I saw yesterday that some right-wing outlets were running stories about me, which I’m used to. But this time I’m going to say something about it, because these were framed to imply that I was aligned with their own transphobia. ⬇️
Jerry Talton
@jerrytalton.net
CTO @ Blacklake • Adjust Research Assistant Professor in the Siebel School of Computing & Data Science @ UIUC. Formerly CTO @ Carta, ML @ Slack, Founder & CEO @ Apropose, Research Scientist @ Intel.
Way more than enough evidence in these papers not only to get Comey’s charges 86’d before trial in federal district court, but also to get Blanche—and Trump—86’d at an impeachment trial in the Senate.
you stupid mother fucker (markwayne not eugene) we tricked the entire world into sending their smartest hardest working people here and then tricked those same people into staying permanently instead of going back to their home country you are BLOWING UP OUR SPOT
Eugene Vinitsky 🍒@eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 3w agoI did not see this unhinged statement previously. These people really do not understand this country
Hey @chicagotribune.com Editorial Board: Why did you describe me as a “bomb-throwing influencer”? This is wrong, inflammatory, and racist. Change it. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/07/05/e...
He’s not even in office anymore and he’s still more presidential than the man who is.
S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic
SpaceX won’t get easy access to billions of dollars from passive investors.
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I will forever be proud of my role in advising @ejeancarroll.bsky.social that she could sue Donald Trump, and in setting her up with the brilliant litigator, @robbiekaplan.bsky.social, who won $88.3 million in jury verdicts on her behalf. a.co/d/07ndLAaJ
Me in 2005: wow general counsel that sounds great and important Me 21 years later: I am forsaken by God
Happy birthday to John Brown, who knew exactly how to handle the south’s “Peculiar Institution”
Dear Corporate media: when covering Tennessee, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana now drawing new congressional maps so their congressional districts are whites only please note these were all former slave states that were part of the Confederacy who waged war on the USA.
"I dissent because Congress elected otherwise. I dissent because the Court betrays its duty to faithfully implement the great statute Congress wrote. I dissent because the Court’s decision will set back the foundational right Congress granted of racial equality in electoral opportunity. I dissent."
Steve Vladeck@stevevladeck.bsky.social · 3mo agoSecond (and last) #SCOTUS ruling is the big one, Louisiana v. Callais. For a 6-3 majority (Rs v. Ds), Justice Alito purports to narrow the ability of states to draw majority-minority districts as a remedy for race-based vote dilution, but, per Kagan's dissent, comes pretty close to gutting the VRA:
The Texas legislature rammed through a gerrymandering bill at the request of Trump. Virginia actually voted in favor of redistricting to counterbalance what Texas and other Republican-controlled states have done. Yet only one is considered a "power grab." Oligarch-owned media in a nutshell.
It’s important to remember that the goal of lawsuits like the one brought by Kash Patel against the Atlantic isn’t to win, it’s to cost the Atlantic as much money as possible only to drop the suit before discovery, and as red meat for the MAGA base by simply filing it.
May your kinks never (nonconsensually) be made public. -- old Irish blessing
Mark Jacob on how the press ignores the biggest Trump story: “The president of the United States is clearly mentally unfit for office."
Mark Jacob on how the press ignores the biggest Trump story
"The president of the United States is clearly mentally unfit for office."
publicnotice.co
Maggie Rogers, Joan Baez, and Tom Morello performing “The Times They Are A-Changin'”
NY Times reports Hegseth just struck 2 Black and 2 female officers from a promotion list — and says Hegseth’s Chief of Staff told the army secretary “Trump would not want to stand next to a Black female officer at military events” More: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/u...
Coyne: "Your honor--" Court: "Sit down. Coyne: "--if--" Court: "Sit down." Coyne: "If I notice of appeal-- (think he means appear) Court: "Sit down." Coyne: "--is entered --" Court: "I'm directing the court security offices to remove Mr. Coyne."
NEW: Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes has filed charges against prediction market company Kalshi. "Kalshi may brand itself as a 'prediction market,' but what it's actually doing is running an illegal gambling operation." www.reuters.com/world/kalshi...
Kalshi charged criminally in Arizona for operating illegal gambling business
Arizona's attorney general on Tuesday filed criminal charges against Kalshi, accusing the prediction markets platform of operating an illegal gambling business in the state and unlawfully allowing p...
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If he's going to get a national profile on the strength of a younger woman's campaign, I'm going to come out and say it: during his short-lived tenure as a math professor, Biss had an inappropriate romantic relationship with one of his undergraduate students. I was that student.
NPR@npr.org · 5mo agoThe push for generational change in the Democratic Party faces a test in a Chicago-area congressional district, where the top candidates span three generations: from Gen X and millennials to Gen Z. n.pr/3PD5bZ6
In case you're wondering how slow justice moves: after the Trump administration investigated my podcast and removed me from my job at the VA in 2019, I filed a complaint. We still don't have a trial date set. We're waiting on a summary judgment ruling after a hearing last August.
“Don’t ever be the first to stop applauding.” -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, writing about the unfortunate director of the local paper factory mannerofspeaking.org/2010/05/12/s...
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5mo agooh my goodness -- watch Mike Johnson, Scalise, Emmer, and McClain clap like seals for Trump for nearly two minutes straight. None of them want to be the first to stop!
I think people who say things like this, especially prominent people with power, should be shamed and shunned and reviled — cancelled, if you will. “Free speech culture” disapproves of that sentiment — says that it’s worse than what Ogles said. Judge it thus.
Katherine Clark@whipkclark.bsky.social · 5mo agoThis disgusting shit doesn’t belong in American society. And Republicans who support it don’t belong in Congress.
