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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 03/06/2026

What's happening to CBS News is what the tech oligarchs call "parallel" strategy. Buy an existing institution, gut it, and convert it into a right-wing zombie version of itself. They are doing this to media, government, education, biotech, defense tech, etc. Some call it the "Network State."

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Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

BREAKING: The Census Bureau is scaling down this year's major #2030Census field test by reducing the six planned test sites to two — Spartanburg, S.C., & Huntsville, Ala. — while adding plans to test replacing temporary census workers with U.S. Postal Service staff, according to the Federal Register

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Public Inspection: Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: 2026 Operational Test in Support of the 2030 Census

Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: 2026 Operational Test in Support of the 2030 Census

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

The events of the last 24 hours show why it's important to build functional verification structures in public and counterpublic spaces to resist the authoritarian erosion of our democratic systems, as described in this thread.

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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 24/01/2026

Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_...

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Bill @billmacconnel.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

“There is a strategy from the White House to consolidate the right in the western hemisphere,” says Lester Ramírez, a Honduran political analyst who teaches public policy at the Central American Technological University in Tegucigalpa. “It’s about creating a hegemony of the right.”

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The Steady State @thesteadystate.org · 29/10/2025

Career prosecutors were put on leave, allegedly for stating the truth about J6. The Administration is working overtime to erase history. It’s incumbent upon all of us to document truth, preserve historical record, and stand firm against efforts to replace facts. abcnews.go.com/US/doj-place...

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DOJ places on leave 2 prosecutors who said 'mob' of 'rioters' carried out Jan. 6 attack

Two federal prosecutors have been told they will be put on leave after filing a brief that described the Jan. 6, 2021, attackers a "mob of rioters," sources say.

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Bill @billmacconnel.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

If they can dismantle and game the federal government as quickly and as savagely as they did, when the pendulum swings the other way, nationalizing SpaceX and Palantir should be a given.

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 12/04/2025

So maybe this isn’t real, or it WAS real until a grownup found out about DOGE’s latest.

@SocialSecurity: This is false. Social Security will continue to communicate through any and all mediums.

@WIRED: SCOOP: The Social Security Administration (SSA) will be shifting its public communication exclusively to X, sources tell WIRED. This comes as agency plans to cut its regional office workforce by roughly 90 percent.

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Bill @billmacconnel.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

The Blackwater of big data analytics has breached the tripwire.

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Ruth Becker @ruthbecker.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

@gilduran.com's work communicating the full scope of what the tech bros and NRx are really up to is absolute must-see must-hear content. And @davetroy.com's long-term, multidimensional deep understanding & analysis of the big picture is unparalleled. Grateful to hear them in conversation together

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Bill @billmacconnel.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

“I was put in a position where, whether I chose to engage or not engage, I might have to cross ethical lines. I would have to breach the oath to the Constitution that I swore. “It was clear I was going to be asked to work on a complete dismantlement of government systems.”

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Jonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

If the next Dem administration doesn’t nationalize SpaceX it’s malpractice.

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Bill @billmacconnel.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Feel good story of the week.

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Elon obviously has *not* cracked the code. He can barely parse data that is plain to thousands of federal workers. What he has done is give the GOP an excuse to hollow out government and seize more power with his shitty AI + automation logic.

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Bill @billmacconnel.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Yeah, Silicon Valley is certainly at the forefront of data integrity: Facebook was accused of inflating video ad metrics by up to 900%. The company settled a class action lawsuit for $40 million.

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Bill @billmacconnel.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Hope tripwires are firmly in place at the Census Bureau. The damage inflicted in 2020 was staggering.

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Bill @billmacconnel.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

While simultaneously nationalizing SpaceX, and dismantling big tech with the same ferocity DOGE extracted on OUR federal institutions and work force.

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Bill @billmacconnel.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

As opaque as the social media/Silicon Valley algorithms that paved the way for this mess.

