think most left-leaning folks underestimate the importance and impact of having your cadres in the bureaucracy as well as in elected positions

This is actually a pretty standard and unremarkable move, as evidenced by Justice Jackson issuing it. But most people won't believe that for several good reasons. /1

New — While some states have received SNAP benefits for November and USDA is supposedly pushing through all federal payments soon, that doesn’t erase the psychological terror of the last few weeks. I spoke with 20+ SNAP recipients in 16 states about preparing for a possible future with no food:

HE'S APPEALING TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES THAT HE BE ALLOWED TO STARVE AMERICANS

I’m sure no parents will blame the well-endowed University for contracting with the AI company that killed their child, and sue in the wake of this entirely predictable tragedy

congrats to everyone for thinking this through before signing very big contracts to put it on every student’s device at the school or university you run

And that's important, because she was a working scientist with agency of her own and she collaborated willingly with so much more of that work than is usually mentioned. Both by Watson AND his critics. Franklin was a great scientist. Don't sell her short.

this week has made me the most optimistic that I've been since the election that we're going to get out of this intact, or some vague approximation thereof (whether we can successfully rebuild from there, I am more skeptical about, but first things first) a thread

things that arent the future of civilization - chatbots - crypto - robot butlers - cars that sorta drive autonomously as long as youre paying attention for when they fail and almost kill a bunch of people things that actually are the future of civilization - free clean energy

Dirk Gently (Douglas Adams) would have had a blast with this… he is sorely missed.

NEW: SSA employees are getting extremely worried about how the agency will continue to provide benefits to some 70 million Americans, according to meeting minutes obtained by @wired.com. @zoeschiffer.bsky.social and @leahfeiger.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/social...

This is the facility that I and many others have been protesting. We’ve been hit, thrown, gassed, and shot with pepper bullets but none of that holds a candle to what is being done to people *in* the actual facility. Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.

Obviously a policy designed to avoid record-keeping requirements, while passing the *criminal* liability for the lack of record keeping onto the individual DHS employees.

ryan is right. people HATE hearing this. but it is just a matter of simple incentives. if you want a more representative legislature — and if you want a legislature more resistant to corruption — then you need to jack up the salaries. serving as mayor of NYC should net you a cool 500K *at least*

Read this thread. All of these ICE “facilities” are concentration camps. There is a reason they are not allowing oversight. Keep protesting this shit and informing people about this Nazi regime. Nuremberg Trials 2.0 can’t come fast enough.

Nuremburg trials is the moderate position

Whilst its easy to get used to scary graphs, this one made me pause! The 2025 State of the Cryosphere report published yesterday has this one overlaying observations of #AMOC slowdown against model predictions. The report states that “AMOC shutdown appears all but inevitable”

Richest nation in human history

establishment journalism's abject failure to express that this man has absolutely no idea how anything works should never be forgiven or forgotten

A fun question. In 5 years time, what looks better? The US’s enormous bet & capex on AI? Or China’s equally enormous bet and capex on renewables?

I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

“My areas of inquiry have been ruled out of bounds for historical and psychological study!” “What, impacts of feminism on workplace culture?” “Haha no, not those areas.” “Sociocultural changes following the widespread inclusion of women in the workforce?” “Lol no, not those areas either.” 1/

FDR would've felt incredibly vindicated by all of this. A core proposition of the New Deal was that the country's ruling class was incapable — at best — of defending the Constitution, and that it was up to a dissident vanguard of intellectuals, in conjunction with workers and farmers, to do it.

Every accusation, a confession

"I unequivocally reject identity politics" i scream, right before selecting my five gallon cowboy hat for my Fox Business interview.

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

The SCOTUS-6 are assholes, 4456th edition

fwiw i think one reason why Trump is avoiding negotiating with Dems or really meeting with Dems is that they're hiding his condition.

