Recent posts by Brooklyn Community Builders on Bluesky

Sorry, hun, that's not not this works. You don't get to pop in with a long debunked false accusation used to vilify someone for decades, demand answers in all caps, get told politely you're wrong, then plead kindness, no further engagement. Maybe read the book you claim to have bought.

MTG vs Andrew Yang in a debate hosted by Charlie Rose is the most cursed event lineup ever. www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

Miles deserves more followers (read his stuff). Also he’s holding a gun to blueskyy right now and making threatening noises

one of many ways you can tell the anti-trans “boys in girls sports” hysteria, from the trump WH on down, is absolute bullshit is they never bring up girls in boys sports

Reader: This woman is fucked up.

[Rafiki voice] IT IS TIME

Well this is terrifying futurism.com/artificial-i...

@bradleywhitford.bsky.social that’s your cue.

How much extra did she charge for the hand-hold?

Sometimes when I read criticism of Bluesky I’m like wow we really all do live on different internets. Hostile to AI? That applies to the userbase of every single social media platform I’m on lol

So the president probably has a stalker who is right next to him all the time. Upside: he’s a jerk who has this stalker largely because he’s a narcissist who would mistake stalker for a fan, feels karmic Downside: she has no security clearance and he probably tells her everything because narcissist

The U.S. war with Iran is effectively over. Trump has surrendered. The NYT reports the facts, but is too meek to state the obvious conclusion. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/20/w...

Or you’re just old like me and Python didn’t exist when you started

Has anyone checked on whether the reason Elon Musk is so eager to colonize the moon (or is it Mars?) is because he is pre-planning for something horrific? Because this season of The Silo … and the billionaire dude … and Iran …. man, this is just too close to home.

I’m quoted here about campaign finance in Florida: wusf.org/text/politic... 💰🗳️⚖️

Good explainer for why the bond market drama is something everyone should pay attention to/dread www.tiktok.com/t/ZTDPFkfX3/

Wow a SHOCKINGLY advanced treatment of trans people on the Love Boat, of all places www.tiktok.com/t/ZTDPNdKsw/

Amazingly, this wipeout happened *after* Republicans switched Wyoming to closed primaries for the 2024 elections to strengthen the far-right. It could have been even worse for them under the previous system

A month ago, the Trump administration claimed to have identified 15,903 noncitizens registered to vote in Nevada. But during a meeting last week, DHS officials said they have identified just 185 so far, per emails and recordings of the meeting. @nytnickc.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/08/20/u...

Maybe I’ve lost the thread here. I think of it as a little male coded because it insinuates quant nerd which is more Wall Street than Silicon Valley but am also a spreadsheet people as an ex equity analyst.

ChatGPT on what this says about her: What strikes me most is the degree of anxious attachment and self-subordination. These don't read like ordinary apologies to a boss. The writer seems intensely preoccupied with preserving the relationship and with the possibility that she has disappointed him...

And…here’s our piece that @lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social justice spent about 5 minutes on. By @cjcmichel.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Could see Jason Crow in VP mix

Wow. Add a "y" and her name is perfect for what she is. Natalie Harpy. What a sad excuse for a woman. What a sad excuse for a country that puts a man in charge who needs this.

Yes you can. His reporting sucks, his prose is mid at best, it’s clear he’s not well sourced in a world he ostensibly covers, and his stories are increasingly boring and limp with no real value

This guy sucks. Next

A bit of context: these letters appear to be from 2023, and Michael Wolff included parts of them in his 2025 book "All or Nothing," excerpted here: www.vanityfair.com/news/story/o...

Ossoff should give a bunch more speeches, bc this shit is wack.

"The remarks arrived one day after Dept of Economic Opportunity and CVL Economics estimated that thousands of jobs will be at risk if the merger goes through...and pegged potential lost wages at $1.26 billion and lost economic value at $2.78 billion." 🤷‍♀️ www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

A judge in Oregon has enjoined the Trump administration from conditioning dissaster relief funding on policy demands: "It is hard to imagine the connection between the use of preferred pronouns and the fires currently burning through central Oregon" storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

JUST IN: DHS is responsible for dangerous and unsanitary conditions at at California's Adelanto ICE facility, even though it is managed day-to-day by the GEO Group, the 9th Circuit rules. 3 judge panel declines to stay lower-court order for monitors. www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

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I mean if he tried to rename the entire country Trumpistan which one of his toadies would say no?

Media specific: per any newspaper or magazine, like, 90 percent of the diehard subscribers can’t name any bylines/writers unless they’re branded columns with 1st person stories and probably a photo next to the byline

Scoop: Bill Whitaker told colleagues that he worries about being a "traitor" by remaining at "60 Minutes." Meanwhile, Bari Weiss was not-so-happy with one of her new contributors. And the newsmagazine is *way behind* normal schedule. MORE in @status.news: www.status.news/p/60-minutes...

