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K Morrell

@morrellk.bsky.social

forecaster at Good Judgment Inc & eater of bonbons accumulates board games, books, and PDFs wears out hiking boots

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Senator Ron Wyden@wyden.senate.gov · yesterday

One more interesting point: this spring I sat down with Sharyn Alfonsi of 60 Minutes for an extensive interview about my Epstein investigation. Subsequently, CBS pulled the segment and fired the reporter. The MAGA buyout of media has unquestionably aided the Trump administration’s cover up here.

Senator Ron Wyden@wyden.senate.gov · yesterday

Bombshell new report out from my investigators this morning spanning our four year investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s financial records. This report shows exactly how Wall Street protected Epstein and enabled his sex trafficking for decades. Mega thread following with some key points:

Senator Ron Wyden@wyden.senate.gov · yesterday

Bombshell new report out from my investigators this morning spanning our four year investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s financial records. This report shows exactly how Wall Street protected Epstein and enabled his sex trafficking for decades. Mega thread following with some key points:

Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan, BofA Enabled Epstein, Wyden Report Says

Democrat Ron Wyden cited nonpublic documents held by the US Treasury in a report that says banks delayed reporting suspicious financial transactions and calls for tougher anti-money-laundering rules, ...

bloomberg.com

K Morrell@morrellk.bsky.social · 3w ago

New Nuclear Notebook for China is out. Prompted me to look for old forecasts and rationales on global # of weapons - current estimate of the # in China is consistent with estimates of growth in production referenced in 2022, fwiw thebulletin.org/premium/2026...

Chinese nuclear weapons, 2026

The modernization of China’s nuclear arsenal has both accelerated and expanded in recent years. We estimate that China now possesses approximately 600 nuclear warheads, with more in production to arm ...

thebulletin.org

Santa Clara County Democratic Party@sccdp.bsky.social · 4w ago

Trump fired all the remaining members of the Election Assistance Commission, which ensures voting access and security. His efforts to tamper with our elections undermine our democracy. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/u...

Trump Administration Fires Members of Independent Election Group

The firings and a resignation render the Election Assistance Commission useless. The moves come as President Trump seeks to impose control over how ballots will be counted in the midterms.

nytimes.com

Anat Shenker-Osorio@anatosaurus.bsky.social · 4w ago

Platner was polling well behind where a generic Democrat would have in today's environment. The assumption he was lone salvation is part of the same broader fiction that bro-ey white dude is our savior and must be excused for all sins.

Jon Cooper@joncooper-us.bsky.social · 4w ago

Susan Collins’ GOP allies think Graham Platner’s exit makes her reelection bid tougher Collins’ team thought Platner’s baggage gave her the best shot at reelection.

Per Ahlberg@perahlberg.bsky.social · 4w ago

The strangest thing happened today. We went to the uninhabited island of Lunga, west of Mull, to look at the puffins nesting there. I was just taking photos when I felt a thump as something landed quite heavily in my head. It was a puffin! It stayed for about a minute before flying off.

A man with his back to the camera, wearing a blue jacket and a grey woolen hat. A puffin is sitting on top of his head. On the left, an arm holding a mobile phone can be seen. In the background, a green slope and the sea beyond.In this photo the puffin is taking off.
Social Media Lab@socialmedialab.ca · last mo.

"Switzerland bolted 5,000 solar panels onto a dam wall 8,000 feet up in the freezing Alps where everyone said solar made no sense, and the plant now makes three times more winter power than any farm down in the valleys" www.ecoportal.net/en/switzerla...

Switzerland bolted 5,000 solar panels onto a dam wall 8,000 feet up in the freezing Alps where everyone said solar made no sense, and the plant now makes three times more winter power than any farm do...

High in the Swiss Alps, on a concrete dam wall more than 8,000 feet above the sea, someone bolted thousands of solar panels to a place almost no one thought

ecoportal.net

John Wiseman@lemonodor.bsky.social · last mo.

Based on the NTSB preliminary report on N249CP, the evidence is fairly strong: this medevac plane probably wouldn't have crashed, and its 4 crew would still be alive, if the military hadn't been jamming GPS that night.

