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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 20/04/2026

The biggest mastodon instance is getting hit with DDoS this morning, but as a fedi user, you would hardly notice. There are still plenty of posts from this instance federating around during the downtime and the feed is running fairly normal. Yes, it’s insufferable but also resilient AF.

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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 25/03/2026

Mike Flynn took the Fifth in relation to his role in the Cambridge Analytica scandal as investigated by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and now taxpayers will be fleeced to enrich him for having been necessarily investigated.

SENATE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE RUSSIA INVESTIGATION REPORT
(V) There are, however, limitations to the Committee's understanding of this subject. In particular, the Committee did not have access to numerous essential witnesses, including Alexander Nix, a non-U.S. citizen who generally disregarded the Committee's requests for an appearance, and Lieutenant General Michael Flynn, who exercised his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. Additional individuals with potentially critical understanding of how these companies marketed or applied tools to influence electoral outcomes, either declined to appear before the Committee or were not sought as witnesses. Further, testimony specific to
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COMMITTEE SENSITIVE - RUSSIA INVESTIGATION ONLY

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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 21/03/2026

architects need goldberger’s praise so bad bc he really knows how to cut em www.nytimes.com/2026/03/21/u...

Still, the ballroom remains enormous and the tweaks have done little to silence opponents.
Paul Goldberger, a former architecture critic for The New York Times and The New Yorker and the author of "Why Architecture Matters," called the ballroom "a huge, dumb box" in a Times op-ed article last week. He added that it was "nominally designed" by Mr. Baranes "but for all intents and purposes designed by Mr. Trump."
Mr. Goldberger, who also knows Mr. Baranes from Yale, added that he is well suited to the task because of his abilities with developers and is able to "produce work of whatever type in whatever style his clients want."
Mr. Baranes took offense. "That's kind of below the belt," he said. "All my work is very contemporary."
But the White House project is not contemporary at all. "I can't comment on that," Mr. Baranes said, mindful of his NDA.

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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 09/03/2026

That’s $90,000 per Tahoe before the ICE wrap. A base Tahoe MSRP is $63,495. The top trim High Country model with every option including Magnetic Ride Control is $86,495. Taxpayers enriched a campaign donor for about $650,000 of fleecing for ICE wrapped vehicles that will never be used.

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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 06/03/2026

this is no different than watching the digits count up on the gas pump (which is only gonna go up after the Iran holy war we are so screwed)

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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 06/03/2026

Shame they didn’t save this headline for JFK Jr.

Plagued by Controversy, Noem Is Out at Homeland Security

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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 27/02/2026

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.

The bow of a bright red kayak sticks out from bottom middle of the frame as it floats on a lake. The tree line in the distance undulates from thin to thick. The blue ski is streaked with clouds flowing across the tree lines undulation.

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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 21/02/2026

I Heard You Like Snow How About Some Snow With Your Snow

Snow accumulation map for north east usa

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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 13/02/2026

Yale Student Paper on Gelertner’s epsteining and how his class “The User Interface” is going. Come transfer to Parsons y’all yaledailynews.com/articles/gel...

According to Ortiz and lecture slides that Rushmeier presented in Tuesday's class — visible to a News reporter through a classroom window — future lectures "will be video, guest lecturers, student
presentations." For most of the session, the class watched a video of an interview with Don Norman, a designer and professor emeritus of the University of California, San Diego.
Two of the students who spoke to the News said they had not seen Gelernter's Canvas announcement or another one by Rushmeier and were surprised when they walked in and saw Rushmeier teaching.
Kris Aziabor '26 and Joaquin Santoscoy-MacPhee '28, who are both in his class, said they found Gelernter's emails with Epstein and his subsequent defense of them shocking.
"I think it's very upsetting and disgusting," Santoscoy-MacPhee said.

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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 09/02/2026

There’s a surplus of reasons to delete TikTok. Always has. Always will. But don’t spread the latest privacy policy panic because it’s kinda misinformation. techcrunch.com/2026/01/23/t...

But despite the panic, this disclosure isn't new — and it doesn't mean what many users fear. The same language appeared in TikTok's privacy policy. before the ownership deal closed, and it's primarily there to comply with state privacy laws like California's Consumer Privacy Act, which requires companies to agree to disclose to consumers what
"sensitive information" is collected.
Similar disclosures appear in other social media apps' policies.

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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 09/02/2026

Settings > Apple Intelligence & Siri > Talk & Type to Siri > Press side button for Siri > OFF

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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 08/02/2026

Photo by AP’s Jacquelyn Martin

Lindsey Vonn in air pre crash after clipping Gates at Milan Cortina.

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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 06/02/2026

ICYMI Updated version #GiftLink www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...

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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 03/02/2026

the mercers on epstein client lists; they bankrolled bannon, milo, gamergate, breitbart, cambridge analytica… www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

List of client names including members of the Mercer family and some of their trusts

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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 02/02/2026

oh man the new school i know so well www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

From:
Subject:
To: jeffrey epstein < jeevacation@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2014 16:09:55 +0000
Sneaky dog, morning ! Could I come later today? I am still waiting to see someone at the New School. I made two appts to speak about my credit evaluation and Financial Aid office about the financial support document.
However, It is a huge line here so it is taking me a while. Not surprised why no one answered on the phone ...

