Matt Ford
@mford.bsky.social
Staff writer, The New Republic. Law, democracy, and the courts. 49ers/Dodgers stuff too.
It's a year and a half after i highlighted the issue, but nice to see: arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
Senators demand crackdown on wildfire "prediction market" bets
Fire experts warn such markets could incentivize arson.
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Molly White@molly.wiki · 2y agowhat could go wrong with running betting markets like this?
Former J6 federal prosecutors are begging senators -- mostly GOPers, but a handful of Dems are in there, too -- to stop confirming election deniers to lifetime federal courts seats. “Please stop poisoning our courts." www.huffpost.com/entry/live-u...
Former J6 Prosecutors Beg Senators To Stop Confirming Election Deniers To Court Seats
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I love that AI companies are all like "we just have a marketing problem" when regular people are having AI experiences like this all over the place every single day
Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · yesterdayGotta love the “or stocks” part. Like Gemini realized its first answer was nuts so it tried to wedge in a better one.
Wrote something a little longer on congressional primacy and how presidentialists have misread the Constitution and the Founding era:
Make Congress Great Again
Much of what ails us can be blamed on the steady degradation of the legislature as the other branches of government grabbed power for themselves. It’s time to start undoing the damage.
newrepublic.com
I know this would be closing the barn door after he horse has been reelected president, but if Democrats win both chambers I'd really like to see a concurrent resolution deeming January 6 an insurrection under 14(3). 1/
Unironically our biggest acquisition of the last 48 hours. Welcome home, Benny Biceps.
Jon Heyman@jonheyman.bsky.social · 2d agoDodgers acquire catcher Ben Rortvedt from Mets for pitcher Chayce McDermott
If u lived through the McCourt era this is your reward. The owners wouldn’t cough up the money for a cliff lee rental but were paying a psychic in Boston to “think blue.”
bobo tucci@no-flashlight.bsky.social · 4d agoAll I’ll say is that this era of Dodger baseball fucking rules when you don’t have some loser in your ear complaining about how they’re ruining baseball. What a time to be alive, truly
If the other 29 owners actually cared about competitive balance, they’d block Andrew Friedman’s number instead of giving him the best players on their rosters once a year.
Don Jr. and Eric are seeking investors in their vibranium mining consortium.
Sky Marchini@sky.skymarchini.net · 4d ago
“There would also be a pre-wedding colloquium to discuss ideas in panels and breakout sessions.”
His Wedding Guests Were Arriving—Just as His $45 Billion Fund Was Falling Apart
Leopold Aschenbrenner was hailed as the ‘Nostradamus of AI.’ But his Situational Awareness hedge fund took on too much leverage, leading to a crash he never saw coming.
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i do not understand what the non-nefarious use case for this even is
Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 5d agoNew from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...
A child born on the day this lawsuit was filed would be starting fourth grade next month.
Raffi Melkonian@rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 6d agoA strong dissent from denial of rehearing by Judge Willett in McKesson - the case where the Fifth Circuit upheld liability for a Black Lives Matter leader when there is no evidence he had anything at all to do with a police officer's injury. 1/ www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...
As I've said before: What high-paying long-term jobs do they pretend exist here? A data center isn't a place where execs come and do Big Deals. Go to the server room at your workplace; are there lots of rich people in there spending money?
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d agoHassett: "Data centers are very good for towns bc they create so many jobs & bring people in with high incomes that can buy houses & stuff like that. So if you take a sleepy town that hasn't seen much in the last 30 years & put a data center there, there are gonna be a bunch of happy residents."
No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...
Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation
PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...
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A federal holiday in August could fix this. They could be putting out Nixon Resignation Day decor instead.
Aine Yore, MD 🏳️⚧️🇮🇪@aineyoremd.bsky.social · 6d agoRetailers I am BEGGING YOU it is still July stop it stop it stop it
New: Disney and ABC argued in a new filing that the FCC is retaliating against them by calling their broadcast licenses in for early review. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Disney and ABC argue Trump administration is reviewing licenses as punishment
The media company said the FCC’s renewal process violates the First Amendment and is intended to punish ABC for news coverage it dislikes.
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Weird threat since there’s a decent chance the GOP won’t even hold the Senate after Cornyn and Tillis are gone.
Sahil Kapur@sahilkapur.bsky.social · 6d agoTrump says he may withdraw Todd Blanche for AG if John Cornyn & Thom Tillis don’t come around, at least until they’re out of office. Their key demand has been to rewrite the IRS settlement so as to kill Trump’s weaponization fund. Not clear the president is willing to do that.
A small, sad marker of the times from Justice Jackson. Until the late 2010s the justices rarely had security at all. DC folks would routinely see them alone at bookstores, farmers markets, and so on. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/u...
The William and Mary Quarterly forum on the recently discovered John Dickinson documents, revealing his previously unknown secret attempt to prevent the American Revolution, is now available online! The WMQ has generously made the issue open access for the next month. muse.jhu.edu/issue/57168
! Senate Judiciary Committee just officially delayed the BLANCHE AG vote, which was scheduled for tomorrow morning. He doesn’t have the votes. Tillis and Cornyn have made clear for weeks and weeks that the DOJ needs to rewrite the Trump/IRS settlement, which still hasn’t happened.
Worth noting that the Trump DOJ couldn’t even get Thomas and Gorsuch to rule out birthright citizenship for all undocumented immigrants.
Lawrence Hurley@lawrencehurley.bsky.social · last wk.Ho, pre-Trump, wrote an article embracing the broad, long-accepted reading of the 14th Amendment's citizenship clause. Now: "So the Supreme Court should have upheld the President's birthright citizenship order in full based on his invasion declaration."
if you’re an immigrant and unemployed, you’re a freeloader, but if you’re gainfully employed, you’re stealing someone’s job. They just don’t want these people to exist except as targets for their hatred one way or the other bsky.app/profile/heba...
Heba Gowayed هبة جويد@hebagowayed.bsky.social · last wk.My Haitian friend was just fired from his job. "They said I don't have a legal status now." This is likely happening to hundreds of thousands of people across this country today. Sick.
NANTZ: Stay tuned after the game tonight as Ross Douthat continues his twelve-part series on Chesterton ROMO: The Bills could use that fence right about now, Jim
