Fair question! I use the periods to avoid slandering the Alberts, Albertos, and Alfredos of the world. I use a lower case "i" to devalue the industry's claim of "intelligence," because "A.i." is not sentient. And I add the quotes because the whole thing is an inaccurate, bogus marketing term.
Rebecca R Helm@rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 8h agoCurious: why do you type “A.i.” with the quotes and cases?
Shameless plug since Abdul’s team hasn’t uploaded it here— posted on July 24th
Cao Cao Power Hour Enthusiast@statsboyandi.bsky.social · 2d agoOne reason I’m not terribly worried about the Michigan race is this is a very easy slam dunk for Public Health expert El-Sayed to make the general election about. And if he can’t hit that? Well that’s on him.
AIPAC Couldn't Buy the Michigan Primary. What's Next for Democrats and their Relationship With Israel? thelefthook.substack.com/p/aipac-coul...
The Pentagon appears to have caused a plane crash that killed four people in New Mexico in May that happened while the military was conducting a GPS jamming test a hundred miles away, new reporting finds.
Pentagon Seemingly Caused a Medevac Plane to Crash, Killing Everyone Onboard
The Trump administration has racked up a number of unusual air safety-related incidents.
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@abdulelsayed.bsky.social triumphing over something like $60 million, $32-ish million of it AIPAC money, is not a "narrow" victory, it's a people's earthquake. This kind of spending is oligarchy in action, to smother democracy through its formal channels, and is getting normalized. Still he won.
"AIPAC didn't get the big election win they paid for"
Politico@politico.com · 23h agoProgressives didn’t get the big election night they wanted
Jon is joined by U.S. Senator John Fetterman @fetterman.senate.gov for discussion on the Democratic Party, Israel, and the issues that continue to shape his politics. New podcast out tomorrow!
NBC is calling the Michigan Senate primary for Abdul El-Sayed as the projected winner with 685,600 votes and 89.7% of expected votes in and a 2% lead over Haley Stevens’ 657,905 votes. Mallory McMorrow finishes in a distant third with 55,878 votes.
Mallory McMorrow endorses Abdul El Sayed minutes after NBC call
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if you dont push the envelope on what is acceptable politics the right always pushes the envelope even further to the right.
It’s just one poll but people are making a lot of assumptions about black voters that may not be true
Hey, friends! I put my big face in a video like the kids do! Time to join the @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social and tell @mayor.nyc.gov to enact a moratorium on "A.i." in the schools! Please share - and please tell the mayor you want a moratorium! www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...
I will go further: JD Vance has said, essentially, his own wife shouldn't have gotten automatic citizenship for being born here, which I guess would make his children with her subject to deportation
neuse river hag@neuseriverhag.bsky.social · 5d agoi honestly want to talk to someone who thinks this is a bad thing to say
A thesis I’ve long held about American imperialism is that it distinguishes itself from European and esp British imperialism by priding itself on knowing nothing and leaning nothing about the ppl and cultures it destroys: Like everything however, the Trump admin takes it to an entirely new level
This is a bad piece. 1. It uncritically makes use of prosecution materials to piece together what activists thought and did 2. It whitewashes resistance in Minn, Chicago, and elsewhere 3. It betrays ignorance of movement history, from abolitionism through the panthers through M4BL
Liberal Currents@liberalcurrents.com · 6d ago"Their actions ensured that they struggled to achieve sympathetic media coverage outside of a few left-wing outlets, struggled to attract material or legal support (the ACLU, for instance, refused to touch the case), and failed to achieve positive virality in the larger culture."
If the response from centrists to a prominent Arab American endorsing Kamala Harris in 2024 despite her conceding nothing on Gaza or not endorsing Kamala Harris in 2024 is the same in both instances it sort of gives away the gams about what the problem is.
Yeah so NYT asked me ~2 yrs ago to write an op-ed about how the Colorado is running dry, & what we should do to keep this exact thing from happening. I said "There's only one real answer. Bill farmers by how much water they use. Duh." NYT editorial staff freaked tf out & cancelled the piece.
Elias Thorne@truebe.horse · 6d agosaw an article today about an az politician saying how great it was that we're now in emergency drought conditions because the farmers get automatic bailouts and I feel like way more Professional Rural Understanders just breeze by sentences like that. www.paysonroundup.com/news/arizona...
*insanely* THE PHILIPPINES COMES TO ME IN MY DREAMS I REVERE THE PHILLIPINES THE PHILIPPINES TODAY, THE PHILIPPINES TOMORROW, THE PHILIPPINES FOREVER MY JOB IS TO KEEP THE LEFT PRO THE PHILIPPINES please elect me to represent Louisiana
This is so exciting! I thought all the lefty media I watch was posting internal polls but turns out it's multiple polls!
A.R. Moxon@juliusgoat.bsky.social · 6d agoIf El-Sayed wins, especially by these sorts of margins, the crashout in centrist Democratic world are going to truly be something to behold.
Democrats Are Pulling Away in the Generic Ballot. So Elon’s Trying to Buy Another Election. American fascism isn’t a mystery about human nature or a vibe that showed up out of nowhere. It begins as a campaign finance story.
Democrats Are Pulling Away in the Generic Ballot. So Elon’s Trying to Buy Another Election. | LOLGOP Studios
July 29, 2026. Write it down. That’s when the battle for America’s soul began in earnest, again. That’s the date Axios reported that Elon Mu
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I wrote about how immigration arrests are at all-time highs, even as ICE is trying to assume a lower public profile. How are they doing this? Look to your local police.
ICE’s Secret Weapon Is in Your Community
While attempting to maintain a relatively lower profile, ICE is managing to arrest record numbers of people. Here’s how it’s doing that.
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Tip of the hat to mainstream media, who credulously gave us those "Musk is getting out of politics" headlines last year and those "Musk has regrets" headlines last week, and will give us those "regretful Musk is getting out of politics" headlines next spring.
George Pearkes@peark.es · 7d agoNYT: Musk preparing 9 figure spending campaign in support of Republicans in "swing" states like Ohio, Iowa, Alaska, and Texas.
With five days left and two polls showing him up by 10+ points, Abdul El Sayed has a new ad with AOC being pushed today