🚨 New re:verb episode out this morning! 🚨
On today's show we're taking a look at the auspicious role that so-called "AI" technologies and companies are playing in the military industrial complex.
www.reverbcast.com/podcasts/202...
Impeach and remove the war criminal president
I think the truly damning thing about the Dem comms response is that they had months to prepare for today and there's zero coordination, no unified message. Just every D leader responding like they quickly hammered out a statement in a panic at 6 am this morning
No war with Iran
🎆re:verb is back in 2026 with our first new episode of the year!🎉
This episode hits very close to home for Calvin & Alex:
E106: CMU Coup? (w/ @caevans.bsky.social & @seeshespeak.bsky.social)
www.reverbcast.com/podcasts/202...
beast mode headline
Since we're new over here, we've been re-posting some of our favorite episodes featuring friends & past guests we've had on the show who have found a home on BlueSky.
It's also a good starter pack for anyone new to the show!
Here's a master 🧵...
If you have not watched our new mayor, @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social speech, I encourage you to go watch the whole thing. It was incredibly inspiring and hopeful. Here are some short, Bluesky friendly clips. #seattle #pnw #cascadia #washingtonstate #kingcounty #unionstrong #katiewilson
The Seattle Times has called the mayor's race for Katie Wilson.
Mayor Harrell will "provide an address to the people of the city of Seattle," at 12 p.m. Thursday, per a media advisory.
Pentagon-funded study warns dementia among U.S. officials poses national security threat, as Senators Mitch McConnell and Dianne Feinstein — who enjoy privileged access to highly classified intelligence — suffer health episodes.
The Messy Murderer erasure
Need to see this still 👀
Some guy named esoteric something, he’s not the really bad guy named esoteric something but he’s also bad. He writes: So Twitter sucks. Then I log into Bluesky and the first post I see under "What's Hot?" is "welcome new users! here are the four key blocklists to immediately install to filter out everyone from Nazis to centrists." I have no home.
This has to be one of the funniest posts ever made about Bluesky
DA SKELETON OF REASON RISES THROGH DA CLOUDS!! AND AS DA LIGHT OF HEAVEN SHINES UPON THEM THEY SMILE AT U AND GIVE U THE WISEDOM: "THEIRS A REASON THE BAD GUY IN ALL VIDEO GAME'S IS CALLED... "BOSS"" - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN
THINK ABOUT IT - dashare.zone ADMIN
Rod Dreher writes on X: "Trump is rich, but he is totally not the ruling class. It's about culture."
This screenshot should be going in dozens of sociology, political theory, and rhetorical theory lectures to illustrate folk ideological understandings of class and power. It's just too perfect. Thank you, Rod.
I only know how to use social media for self-promotion and am finding this website generally baffling, so I'm just gonna plug some of my work on NSA surveillance rhetoric for the hell of it.
doi.org/10.1177/0741...
A common argument for the NSA's surveillance programs, both in gov documents and public advocacy, is: "our enemies do it too -- we can't unilaterally disarm!"
Same arg applies to "dignified and respectful" spying. So, this is NSA self-mythologizing to dissociate from the moral valence of its work.
NSA instructs employees to spy “with dignity and respect,” per new internal directive:
theintercept.com/2023/08/25/n...
There’s an off-chance Trump tweeting this is a violation of the terms of his bail, which would get him thrown in jail AND make it the funniest tweet of all time
