Bryan Quinn

My standing search on the phrase "stochastic parrots" regularly turns up people labeling it a "thought-terminating cliché". I think maybe they're right, but not the way the think they are: >>

NEW: We uncovered more deleted tweets from Darren Beattie, the White House aide fired in 2018 for speaking at a conference alongside white nationalists who Trump just appointed to a top level State Department job. In purged tweets, Beattie cheered on Jan 6th riot. www.cnn.com/2025/02/03/p...

Trump is BIG MAD about Obama saying the White House now looks like Saddam opened a Cheesecake Factory: "He's not a smart guy. He's not smart at all ... for you to say it's a Cheesecake Factory, that just shows why you were a lousy president"

I don't care for how this has become almost a joke people throw in along with how he's old and fat and orange rather than a stomach-churning, existentially horrifying thing for a nation to know about its head of state.

I get they're inextricably intertwined but I kind of feel like leaning so much into how he was the longtime best buddy of the world's most notorious sex criminal has given it something of the feel of a political gotcha rather than the important part, which is that the president raped people.

I know there's a lot going on but I feel it should probably be more of an above-the-fold story that members of Congress released a thoroughly documented report directly accusing the president of the United States of being a serial rapist.

It’s just so appalling and enraging how casual and commonplace this has become. I’m out of words.

Homepage of the @miamiherald.com with story by @jkbjournalist.bsky.social that mentions rape in the first paragraph. See, it's not so fucking hard. www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

Appeals court rejects Trump DOJ demand to set aside 20,000 California mail ballots www.cnn.com/2026/10/26/p...

i am inviting anyone from a legacy media organization to explain to me why the house judiciary dems report on trump’s epstein’s ties and multiple allegations of rape isn’t worthy of extensively reporting on. i’m serious. i want to understand.

Will anyone—anyone at all—ask Trump about the rape allegations published in an official report by the House Judiciary Democrats? Or will he continue to escape accountability for his violence?

Trump just listed renaming a gulf and a lake as accomplishments of his presidency, then laid out plans to rename an ocean. Families can’t afford groceries, and this is where his focus is.

FYI I don't think you included this, which is my new favorite corruption, which also implicates Blanche's tax immunity. www.forbes.com/sites/danale...

My second essay on how under Trump we’ve already gotten used to a level of fascism, authoritarianism, and corruption that would be unthinkable to us just years ago. Today: The corruption of the Justice Dept and *EIGHT* scandals on par with Watergate: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/trump-s-ty...

NEW: The group behind Cornel West's 2024 ballot push was wholly funded through Elon Musk's dark money network, according to Sludge's review of tax documents. readsludge.com/2026/10/26/m...

Your monthly reminder that if you're using ChatGPT to do your science, you're failing your colleagues, community, and all of us. Here, ChatGPT makes up data and presents it as the real thing — then apologizes when confronted.

Bluesky has four kinds of users

Judge Furman rules that Maureen Comey's firing violated separation of powers. Orders backpay. Govt's arguments violate 2 centuries of SCOTUS rulings & would "unsettle the equilibrium established by this Nation's constitutional system." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This was the moon rise above the Port of Long Beach. Definitely did a fair bit of editing, the moon itself wasn't this bright at the time. unfortunately the mountains weren't as clear as I would like, but you can see them PEAKing out (get it?)

Here's my final edit on the first shot, for everyone who made it this far down the thread

The Full Moon and the sky joined forces and PUT ON A SHOW!

let's fucking go

It's insane that the campaign against El-Sayed is basically that he has some secret relationship with the people that the president's family has a secret relationship with.

stumbled on a set of incredible 1970s illustrations in some government reports, so had to spend a day collecting them into a website to share with my friends on the computer: nickseaver.net/paperwork

Bluesky needs to solve the mystery of Carol's identity!

The Russian drone operators call this "human safari."

Ohio: Oh yes, the Dem Gubernatorial candidate HAS TOO excelled despite a nightmarish childhood. MN: Oh yes, the Dem Senate candidate IS TOO really smart and always has been in spite of economic challenges. Who's next?

You didn’t even mention how Trump’s ICE terrorized and deported their entire workforce. Farmers, is it good for your business when a president drives away your customers, raises your input costs by 200%, destroys your international markets, and deports your workers?

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

Even before it was illegally demolished, USAID spent basically NOTHING in Latin America. He is just talking completely out of his ass as usual. This was the distribution of foreign aid in 2023. Notice that Latin America and the Caribbean combined is down there at 0.1%

Back in the day, working for small business owner conservatives, I learned they had a “catastrophic only” type plan that existed back in the teens. Their monthly premium was several hundred dollars, benefits maxed (from what she said) at way under $1m. Naturally, they thought the ACA was bad.

Man, I just knew he sucked for The Big Lie - 2020 “MaSsIvE vOtEr FrAuD” Edition, his time in the Assembly and lockstep Trump vote, but, man, Tom Tiffany truly is proof that this guy and his ideas really suck. Maybe we could be done with “run it like a business” guys?

Tiffany is proposing to change state law to allow a group whose PAC is supporting his election sell “health benefit coverage” exempt from critical consumer protections and insurance regulations abetterwisconsin.org... #wipolitics #wigov

Every animal Trump correctly identified on his dementia exam as a character from Game of Thrones. by Chris Cillizza

Brazil’s results tonight are a big endorsement for the idea that every country should have a second “are you you sure about that” election a couple weeks after the first one for the important stuff

Franklin D. Roosevelt: "The only thing we have to fear is, fear itself." John F. Kennedy: "Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country." Donald Trump: “I looked at one hell of a beautiful ass before: Nicki Minaj. That's hard to miss."

Lula has been reelected president, Brazilian media has now called. An extraordinary comeback for the left-wing politician who trailed by 2 points in round 1 but managed to hold off Flávio Bolsonaro, the former president's son.

“prediction market”