They could always sign up to give comment at a public meeting.

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 19h ago

New York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

Can you visually map your Bsky network? I'm curious which cluster communities I’ve ended up in (“politics” obvi, but want a deeper dive). I started this account to vent/commiserate, but also it’s my own personal experiment to understand social media better since the terminally online run politics 🤷‍♀️

We can could cook up various metaphors to describe what AI is doing to society. Try this on: what holds human societies & governments together are our shared beliefs on reality, as determined by the scientific method, our shared "facts", & our belief that such knowledge is even *possible*...

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 4d ago

These businesses aren't just wasting billions - they're replacing skilled workers with defective chatbots. As I've written before, AI is the asbestos we're shoveling into the walls of our technological society. 79/

Co signed

Matthew Gertz@mattgertz.bsky.social · 7h ago

My ice-cold boring take that will definitely not go viral is that a primary result with a margin of victory of roughly 1 percent tells you precisely nothing about The Future Of The Party.

Going through old records and found this gem my brother gave me for my birthday one year. When I showed it to my Zoomer kid, she promptly screamed “That looks like Charlie Kirk!” 😆

btw this works with all assholes and abusers: Watch what they do, not what they say is the only way to cut through the noise and bullshit they purposely create to confuse and gaslight you.

@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze)@newsjennifer.bsky.social · 8h ago

NEW from me: I think this is the perfect time to use Rachel Maddow’s oft-repeated phrase - ‘watch what they do- not what they say.’ Ignore Ellison's PR pitch, but look at what's happening at CBS News including directing reporters to add “facts” that did not exist. open.substack.com/pub/jennifer...

My fellow countryman, this is your nation’s capital on Trump.

Ricky Davila@therickydavila.bsky.social · 14h ago

This is a new view of the bulldozed White House complex. The criminal monstrosity subhuman filth won’t stop until he destroys everything, makes me sick to my stomach.

Whew! My one-woman prediction market remains undefeated.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 7h ago

Breaking News: The progressive Abdul El-Sayed narrowly won Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary, a victory for the left in a crucial state.

Clearly we are doing it wrong. One thing is that outside pollsters are never going to get a lot of people's real opinions in this day and age of mistrust. If pollsters found local community folks to do door to door, they would get real results imho. Or at least better ones. Just a thought.

Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · 9h ago

There’s no actual alternative to polling but I just don’t believe they capture public sentiment in any reliable way anymore

Evergreen good advice

Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑@emilylhauser.bsky.social · 9h ago

Today is Wednesday, Aug 5 Good morning ❤️ eat take your meds hydrate tell your people you love them let them love you back We are here. This is real. Let's build a home for each other and fight like hell. All you fascists bound to lose ✊️

I have yet to see significant acts of civil disobedience by Dem politicians, congressional or otherwise. When they go on hunger strike or chain themselves to the fence of a detention center, they’ll get cookies. Until then, they haven’t done + aren’t doing enough. #AbolishICE

Ditto. And the struggle is real.

Mags Visaggio - Writer and Writing Coach for Hire 🏳️‍⚧️@magsvisaggio.com · 7h ago

I love a lot of beautiful art by terrible people

What could explain Miller yesterday going on Newsmax and CNN -- but not Fox News, which also has basically ignored the story altogether? This seems like a job for Sean Hannity, and yet...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7h ago

NEWSMAX: Your daughter fractured her collarbone and there was a handprint on her upper chest, and it left a bruise. How did that happen? MAX MILLER: What I can tell you is I didn't do that. 9 of the 11 previous days was my ex-wife's care. What's so troubling about child protective services is ...

There it is

Jess Piper@piperformissouri.bsky.social · 8h ago

The Heritage Foundation asserts that women never needed sports in the first place. To prove that Title IX has become a tool of “feminist social engineering.” To demonstrate that women don’t need sports and that “clubs, intramurals, and exercise classes” is enough. open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...

Relatable content

Miranda Keeling@mirandakeeling.com · 9h ago

Woman on a bus (reading from an article): Have you ever discussed your fantasies with your partner? Her friend: Like the one where I’m in a cottage by the sea completely on my own with a book and a cup of tea?

Baby Ralph

I read that as Joni Mitchell at first because it’s 1am and that, my friends, means it’s time to pack it in for the night.

Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com · 18h ago

If you thought John Mitchell or Bill Barr were bad… just you wait.

To me, this is one of the wildest thing to me out of all of the wild things happening in our circus of a govt. The white nationalism/misogyny/transphobia/ICE kidnappings/fascism was all expected. But even I lacked the foresight to include “deplete military stockpiles” on my Trump 2.0 bingo card.

rich traditions@helldude.bsky.social · 21h ago

couple months ago: let's show these assholes why americans are drowning in medical and other personal debt now: wait what we don't even have the weaponry now either

Michigan, meet your next Senator!

Resign, Carney. ⚜️@lalegault.bsky.social · 7d ago

The Swiftie thirst traps have to win Michigan over, right? He’s an excellent campaigner and also a good dude. He’s like. Senate-Mamdani.

Marital rape wasn’t illegal and date rape got featured as both deserved AND romantic in teen films like 16 candles and Revenge of the Nerds. The backlash to 70s second wave feminism continues, but mini-gender justice resistance movts (Riot Grrrl, trans rights, #MeToo) have had an impact.

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 19h ago

Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.

Don't look now, but the world has now installed 3TW of solar. Took 10 years to get from 100GW to 1TW. Less than 3 years to get to 2TW. Less than 2 years to get to 3TW. Analysts expect *9TW* by 2036.

The World Crossed a Major Solar Milestone. No One Noticed

The next phase of the boom may reveal a shift in who is gaining access to the technology.

bloomberg.com

Cool, cool. We’re basically out of ATACMS and PrSM, and we used half our *global* TLAM supply… all for the Strait of Hormuz to still be closed?

Feels like we're getting close to states calling it a night on counting, so let's close things out by looking at the six races that have yet to be called.

Ofc it did

Zach Everson@zacheverson.com · 16h ago

Ballard Partners just opened an office in Caracas.

Absolutely agree. Enthusiasm is on the side of progressives, not the establishment. Republicans would have a better chance of beating Stevens for 2 reasons: Al-Sayed is a better campaigner AND her stance on Israel would depress Dem turnout significantly, esp among Arab-Americans + youth voters.

Resign, Carney. ⚜️@lalegault.bsky.social · 17h ago

Rachel Maddow just said that Abdul and Stevens have an equal chance in November. I disagree, I think Socialist/Mamdani-fever will be hotter. People want change.

honestly one of the biggest take aways I have from the last two years is that American judges are way cooler than I thought. (When the overweighting of SCOTUS is taken out of the equation ofc, like any decent statistician would)

Seattle voters are currently approving the library levy renewal by nearly 72%.

Ryan Packer@typewriteralley.bsky.social · 18h ago

Greetings from the Yes Seattle Libraries election night party at Reuben's downtown, featuring CM Dionne Foster.

Stood for the Canadian National Anthem. Sat for the U.S. National Anthem.

Some men are rapists and some men are heroes, decide who you want to be.

NBC4 Washington@nbcwashington.com · 17h ago

A man leaving an early morning showing of the new Spider-Man movie at the AMC Georgetown sprang into action to help a woman yelling for help from the bushes in the nearby waterfront park.

Good point. This is just energy costs. So the $600/household figure doesn’t represent the whole shebang. bsky.app/profile/stev...

Steven Lyons@stevenlyons.bsky.social · 20h ago

And that’s just fuel cost, correct? Imagine the cost of military expenditures on top of that.