Parker
@parkersewell.bsky.social
Dachshund dad! Advocate for more affordable housing in Austin. Love to cook. Opinions are mine. He/him 🏳️🌈
I do believe if you buy everything on Temu and SHEIN yes all consumer goods must be terrible
Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢@regimecpa.bsky.social · 7h agoEvery time I see a thread on how bad consumer goods are I feel like I live in another universe but then I remember I buy stuff from the actual store.
Money out of politics. Money in your pocket. Medicare for All. Michigan... We won. I am so proud to be your Democratic nominee for US Senate. Let's win in November.
this is not at all clear and is a poisonous sentiment
Another Josh Smith@jcsmith55.bsky.social · 17h agoIt's pretty clear that, for centrist/establishment Dems, "Blue No Matter Who" applies only to progressive voters whose preferred candidate lost The establishment has cooked their brains into thinking winning over moderate GOP voters is a winning strategy
Looks like a 10-15 point polling miss in Michigan regardless of who wins. And people have been writing a lot of electability takes using this data. It’s dangerous out there folks be safe
The numbers coming out of Detroit are not enough for Stevens. It’s a bloodbath
“Subscribe to Lyft all access VIP pink for only $200 annually” No I don’t think I will do that
I somehow do not think "my ex-wife is the bad guy because she took the kid to the emergency room for a broken collarbone" is gonna go the way he thinks.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayRep. Max Miller: "When I was reported for child abuse of my daughter for a broken collarbone, my daughter was in my ex-wife's care 9 out of the last 11 days and she took her to the emergency room, which is a contempt violation from our shared parenting plan."
Blocking the OMB rule is huge, though. I don't really see this as a cave.
Murshed Zaheed@murshedz.bsky.social · 3d agoPatty Murray and Chuck Schumer decide to strike a “bipartisan” deal with … checks notes … Susan Collins to fund the Trump regime through December which appears to not to any include any safeguards against Trump’s meddling with midterm elections.
"guys bob wants to study the venom of the gila monster, what a stupid idea" -- industry, 1990s
Eugene Vinitsky 🍒@eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 6d agoLove this idea that industry should subsidize basic research. Industry famously is great at prioritizing timelines longer than a year or two
Progressive LA Mayoral Candidate Nithya Raman told Vanity Fair that her main difference with DSA is on housing. www.vanityfair.com/story/nithya...
Democrats should run on investigating Musk and holding him accountable for DOGE www.axios.com/2026/07/29/m...
Exclusive: Musk plans massive push for GOP in midterms
Musk is resuscitating his America PAC, which spent more than $260 million in 2024.
axios.com
Urban farming as a solution to food deserts is pretty bad policy and a bad use of valuable land
Fox News’s poll (which, unlike its sponsor, is reliable and fair) finds that a fifth of non-MAGA Republicans in Texas plan to vote for Talarico over Paxton. www.foxnews.com/politics/fox...
A Fox News poll has Talarico leading 51/48 over Paxton. In the same sample, Abbott is only up 1 in the governor’s race. www.foxnews.com/politics/fox...
this guy (doomloop dispatch) literally killed a biker with his car… and he’s posting on twitter how it just made him even more anti-bike lane. The NIMBYs are not OK.
Theo Gordon@theogordon.bsky.social · last wk.Move over zucchini lady, this guy calling 'bike lanes white lanes' and calling the Terner Center the 'Gentrification Center' is my new favorite Berkeley Council moment. #berkmtg
KEEP HONKING! I’m reading the power broker!! This is a bumper sticker I’d buy
Five-byline alert: 🚨 (FT) - Wall Street banks have demanded more collateral from hedge funds in recent weeks as a rout in AI stocks accelerates and triggers heavy losses across several popular strategies. @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/5c8a...
If places like Florida will be in play in November it will be because: 1. Democrats make the election a referrendum on Trump 2. Trump's terrible job approval will swing the usually inattentive Independents
YouGov America@today.yougov.com · last wk.NEW Economist/YouGov Jul 25-27 72% of Independents strongly or somewhat disapprove of Trump's job performance, and only 19% approve — a net approval of -53, his lowest ever At this point in Trump's first term, his net approval among Independents was -5 d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/ec...
Classical musician friend is staying with us and his hours of clarinet practice are making me smarter and more cultured than ever before, it’s over for so many of y’all
There's been a shooting with “multiple” victims at the Bite of Seattle food festival, according to the Seattle Police Department
Mass shooting reported at Seattle Center
Police and ambulances were responding to a shooting with "multiple" victims at Seattle Center, according to the Seattle Police Department.
seattletimes.com
This is really pathetic. He blames Biden for depleting our military stockpile [CITATION NEEDED] and then insists no, no, it's not depleted. So there's absolutely nothing wrong and it's all Biden's fault
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoWELKER: Is America backing away from a larger attack bc our stockpile has been depleted? WALTZ: We have to take a step back. A lot of our stockpiles were depleted because of Biden WELKER: But you acknowledge they're depleted? WALTZ: No. And the people leaking this nonsense deserve to be in jail
At the odyssey in IMAX a kid was watching Netflix on his mom’s phone, so I asked them to put it away and they left the entire movie lol
After years of trying to stop a mealy bug infestation on a houseplant I have given up and thrown it in the trash
Probably the funniest form of NIMBY complaints is “this reasonable choice is not my personal preference therefore it should be illegal”
I've seen some folks try to frame OpenAI's unreleased model hacking a company that tests its abilities as a cynical marketing ploy but reporting says that absolutely was not the case: This was a real-deal escape of an AI agent that could have done vastly more damage. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/how-...
How the Futuristic Hack by Rogue OpenAI Models Unfolded
The incident serves as an early example of loss-of-control scenarios long feared by artificial-intelligence safety researchers.
wsj.com
