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Jeffrey Epstein survivors say they haven't had any contact with the DOJ
I feel like in the 1980’s/90’s this would be a major plot point in a Tom Clancy novel, and the operation would be carried out as an off-book, illegal black op, with various characters trying to cover it up lest they face congressional hearings. Now the President just announces it.
It’s also such a pathetic and puny act of cruelty. So many less expensive more effective and humane ways to deal with any such problem. It’s immoral and idiotic. Just bad all around
"Hedge fund billionaire Ray Dalio has warned Donald Trump’s America is drifting into 1930s-style autocratic politics — and said other investors are too scared of the president to speak up." www.ft.com/content/b86b...
Pritzker: "When did we become a country where it's ok for the US president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything? Especially something we don't want. Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?"
Pritzker says the press should be asking this question, too, and he's right.
Like clockwork, every four or five weeks, there is a hubbub about how Bluesky is too…something, mean, lefty, liberal, small, ect. But in reality it’s just a pretty chill space that easily does what X does in terms of news, laughs, opinion, but it’s also not owned by Elon Musk. Good enough for me!
god I would love to see his list of bullies
Don't let him distract you from the fact that he died.
Yes Bluesky is famously welcoming to DNC influencers
"You can't create a movement if you're debilitated by anxiety and grief," they told Teen Vogue. Hope is crucial for community organizing
It's so weird how Greenwald and Nate Silver and the like—who aren't even here—keep insisting that Bluesky is pro-DNC, when I've yet to see anyone here ever say anything nice about the DNC at all. Also, evaporating? Lol. Bluesky now sends WAY more traffic to @techdirt.com than Twitter *ever* did.
these people need to log off. seriously. bluesky this, bluesky that, how about you look at some actual blue skies and get off the internet for ten minutes
One problem with being on Twitter is that Elon Musk constantly rejigs the site to push his views. He cannot be sidelined when he owns the underlying system. His manipulation of the Twitter AI to match his views illustrates this point. Via @kateconger.com www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/t...
Morocco tests floating solar panels to save water, generate power ->Solar Daily | #Water #SolarPanel | More info from EcoSearch
The instinct of management is to blame those pesky workers rather than AI being shit, because the AI mandate comes from the bosses, and the first priority of management is to ensure compliance and mete out punishment. The failure of a project is in many ways a success for justifying a purge.
AI cannot fail, it can only be sabotaged. You must stay ever-vigilant against Trotskyist wreckers.
Great story by my colleagues on the constant political realignment of Grok, the generative AI chatbot over on the other site. This change to Grok’s answer about the greatest threat to Western civilization is particularly ironic/meta. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/t...
if people yell at you for advocating "moderation" on trans rights on Bluesky but not on Twitter the reason for that might be because Elon Musk, the guy who runs and owns Twitter, explicitly censored trans people's accounts and posts.
#BREAKING: Judge Breyer has held that the Trump admin. *violated* the Posse Comitatus Act in its military deployments in and around Los Angeles, and has enjoined further use of those troops for law enforcement tasks. The order is stayed through 12 PDT on 9/12: georgetown.app.box.com/file/1973361...
BREAKING: Judge Breyer rules that President Trump's deployment of the military to Los Angeles violated the Posse Comitatus Act, says Trump is using military as a "national police force with the president as its chief." Injunction granted. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
BREAKING: Judge Charles Breyer finds that the Trump administration violated the Posse Comitatus Act by using the military for domestic law enforcement purpose in Los Angeles. He enjoins further violations of the Posse Comitatus Act ⬇️ storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Three Days of the Condor (1975) Sydney Pollack
He’s prob fine but something feel off. For whatever reason he’s been MIA. I think there’s a decent chance he’s had a health issue broadly defined: anything from a cold to a med procedure to a stroke. He is very old, not healthy, and he has a stressful job. His facade will only crack from here
It’d be funny if AI is involved in some way with this announcement.
A friend took this at a rally today and I barked laughing.
Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.
Loomer is pregnant
The cool thing about a White House announcement these days is that it’s either they took the woke out of Cheetos or we just invaded Venezuela. No in between. I’d love to hear something about Trump more directly but I’m convinced the news we’re all waiting for will just happen without warning.
Good news about the cutting-edge AI tools from the $3-trillion-dollar company.
"Blueskyism" helped make The Onion one of the largest newspapers in the world in less than a year. If we had spent all of our time on Twitter, we'd be poorer, dumber and terminally ill with internet poisoning. He's just angry he's wasting away over there in a nazi agnostic lane that doesn't exist.
Photo passed along from a federal employee from inside the Dept of Labor building, where a giant Orwellian image of Trump's face is now draped outside. Big Brother is watching.
So there’s a thing I’ve noticed repeatedly from people who are still on X, The Everything App - they’re constantly making weird accusations about Bluesky that don’t make any sense if you’re on here, and I think it’s a sign they’re deeply insecure about posting to X, The Everything App.
