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Bill McCormick

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Doing Tech since 1996 Yale ‘88 BA in History

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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 03/10/2026
JUST POSTED: Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff have pushed a multibillion oil deal with Russia as part of peace talks that will bring profits to their family business partners. A new front for Trump-era conflicts of interest. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on.
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Bill McCormick @billmccormickpm.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This. That thing is NOT an actress
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 16/09/2026
I've got a lot of work to do today but I'm getting absolutely nerdsniped by the new Flock dataset. You can download it here. It's all of the Android partitions extracted from a Flock device ddosecrets.org/article/floc...
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Flock ALPR camera - Distributed Denial of Secrets
Filesystem images of the partitions on an in-use Flock ALPR camera, including custom Android APK files installed on the device, as well as its recorded media. The data reveals how the devices track bo...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“.. With Saudi oil now blockaded, Americans are about to discover why maintaining stability in the Middle East and not handing it to a consortium of Russia and Iran was always important.” @jayinkyiv.bsky.social
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Robin Sevakis @jadedsketch.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Wile E. Coyote is doing a reddit AMA right now for Coyote vs ACME and strictly answering through signs, and it's genius.
Wile E Coyote in an office, pointing to a sign he's holding that reads "WE CANNOT JUDGE OUR WORTH ON THE WORK OF OTHERS"
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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Hey Jon Ossoff, you got Melania to come out of hibernation by mentioning Natalie Harp. Can you get Mitch McConnell to reappear? 
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Grizzled Shopkeep @grizzled-shopkeep.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
American Beauty for me. Just garbage acting, writing, Three's Company plotting.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
1. Mitch McConnell suffered a fall on June 14 and has not been in the Senate for two months. But he's continued to get paid his salary of 174K/year. Since he entered the Senate in 1985, McConnell has voted against creating or expanding medical leave — paid and unpaid — at least 23 times.
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Lindsey Rachev @lrachev.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
There it is.
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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
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Vincent Zimmerman @zimmermanv66.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Tales of everyday corruption. Pete Hegseth cancelled the $400,000 contract for making uniforms for the Blue Angels on the grounds that the contract with "The Sewing Box" was DEI since the firm is Black-owned. Instead, he awarded it to a Trump donor for $1,690,000, a 325% price increase!
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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
CHAFETZ PLANS TO LOSE WEIGHT ON ALL-FRENCH-FRY-AND-GIN DIET
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Veerender Singh Jubbal @veerenderjubbal.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
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cool use case of chatgpt work i heard last night:
connect your family calendars and explain your kids' interests.
every morning for the drive to school, have it make a podcast that talks about one kid's soccer game that afternoon, one kid's upcoming birthday, some news, etc.
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What if you just talked to your children
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Evan Hurst @evanhurst.substack.com · 30/07/2026
The Oval Office looks like it ate diarrhea lettuce
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 27/07/2026
So, what happens if I'm a parent and I know that my kid needs highly paid teachers, a library full of books with diverse characters, trans-inclusive bathrooms and extracurriculars, and a curriculum unpacking topics like systemic racism, colonial oppression, economic inequality, and climate change?
Facebook post from the U.S. Department of Education, saying "Parents know best" with a picture of a cartoon White, two-parent, heteronormative family, featuring a dad in a tie and sweater vest and a mom in a dress and pearls.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
bloomberg has a fun article today arguing that the Cybertruck is the biggest flop in automotive history. it includes this glorious graph.
A graph showing how the edsel and Cybertruck both performed based on their sales target and actual year one and year two sales. The edsel was expected to sell 200k units in its first year. It sold slightly over 50k, and less than 50k the next year

The Cybertruck had a sales.target of 250k in its first year. They sold around 40k, the next year they sold about half as many.
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Bill McCormick @billmccormickpm.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Brad Pitt. Legends of the Fall would like a word
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Pool report from @svdate.bsky.social, who is at the World Cup ceremony: "The president walked onto the field at 1826 to a sustained chorus of boos. Ambient crowd noise was about 78 decibels. Booing brought it to 84."
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 14/07/2026
Pro tip: it's spelled d-i-a-r-r-h-e-a.
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Pajiba @pajiba.com · 11/07/2026
Even Mamdani Wants You To Calm Down About Taylor Swift's Wedding
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Even Mamdani Wants You To Calm Down About Taylor Swift's Wedding
Taylor Swift's wedding has been a lightning rod of controversy because the internet constantly needs something to complain about. Heck, I did it just the other day about a Star Wars. Welcome to my glass house! While there are some... Read more...
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TJ resists! Bluestormcoming! @tjjohnson.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
There is no need for fireworks now with drone shows. No need for pets and vets to cower and for wild life to suffer as well as the pollution and noise. I said what I said.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 01/07/2026
Black text on a white page that reads as follows:

In January, our administration inherited a $12 billion budget deficit — a fiscal crisis greater than the Great Recession. 

