Reposted by VieuxtempsCosta Samaras @costasamaras.com · 08/10/2026Friendly amendment to this: data centers should bring and pay for double the amount of clean energy they need. Half for them, and half for the community. 716125
Reposted by VieuxtempsGarth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 08/10/2026do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life 20881154
Reposted by VieuxtempsCatDaMaMa @catdamama.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Undocumented people pay billions in federal taxes for Medicaid they're banned from using. Republicans want to gut $880 billion from that program to finance tax cuts for the ultra-rich. But sure, tell me again who the welfare queens are. #RepublicanHealthcareCrisis 20365199
Vieuxtemps @vieuxtemps.bsky.social · 08/10/2026We have literally arrived at 'we can't have nice things because we need to be more tolerant of evil (and stupid) people'. 030
Reposted by VieuxtempsPeter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Margaret Hamilton, the first female programmer hired to work on the Apollo project who ultimately led the 100-person team that guided Armstrong and Aldrin to a safe landing on the moon, dies at 90. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/o...nytimes.comMargaret Hamilton, Whose Software Guided the Apollo Missions, Has DiedMargaret Hamilton, the first female programmer hired to work on the space project at M.I.T., was 90. 9583164
Reposted by VieuxtempsLiz Szabo @lizszabo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026CDC moving forward with “wholly unethical trial” in African babies. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...rollingstone.comCDC Is Moving Forward With a Previously Shelved Controversial Hepatitis B Vaccine Study“It’s a wholly unethical trial, and it shouldn’t be allowed,” says Dr. Paul Offit of Guinea-Bissau study 33550296
Reposted by VieuxtempsOmri Marian @omrimarian.bsky.social · 07/10/2026They said they are going to dismantle the administrative state, so they're doing it. The problem is that the administrative state is the only state. There is no other state. 26020
Reposted by VieuxtempsDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 07/10/2026Makes it real clear what they mean by "liberty."abcnews.comAlito calls same-sex marriage a 'decisive' turn 'against religious liberty' in new bookA new book by Justice Samuel Alito presents his view of the Constitution, the Supreme Court, and the country with a focus on religious freedom. 52852167
Reposted by VieuxtempsKate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The latest “rigged election” strategy from the Trump administration involves producing a series of strategically timed arrests of non-citizens for alleged voter fraud & promoting those events to feed the false narrative that non-citizen voter fraud is widespread. uwcip.substack.com/p/federal-fr...uwcip.substack.comFederal Fraud Charges Resonate With Debunked Non-Citizen Voting NarrativesA flurry of recent charges and press conferences amplifying alleged non-citizen voting make a small phenomena seem bigger 10424188
Reposted by VieuxtempsBen Werdmuller @werd.io · 06/10/2026"We have tallied and cataloged every case we can find of an immigration agent holding a citizen during the current administration." And there are a lot of them. projects.propublica.org/american-cit...projects.propublica.orgMore Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublicaThe government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati... 02310
Reposted by VieuxtempsAnna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026lol no one talks about the white kids who don't abide by merit. The conversation is ALWAYS about the Black and Brown kids who do.nbcnews.comStudy finds 43 percent of Harvard's white students are legacy, athletes, related to donors or staffThe number drops dramatically for black, Latino and Asian American students with less than 16 percent each coming from those categories, the study said. 128077
Reposted by Vieuxtempsjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/10/2026who knows if jackson can win this thing but i am glad that he is making clear that susan collins's whole scam is to do everything she can to make life worse for mainers and then take credit for mitigating it in the slightest way possible 108106091803
Reposted by VieuxtempsThe Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Sometimes my wife and I like to send each other text messages as though they’re democratic fundraising messages, and I believe she has produced the jewel of the form. 185110131837
Reposted by VieuxtempsAlex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 06/10/2026BREAKING: For the first time in 10 months, the U.S. admitted a refugee who is not a white South African. In September, the U.S. admitted 3,386 white South Africans and two Afghans (in D.C.) In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 16,287 white South Africans, five Afghans, and nobody else.rpc.state.gov 11813347
Reposted by Vieuxtempssouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The photo sits atop a story about how he’s blatantly exploiting his office for personal gain, corrupting the federal government to an unprecedented degree, and no one is even slowing him down anymore. And this is his only response. 21731137
