Reposted by 🍐Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Pass a law clarifying that the supreme court’s appellate jurisdiction does not begin until a final ruling has been made by district and appeals courts. 22830165
Reposted by 🍐Colin @colin-fraser.net · 21/09/2026I feel we are wasting some time, effort, and resources on making sure that Claude is a certain kind of guy when really all we need are the facts that he knows. 4999
Reposted by 🍐jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/09/2026anyway that is my local governance platform. cheaper housing, cheaper commercial real estate, a more vibrant and livable city. 24132965
Reposted by 🍐Colin @colin-fraser.net · 19/09/2026This made me laugh until tears came out of my eyes 45211
Reposted by 🍐lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 16/09/2026It's genuinely fascinating that the US president keeps announcing that he just flat out doesn't know what trade is, he legit doesn't appreciate the concept of exchange and instead views economic activity through the lens of a dragon attempting to maximise its gold hoard to sit upon. 893853597
Reposted by 🍐Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026“Abolish ICE” was immediately met with eye rolling condescension and after events proved that policy correct, and support *among Democrats* for it exploded to like 80%, it didn’t move party leaders at all. How is this tenable 382908354
Reposted by 🍐Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026This is going to make me sound old and maybe a little nostalgic but it’s really striking how in the Trump era, no one even pretends to debate about policy anymore. 1984784530
Reposted by 🍐Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 14/09/2026America has no president 48514
Reposted by 🍐spooky tail latency @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 12/09/2026ok I am extremely not a fan of the CFAA (and I haven't had time to read enough of this to know whether this particular attribution holds up to scrutiny) but like, at some point somebody at OpenAI has got to go to prison if we're even slightly pretending that the law still applies to corporate actors 120436
Reposted by 🍐opfuchs.gay @opfuchs.gay · 10/09/2026The very notion of distillation “attack” is somewhat absurd 2827
Reposted by 🍐finrodsauronverynsfwprivatefolderdonotlook @yungdreyfusard.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Kawase Hasui. Rain in Maekawa, Sōshū, 1932, February. 3278
Reposted by 🍐Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 29/08/2026My buddy Keith Pluymers and I recorded a pod the first week of 2017 where we talked about the US political system as a series of tectonic plates grinding against each other that would, in stages, slip pretty dramatically; I think that take holds up, but it wasn't exactly clairvoyance to say it then. 41686
Reposted by 🍐Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 28/08/2026These people had protected status. They lived here legally. They worked, they paid taxes. They made lives. Raised families. Now we’ve dehumanized them. Ripped away that protection and told them to get out. This is a stain on the soul of this Nation. 440107123484
Reposted by 🍐Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 22/08/2026I think our utter lack of political will to do ~anything is a damnation of American civic culture 1232747
Reposted by 🍐dave @gloomfather.bsky.social · 13/08/2026yeah man "woke 1" sucked ass. I "woke 1" morning from uneasy dreams to find myself transformed into a giant insect 89160233697
Reposted by 🍐rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 09/08/2026legislation cannot fix this. at present, a profesisonal civil service is unconstitutional. 840750
Reposted by 🍐eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 07/08/2026with times being what they are, it seems like you basically can't have a public open source repo without receiving LLM-written PRs. thus, after a great deal of thought, i have adopted the somewhat idiosyncratic Mycelium AI Policy in my personal projects: github.com/hawkw/myceli...github.comchore: introducing the Mycelium AI Policy (#566) · hawkw/mycelium@b77e854 2635547
Reposted by 🍐GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 12/07/2026across the entire dem political spectrum, increasingly, the question that i think is most important is "what do you want to do with this power you are asking for?", and it's the least likely question to be asked of them, it drives me insane 536850
Reposted by 🍐Tyler Creighton @creightt.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Trump and Vought have spent a year and half degrading and corrupting the CFPB and tormenting its workers. Despite all that, many of us are still there fighting to get the agency back in the business of serving all Americans. www.notus.org/agencies/cfp...notus.orgDiminished But Still Alive: Inside Russ Vought’s CFPBHundreds of employees around the country must relocate to Washington, D.C., or risk termination from the agency that has repeatedly attempted to eliminate their jobs. 042
Reposted by 🍐becca laurie @imbeccable.bsky.social · 09/06/2026a beautiful scene on smith street 322873334
Reposted by 🍐franciscOOoOo👻 varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 07/06/2026consider that the aspiring authoritarian movement we are currently dealing with in the US has gone scorched earth against the civil service but cares so little about the capital L Left that it freely mixes terms like "socialist," "communist," "Marxist," "anarchist," etc. 0445
Reposted by 🍐Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 05/06/2026WPA but for making bureaucracy easy 316911
Reposted by 🍐GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 04/06/2026not just bringing them back, but increasing them five-fold, a dem president taking office in 2029 should make this a top priority and put improved constituent service delivery as a lodestar for their administration 848657
Reposted by 🍐Parker Welch @parkerwelch.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Good, thoughtful reformers in every policy domain in America start from the assumption “well, obviously the federal government can’t do anything new, so how do we work around that” That should bother everyone who believes in this country 0453
Reposted by 🍐ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 03/05/2026so i am not optimistic, in the short/near term, about this. because right now there is an intense taboo about saying what reality is like. media, markets, and so many other centers of reality-shaping structure cannot acknowledge reality because it is too scary and intolerable 713817
Reposted by 🍐Municipal Fox @amunicipalfox.bsky.social · 25/04/2026We judge every politician’s First 100 Days because FDR built the foundations of the modern welfare state in that time. We can absolutely do it again. All it takes is the will to power 522328
