Will Troppe @wtroppe.bsky.social · 08/01/2026I didn’t read 1984 as part of my “elite” high school + university engineering education. I chose to read it after I graduated. I think this says a lot about tech industry support for MAGA. 000
Reposted by Will TroppeWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 08/01/2026I keep going back to this. This is a taunt. They're taunting us. There is no other possible interpretation of what they're doing. But media simply ignores this deranged behavior, because if they talk about it, one must conclude that DHS is a rogue agency, of villainous paramilitary thugs. 1053278894
Reposted by Will TroppeJames Vincent @jjvincent.bsky.social · 08/12/2025if you want an overview of where humanoid robots are at right now — what's hype and what's real — then check out my long read for @harpers.bsky.social. here's me teleopping a humanoid, and yes i was told MANY times "do not take off the headset until you've disconnected" harpers.org/archive/2025... 191502134
Reposted by Will Troppeisaac @sevier.io · 02/12/2025"[Climate change] hasn’t arrived all at once as some biblical apocalypse but as a creeping drain on rents, utility bills, and grocery prices." An excellent longer analysis from @katearonoff.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2027...newrepublic.comThe Quick and Shameful Death of Biden’s Biggest PolicyIt was far too easy for Republicans to kill the Inflation Reduction Act. Where did those who crafted it go wrong? 17328
Reposted by Will TroppeDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 09/10/2025It really can't be said enough: the goal of the "anti-woke" movement was always to destroy social norms against bigotry. And it worked. And there's a whole lot of purportedly "left" thinkers & commentators who helped it -- indeed, it couldn't have been done without them. They should feel bad. 5451391341
Reposted by Will TroppeDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 07/09/2025I think I would take reactionary centrists more seriously if they could cite one (1) example of progressives pushing for social change the *right* way -- using just the right slogans, supporting just the right policies, protesting in just the right fashion. 16996180
Reposted by Will TroppeMerriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 03/09/2025enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits 499290238528
Reposted by Will TroppeTyler Norris @tnorris.bsky.social · 04/08/2025What makes Google's data center flex announcement today so notable, IMO: 🔌💡 1) 1st known utility contracts on AI DC flexibility 2) 1st incorporation into utility planning 3) 1st use of ML workloads for flexibility 4) Definitive, long-term contracts 5) Flex applies during certain hrs/times of year 1166
Reposted by Will TroppeAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this. 34869984021749
Reposted by Will TroppeBobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 03/07/2025Legitimately feel sick. We are hours away from the largest cuts to low-income people in history. People’s lives will be ruined. It is so unfair. It’s unfair to be born into a system that allows this level of poverty in the first place and it’s evil to rip away aid from the needy. Hard to watch this. 732495569
Reposted by Will TroppeRo Khanna @rokhanna.bsky.social · 25/06/2025. @danpfeiffer.bsky.social gave me the best political advice anyone ever has. Obama won because he was prepared to lose. You have to stand for something. Zohran stood for his values and something new, and he inspired many! 1812727
Reposted by Will TroppeHeather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 07/06/2025Speak up. It’s easy. 54730357
Reposted by Will TroppeBobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 04/06/2025Cost estimate of the House-passed "Big Beautiful Bill" is out It'd be the largest cut to Medicaid+CHIP and SNAP in history while still increasing deficits by $2.4 trillion due to $3.8 trillion in tax cuts This'd be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history 6119501167
Reposted by Will TroppeRobinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social · 02/06/2025NEW, from me: The House reconciliation bill would be horrible for the country’s energy policy. But the Senate can fix it. I have a new piece in the @nytimes.com with the three recommendations for how lawmakers can avoid disaster: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Save Us, Senators, From a Very Expensive Mistake 29529
Reposted by Will TroppeBobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 30/05/2025I updated this old graph of mine. It shows that, if not for the Bush and Trump tax cuts, debt/GDP would be stable rather than rising forever. I've updated the methodology to first assume an AMT patch at Clinton levels, so I'm only attributing to the Bush tax cuts their portion of the AMT patch. 18474203
Will Troppe @wtroppe.bsky.social · 11/05/2025If it’s _not_ a bribe, that means Qatar is just giving a $400M plane to Trump - why? For fun? Because they like his personality? 010
