Nathan Reed
@reedbeta.bsky.social
📍 Seattle. 3D rendering at Adobe; formerly at 343i, Sucker Punch, NVIDIA. Math & coding blog writer, sometime musician, sci-fi & physics nerd, cat dad, coffeeholic.
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Folks have really turned out this afternoon to speak against expanded surveillance in Seattle.
September 9, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Folks have really turned out this afternoon to speak against expanded surveillance in Seattle.
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This is a staggering amount of money. It’s bigger than the Department of Transportation spending on all infrastructure. It’s bigger than all of the federal R&D done for both the military and all federal science agencies. Disgusting.
Where we are as a country:
"The funding in the bill will make ICE the largest jailer in the world, with $200 billion at their disposal."
newrepublic.com/article/1975...
"The funding in the bill will make ICE the largest jailer in the world, with $200 billion at their disposal."
newrepublic.com/article/1975...
The Grand Opening of an American Concentration Camp
The Republicans are proudly calling it “Alligator Alcatraz.” Let’s call it what it is.
newrepublic.com
July 2, 2025 at 12:21 PM
This is a staggering amount of money. It’s bigger than the Department of Transportation spending on all infrastructure. It’s bigger than all of the federal R&D done for both the military and all federal science agencies. Disgusting.
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anil isn't kidding. this level of transparency and detail — talking to voters like adults — is remarkable. i would imagine it also helps people feel like they are part of something bigger. and, christ, mamdani is insanely charismatic and good on screen. like, you just want to watch him talk!
This @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social video is absolutely INCREDIBLE. The numbers he cites, the strategy and results they produced — it’s the future. When have you heard *any* campaign talk about this, ever? (Video split in 2 to fit in Bluesky’s limits)
July 1, 2025 at 6:24 PM
anil isn't kidding. this level of transparency and detail — talking to voters like adults — is remarkable. i would imagine it also helps people feel like they are part of something bigger. and, christ, mamdani is insanely charismatic and good on screen. like, you just want to watch him talk!
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We don’t live in a neutral marketplace of ideas. We live in an attention economy shaped by algorithms, tribal identity, outrage incentives, and profit models that reward engagement over accuracy.
June 27, 2025 at 6:58 AM
We don’t live in a neutral marketplace of ideas. We live in an attention economy shaped by algorithms, tribal identity, outrage incentives, and profit models that reward engagement over accuracy.
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The danger isn’t just that people believe lies. It’s that entire communities become locked into belief systems that can’t be challenged, where loyalty replaces evidence, and disagreement feels like betrayal. That doesn’t just distort truth, it breaks trust.
June 27, 2025 at 6:56 AM
The danger isn’t just that people believe lies. It’s that entire communities become locked into belief systems that can’t be challenged, where loyalty replaces evidence, and disagreement feels like betrayal. That doesn’t just distort truth, it breaks trust.
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The conditions that have led to what’s happening in the US today exist in democracies around the world.
They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.
They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.
June 7, 2025 at 8:39 PM
The conditions that have led to what’s happening in the US today exist in democracies around the world.
They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.
They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.
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posters going up in Philly and some other cities
June 11, 2025 at 4:55 PM
posters going up in Philly and some other cities
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printing out a copy of this post for every Member of Congress, hand-delivering it to every office, and then performing my own personal interpretive dance version in the House Rotunda just to drive the point home
More Van Hollen stunts and less press releases and bullshit talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/fight...
Fight or Don’t Fight and Take the Consequences
It’s become almost a commonplace in recent years, and especially in the...
talkingpointsmemo.com
May 20, 2025 at 1:21 PM
printing out a copy of this post for every Member of Congress, hand-delivering it to every office, and then performing my own personal interpretive dance version in the House Rotunda just to drive the point home
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these fuckers being able to destroy everything is not a foregone conclusion
April 24, 2025 at 9:48 PM
these fuckers being able to destroy everything is not a foregone conclusion
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Republicans want to restrict access to the ballot and eliminate online and mail-in voter registration. Tell your senators to reject the GOP’s voter suppression bill (especially if your senator is listed here):
KELLY (AZ)
WARNOCK (GA)
PETERS (MI)
SHAHEEN (NH)
HASSAN (NH)
CORTEZ MASTO (NV)
ROSEN (NV)
KELLY (AZ)
WARNOCK (GA)
PETERS (MI)
SHAHEEN (NH)
HASSAN (NH)
CORTEZ MASTO (NV)
ROSEN (NV)
Tell Your Senator(s) to Vote NO on the Silencing Americans Act
Republicans are once again pushing what we’re calling the “Silencing Americans Act”, a dangerous bill that would create unnecessary obstacles for millions of eligible Americans trying to register to v...
act.indivisible.org
April 20, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Republicans want to restrict access to the ballot and eliminate online and mail-in voter registration. Tell your senators to reject the GOP’s voter suppression bill (especially if your senator is listed here):
KELLY (AZ)
WARNOCK (GA)
PETERS (MI)
SHAHEEN (NH)
HASSAN (NH)
CORTEZ MASTO (NV)
ROSEN (NV)
KELLY (AZ)
WARNOCK (GA)
PETERS (MI)
SHAHEEN (NH)
HASSAN (NH)
CORTEZ MASTO (NV)
ROSEN (NV)
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Turns out you can shape the agenda with dramatic action and maybe even shift public opinion. Crazy.
