Michelle Robbins

I think the belief by the powerful that "people will put up with many things if you are excellent at math" is incredibly revealing in terms of understanding How We Got Here

Didn't have "Reagan-appointed judge shows more courage than tech leaders" on my bingo card but here we are

It's almost as if it's not the thing being done that raises concern, it's who is behind the doing the thing, and are they part of an in-group or an out-group 🤔

While US venture capitalists were buying monkey jpegs, and DOGE coins, and figuring out how to get Black women fired, and tweeting about white birthrates, and trying to mandate which bathroom trans kids should use, China was making progress on climate change and taking the lead in a real industry.

We're all going to write pieces about what you can learn from tonight but it's actually pretty simple: The frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

So many people were detained extrajudicially, were tortured, or died because of Dick Cheney. You can't get to the danger we're in now without everything he did. The weapons he helped forge are ones we need to take away from U.S. presidents forever.

15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.

Drone start-up backed by Peter Thiel crashed and burned in armed forces trials Berlin-based Stark failed to hit a single target in four attempts at two exercises with the British and German forces

Drone start-up backed by Peter Thiel crashed and burned in armed forces trials ft.trib.al/ps96eIU

FACTS about SNAP:

-35% to white people (largest share)
-90% to people born in 🇺🇸
-86% to households with kids
-70% work full time but aren’t paid a living wage (aka corporate welfare)

a16z-Backed Startup Sells Thousands of ‘Synthetic Influencers’ to Manipulate Social Media as a Service Andreessen Horowitz is funding a company that clearly violates the inauthentic behavior policies of every major social media platform.

Marc Andreessen, who sits on Meta's board, is funding a click farm www.404media.co/a16z-backed-...

a16z-Backed Startup Sells Thousands of ‘Synthetic Influencers’ to Manipulate Social Media as a Service Andreessen Horowitz is funding a company that clearly violates the inauthentic behavior policies of every major social media platform.

ai slop at scale via phone farms, now A16z's latest investment:

www.404media.co/a16z-backed-...

Area man(iac) escalates conflict he started.

Seems our military planes just aren't cushy enough for Noem. I guess now we know where the childhood food assistance funding cuts went.

I ❤️ my hometown.

Well done…

Area man sees his poker buddies getting all the spoils of taxpayer money, wants in on the game.

I hope people realize how abnormal it is to have social media accounts of federal government departments and agencies picking fights with individuals.

I thought they said it was wrong for an administration to ask a social media platform to take stuff down.

can confirm

Tell me you're a bot, without telling me you're a bot.

They are entirely transactional and can't conceive of anyone doing anything based on principles alone.

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

In which John Oliver methodically unpacks how thin it is to claim you’re all about “the truth” when you’re only running essays don’t get properly fact-checked — and don’t hold up to even basic reporting scrutiny www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...

I would like “go back to your gated community, Robert" on a t-shirt please.

Free gift article link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Live Updates: María Corina Machado of Venezuela Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela.

ANTIFA:

We’re in a moment now where it would be worth people taking three hours to watch Gandhi, particularly the scene of the salt march. There is value to making the brutality of your opponent so plain as day that no one can argue with it. The clarity of that brought down an empire

And I am one of those that thanks you for providing the context and details that OP did not. I also feel however that our troops need to understand the Nuremberg trials and that ultimately, “just following orders” won’t save them.

I mean, would explain a lot rn.