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thomaskilmer.bsky.social
(he/him) 🏳️‍🌈Furious scientist🏳️‍🌈 Cooperation is a the optimal game theory strategy for most complicated games. It is smart to be kind. But the cooperation cannot be naive. Part of intelligent cooperation is collectively enforcing consequences for bad actors.
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39% of the detainees disappeared to the Guantanamo offshore prison were deemed "low threat" by the Trump administration. Some of the individuals being detained at Guantanamo did not cross illegally, legally requesting asylum at a port of entry.

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I just keep hearing my father's voice in my head:"This is not how adults talk." I realize my father was a constant supportive presence in my life and not an absentee step-daughter impregnating white supremacist abuser, but I am seriously at a loss for how one goes through life eternally twelve.

submitted 2 days ago • 12 comments

Fictional villains: my motivation involves a complex backstory around lost love and a deep yearning to be understood Real life villains: being cruel makes me feel like a big strong man

submitted 2 days ago • 80 comments

Hey, condescending Dem strategists, just checking in on how the whole "approving some Trump nominees to create space so GOP politicians can vote against the worst nominees" plan is going. Just, uh, want to run down the checklist here. Remember, being emotional gets in the way of effectiveness!

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

5calls.org My new morning routine is cathartic. Every morning when I start making breakfast, I put on my headset. Then use this app and I call my Republican house representative and tell him he's a fucking quisling coward who is supporting a wannabe tyrant who is backing Russia against the US ally.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

🗣️ @aoc.bsky.social out fighting for the people & federal workers: “Every day our job is to wake up and say ‘what can I do today?’ — There is no act too small. Every action matters.” 🇺🇸

submitted 2 days ago • 966 comments

If you can’t successfully message against this you don’t deserve another cent in fundraising and should go the way of the Whigs.

submitted 3 days ago • 45 comments

www.thenation.com/article/poli...

submitted 3 days ago • 14 comments

REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

submitted 3 days ago • 991 comments

Tommy Tuberville blocked military promotions for months while his party was in the minority and he can’t read or write

submitted 5 days ago • 47 comments

i feel like this is evidence for my view that people experience trump through a strong form of ironic detachment. they literally do not perceive him as real.

submitted 5 days ago • 428 comments

NYC restaurants are empty and thousands of kids are skipping school in fear under Eric Adams' devil's bargain to give Trump's ICE goon squad free rein in his city so he can keep himself out of prison A look at the real victims of NYC's corrupt deal. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...

submitted 5 days ago • 16 comments

State AGs are looking for federal workers who have just been illegally fired to stand as litigants in a new lawsuit trying to freeze further action by DOGE. DM me if that’s you and you’re interested and you’re live in one of the following states: NM, AZ, CA, CT, MD, MI, MN, NV, OR, WA, RI, or VT.

submitted 5 days ago • 47 comments

Reminder for today: The 50501 Movement has planned protests at all 50 state capitols and the U.S. Capitol on Presidents’ Day at noon. While mainstream media isn’t covering the event, many YouTubers have stepped up to provide coverage.

submitted 5 days ago • 266 comments

We only know this man is in Gitmo because Noem tweeted a propaganda photo that included him and his sister saw it. He has no criminal record. He entered the US in January and immediately made an appointment with CBP to claim asylum. They sent him to a concentration camp bc of his basketball tattoo.

submitted 10 days ago • 740 comments

🚨BREAKING: While targeting federal education contracts, Elon Musk just scored a new deal for more government cash, according to documents reviewed by The Lever. The new "supplemental agreement" adds millions to SpaceX's already huge $3.9 billion deal.

submitted 10 days ago • 43 comments

Schumer's strategy of allowing/encouraging Dems to vote for the "normal" nominees in order to try and peel off Republican defections to block Hegseth/RFK/Gabbard appears to have completely failed.

submitted 10 days ago • 420 comments

Yes. “People are doing things. You will meet them when YOU start doing things.” Lots of information and resources in this one. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

submitted 12 days ago • 237 comments

Beating Trump in court reminds people that there's still a system in place that's supposed to stop him from becoming a dictator. Will it ultimately work? I don't know, but on the pod, @normeisen.bsky.social suggests one way it might. Our exchange on this: newrepublic.com/article/1913...

submitted 12 days ago • 31 comments

Many have asked how it could cost $17.5 million to confine just over 100 unhoused people to a warehouse for 90 days. The answer? The company running the facility got a no-bid contract and has political ties to Louisiana governor Jeff Landry—who invoked emergency powers to detain these men and women

submitted 12 days ago • 43 comments

when democrats vote for cloture 97-0 for these whackjob nominees and then tell you "its complicated" when you complain about them aiding and abetting trump, be very aware: they are lying. none of this is complicated at all. all they have to do is oppose.

submitted 24 days ago • 31 comments

One republican senator - the absolute dumbest one, in fact! - held up 400 military promotions for a year. On his own, from the Senate minority.

submitted 24 days ago • 27 comments

The United States Military Academy has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades like the Society of Black Engineers. They were there when I was a Cadet in 1987. All of the religious ones remain. This isn’t DEI. It’s white Christian Nationalism.

submitted 17 days ago • 2840 comments