We need Broken Windows theory but just for white collar crime.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 4w ago

feels like a real landmark of impunity that major corporations are making federal crimes part of the interview process

I played Slay the Spire 2 for the first time last night with a group of friends. I had a blast! It was absolutely a great hang. Was the multiplayer a lesson from the boardgame adaptation, did the STS2 co-op come before the boardgame, or did both ideas come in parallel?

Volts is my source for cutting edge climate tech that's actually getting deployed, legislation like balcony solar and a whole lot more. I've been a subscriber for a while now, and David deserves your support!

David Roberts@volts.wtf · 5mo ago

It has occurred to me that the optimal level of marketing for my podcast Volts, upon which my family's entire income depends, might be higher than its current level of zero.

This city is home to people of countless faiths. But no matter what you believe, one thing unites us: we are all New Yorkers. We will not allow ICE to terrorize our neighbors. youtu.be/uoU9Img_B40

Welcome The Stranger

YouTube video by NYC Mayor's Office

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The fact that both are quite experienced—8 years and 12 years with CBP—is yet more evidence that CBP should be abolished and all of its agents fired. There's no way to "reform" or "retrain" that, it's just a violent gang with badges.

Jesse Eisinger@jeisinger.bsky.social · 6mo ago

ProPublica has identified Alex Pretti’s killers www.propublica.org/article/alex...

it's quite funny that the international pedophile ring got QAnon to put them all in power.

Saying there must be trials isn't just an emotive aspiration. Congress can: - Create a new court (complying w/ 6A jury vicinage) - Give it jurisdiction over defined category of crimes - Also create dedicated prosecutors for the same - Strip SCOTUS of appellate jurisdiction It can be done.

It’s not so much that Trump & co don’t think slavery was important, they want to remove this history precisely *because* of how important it was. They don’t want people to learn about slavery because then people would understand how it continues to shape the landscape of inequality in America today.

Stephanie Farr@farfarraway.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Signs about the history of slavery in the U.S. and the 9 people George Washington enslaved are being removed right now at the President’s House Site in Philadelphia, across from Independence Hall, months after the Trump administration threatend to do so. How far we have not come in 250 years.

When I lecture to students about how the apparently thriving economy of the 1920s was really a house of cards just waiting to be knocked down, one of the points I stress is how much a small number of the very rich were essentially propping up consumer spending in unsustainable ways

More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 7mo ago

The top 10% now account for nearly half of all consumer spending.

The New York Times is failing its readers when it minimizes 1) Child porn generated via Grok 2) The humans, not Grok, created it and 3) The "outrage" is not ambient anger but a demand for accountability. youtube.com/shorts/kkuC-...

NYT Headline Fail: Grok & Child Porn

YouTube video by Ana Marie Cox

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It brings me no pleasure to report that my beat — offshore wind power — skyrocketed to the top of new sites today. I just published a scoop about Trump's halt on 5 in-progress wind farms capable of powering 2.7 million homes. Here's a mega🧵 🔗 2nd post is a link to my scoop 🎁 last post is a gift

Here's @mcbride.house.gov's speech, pt. 2:

Here's @mcbride.house.gov's speech, pt. 1:

@sarahmackattack.bsky.social this feels germane to your interests. Not sure if it might help with some od your overcommitments at the moment, but there may be some fruit to pursue.

NPR@npr.org · 8mo ago

The members of Philadelphia's Senior Environment Corps wade into streams, peered through microscopes and teach kids how to identify aquatic critters. (via @whyy.org)

I happily donate to Wikipedia, incredible resource in this day and age especially.

Kurt Andersen@kurtandersen.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I take Wikipedia for granted. Reading this Jimmy Wales interview reminded me in our Fantasyland age what a remarkable and important creation it is. True pillar of civilization. Runs on only $200 million a year. Requires our support. So I’m finally donating. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/m...

I'm an Eagle Scout (once an Eagle Scout, always an Eagle Scout). Scouting made me who I am, gave me a variety of skills, and even helped me get an employment for a few summers working at Sea Base. Scouting, at its core, isn't about being a good man. It's about being a good person.

Clara Jeffery@clarajeffery.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Hegseth is very very terrified, deep deep down of something to do with maleness www.npr.org/2025/11/25/n...

Since January, I have asked elected officials at the state and federal levels to make an affirmative case for gov't spending. What makes transport cheaper to build? Gov't expertise. Cheaper heathcare? Medicare negotiations. Clean tech deployment? Agency staff. Effective diplomacy? Gov't capacity.

Noah Berlatsky@nberlat.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I just feel we need to keep saying, over and over, that the problem with DOGE was not its failure to cut spending. the problem with DOGE is that it CUT GLOBAL AID LEADING TO THE DEATHS OF 600K PEOPLE AND COUNTING. 1

I don't think this is completely accurate (I distinctly remember the 100K cover on the NYT), but I think the broader sentiment is correct. The US went through a genuinely traumatic national experience. It was highly politicized. We memory-holed it.

inthefade@ihavethatonvinyl.com · 9mo ago

sometimes it will just hit me that over a million americans died from covid in a short period of time and we never had a national mourning. we never collectively grieved. we never honored the dead. this feels like a failure

Yes, the Dem leadership in the Senate capitulated to the authoritarian regime, and they should be replaced with Dems who will fight. Schumer should immediately lose his spot as minority leader. Durbin should be pressed to resign. The health insurance spike in January will kill people. All true....

80% of Democratic voters want a new leader in the Senate. Does that matter at all to Democratic senators?

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

This is a hill I will die on. State legislators should be full-time employees paid enough to live in their districts since that is definitional to the job. It would open the door for so many other candidates to run.

gwen howerton@kissphoria.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Texas lawmakers make a salary of $7200, and they only work every other year. That's why a good chunk of the legislature are lawyers, real estate agents, oil and gas executives and consultants, and small business owners

I do the same and largely ignore most other fundraising. There are a small number of exceptions for campaigns that are close to home or novel (@katmabu.bsky.social), but I like to be invested in the long-term bench building rather than leaning too hard toward individuals.

Wendy Thurm@wendythurm.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Every election cycle I say it so I’ll say it again. I make a monthly recurring donation to @runforsomething.net & it is the most effective use of my money in politics—attracting, organizing & developing young progressive leaders.

Thank you Congressman Neguse for laying it plain.

I don't think we understand just how bad the decline of the Internet is to knowledge. 3 years ago, I could perform a very basic search in any engine and get an absurd number of relevant links, research articles, etc. Today, I can perform the same search and find absolutely nothing.

Trump’s tearing down the East Wing to build himself a $350M ballroom while Americans struggle to afford health care. Senator Ruben Gallego went to the site of the Trump teardown.

Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!

There is a group of people currently in charge of this country who cannot be allowed to rule us under any circumstance, and who must be dealt with in ways that ensure they can never, as a class, return to power. Their enablers need to be similarly punished. Consequences FIRST, reconciliation later.

It would also be great if social media sites had a feature in which they posted something on the top of the site saying, "It looks like you haven't been on social media for a while. There's been a thing. Do you need help understanding it?"

Emily Nussbaum@emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 11mo ago

There should be a word for that cognitive situation where you need to search backward to figure out what news story is leading everyone online to talk about (for example) the rapture