Reposted by @vtjawo.bsky.socialElizabeth DeLoria, Pope of Chili-Town @yourdadloves.me · 23h 167119742859
Reposted by @vtjawo.bsky.socialBellmora ❌👑 @bellmora.bsky.social · 21h“This unprecedented, budget-crippling surge in diesel is tanking — so to speak — not only Trump’s approval ratings but the chances that many petrified Republicans will survive an already bad midterm cycle.” 841558
Reposted by @vtjawo.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026In two years we've gone from a standard where the President's budget proposal was a set of suggestions Congress would ignore to where Congressional appropriations are now a set of suggestions the President ignores. 471285367
Reposted by @vtjawo.bsky.socialsouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The 2020 election has been relentlessly studied by our most experienced experts and by our most craven partisan hacks for 6y now, and every examination has wound up demonstrating the integrity of Biden’s victory in that election and the malignity of Trump’s obsession with undermining it. 14832193
Reposted by @vtjawo.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Rare you get live visuals of state capture. 43861208
Reposted by @vtjawo.bsky.socialNPR @npr.org · 02/10/2026Democratic lawmakers, veterans and concerned citizens gathered in Memorial Circle to protest the arch Trump wants to build there. Their hopes lie primarily in a lawsuit and next month's midterms. n.pr/472XAIXn.prAs Trump's proposed arch looms over D.C., protesters pin their hopes on the midtermsDemocratic lawmakers, veterans and concerned citizens gathered in Memorial Circle to protest the arch Trump wants to build there. Their hopes lie primarily in a lawsuit and next month's midterms. 830770
Reposted by @vtjawo.bsky.socialChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Beyond the horrifying reality that a hospital is trying to "clear the pentobarbital from [Christa Pike's] system" currently, the litigation over Tennessee's actions this week will shine a very clear light on the many, many reasons why governments should not be trusted with killing their citizens. 16872242
Reposted by @vtjawo.bsky.socialMatthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse. 20161962855
Reposted by @vtjawo.bsky.socialJonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 02/10/2026Anthropic executives thought maybe the Pope and the Catholic Church in general hadn't thought too much about it and could be convinced by their presentation that AI was alive. Sometimes religious illiteracy bites you in the butt. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u... 910823
Reposted by @vtjawo.bsky.socialDave Infante @dinfontay.com · 02/10/2026“According to a county press release, Robinson’s colleagues expressed concerns about her behavior to department leadership on Aug. 27. An ensuing audit uncovered suspicious enough activity to warrant her being placed on administrative leave without pay.” 172
Reposted by @vtjawo.bsky.social🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I'm begging Democrats to narrate to Americans why their brains are being doused with sick anti-trans hate as billionaire donors massively outspend Democrats.thefarce.orgWhat if Democrats let Elon Musk and the massive forces of capital buy this election?It’s not victim-blaming to say that we must blame the villains if we want to make voters heroes. 518849
Reposted by @vtjawo.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"The United States crossed the line into competitive authoritarianism during Donald Trump’s second presidency...The new regime is unlikely to consolidate, however: The United States’ vast countervailing power—its wealth, private sector, and civil society—dilutes authoritarian abuse..." 09636
Reposted by @vtjawo.bsky.socialJoseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 30/09/2026New: USPS is to put cameras in its trucks that continuously record. This is to gather data on roads, signage, and to improve "community safety," the agency tells me. The cameras are marketed to capture passing license plates too, but don't run ALPR software www.404media.co/usps-to-put-...404media.coUSPS To Put Cameras in Trucks That Scan Roads for ‘Community Safety’USPS says the cameras, put on USPS truck dashboards, will scan roads, signs, and more. 46366153
Reposted by @vtjawo.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026In the same speech he announced that these three guys would set strategic direction for future warfare capabilities 2924456
Reposted by @vtjawo.bsky.socialAwful Announcing @awfulannouncing.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This morning on ESPN's First Take, Nick Saban argued player and coach pay are "totally different markets." "That's like asking me 'Does a student's scholarship equal the professor's pay?' I mean, how much value does a coach create for a university?" 📺 💰️ 37307
vtjawo.bsky.social @vtjawo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Nothing like a Maryland driver making an illegal U turn, to illegally park in a crosswalk, to make you miss your light and sit though another cycle 🫠 000
vtjawo.bsky.social @vtjawo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026What I hate about Microsoft AI assistant is how it tries to standardize language to its desire. Yes, a double negative can be appropriate to show mild frequency. Yes, I can include extra words if I want to - speech doesn't have to be the bare minimum. 001
Reposted by @vtjawo.bsky.socialJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Good times for Ken Paxton and Roger Marshall 64972230
Reposted by @vtjawo.bsky.socialAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026The ICE agent who shot Araujo in a Houston is named GREGORY FEATHERS. Make sure everyone knows. 19790825482
Reposted by @vtjawo.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Let’s be honest, we all want to drop that Debbie Downer friend who says things like “we should really study for the exam” or “that sounds kinda unconstitutional.” 1344396
