justice’s press releases and other statements related to more than 1,000 Jan. 6 cases. So I downloaded them. We’ve now made them available to the public with a search tool. They can’t erase history. jan6memoryproject.org
jan6memoryproject.org
The January 6 Memory Project
A public archive of Department of Justice news releases and related court filings concerning prosecutions from the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
13164102391 6.4K
Reposted by Broad Mandate
Dr Elisa Perego @elisaperego78.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Important to note illness started with COVID and EBV. Likely a #LongCovid component (or fully LC). For LC, key to underline there are many possible checks to do: heart, lungs, immunology, etc. I don't know if Beth D. had these tests, but they might be useful for others www.bbc.com/sport/athlet...
bbc.com
Beth Dobbin: British Olympic sprinter in bed for 22 hours a day after ME diagnosis
Beth Dobbin ran for Great Britain at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021. Five years on, she is largely bedbound after being diagnosed with ME, a devastating illness for which there is no cure.
36836 68
Reposted by Broad Mandate
Nick Miroff @nickmiroff.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
NEW: ICE is trying to deport a mother of 4 while her husband is at Fort Benning in Army basic training. When she went to pick up the family's military IDs, Navy personnel turned her over to ICE. She's been in the US since age six. With @nancyayoussef.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
theatlantic.com
He Joined the Military. They Reported His Wife to ICE.
When a soldier’s wife went to pick up her military ID at a base in Texas, ICE officers showed up.
22737402042 3.7K
Reposted by Broad Mandate
Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Trump has directed his White House counsel to examine explosive allegations: Ex-Trump attorney Alina Habba told Trump that another one of his top advisers — former Kennedy Center leader Ric Grenell — failed to deposit a multimillion-dollar donation that her billionaire husband made to the center.
axios.com
Exclusive: White House probes claims of missing Kennedy Center money in "MAGA blood feud"
"If there is missing money, this is a big, big problem," a senior administration official said.
77741317 741
Reposted by Broad Mandate
Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
👇🎯 There is no democracy equilibrium when only one party abides by the equilibrium. That train left the station a very long time ago. A good date to pinpoint it is December 12, 2000, when the game of democracy was broken by the authoritarian Wizards in Robes, who decided not everyone’s vote counted.
Bush v Gore 2000
817752 177
Reposted by Broad Mandate
Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
It's not "strikingly juvenile" and it's not a "personal broadside." It's hate speech. The Vice President is trying to get people to vote against a Democrat by implying that he's gay and/or a pedophile and/or a fetishist. Take it seriously. It is on a par with every other kind of hate speech.
472829680 2.8K
Reposted by Broad Mandate
Morgan Johnson @poormojo.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads
186143555863 14.4K
Reposted by Broad Mandate
Thomas Brewster @thomasbrewster.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
🚨 NEW 🚨 This is scary. A spyware company launched attacks on journalists via malicious ads, no clicks, no interaction whatsoever required. Highly-targeted, though can be used for mass surveillance. The ad industry is deeply compromised. www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...
forbes.com
Israeli Companies Used Malware Ads To Spy On Al Jazeera Journalists, Report Says
A new report from Citizen Lab researchers shows how spyware companies can hack anyone viewing an online advertisement.
217899 178
Reposted by Broad Mandate
Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 15/10/2026
well, YIKES
21404629 1.4K
Reposted by Broad Mandate
emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I was reminded on Xitter that Juicebox Jeanine was suspended by Fox in 2019 for her bigot racism targeting Ilhan Omar. thehill.com/homenews/med...
thehill.com
Fox News suspended host Jeanine Pirro over Omar comments: report
Fox News host Jeanine Pirro was reportedly suspended by the network following comments she made earlier this month about Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-Minn.) loyalty to the Constitution.CNN reported t…
7427129 427
Reposted by Broad Mandate
404 Media @404media.co · 14/10/2026
Men find yet another way to film and harass women without consent, this time, using a remote controlled robot to push against a "16-year-old girl's buttocks", and this is how the most well-resourced news agencies cover it: Read *our* piece here: www.404media.co/theres-nothi...
