Matt Foulger

It’s very uplifting to witness Americans standing up for each other. Solidarity is one hell of a drug. #NoTyrants

Wikipedia Volunteers Avert Tragedy by Taking Down Gunman at Conference

goddamn is there anything Wikipedia editors can’t do www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/n...

What a wild #Canucks game! Another come from behind win, this time against a VERY impressive Spencer Knight.

Remember folks. The original bluesky ethos by us bluesky elders (apparently I count?) is block and move on.

Don't quote dunk, don't pick fights.
Block, and move on.

This is what made this site unpalatable to the right early on, and we can continue to make it unpalatable to them.

unless you want to see a thousand accounts dunk quoting and arguing with these propaganda accounts, this is a handy block list

Thank you for this list. Are there any other good block lists I should consider? Cheers

on today's episode of imperial decline

Donald Trump is stealing your money. It’s a message that is true and powerful and should be said explicitly at every turn.

Also history.

The Woke Marxist Pope is killin it

Well you were right about the EP40 contribution just not the snipe

Headlines from David Brooks, 2020-2025

Our investigative folks at the Fifth Estate having been trying for months to get the province to talk about a leak of thousands of Interior Health employees’ personal information, and who was responsible.

The response from Health Minister Josie Osborne is not exactly inspirational.

They’re going to try and reinvent professors and call them AI prompt consultants

If you think that professors exist as repositories of knowledge that students ask for answers, you’re missing the entire point of a college education.

We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.

"It was unclear why Admiral Holsey is leaving now, less than a year into his tenure, and in the midst of the biggest operation in his 37-year career."

Head of the U.S. Military’s Southern Command Is Stepping Down, Officials Say

"The military commander overseeing the Pentagon’s escalating attacks against boats in the Caribbean Sea that the Trump administration says are smuggling drugs is stepping down, two U.S. officials said on Thursday."

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/10/national-security-presidential-memorandum-nspm-8/

Trump's mechanism to pay the troops during the shutdown is by far the most illegal budgetary action he's taken as POTUS, potentially setting the stage to break everything.

It's also needless because Congress would easily pass a troop pay bill if Johnson were willing to gavel in.

Long thread.

Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scen...

Soliciting information from officials is a journalist's job.

The Pentagon's new press policy would make reporters "stenographers parroting press releases, not watchdogs holding government officials accountable," explains @npr.org's Tom Bowman.

a man with a mustache is making a funny face and says oh man ALT: a man with a mustache is making a funny face and says oh man

These are the corrupt clowns we went into business with when agreeing to host the World Cup.

Just discovered that apple icloud inexplicably deleted most of my icloud drive files back in April and there's no way to recover them. Cool! thanks apple

Ok gotcha 👍

I was hoping he’d get his first goal before being sent down but oh well. He wasn’t quite ripe yet.

Props to UBC. 🇨🇦

Is it politics for LA to declare a state of emergency to help immigrant residents? It seems like it’s national politics that have been imposed on your hometown from without.

It's Giving Enron On the AI bubble, and the various echoes of the dotcom crash

“Unless they invent digital god and completely transform the entire global economy, like, really pretty soon, they’re inevitably going to run into some hard accounting realities.”

davekarpf.substack.com/p/its-giving...

Joel Mokyr wins Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences Nobel recognizes Mokyr’s theory on sustained economic growth

“Joel teaches us that knowledge and the institutions that cultivate it are the fundamental drivers of economic growth and prosperity.”

Maybe we should listen to this guy and support our knowledge-cultivating institutions.

news.northwestern.edu/stories/2025...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

I’m glad the hostages are back but

Destroying the Voting Rights Act has been the life's work of John Roberts

Probably unrelated. www.citizensforethics.org/reports-inve...