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adamconner.bsky.social
Older but no wiser on a new social platform than the old ones. Professionally caring about the internet, doing tech policy at @americanprogress.bsky.social & @capaction.bsky.social but a poster first, always, and forever. Opinions are…you know the drill.
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X truly is the everything app to this administration

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Getting a nomination changes opinions about you. People assume that anyone who gets a major party nomination couldn't be too dangerous, and is fairly representative of their party. That's why anyone who gets a major party nomination has a non-trivial chance of getting elected.

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No heroes here but this seems like a reasonable request from the Qataris?!? www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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On Earth 2.0, folks on the other side of the aisle would say loud and clear that if "everyone involved in the deal understand the payment as the price of merger approval" then it is a bribe, and all of those people should expect to go to prison if it goes ahead in the next administration

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I am once again here to say my strongest belief about a @sanders.senate.gov presidency is that he would’ve nationalized the Dodgers and moved them back to Brooklyn. www.instagram.com/reel/DKAIE3X...

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

This is what passes for journalism these days smh

submitted 20 hours ago • 4 comments

My joint statement with @booker.senate.gov on Emil Bove's nomination to the Third Circuit Court of Appeals.

submitted 18 hours ago • 15 comments

Am I crazy or does it look like there are still a bunch of nuclear fireballs over the United States in the most recent Golden Dome promo drawing

submitted 1 day ago • 42 comments

We don't deserve her

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Will Tuberville be the first Governor of Alabama who lives in Florida?

submitted 1 day ago • 27 comments

The so-called "AI moratorium" in the big bill is an existential threat to tech accountability and state sovereignty generally, not just a minor AI special treatment. It defines AI to mean any meaningful use of a computer, blocks enforcement of state laws against "AI", and has broken exceptions. 1/6

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YouTube keeps making YouTube for Publishers worse -- now it appears YouTube Premium subscribers are forced to see ads on the embeds on our site. Can't fix it unless biz side makes the decision to accept less revenue with the standard embed. :( www.theverge.com/2024/12/12/2...

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@dbrody.bsky.social with an important piece on how the House Reconciliation bill’s state AI moratorium definitions are a mess and likely end up wiping out almost all state laws involving computers. techpolicy.press/the-big-beau...

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Over the long run, Trump’s broad spectrum attack on scientific research is going to do tremendous damage to the country and the world. www.slowboring.com/p/trumps-war...

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This is the funniest movie production fact I’ve ever read

submitted 4 days ago • 89 comments

This should be seen as evidence of the crisis: federal judges fear that Trump will order U.S. Marshals to stand down on securing the safety of judges whose decision they don’t like. This is just devastating. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

submitted 4 days ago • 127 comments

Love to board a flight and stare into the cockpit wondering if the first officer is brave enough to prevent a crash. Thanks Nathan Fielder.

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Corporate America’s inability to solve a relatively straightforward collective action problem isn’t great.

submitted 6 days ago • 16 comments

One admin official described the personnel and $ funneled to Tom Homan's security as "extravagant," adding they "sucked resources away from other senior leadership." 30 agents trade off to provide his round-the-clock protection. He at times travels in 4-car motorcade www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-b...

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

cat: omg you’re home I have something I absolutely cannot wait to show you me: is it your butth— cat: it’s my butthole

submitted 6 days ago • 15 comments

Am I crazy or did we just have a convo about how we can't fund cancer research?

submitted 6 days ago • 1084 comments

i hate these dumb motherfuckers so much, man. they don't get taxpayer funded water because you guys call it frivolous waste when you don't want it for yourself!

submitted 7 days ago • 20 comments

“.. would also mark the first time in the history of SNAP that the federal government would no longer ensure children in every state have access to food benefits ..” @cnbc.com www.cnbc.com/2025/05/21/s...

submitted 7 days ago • 328 comments

Love to see the President of the United States have another world leader into the Oval Office and show him email forwards. So cool!

submitted 7 days ago • 45 comments

The Republican "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" certainly doesn't want to display its beauty in daylight.

submitted 10 days ago • 79 comments

Just passed through Budget. Onto Rules later this week. And then passage through the full chamber by the end of the week. We are in end game in the House. This is a crucial week of action for stopping it.

submitted 10 days ago • 10 comments

"Internal proposals to release the food remain on hold, awaiting sign-off from the Office of Foreign Assistance, now headed by 28-year-old Elon Musk appointee, Jeremy Lewin." Call your representatives.

submitted 11 days ago • 52 comments

Trump's own National Science Foundation director from his first term among those to sign a letter urging the preservation of federal support for scientific research. www.eenews.net/articles/13-...

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Airbnb launches this every single year. We all forget and then they just announce it again. They can't keep getting away with it

submitted 15 days ago • 6 comments

As long as we’re talking about Naomi Wolf I want to remind you once again about the time she thought Apple invented vaccines that let you travel backwards in time

submitted 11 days ago • 185 comments

Newark Airport under the Trump administration: Come for the near-death flight experiences and delays; stay for the diseases

submitted 11 days ago • 76 comments

A House committee reconciliation proposal includes a federal moratorium that would nullify or prevent, for a decade, existing or future state laws that address any aspect of AI law or regulation. Learn more from @adamconner.bsky.social:

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

bought this in-universe history of the galactic empire (by an actual historian) and it is actually pretty good

submitted 11 days ago • 138 comments

the White House has reportedly met with lots of people about its forthcoming IVF report, but not consulted with the leading industry and advocacy group, the American Society for Reproductive Medicine www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/u...

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

thebsdetector.substack.com/p/ai-materia... If this critique is roughly on the mark, it would suggest that QJE fell victim to a version of the Sokal Hoax problem - accepting at face value claims about a different field that econ editors/reviewers are not, actually, qualified to pronounce on.

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

New: We talked to the anonymous memecoin millionaires who bought access to Trump. "Ice," part of a Singaporean crypto collective, hopes the dinner will be Big Macs. "Ogle" says he'll only unmask when the gala doors close. “The most corrupt thing a president has ever done" wapo.st/4kgR4mg

submitted 12 days ago • 11 comments

this was one of the more bizarre arguments during COVID, where people were claiming it was "mostly old people" dying

submitted 12 days ago • 54 comments

matt levine money stuff special weekend edition when

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

BREAKING: The Supreme Court holds that the Trump administration violated the due process rights of Venezuelan migrants last month in its rushed effort to expel them to El Salvador in the middle of the night (which SCOTUS blocked). Alito and Thomas dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

submitted 12 days ago • 251 comments

I don’t think we’re getting those “90 deals in 90 days.” 😔

submitted 13 days ago • 133 comments

Three days ago: theonion.com/sean-combs-a...

submitted 12 days ago • 262 comments

Brendan Buck saying that in 2017 when they were doing TCJA the threats of Dems on committees to stall the process by going all night rang hollow because the Dems on committees were so old.

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I am screaming — nymag.com/intelligence...

submitted 13 days ago • 15 comments

The Justice Department has agreed to lodge a full copy of all archived Jan. 6 footage held in prosecutors' database with the clerk of courts, so it can live there in perpetuity.

submitted 14 days ago • 29 comments