Good morning with good news: Solar repays its upfront CO2 debt from manufacturing in 4 months and 57 times over its life! Solar is 19x cleaner than coal per kWh. Solar is 8x cleaner than gas per kWh. Gas is dirty, not "clean!" #energysky interactive.carbonbrief.org/factcheck/so...
No joke. Homeschooling should be illegal.
everyone who is treating unblur like science really needs to look at "white unblurred obama" again
The connection is that the Deltas are Black women and the judge is a Black woman
Kinda weird it makes sense to make a graphic like this. No idea what I should use it for. Flyers to hand to soldiers? #USpol #Chicago #law #UCMJ #PosseComitatus #RuleOfLaw
![United States Soliders [icon of a stack of laws labeled “UCMJ” and “92,” heart icon, you icon] Article 92 Loves You Disobey Illegal Orders](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jpvse5d5p5hdcu3rouohlbpx/bafkreiaid7j5mjzgaes7v6feodfjg2gbmjoldkyxunrq54i7jouobmfgcq@jpeg "Click to view full size")
This is, of course, false. The United States exported $83 billion in goods and services to India last year alone.
I'm not a Soviet historian and I'm buried in work so I couldn't take this on, but at this moment we're really crying out for a specialist to walk us through how Soviet citizens coped with and reacted to their geriatric politicians perpetually knocking at death's door.
Dig this guy's style. Chaz Langley, the man behind the camera, runs a great Instagram account if you like street style. Unfortunately had to clip the video bc Bluesky only allows 3mins (developers pls change this!) IG langleyseye and iamsuedeofficial
This is not normal. Japan is continuing its run of astonishing temperature records. The country has just had its hottest summer for the third year in a row, and by a substantial margin. Data: JMA
Sorry i was late to the bbq i was rendering aid to a victim of domestic violence* *i fell down 2 (?) spiral staircases into a big hotel fish tank when a sex worker made fun of my penis for having 4 distinct skin tones & a toenail on the end of it. 9/11 as well
Just listened to an episode of @techwontsave.us about this
soon every mid-size business in China will make an open-source model better than Meta
JUST IN: Judge Sooknanan ordered the government to file a status report by 4 pm to address whether the children have been deplaned. DOJ blew the deadline. Now she orders them to show cause why they didn’t file the report in time — and sets new 6:30 pm deadline.
This is so so powerful! And probably one of the most effective strategies in this situation
This is the way
Solar is nuclear energy ☀️
Despite Everything, US Solar Manufacturing Continues to Power Up - Inside Climate News share.google/0EUOOIRkhkYr...
SOLAR BONG HITS
China is becoming the dominant superpower while we’re obsessed with a stupid chatbot. Solar modernity is the future. Not Gen AI, not Natural Gas, not NFTs, not Bitcoin. We’ve lost the tread.
“theorists in the 60s used term social factory to describe the relationship between capital+labor in the postwar era. Today we inhabit a social manor. Society isn’t oriented toward the production of workers+commodities. It’s now an order of personalized service privilege hierarchy+fealty.” Jodi Dean
I got arrested yesterday! (real drop off from being a corporate law firm associate five months ago. or upgrade.) I was blocking vehicles leaving from ICE’s Broadview, IL, staging ground and de facto detention center at 1930 Beach St. full statement (for now) below.
We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
If Missouri Republicans mid-cycle redistrict and break the law, they will be sued. That is a promise and I don't bluff. Just ask Texas. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
@laurenunderwood.bsky.social Held a town hall in Oswego. She posted this all about what Rs are destroying, and the camera pans to the audience, who are nodding along. I know many want our electeds not to talk about medicaid, but that’s what the district wants to hear, and that’s what matters. 3/
i don’t think he’s actually dead, but it will be one of those moments we had in bidens administrstion where he vanished for like 5 days and came back a clone of the original version and looked entirely different
Joe Biden outliving him would be objectively hilarious.
💯 Solar (plus storage) is so so much more important than AI, which is a bad magic trick by comparison. Petro-modernity is dying fast. Solar-modernity is up for grabs but China has a huge head start. But in the US we’re obsessed with a shitty chat bot.
At some point in the not too distant future the conventional wisdom will be that this was a period where the US focused on dumb shit while China took the lead in multiple domains
Every time your electricity bill goes up for the next 10 years, it can be traced back to this Administration’s actions. They are making solar and wind power illegal to build in the United States. They are artificially restricting supply while demand is going up.