Okay apparently there are some ships named after living people post late 1960s commissions, Not sure I’d want that myself—if the ship sank it’d seem like, uh, a bad omen?

NEWS: Rep. Beatty files emergency motion asking court to block Kennedy Center board from adding Trump’s name to bldg @normeisen.bsky.social: "Trump lost in court...Now his supporters are trying to deface Kennedy Center again by putting his name back...despite a court order blocking them...”

A lot of people in America don’t know who their Senators are

This is a good point re naming the ship after Trump

“But what if he’s not joking? What if Trump enjoys the powers and immunity of the Presidency so much that he does not intend to relinquish them?…The Constitution does not enforce itself.” voicesoftheatoll.substack.com/p/trumps-thi...

“It’s Déjà vu all over again” Rep Joyce Beatty (D-OH) files emergency motion asking court to block Trump acolytes on Kennedy Center board from their latest attempt to add Trump’s name to facility

BREAKING: we are going back to court in the Kennedy Center case to STOP the flagrant violation of the courts order preventing renaming @democracydefendersaction.org & Washington Litigation Group are proud to represent @repbeatty.bsky.social to protect this treasured memorial  Our brief is here 👇

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Inspired by the huge "polling miss" in Michigan a 21 year old using AI created a fake polling outfit, made up polls in CA/NV/WI, and got lot of press coverage. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

So no problem that she refused to take part in any national security clearance process for more than a year...

Fascinating and heartbreaking story from @juliametraux.bsky.social about how deaf detainees are going through the gulag without any access to language of any kind. And, as bad as that is, other forms of disabilities are not tracked...at all. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

FFS:

It seems these letters were passed around. Trump passed them around? Who else could it have been? How gross.

The number is never 0. But It's never that high. Rudy lost his law license over such exaggerations of illegal voting. Which lawyers at DHS are responsible for putting out this nonsense? See www.nycourts.gov/courts/ad1/c...

Look, I don’t know what her deal is, and maybe she really feels some attachment to him tied to her cancer treatment, but these letters to a boss are just …. Not appropriate. That’s me putting it nicely.

Uh what

The emerging coalition is Anti-Flock, Anti-Data Center, Anti-AIPAC, & Pro-Taco Truck

“Trump’s party is willing to spend $17 billion to fund a white elephant wunderwaffen that everyone knows is a boondoggle just to humor him and avoid his wrath, even as the country is losing a war.” newrepublic.com/article/2144...

All my life, I've been reading "California is so, so over" stories. And I've been around a long time!

“.. its latest move to blunt fuel costs and supply concerns stoked by the war in Iran.” @bloomberg.com ⛽️ www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

But "Trump says" stories require the absolute least amount of reporting work

"It’s bonkers that a defense secretary would involve his wife in his sensitive official duties," Hegseth's own former chief spokesman, who left after three months, tells Elisabeth Bumiller for a profile of Jennifer Hegseth and her unusual role at the Pentagon. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/19/s...

no bread, just circuses

An earthquake in the midterm election forecasts Texas and Iowa US Senate races shift to “toss ups” US House battlefield expands too Just filed ===> youtu.be/LbvjTNrsVWk?...

Apparently, some folks still want to do business in California. 👀 @wsj.com www.wsj.com/tech/ai/cali...

Stop me if you've heard this before, but not all heroes wear capes

AP has called Tuesday's special election in a Pennsylvania state House district for Democrat Brandon Dukes. This is a FLIP for Dems. Their 6th so far in 2026 (and in the reddest district so far, this one was +18% Trump), and their 31st since January 2025. The GOP has flipped 0 seat in that period.

Aisha Wahab is heading to D.C. & will replace Eric Swalwell: AP just called the #CA14 special election for her. Wahab faced heavy spending from AIPAC in the final stretch of the race, as well as attacks over her support for criminal justice reforms by her opponent.

one of the most notorious ICE-boosting sheriffs (way before Trump) is facing a challenge in November that i want many people to know about, so allow me to reshare this occasionally! boltsmag.org/alamance-cou...

Alito after one hour of oral arguments:

Schiff:

Post-Amber Heard, if you’re a woman on trial in a high-profile case with cameras in the room, you can look forward to thousands of people on TikTok analyzing your every facial expression and move to determine you’re actually a lying psychopath

Governor Abbott's new claim in the Minnesota/ICE extradition case is that his office is looking into whether Castro "is a fugitive." One problem: #SCOTUS has held—over and over again—that governors in the "asylum" state don't have *any* discretion to make that kind of determination for themselves:

Listen. I love spreadsheets. Do I even need to look into this controversy?