Reposted by 🍐First Wordle Problems @fwordleproblems.bsky.social · 25/04/2026Yeah. I keep saying this. It's okay to feel distress but you can't think in words like "gone irrevocably". We don't NEED to go back to anything, we just need to win. We're smarter and better than the people who made the New Deal and we can do whatever we want. You understand? 818930
Reposted by 🍐Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 23/04/2026I don’t want NYC to become a museum. It should be a living, breathing testament to the working people of our city. 774932771
Reposted by 🍐Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14/04/2026NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health. 'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:thehandbasket.coWhistleblower says Trump officials thought USAID did 'just abortions,' asked for 'Barney-style' slides before gutting agency, per new bookRead an exclusive excerpt from Nicholas Enrich's "Into the Wood Chipper" 15096054148
Reposted by 🍐Pasquinel 🦇🎃👻 @pasquinel.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Hungarians celebrated the landslide defeat of Orban by singing "We Are the Champions" out in the streets 943656936
Reposted by 🍐The UnPopulist @theunpopulist.net · 10/04/2026Kennedy canceled $500 million in mRNA research and announced no new mRNA projects will ever be initiated—killing the technology that produced the fastest vaccine rollout in human history.theunpopulist.netRFK Jr. Lied His Way Into Office and American Health Is the VictimHe is pushing quackery as science as health secretary 42243281963
Reposted by 🍐Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 07/04/2026I hate having to do the "look, they're normal just like us" post, but sometimes you have to do that when American propaganda tries to convince everyone Iranians are "animals". 20102053783
Reposted by 🍐Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 03/04/2026"hostage crisis"??? It's called they're a fucking POW! Why the fuck are we governed by fucking children who don't understand the terms of their own enterprise? Why the fuck are their misadventures covered by people who don't appreciate the fucking gravity of their profession? Fuck all these idiots. 371340271
Reposted by 🍐Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 03/04/2026All but three (!) of the 1,651 refugees admitted into the United States in the three most recent months we have data are white South Africans. For comparison, in 2024, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees. It's an explicit white supremacist project. www.rpc.state.gov/documents/Re...rpc.state.gov 4745321950
Reposted by 🍐Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/03/2026They started a war of choice for absolutely no reason, with no real strategy and no real preparation, and the end result will be a global situation that is, in every single way, worse than what it was when they started. 15061111380
Reposted by 🍐ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 21/03/2026a hugely underrated aspect of parliamentary systems is the snap election. far superior to impeachment, which was a dumb design to start with and straight up does not work anymore 875169966
Reposted by 🍐Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 14/03/2026It is actually possible to regulate gambling advertising, and while designing such a regulatory regime could be complicated, it can also be very simple, such as "there shall be no gambling advertising". 211626314
Reposted by 🍐Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 13/03/2026"government can't deliver so you might as well not pay into it" is nothing more than a suicide note for left and liberal governance 181770333
Reposted by 🍐Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 03/03/2026This thread on Alito's outrageously misrepresentation of the facts in the NY voting rights case is so damning. Alito's account was misleading to the point of falsity. And there's nothing anybody can do about it. He gets to toss around bogus claims without any consequence. 421354533
Reposted by 🍐rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 27/02/2026one correction: hegseth also purports to be forbidding _selling_ to anthropic as well. 524420
Reposted by 🍐Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 26/02/2026A major Pentagon–Anthropic showdown is underway. The Pentagon is pushing for Claude to enable mass AI surveillance + autonomous drones, threatening a supply-chain-risk label or a defense production act takeover if they don’t. Ultimatum was issued for tomorrow. Anthropic just refused.anthropic.comStatement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of WarA statement from our CEO on national security uses of AI 19819232
Reposted by 🍐Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 26/02/2026BREAKING: Columbia President Claire Shipman says DHS agents entered a residential buliding this morning and detained a student. "Our understanding at this time is that the federal agents made misrepresentations to gain entry to the building to search for a 'missing person.'" 9626171223
Reposted by 🍐Ben Monreal @benmonreal.bsky.social · 25/02/2026I want the GSA and DOT to hire up an 18F-like civil-engineering design firm. Cities can call up DOT Corps for the design phase of transit projects instead of AECOM or Turner. Better, leaner, public-interest-focused designs go out to bid, and a GSA Corps staffer can help with oversight! 2155
Reposted by 🍐Jeremy Morrell @jeremymorrell.dev · 24/02/2026I foresee a lot of projects adopting SQLite’s private test suite approach 183
Reposted by 🍐jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/02/2026democrats should internalize that this is what their colleagues think of them and act accordingly 280149853457
Reposted by 🍐Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 24/02/2026Today, @mckay4senate.bsky.social urges us not to forget what Elon Musk do to USAID, something that is still likely to have the highest body count of the administration’s actions. McKay documents just what Elon has done in detail www.liberalcurrents.com/what-elon-ha...liberalcurrents.comWhat Elon Has DoneElon Musk's destruction of USAID has faded from public consciousness in America, despite leaving death and destruction in its wake. 5249119
Reposted by 🍐Sarah Stoecklin @sarahstoecklin.bsky.social · 25/02/2026"2025 will be the first year of this century where more young children died than the year before." 416986
Reposted by 🍐Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 24/02/2026Remember, this guy then killed an MIT professor while they were stumbling to catch up 3231901089
Reposted by 🍐Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 24/02/2026Tortured logic from John Yoo, but that’s how he likes it. 45903106