Reposted by VieuxtempsJohn Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 06/10/2026These are the layups. All these actions are crimes. All the perjuries are crimes. Find one vicious bastard prosecutor and have them chew through these ICE/DHS cases starting Day One. Just enforce the law! The lowest bar possible! 4620170
Reposted by VieuxtempsProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026The breast cancer center appealed thousands of Blue Cross reimbursements for being too low. At trial, the insurer revealed that it had never considered any of the appeals — and that they were pointless: “An appeal is not available to review an underpayment.” (Published April 2025)propublica.org“Slow Pay, Low Pay or No Pay”: Trial Reveals How Insurers Try to Wield Power Over DoctorsBlue Cross authorized mastectomies and breast reconstructions for women with cancer but refused to pay the full doctors’ bills. A jury called it fraud and awarded the practice $421 million. 26948501
Reposted by VieuxtempsMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Unprecedented corruption, happening every day, right in front of us. A constitutional order that cannot end & severely punish this is not really worth saving. We need massive institutional reform. 216351
Reposted by VieuxtempsOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Think about the core tenets of American conservatism: a government serving 300 million people and leading the world should be “small” and that we should orient all policy around servicing the rich so that they throw us gruel. It’s fucking stupid and we should say so. 16897220
Reposted by VieuxtempsNews to Remember @moments2remember.link · 04/10/20264 men in plain clothes kidnap a woman—they claim to be ICE. Woman's name is Angel Zhao. She lives in Huntington Beach, California—originally Shanghai, China. 60555863188
Reposted by VieuxtempsMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Incredible how the editors at @nytimes.com still don't understand how embarrassing it is to do this, and how it undermines the credibility of the paper and its journalists. It's like a toddler covering their face to play hide and seek. We see you but it's not cute, you look like an asshole. 251328264
Reposted by VieuxtempsBrooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 05/10/2026THE JUDGE SAID WHAT?!? Exhibit A in my case for "education does not replace a functional bullshit detector" (much as I wish it could). 1191
Reposted by VieuxtempsGOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 04/10/2026we are going to have to find an alternative to meta products for local communities and advertising, right now, it’s almost impossible to do any kind of local business or art project without it, but both their rules and support are so arbitrary and capricious that you can’t rely on them 30998271
Reposted by VieuxtempsNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I think it's pretty clear by now that there is nowhere near a majority of voters, anywhere, who inherently see far-right authoritarianism as extrinsic to the success or survival of democratic systems. 1244058
Reposted by VieuxtempsDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Impossible to understand how anyone could look at Rufo's career and conclude he was someone engaged in a "forthright defense of meritocracy." Rufo's entire career is built on the idea of purging people who don't think or look like him from positions of power. 561573348
Reposted by VieuxtempsMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Again, <only Republicans> ever get to talk like this. If a single municipal level Democrat ever did, it would be a national outrage &spark a wave of “civility” discourse, & op-eds about how Dems must Respect Real Folkz & talk across difference. Democracy is incompatible with this double standard. 582242582
Reposted by VieuxtempsWill Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The facts are shocking enough, but the bigger reason that the Cornell gang-rape case has broken through is that everyday Americans are sick of the rich and powerful and their sons getting away with it And everyone knows this fish stinks from the head My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/corn...inquirer.comFor a fed-up America, the elite impunity of the Cornell rape case is the last straw | Will BunchA nation’s frustration with rich and powerful men boils over after a stunning rape allegation at an Ivy League college. 291165336
Reposted by VieuxtempsJacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I'm not naive enough to actually believe this will happen, but Democrats could be preparing, right now, lists of impeachment charges against (at a bare minimum) Hegseth, Kennedy, Mullin, Patel, Blanche, & Trump, as well as Bondi, Bovino, & Noem (still worth doing!) that rely purely on public facts, 1013153643
Reposted by VieuxtempsAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 04/10/2026Opened up YouTube to watch a movie and they're promoting Birth of a Nation. My jaw was on the floor. What the actual f.... 721133222
Reposted by VieuxtempsMark Histed @markhisted.org · 03/10/2026Killed. NSF’s SBE was killed, in violation of law. The President does not have the power to choose to kill programs at a whim by defunding them. The imperial presidency was a mistake and we are in a separation of powers constitutional crisis. 151452529
Reposted by VieuxtempsThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Endless corruption. 629121235459