Ten weeks to the midterms, & plenty worth talking through that isn't making the front page yet I'll get into it on The Weeknight @ms.now at 7:20 ET 👇 -TN

Overlooked warning signs at Shoosmith are part of a national pattern. Records from 100 landfills in 20 states show that when temperatures and other key indicators surpass normal thresholds, operators and regulators often don’t intervene to protect the public. www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

CHRISTENSEN: At 5%, nearly a third of US tax receipts will go toward paying interest on the debt. marketmonetarist.com

Another stalker-cop was caught using Flock to track the whereabouts of 14 others. More than 2,700 unauthorized searches.

ICE announced plans last week to spend up to $20 million to buy electric-shock gloves for its agents. Here's what you can do to demand transparency, accountability, and oversight from your representatives in Congress on this:

I wonder whether Trump and Hegseth are considering backing out on naming an aircraft carrier after WWII hero Doris Miller because he was Black or because he had a "girl's name."

Puppies for Talarico event is full of hot dogs. Note the bootleg merch time to start flipping tables shirt on golden Jax, who is the goodest boy and would def not flip tables unless expressly asked to. /1

Teenagers are the karma you deserve for having been one…I keep telling myself

Big update in #CA14: Alameda County just counted roughly 32K votes, and they broke for Aisha Wahab 57% to 43%. Wahab now leads 53.1% to 46.9%, or a lead of 6,012 votes. (That's up from a lead of 1,356 votes as of this morning.)

I’d say she can weigh in on anything she wants but at the risk of coming off as vapid, craven and frivolous. Which in a paradoxical way amounts to some of her most accurate reporting

I guess the silver lining here is that a lot of people are about to know who Doris Miller is if they didn’t already en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doris_M...

Darth Vader 🤝 Flock cameras

I’m starting to think that Americans may not quite be buying the claim that the economy is firing on all cylinders under Trump right now

Naming anything in the military after a famous draft dodger is pretty incredible. I guess it does demonstrate the shallowness of this admin’s actual respect for the troops though.

If you have questions or fears about this, we have the perfect opportunity for you: A scholar who is publishing a book on the Census and how it all works and shapes politics has agreed to an AMA with Bolts readers on the Census. Share any question here! boltsmag.org/how-the-cens...

Trump was president when the Navy held a ceremony to announce the ship would be named after Doris Miller. Here's the Navy press release from January 2020: www.navy.mil/Press-Office... Trump 2 is far worse than Trump 1.

Four-byline alert: 🚨 “.. He’s in a situation that he can’t get out of — and unlike so many other things that Trump has gotten himself into, he cannot get bailed out.” @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

Zero new NSF grants in sociology, anthropology, political science and economics. The agenda of this US govt is to stop documenting the society in which we live while they are destroying it. We will find other ways to track and explain our times and fight to restore our research funding.

"The US Navy is working to rename an aircraft carrier under construction that was set to honor a Black sailor hailed for his heroic actions during the attack on Pearl Harbor ... there have been internal conversations about renaming it to honor Trump." www.cnn.com/2026/08/20/p...

Been watching Furious and Emmy Rossum and Lola Petticrew are great but if you created spin-offs with either of these two scene stealers I would watch them immediately

Unspeakably disgraceful. Doris Miller was a mess attendant -- the only jobs open to Black sailors -- who won the Navy Cross at Pearl Harbor. With this, and reports USN leaders are considering changing the design of aircraft carriers *because Trump said so* -- the Navy is dishonoring itself.

@edkilgore.bsky.social explains rationale for GOP midterm cvn: "Without an energized MAGA base, Republicans won’t even be in the vicinity of victory. And so they are making a virtue of necessity with the biggest, loudest, most abrasive Trump rally one could imagine." Cool. nymag.com/intelligence...

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This is what we mean by malignant narcissism

you'll like it because it's inevitable, ben. read the room

Costco, I love you, but this is obscene.

this is gonna to test some assumptions. money is a big big factor when you're in the 50-50, 60-40, maybe even in 70-30 issue range. As a political issue, AI is at like 95% to 5%. how that plays out isn't totally clear. It also depends on a lot on the spenders' expectations.

Have been there, done that: In late August 1978 (counterpart to now, for Trump), Carter administration spent *zero* time blaming long-gone Nixon-Ford administration for economic problems. At a certain point, you're in charge, it's your problem. But this is the only move the Trump people know.

The Kennedy Center board of trustees - which is stocked with Trump acolytes - ain't subtle with its latest resolution Nor is it humble

(CNN) - The US Navy is working to rename an aircraft carrier under construction that was set to honor a Black sailor hailed for his heroic actions during .. Pearl Harbor .. .. there have been internal conversation about renaming it to honor Trump.” @halbritz.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2026/08/20/p...

When the people in charge of the audiobooks definitely do not understand the author’s body of work: