I agree - the Dems should do everything they can to delay and obstruct these appointments. No one with this kind of willingness to disrespect the process is qualified as a candidate for any office that requires Senate confirmation.
A. Stefansky
@astefansky.bsky.social
Former brewer. Occasional reprobate. Nonproliferation geek.
Privilege is sitting in my air conditioned house while the air quality is unhealthy at the same time minimum wage farm workers pick the produce I eat in the exact same conditions.
United Farm Workers@ufw.bsky.social · yesterday"Rena" sent this from Moses Lake WA where she is weeding carrots for a non-union company. She shared: The air is bad. See my cell phone. The AQI is 166, which is unhealthy. We start at 4am. We'll work 7-8 hrs & earn minimum wage. #WeFeedYou
Your little oopsie "mistakes" had me worrying for a year of my life about my partner going to jail for up to a decade based on lies likely fed to you by the top of the federal government. Show everyone what you're covering up in these emails and texts. There's a reason you don't want them released.
Boutros acknowledges 'mistakes' in 'Broadview 6' case but says sanctions, special counsel aren't needed
Chicago's top federal prosecutor noted in a court filing that his office has already dropped charges in the case, implemented “robust root-cause changes” and started the process of reviewing over 1,00...
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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.
A 60 Minutes probe into Epstein's banking, with Wyden already interviewed, vanished right after Sharyn Alfonsi got pushed out under Bari Weiss. Same editor who stalled the CECOT migrant story until Stephen Miller got a say. CBS keeps calling it timing. Sure looks like a pattern.
60 Minutes Epstein Banking Story Vanished After CBS Ousted Sharyn Alfonsi, Dem Senator Reveals
Wyden revealed he was interviewed for the show in a Senate report alleging the country's largest banks turned “a blind eye” to Epstein's financial activity
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Just when I think these idiots running the country can’t do anything more to despise them, something like this drops and doesn’t wipe its own ass.
darth™️@darthbluesky.bsky.social · 23h ago“read the article darth” they said “it will be fun” they said
OpenAI and Anthropic are time bombs at the heart of the AI industry, which is why hyperscalers and NVIDIA continue to prop them up. Without them, hyperscaler revenue growth stalls, and the entire con collapses. www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-demand-bubble/
Every now and then someone takes a run at me along the lines of "I don't understand why you, a scifi writer, don't appreciate 'AI'," and I'm all, motherfucker, it's *because* I'm a science fiction writer I have the positions I have, how many times do we have to fucking yell "torment nexus," my dude
"Flock cameras are just one part of a vast ecosystem," @lastweektonight.com's John Oliver warned his audience last night. "Check out resources like the EFF's Atlas of Surveillance, which catalogs each of the technologies used in your area." www.atlasofsurveillance.org/
I keep arguing that Dem leadership (Schumer, Jeffries, etc.) are stuck in the 90s, as are many of the high profile Dem consultants and advisors. They think most voters are de facto moderate. This is why their thinking is outdated:
Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 2d agoWe find that the benefits of moderation found in earlier eras (~1980s-2000s) are gone. Why? Many likely explanations.
I repeat: this IS NOT AN AGREEMENT WITH TRUMP so it doesn't even matter that it's not binding. This is the DOJ saying it's withdrawing its own order establishing the fund. But the settlement still exists, and Trump's motion on Friday makes it clear he intends to enforce it, meaning the fund remains
Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · 2d agono agreement with trump is binding, it's impossible that anyone at this point fails to understand that. All that's happening here is spineless toadies folding as anticipated bsky.app/profile/matt...
Dems enjoy a registration advantage in PA and for some reason the Dem party here insists on trying to flip Rs in instead of appealing to the natural Dem base (young ppl, non-white ppl, reg'd Dems). They have Republican at home! They're not going to vote for Republican Lite!
I can’t believe this needs to be said, but the only people who want to be immune from tax audits are people committing crimes
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d ago“.. Blanche posted a second statement saying that only Mr. Trump, two of his sons and the Trump Organization would be immune from audits ..” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...
I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.
yeah. to be fair we did not at that point know a number of important things like "is this gonna work" and "is it safe" and "how the shit are we going to make six billion doses of this"
I mean, what are the odds that a reactionary Right-wing organization is a hollow shell full of grift and lies?
Arthur Snell@snellarthur.bsky.social · 4d agoI can’t believe that Reform UK turned out to be financed by a bunch of money laundering fronts for Russia. It’s just so unexpected.
I can’t believe that Reform UK turned out to be financed by a bunch of money laundering fronts for Russia. It’s just so unexpected.
THINGS ALLOWED TO BE ANXIOUS WHEN THEY HAVE UNEXPRESSED THOUGHTS - infants - cocker spaniels - your buddy Craig who works at 7-11 and is high all the time THINGS NOT ALLOWED TO BE ANXIOUS - people who can launch nuclear weaponry
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d agoSen. John Kennedy on Trump's blatant reflecting pool lies: "The president says it was caused by vandals. I don't know if he really believes that or it's part of his political messaging or he's just thinking out loud ... he grows anxious when he has an unexpressed thought."
But the administration is hell-bent on destroying universities and the research they conduct. No agreement is going to hold them back from going after Yale and its researchers. How do I know? They already have targeted our grants. 12/
The disclosure marks the first time a bank has formally tied money laundering concerns to Trump's family business.
Capital One says it closed Trump Organization's accounts after anti-money laundering probe
The disclosure marks the first time a bank has formally tied money laundering concerns to Trump's family business.
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I don't use "Nazi" lightly. This is exactly the language of 1930s-40s fascism, and it's coming from the supposedly *moderate* end of the current GOP. Their brains, as the kids say, are all cooked.
A self-respecting Congress would impeach him over this immediately. Doing an end-run around the Senate's Constitutional "advise and consent" authority to illegally take money from taxpayers, and give it to himself and criminals he likes. Alone, one of the most impeachable offenses in US history.
Howard French@hofrench.bsky.social · 4d agoWell this is, once again, horrifying.
Mark Ungrin@mark-ungrin.bsky.social · last wk.🧵 For anyone wondering whether IPC and public health leaders are competent to manage Ebola, the answer is a categorical "no". Current WHO guidance, released May 17, 2026, is still based on the 5-micron error (p51 & 58), out of date since 1934. The quacks responsible should be in jail.
I want to be very clear about the pandemic. People died awful deaths. Dr. Fauci is a national hero. In the early days I lost colleagues my own age and younger in good health and prime of life. I attended god awful zoom funerals before anyone really knew how to host a zoom mega meetings. 1/
“May” is doing a whole lotta work here. And we can lose the “experts say…”
NPR@npr.org · 4d agoThe president's media company is offering investors early access to his Truth Social feed for up to $100,000 a month. Experts say the service may violate insider trading laws.
if you want to see normally sclerotic do-nothing local governments suddenly snap into action, do some quietly beneficial tactical urbanism type thing like this and watch how quickly they race to remove it
wishda@wishda.bsky.social · 5d agoThe DSA in Wilmingotn, N.C. has created a "crisis" by putting benches at city bus stops, after literal decades of the city promising and failing to do so.
Lmao so “I don’t want my constituents to know I rented ‘Hot Honker Heaven #5’” is the last time we got congress motivated to pass a law about consumer privacy.
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 6d agoCongress hasn't updated federal consumer privacy law since 1988 (when they passed a law banning the disclosure of VHS rentals), so pretty much any form of consumer surveillance is fair game. This is where the AI comes in. 4/
