Nina Amenta
@ninaamenta.bsky.social
Retired computer scientist. Spend too much time on news.
Nick and Dan first reported on William Walters’ donation to the Noem PAC and the awarding of a shady contract A YEAR AGO. I first reported his connection to Daedalus and all of the airplane purchases for a markup in February. I first reported that the final planes were purchased under Mullin’s
Amazing. For $10K to a PAC, Noem wasted hundreds of millions. And SCOTUS had made it almost impossible to prosecute bribery. www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
Video: Why Did D.H.S. Buy These Planes?
Our investigative reporter David A. Fahrenthold explains his investigation into 10 planes the Department of Homeland Security bought from a donor to former D.H.S. Secretary Kristi Noem.
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My local event: indivisible.org/events/no-ki...
No Kings: Vote Early Davis CA
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Indivisible ❌👑@indivisible.org · 5d agoDonald Trump might believe he’s going to overcome his historic unpopularity by sabotaging the midterms. On October 17, millions of Americans are taking to the streets again to make it clear that’s not happening. Please join us for the next No Kings Day.
“They really made a strong case,” said Andy Crouch, an evangelical author ... “We’ve got to treat it like a person if we want it to interact with people in a morally consistent way...” And so, they trained it on the internet. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...
Religious Scholars Met With Anthropic. What They Heard Stunned Them.
In a series of private meetings, the company consulted religious scholars to help instill morality into its A.I. models — and make the case that Claude could be conscious.
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One step closer to justice for my dad, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.
Texas Tribune@texastribune.org · last wk.Breaking: The Texas Tribune has identified the ICE agent who witnesses say fired through an open van window and killed 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston nearly three months ago.
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Kamlager-Dove Introduces Articles of Impeachment Against OMB Director Russell Vought
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove (CA-37)introduced articles of impeachment against Office of Management and Budget (OMB)Director Russell Vought after the administration
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Oh for gods sake. First, while it’s true that Florida has the highest ACA enrollment in the country, no, there are not "5 x more people enrolled in Obamacare in Florida than live in the state." Around 19% of the total population is enrolled, which is high but hardly over 100%. 1/5th =/= 5x.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoDr Oz: "There are 5 times more people in parts of Obamacare in Florida than live in the state. It's impossible More than a third of people on Obamacare have never used the insurance policy once. If you were gonna pay your hard-earned money to buy insurance, would you ever use it? The answer is yes"
Quote: “It’s harder to open a hot-dog stand than to build an artificial superintelligence,” the A.I. safety researcher Marius Hobbhahn told me. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/o...
Opinion | This Is Really Bad (Gift Article)
We can no longer pretend that A.I. is safe.
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They have every intention of rigging this election and trying to steal it And these are the same people who spent a decade falsely claiming elections are rigged It's the biggest, longest con in U.S. political history, and the whole country is its victim
USPS whistleblower describes new plans for voting by mail hidden from the public | CNN Politics
The US Postal Service effort to develop a sweeping new system for verifying mail ballots has invited a host of IT concerns among agency officials, with some describing the process internally as a “sh*...
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Ben Gvir posted this video on twitter today which shows fat and happy Palestinians on a conveyer built going through the Israeli "prison" (torture camp) system and coming out emaciated and maudlin. This is textbook genocidal content.
Daisy Chain Fields was the best thing ever to happen to Irvine, CA.
Ships traveling between the upper Great Lakes and the Atlantic must pass through Canada’s Welland Canal. The 27-mile canal and all eight of its locks are entirely in Ontario, meaning a strategically important portion of U.S. Great Lakes maritime trade depends on Canadian-controlled infrastructure.
Extraordinary, powerful and heart-wrenching. Active duty Marine Colonel Zach Schmidt, speaking in his personal capacity, about Khalil, an Afghan national whose family helped U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Khalil was deported by the U.S. on Friday to a conflict zone.
A civilian geography professor was fired from West Point for pushing back after department officials barred faculty from teaching that humans contribute to climate change.
West Point professor fired after pushing back on limitations to teaching climate change, lawsuit says
Adam Kalkstein pushed back after department officials barred faculty from teaching that humans contribute to climate change, the lawsuit says.
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This morning in Danbury, ICE was arresting parents at school bus stops. But it’s more sinister. ICE waited until the kids were on the bus so when they are dropped off at the end of the day, they are alone, scared to death they can’t find their parents. I’m heading to Danbury.
BREAKING: Liam Tadeo was just deported by ICE.
James Talarico@jamestalarico.bsky.social · last mo.A 5-year-old Texan just spent the first day of school in an ICE detention center. ICE kidnapped Liam Tadeo on his way to a soccer game with his dad. Liam should be in kindergarten. Instead, our government has thrown him in a prison camp hundreds of miles from home.
Here's the AP link to the story. apnews.com/article/uss-...
He was waiting for his son to return from the USS Lincoln. Then Border Patrol arrested him
The father of a man serving on the USS Abraham Lincoln has been arrested by immigration authorities.
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Sam Bagenstos@sbagen.bsky.social · last mo.A story for our times. triblive.com/news/world/h...
NSF is substantially reducing grants, zeroing out many SBE subdivisions, & withholding the funds to spend next year on central initiatives: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Exclusive: NSF set to issue lowest number of new grants in four decades
The US science-funding agency is withholding $1 billion of its budget so that the money can go to a special White House project.
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I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
ICE begins deporting Haitians who lost TPS back to homeland
Community leaders said Thursday’s removal flight was one of the largest they had seen and included people who were detained in recent weeks.
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How many signers protested as loudly when the Trump NIH, based on academic expression, canceled funding (causing job losses) and fired ppl from NIH boards? This is the way to see who doesn’t care about academic freedom and free speech—but wants to weaponize it to protect speech they like. 1/
Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 2mo agoMeanwhile
It doesn’t get discussed this way but Donald Trump refusing to pay his $100,000,000 tax bill is no different than stealing that money straight from the Treasury.
say what you will about the myriad valid concerns with current LLMs but I personally will never get over the fact that Aaron Swartz was prosecuted to his literal death for downloading JSTOR and then a decade later, they downloaded & ingested the entire world and our IP laws just went ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Who gives a man who had 300 of his bank accounts closed for money laundering, an entire bank for a system of money designed to be untraceable? 🤔 www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
Trump bank accounts were closed due to concerns over possible money laundering, Capital One says
The court filing is tied to a lawsuit filed against Capital One by one of Trump’s financial holding companies shortly after he was sworn into office a second time.
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Zach Everson@zacheverson.com · 2mo ago🚨 Summer Friday afternoon news dump— "US regulator approves bank charter for Trump-backed crypto company World Liberty Financial"
Trump is making the Navy waste billions on antiquated steam technology because he does not understand magnets. He thinks that water breaks magnets: From 2024: "All I know about magnets is this: Give me a glass of water and let me drop it on the magnets. That's the end of the magnets."
This is a setup for obscuring the impact of the political review of grants, which is fixing to be massive. It also greases the skids for corruption and funneling money away from universities and toward venture capitalists. Please vote this November, friends. It’s bad out here.
A quick word on Taco Bell: That's where we found the suspected lettuce, and it's not bc Taco Bell is gross. It's bc Taco Bell is REALLY GOOD at tracing product! Keeping track of exactly where they got their ingredients, & exactly what restaurants each shipment of ingredients went to!
I could barely afford vibranium as it was
Asperas Bompar@asperasbompar.bsky.social · 2mo agoWakanda tariffs going to get doubled now
