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benjaminthomas.bsky.social
former US Army infantry NCO, USSS SA tech and finance security, investigations, infosec, insider risk I’ve investigated fraud for 15 years. We’ve elected experienced fraud actors to run the country.
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NEW: Trump appointees running USAID have just fired about 400 employees who help deliver urgent humanitarian aid in disaster and war zones around the world. This raises more doubts about whether Rubio supports lifesaving aid. Our @nytimes.com story: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...

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One man is running a denial of service on the entire federal government

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Germans have been subjected to covert Russian propaganda as well as overt American propaganda - jointly in support of the far-right www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/w...

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From an expert: "Last night was the worst night in US civil-military relations since the Civil War." Loyalty purges of the military are very, very bad.

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At least he’s honest about whose side he’s on

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we now have a US presidential administration staffed by confirmed officials hand selected to feed the insatiable narcissism of one person

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The senior military leader changes are clarifying. There is no legitimate reason to replace a well qualified black Chairman of the Joint Chiefs with an unqualified white one. It is unprecedented to replace the senior JAG officers in every service without cause. -clear evidence of malicious intent-

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So much power, so little shame

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“We are hollowing out our government in a way that is going to hurt people and is going to get people killed,” said Amy Paris, who had been working to help reform the US organ transplantation network. “That is the scariest thing in the world.” New: @anniewaldman.bsky.social @deldeib.bsky.social

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This is thoroughly corrupt and imminently dangerous to Americans within the US

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None of this has anything to do with effectiveness, or “lethality,” or promoting “warfighters," or any other buzzwords. It is praetorianism, plain and simple, and it is an assault on our military and our democracy. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Replacing the military brass and attorneys with three-star generals you pluck from retirement is exactly what a dictator looking to use an army to do some violence does.

submitted 23 hours ago • 19 comments

The 49% voted for autocracy and oligarchy. If that’s not what you wanted, denial will only make it worse. Wake up, turn around, loudly push back

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Firing all the JAGs is very very bad

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The new admin is openly, repeatedly attacking the Constitution. It's time to wake up.

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Gift link. A small unelected, secretive crew now has free access to sensitive private data of everyone. And Musk is already publicly targeting family members of judges who rule against the administration. If this isn’t ringing alarm bells, I don’t know what would. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...

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Nothing good will come of this

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Billionaire meets a battered woman with an infant, discovers her other children have been kidnapped and her husband murdered. Negotiates for her jewelry. But don't worry, she's been driven out of her house, and it will take a long time to get it.

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He works for a man with a 50 year track record of defrauding blue collar workers, suppliers, and the government

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People need to understand this: Trump did not leave office willingly the first time. If his health holds up, he will not leave office willingly this time. He is not joking about serving more than two terms.

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btw a dozen white eggs were $10.19 today on my supermarket outing

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NEW YORK (AP) — Dow tumbles 748 points, and S&P 500 has worst drop in 2 months after discouraging reports on the US economy.

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Powerful. Tomorrow’s front page of the most influential weekly publication in Germany. “BETRAYED. First Zelensky, Soon Us? The radical departure of the US from its allies.”

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The con man used them. Now they have no value to him. The way forward is to humbly acknowledge he conned them and learn, but most will not. For them, it will always be those bad advisors because *he* would never do that to them, his loyal supporters.

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reading Bonhoeffer on life in Nazi Germany and oh boy

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“S&P 500 Consumer Discretionary sector has wiped out all gains since the end of November.” (via Kevin Gordon)

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“clever”

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Over $1.4 billion taken from Bybit crypto exchange February 21, 2025 https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=bybit-hack

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The United States Constitution reads, “No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice”. Here is a helpful explainer from the Reagan Library—>

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The new admin is corruption all the way down

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The new admin is incompetence all the way down

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Coinbase says that the SEC has agreed to drop the enforcement case against the company. It only cost them $75 million in political contributions.

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What percentage of the voting public sees a Nazi salute and says, "This is where I get off."?

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This is in fact a real picture and it will work nicely in the ads next year about the military families devastated by Elon's illegal firings.

submitted 1 day ago • 262 comments

There have been 11 aviation disasters, including 3 commercial airline crashes, in one month of the Trump administration. 90 people have been killed, yet Trump just fired hundreds of FAA employees. We created a resource to track aviation disasters and any future cuts to aviation safety.

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In future generations, when your children and grandchildren look back on this moment, they are not going to ask about the price of eggs. They are going to ask you what you did. Not what you felt. Not what you paid. But what you did. And I want to be able to say I did everything I possibly could.

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This is a new level of madness. I don't know how it can be stopped

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Federal law enforcement falls under the executive. One of the new admin’s first acts was to suspend unfavored officials’ protective details. Functional LE leadership would have put out a joint USSS, State Dept DSS, US Marshals statement defending the non partisan protection mission. Crickets.

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Musk called DOGE “maximally transparent,” but it has refused to release info about its spending and operations — including the names of its employees. Thankfully, @propublica.org has identified 46 of them, including 12 new names just added to the list today.

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We’re now in the multiple presidential advisors giving public nazi salutes chapter of the mask off phase of the new admin Does anyone outside the cult believe good things for the country or you personally will follow?

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"No matter how many times Donald Trump openly parrots the Kremlin line, it’s never not going to sound wrong coming from the President of the United States." from @sbg1.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

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