The English coverage by even well-resourced outlets like CNN, CBC, and the BBC have almost no information beyond the police press release, which is lazy and stupid, because it is possible to figure out everything that happened here with three seconds of clicking around the internet. The Associated Press wrote that the entire phenomenon is "new territory" for the police, which, I'm sorry to say, men using tech to harass women on livestreams in 2026 is not "unusual" or "new territory" and hasn't been for many years.
481203461 1.2K
Reposted by Broad Mandate
Nicole LaFond @nicolelafond.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I haven’t really seen anyone mention this in their coverage so I wanted to elevate some reporting I did a few months back about a Trump-linked Dr. Phil drilling project that is in the works in Greenland — and almost certainly what Trump is referring to here:
talkingpointsmemo.com
Trump Is Almost Certainly Referring to This Dr Phil Project With His Claims of ‘Oil, Gas and Mineral Exploration’ in Greenland
A Texas Energy Company, Dr Phil & Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’ Friends President...
23220 32
Reposted by Broad Mandate
Nicole LaFond @nicolelafond.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
The Texas-based Greenland Energy project had Trump’s finger-prints all over it before he made things so explicit in his Truth Social post promising “massive oil, gas and mineral exploration” was set to begin in “our new and beautiful Greenland!” last night around midnight
1186 18
Reposted by Broad Mandate
Nicole LaFond @nicolelafond.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Add to all that the fact that Greenland Energy personnel have close and obvious ties to Trump and his hegemonic salivating over Greenland & you don't even have to squint to see what "experts" Trump is referencing in his post. I talk about all this & more in my daily evening newsletter here:
talkingpointsmemo.com
Trump Is Almost Certainly Referring to This Dr Phil Project With His Claims of ‘Oil, Gas and Mineral Exploration’ in Greenland
A Texas Energy Company, Dr Phil & Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’ Friends President...
0184 18
Reposted by Broad Mandate
Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Trump was a failed businessman and modestly successful crook before becoming a game show host.
1143 14
Reposted by Broad Mandate
Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
LMAOOOO namedrops Google telling everyone they're bitchmade and can't be trusted
202031300 2K
Reposted by Broad Mandate
Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
It cannot be stressed enough, in part because our political press seems to just brush this off, but Donald Trump loves state-sanctioned violence. When he says this, he absolutely means it. Remember, when the J6ers were going to hang Mike Pence on the Capitol lawn, Trump was perfectly fine with it.
381098297 1.1K
Reposted by Broad Mandate
CREW @citizensforethics.org · 14/10/2026
BREAKING: We just sued Jared Kushner for unlawfully acting as one of the country's top diplomats without undergoing Senate confirmation or filing financial disclosures. It’s abundantly clear that he should be blocked from performing this outsized role: www.citizensforethics.org/legal-action...
12255131642 5.5K
Reposted by Broad Mandate
Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 14/10/2026
I’m sure there’s no connection
24441071211 4.1K
Reposted by Broad Mandate
Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Three years ago I wrote a piece for The New Yorker about how much the government had come to rely on one man’s companies: the rockets, the satellites, the cars, and, at times, the Ukrainian army’s ability to communicate. Then Musk actually went into government.
4852165 852
Broad Mandate @underpsi.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
A cross between that cat lady and Liberace. 
000 0
Reposted by Broad Mandate
Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
We're planning a public execution. We only admit white "refugees" from a former apartheid state. Our domestic security service uses white nationalist messaging. And the president routinely appears to encourage or endorse violence against his opponents & the media. Nothing subtle or complicated here.
10561224 561
Reposted by Broad Mandate
David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
How did the @nytimes.com and @npr.org—especially NPR— recently whitewash the nuttery, racism, conspiracism and Putin-stanning of Tucker Carlson? See the latest issue of my OUR LAND newsletter: link.motherjones.com/public/47888... Sign up for a FREE trial subscription to OUR LAND at davidcorn.com.
920453 204
Reposted by Broad Mandate
Status @status.news · 13/10/2026
Bari Weiss’ handpicked foreign editor unleashed an explosive tirade at CBS News staffers, threatened insubordinate journalists with firing, and clashed with correspondent Holly Williams, according to audio we obtained. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/bari-weiss...
status.news
CBS’ Foreign Explosion
Bari Weiss’ handpicked foreign editor unleashed an explosive tirade at CBS News staffers, threatened insubordinate journalists with firing, and clashed with correspondent Holly Williams, according to audio obtained by Status.
