GridGlitch
@gridglitch.bsky.social
Decoding friction between a 19th-century grid & 21st-century static. Dispatch on urban policy, Chicago grit, & ghosts in the machines. High tech, low life, transit-oriented. 🏙️⚡️🚋🚗🚲🛴 📍 Chicago | Substack: @gridglitch
Elon's sloppy space missions violating every regulation that ever existed
Ranked News@rankednews.bsky.social · 15m agoScientists are certain a wayward SpaceX rocket slammed into the moon as predicted: A SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage, launched on January 15, 2025, to deploy two private lunar landers, has crashed into the moon on Wednesday, March 4, 2026, as scientists had anticipated. … https://ranked.news/1215535?u=b
C.I.A. Sets Up Secret Cuba Task Force as Trump Pressures Havana The task force will allow the spy agency to quickly direct more financial, human and technical resources at the island, with the goal of creating fissures among the Cuban political elite. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/u...
C.I.A. Sets Up Secret Cuba Task Force as Trump Pressures Havana (Gift Article)
The task force will allow the spy agency to quickly direct more financial, human and technical resources at the island, with the goal of creating fissures among the Cuban political elite.
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Iran is demanding a fee of 7% on all commercial ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz, with Chinese and Russian vessels exempt from the fee, while Oman is discussing smaller fees of around 3% and the US wants no fees at all.-Reuters
Rachel Scott should be 45 today. She is 1 of 13 shot and killed in the 1999 Columbine High School attack. #sensiblegunlaws including closing the gun show loophole could have saved their lives thebirthdayfairyproject.org
ICE targeted people putting on after party shows for Lollapalooza, detaining them at Midway. They are currently imprisoned in Indiana awaiting trial in late August: www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8nkuAmW/
Please send prayers for @iamtunjo & his partner who were detained by ICE following @Karol G on her tour throwing unofficial after parties across the US. This happened outside of midway airport in Chic...
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‘I Am Determined’: Netanyahu Declares Readiness to Strike Iran Alone www.palestinechronicle.com/i-am-determi... Remember, due to recent legislation, Israel's arms & ours are now mingled.
The reality is that this is exactly what Trump wants. He wants to force Ukrainian capitulation and this is how he wants to do it.
"The race became a referendum on El-Sayed. He was the main character. He was so far ahead and had so much energy behind his campaign that the question for Democrats wasn’t so much Stevens vs. El-Sayed, but, 'Are you *sure* you want to roll with this guy?'"
The Case Against El-Sayed Doomerism
He could win. But it won’t be a gimme.
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Newly crowned Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed faces a stiff challenge from Republicans in November. But he's got precisely the right message for the moment, writes @nicholsuprising.bsky.social. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Abdul El-Sayed: "The Power of Our Many Is Greater Than the Power of Their Money"
The lessons from a primary win that can be applied to defeat a Republican in November.
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And beat 60mil in PAC and AIPAC funding against him. They smeared him, they contorted his resume and played racist anti Muslim games and they got nothing. We don’t want it anymore. We want justice, we want fairness ,and we want your money out of our political system. Get out.
Forbes@forbes.com · 10h agoAbdul El-Sayed, a former public health official, was backed by prominent progressives, including Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.
Now that he's the guy, I think the electability concerns are gonna fall away very fast. He has the exact right amount of hater energy for this moment.
#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 5h agoBanger
Sen. Bernie Sanders calls Abdul El-Sayed's win "one of most extraordinary victories in modern American political history." "He withstood $70M of outside funding. He was outspent 9-to-1," he says. Plus establishment Dems in MI and DC opposed him. "Never heard" of a major candidate overcoming that.
Karl Rove's little whiteboard on Fox News, lol. Like... idk, man. I'm not sure that the strategy of expecting people to know a bunch of Hasan Piker lore AND them caring enough about it to the point that it affects who they vote for is going to work, but okay.
Mallory McMorrow stayed up and endorsed Abdul El-Sayed as soon as NBC called the election at 2am and she was there to stand behind him during his acceptance speech at 10am. She really meant it when she said she'd go all in to support the winner. Abdul's whole speech is amazing.
Any article that doesn’t mention open primary ratfucking and $60 million of misleading ads is bullshit spin. Like this one.
Politico@politico.com · 17h agoProgressives didn’t get the big election night they wanted
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It is just unequivocally really really relay good that we did not nominate someone who holds a view that is representative of 5% of the Democratic Party electorate on an issue that is only increasingly divisive.
#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 6h agoSenator is actually one of the jobs where your views on foreign policy matter most and it's a genuinely incredible thing that the Democratic candidate for Michigan is someone who wants to end aid to Israel, Egypt and the UAE and not a mindless drone who wanted to give Netanyahu another $20B.
with apologies to the young man who left his extremely well-curated spotify account logged in on the hotel tv: if my daughter didn’t hear elmo’s alphabet rap we were all going to die
Once again. It's simple! The only reason that the Epstein files have not been published is that they incriminate the president of the United States, and those others who are in a position to stop them from being released.
The media and the establishment Dems treat this guy like the grim reaper because for them, that's exactly what he is. Even normies have been trained to know that all politicians are bought and paid for and the DNC likes that because it gives them some latitude to do a little corruption, just less.
The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 22h agoNew 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.
I've said it before, and I will say it again: this administration of warmongers is making all of US less safe! Gutting CISA, the agency in charge of protecting our water infrastructure from cyberattacks, while going to war with Iran is just another reckless act!
NBC News@nbcnews.com · yesterdayIran was likely behind a wave of recent cyberattacks on municipal water systems across the U.S., two people familiar with the incidents tell NBC News.
I adore Einstein and I am very thankful to have been born the same day (not year) as him. A lot of who I am is because of who he was as a person. This society needs to emulate those who are great examples of love and humanity and Einstein most certainly was one of them.
Ariaa®@ariaa.bsky.social · 5h ago"The separation of races is not a disease of colored people but a disease of white people. I do not intend to be quiet about it." Einstein was labeled “radical” & “left-wing” & he was under FBI surveillance for his anti-racist political views. He famously gave a lecture at Lincoln University.⏬
"The separation of races is not a disease of colored people but a disease of white people. I do not intend to be quiet about it." Einstein was labeled “radical” & “left-wing” & he was under FBI surveillance for his anti-racist political views. He famously gave a lecture at Lincoln University.⏬
