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For the 1st time in US history SCOTUS has more rulings on its shadow docket -- unsigned and with no opinions -- than it has cases where it has heard oral arguments and issued signed rulings. IOW they are hiding their deliberations while stealing our democracy. www.propublica.org/article/supr...

A Blue Wave Won’t Wash Away Our Oligarchy Problem: The massive election spending by Elon Musk & other billionaires is a huge problem, even if many of the superwealthy’s favorites lose next month. Reflections by @perrybaconjr.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2168...

Musk’s wealth is a threat to democracy—not just in the U.S. but everywhere. He’s probably the greatest threat to the free world today.

Elon Musk threatens Congress.

I'm not sure how much more blatant it can get that these guys are looting the federal government and then pointing over there and saying "look what THOSE BLACK PEOPLE ARE GETTING AWAY WITH!!!" bsky.app/profile/atru...

Musk and Thiel are the priority, but this guy won't let democracy survive either and must be extracted from anything taxpayers fund.

Still trying to understand how Napster got shut down, but Anthropic is going public and still hasn’t paid us authors yet after stealing our work.

this is so obviously correct it is deeply bizarre and corrosive how many people who should know better are unwilling to simply say it

Today, proudly celebrating my twelfth wedding anniversary with @theglamourmachine.bsky.social 🎉🥰🎉

In the presidential immunity case, the court considered a hypothetical of a president ordering Navy Seals to assassinate an American political rival. Trump's lawyer argued unambiguously yes, since it'd be an "official act." The Roberts Court ruled in his favor, 6-3. Why wouldn't Trump believe this?

i am begging the world: please, one single consequence for this man. just one.

Our language has been completely warped by Big Tech's algorithms, from a generation that's grown up saying "unalive", to the way everyone's censored themselves talking about the Cornell rapists. It's time to fight back against billionaire control of free speech. www.anildash.com/2026/10/06/k...

[car dealership waiting room] Me: [chanting] knobs, knobs- Other car buyers: knobs, KNOBS Car salesman: [pounding desk] KNOBS, KNOBS, KNOBS!

A whole political movement should be stood up against this arrogant and sociopathic bullshit www.politico.com/newsletters/...

As someone who just finished reading Gil Durán’s excellent work, The Nerd Reich, this strikes me as an evergreen summation of most every current, expanding attack upon modern western civilization by the maniacs in charge. or as, I think, Oliver Willis might say: The Plan™️

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There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

Beer, a lawn chair and one of those tarps people used at a Gallagher show.

Yes. A thousand times, yes!

Cuts to the bone: "For some reason we pretend that declaring that schools could be 'separate but equal' by race was absurd, but that 'separate but equal' by income and social capital is reasonable. It is not true."

We’re not in a new Gilded Age in America: inequality is now far worse | Casey Michel

Bluesky trending is.... well.... you remember the tune... 🎶 One of these things is not like the others. 🎶

The "largest theft of labor in human history" bit a few posts up is getting a lot of traction but let's not discount the "LLMs are a product that destroys its supply chain" part.

HHS decided to boost chemtrails and 5G in the same day, which tells me two things: (1) they’re afraid of losing their base, and (2) MAHA is about to swing harder into conspiracies than it has by a mile in the next month or two

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

wasting time should be mandatory

AI doom or not, something has shifted with AI recently. The guardrails that kept AI sitting in a chatbox are gone, the models are better, there's more compute. AI agents are everywhere. They are annoying as hell. IMO the situation is going to get much worse www.404media.co/theres-a-100...

motion to change “death and taxes” to “death and the grift”

Nice to have a citation for the stuff we all sort of assume to be true but question if it's just our own biases making it look that way

I do think “every rich person went insane during covid because it was the first time they’ve been inconvenienced in decades” felt a little reductive at first but damn if isn’t more and more compelling as the years drag on

the degree to which ruling republicans are comfortable looking into the camera and saying out loud how much they view everyone else primarily as vectors for wealth extraction should be shocking to everyone. vampire capitalism joins white supremacy and misogyny as republicans' bedrock principles.

This the is the best (and worst) thing I've read in ages. I love it (and I hate it).

this is a company telegraphing how much they don't care about their employees.

the original was better

US media: Why in the world are people voting for democratic socialists? Financial Times: “US corporate profits have hit a record high while workers’ slice of the pie has sunk to historic lows.”

They have whiplash. Is A.I. the future or is it the end of jobs? It can't be both (they took 1900 hours of AP classes so they know they can figure that out for themselves). Where are all the professors and why are they all in a seminar about A.I. instead of inspiring them or telling them what to do?

I cannot really explain to someone who hasn't been steeped in this stuff for awhile how sudden and total the "go to college and get a good job" edict has collapsed. It's a vaccuum. And we know how nature feels about those. All we are throwing in there at the moment is A.I.

It's mostly not about the technology, itself. They are angry about A.I. because they are anxious about how to be successful. No one in charge will tell them the new path to upward mobility. No seems to want to even figure one out. All anyone will talk to them about is A.I.

I have seven invitations from student groups to talk about A.I. They know what I think about A.I. That's why they asked me. They aren't feeling it, y'all.

Genuinely abundant, cheap, accessible energy has vastly more liberatory potential than AI, for vastly more people -- especially more poor people. Which, I guess, is your answer.

now tim curry too?! jfc 2026, ease up would ya? just because it's the year of the entitled sociopath doesn't mean we have to kill all the joy..... right? RIGHT?? <sigh>

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