Barely old enough to remember that time when Republicans refused to consider any of Clinton’s nominees to the 4th Circuit *because they were Black* He finally made a recess appointment in Dec 2000 (which are basically impossible now, after Republicans decided Obama wasn’t allowed to make any).

Nate Raymond@nateraymond.bsky.social · 5h ago

Senator Chuck Grassley says he is rushing to advance Trump's judicial picks in the lame duck. "Some Democrats so despise President Trump that for the first time in our nation’s history they’re planning to stonewall a president’s ability to appoint judges," www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

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Nate Raymond@nateraymond.bsky.social · 5h ago

Senator Chuck Grassley says he is rushing to advance Trump's judicial picks in the lame duck. "Some Democrats so despise President Trump that for the first time in our nation’s history they’re planning to stonewall a president’s ability to appoint judges," www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Reminded again of @kylekcourtney.bsky.social indignantly commenting at a Copyright Office event on orphan works (iirc) at which Libraries were catching a lot of strays: "We are information professionals, not crimson pirates!!"

John | Video Game Canon@videogamecanon.bsky.social · 3d ago

This is neat. Nintendo of America is hiring a librarian to catalog their vast trove of development documents. This person will also be conducting interviews with important Nintendo employees to make sure their experience is preserved for future devs. careers.nintendo.com/jobs/4458631...

Congress needs 10x more staff, across committees, to perform the kind of oversight that this moment calls for. Congressional staffing isn't within my area of expertise, but I hope capable folks are working on that.

this this this

Reconstructionist@unavaleable.bsky.social · 5d ago

i'm praying this congress reverses the gingrich reforms and drops elevators of cash on committee staff and resources

Absolute literal nightmare fuel.

Mithradates@mithradatesvi.bsky.social · 5d ago

Are y’all paying any attention to this Arkansas bar exam thing? Cause this is WILD People who thought they passed the exam five years ago and are well into their careers might be about to get the worst news imaginable arcourts.gov/sites/defaul...

Including "What do you mean by that?" and leaving the answer open ended would invert so many core assumptions about the behavior and preferences of American voters

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 5d ago

as grateful as I am for poll questions about discrete categories of political grievance we should invent a way of studying public opinion that involves followup questions

Physical knobs and buttons everywhere Plasma TVs >> LEDs Physical media copies of Games Anything that stops me from skipping an ad is illegal lfg.

Matt Pearce@mattdpearce.com · 6d ago

Now that Bluesky is the official social media app representing the popular will of the United States of America™️, what is our first cultural decree?

Literally just people aggrieved at having to take 19th St lol

San Francisco Chronicle@sfchronicle.com · 6d ago

The citywide vote on Prop G was decisive. But not across the city.

Raskin is hiring up. I can’t imagine a better place to work during the next two years. democrats-judiciary.house.gov/about/job-op...

Job Opportunities

House Judiciary Committee Democratic Staff – Counsel/Professional Staff MemberThe House Judiciary Committee Democratic Staff seeks counsels/professional staff members for the 120th Congress. These pos...

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Revitalize Section 1983 and extend it to federal officers and agencies, with a backronym of BIVENS. Get rid of qualified immunity and the Leon good-faith exception while you’re at it.

Nome@nome.bsky.social · 6d ago

Taking a second to dream. We get tribunals for ICE. We abolish DHS. We get the NPV compact. We enshrine bodily autonomy rights - abortion, transition, everything. M4A. We do the important things. After that. What's something on your wishlist, that an energized dem trifecta makes happen?

not sure this is really my demographic on here, but if you advertise for a small or medium size business on Google Search, email me? I’m interested in talking to advertisers for a story. kate.conger@nytimes.com

1/ Dear dozens of new economic populist members of Congress, You’ll face fast pressure to deliver economic results. How to do it? Subpoena CEOs. A shocking amount of time, they'll change what they are doing long before you pass a bill or actually cut off their federal funding. So:

Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill. I haven’t forgotten.

"but if we make our museum collection available online under open access terms, someone might turn it into Katamari" katamari.vaguespac.es

The absolute maximum pain inflicted on a cohort by 2016/2024 has to be those us who experienced the full 2008-2012 Nate Silver/Lisan Al Ghaib era. For a hot second uncertainty had been solved. There was even a genuinely hilarious 2012 parody account x.com/fivethirtynate (by @mford.bsky.social)

Nate Silver 2.0 (@fivethirtynate) on X

The Signal strengthens. The Noise fades. Forecast becomes now-cast. The model and I are one. (By @fordm.)

x.com

The Volatile Mermaid@ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · last wk.

