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Sergeant Gonell @sergeantaqgo.bsky.social sent me this picture. This is his call log. Each call is an automated Dept of "Justice" notification saying "The defendant you testified against is being released from the dept of corrections." Each defendant assaulted him.

submitted 33 days ago • 1922 comments

Usefully sober fact sheet on Ukraine. Please share with those who need it. understandingwar.org/backgrounder...

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As Trump makes concessions to Russia, he is showing weakness on a level unprecedented in modern US history. His position is so weak that it is unlikely to convince anyone. Trump is a sheep in wolf’s clothing. The wolves can tell the difference "The Weak Strongman" snyder.substack.com/p/the-weak-s...

submitted 3 days ago • 131 comments

The United States is in the midst of a regime change, in which Kash Patel, if confirmed, would be useful. snyder.substack.com/p/kash-patel...

submitted 4 days ago • 64 comments

Michelle King, the acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration, left her job this weekend after a clash with billionaire Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service over its attempts to access sensitive government records, people familiar with her departure said.

submitted 5 days ago • 149 comments

"If the federal government is no longer run by civil servants fulfilling laws passed by Congress, then its interests might seriously diverge from yours."

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It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too. EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them. Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)

submitted 9 days ago • 1910 comments

Incompetence in Washington puts every American at risk, no matter how you voted. No one should be happy that the DOGE team - the same folks who randomly published classified U.S. security information online today - wants access to your bank account & Social Security numbers.

submitted 8 days ago • 2697 comments

The lawsuit alleges the migrants have been "disappeared into a black box" and are unable to communicate with attorneys.

submitted 10 days ago • 553 comments

"Continued access to any payment systems by DOGE members, even ‘read only,’ likely poses the single greatest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.” From a Treasury threat intelligence dept email www.wired.com/story/treasu...

submitted 14 days ago • 291 comments

Who could have possibly predicted?

submitted 16 days ago • 373 comments

Trump To Victims’ Families: ‘I’m Doing Everything Possible To Resegregate Flight Schools’ theonion.com/trump-t...

submitted 23 days ago • 105 comments

This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942. I know. I was there in those camps.

submitted 23 days ago • 3627 comments

ICE Agent Decides He Wants Kids After Seeing Incredible Love And Devotion Of Parents Begging Him Not To Take Their Child theonion.com/ice-age...

submitted 23 days ago • 319 comments

The FAA is facing its first major aviation disaster in 16 years without a leader because Elon Musk helped push him out. The former FAA administrator stepped down on Jan. 20th after Musk called on him to resign. Musk was angry after the FAA fined SpaceX for failing to get approval for launch changes.

submitted 24 days ago • 496 comments

Multiple senior FBI officials have been ordered to leave the bureau within days or be fired, according to three people familiar with the matter, a sign that President Donald Trump’s administration is purging leadership at an agency that has been a frequent target of his ire.

submitted 23 days ago • 72 comments

Written two-plus years ago, and also torn from this morning's headlines. Spoilers for American #democracy #Trump

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American social media companies write the algorithms that determine what voters read; moderation systems are opaque; political advertising cannot always be tracked. Do European democracies, or any democracies, really have sovereign elections anymore? www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

submitted 27 days ago • 91 comments

Trump fires at least 12 independent inspectors general in late-night purge www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202... Just a few days in, this administration is already shaping up to be worse than advertised. By anyone.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

The cognitive dissonance of trying to circumvent the #TikTok ban is wild. The algorithm knows you're gay in six swipes, but you think this torrent of data collection can be defeated with a VPN? It's about free speech, surely, so you jump on a heavily censored app in a language you don't speak? Ugh.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

What an honor, not only to stand and witness the first batch of horrific Presidential executive orders signed, but to receive the actual Sharpie that initiated the atrocities #inauguration that's going right on the mantlepiece

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

I wouldn't say that I want a full line-by-line breakdown and analysis of this post- #inauguration rant about acid and rebar and whatnot, but Presidential historians kind of need to. We can't ignore Trump's views on wires on the outside.

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

Well I didn't have "Trump saluting discount Michael Scott singing the anthem with marbles in his mouth," on my bingo card. #inauguration

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

Hey, they're singing the Yodobashi Camera jingle. What a nice pick for an #inauguration.

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Scores of senior career diplomats are resigning from the State Department effective at noon on Monday after receiving instructions to do so from President-elect Donald Trump’s aides www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

submitted 35 days ago • 153 comments

It shouldn't be difficult to commit to preserving the evidence from the Special Counsel’s January 6th investigation. And yet...

submitted 39 days ago • 1555 comments

As I listen to the winds kick up again outside, here are a handful of the 10,000+ buildings and landmarks we've lost, or not, as of tonight. Raise a glass to responders, victims, to what we all lost #LAfire Just visited the Getty museum a few weeks ago, now both the museum and villa are at risk.

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Trump declines to rule out ‘military or economic’ force to expand U.S. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202... At least Jimmy Carter didn't have to hear this absolute slop fall out of the front of Trump's head.

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Forget the division of Left and Right. We are entering the age of the New Obscurantism: politics fused with magical solutions, superstition, an aura of spirituality and the cultivation of fear www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

submitted 47 days ago • 120 comments

A big one today with @mikecaulfield.bsky.social. It's about Jan 6th but its really about trying to diagnose what precisely is broken about our information ecosystem and why everything feels so stuck. It's about how the internet is a justification machine. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

submitted 48 days ago • 65 comments

#20 Lullaby, by Chuck Palahniuk. Close runner up: Guts #booksky #bookchallenge

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#19 Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, by Robert C. O'Brien. #booksky #bookchallenge

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

#washingtonpost #WaPo is making some very poor choices lately, for an org that purports to specialize in knowing better. Killing the Harris endorsement, now self-censoring Bezos content, this is wrong.

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#18 American Gods, by Neil Gaiman #booksky #bookchallenge

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