Sunday morning April 20, 2025
Fox News Sunday — Van Hollen
NBC's Meet the Press — Van Hollen
CNN's State of the Union — Van Hollen
CBS’ Face the Nation — Van Hollen
ABC’s This Week — Van Hollen
@vanhollen.senate.gov
#AbregoGarcia #RuleOfLaw
Fox News Sunday — Van Hollen
NBC's Meet the Press — Van Hollen
CNN's State of the Union — Van Hollen
CBS’ Face the Nation — Van Hollen
ABC’s This Week — Van Hollen
@vanhollen.senate.gov
#AbregoGarcia #RuleOfLaw
April 20, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Turns out you can shape the agenda with dramatic action and maybe even shift public opinion. Crazy.
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Without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless.
As we gain solidarity, we feel more courageous.
As we feel courageous and stand up to Trump, we weaken him and his regime.
As we weaken Trump and his regime, we have less to fear.
By @rbreich.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
As we gain solidarity, we feel more courageous.
As we feel courageous and stand up to Trump, we weaken him and his regime.
As we weaken Trump and his regime, we have less to fear.
By @rbreich.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
Sunday thought
The contagion of courage
open.substack.com
April 20, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless.
As we gain solidarity, we feel more courageous.
As we feel courageous and stand up to Trump, we weaken him and his regime.
As we weaken Trump and his regime, we have less to fear.
By @rbreich.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
As we gain solidarity, we feel more courageous.
As we feel courageous and stand up to Trump, we weaken him and his regime.
As we weaken Trump and his regime, we have less to fear.
By @rbreich.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
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A Border Patrol official arrested a 19 yo citizen from Albuquerque in Arizona who didn’t have ID on him, claimed he ‘admitted’ to illegally crossing the border, abducted + ICE imprisoned him for 10 days, and would have deported him to Mexico if his family hadn’t tracked him down and provided his ID.
April 20, 2025 at 3:41 PM
A Border Patrol official arrested a 19 yo citizen from Albuquerque in Arizona who didn’t have ID on him, claimed he ‘admitted’ to illegally crossing the border, abducted + ICE imprisoned him for 10 days, and would have deported him to Mexico if his family hadn’t tracked him down and provided his ID.
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lol. We’re hitting 13, soon to be 14
The 14 defining characteristics of fascism.
April 20, 2025 at 4:05 PM
lol. We’re hitting 13, soon to be 14
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Master and Commander/TNG Intro
this was rendering all day while I was out lol
this was rendering all day while I was out lol
April 19, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Master and Commander/TNG Intro
this was rendering all day while I was out lol
this was rendering all day while I was out lol
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American colonists literally threw a revolution in part to prevent unjust penalties imposed by an overly punitive tyrant leader; 4 of 10 amendments in the US Bill of Rights are about rights afforded to people accused of crimes (5, 6, 7, & 8). Here we are again. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Supreme Court blocks Alien Enemies Act deportation of Venezuelan men
The Trump administration was planning to deport at least 30 Venezuelan men under a rarely invoked wartime statute before the court ruled to temporarily halt it.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 19, 2025 at 8:53 PM
American colonists literally threw a revolution in part to prevent unjust penalties imposed by an overly punitive tyrant leader; 4 of 10 amendments in the US Bill of Rights are about rights afforded to people accused of crimes (5, 6, 7, & 8). Here we are again. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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Research by @chenoweth.bsky.social et al, shows that when 3.5% of a population rises in opposition, change happens. TWELVE MILLION IN THE STREETS. That’s the 🎯.
The turnout in small towns across the country has been incredible drawing crowds of thousands. We’re already seeing over one million in attendance nationwide, and events are still underway. Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Ohio all had especially surprising showings.
April 19, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Research by @chenoweth.bsky.social et al, shows that when 3.5% of a population rises in opposition, change happens. TWELVE MILLION IN THE STREETS. That’s the 🎯.
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If you're a reporter in a White House press briefing as the spokesperson for the government asserts flatly that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a member of the MS-13 gang who's guilty of human trafficking and you sit there silently without shouting out "PROVE IT!" I'd like to invite you to go fuck yourself.
April 16, 2025 at 12:48 PM
If you're a reporter in a White House press briefing as the spokesperson for the government asserts flatly that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a member of the MS-13 gang who's guilty of human trafficking and you sit there silently without shouting out "PROVE IT!" I'd like to invite you to go fuck yourself.
