Gregory Foster
@gregoryfoster.bsky.social
humbled by redwoods
Founder + Citizen Observer
@cannabis.observer
Founder + Citizen Observer
@cannabis.observer
My new favorite quotation from Teddy Roosevelt
November 16, 2025 at 5:06 PM
My new favorite quotation from Teddy Roosevelt
This is a 52-pound 9000+ page accordion-bound artist’s book of Donald Trump’s lies, conceived, printed, and bound by Jill and Ray Nichols of @leadgraffiti.bsky.social in Delaware. Each of the 9000 pages has the text (per the Washington Post) of one or more of Trump’s lies; none are repeated.
November 15, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Reposted by Gregory Foster
NEW: A judge in Washington has ruled that police images taken by Flock’s AI license plate-scanning cameras are public records that can be requested as part of normal public records requests.
The decision highlights the sheer volume of the technology-fueled surveillance state in the US.
The decision highlights the sheer volume of the technology-fueled surveillance state in the US.
Judge Rules Flock Surveillance Images Are Public Records That Can Be Requested By Anyone
A Washington judge said images taken by Flock cameras are "not exempt from disclosure" in public record requests.
www.404media.co
November 12, 2025 at 3:13 PM
NEW: A judge in Washington has ruled that police images taken by Flock’s AI license plate-scanning cameras are public records that can be requested as part of normal public records requests.
The decision highlights the sheer volume of the technology-fueled surveillance state in the US.
The decision highlights the sheer volume of the technology-fueled surveillance state in the US.
Bannon advocating for "more intense action" to "seize" the political institutions and "codify" what Trump has only been able to suggest by Executive Order.
Steve Bannon: If we lose the midterms and we lose 2028, some in this room are going to prison, myself included.
November 7, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Bannon advocating for "more intense action" to "seize" the political institutions and "codify" what Trump has only been able to suggest by Executive Order.
Reposted by Gregory Foster
Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Helpful context and rundown of today's Supreme Court oral arguments by @brennancenter.org advocate.
The Supreme Court just heard oral arguments in the challenge to Trump’s worldwide tariffs. No matter how the Court rules (and I’ll do just a tiny bit of tea leaf-reading here), its decision will have enormous implications for the scope of presidential power. 1/25
November 5, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Helpful context and rundown of today's Supreme Court oral arguments by @brennancenter.org advocate.
The surprising model: OpenAI o1
Recently, Gašper Beguš and his team put several large language models through a litany of tests — including having them generalize the rules of a made-up language. Most failed to match human linguistic ability. But one LLM greatly exceeded expectations. www.quantamagazine.org/in-a-first-a...
November 5, 2025 at 5:06 PM
The surprising model: OpenAI o1
Google's Project Suncatcher marks the beginnings of a Dyson sphere for #ML #AI compute:
research.google/blog/explori...
research.google/blog/explori...
Exploring a space-based, scalable AI infrastructure system design
research.google
November 5, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Google's Project Suncatcher marks the beginnings of a Dyson sphere for #ML #AI compute:
research.google/blog/explori...
research.google/blog/explori...
Rushkoff does a really admirable job of deconstructing the horrifying elite anti-ethos in play here - and coming out on the other side with humanity.
This is the big picture, and we all have to see it.
This is the big picture, and we all have to see it.
Our job as Team Human is not to succumb to the zero-sum mentality of the wealthy.
They’re the ones who have given up on prosperity.
They are living the nightmare.
rushkoff.substack.com/p/the-intent...
They’re the ones who have given up on prosperity.
They are living the nightmare.
rushkoff.substack.com/p/the-intent...
The Intentional Collapse
The elite are committed to the end of the world, but we don't have to be.
rushkoff.substack.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Rushkoff does a really admirable job of deconstructing the horrifying elite anti-ethos in play here - and coming out on the other side with humanity.
This is the big picture, and we all have to see it.
This is the big picture, and we all have to see it.
“All members of armed forces must comply w/ their internal operating procedures & military manuals & strictly abide by int'l law. Officers should refuse superior orders where these are a manifest violation of the law & may result in a serious violation of human rights incl. extrajudicial executions”
"Repeated and systematic lethal attacks by the United States military on boats in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific raise grave concerns about the commission of potential international crimes, UN experts warned today."
Unprovoked lethal strikes by the United States against vessels at sea may amount to international crimes: UN experts
GENEVA – Repeated and systematic lethal attacks by the United States military on boats in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific raise grave concerns about the commission of potential international crimes,...
www.ohchr.org
November 5, 2025 at 12:39 AM
“All members of armed forces must comply w/ their internal operating procedures & military manuals & strictly abide by int'l law. Officers should refuse superior orders where these are a manifest violation of the law & may result in a serious violation of human rights incl. extrajudicial executions”
Reposted by Gregory Foster
Immigration agents crashed into a U.S. citizen on her way to work—then dragged her out of her car and arrested her.
