Reading this after interviews I’ve seen with Mamdani today. A bit of overlap - you don’t spend all your time arguing whether something is good or possible. If you’ve done your research, just do it and show them. Those who continue to argue will just look like idiots.

Tits McGee@scientits.bsky.social · last mo.

‘Say yes and never do it’ Mel Brooks knew how to deal with the studios

Kinda weird when people come to a revelation about needing to win elections after losing a couple primary contests to the left and not when the courts and both houses of Congress and the Presidency are controlled by the other party

Nathan Kalman-Lamb@nkalamb.bsky.social · last mo.

I’m crying

1/2: Nothing says “responsible AI governance” like rolling out ChatGPT Enterprise to thousands of CDC employees, then 9 months later sending the mandatory training on what information is appropriate to put into it. 🤖

I just learned that the term "carbon footprint" was developed by BP to offload responsibility for climate change onto individuals. Something like that's happening in higher ed with AI. Institutions capitulate or dodge; students are submitting; & they believe it's their individual failing. 7/

The claim that "Israel wants to kill its way out of every problem" is the sort of thing that tends to draw a DOJ investigation and the blocking of federal funds when made by campus actors.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 2mo ago

Vance blasts Israel’s response to Iran deal: “You're a country of nine million people. You can't just kill your way out of solving every single national security problem that you have.”

Hi I'm posting a 54-page PDF to the only app where when I post a 54-page PDF people sometimes read it everyone should read the ENTIRE whistleblower statement about DOGE attempting to falsely "kill off" 2.7 people through the SSA Death Master File. www.washingtonpost.com/documents/be...

Cory Doctorow was interviewed by Anna Foster on BBC Radio 4 Today on the topic of AI. I've captured a transcript of the questions here in a short thread (with the help of Google AI voice-to-text. Good AI, thank-you.) 1/5

Meanwhile, people are going through 2FA to park a car or get a loyalty discount to buy English muffins.

Love the glimpse into the beautiful mind that notated this used copy of Moby Dick I got

people are sending me important memes

Did I just witness Miller lightbulbing in real time about historic and ongoing systemic injustice against arbitrary groups of people? Ok Stevie, let's discuss Reparations for the v2 slush fund.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3mo ago

Stephen Miller on Trump's taxpayer-funded insurrectionist slush fund: "This settlement is just a small measure of the justice they are owed"

This is an issue. It is not *the* issue. *The* issue is that everything about this is illegal and corrupt as fuck. Relenting to a $2 billion theft for Trump and his cronies because at least the money won’t go to people who assaulted cops would be the most Susan Collins move ever.

Steven T. Dennis@steventdennis.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Susan Collins told us she confronted Blanche about whether rioters who assaulted police could get paid. She wants clarity in writing on that.

we have an elite impunity problem (globally, but the US is certainly no exception) and nothing will get better until we deal with this

Colin Spacetwinks@spacetwinks.bsky.social · last yr.

so much driving motivation in people in even the slightest position of power, regardless of where they find themselves on the political map, is "i should never have to feel bad, feel regret, feel shame, or otherwise reconsider my decisions" and every choice, policy and personal, falling from there

This story is incredibly good, if obviously also as infuriating as you'd expect.

Defector@defector.com · 3mo ago

Free, Easy, Dead: The difficult birth and predictable death of IRS Direct File defector.com/free-easy-de...

“You expect me to make sure my citations are real?!” - some guy who just admitted we can’t trust his entire body of work

Joe: I am a 73 year-old retired mechanic in Forsberg, Nebraska. My 3 biggest problems are Iran's uranium enrichment capability, the casting of Helen in Christopher Nolan's "Odyssey," and the ability of Tennesseeans to check out "Roots" from a library 1000 media outlets: can we please talk at length

We need to attack the theory of the "unitary executive" and every other autocratic ideology head on. We have to insist that these aren't just unconstitutional, but that they are ideologically catastrophic. 29/

Here’s more proof that DOGE was a failure: The Federal Student Aid office is scrambling to hire hundreds of employees after DOGE gutted their office last year. Looks like firing the workers who help students afford school wasn't eliminating "waste, fraud, and abuse" after all.

Fun start to cross-exam. OpenAI attorney William Savitt asks about Musk's earlier testimony, when he said: “No, Tesla is not pursuing AGI. It’s literally trying to make a car drive from A to B.” Savitt then showed Musk an X post from a month ago: "Tesla will be one of the companies to make AGI"

The court has simply recreated the pre-Brown world in allowing racial discrimination across a broad number fields as long as it is “facially neutral,” gutting the Reconstruction Amendments in the process.

I used to be good at Computer. Now Computer thinks it is good at me. But it actually isn’t??????

NEW: Plaintiffs' attorneys obtained Signal messages between Homeland Security & FEMA officials that corroborate allegations that an outside contractor served as the 'shadow administrator' of FEMA for months. w @ebazail.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

Court filing backs up claims of ‘shadow administrator’ at FEMA

Republicans have raised specific questions about the role Kara Voorhies played at DHS.

politico.com

No really, I am not kidding when I say that the data broker industry must be destroyed: www.npr.org/2026/03/25/n...

Your data is everywhere. The government is buying it without a warrant

Data brokers buy up huge amounts of information from cell phones and browsers to sell for targeted advertising. But the government, including ICE, also buys the data.

npr.org

New, from me: American taxpayers will spend billions of hours and hundreds of billions of dollars — not to pay their taxes, but to report them to the government. Thank Trump, who killed Direct File, a free tax high-quality reporting tool that IRS had built. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-the-d...

What the death of Direct File tells us about state capacity

We CAN have nice things - if we want them

donmoynihan.substack.com

BREAKING: in March 2026, *every single one* of the 1,341 refugees admitted in the United States were white South Africans: In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 4,496 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else. www.rpc.state.gov/documents/Re...

Alex Ip 葉清霖@alexip718.com · 4mo ago

An update: in February 2026, *every single one* of the 1,507 refugees admitted in the United States were white South Africans: In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 3,155 white South Africans, three Afghans, and nobody else. www.rpc.state.gov/documents/Re...

i swear if we had social media in the past people would call the hippie and punk movements 'cancel culture' too. LARGE GROUPS OF PEOPLE MOBILIZING AGAINST THE THINGS THAT HURT THEM IS NOT NEW. SORRY BUD IT IS NOT SOME GEN Z FAD IF YOU SUPPORT HATE THINGS AND FOLKS DONT WANT TO BUY YOUR STUFF ANYMORE

ICE has been hacked! And you can explore the data, which includes every DHS contract, in this convenient new tool micahflee.github.io/ice-contracts

If these idiots Dr Manhattan'd that guy, I'm gonna be so mad at them

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 5mo ago

TRUMP STATES THAT IRANIAN SUPREME LEADER IS "PROBABLY ALIVE IN SOME FORM".