Vanessa Enriquez-Rios

Bluesky is not the commons. Twitter is not the commons. You can’t have a privately held commons. That’s not what words mean

This is exactly right. The Onion quietly left Twitter a month ago and... our weekly subscribers went up. It's because we're doing well here, on Instagram and on YouTube.

As a business, being on Twitter is somewhere between useless or detrimental, unless you're selling boner pills.

Twitter is owned by a fascist who deliberately manipulates the algorithms to promote far right messages. Here’s why Bluesky has an intellectual diversity problem.

It’s just so embarrassing, you’re the director of the fucking FBI and literally acting like a frat boy

“The Congress shall have power…to declare war.”

Leah Litman: 34:45
The court did something good, which usually implies something wicked this way is about to come. Are we going to get the opinion striking down the Voting Rights Act next week? Possibility.

Kate Shaw: Entirely possible. Yep.

@strictscrutiny.bsky.social

The reason we're here is that tens of millions of people will punch a hole in a wall if they hear someone used food stamps to buy soda but they're fine if the right-wing podcaster turned fbi director uses his taxpayer funded private jet to go party whenever he feels like it bsky.app/profile/thed...

I still don't understand how this isn't the headline everywhere. If Biden or Obama said the words, "I'm allowed to destroy the country" Fox News would be giving tips on where to buy pitchforks and torches.

Stockpiling.
Hoarding.

“.. there aren’t many winners when the basic building blocks of the global economy get pricier and more volatile.”

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/finance/comm...

Some day we'll all regret this & we'll hold hearings & rend garments & pledge "never again" & we'll be just as full of shit as we were last time.

It's like going to the bank, declaring you're broke and have lost your job but they should give you the loan anyway. And you can't have a balance of payments crisis when foreigners are investing "trillions" into your economy, as the president says. But consistency was never his strong suit.

I'd like to submit that declaring a balance of payments crisis to enact tariffs under Sect. 122 is not the best look for the US. We need to attract billions in capital daily. In a payments crisis, foreigners pull their money out, interest rates soar & currencies collapse. None of which is happening

@davidfrum.bsky.social: "If Trump believes that these tariffs are so good for America, why doesn't he…write a tariff bill, send it to Congress, have them pass, and collect the revenues? Well, that was not the point. The point was to have an instrument of personal power."

PANTHEON MACRO:

“.. After a few months’ calm, many businesses also now will have to endure higher tariff related uncertainty again .. Accordingly, we expect quarterly growth in #GDP to average just 1 3/4% this year, down from 2.2% in 2025.”

Trump administration slashes mercury regulations from coal plants Mercury pollution from coal plants has been tied to serious neurological problems, especially in children and babies

MAHA be damned, this administration is poisoning you www.scientificamerican.com/article/trum...

This great book offers useful context for any "Rothschilds" references one might encounter in the wild. Some might mean such a reference innocently or generically, but the name "Rothschild" has long been one of the loudest dog whistles out there in far right circles. It is the ur-conspiracy theory.

Pretty amazing that comms person at FBI called my @ms.now colleague @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social a liar and demand a correction only for Kash to post a photo from the locker room

Boy with glasses wearing a brown hoodie pulling his fist back preparing to punch

Dude got a two-day suspension.

No criminal charges filed.

(www.lakemchenryscanner.com/2026/02/20/s...)

We’re moving from one phase of illegal, erratic trade policy — to a new phase of illegal, erratic trade policy.

@nationalreview.bsky.social #Section122
www.nationalreview.com/corner/trump...

“.. People are realizing that Bitcoin is what it’s always been — which is simply a speculative asset. .. it’s not digital gold .. It’s not an inflation hedge .. And it’s not a chaos hedge either.”

@bloomberg.com $IBIT
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

“ .. I must wonder if America’s utter abdication of any responsibility for global warming will someday come back to bite in the form of retaliatory tariffs .. What’s to stop a group of nations with .. climate-related economic losses from eventually penalising the US ..”

www.ft.com/content/4d25...

“.. After boasting for months about its preferential trade deal with US President Donald Trump, the UK is at risk of becoming the biggest loser in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s decision ..”

@bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

You, an individual, cannot "fix" the whole world. You can act at the scale of your life. You should act at the scale of your life.

ROGAN: “It’s overwhelming me. Too much fucking madness. We’re about to go to war with Iran. What are these files? How far does this go? What is happening?”

Wait til joe rogan finds out he helped get Trump elected 🤷🏼

I am running for Congress because we urgently need leaders who will stand up for our rights. We need leaders who understand that treating human beings like human beings is a moral obligation, not a political question. We need leaders who will work hard to help humanity, not serve the elite. I am a first-generation college graduate, the mom of a young daughter, a proud union member, and a public defender. I have personally experienced many of the challenges that working class people face, and I understand the urgency they demand.

SCOOP — Tom Suozzi has a Democratic primary challenger in the NY-3 congressional race.

Danielle Welch (@daniwelch.bsky.social), a public defender, has officially declared her candidacy.

Welch gave me this comment about launching her campaign:

The more than 3 million people applying each year for immigration status changes — such as seeking work or travel authorization, a green card, or citizenship — will now be required to give the government their social media handles. In some cases, they must also provide the handles of their young children, spouses, and parents, many of whom are U.S. citizens, green card holders, or are otherwise in the United States legally. The new rules will require them to submit any social media handles they have used over the past five years, whether used in a personal or professional capacity or even on behalf of an organization. This covers platforms including Facebook, X, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube as well as messaging services such as WhatsApp, Telegram, and GroupMe.

Well, shit. This is batshit. This is bullshit. Even *posting* that I think this is bullshit is... I can't even.

(I have a green card)

www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

Columbia economics professor telling students they *must* use AI for reading assignments, for coding assignments, for lecture supplements.

Why not just let AI run a simulation of a college education and call it a day? You can get a little NFT diploma and show it off to your ChatGPT girlfriend too.

"El Paso's airport is closed for ten days."

"No, wait, it's open now."

"TSA PreCheck is suspended."

"No, wait, it's back up now."