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"Once in a while you get shown the light In the strangest of places if you look at it right" - Robert Hunter
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In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. dansinker.com/posts/202…

submitted 8 hours ago • 285 comments

For the record, the idea of the entire federal workforce flooding an OPM email inbox with their weekly task reports is insurmountable stupid.

submitted 1 day ago • 129 comments

Our workflow for data rescues includes Data Lumos because we know that the data is going to a long standing data archive. We don’t want data to be lost so we focus on sending it there (& we’ve sent them a lot). Thanks for not hating us @icpsr.bsky.social

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

For today's newsletter, I wrote about @chriswarcraft.bsky.social and what Democratic elected officials can learn from him www.readtpa.com/p/democrats-...

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

"Grandma, go set fire to a church and I'll give you some Trumpcoins," how could that scheme not work out #stochasticterror

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

Trump's policies are about who gets to exist in public life and attempting to legally exclude or intimidate people out of it. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/u...

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

time to dig up the @adamkotsko.bsky.social tweet

submitted 7 days ago • 74 comments

The #2 official at the United States Department of Justice literally gave the Stringer Bell "is you taking notes on a criminal fucking conspiracy?" warning to the Manhattan prosecutors pursuing the Eric Adams case.

submitted 10 days ago • 45 comments

There's a non-zero chance that sometime soon, some American general is going to have to decide whether being told to send troops across the border and sack Toronto is an illegal order.

submitted 10 days ago • 22 comments

Thought I'd write something about how Elon Musk has access to every expert he could possibly need to understand stuff, and yet appears to simply believe any random chud on ExTwitter spewing utter nonsense. And why journalists should ask him about that. www.techdirt.com/2025/02/13/s...

submitted 10 days ago • 48 comments

I wrote about the great Don Shoup, who was the kind of person you'd go to for an answer to a single question about parking and come away with 20 more story ideas about how to fix everything in LA

submitted 12 days ago • 6 comments

On Aaron Swartz: “He stood for freedom of access to information, especially for scientific research — things the public had already paid for.” - Lisa Rein, co-founder of @creativecommons.bsky.social sfstandard.com/2025/02/08/a...

submitted 13 days ago • 11 comments

Is requesting permission to perform a work task itself a work task for which one must receive permission to perform?

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

So much for the full faith and credit of the United States.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Fascinating perspective on the changes to our nation as seen through the lens of beer.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Just awful: One of the inspector generals that Trump fired was examining Elon Musk's failures to meet reporting protocol designed to safeguard national security as a major recipient of Pentagon contracts. It's time to follow up on that. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1913...

submitted 14 days ago • 73 comments

this guy being the shadow president and posting like this is proof that, just like the cold war, gamergate never truly ended

submitted 14 days ago • 107 comments

None of this will stop Mar-A-Lago from falling into the sea www.theverge.com/news/608420/...

submitted 16 days ago • 13 comments

SCOOP: A US Treasury threat intelligence analysis has designated DOGE staff an ‘insider threat'. An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”

submitted 16 days ago • 738 comments

Wrote up just how *actually evil* the demands from the Trump admin to NCMEC are and how they will *absolutely* lead to children dying. From the cultists who insisted they wanted to "save the children" to literally killing them deserves to be called out: www.techdirt.com/2025/02/07/m...

submitted 16 days ago • 40 comments

One thing I've thought about a lot over the past few days is we were told that Musk's effort involved myriad high-profile Silicon Valley names willing to forego salary in order to help revamp government and what we got was child soldiers.

submitted 16 days ago • 93 comments

This is just evil.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

The world's richest man is taking food and medicine from the world's poorest children www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

submitted 18 days ago • 1018 comments

For those keeping track at home, Dems held the floor all night and are still going strong this morning.

submitted 17 days ago • 138 comments

Now up on @lawfare.bsky.social www.lawfaremedia.org/article/elon... "Musk is seemingly doing to the U.S. government what the U.S. government once did to the rest of the world: refashioning the plumbing ... into a political weapon against his adversaries. "

submitted 18 days ago • 3 comments

If a political flunky is appointed as acting head of a department and nobody knows it, has it made a sound?

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States

submitted 18 days ago • 1105 comments

Reps. Judy Chu (D-Calif.) and Gwen Moore (D-Wisc.) barged into House Speaker Mike Johnson’s office unscheduled on Wednesday and challenged him about Elon Musk's team gaining access to a sensitive payment system at the Treasury Department. www.politico.com/live-updates...

submitted 18 days ago • 255 comments