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rst.bsky.social @rst.bsky.social · 19m

Mills was "aggressively recruited" into the race by Chuck Schumer, who's been working on that for months. He may not have issued a formal statement endorsing her, but he absolutely has made a preference publicly known.

Chuck Schumer gets his preferred candidate, Janet Mills, in crowded Maine Senate race

Schumer had been aggressively recruiting Mills to challenge Republican Susan Collins.

www.politico.com

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rst.bsky.social @rst.bsky.social · 26m

Well, with regard to dysfunction in American research funding, the "good" news is that the Trump administration seems determined to take an axe to all that. The bad news is that they seem to intend to do it by defunding the effort entirely...

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rst.bsky.social @rst.bsky.social · 43m

Mills had been courted for months by Chuck Schumer, who might prefer her to Susan Collins, but is clearly more comfortable with either than he would be with Graham Platner, the progressive firebrand already in the race who's getting national attention.

Party leadership hates its energetic youth.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1h

Breaking News: Janet Mills, the Democratic governor of Maine, is running for Senate, aiming to unseat Senator Susan Collins, a Republican.

Gov. Janet Mills of Maine to Run for Senate, Aiming at Senator Susan Collins

A two-term Democratic governor, Ms. Mills called herself “battle tested” in an interview. But she faces a Democratic primary before she can challenge the Republican incumbent.

nyti.ms

rst.bsky.social @rst.bsky.social · 14h

In this exchange, he is... not winning.

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rst.bsky.social @rst.bsky.social · 16h

Their usual thing is septuagenarian incumbents. A freshman that age is doubly absurd.

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rst.bsky.social @rst.bsky.social · 17h

Well, an executive new hire signaled a change in direction, but maybe it's time for fresh faces on the air as well.

North Korean news anchor Ri Chun-Hee, who tells the people everything the government wants them to know.

rst.bsky.social @rst.bsky.social · 17h

Had been common practice on earlier machines. (The Manchester Mark II (Ferranti Mark I) had an internal flip-flop hooked to a speaker, and a dedicated "hoot" instruction to flip its state, though a single execution only flipped it once, giving just a click.)

rst.bsky.social @rst.bsky.social · 18h

You could call it the Tupperware Network. But I'm not sure that Tupperware has done anything to merit the opprobrium...

Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 20h

Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.

www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...

CBS News: Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming NYC mayor the Free Press reports.

rst.bsky.social @rst.bsky.social · 19h

The Israelis have forbidden Palestinian celebrations of returnees (after getting, for some reason, offended by seeing them in the last cease-fire).

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rst.bsky.social @rst.bsky.social · 19h

Hey, she's spelling Mamdani's name like it's pronounced. By Cuomo.

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rst.bsky.social @rst.bsky.social · 21h

... with the notable exception of Bluesky. (Well, so far, but their explicit support for alternate feeds makes it hard to suppress outgoing links durably -- all the more so when alternate AppViews are actually running for real, though that still seems to be very much work in progress.)

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rst.bsky.social @rst.bsky.social · 21h

Sometimes unmasking *is* an attack -- e.g., if it starts people trying to brigade their employer.

Sometimes it's not -- like revealing that someone is a billionaire's kid who's beyond the reach of any such attack, pretending... otherwise.

People want bright lines. There aren't any.

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rst.bsky.social @rst.bsky.social · 1d

Denise Gough, who played Dedra, has publicly thanked Tony Gilroy for giving the character the ending she deserves.

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rst.bsky.social @rst.bsky.social · 1d

One complication in interpreting this stuff is that what leadership there is for such regular events as the Chicago and Portland protests has an obvious interest in _not_ being visible and legible to outsiders. (With exceptions, e.g. Kat Abughazaleh in Chicago.)

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rst.bsky.social @rst.bsky.social · 1d

Or in other words, they came out about the same way Massachusetts natives pronounce Worcester and Gloucester.

rst.bsky.social @rst.bsky.social · 1d

Ahem... the Brooklyn Book Festival was last month.

Which, of course, says nothing either way about the veracity of any allegations concerning Joseph Kahn, children, and Thelemite rituals from the handbooks of Aleister Crowley.

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rst.bsky.social @rst.bsky.social · 1d

Some of them do. But not this one.

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rst.bsky.social @rst.bsky.social · 2d

Not exactly training, but there are a bunch of "spot the AI" quizzes, e.g. ai-art-turing-test.com

rst.bsky.social @rst.bsky.social · 2d

One sign of the end times, for people who believe that stuff, is supposed to be a legion of "false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly are ravening wolves".

Well, here's one of them...

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rst.bsky.social @rst.bsky.social · 2d

I had to look. They pointed to "impossible" campaign promises. Cited for Mamdani: rent freeze on stabilized apartments (as De Blasio did for most of two terms) and free buses (5 route pilot underway now, arranged by Mamdani himself).

One valid point: both target prior non-voters. Beyond that: yuck.

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rst.bsky.social @rst.bsky.social · 2d

There are already known rare earth deposits in the US, and in fact operating mines that were shut down years ago because it was more economical to buy from China - at least until the stable genius messed that up. But reopening them may not be quick or cheap...

US Does Have Rare Earths – The Big Sky Business Journal

bigskybusinessjournal.com

rst.bsky.social @rst.bsky.social · 2d

The best of it absolutely is. The rest of it... varies.

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rst.bsky.social @rst.bsky.social · 2d

"As a libertarian, I want a government that respects my right to do whatever I want to do without interference, and reliably interested with anyone I disapprove of and removes them from public life."

He ain't the first. www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/p...

The Education of a Libertarian

www.cato-unbound.org

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rst.bsky.social @rst.bsky.social · 2d

Not at all sure the frog is white. See this interview, in which the first of them identified as Mexican about a minute in (speaking with an accent to match). bsky.app/profile/comp...

competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 8d

Portland Frog updates about getting pepper sprayed in his fan intake 🐸🫡

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rst.bsky.social @rst.bsky.social · 2d

There already had been a problem with footage of one conflict, urban disturbance, or whatever being mislabeled as from a different place or time entirely.

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