It is less a mass deportation regime as it is a mass kidnapping and indefinite detention regime
a scoopy one from me, with an assist from @accountable.us: Bill Pulte is using Palantir to gather "mortgage fraud" accusations and weaponize them against Dems in order to abet Trump's government capture. but, he formerly disclosed owning Palantir stock—and that's not his only potential conflict:
The new ICE song by Jesse Welles nails it. ICE isn’t recruiting heroes, it’s recruiting the bitter, the rejected, the ones desperate for a badge to cover their failures. Losers with power become the most dangerous kind. (c/o Caroline Codsi)
sounds like AI's water usage is pretty bad after all www.bbc.com/news/article...
My video about how LLMs are not search engines has led to many, MANY comments telling me that I should be using Perplexity. Some insisting that Perplexity does not hallucinate. Out of a list of 26 papers it just provided me (in "Research" mode) 4 were real. FOUR. 85% hallucination rate.
This future sucks
Here's this week's Better Offline monologue, where I consider what would happen if I'm right about the AI bubble bursting - and the consequences of both three years of myth-peddling journalism and markets addicted to growth at all costs. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... Linktr.ee/betteroffline
Don’t look away
“When I call Kennedy a ‘dangerous crank,’ I'm not saying that as an insult or as hyperbole, but honestly as the most economical way of describing the man's views,” says @chrislhayes.bsky.social on RFK Jr.
Now, instead of reading the latest email from the Subdean for Academic Affairs and Climbing Wall Management, simply click on the ADMINISTRATOR LANGUAGE DETECTED icon to reveal the message in simple English and determine the threat level to your department, program, or mental health.
Writers, keep writing. Do not buy into the hype train telling you your job will be replaced in a few years. Those using AI are literally atrophying their brains ability to be creative. The future will need your words, your creativity, to function well. publichealthpolicyjournal.com/mit-study-fi...
And The USA is falling behind thanks to DonOld Krasnov. www.reuters.com/markets/comm...
They want to limit foreign students to 4 years in the US. Just taking a sledgehammer to both scientific research and higher education in this country. For nothing.
🤣😂🤣😂🤣
Yo! It’s solar or bust! And by bust, I mean a world-historical bust up. Petro-modernity is dead, despite the propaganda. Solar modernity will be the site of contestation, not silly the silly magic trick called AI. Trump’s nostalgia and ties to oil are damaging us at this pivot point in history.
morbidly curious if there is any level of Tesla sales cratering that would cause the bubble to pop or if Elon could get up on stage and talk about humanoid robots and send the stock to the moon without selling a single car
Yeah. It’s happening here.
China’s EV charging network surged 53% YoY to 16.7M units. Europe? +35% to just over 1M. US? +20% to under 200k. Tesla? ~65k plugs. Nobody’s even close—this is how seriously China is taking electrification & its energy transition. Keep up or get left behind! 🚗🔌🔋⚡🇨🇳 #EV #EnergyTransition #BEV #RIPICE
EIA: Solar and wind leave coal in the dust with record 2025 output flip.it/dmIr3Y WHICH IS WHY BIG OIL WANTS THEIR TODDLER POTUS TO SHUT ALL GREEN ENERGY PROJECTS.
CDC Director Monarez was ousted and four other senior CDC officials resigned, after pressure from Kennedy to rescind certain approvals for coronavirus vaccines. This f*cking quack!
RKF Jr. is a dangerous man who is determined to abuse his authority to act on truly terrifying conspiracy theories and disinformation—leaving us unprepared for the next deadly pandemic and snuffing out potential cures while he’s at it. My full statement.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Susan Monarez will not resign from her post, her lawyers said in a statement Wednesday evening.
It won’t fit in screen shots but linking here the full letter of resignation posted by one of the departing CDC officials, Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, who ran the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases and led efforts to fight COVID, monkeypox, and bird flu x.com/dr_demetre/s...
Wow
Check this shit out motherfucker *embargoes own country*
My university has adopted several different efficiency apps/products over the past several years (and for which we have paid a not small amount of money). Those apps have added several hours of busy work to every one of my weeks, and have had few perceivable benefits for students.
Political committees have spent $931,129 at Trump properties since President Donald Trump’s second inauguration, according to a new analysis by @citizensforethics.org of FEC filings. This is one more stunning example of how Trump is profiting from his office.
🔥 The Veteran Sit-In at Union Station is already breaking the regime’s grip. The Guard was posted there EVERY day—until today. Why? Because fearless vets schooled them: you don’t have to obey unlawful orders. You have a CHOICE. And today, they chose not to stand against the people.
Matt Seybold ( @mattseybold.bsky.social ) "I ask my fellow educators to consider some measures for reducing our complicity in efforts to steal our students identities, attention, and right to education, even indenture them to train algorithms" theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/against-te...
"By contrast, in 2025 thus far, Bluesky has driven "a hundred times as many page views" to Southern Fried Science as Twitter." arstechnica.com/science/2025...
Looks like a scene from some dystopian CW show about a fascist USA circa 2045.
we are going to win www.cnbc.com/2025/08/27/f...