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God @thegodshow.com · 11/10/2025
Peaceful assembly isn’t an insurrection. Storming the Capitol to hang your own vice-president and end democracy is.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Too bad the GOP effectively criminalized studying how information moves online and news orgs laid off and demonized all the reporters who covered the burgeoning online accelerationist performative death cults. All of that work was somehow "censorship" that needed to be stopped. Now we're here.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
These are calls for mass political violence, against all Democrats. They openly call for the bombing of "Democrat" cities and for the jailing or killing of Democratic politicians. They are from some of the most influential voices in right-wing politics. Will anyone say anything?
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Sean Fay-Wolfe | Diamond Axe Studios @seanfaywolfe.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life. The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.
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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Remember when one of the wealthiest humans on Earth and proud South African colonizer helped get Trump elected; then was appointed to a made-up White House position; then stole all of our personal and banking information; then quit and returned to the private sector? That really happened.
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CALL TO ACTIVISM @calltoactivism.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Who made this. 🤣
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Most members of the public have little reason to be aware of 18F, or will understand what its loss signifies. So this post tries to capture that, by including the voices of those who worked there. First, from @waldo.net
Once, I was part of a team of four people at 18F that saved the Department of Defense $500 million with a single, three-day project. 18F projects saved many millions of dollars as a matter of course, while delivering better results for Americans. Another time I was part of a two-person team (our billing worked out to about half an FTE, as I recall) that partnered with a court for 18 months to help them build, from scratch, an open source case management system to drive the operations of the entire court. The whole thing cost them just a few million bucks, vastly less than they’d been spending on their old system, and today their cost of operating it is a rounding error compared to their old infrastructure costs. All the work 18F did for all their agency partners was open source. Public money should produce public software, for public inspection.

In short, 18F works just how Musk and team pretend that they want government to work. But when his team found it, they destroyed it. 18F’s work is evidence that government works well, which undermines their message that it doesn’t. 18F’s parent agency, the U.S. General Services Administration, turns a profit as an agency. So it has to be destroyed too.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
You can’t make this stuff up. Trump supporters spent the past few years obsessing over an apparent sex trafficking cabal in charge of our country. And yet one of the first things Trump seems to have done, apparently, is push to get the Tates, charged with sex trafficking, released from Romania.
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Andrew Tate and His Brother Are Said to Leave Romania for the U.S.
Andrew and Tristan Tate, the online influencers, are facing investigations in Romania and Britain, including accusations of human trafficking and sex crimes.
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