Mike Nelson, Digital Policy Pioneer
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Scholar, Carnegie Endowment; Former Tech Strategy, Georgetown, Cloudflare, U.S. Senate, Clinton/Gore White House, FCC, IBM, BGOV, Microsoft. Accelerating the future of the Net and the Cloud
"It’s as if we launched a war against nature, and that has turned place after place into something that resembles a war zone," writes @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social. "The climate movement is a peace movement, a movement to end this war and its casualties."
We launched a war on nature. Now we are in a climate warzone | Rebecca Solnit
Summer is not what it once was. We have been robbed of one of life’s great joys
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This Thursday, SpaceX insiders will be released from their first post-IPO stock lockup and can cash out early. As I've been saying, this has all the hallmarks of a Ponzi scheme.
El-Sayed: We live in an era where we continue to see a few very small people try to define America as being as small as they are. We can't control the past 250 years. What we can do is build the next 250
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Tillis said Blanche had to meet with Epstein survivors. The survivors said he was condescending, rude & constantly interrupted them. They said he was just checking a box. Tillis wants slush fund order modified & IRS settlement gone. Blanche creates a sham order. Tillis wants performative nonsense.
Possible explanations for his lies and distortions: 1) Brain damage from years of heroin abuse. 2) He's too lazy to study and learn the facts. 3) He assumes his MAGA and MAHA supporters don't care about facts.
Forbes@forbes.com · 2d agoDuring a contentious interview, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made several claims about COVID-19, vaccines and measles. Here are some of the statements that were factually inaccurate.
NEW: Two government watchdog groups have demanded an investigation into whether FCC officials violated ethics requirements by accepting luxury gala tickets from Paramount as it sought federal approval for its $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros.
FCC Commissioners Face Ethics Complaints for Taking Luxury Gifts From Paramount
Citing a ProPublica report on Paramount providing luxury Kennedy Center gala tickets to FCC officials, the complaints note that commissioners accepted the gifts while the FCC was reviewing or about to...
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Republicans Now Trying to Trick Voters Into Limiting Their Own Power – The New Republic | r/missouri
Republicans Now Trying to Trick Voters Into Limiting Their Own Power – The New Republic | r/missouri
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The lies, the lies, the lies . . . . They must think their constituents are idiots!
r/protectUSelections@protectuselections.bsky.social · 2d agoAhead of Midterms, Republicans Run Ads After Cutting Healthcare Funds | NPR
And there it is … bsky.app/profile/acyn...
Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 2d agoThe President promotes Scotts Miracle-Gro in the middle of an Oval Office event: The best grass you can get. Scotts, you know Scotts? Scott's Miracle-Gro, they're doing it. They do great grass. I got to give him a plug because they did the White House for free.
Federal prosecutors just dropped charges against 3 MORE defendants who were falsely accused of damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool www.cbsnews.com/news/lincoln...
Remember Trump's disastrous Great American State Fair? He's now asking Congress for an additional $10M to reimburse costs for his July 4th "Freedom 250" flop. That's on top of the $100M+ in taxpayer funds that's already been funneled into his MAGA party planning committee.
Freedom 250: Gladiators, Parades, & the Grifting of America
Who's paying for Trump's MAGA-fied Freedom 250 festivities?Major corporate donors include Lockheed Martin, ExxonMobil, a
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AI-generated lyrics? Interesting regardless.
Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 2d agoIn the lead track of From Dreams To Dust, Ian Felice has somehow channeled the dark imagination of Don DeLillo into a near-perfect pop song. And it's not even the best song on the album. That's "We Shall Live Again." song.link/t/179015374
Read, listen, or watch the full interview:
Bluesky’s new CEO wants to grow it all
Bluesky is many different things in a trenchcoat.
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Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."
In 2022, a NASA spacecraft slammed into a distant asteroid and knocked it into a new orbit — the first time we had ever deliberately changed the path of another world, a rehearsal for the day a real one comes for us https://www.europesays.com/uk/1128986/ Humanity’s first deliberate act of …
In 2022, a NASA spacecraft slammed into a distant asteroid and knocked it into a new orbit — the first time we had ever deliberately changed the path of another world, a rehearsal for the day a real one comes for us - United Kingdom
Humanity’s first deliberate act of interplanetary vandalism was over before the pictures finished arriving.
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Daphne Caruana Galizia was investigating suspected corruption when killed, jury told
Daphne Caruana Galizia was investigating suspected corruption when killed, jury told
Journalist’s son says his mother was examining leak from Electrogas, part owned by Yorgen Fenech who is on trial Daphne Caruana Galizia was investigating suspected corruption by the businessman Yorgen Fenech and members of Malta’s government when she was killed, a jury has heard. The heir to one of Malta’s biggest fortunes, Fenech is on trial for murder, accused of commissioning and paying for Caruana Galizia’s killing in a car bombing in October 2017. Continue reading...
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A detailed recap of the real-world target hacks by OpenAI's and Anthropic's models, exposing failures in AI alignment training and meaningful supervision (Zvi Mowshowitz/Don't Worry About the Vase) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
RFK Jr.: “You probably don’t understand this as you’re not a scientist.” Dana Bash: “You’re not a scientist either.”
BREAKING: Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi met with the International Committee of the Red Cross’ representative in the capital, the military-backed government said, a rare moment of contact with the outside world for the detained former leader.
Myanmar's detained former leader Aung San Suu Kyi has rare meeting with International Red Cross
Myanmar’s military government says detained former leader Aung San Suu Kyi has met with the International Committee of the Red Cross’ representative in the capital on Monday in a rare moment of contact with the outside world.
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Guess it's time to impose some #Tariffs on the incompetent Americans poisoning our air with their smoke....
Absurd. When did "America First" become "Republicans Only"?? @johngordon.bsky.social
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d agoTrump: "We heard in Minnesota there was a cyberattack and they blame it on Iran. I don't think so. I blame it on Minnesota because they're grossly incompetent. Iran's got bigger problems than worrying about Minnesota."
Heat dome headed for west coast. "Dozens of record highs are expected to fall in at least 12 states in the West through the weekend, with around 40 million people under heat alerts. High temperatures will climb between 10 to nearly 20 degrees hotter than [normal]..." edition.cnn.com/2026/07/30/w...
A record-challenging heat dome is about to bake the West with the summer’s hottest temperatures so far | CNN
An unusually strong heat dome will scorch much of the western United States this weekend, bringing the hottest temperatures so far this year to tens of millions from California to Canada.
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The Supreme Court's approval rating just hit an all-time low of 33% It's past time to reform America's highest court. Here's how.
How to Fix a Broken Supreme Court | Robert Reich
Justice Roberts refused to testify in a hearing on SCOTUS ethics.Thomas and Alito accepted luxury vacations from GOP meg
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