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Bill @billmacconnel.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

I look forward to the historical reckoning that explains how two South African tech-libertarians, one a dope fiend, both more beholden to the Alternative für Deutschland, (AfD) party than democracy, breached the national security tripwires and inserted themselves into its infrastructure.

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Mark Zaid, Esq @markzaidesq.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

1/My statement on learning through news reports that my #securityclearance has just been revoked.

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John Gramlich @johngramlich.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

74% of Americans, including 54% of Republicans and 93% of Democrats, disapprove of Trump's pardons for Jan. 6ers convicted of violent crimes. www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...

Bar chart showing how Americans view President Donald Trump's recent pardons for people convicted of violent and nonviolent crimes during the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

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Bill @billmacconnel.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Former mi. Gov. Rick Snyder is a perfect example. He handed over the states unemployment system redesign to a private company. They inserted code that automatically flagged 60% of all claims fraudulent…multiple suicides & family’s ruined. Oh…the Flint water crisis too. Barbaric private equity shit.

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Bill @billmacconnel.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Because a South African dope fiend is running our government.

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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 03/02/2025

At a moment when the largest AI companies are all openly aligning with Trumpism, I'm proud to share a new report: *AI Commons: nourishing alternatives to Big Tech monoculture* By Joana Varon, Sasha Costanza-Chock, Mariana Tamari, Berhan Taye, and Vanessa Koetz oneproject.org/wp-content/u...

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Bill @billmacconnel.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

The reckless dismantling of the Quadruple and quintuple innovation helix framework was always the plan.

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Bill @billmacconnel.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Feel good story of the week: The ruling also clears the way for the church to try to seize any money that the Proud Boys might make by selling merchandise like hats or T-shirts emblazoned with their name or with any of their familiar logos, including a black and yellow laurel wreath.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Approximately 20 members of Elon Musk’s staff have begun working within the Education Department. They have gained access to multiple sensitive internal systems, including a financial aid dataset containing the personal information of millions of students enrolled in the federal student aid program.

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Bill @billmacconnel.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

If they breach the tripwires at the Census department, where Trump shut down the ‘20 census early, the damage to democracy will be incalculable. Data is everything & it would be Musks crown jewel.

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Bill @billmacconnel.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

I guess we’ll never know.

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Bill @billmacconnel.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

No, I don’t. But anyone trying to insert some sand into the gears should be celebrated, not denigrated.

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Heather McCoy @heathermccoy.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

The NIH is down but this goober wants to bailout OpenAi.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Well, it’s Monday, and the Inspectors General are resisting Trump’s illegal attempt to fire them with a letter saying, “Heck no, we won’t go!”

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Bill @billmacconnel.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Welcome to the Tech-feudalism Jungle; As new technologies enter a society, they disrupt the connections between institutions, practices, virtues, and rewards. They can render traditions purposeless, destroy the distinction between virtuous and vicious behavior, make customary ways of life obsolete.

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Bill @billmacconnel.bsky.social · 23/12/2023

It’s all about finding the right mattress.

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Bill @billmacconnel.bsky.social · 10/12/2023

Of course he does, and I’m sure the putrid remains of both Truth Social and X will unite as one just in time for the 2024 election.

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Bill @billmacconnel.bsky.social · 03/12/2023

A peaceful CATURDAY to all.

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Bill @billmacconnel.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

Vital in unwinding these upside down brutal times. www.nationalacademies.org/topics/misin...

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Bill @billmacconnel.bsky.social · 28/11/2023

“Hard to stomach welcoming someone who just days ago endorsed a virulently anti-Semitic trope, has dabbled for years in anti-Semitism and has turned this platform into a cesspool of hate,” wrote Amy Spiro, a journalist with The Times of Israel.

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Bill @billmacconnel.bsky.social · 25/11/2023

$15.50 if you nasty! 😼…meow

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Bill @billmacconnel.bsky.social · 25/11/2023

The pencil used in the non disclosure with the Taylor Swift football guy.

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