Civil-rights lawyer Executive Director of @pubaccountability.org https://pubaccountability.org/athul-k-acharya
Looks like all the big news outlets have picked this up so if I were a Kalshi kind of guy I’d be betting heavily on some sort of motion to strike the motion to dismiss
Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray”BREAKING: The Trump administration has moved to drop its felony Reflecting Pool case against a former Olympic canoeist, admitting their allegations against David "Davey" Hearn don't hold water.
The right turned Ashli Babbitt into a martyr and granted her military funeral honors. Meanwhile, our “thinkers” are busy laying the groundwork for the next Democratic president to let left-wing political prisoners rot in prison.
Liberal Currents"Their actions ensured that they struggled to achieve sympathetic media coverage outside of a few left-wing outlets, struggled to attract material or legal support (the ACLU, for instance, refused to touch the case), and failed to achieve positive virality in the larger culture."
Kick em out, tear it down, build affordable multifamily housing instead (and while we're at it, let's take a good look at all those freeway ramps in the area)
Trail Blazers demand more than arena funding in Portland City Council appearanceAfter weeks of mounting tension, the team said that public funding for the Moda Center is just part of its idea of a deal.www.opb.orgWe may have won the war, but the South definitively won the peace.
Murshed Zaheed“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
It’s actually even worse: Uncommitted was about whether to support Harris in the primary, while these people are saying they won’t vote for him in the general.
#StupidSuezThere's going to be a centrist Uncommitted but specifically just because Abdul is Arab lol
I think the concern is that the govt can run a grocery well enough to put competing stores out of business but not well enough to insulate it against political change (cf eg Social Security). But this argument works against all socialist programs; as test sites go, grocery stores are pretty good imo
I’m sorry but a 100K-follower account acting like a smol bean is just too rich. I like Will and agree with him on lots of stuff but he really does lack all poster’s bushido
Will StancilMan this is awful. This was a sincere question. I was happy with the discussion that came out of it. But I wake up this morning to nonstop abuse, because one of Bluesky’s cult-like figures has (pretty unfairly) attacked me as not understanding people need food. This isn’t good or sustainable!
Omg it just occurred to me that this means AI can now pass the Kobayashi Maru test
Athul K. AcharyaOkay the funniest part of this, to me, is that the OpenAI bot was right! Hugging Face had the solutions it was looking for!
Okay the funniest part of this, to me, is that the OpenAI bot was right! Hugging Face had the solutions it was looking for!
Simon WillisonHugging Face just published a highly detailed technical account of OpenAI's accidental cyberattack on their systems - it's wild how sophisticated this was: huggingface.co/blog/agent-i... Wrote up some of my own notes here: simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/28/...
Start taking my British blood, you wankers. I’m a vegetarian! I don’t have fucking mad cow disease!
Matt Novak"On Monday, the Red Cross declared a national blood crisis for the second time ever in its history."
Instant, unconditional support to the first politician who promises to remigrate Musk, ideally to CECOT (or perhaps a Cuban equivalent)
Sunder Katwala (sundersays)Elon Musk, owner of X, has called the editor of the Economist "a traitor to the West, plain and simple" after her recent interview with him. He now argues that "anyone who opposes remigration is a traitor" Musk has been socialising violence since Aug25: "fight or die, that's what it comes down to"
When will the left confront the problem of political violence
Sunder Katwala (sundersays)"First the traitors then the invaders" is Elon Musk endorsing an open call to prioritise political murders + assassinations before violence against migrants and minorities. Still little recognition in the UK government at the persistence of the promotion of political violence - inc murder - by Musk
“Underwater” is a weird way to talk about loans period. You can be underwater on an *investment*—but most loans aren’t investments. Mostly, people are paying a premium to get something before they can afford it. That premium is the amount by which they’re “underwater.”
mtswPresenting the $6800 number — the average of all *underwater* car loans — as if it is the average amount of negative equity on ALL car loans is stupid to the point of dishonesty www.jalopnik.com/2222207/near...
The lesson is clear: Always Be Scandalizing. If your administration generates a hundred scandals a day, none will ever stick. If you fall victim to a scandal, it’s your own fault—you created the space that allowed scandal to take root
Jonathan CohnThis would have been a month-long scandal on Fox News if Obama or Biden had done this. They are burying the death count because they want people to forget that war actually has a cost. www.huffpost.com/entry/iran-w...