Her family couldn’t find her for hours.
She was later released without charges.
Read the story: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/c...
Her family couldn’t find her for hours.
She was later released without charges.
Read the story: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/c...
November 3, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Immigration agents crashed into a U.S. citizen on her way to work—then dragged her out of her car and arrested her.
Her family couldn’t find her for hours.
She was later released without charges.
Read the story: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/c...
Her family couldn’t find her for hours.
She was later released without charges.
Read the story: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/c...
Now where is that list of CBS advertisers - let the boycotts and subscription cancellations begin!
"The video cut O'Donnell's final question: "So not concerned about the appearance of corruption with this?"
"Also omitted was Trump's stammering reply: "I can't say, because — I can't say — I'm not concerned. I don't — I'd rather not have you ask the question."
#Pinks
"Also omitted was Trump's stammering reply: "I can't say, because — I can't say — I'm not concerned. I don't — I'd rather not have you ask the question."
#Pinks
Dems want FCC probe of "60 Minutes" trimming Trump Binance pardon exchange
A note said the extended version of the interview had been "condensed for clarity."
www.axios.com
November 3, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Now where is that list of CBS advertisers - let the boycotts and subscription cancellations begin!
You too could pay $20K + $500/month for a REMOTELY PILOTED humanoid robot INSIDE YOUR HOUSE.
What could possibly go wrong? #FAFO
What could possibly go wrong? #FAFO
The $20K 1X NEO is now available for preorder and ships next year. It “does” household chores with a twist: a human teleoperator actually drives it.
Owners schedule takeover times for the human operator and detail tasks via an app.
Basically, a pricier, worse Molly Maid with a charging dock.
Owners schedule takeover times for the human operator and detail tasks via an app.
Basically, a pricier, worse Molly Maid with a charging dock.
1X Neo is a $20,000 home robot that will learn chores via teleoperation
California-based AI and robotics company 1X is now accepting pre-orders for its humanoid robot NEO.
www.engadget.com
November 3, 2025 at 3:46 PM
You too could pay $20K + $500/month for a REMOTELY PILOTED humanoid robot INSIDE YOUR HOUSE.
What could possibly go wrong? #FAFO
What could possibly go wrong? #FAFO
All you need to know about Bari Weiss being bought over to CBS News.
I see that CBS chose not to air this part. It probably explains much of what they did decide to air.
November 3, 2025 at 1:43 AM
All you need to know about Bari Weiss being bought over to CBS News.
Chuck Schumer has got to go.
![When a young Chuck Schumer arrived at Harvard in 1967 as a freshman, he joined the great political stirring of those years—who could resist it? But Abbie Hoffman he was not. “I was faced with what Alexander Hamilton called mobocracy,” Schumer recalled in his coauthored 2007 book Positively American. He became a College Democrat, canvassed for Eugene McCarthy, and eschewed the radicals. Campus members of the New Left’s Progressive Labor faction horrified him, and he felt “sickened” seeing protesters scream at cops. “The police weren’t pigs. They were the people I’d grown up with. They were my neighbors. My friends. They were the Baileys [imaginary Irish-American Long Islanders with whom Schumer consults on decisions].” Soon enough, Schumer’s party—the College Dems and, of course, their friends the non-college Dems—would pay the price. “By the late ’70s,” Schumer observed, “the Baileys did not trust the Democrats anymore, and the Democrats weren’t listening to the Baileys.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hbpefio3f5csc44msmbgioxz/bafkreiel46xfqpfmntpl5k63lovtbqdnepc4fcvgglcgxgqtmta6ubug5u@jpeg)
November 2, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Chuck Schumer has got to go.
Let them eat... nothing.
Dancers at Trump’s Halloween party as people begin losing food stamps under his administration
November 1, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Let them eat... nothing.
Reposted by Gregory Foster
SCOOP: The Trump administration acknowledged they don’t know the identities of the people they’re killing; can’t meet the evidentiary burden to prosecute survivors; and consider those survivors to be “unprivileged belligerents." theintercept.com/2025/10/31/t...
Trump Administration Admits It Doesn’t Know Who Exactly It’s Killing in Boat Strikes
Officials acknowledged they don’t know the identities of the people they’re killing and can’t meet the evidentiary burden to prosecute survivors.
theintercept.com
October 31, 2025 at 9:08 PM
SCOOP: The Trump administration acknowledged they don’t know the identities of the people they’re killing; can’t meet the evidentiary burden to prosecute survivors; and consider those survivors to be “unprivileged belligerents." theintercept.com/2025/10/31/t...
Reposted by Gregory Foster
"Suddenly, nothing—including the racism, Holocaust denialism, and antisemitism Fuentes has championed—seems to be too hot for MAGA media to embrace" —@willsommer.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/one-of-the...