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It would take some time for this funding to really start getting off the ground but this would make ICE the highest-funded law enforcement agency in the history of the United States, and quite possibly the entire world.
NEW: GOP lawmakers are preparing reconciliation bill with $90-175 BILLION in new funding for immigration enforcement.
ICE's entire annual budget is ~$9 billion.
Inside the Trump administration's plan for the real mass deportation campaign: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc... @theatlantic.com
ICE's entire annual budget is ~$9 billion.
Inside the Trump administration's plan for the real mass deportation campaign: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc... @theatlantic.com
Trump’s Mass-Deportation Campaign Hasn’t Really Started Yet
The Trump administration’s campaign to remove millions of people from the United States could soon be supercharged by Congress.
www.theatlantic.com
April 16, 2025 at 11:17 PM
It would take some time for this funding to really start getting off the ground but this would make ICE the highest-funded law enforcement agency in the history of the United States, and quite possibly the entire world.
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"This malevolent quest towards supposed Jewish safety has always been predicated on endangering anti-genocide and pro-Palestinian students—including other Jews."
I’ve been wanting to write this for a while. So I finally did.
It was never about antisemitism
From abducting college students to an attack on a Jewish governor, Trump’s real motivations remain clear.
www.thehandbasket.co
April 15, 2025 at 11:49 PM
"This malevolent quest towards supposed Jewish safety has always been predicated on endangering anti-genocide and pro-Palestinian students—including other Jews."
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Doctors for America Calls for the Resignation or Removal of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is unfit to serve as Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary and must be removed. The health of our nation depends on it.
doctorsforamerica.org/statement-re...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is unfit to serve as Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary and must be removed. The health of our nation depends on it.
doctorsforamerica.org/statement-re...
Statement - Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Unfit to Serve as HHS Secretary
STATEMENT RELEASE: Doctors for America Calls for the Resignation or Removal of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. DFA General -
doctorsforamerica.org
April 15, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Doctors for America Calls for the Resignation or Removal of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is unfit to serve as Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary and must be removed. The health of our nation depends on it.
doctorsforamerica.org/statement-re...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is unfit to serve as Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary and must be removed. The health of our nation depends on it.
doctorsforamerica.org/statement-re...
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Constituents to Chuck Grassley: "Are you bringing back that guy from El Salvador?"
Senior Citizen: “If I get an order to pay a ticket to pay $1200 and I just say ‘no’, does that stand up? Because he just got an order from the Supreme Court and he just said ‘screw it’”
“I’M PISSED!”
Senior Citizen: “If I get an order to pay a ticket to pay $1200 and I just say ‘no’, does that stand up? Because he just got an order from the Supreme Court and he just said ‘screw it’”
“I’M PISSED!”
April 15, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Constituents to Chuck Grassley: "Are you bringing back that guy from El Salvador?"
Senior Citizen: “If I get an order to pay a ticket to pay $1200 and I just say ‘no’, does that stand up? Because he just got an order from the Supreme Court and he just said ‘screw it’”
“I’M PISSED!”
Senior Citizen: “If I get an order to pay a ticket to pay $1200 and I just say ‘no’, does that stand up? Because he just got an order from the Supreme Court and he just said ‘screw it’”
“I’M PISSED!”
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It is time for Democrats to go on the attack, and take away tax-exempt status for every church that unabashedly campaigned for Trump. Take off the gloves, start to destroy the opposing institutions that fund the fascist movement.
Trump says Harvard should lose tax exempt status. He’s clearly not liking the way it pushed back yesterday.
April 15, 2025 at 11:36 PM
It is time for Democrats to go on the attack, and take away tax-exempt status for every church that unabashedly campaigned for Trump. Take off the gloves, start to destroy the opposing institutions that fund the fascist movement.
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Increasingly difficult to see how blue states and cities can continue working with the feds in any capacity. We're getting into Fugitive Slave Law territory.
REPORTER: There are laws on the book that make it a criminal offense to harbor illegal immigrants, like sanctuary state leaders have been doing. Do you think they should be prosecuted and possibly put in prison?
HOMAN: Absolutely. And hold tight on that one, because it's coming.
HOMAN: Absolutely. And hold tight on that one, because it's coming.
April 15, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Increasingly difficult to see how blue states and cities can continue working with the feds in any capacity. We're getting into Fugitive Slave Law territory.
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Didn’t get a chance to post this earlier, but there was a huge turnout in support of Kilmar Abrego Garcia at the federal courthouse.
From my seat in the jury room, I heard the supporters outside chanting throughout the hearing.
From my seat in the jury room, I heard the supporters outside chanting throughout the hearing.
April 15, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Didn’t get a chance to post this earlier, but there was a huge turnout in support of Kilmar Abrego Garcia at the federal courthouse.
From my seat in the jury room, I heard the supporters outside chanting throughout the hearing.
From my seat in the jury room, I heard the supporters outside chanting throughout the hearing.