Reposted by Will Troppesouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 23/04/2025A US citizen with a learning disability who has just suffered a medical emergency asks a CBP officer for directions outside the emergency room. He ends up detained in an icebox for ten days and has the assistant secretary of DHS lying about him to the public at large. popular.info/p/us-citizen... 791217919990
Reposted by Will TroppeHakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 23/04/2025A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond. I hope you’ll read and share the piece. stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...stanforddaily.comWhat DEI threatens isn’t merit. It’s monopoly.Political science professor Hakeem Jefferson argues for DEI's importance to de-monopolizing universities. 1383772888
Will Troppe @wtroppe.bsky.social · 03/04/2025“But these tariffs just don’t make sense!” Here’s the game: Step 1: institute extremely high tariffs for no real reason Step 2: retailers raise prices Step 3: repeal tariffs (after declaring victory + claiming achievements no matter what) Step 4: retailers keep prices high Step 5: profit! 020
Reposted by Will TroppeSen. Cory Booker @booker.senate.gov · 01/04/2025I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:youtube.comLive: Speaking on Trump, Musk, and America’s Moral Moment on the Senate Floor | Senator Cory BookerYouTube video by Senator Cory Booker 107495078610424
Reposted by Will TroppeJudd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 16/03/2025In addition to his political savvy, Chuck Schumer also offers cutting edge communication strategies ranging from an op-ed in the New York Times to an interview with the New York Times 1975297552
Reposted by Will TroppeDr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 15/03/2025Huge march in New York today protesting the illegal DOGE cuts 496361788287
Reposted by Will TroppeKate Schapira: "Well Put & Generalizable" @kateschapira.bsky.social · 15/03/2025They're trying to deport my colleague from the med school and holding her without counsel. She was coming back from a visit to her family. If there are ways to help I'll let you know. www.providencejournal.com/story/news/l...providencejournal.comShe saw family in Lebanon. Now this Brown Medicine doctor is being held at Logan for deportation.Dr. Rasha Alawieh flew into Logan Airport Thursday after visiting family in Lebanon. She's being detained now at Logan without legal counsel. 19776934202
Reposted by Will TroppeMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10/03/2025some helpful reminders: -not all jews support israel -criticizing israel is not the same as being antisemitic -being pro-palestine does not equal being pro-hamas -arresting someone for being pro-palestine is a violation of the first amendment -violating someone’s first amendment rights is bad 219165664208
Reposted by Will TroppeAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Trudeau: I want to speak first directly to the American people… your government has chosen to do this to you. Your government has chosen to put American jobs at risk. They have chosen to raise costs for American consumers on everyday essential items… 20137535320346
Reposted by Will TroppeDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/03/2025Everyone can see that the center-right was a hollow shell, yes? It collapsed immediately & totally, which suggests there wasn't much to it. And everyone can see that conservatives' stated principles were always bullshit, right? Small gov't. Judicial restraint. Rule of law. Out the window. 341260232
Reposted by Will TroppeSam Stein @samsteindc.bsky.social · 03/03/2025NEWS: The USAID official put on leave for disseminating two memos about Rubio's failure to push through life-saving foreign aid was in the process of writing a THIRD memo when fired. We obtained it. It's far more alarming than the first two. www.thebulwark.com/p/what-a-wee... 23977854046
Reposted by Will TroppeMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 02/03/2025The deputy speaker of Israel’s parliament and a leading member of Netanyahu’s party calling for the bombing of food stocks in Gaza just a few hours ago. You won’t see this mentioned by any European or American leaders, or by most western media. 18343541968
Reposted by Will TroppeThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 01/03/2025Seems like a pretty important detail 436243437708
Reposted by Will TroppeStand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 12/02/2025Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025! Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide! #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence 289114575402
Reposted by Will TroppeAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 01/03/2025NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL. 57759428940876
Reposted by Will TroppeYashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 28/02/2025In an extraordinary display of public support, heads of state, heads of government, and foreign ministers from all over Europe and Canada are posting in support of Ukraine in response to the Oval Office meeting with Trump, Zelenskyy, and Vance. 363161524955