Trump’s definitely got the trifecta

New: Conde Nast fired four employees who were among a group that confronted the company's head of human resources on Wednesday over the decision to fold Teen Vogue into Vogue/recent cuts. Employees who were fired included journalists from the New Yorker, Wired, and Bon Appétit.

We must note that all the condemnation of Tucker Carlson platforming Nick Fuentes has been about anti-Semitism and there has been an alarming and revealing silence around his anti-Black racism and white supremacy. When the head of the Heritage Foundation apologized, he only cited anti-Semitism.

For @msnbc.com I wrote about how Tuesday's election gives Democrats the blueprint for overcoming Republican anti-trans attacks and how thus should settle all the talk about throwing trans people under the bus. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Honestly, I think of it as more of a symptom than a cause. Just think! They had Margaret Sullivan as Public Editor, she took the job seriously and was doing it well, and so… they fired her and eliminated the position.

Imagine, if you will, this headline with the word “Jews” substituted for the word “women”: “Did Jews Ruin the Workplace?” Disgusting, right? Well, it’s just as disgusting that this is an acceptable question to debate about women. The misogyny is staggering — and so normal. Still.

The FBI has subpoenaed the domain registrar of archive.today, demanding information about the owner.

USDA has the money, right there, to pay for SNAP until reserves are exhausted. Until then, the decision not to pay full SNAP benefits to every single recipient is a CHOICE made by the Republicans who control both houses of Congress and the Executive Branch. Democrats have nothing to do with that!

It doesn’t happen as much over here, but discourse around “do we need to only focus on CO2 or should we instead focus on methane” is wrong. Yes, the gases behave differently in the atmosphere. But CO2 & CH4 emissions are *both* still rising. And CO2 & CH4 emissions *both* need to quickly fall.

The absence of robust federal monitoring capacity and limited containment efforts are troubling, but there are still NO confirmed cases of human-to-human transmission of H5N1. The “human outbreak” referred to here means humans becoming infected from animals. So, it’s not good, but don’t freak out.

Cool. What would you call the other wing then? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...

THIS IS SO GOOD

Impeach RFK Jr. If things go on, North America is on track to becoming a hotspot for permanent measles transmission. Canada could lose its measles-free designation this week. We are not be far behind. 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/meas...

“Criminals posing as US immigration officers have carried out robberies, kidnappings, & sexual assaults in several states, warns a law enforcement bulletin issued last month by the FBI.” There’s no accountability for the “real” ones, making this shit all but certain. www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

IT'S NOT AN "IMMIGRATION CRACKDOWN" IF THEY ARE HARMING AND KIDNAPPING AND TERRORIZING PEOPLE REGARDLESS OF THEIR IMMIGRATION STATUS. IT'S RACISM AND INTIMIDATION.

Federal immigration cops are using "wellness checks" on minors as a ruse to get into homes and arrest people for alleged immigration violations. In this case, an alleged check on a 17-year-old let them arrest his 22-year-old brother, who was brought here at 11 and has protected status.

"Trump canceled your flight" is about as easy as messaging gets.

Getting new details on this now: As the arrest unfolded, teachers pleaded with the agents telling them the teacher had a work permit. The agents went into multiple rooms looking for teachers while children were present. One teacher hid with a child in her care while the agents stormed the facility.

virgin bsky poster: all that really matters is vibes and fighting for something, poll-testing is the death of campaigns chad zohran mamdani: let's spend lots of money fine-tuning the exact language we use to talk about affordability and bring up affordability in response to every question

Reposting to correct an error: trump admin is quietly gutting 13 buildings and about 100 laboratories at Goddard campus that has been instrumental to Hubble and James Webb telescope missions. Staff say they’ve be locked and told to move equipment. Anything left behind will be thrown away.

Now on @sciam.bsky.social: After a leaked memo and a dust-up with NASA’s interim chief, Jared Isaacman’s renomination to lead the space agency portends potentially profound changes for U.S. space science and exploration. By @danvergano.bsky.social. www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa...