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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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Page One in Des Moines. @jemsinger.bsky.social

submitted 23 hours ago • 1548 comments

Raskin: This is a gangster state. This is not basically a legitimate government that is sometimes doing corrupt things. This is an essentially corrupt enterprise. It's like watching The Sopranos. Every day, they get up and they try to figure out how to plunder and pillage the people

submitted 1 day ago • 1109 comments

"Getting rid of USAID is a very easy way of winning headlines... But if your one accomplishment in government is to rip funds away from the neediest, so that they can die, so they can be unmedicated, so that they can starve, that is a moral stain that I hope will haunt you 'til the day you die."

submitted 1 day ago • 96 comments

the “will the detective investigating your murder be sad?” map remains undefeated, there’s something extra compelling about “sad and cold”

submitted 1 day ago • 52 comments

When you have access to one of the largest LED video boards in the world, a Flightradar24 subscription, and you want to see which flights out of Boston are flying overhead. Sent to us by one of our users and shared with permission.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Yeah boss, neutralizing your "We all are going to die" comment by telling everyone you're actually working to ease the burden of death, real normal just like you asked

submitted 1 day ago • 48 comments

you racked up the highest kill count of anyone in the world this decade in Q1 2025, my dude

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

The end of US leadership in science, technology, and innovation. All in one little table. A tremendous gift to China, courtesy of the GOP. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...

submitted 1 day ago • 39 comments

I think with the RealPage and ambulance surprise billing bills vetoed by Polis in Colorado, supporters should just go to the ballot with it, get 80-90% of the vote, and fully embarass the governor.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Oh my god

submitted 2 days ago • 445 comments

I spent five weeks talking to federal workers about knowledge loss and brain drain across the federal government, and its implications, both right now and for decades to come. Their stories are frightening, but I think it's important to know what we're facing: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 3 days ago • 37 comments

The NOTUS reporters said they spent five days (!) going through the 522 citations in the report.

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

Thanks to Trump's latest flurry of pardons, he's now pardoned most of the Republican congressmen convicted of felonies in the 21st century. The new total is nine — and counting. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

submitted 3 days ago • 68 comments

X truly is the everything app to this administration

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

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.

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

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

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 3 days ago • 25 comments

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 3 days ago • 0 comments

This is what passes for journalism these days smh

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

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

submitted 3 days ago • 22 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 4 days ago • 43 comments

We don't deserve her

submitted 4 days ago • 20 comments

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

submitted 4 days 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

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

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...

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

@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...

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

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...

submitted 7 days ago • 11 comments

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

submitted 7 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 7 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.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 9 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 9 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 9 days ago • 15 comments

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

submitted 9 days ago • 1085 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 10 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 10 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 10 days ago • 45 comments

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

submitted 13 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 13 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 14 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-...

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

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 18 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 14 days ago • 185 comments

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

submitted 15 days ago • 76 comments