Bridget Todd

The way the press is treating chatbots, like they have agency and they “know” things all of a sudden, crossed the line recently from dumb and obsequious to something else entirely. Treating them as alive and making conscious decisions is an almost religious belief. It won’t age well.

Elon Musk’s X Is A Misinformation Machine—And Black Women Saw It Coming | Essence For years, Black women have sounded the alarm about digital manipulation. X’s new policies prove how right they were.

Congrats @bridgettodd.bsky.social for getting this timely op-ed published in Essence Magazine: www.essence.com/news/money-c...

Bari Weiss really fucked up by stepping in it on the slowest news week of the year. We've got nothing to talk about and no work to do!

It was such an honor to host this very timely discussion with @mozilla.org !

IRL Podcast | Nothing Personal by Mozilla Foundation Mozilla’s award winning podcast is back! In Season 8, Bridget Todd is on a journey to find out how AI affects us on a personal level. From her love life to her city, to the privacy of her memories, Br...

In this bonus IRL episode, recorded live at #MozFest, @bridgettodd.bsky.social uncovers how AI can fuel collective action, resist algorithmic oppression, and build data-driven counter-narratives for the public good.
Listen in now 🎧 www.mozillafoundation.org/nothing-pers...

UAlbany, one of those, NY state universities, has been hovering around 4 percent tenure track Black faculty since ever. I am THE Black tenure track political scientists. These folks are just little liars.

New Hood Politics w/ @prophiphop.bsky.social 🍫 Today we continue our talk with @bridgettodd.bsky.social about her beloved hellscape Washington DC, and Prop shares his many family memories about his time in DC. https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-hood-politics-with-prop-81527703/episode/hellscape-city-chocolate-city-dc-part-two-w-bridget-todd-311808726

New Hood Politics w/ @prophiphop.bsky.social 🍫

Today we continue our talk with @bridgettodd.bsky.social about her beloved hellscape Washington DC, and Prop shares his many family memories about his time in DC.

www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...

Could be the result of:

- A politically motivated attack
- A robbery
- A negligent discharge
- An argument between Guard members

The point is: Don't assume anything and wait for details

Elon Musk Insists He Does Read After Joyce Carol Oates Twitter Beef Podcast Episode · There Are No Girls on the Internet · 11/14/2025 · 53m

Enjoyed this episode (@bridgettodd.bsky.social) on the Joyce Carol Oates-Elon Musk beef.

I lol'd at comparing JCO & Azealia Banks: two good artists with mostly terrible takes but "when they stumble upon a truth, they really hit that truth and they do not miss."

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Per CNN, Elizabeth Warren is calling on Harvard to cut ties with Larry Summers after Jeffrey Epstein's emails released last week by House Dems featured Summers making sexist comments + asking for Epstein’s romantic advice.

Families of DC-area immigrant drivers snatched by feds stuck with tow bill Elected officials and activists note work vehicles removed lightning fast, resulting in hundreds in fees.

NEW—US Park Police w/ DHS officers near DC are increasingly pulling over Black and brown men, leaving their work vans on the side of the parkway + immediately calling a local towing company to take them. Families who just lost their breadwinner are stuck with the bill.

@melbuer.bsky.social reports:

I'm suing DC Metro Police for body cam footage of US Institute of Peace raid The Handbasket is represented pro bono by lawyers from the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.

NEW — I'm suing DC Metro Police for the full body cam footage from the DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace back in March.

The public deserves to know why MPD chose to sell out the people they’re tasked with protecting in order to bend to Trump's will. I'm repped pro bono by @rcfp.org.

Details:

If the sandwich don’t split, you must acquit

😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎

“I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life”

Maybe pundits should spend more time in densely packed, left leaning urban areas where the "real Americans" live

"i wish andrew cuomo the best only in private life" is such a cold-ass line from zohran lmao

Subjecy: Barstool leaving NYC? Hi Dave- Now than Zohran Mamdani is the mayor-elect, will Barstool be leaving New York? And if so, when? Thank you, -- Marisa Kabas Independent journalist The Handbasket

stay tuned

It's impossible to overstate how much of what ICE is doing on the ground reflects this completely preposterous conflation of hostile *speech* and hostile *conduct.*

The First Amendment protects—or, at least, is supposed to protect—the former up and until it's a "true threat," which none of this is.

This weekend, many thousands will be protesting. That's a protected First Amendment activity. DM me if you have questions about your rights, if you see people's rights being violated, or if you're a reporter needing support. #NoKings

And then do nothing more but send endless fundraising emails and texts

I dont begrudge anyone taking money they need but the issue to me is that you cant also appoint yourself the arbiter of what is Good and Just the way Dave has and do that.

The Double Tax: How Women of Color Are Overcharged and Underpaid by Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman in a box with confetti that says “The Double Tax is not only about why being a woman costs more — it’s about how we fight for a better future together

Blacksky’s very own @itsafronomics.bsky.social
Big congratulations and excited to add to the 2025 reading list 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

Republicans turn Virginia into a test case for a bigger fight over civil rights in schools The commonwealth is the only GOP-led state facing an Education Department investigation stemming from gender policies.

Buried in #VAGov story, a little media story.

Most gender/schools coverage in VA comes from one reporter for a Sinclair station in DC market, who works it as part of Sinclair's "Crisis in the Classroom" series. His job before news media? Trump admin spox www.semafor.com/article/08/2...

I think a lot of extremely puritanical cultures that aren’t comfortable with overt displays of sex still have problems with rape culture.

This is the technology that half the S&P 500 depends on to succeed? That we all keep being told we must integrate into everything?

Analysis | America can’t quit smartphones. Smart glasses won’t help. We keep hoping that a magical technology can liberate us from what we don’t like about technology.

The lie is that glasses are made to liberate you from screens. The purpose of the glasses is to make sure you have no experiences except those mediated through a companies’ technology.

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