Reposted by Will TroppeDavid Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 28/02/2025No, the meeting did not go badly for Ukraine. It exposed in the most undeniable, unequivocal way possible the pro-Putin commitments of the president and vice president. That was information Americans and allies needed to have clear before them. 813295047822
Will Troppe @wtroppe.bsky.social · 28/02/202547 doesn’t understand good vs bad. He has no concept of morality, just power. He just sees strong vs weak. He likes strength and despises weakness. He views Ukraine as weak and Russia as strong, so he bullies Zelenskyy and sucks up to Putin. He has no clue what true strength looks like. 040
Will Troppe @wtroppe.bsky.social · 28/02/2025MAGA leaders undermine govt, dismantle our global standing, destabilize our economy, decimate soft power through foreign aid, and destroy our health, all to consolidate more power and wealth in the ashes. Cruelty and malicious destruction is intentional, not a side effect. Pure, self-serving evil. 1188
Reposted by Will TroppeCosta Samaras @costasamaras.com · 27/02/2025[getting a bootleg flu shot] Them: do you have an egg allergy? Me: wait, you also sell egg? 623937
Reposted by Will TroppeAriella Elm @ariellaelm.com · 26/02/2025Yesterday, like every Tuesday @senatedem.bsky.social held a press conference. @schumer.senate.gov, @murray.senate.gov and @baldwin.senate.gov spoke. Patty called EM the leader of the Republican Party party, and gave calls to action for us on what we can be doing right now 1/3youtube.comSenate Democratic Leadership Press Conference 02/25/2025YouTube video by The Union Herald 44527
Reposted by Will Tropperyan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 26/02/2025"It’s a familiar Silicon Valley mindset, the reason startups are forever reinventing a bus, or a bodega, or mail. It’s the implacable certainty that if you’re smart at one thing you must be smart at all of the things." www.wired.com/story/doge-i...wired.comThe Incompetence of DOGE Is a Feature, Not a BugA series of mistakes by DOGE shows just how arbitrary and destructive this slash-and-burn strategy can get. 421520380
Reposted by Will TroppeBobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 26/02/2025House Rs just passed the budget resolution, the first step in their process to enact a bill that'd kick millions off Medicaid & cut SNAP down to just $1.60 per person per meal on avg while cutting taxes for the top 0.1% by $278k - all while increasing the debt 🧵on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT 697165657074
Will Troppe @wtroppe.bsky.social · 25/02/2025My new coping mechanism is asking ChatGPT for West Wing versions of 47’s White House scenarios. My latest: 120
Will Troppe @wtroppe.bsky.social · 25/02/2025You can’t fight feelings with facts - especially about the “task force” and “working group” you formed. People are scared. @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social needs to meet the moment, empathize with fears, and convince people he’ll fight for them. 120
Will Troppe @wtroppe.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Welfare for the wealthy. This spending bill is cruel and morally bankrupt. Trump doesn’t care about debt. He doesn’t care about people, only himself. It’s now laid bare: DOGE is a transparent effort to undermine government’s regulatory capacity to concentrate power and wealth beyond imagination. 014
Reposted by Will TroppeChris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 24/02/2025This is insane. If you wonder why some of us think the rule of law is about to fall, it's this. The U.S. Attorney for DC is not "President Trump's lawyer" and its job is not to "protect his leadership" nor prosecute people who "refuse to put America first". 559100633292
Reposted by Will TroppeRyan Van Velzer @ryanvanvelzer.bsky.social · 24/02/2025Stunning democratic backsliding here: apnews.com/us-news/miss...apnews.comMississippi Legislature not a ‘public body’ and not subject to Open Meetings Act, judge rulesA judge has ruled that the Mississippi Legislature is not a public body and not subject to the state’s Open Meetings Act. Hinds County Chancery Court Judge J. 76734
Reposted by Will TroppeOlga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 24/02/2025This is #2 at the FBI 194219
Reposted by Will TroppeSen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 24/02/2025The most shameful betrayal of an ally by a U.S. President in modern history. 2412222588
Will Troppe @wtroppe.bsky.social · 24/02/2025Call your reps! Today’s topics: - QAnon Kash and personality Dan Bongino running FBI. Retribution expected - Call it a Coup - Strong comms: Sen Smith “dick boss” Elon comeback and Gov Mills “Maine will resist unconstitutional directives.” Emulate! - Town Halls demonstrate: resistance building! 040
Reposted by Will TroppeLee Drutman @leedrutman.bsky.social · 24/02/2025This is a head-spinning barrage of threats to democracy in less than a month. Shock and awe indeed. brightlinewatch.org/accelerated-... 2225