I cannot stress this enough, I will never feel confident about an election again. 2016 beat my confidence nearly to death and 2024 finished the job.

Binance hasn’t REcovered $6B+, it’s COVERING it (reimbursing customers from company funds). Bad headlines like this are a big part of why I started covering crypto. Generalist reporters on deadline far too often end up repeating company spin.

Just got a replacement credit card in the mail without a signature field on the back. Card processors mostly stopped requiring signatures at point of sale in 2018 (Visa still required them for swipe transactions until 2020). Yet I’m still being asked to sign receipts all the time 🤷‍♂️

This law is absurd but I have to admit I had a chuckle: after decades of ISPs banging the table demanding Internet services pay *them* to deliver traffic to ISP subscribers, a government realized ‘y not us?’

Alec Muffett@alecmuffett.bsky.social · last wk.

In case you missed it: #France Government has voted to bankrupt its own popular open source projects like #VLC & raise costs for #Netflix & #Steam (etc) customers, in a badly drafted attempt to milk #Facebook for taxes via a "bandwidth tax" on web servers:

Hard to describe 2006. And it was followed by the brief window where Nate Silver Lisan Al Ghaib’d the 2008 and 2012 elections (and the 2008 TB Rays…)

post malone ergo propter malone@proptermalone.bsky.social · 2w ago

we lived almost exactly this in 2006 and I remember vividly that my thought at the time was that no way we’d win *all* the close ones

Politicians must be online, but must not be Online - discuss.

Martin Concagh@mconcagh.bsky.social · 2w ago

A lot has been said about Mamdani's social media savvy but he never replies to comments, he never reposts, he uses it as a platform and nothing else.

spectacular call back. 10/10. no notes.

Philip Bump@pbump.com · 2w ago

Public Knowledge’s Lisa Macpherson and Creative Commons’ Anna Tumadóttir argue AI has broken the open web’s old bargain and propose principles for “a new internet bargain that works for everyone” while preserving fair use and protecting the knowledge commons.

Creating a New Internet Bargain to Preserve Fair Use and Protect the Commons

Public Knowledge’s Lisa Macpherson and Creative Commons’ Anna Tumadóttir say AI broke the open web’s bargain and propose principles to protect the commons.

buff.ly

everyone, everyone, a new James Mickens just dropped

Ian Campbell@neurovagrant.bsky.social · 2w ago

I'm not usually a keynote guy, but the LABScon keynote was one of the funniest talks on AI I've ever heard, partially because of all the apparent shared trauma that informed it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=usZL...

people woke up this morning and decided to use al gore's internet to come at @elienyc.bsky.social with bad NYC pizza takes in the replies. y'all need to read your Pizza Belt theory.

ElieNYC@elienyc.bsky.social · 2w ago

NYC cuisine is interesting to me. It's strength is that you can get quality *anything*, literally anything, at nearly any hour. But "the best"? You can get *better* anything, in other cities that specialize in the thing. EXCEPT: Pizza, bagels, and cheesecake. Which is not a balanced diet.

This is ridiculous. Quad9's mission is literally free DNS with malware blocking, to help collective Internet defense and threat investigation. That's all they do.

Electronic Frontier Foundation@eff.org · 2w ago

Quad9 helps protect internet users from malware and phishing. Now copyright site-blocking orders are pushing it out of France.

This is something I complain about in my forthcoming article, which so far has cost me $1,250 in PACER fees at merely $0.10/page. Public records belong to the public and should be free of charge.

Free Law Project ⚖@free.law · 3w ago

Paywalls on court documents impede democracy. But instead of getting rid of PACER fees, the judiciary is implementing a 20% fee hike. free.law/2026/10/21/p...

::side-eyeing the class/dining discourse::

I grew up in a lower income immigrant family and we ate at Red Lobster for "special days." But we also understood the White House should not look like the inside of Red Lobster. It's condescending to assuming working ppl are culturally illiterate bc their experience is shaped by their limited means.

Still think dynamic lineup orders is the way to go. Manager can send each fielder up to bat in any order he likes. - must go through the entire lineup before sending a batter up again - can’t send up someone who’s on base - can’t bat twice in a row (next batter has to be on deck)

Jon Bois@jonbois.bsky.social · 3w ago

they should get rid of the designated hitter and just let the pitcher try to throw a base hit when it’s his turn at the plate. that’s the way it always should have been