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CXCarroll

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Twitter refugee. Autodidact. Finance and technology nerd. Observer of global events. Green at heart. Opinions are my own and not advice. I will not solicit funds from you.

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Anders Östlund @andersostlund.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Russian terror isn't getting attention either any longer. Every newspaper should be draped in black each time this happens. Leaders should flock to the cameras. Instead we have a deafening silence. Shame on all of us for accepting this.
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OSINTtechnical @osinttechnical.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Moments ago, Russia bombed a vacation resort in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro, setting the area, including the resort restaurant's replica wooden sailing ship, ablaze.
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Social Security Works @socialsecurityworks.org · 27/03/2025
A worker making $50,000 a year contributes to Social Security with 100% of their income. A CEO making $20 million a year contributes to Social Security with less than 1% of their income. Who agrees it’s time to scrap the cap?
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.
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David Woodruff @dmwoodruff.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
A very old Soviet joke, from an especially dark time: Foxes are fleeing the USSR in droves. Q: Why are you running away? Fox: The Soviets passed a new law that they’re going to arrest all camels. Q: But you’re foxes! Fox: Yeah, why don’t *you* try proving to the NKVD that you’re not a camel.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
NEW—After a day of uncertainty on where agents took Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk, she appears to be in a Louisiana facility. 1400+ miles from Somerville, Massachusetts, where she was taken. A judge ordered to not take her out of state without 48 hour notice. She was detained last night.
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WATCH: The Moment Masked ICE Agents Arrested Tufts Graduate Student Who Spoke Out in Support of Palestine
“I can buy that badge from a fucking costume store,” says a witness to the “kidnapping” of Rumeysa Ozturk as she was on her way to break her Ramadan fast.
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CXCarroll @cxcarroll.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
PE can’t return capital to their current investors and now they want to handle your retirement.
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CXCarroll @cxcarroll.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Of course the ad I get served is to visit Mississippi when I’m reading about Florida repealing child labor laws.
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Erica Joy Astrella @ericajoy.astrel.la · 25/03/2025
my dad (and his siblings) used to miss school to pick oranges in florida, because that was the only way they could earn money to eat. his mom and her mom did the same. i imagine florida would see no problem with that in this day and age. (dad eventually joined the air force to break the cycle.)
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ian bremmer @ianbremmer.com · 25/03/2025
us allies feeling their citizens may not be treated in line w/ rule of law will have lasting impact: -lost tourism -fewer intl students applying to american universities -fewer people seeking jobs at top american firms @gzeromedia.com
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US travel warnings issued by its closest allies | Ian Bremmer | World In :60
YouTube video by GZERO Media
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/03/2025
It’s like Watergate, only in this version Nixon directly mails the tapes to Woodward and Bernstein
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
“.. the latest attack from Republicans on the federal judiciary ..” @nbcnews.com Mhttps://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/speaker-mike-johnson-floats-eliminating-federal-courts-rcna197986
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 25/03/2025
Speaker Mike Johnson floats the possibility of Congress eliminating federal courts. This comes as courts have blocked a series of actions taken by the Trump administration, along with Trump and his allies calling for the impeachment of certain district court judges.
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Speaker Mike Johnson floats eliminating federal courts as GOP ramps up attacks on judges
Republican lawmakers are setting their sights on the judiciary following court rulings that have halted Trump's agenda.
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LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Cutting NIST will nuke American industry
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David Folkenflik @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
News: NPR’s Tom Bowman reports of a Pentagon-wide warning about Signal’s security vulnerability - one week ago 👇🏼
REPORTABLE:  NPR’s Tom Bowman has learned that a Pentagon-wide email went out one week ago warning about the vulnerability of using the messaging app Signal.  "A vulnerability has been identified in the Signal messenger application," the email begins. The app is the same one used by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and other leading national security officials within the administration to discuss bombing Houthi sites in Yemen – journalist Jeffrey Goldberg was inadvertently added to the group and privy to the highly sensitive discussions.
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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
can any military experts tell me if it's a good thing when The Atlantic is receiving your texts about maintaining 100% OPSEC
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Porsha Ngumezi was killed by Texas’ abortion ban after doctors refused her a D&C to treat the miscarriage she suffered at 11 weeks gestation. She leaves behind a husband and two sons. www.cbsnews.com/news/grievin...
cbsnews.com
Grieving husband says "reckless" Texas abortion law led to pregnant wife's death
Between 2019 and 2022, the maternal mortality rate in Texas increased 56% after the state outlawed abortions.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
“.. after Tesla’s stock dropped more than 40% so far this year and Tesla is expected to have its worst quarter of the last 3 years.” @electrek.co $TSLA electrek.co/2025/03/21/e...
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🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 @militarynewsua.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
❗️🇨🇦Canada in talks to join 🇪🇺Europe's defense initiative aimed at boosting EU military production and reducing dependence on the 🇺🇸US, — NYT
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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Cutting Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security will result in people dying. Cutting medical research and funding will result in people dying. Cutting foreign aid, FEMA and NOAA will result in people dying. A few cars on fire is considered violence, but somehow the rest isn’t.
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Lucas @phoenixfire.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Perhaps the Gamers are alright
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ian bremmer @ianbremmer.com · 20/03/2025
economic uncertainty in the united states right now:
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CXCarroll @cxcarroll.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Turkey remembers history. Ukraine is a key buffer state for Turkey. Now that Russia no longer has its bases in Syria it wouldn't surprise me if Turkey took concrete steps to reinforce its northern flank (e.g. increased military aid).
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CXCarroll @cxcarroll.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Another YouTuber has recreated Mark Rober's Tesla test. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KyI...
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Re: Can You Fool A Self Driving Car?
YouTube video by Kyle Paul
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Jon Rauch @jonrauch.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
A friend drove two hours today for her breast cancer chemotherapy only to learn it was canceled due to NIH cuts. Clinical trial ended midstream. No treatment, no restart, no plan, no information. Her bro-in-law's chemo was also canceled.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 20/03/2025
Police are investigating a report of fake ICE agents targeting a Ukrainian grocery store. An SUV with an “ICE” decal circled Sunday—then bolted when security showed up. These impostors are appearing nationwide,, preying on people already living in fear— in the shadows. It’s calculated and cruel.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Roses are red Violets are blue
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Ilan Schwartz @germhuntermd.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
How firm is the hold of antivax beliefs? From the parents of the 6 year old unvaccinated child who died of measles: “Don’t do the shots,” the girl’s mother said. Measles, she added, is “not as bad as they’re making it out to be.” She noted that her four other children all recovered…
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CXCarroll @cxcarroll.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Chanos (the guy who uncovered the Enron fraud) on Tesla's current valuation:
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CXCarroll @cxcarroll.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
One of the authors, Dan McCrum, is the man who took down WireCard.
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Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · 19/03/2025
Shameful
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Reuters reports that several US national security agencies have stopped work to counter Russian sabotage, disinformation and cyberattacks.
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PamMc @pmccdn.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
“To put things into perspective: I had a Canadian passport, lawyers, resources, media attention, friends, family and even politicians advocating for me. Yet, I was still detained for nearly two weeks.” PLEASE READ AND SHARE WIDELY. PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped
I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
the funniest thing about JFK assassination theories is that conspiracists accidentally discovered a seedy nexus of intelligence agencies, organized crime, and political extremists and then judged it irrelevant because it didn't provide proof of what they were originally looking for
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CXCarroll @cxcarroll.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
This is insane.
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Miska Knapek @miskaknapek.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Stalin used to say that it wasn't important what people voted, but who counted the votes. Well, if you control and change the flow of government statistics, things will be quite weird, and I'm not sure confidence by stakeholders will exactly increase.
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
this is supposed to be about FDR but i don't think the Heritage guys realized what else this headline could mean
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CXCarroll @cxcarroll.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
For my fellow nerds, this is an insane piece of hardware for $2,000. -20x U.2 drive bays. -2x 100G network interfaces -4x 25G SFP ports -4x 10G SFP ports -16 core Arm processor and 32gb of ram. -dual hot swap PSUs This is just insane hardware for the money.
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CXCarroll @cxcarroll.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Nvidia is currently over-hyped as a stock but it's a world-class company with world-class engineers. GM already has an excellent autonomous driving system. This partnership could bear very real fruit in the coming years. www.reuters.com/technology/a...
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GM to use Nvidia AI chips, software to automate vehicles, factories
General Motors will use artificial intelligence chips and software from Nvidia to develop autonomous vehicle technology for its vehicles and improve workflow at its factories, the companies said on Tuesday.
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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
One hour into the energy ceasefire
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 18/03/2025
China's BYD has unveiled a new battery system it says can charge an electric vehicle in just five minutes, which could help it capture further share from direct rivals like Tesla. Here's what to know ⤵
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How BYD’s Five-Minute Charging Stacks Up Against the Competition
Chinese automaking juggernaut BYD Co. is taking things to even greater heights, now staking claim to a system it says will make it as quick to charge an electric vehicle as to refuel a gasoline car.
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 18/03/2025
⚡️European nations urge UN action against Russian satellite sabotage, media reports. The disruptions have targeted Eutelsat and SES, Europe’s main satellite providers, which support television, radio, and aviation navigation systems.
kyivindependent.com
European nations urge UN action against Russian satellite sabotage, media reports
The disruptions have targeted Eutelsat and SES, Europe’s main satellite providers, which support television, radio, and aviation navigation systems.
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WIRED @wired.com · 18/03/2025
They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.
freedom.press
Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow
As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 17/03/2025
Meanwhile over on X….
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Aura Bogado @aurabogado.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
A US-born citizen was walking near Chicago in January. ICE snatched him off the street, handcuffed him, threw into a van. His wallet, which contained his ID, was confiscated. He was detained for 10 hours before being released without a record of what occurred. immigrantjustice.org/sites/defaul...
A screenshot from a court filing reads, in part: 

