Commented on this @nbcnews story on the chaos of the recent X location product rollout. As tempting as it is to dunk on the "United States" accounts posting from unexpected places, I would caution folks not to jump to conclusions. www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu...

Although social media was the spark for a revolution across the Middle East, it soon proved to be in journalist David Wolman's words, "a tool and like any tool, it can be used for good or bad, just like a hammer.

This is some lede: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

EVERY SINGLE PERSON IN CONGRESS should be pressed about Trump calling for their colleagues to be killed

mark kelly's wife was literally shot in the head bc of violent political rhetoric & now the president of the united states is calling for him to be executed.... but iTs tHe LeFt

So far this morning, we’ve had an incredible kickoff with on attribution alphabet soup with the one and only @dmitri.silverado.org and then a fascinating meme-ful talk from @activemeasures.bsky.social and @wylienewmark.bsky.social on SVR cyber espionage and Russian analytic battlefields.

@activemeasures.bsky.social (which is a real llc!) and I assume @wylienewmark.bsky.social with a jaw dropping presentation. Best analysis of SVR vs GRU and history of the forgeries in 2016 leaks I’ve ever heard. #cyberwarcon

So much fun to see my @johnshopkinssais.bsky.social students volunteering at @cyberwarcon.bsky.social this year! Come say hi to SAIS students focusing on tech and innovation in the two year MAIR program and one year MASCI program! And @alperovitch.institute professors are all around as well!

Happy @cyberwarcon.bsky.social day to all who celebrate!

For no particular reason….posting former U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell’s mugshot before he went to Federal prison for committing numerous crimes on behalf and or/at the direction of President Nixon including obstruction of justice and conspiracy.

There would not have been enough space on the opinion pages of newspapers or segments on cable news to cover the amount of outrage that the media would have directed at Joe Biden if he did not know the standard duration of a home mortgage, but Trump? Crickets.

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment

“Judges around the world are dealing with a growing problem: legal briefs that were generated with the help of artificial intelligence and submitted with errors such as citations to cases that don’t exist” apnews.com/article/arti...

“.. It’s also the fastest accumulation of a trillion dollars in debt outside of the COVID-19 pandemic ..” @pbsnews.org www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

If this is "journalism" it's really bad journalism that fails measure of what would be lost if we lost Section 230. It's vastly more than "downsides." It's any possibility of a free and open Internet. All ability to speak online will be throttled by the few companies who can afford to allow it.

Sheesh. The Netherlands has curtailed intelligence co-operation with the US over fears the Trump administration could use it to violate human rights or assist Russia. www.ft.com/content/af80...

Remember how conservative grifters started selling “anti woke” products at a premium to separate gullible conservatives from their money? Well under Trump that’s just the economy now, since we’re all paying more in the name of being “anti woke” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Those with sharp eyes might detect a subtle difference in NYT play last month of an event in one city, w 100,000+ attendees, versus play this morning of some 2500+ events w many millions of attendees, in all 50 states. See if you can spot it! /s Then you can find today's story on p A23

As a reminder to everyone, a key part of the Bari Weiss origin story is her livetweeting editorial meetings. In the institutions she critiques she treats leakers (including herself) as principled dissenters. In the institutions she controls, she expects loyal silence.

Imagine thinking domestic violence isn’t “really serious”

I’m old enough to remember when we had a system of checks & balances that involved Congress, when Congress controlled the purse and legislated, and the president respected the Constitution & rule of law. I’m old enough to remember when a U.S. president wouldn’t want to be King George or a dictator.

That absolutely isn’t how it works. - me to Trump … and the NYT

very funny that JD Vance has so little to do with his time that he goes on podcasts to defend 30-year-old men for saying how much they love Hitler

Fox News, the former employer of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, has joined a near-unanimous outpouring of news organizations rejecting new rules for journalists based in the Pentagon.

LLMs are just plagiarism machines blah blah blah. Reality: A chaired CS prof at UT Austin found it proposed a solution that saved him a week of work on a paper "proving oracle separations between quantum complexity classes" scottaaronson.blog?p=9183&utm_s...

Who could have known this would happen?

Our president is an international punchline, and so are we.

Imagine being a general or an admiral, responsible for thousands of people and billions of dollars, and being ordered to fly halfway around the globe to listen to this.

He’s been firing officers for being liberal bsky.app/profile/atru...

Charlie Kirk's killer? Terminally online and gun culture. The far right Evergreen shooter? Terminally online and gun culture. The Annunciation killer? Terminally online and gun culture. Yesterday's killers? Online and gun culture. The always forgotten CDC killer? Online and gun culture.

From @vermontgmg.bsky.social "It is...about the most corrupt attack on the rule of law imaginable. This past week would have surely led to impeachment proceedings against any other US president... Free article. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/o...

This is bad, but also vital to remember: it’s an EO. It’s not a new law. It’s just instructions to his appointees. Who remain constrained by the Fed criminal code. And, to preempt the doomers: Those. Laws. Are. Holding. That’s why Trump’s losing it over Comey in EDVA.

Don't look away. This is being done in your name, my fellow Americans.

Mad king watch. Almost never speaks to non-adulatory audiences - just playing the hits to 🦗 🦗 🦗

This is not a thing — there is no “domestic terror organization” designation — and the president doesn’t have this power. (State does terror designations!) So media: Please make all that clear in any coverage. This is a random tweet on White House letterhead. That’s all.

Trump had his accounts suspended on January 7, 8, and 9th 2020. WHEN HE WAS STILL PRESIDENT. It was not Joe Biden because Biden was not President.

The defining lesson of this first year of Trump authoritarianism is that kowtowing & capitulating yields zero permanent benefit and only emboldens the admin to come after you more. This critical lesson was first documented in the landmark political science treatise “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.”

Nice to see an old unfriendly face 😂

“Freedom is often lost under mountains of paperwork and crippling fines rather than in a cinematic showdown with a dictator.” - @garrykasparov.bsky.social www.thenextmove.org/p/i-saw-how-...

“What we’re seeing is an unprecedented attempt to silence disfavored speech by the government,” said Brendan Nyhan, a political scientist at Dartmouth College. “Donald Trump is trying to dictate what Americans can say.” https://to.pbs.org/46AYg7U

STEWART: “Comedy doesn’t change the world, but it’s a bellwether— we’re the banana peel in the coal mine… authoritarians are the threat to comedy, music, art, thought… progress.” Nailed it.

The @thedailyshow.com has its entry into "how do we respond to the Kimmel situation." www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GXN...

The Republican reaction to Kirk’s murder has been a campaign of state repression that ends with Trumpist toadies deciding what Americans are allowed to think, do and say. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Thank you @jeffjarvis.bsky.social for saying this.

Some killings you're allowed to joke about.

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Hold on, these are the "we don't have to bake your gay wedding cake" people?