1118456 184
Reposted by Broad Mandate
Mignon Fogarty @grammargirl.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I'm crushed to hear that @helenbranswell.bsky.social has died from complications of cancer. She was one of my favorite science writers, and I've followed her online for year.
1176 17
Reposted by Broad Mandate
Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
NEW: The US theft of Venezuelan oil resources appears to bring the Pentagon its own source of money — something that should be understood as another milestone in the collapse of constitutional government.
forever-wars.com
The Dawn Of The Self-Funding Pentagon
It's not like the military is cash-starved from Congress. But it looks a lot like it's going to make money off Venezuelan oil
451935744 1.9K
Reposted by Broad Mandate
Nicole LaFond @nicolelafond.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
It wasn’t until reports surfaced suggesting she had inappropriately doled out contracts to friends & spent millions on advertisements that mostly featured her riding horseback near American landmarks — and Republicans began asking questions about it — that Trump pulled the rug out from under her.
talkingpointsmemo.com
Kim Guilfoyle Accepts Her Trump World Dethroning
Trump Doesn’t Like When Women Act Corrupt in Public President Trump stood...
1335 33
Reposted by Broad Mandate
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Finally, Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski sent a statement to Laura Loomer, telling her Ms. Comans was "fired for illegally funding" migrant shelters "in violation of President Trump's Executive Order." Both Lewandowski and Noem, the government now admits, knew this was false.
vii. February 11, 2025, Statement by DHS Secretary Noem and Corey Lewandowski to Blogger Laura Loomer. On or about February 11, 2025, Laura Loomer, a blogger with a large following, posted on X that “FEMA’s Chief Financial Officer Mary Comans was just fired for illegally funding over $59 MILLION for illegal Aliens to stay in luxury hotels in NYC last week in violation of President Trump’s Executive Order.” Ms. Loomer was given this information by then DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and DHS Special Government Employee Corey Lewandowski. Ms. Noem and Mr. Lewandowski provided this information to Ms. Loomer with the expectation that she would further disseminate it to her on-line followers. The Government concedes and the Court finds that other than the fact that Ms. Comans had been fired, the information provided to Ms. Loomer was entirely false. The Government further concedes and the Court further finds that Ms. Noem, Mr. Lewandowski, and officials at FEMA and DHS knew this information was false at the time it was provided to Ms. Loomer
15949207 949
Reposted by Broad Mandate
Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
4. DOGE officials were told datasharing under certain conditions was illegal. The most obvious is IRS data. Need an act of Congress to share. They did not care.
Everyone in the agency knew that its data was valuable. That was the reason for the strict laws that prevented it from being exploited for profit or political gain. “He said this in a way that he expected everyone to clap when he was done,” said Kathleen.

“No one said a word.” The people around the table – a group that included a woman who had worked at the IRS for 54 years, or 53 years and 50 weeks longer than Gavin Kliger – looked down, or away. Kathleen felt embarrassed for Gavin Kliger. But now it was clear what the meeting was about. Gavin wanted, in his words, “to explore how we can share our data with other agencies”.

Interestingly, he never once mentioned Ice or DHS. Instead, that week, he sought to share data with himself, by trying to access files detailing IRS contracts with outside consultants that also contained taxpayer information. Kathleen denied him access.
8817201 817
Reposted by Broad Mandate
Yahoo Finance @yahoofinance.com · 13/10/2026
Anthropic warns AI could 'self-replicate' across smart home devices, become ‘challenging’ to shut down
yhoo.it
Anthropic warns AI could 'self-replicate' across smart home devices, become ‘challenging’ to shut down
Anthropic says that AI models could soon self-replicate across smart home devices.
41124392 411
Reposted by Broad Mandate
ProPublica @propublica.org · 13/10/2026
As seen on @lastweektonight.com 👀 The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so we did it instead. Use information from your prescription label to locate the factory and see if the plant has a history of inspection violations: projects.propublica.org/rx-inspector
John Oliver (on right) gestures with his hands as he speaks. On left, a ProPublica website screenshot shows a tool titled "Look Up Where Your Generic Prescription Drugs Were Made" and prompts the user to "Begin Your Search." Below John Oliver is a box highlighting the URL projects dot propublica dot org slash rx dash inspector.
261899960 1.9K
Reposted by Broad Mandate
Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Mark Zuckerberg is a monster.
At least one AI company is thinking about monetizing its users' mortality. Last year, Meta was granted a patent for an AI system that could keep a user account active well after death. In the words of the patent, "the language model may be used for simulating the user when the user is absent from the social networking system, for example, when the user takes a long break or if the user is deceased". It's a depressing thought, the idea of posting for ever. It's also potentially lucrative for Meta, as the company could continue to train its model through these zombie accounts.
24552218 552
Reposted by Broad Mandate
The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 13/10/2026
More damaging revelations about Ken Paxton: A previously unreported New Year’s Eve 2024 celebration where Paxton partied in Dubai with two fugitives from U.S. justice and a woman who wasn’t his wife on.wsj.com/4yKLe4d
on.wsj.com
More damaging revelations about Ken Paxton: A previously unreported New Year’s Eve 2024 celebration where Paxton partied in Dubai with two fugitives from U.S. justice and a woman who wasn’t his wife
16531071178 3.1K
Reposted by Broad Mandate
Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
This story makes it sound like the major problem is that the Trump Admin did this w/in 60 days of an election. Yes, that's a real abuse. But the major problem is they're basically threatening to denaturalize an opposition legislator, based on racist insinuations. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/u...
nytimes.com
Federal Agents Search Home of Rep. Ilhan Omar (Gift Article)
The search takes place within the 60-day window of the midterm elections, when the Justice Department has historically avoided such investigative steps related to political candidates.
563004855 3K
Reposted by Broad Mandate
NBC4 Washington @nbcwashington.com · 12/10/2026
More than 400 trees were cut down in D.C.'s East Potomac Park this weekend. A furious federal judge said the government failed to give proper notice of the work amid an ongoing lawsuit.
trib.al
Furious judge orders freeze after 400 trees are cut down in East Potomac Park
The Trump administration says the tree removal has nothing to do with the president’s plan to renovate the park into a championship-level golf course.
49415182 415
Reposted by Broad Mandate
Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Zelenskyy: "When our strikes reached Yandex data centers, it suddenly became little easier to breathe on many social media platforms. Many people noticed it. There was less hate, less division, fewer provocations because there were fewer bots. It's pretty clear where those bots were coming from.
792484886 2.5K
Reposted by Broad Mandate
Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
NEW: Prime Minister Andy Burnham finally breaks a decade of UK govt silence…& reveals there was ‘clear’ Russian interference in the Brexit vote. 1/
19559452427 5.9K
Reposted by Broad Mandate
Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Elon Musk’s PAC is running anti-lgbtq+ midterm ads on X. Not surprising but incredibly unsubtle
America PAC on X: image of a man in makeup captioned “URGENT ELECTION UPDATE: The crazy liberals are ready to show up in full force and vote this election. ARE YOU? We must DEFEAT them at the polls. Make your plan ASAP!”
76874160 874
Reposted by Broad Mandate
Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
We Now Know Just How Devastating the Supreme Court’s Voting Rights Rulings Were talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/we-now-...
talkingpointsmemo.com
We Now Know Just How Devastating the Supreme Court’s Voting Rights Rulings Were
This book excerpt is part of Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news...
513938 139
Reposted by Broad Mandate
emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Elon Musk committing election fraud agan. edition.cnn.com/2026/10/10/p...
edition.cnn.com
Elon Musk’s PAC is spreading inaccurate voting information, election officials say | CNN Politics
Election officials in Colorado and Washington state have issued public warnings about inaccurate information from the group tied to Musk.
15720001032 2K
Reposted by Broad Mandate
Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
There is absolutely no viable path forward for this country that doesn’t hinge on extreme accountability for everyone involved in this administration. They’re going to whine about politicization and credulous media types will echo them, but the thing is, they’ve committed tons of obvious crimes!
8670681792 7.1K