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I'll just take this moment to point out that the US Institute of Peace, just a few weeks ago, contained one of the finest concentrations of US expertise on India and Pakistan, and crisis management in South Asia.

submitted 25 days ago • 126 comments

I still like my suggested solution for user verification better github.com/bluesky-soci... more granular and scalable. Feels more in the spirit of everything else atproto

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

Costco is a really popular subject for business-success case studies but I feel like business guys kinda lose interest when the upshot of the study is like "just operate with scrupulous integrity in all facets and levels of your business for four decades" and not some easy-to-fix gimmick

submitted 44 days ago • 175 comments

I don't understand why the judges in all the cases against DOGE's actions at various agencies don't put Musk and Kliger and everyone else under oath, demand they produce an org chart, employment agreements, etc etc. It's completely opaque and the judiciary is sleepwalking around the critical Qs.

submitted 45 days ago • 20 comments

pretty much everything that has come out about Elon Musk makes Walter Isaacson look like a really shitty biographer.

submitted 49 days ago • 49 comments

Excited to share our first major result from our IARPA Entangled Logical Qubits team! arxiv.org/abs/2504.07258 @benbrown.bsky.social @universal-soup.bsky.social @evanhockings.bsky.social @georgianixon.bsky.social

submitted 54 days ago • 1 comment

I am again calling for the next generation of leadership to be steely-eyed puritans who hate corruption in every form.

submitted 54 days ago • 32 comments

To me, this is the easiest layup for DC Democrats. Go to the IRS, chain yourselves there and raise the alarm about this so that USians understand what they are doing.

submitted 59 days ago • 21 comments

One thing the Democrats can do (and don't seem to be doing) is coordinate on/publish a 'here is what we we will do to reverse Trump' set of proposed measures. Republicans made it clear that they would overturn JCPOA, damaging its credibility from outset. Dems should do same for the shitty stuff.

submitted 59 days ago • 29 comments

Labour's betrayal of trans people - fueled by a wider reactionary movement taking a grip on older people in the UK even on the left - is one of the most disgusting things I've seen in politics from a party that should be better.

submitted 59 days ago • 14 comments

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submitted 74 days ago • 7 comments

if you have ever worked in or adjacent to payments every news story about doge in treasury is basically the preamble to the Demon Core accident of finance

submitted 71 days ago • 11 comments

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

submitted 71 days ago • 329 comments

cannot comprehend the hubris to agree to a Chotiner interview. Just gazing at his heap of skulls saying “rip to them but im different”. Lol.

submitted 84 days ago • 2 comments

As a parliamentary systems enjoyer, I am just going to quietly point out that Truss had been ousted by now.

submitted 86 days ago • 11 comments

Wrote up something about Techdirt's recent coverage, and why (whether we like it or not) we need to be a "democracy blog" now, rather than just a "tech" blog (not that we've ever been just a tech blog). This story is the story and it impacts everything else. www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/w...

submitted 91 days ago • 117 comments

1) The NYT should never have done this glib "everything is like SEC rankings" feature. Someone should have said, WTF?? 2) The NYT should not have axed its public editor. The strong people in that role would have asked WTF? 3) You definitely should read @clarajeffery.bsky.social whole strong thread

submitted 94 days ago • 9 comments

sigh time to break this one out again, huh

submitted 94 days ago • 32 comments

what we are seeing now is a failure resulting from literally decades of failure to fix or modernize the system but instead propping it up and patching it - partially because the US has been so absurdly wealthy that it was able to wave away problems others had to solve

submitted 96 days ago • 5 comments

The fact that the USA has banned visas for trans people but welcomed rapist Andrew Tate shows how all this "defending women" stuff is total bullshit

submitted 96 days ago • 188 comments

Really good piece. Other Democrats in power need to look at what AOC is doing right now and follow her example. One of the worst and most frightening aspects of this moment is seeing how many Dems in leadership roles seem resigned to defeat.

submitted 102 days ago • 36 comments

I’d bet a lot that the Trump administration abandoning US partners in Europe to Russian menacing does not, in fact, result in stronger US efforts to support South Korea, Taiwan, and other Asia-Pacific US partners against Chinese menacing.

submitted 106 days ago • 15 comments

Again, Trump fired SBA Inspector General Mike Ware after he found $200 billion in fraud in Trump's COVID programs and returned $40B to the US Treasury. Instead, Trump brought in a bunch of fascist boys who know nothing about accounting. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 106 days ago • 55 comments

Patricia Hewitt & Philip Gould's 1993 discussion in @renewaljournal.bsky.social of the difference between the US & UK media environments ... genuinely astounding to read today, and a striking reminder of just how different the pre-Fox News era was

submitted 106 days ago • 2 comments

Washington Post refuses to run $115,000 ad titled ‘Fire Elon Musk’

submitted 106 days ago • 136 comments

Adams must be removed. The city cannot sustain being governed for nearly a year by a Mayor who is being coerced by Trump admin in order to escape charges. This corruption poses a real threat to the people of the city. He should have resigned a while ago, but will not. So it’s time for him to go.

submitted 110 days ago • 1730 comments

From Oliver Darcy, @oliverdarcy.bsky.social February 05, 2025. www.status.news/p/trumpocaly...

submitted 117 days ago • 14 comments

i think that Musk's primary vulnerability is that....well....."it is not the fault of the king, it is actually his nefarious advisors" is a time-honored way of deflecting blame

submitted 118 days ago • 10 comments

I would suggest blaming the people who actually voted for Trump or withheld their vote from Harris, whatever their race or religion, while not blaming the people who did not vote for Trump, even if they share a racial identity with people who did.

submitted 119 days ago • 8 comments

I may just lose my mind if I read one more MSM story where the legality/illegality of certain actions -- eg deporting US citizens to foreign prisons -- is just lazily waved around like it's some goddamned unanswerable question. www.wsj.com/world/americ...

submitted 119 days ago • 11 comments

I would really love to see the NYT & WaPo treat the current political situation with even half the level of alarm they used last year in reporting that Biden was old

submitted 119 days ago • 141 comments