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Please share this fact sheet on Ukraine with anyone who needs it understandingwar.org/backgrounder...

submitted 18 hours ago • 127 comments

Elon, I hate to break it to you but you aren’t my boss. I answer to the people of Minnesota. But since you bring it up, I spent last week fighting to stop tax breaks for billionaires like you, paid for by defunding health care for moms and babies

submitted 10 hours ago • 575 comments

If you're having trouble tracking all of the executive orders, blog posts and other actions coming from the executive office, as well as policy changes and legislative developments, this site -- 47 Watch - is tracking them. It's bare bones, but useful 47-watch.com/index.html

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Lonnie Johnson (1949- ), an African American engineer, invented the Super Soaker, a 1990s global hit. He worked for the U.S. Air Force and NASA, aiding the Galileo and Cassini missions. Holding 120+ patents, his innovations span clean energy and battery technology. #BlackHistory #USHistory

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

White Knight Labs: Navigating Advanced Red Team Operations podcasters.spotify.c...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

An extremely important point from @keezyyoung.bsky.social. Human rights are for all humans, and public services are for the entire public.

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submitted 3 days ago • 211 comments

Two DOGE workers are now at CISA (DHS Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency) I've confirmed. Edward Coristine, the 19-yr-old known as Big Balls, and Kyle Schutt, a 37-yr-old software engineer. Marisa Kabas (bsky.app/profile/mari...) was first to report about Coristine. My piece for Wired

submitted 4 days ago • 40 comments

The root that tears apart your foundation begins as a seed of distrust, hate, and blame. The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight. It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.

submitted 4 days ago • 844 comments

Sound on 🐾🐾🤍

submitted 4 days ago • 28 comments

Kinda seems like folks need a reminder that Executive Orders aren't laws. They are policy directives for the Executive branch. Resistance to them is not only possible, it is necessary for overturning them.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

submitted 5 days ago • 8253 comments

New from 404 Media: a Musk ally has demanded administrative access to Notify.gov, a system that lets the government text the public. The access would give them large swathes of the publics' personal data too. A worker has resigned in protest rather than give access www.404media.co/musk-ally-de...

submitted 5 days ago • 186 comments

The American Taliban on the march.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

submitted 6 days ago • 2287 comments

Gladys Mae West (1930-now), a Black mathematician, made pivotal contributions to GPS technology through her precise satellite geodesy calculations. Her once-overlooked work is now foundational to GPS. She was inducted into the AF Space and Missile Pioneers Hall of Fame in 2018. #BlackHistory

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submitted 7 days ago • 551 comments

I wrote your cybersecurity mentorship guide as requested: tisiphone.net/2025/02/16/o...

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

@rondorland.bsky.social

submitted 7 days ago • 142 comments

He’s right again.

submitted 8 days ago • 435 comments

Women are being -erased- in America #resist https://www.reddit.com/r/optimistsunitenonazis/s/FvYzm4erhn

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

A good sign you're in a tech bubble is when non-tech people are raving about technologies. In a normal environment they shouldn't care how or why the product works, only that it works and that it's good. My dad shouldn't be calling me to talk about MongoDB or Typescript, it's just internal cogs 1/3

submitted 7 days ago • 16 comments

Imagine the immaturity and cruelty that goes into a post like this. Zelenskyy has valiantly led a nation brutally and criminally assaulted by Putin and that has suffered tragic losses and destruction. And you think it’s cute to refer to denigrate him as a child. This a person with no soul.

submitted 8 days ago • 362 comments

not sure what's worse about the DOGE site: unsecured databases, leaking of classified information, or these chart crimes

submitted 8 days ago • 72 comments

This is profound.

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

More than 130 CISA employees have been laid off as part of a larger government purge, DHS spokesperson tells me.

submitted 9 days ago • 8 comments

Absolutely this. It's important to keep telling the trumpies/muskies/douchebros of the world the truth: They are creepyass weird losers, and nobody serious actually respects them.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

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

We found the real one!

submitted 9 days ago • 236 comments

BIG NEWS: We're holding DOGE accountable. It's not "efficient" to allow Elon Musk's operatives to mess with the systems that send Social Security checks or pay for your mom’s doctor through Medicare. It's dangerous for the economy and a breach of privacy for millions of Americans.

submitted 9 days ago • 271 comments

"The worst-kept secret in the world is when you put a bunch of vehicles and personnel dressed in fatigues in shopping-center parking lots." www.cjr.org/local_news/w...

submitted 9 days ago • 25 comments

The federal civilian worker payroll totaled $271 billion in 2022. The annual cost of permanently extending Trump's tax cuts that primarily benefited rich individuals? $400 billion. Keep this in mind as Trump and DOGE lay off thousands of federal workers.

submitted 9 days ago • 90 comments

People on X are calling for AOC's arrest for posting this.... so I am posting it everywhere!

submitted 9 days ago • 1006 comments

A TikTok user has been repeatedly posting clips and videos on how to "activate software" like ChatGPT, Office 365, CapCut, Adobe Premiere and more... but in all reality, tricking victims into running infostealer malware. 👀 https://youtu.be/03FPDBjpsKo

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

“MaYbe shE’s goiNg to be in TroUble nOw” Maybe he can learn to read. The Constitution would be a good place to start

submitted 10 days ago • 3235 comments

Via @zlz.bsky.social on X: "The DOGE website appears to be developed and hosted by Outburst Data, run by current DOGE employee Kyle Schutt. If you view the source of any page on the DOGE website, you'll see that the images are proxied through Cloudflare's ImageDelivery service.

submitted 11 days ago • 8 comments

here's today's post: "we’re being governed by a bunch of dicks" — don’t be afraid to say it. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter so you never miss a post —

submitted 10 days ago • 210 comments

sigh

submitted 10 days ago • 25 comments

Y'all this video has made my day. m.youtube.com/shorts/9rgHC...

submitted 10 days ago • 5 comments

this is so fucking embarrassing, man, people got mad about burrito taxis and accidentally elected a guy whose favorite star trek character is boba fett

submitted 11 days ago • 94 comments

How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million. How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65 Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?

submitted 11 days ago • 898 comments

Brianna Keilar: Do you think that calling Elon Musk a dick is effective messaging? Congressman Robert Garcia: Well, he is a dick.

submitted 11 days ago • 1875 comments

My boy Husky doesn't do most socials anymore, but this rad hunting script that looks for sus OAuth apps in your Azure tenant is pure gold. Run it in your environment today. github.com/HuskyHack...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

This is absolutely insane. Musk’s DOGE crew just straight up took $80 million from an NYC bank account!

submitted 11 days ago • 1751 comments

No it hasn’t. The federal government filed a civil suit—echoing the same theory of liability on which the first Trump administration lost in most of the courts to hear it. To say DOJ “filed charges” is to deliberately make it sound more significant and threatening than it actually is.

submitted 11 days ago • 76 comments

My heart ached when I was reminded that Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for trying to make academic knowledge more accessible to the public. Meta, meanwhile, is doing it for their own bottom line. I'm going to guess that no one at Meta will be looking at spending 35 years in jail for this.

submitted 12 days ago • 21 comments

The CFPB is one of the American people’s best defenses against waste, fraud, and abuse. Demolishing it will, of course, lead to more waste, fraud, and abuse.

submitted 12 days ago • 1393 comments

Nailed it 🏆

submitted 12 days ago • 581 comments