Reposted by @vtjawo.bsky.socialNick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 28/09/2026AI Almost Started a U.S.–China War — and No One Seems to Cares by @sambiddle.com theintercept.com/2026/09/28/a...theintercept.comAI Almost Started a U.S.–China War — and No One Seems to CaresThe tech world is too busy dreaming up imaginary doomsday scenarios to focus on a very real one that flared up between nuclear powers. 0185
Reposted by @vtjawo.bsky.socialEric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 27/09/2026What an odd moment in United States history. A U.S. president is running an overtly political camaign advertisement, right before midterm elections, paid for by the U.S. government. Trump appears to believe he is immune from any kind of legal limit. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/u...nytimes.comA Trump 2024 Campaign Ad Returns, Now Brought to You by the Government (Gift Article)The ad, which ethics experts said could violate federal law, shows Mr. Trump vowing to “expel the warmongers” from the government and fight the “deep state,” even as he wages a war with Iran. 4451481495
Reposted by @vtjawo.bsky.socialsouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I can only conclude from this that not enough of our aspiring fascists played sim city 2759775
Reposted by @vtjawo.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/09/2026"Getting French-Canadians to the point of embracing the mindset of 'we must all hang together or we shall all hang separately' is an amazing feat. Only Trump could have made the US seem so awful that the Quebecois would embrace Canada First."publicnotice.coThe view from Canada: Make America Think AgainRebuilding trust will take generations. 471710329
Reposted by @vtjawo.bsky.socialTHE KEY PLAY @thekeyplay.bsky.social · 26/09/2026THE #HOKIES HAVEN’T WON ONE OF THOSE TYPES OF GAMES IN SO LONG. IT WAS UGLY, BUT THERE AREN’T ANY PICTURES ON THE SCORECARD. 1122
Reposted by @vtjawo.bsky.socialChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Wild — and somehow even more wild than most of us thought at the time! 230565
Reposted by @vtjawo.bsky.socialsouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Can’t they just turn off their own shit? 781166177
Reposted by @vtjawo.bsky.socialMatt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 23/09/2026As a result of @benjaminjriley.bsky.social's most recent Alpha School reporting, all who have been saying "AI has a Mechanical Turk problem" - that is, "artificial intelligence" is actually the cognitive labor of humans in the Global South - get to take another victory lap. They must be winded. 216581
Reposted by @vtjawo.bsky.socialTechdirt @techdirt.com · 23/09/2026The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got In The Way This story was originally published by ProPublica and the Texas Tribune. Republished... www.techdirt.com/2026/09/23/the-fbi…techdirt.comThe FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got In The WayThis story was originally published by ProPublica and the Texas Tribune. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. In the final weeks of 2019, a top fundraiser for Sen. Susan Collins walked into a perilous meeting at a Corner Bakery in Washington, D.C. For the first time in her two-decade Senate career, the Republican lawmaker... 0225
Reposted by @vtjawo.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/09/2026Zelenskyy: "As early as next year, there is already a real possibility that AI, not people, will decide what happens on the battlefield. And we need peace before we reach that point." 472710688
Reposted by @vtjawo.bsky.socialOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026you're telling me that a festival headlined by Kid Rock and Dog the Bounty Hunter couldn't sell tickets? 1222540
Reposted by @vtjawo.bsky.socialCongressman Don Beyer @beyer.house.gov · 21/09/2026The FAA should not use my constituents as guinea pigs for an unproven AI air traffic control system that has Americans’ lives in its hands. I’m calling on the FAA to immediately suspend use of this AI system at Washington area airports until its safety has been established. My full statement: 715063
Reposted by @vtjawo.bsky.social❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026In 2024, the US imported ~12 million metric tons of potassic fertilizers from Canada (hillnotes.ca/2025/06/05/p...) Specialized ships can carry ~60k metric tons, tho container ships <half that (www.sasktoday.ca/central/loca...) So we'd need at least 200 ships loaded from [checks notes] Belarus 30423124
Reposted by @vtjawo.bsky.socialAndrew Thrasher @tituslegaldesign.com · 20/09/2026ICE shot a man in the back in Austin this afternoon. But we're also learning this weekend about the death of Carlos Josué Marchena, a 37-year old man from Costa Rica who appears to have died at the Winn concentration camp in Louisiana after 9+ months in ICE detention. 3335241
Reposted by @vtjawo.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Article is useful in that it shows that a) Trump is directly involved in these decisions, b) sees them in purely personalist terms - he wants to politicize research grants so he can destroy Harvard for daring to defy him 191134409
Reposted by @vtjawo.bsky.socialFlying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Gifting this article 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/u...nytimes.comHow President Trump Broke the Kennedy Center (Gift Article)Internal emails and documents demonstrate the political capture of the institution, including how officials once pursued a plan to unload much of the art collection. 28740
vtjawo.bsky.social @vtjawo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT. it's not his to give back 010