One of the Most Dangerous Interviews Ever in MAGA Media
Why Tucker Carlson platformed white supremacist Nick Fuentes.
www.thebulwark.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:29 PM
"Suddenly, nothing—including the racism, Holocaust denialism, and antisemitism Fuentes has championed—seems to be too hot for MAGA media to embrace" —@willsommer.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/one-of-the...
Reposted by Gregory Foster
President Donald Trump is calling on the Senate to scrap the filibuster, so that the Republican majority can bypass Democrats and reopen the federal government.
https://to.pbs.org/47oCJzm
https://to.pbs.org/47oCJzm
Trump pushes Senate GOP on filibuster 'nuclear option' to end the government shutdown
President Donald Trump is calling on the Senate to scrap the filibuster, so that the Republican majority can bypass Democrats and reopen the federal government.
www.pbs.org
October 31, 2025 at 2:34 PM
President Donald Trump is calling on the Senate to scrap the filibuster, so that the Republican majority can bypass Democrats and reopen the federal government.
https://to.pbs.org/47oCJzm
https://to.pbs.org/47oCJzm
Reposted by Gregory Foster
$550 billion in Japanese funding.
Directed by the President.
Outside Congress’s control.
My new @justsecurity.org piece explains how the agreement bypasses the Appropriations Clause and violates the laws that safeguard Congress’s power of the purse.
www.justsecurity.org/123478/trump...
Directed by the President.
Outside Congress’s control.
My new @justsecurity.org piece explains how the agreement bypasses the Appropriations Clause and violates the laws that safeguard Congress’s power of the purse.
www.justsecurity.org/123478/trump...
Trump’s Japan Deal and the Disappearing Appropriations Clause
The deal circumvents the Appropriations Clause and congressional safeguards, creating a system answerable only to the White House.
www.justsecurity.org
October 30, 2025 at 2:50 PM
$550 billion in Japanese funding.
Directed by the President.
Outside Congress’s control.
My new @justsecurity.org piece explains how the agreement bypasses the Appropriations Clause and violates the laws that safeguard Congress’s power of the purse.
www.justsecurity.org/123478/trump...
Directed by the President.
Outside Congress’s control.
My new @justsecurity.org piece explains how the agreement bypasses the Appropriations Clause and violates the laws that safeguard Congress’s power of the purse.
www.justsecurity.org/123478/trump...
Reposted by Gregory Foster
(Miami Herald) - The Trump Administration has made the decision to attack military installations inside Venezuela and the strikes could come at any moment, sources with knowledge of the situation told the Miami Herald ..
@miamiherald.com
www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...
@miamiherald.com
www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...
U.S. poised to strike military targets in Venezuela in escalation against Maduro regime
The Trump Administration has made the decision to attack military installations inside Venezuela and the strikes could come at any moment, sources with knowledge of the situation told the Miami Herald...
www.miamiherald.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:38 PM
(Miami Herald) - The Trump Administration has made the decision to attack military installations inside Venezuela and the strikes could come at any moment, sources with knowledge of the situation told the Miami Herald ..
@miamiherald.com
www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...
@miamiherald.com
www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...
Reposted by Gregory Foster
Here's my post on right wing efforts to turn an investigation into how Trump cheated his rubes into something damning for Democrats.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/30/f...
www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/30/f...
Follow the Money: Chuck Grassley Doxes the Entire Far Right - emptywheel
In an attempt to do a Twitter Files dump on Jack Smith's January 6 investigation, Chuck Grassley exposed very personal details of the far right political establishment, in the process identifying peop...
www.emptywheel.net
October 30, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Here's my post on right wing efforts to turn an investigation into how Trump cheated his rubes into something damning for Democrats.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/30/f...
www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/30/f...
Reposted by Gregory Foster
New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
October 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM
New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
Clearly demarking the two different "armed gangs" (ICE/CBP) and the more egregious abuses led by Bovino.
@vermontgmg.bsky.social
"In a sweeping purge .. the ICE leadership across about half of the country was removed"
"In the race to become America’s secret police and Trump’s goon-squad-of-choice, CBP’s military-style tactics on our streets appears to be winning — laws be damned."
"In a sweeping purge .. the ICE leadership across about half of the country was removed"
"In the race to become America’s secret police and Trump’s goon-squad-of-choice, CBP’s military-style tactics on our streets appears to be winning — laws be damned."
Think ICE Is Bad Now? Today the Border Patrol Is Taking It Over
How Gregory Bovino Proudly Became Trump’s #1 Immigration Stormtrooper
www.doomsdayscenario.co
October 28, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Clearly demarking the two different "armed gangs" (ICE/CBP) and the more egregious abuses led by Bovino.
Helpful summary of the moment and how the federal shutdown has become about much more than healthcare subsidies.
1. Before the No Kings demonstrations two weekends ago, I suggested that the shutdown of the government would look different afterward.
October 28, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Helpful summary of the moment and how the federal shutdown has become about much more than healthcare subsidies.