Reposted by VieuxtempsJon @arfmeasures.bsky.social · 10/05/2023Wife: use the newspaper to get that spider down Me *reads the news out loud* Spider *depressed* holy shit 81563396
Reposted by VieuxtempsKaren Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Mike Pompeo has been rewarded with a teaching fellowship at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. The same school that canceled my class on media, race and international affairs. @columbiasipa.bsky.social share.google/KEvTy5yER71U...share.googleFormer Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to join SIPA facultyFormer Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will join the School of International and Public Affairs as a fellow at SIPA’s Institute of Global Politics in March, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday. 1452944971
Reposted by VieuxtempsMelody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 01/10/2026This is major! I wrote about the community's efforts to stop pollution from half-burned medical waste: magazine.publichealth.jhu.edu/2024/communi...magazine.publichealth.jhu.eduCommunity vs. Coal: Reclaiming Health in Curtis Bay | Hopkins Bloomberg Public Health MagazineProtesting coal dust and half-burned medical waste, South Baltimore residents lead the way on environmental health research. 0115
Reposted by VieuxtempsDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026America today is a country where regulators won't allow private companies to air interviews of the opposition on TV, but declare that taxpayer funded propaganda is fine. 462218777
Reposted by VieuxtempsJesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Your job as a parent is to keep your child alive 1375
Reposted by VieuxtempsLawprofblawg @lawprofblawg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026And they used the euphemism "passes away." 02311
Reposted by Vieuxtempsrandy r. potts @thephatic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026thinking a lot rn about how Europe has insanely great third spaces, it's walkable, it has a good education system, it reallllly teaches WWII history, they have good social programs, etc, and none of that has seemed to help in preventing the rise of the far right 2185
Reposted by Vieuxtempsescapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026just like the Fugitive Slave Act, conservatives demand that they can impose their evil systems upon liberal states, democracy be damned, but if liberal states so much as offer a mild disincentive for evil to make conservative state maybe Suck Less then it's unconstitutional tyrannical overreach 4369108
Reposted by VieuxtempsHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026See it’s cool because now every delivery driver can also be part of your neighborhood watch and cops will be able to jack in to live feeds from driver glasses. /sbloomberg.comAmazon Drivers’ Smart Glasses Are Going to Be an Image ProblemComing soon up a garden path near you: an Amazon.com Inc. driver wearing smart glasses, almost constantly taking pictures and sending them back to the company to be analyzed by humans and fed into an ... 22390165
Reposted by VieuxtempsJonathon Booth @jboothhistory.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Extremely disturbing article that once again puts the lie to any kinds of data protection that flock or local government pretends exist 041
Reposted by VieuxtempsAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Smith chose to stay away from Willis because he's smart and she's an idiot. He was managing the unusually sensitive optics. But it's not a rule. There's nothing wrong as such with state and federal prosecutors talking to each other about related cases. It wouldn't be scandalous even if he had. 414721
Reposted by VieuxtempsJess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 30/09/2026If you’re not from Missouri, you may not know that Eric Schmitt got his start in MAGA politics by suing public schools for mask mandates while their teachers died during a pandemic. The really strange thing? He never sued his own kids’ school for their mask mandate. He’s a piece of Schitt. 833119974
Reposted by Vieuxtempspublic health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026rural health folks have been hearing nonsense and hype about how AI and medtech will fix everything for YEARS. if these coastal elites had bothered to talk to anyone instead of imposing their corrupt deals on everyone... 67028
Reposted by VieuxtempsJon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 23/02/2025Per @adamschiff.com: “Donald Trump promised to let Elon Musk self-police his conflicts of interest. The result? Those investigating his companies have been fired. Cases against his companies have been dismissed. “The corrupt self-dealing is staggering.” 772036777
Reposted by VieuxtempsCarceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 30/09/2026‘Beyond priceless’: how a halt to dredging saved the seas of Scotland’s Summer Isles Fish and shellfish populations were falling rapidly as scallop dredgers devastated the seabed, but local activists and small-scale fishers battled hard to protect their coastline www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.com‘Beyond priceless’: how a halt to dredging saved the seas of Scotland’s Summer IslesFish and shellfish populations were falling rapidly as scallop dredgers devastated the seabed, but local activists and small-scale fishers battled hard to protect their coastline 083
