Akil Bello

@akilbello.bsky.social

Shadow education vet → policy wonk & public intellectual | Coined "highly rejective colleges" (Congress & Urban Dictionary) | Netflix, NYT, Forbes | 5x FAFSA filer, CSS hater | data-driven contrarian | "Brilliance & foolishness" per sources

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@bencollins.bsky.socialReposted by @akilbello.bsky.social

Gobsmacked by the elite levels of not knowing ball in the Senate today, thinking an NBA team is called the Hawkeyes then, refusing to Google it, then accusing a guy of treason because you didn’t know the Iowa Lady Hawkeyes aren’t in the NBA. Somehow I don’t trust these people to Save Girls Sports.

@rbreich.bsky.socialReposted by @akilbello.bsky.social

DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.

theintercept.comDoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam
@timnitgebru.blacksky.appReposted by @akilbello.bsky.social

We had to wait for the....NEW YORK POST to write about this. Y'all know there is so much more where this came from but journalists don't want to dig and people are terrified to speak to any journalist seeing the type of reporting they've been doing

Remmelt 🛑@artificialbodies.net

A hidden list of 100 abusers in Silicon Valley. Left unstated: some are abusing *men* Sam Altman used to date Peter Thiel, known for recruiting young men for sex (one died of suicide). Sam's sex parties are notorious for how hard they go, and the abuse. Three sources told me about this:

nypost.comSilicon Valley ‘sex assault list’ with ‘over 100 ‘ names circulated, warning female tech workers of predators to avoid“Some of them were very prominent names, you know? People who were famous investors. Businessmen who were in the scene”
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