"Julio Noriega is 54 years old, was born in Chicago, and is a U.S. citizen. 

On January 31, 2025, he was walking near the corner of Cermak Road and Harlem Avenue in Berwyn, Illinois, handing out his resume to local businesses. 

As he walked out of a Jiffy Lube, he was approached by ICE officers who grabbed and handcuffed him and put him into a van, without an opportunity to explain his citizenship. 

The officers drove Julio and others around for more than an hour before bringing him to an ICE processing center, where he remained, still handcuffed, for several more hours. 

All the while, Julio had a wallet containing identification that ICE had confiscated.

The officers never showed Julio a warrant, and they did not ask him any questions to ascertain whether he was a noncitizen or a flight risk. 

After about 10 hours, ICE officers reviewed the contents of Julio’s
wallet, realized he was a U.S. citizen, and released him with no money and no paperwork."
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WIRED @wired.com · 17/03/2025
Amazon is killing its “Do Not Send Voice Recordings” privacy feature on March 28 as the company aims to bolster Alexa+, its new subscription assistant.
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Everything You Say to Your Echo Will Soon Be Sent to Amazon, and You Can’t Opt Out
Amazon is killing its “Do Not Send Voice Recordings” privacy feature on March 28 as the company aims to bolster Alexa+, its new subscription assistant.
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