Image taken from the NTSB preliminary report into the N249CP crash: A Google Earth satellite map displaying the flight path of aircraft N249CP over a desert and mountainous region, annotated with timeline events. A legend in the bottom left indicates that green dots represent "Prelim ADS-B" data and red circles represent "Spidertrack" data. The flight path proceeds chronologically as follows: T/O 2352: The flight takes off from ROW Airport, heading west (marked in green). 0000:26: The plane is "1K' High (13k')" and "Reports GPS Lost." At this point, the tracking data switches from green to red. 0001:17: An annotation reads, "ARTCC Controller Requests Stop Jamming." The plane is on a "275 Hdg to SRR." The plane makes a right turn northward, annotated "Cleared to REYOK 350 Hdg." 0005: As it travels north, an annotation reads, "ARTCC Supervisor Requests Stop Jamming." 0008:06: Near the top of its northward path, the plane is "Visual with SRR" and makes its "Final Radio Transmissions." The track briefly switches back to green dots. 0010: The plane makes a sharp left turn toward the west. Annotations read "ARTCC Informs Military Airplane is Visual" and "Airplane Starts Descent From 12k'." The tracking data switches back to red circles. 0015: The path continues westward into mountainous terrain and terminates at a red crash symbol labeled "N249CP," with the annotation "End of Flight Data."
James Croxton@jwcroxton.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The writing of today's article about the protest took a wild turn when I discovered that the road the ICE detention center would be on was named after a slave-holding family from Missouri. Check it out ⤵️

LEFT COAST RIGHT WATCH@lcrw.news · 2mo ago

NEW from LCRW: @jwcroxton.bsky.social covers yesterday's #NOKINGS protest in Gilroy, CA, where the federal government is planning to build an ICE detention center on a road named after a slave-holding family.

K Morrell@morrellk.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Elevating incompetent or unqualified people is a means of buying loyalty. The person hired is compelled to support those who hired them no matter what, since normally they'd wouldn't be hired.

Tyler King@tyleraking.com · 2mo ago

The Pentagon has appointed a former Citadel cadet and J6 convict to one of the most sensitive top-secret posts in the DoD. He has none of the relevant experience that would make him eligible for the 40-person team. wapo.st/437arYG

Demos@demos-uk.bsky.social · 10mo ago

🧵 Across the world, democracy isn’t just under pressure, it’s facing epistemic collapse: a breakdown in the shared ability to know what’s true, to reason together and to hold power to account. A new guest paper by @eliothiggins.bsky.social and @drnataliemartin.bsky.social explores how to fix it.

Verification, Deliberation, Accountability: A new framework for tackling epistemic collapse and renewing democracy

Demos is Britain’s leading cross-party think-tank. We produce original research, publish innovative thinkers and host thought-provoking events.

demos.co.uk

Zoltan Miklosi@zmiklosi.bsky.social · 4mo ago

... but I will be forever grateful to him for the catharsis that I, with most Hungarians, felt last night. What he did belongs in the history books. But how did he do it? There will be a lot written about it, and the factors that made it possible. This thread is only about political mobilization.

Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 4mo ago

"I don't want to happen but it probably will" is classic abuser language: "look what you made me do." Except it's not on the scale of a household, but of a nation of 90 million and millennia of civilization.....

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4mo ago

Trump: “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will … We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end”

Trump: “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS? We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!”
Indivisible Palo Alto Plus@indivisiblepaloaltoplus.org · 4mo ago

Go to nokings.org and find an event near you today. There’s one near you. Stop by, bring a friend, make friends! IPA+ and itsblueturn.com are hosting the Palo Alto Street Fest with music, laughter, and resolve. Come join us if you can!

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

nokings.org

Indivisible Palo Alto Plus@indivisiblepaloaltoplus.org · 4mo ago

Your presence and your voice matter! To get a sense of what awaits you at our Palo Alto event, check out the map! Each of those little circles represents a musical act (in blue) or an activity station (in red). Go to indivisiblepaloaltoplus.org/no-kings-day-3 for more info! 5/n

A map of the No Kings Palo Alto Street Fest
K Morrell@morrellk.bsky.social · 4mo ago

This is a really good article about more than just AI. I'd say it's about the costs of optimization, and that those are often paid by someone other than who benefits. Anyway, read it. www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ma...

AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worrying

LLMs-gone-rogue dominated coverage, but had nothing to do with the targeting. Instead, it was choices made by human beings, over many years, that gave us this atrocity

theguardian.com