Today I am proud to announce that our balanced budget has cleared the final step and passed the New York City Council. 

We balanced the budget by taxing the rich and making government more efficient. We did not balance this budget on the backs of working people, and we never will. 

Every year that follows will build on these principles: Honest budgeting. Fiscal discipline. Transparent government. And an unwavering belief that working people deserve a government that delivers for them every day.
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Bill McCormick @billmccormickpm.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
OMG. Perfection
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Bill McCormick @billmccormickpm.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
This. Every damn day this
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Bill McCormick @billmccormickpm.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
100%
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Adam Sternbergh @sternbergh.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Mamdani giving a speech at the Knicks victory parade and Obama giving a speech at the opening of his Presidential Library on the same day is the BARBENHEIMER of oratory, it's MAMBAMA
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My Password is Louvre @bmceuen.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
This guy is such a better representation of the US and of Americans than the current president. A hype man welcoming others from around the world while carrying a pistol? That’s as American as apple pie
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Bill McCormick @billmccormickpm.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Thats outstanding
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Bill McCormick @billmccormickpm.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
OMG :)
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @dennisgoris.bsky.social )
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Bill McCormick @billmccormickpm.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Yay. More war crimes for the Dept of War apple.news/AmIa7r52iQqS...
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Protests flare in Havana as Cuba runs out of diesel and fuel oil amid US blockade – video — Guardian US
Residents in Havana demand the right to have electricity as the city faces its worst rolling blackouts in decades
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Pellechs @pellechs.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
This hit me so hard this week.
Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI.  Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your are…
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
If we play our cards right, soon we’ll be able to send handguns through the postal service but not birth control or ballots
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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
The US military has killed at least 192 people in strikes that have destroyed 59 vessels as part of a campaign that Washington says — WITHOUT EVIDENCE — is aimed at curtailing the flow of drugs into the United States
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A timeline of US strikes on boats that have killed at least 192 | CNN Politics
The US military has killed at least 192 people in strikes that have destroyed 59 vessels as part of a campaign that Washington says is aimed at curtailing the flow of drugs into the United States, acc...
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Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
This is a very cool thread (which is still unfolding as I post this). Oral histories and behind-the-scenes accounts always have amazing lessons and secrets.
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Rick Wilson @therickwilson.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Killing The West, One Symbol At A Time Of course, Trump is coming for the buffalo. www.againstallenemies.net/p/killing-th...
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Killing The West, One Symbol At A Time
Of course, Trump is coming for the buffalo.
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Bill McCormick @billmccormickpm.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Every damn day another stupidity. Firing squad. Seriously. apple.news/AGh2nAk-DRzq...
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Trump administration moves to add firing squad to federal execution methods — The Washington Post
The Justice Department also said it was reviving a lethal injection protocol used during President Donald Trump’s first term.
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Russ Vought’s messaging may need some workshopping. Video: buff.ly/6dMJjBG
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
And there it is.... Update in Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against his own I.R.S., in which he seeks taxpayer-funded damages for the prior release of his tax records Trump legal filing says he's in "discussions" with his own I.R.S. to "avoid protracted litigation"
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Bill McCormick @billmccormickpm.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Lmao. So its a double secret blockade now. Also we have no minesweepers.
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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Before I became an American, I was Lebanese. Parts of my family live in Lebanon. Anyway, you don't need those bona fides to feel this way, but what is happening in Lebanon right now is a complete outrage. The people there, who mostly are just trying to carve out a living, don't deserve this.
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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
That someone known as “Catturd” is a leading online MAGA ideologue should tell you everything you need to know about the movement. Elon Musk took over Twitter, the most political of the social media platforms, to boost this rightwing vulgarity at the expense of real news and discourse.
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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Sitting here staring at a whiskey trying to think how 2006 me would deal the concept that Kid Rock would be involved in the ouster of a chief of staff of the Army
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Rick Wilson @therickwilson.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Hey, Pam.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Oh my God. Is it possible to overdose on schadenfreude? I don't care. Totally worth it.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
To whoever did this at the #NoKings in Boston: Thank you.❤️ It made me tear up. And we must to be reminded of needless damage to humanity that results directly from the careless, bellicose bluster coming from the Pentagon and White House.
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Bill McCormick @billmccormickpm.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Come on St Johns!!
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Bill McCormick @billmccormickpm.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Perfection
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