Reposted by @vtjawo.bsky.socialJoe Ovies @joeovies.bsky.social · 19/09/2026We're live on YouTube for some Real Pack Therapy. We'll also monitor UNC potentially pulling this thing off in Clemson whenever it starts back up. youtube.com/live/deXBwtp...youtube.comNC STATE ENDZONE FUMBLE DISASTER! 😱 CJ Bailey Blunder, Vanderbilt Wins On Last PlayYou could watch college football for the rest of your life and never see a more unbelievable, heartbreaking ending than what just transpired in Nashville! Jo... 7186
Reposted by @vtjawo.bsky.socialRodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 19/09/2026blatantly stealing a stat posted by ESPN elsewhere: Teams are now 1,046-2 over the last 20 seasons when leading with the ball in the final 10 seconds of regulation. the losses —NC State today —Michigan in the "trouble with the snap" game 857987
Reposted by @vtjawo.bsky.socialMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 17/09/2026In a normal, functioning democracy, this would end his presidency tonight. 963766992
Reposted by @vtjawo.bsky.socialdarth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 16/09/2026weird i have completely opposite takes than sam here 1855441
Reposted by @vtjawo.bsky.socialGerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 16/09/2026however much you think the iran war is sapping u.s. military readiness, it's probably more than that. a free link for you, the people www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...bloomberg.comThe Iran Blockade’s Growing Price Tag Is Draining America’s Global Military PowerThe cost of naval operations since the buildup began in January has topped $7.1 billion — not including all the US assets being used to escort tankers through the Strait of Hormuz. 27988351
Reposted by @vtjawo.bsky.socialKyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Federal employees were paid $9.5 billion not to work in 2025 under DOGE. As part of the Trump-Musk DOGE program to shrink the federal work force, paid administrative leave costs rose by 435%.nytimes.comFederal Employees Were Paid $9.5 Billion Not to Work in 2025 Under DOGE EffortAs part of the Department of Government Efficiency’s program to shrink the federal work force, paid administrative leave costs rose by 435 percent. 8019701014
Reposted by @vtjawo.bsky.socialJosh Kovensky @joshkovensky.bsky.social · 15/09/2026FBI's NSPM-7 Center Pulls in IRS Agents to Police "Anti-Capitalism" and "Anti-Christianity" talkingpointsmemo.com/news/fbi-nsp...talkingpointsmemo.comExclusive: FBI Builds Out National NSPM-7 Center to Track Dissent, Docs ShowThe FBI has tapped employees from across federal law enforcement to crack... 13161105
Reposted by @vtjawo.bsky.socialNick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026That isn't what other U.S. officials are saying... Iran War Has the U.S. Military on the Brink of a “Breakdown” theintercept.com/2026/09/15/i...theintercept.comIran War Has the U.S. Military on the Brink of a “Breakdown”As the U.S. military faces relentless attacks on its bases, the Iran conflict is “ultimately unsustainable,” one U.S. official told The Intercept. 3328
Reposted by @vtjawo.bsky.socialJason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Flock is very serious surveillance technology that cops take very seriously: 404media.co/cops-search-...404media.coCops Search Thousands of Flock Cameras for Reasons of ‘LMAO,’ ‘IDK,’ ‘Hehe,’ and ‘asdfg’The EFF found cops writing “idiot,” “WEIRD KID,” "blah," "leave me alone," and button mashing in Flock's 'reason' box. 352192733
Reposted by @vtjawo.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/09/2026I said it at the time (and before!), but I truly believe that American voters electing Donald Trump for a second term in 2024 was the dumbest and most self-harming choice made by an electorate in the history of humanity 901134862279
Reposted by @vtjawo.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026the truly crazy making part of all of this is that voter fraud EFFECTIVELY DOES NOT EXIST. you have a better chance of finding an actual leprechaun at the end of the rainbow than of finding evidence of voter fraud that influences an election 20178331896
Reposted by @vtjawo.bsky.socialAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026In response to this, the DeSantis administration releases a statement saying that they'd make this outrageous cage "even smaller if we could." The Department of Homeland Security's own Inspector General said it violated every detention standard and posed a significant danger to health and safety. 761329586
![They hired this data team of people that didn't live in the U.S. and they would watch us through our computers and it felt really sketchy and scary. It felt like it was more of a science experiment, and I was more of a lab rat rather than [having] someone that actually cared about my learning.
I was getting really frustrated about that throughout the year. Every time they would change something, I would be like, why are we changing this?
We couldn't tape over the computer or anything like that. They would get really frustrated if we taped over it. We had to keep the camera on.
[The software] would also track your facial expressions, and be like, "This is the emotion that you're evoking while you're talking about this." And every single time, it would tell me that I look really sad, which is fair because / was really sad, because / was crying every single day.
They would make me and a few other kids take standardized math tests pretty much every day, and then any question that we got wrong, we would have to get on a Zoom call with some random guy from normally India and explain to him every single thing that we got wrong and why. And I hated that.
I was a guinea pig, and I knew that I was a guinea pig. They were not subtle about it.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:776hcssquwcv2ihpptzvttxj/bafkreihcxzi7znw2yq5ux6mhcq5zbfpeydb5ys2syjpi7ojhhxiyg7l7zm)