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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 02/02/2026

Epstein would (presumably) cover victims’ continuing ed classes at The New School, for example. www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

To:
jeevacation@gmail.com[jeevacation@gmail.com];
jeevacation@gmail.comlieevacation@gmail.com]
Sent: Mon 1717720112:1:42 PM
Sent:
Subject: class's
Jeffery,
Ok, here are the classes I would like to start taking,
-Parsons Continuing Education. Spring 2011
Graphic digital design courses
Photoshop Basics $668.00
5 sessions/Sat, 4-6:50 p.m./Jan 24-Feb 25
-The New School Continuing Educations. Spring 2011
Introduction to Photography 1: Technical Foundation $345.00
12 sessions/Wed, 6-7;50/Jan 26
- The New School Continuing Educations. Spring 2011
Using your Digital SLR $220.00
1 session/ Sat, 10-5:00 p.m/ Feb 12
-The New School Continuing Educations. Spring 2011
Shadows, Textures, Reflections: Seeing the light in New York City. S620.00
6 sessions/Sat, 10-2:30
-The New School Continuing Educations. Spring 2011
Point and shoot in the field $620.00
6 sessions. Sun, 11:00-3:30
I'm so excited !!!!!!
See you this weekend hopefully... BIG KISS
XOXO
Email:
Phone :
EFTA_R1_00542378
EFTA0203198

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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 31/01/2026

Folks, go into your vehicles’ settings deep in the menus. You can usually customize what triggers the auto-unlock.

While she's alone in the car, the woman can be heard talking with other observers on speaker phone and she tells them to call 911.
The agents open the door, which unlocked automatically when she put the gearshift in park, they drag her out and force her to the ground. She said the agents were overly aggressive and physical as they pinned her down and handcuffed her, leaving her with multiple cuts, scrapes and bruises.

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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 30/01/2026

“The Presidency became the aim of each ambitious politician: to attain it, he had not only to adapt his principles to circumstances, but to obligate himself to every associate who might further his purposes; and, on attaining it,…

When the Presidency was first instituted, it was regarded as an agency for the execution of the popular will and the maintenance of the public interests. In this sense, the office was administered by its first incumbents. Later, it came to be considered more-and-more as an agency for satisfying the ambition of candidates and the greed of party-managers. At the beginning, the victors gained the honor of advancing the welfare of the people: later, they felt no shame in proclaiming and practising the scandalous maxim, — "To the victor belong the spoils". The "Fathers of the Republic" became the fathers of plunderers. Principles, which formerly determined the formation of parties, came to serve as bait for votes: the main object of leaders and managers came to be,--booty. The Presidency became the aim of each ambitious politician: to attain it, he had not only to adapt his principles to circumstances, but to obligate himself to every associate who might further his purposes; and, on attaining it, he had to give the offices, on whose proper administration the weal of the land depends, first—-not to those who would best serve the people, but to those who had best served him. Thus, the whole struggle for the Chief Magistracy of the Republic became a strife for prey, or a bargain in which self-interest took the place of the public interests, and in which intrigue and corruption were the most efficient agencies. The struggle being over, however, and the victor installed, the preparations for its re-iteration at once begin. All the power and patronage at the disposal of
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direct authority of the popular will, but opposes an independent and antocratic front to the representative thereof, —the Legislature.

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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 30/01/2026

Impeachment doesn’t work. They knew.

The only constitutional remedy against the abuse of an executive power, second in extent and influence to no royal power on earth, is that of impeachment. Yet, on its very first trial, this remedy did not only prove useless, but was received with derision and defiance by him against whom it had been directed. That trial has justified the worst fears which prevailed, concerning the impotence of the Legislature as against the Executive; it has revealed how far the President of this republic may carry his arrogance, his unscrupulousness, his caprice, his lawlessness, his usurpation, without being called to account therefor; it has exhibited how much mischief--ab-use--insult-the people of a republic may have to suffer froin their so-called servant, without any practicable means of legal redress; it has proved that, in practice, the President is " unimpeachable", like a constitutional king--without having, like him, a responsible ministry; it has not only authorized Andrew Johnson to repeat all hig previous misdeeds, but encouraged him to exceed even these, hereafter; finally it has set to each one of his successors a precedent, relieving them, at the outset, of any scruples regarding excessive assumption of power. Since the actions which Andrew Johnson has committed could not bring-about his removal from office, it ap-

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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 30/01/2026

When Congress failed to remove Andrew Johnson, some Americans became presidential abolitionists. It’s not an original idea. catalog.archives.gov/id/25466022

MEMORIAL
TO THE
CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES,
REGARDING THE
ABOLITION OF THE PRESIDENCY.
THERE can be bat two, principially consistent, systems of government,-Abso.
Inte Monarely, and Absolute Democracy.
Any form of government, intermediate between these extremes, is an untenable compromise and must, sooner or later, revert into the one or advance into the other.
Absolute Monarehy allows no rights to the governed, and concentrates all
power-legislative, executive, and judicial-in the person of the monarch.
The
empire of King
Theodorus is its latest pattern.
The development of
kind tending, however, toward Democracy; and, Absolute Monarchy being unable to, permanently, either suppress or satisfy that tendency; Monarchy was compel-led, in the course of events, to concede more-or-less of its ground to Democracy.
Aud the latter-being yet undeveloped, and too weak to neutralize the former by totally abolishing the monarchial system-contented itself with those concessions, which consisted in a "partition of powers". Hence, the origin of "constitational monarchy". Since Montesquieu, Europe treasured this idea as the political philos. ophers'-stone'; whereas it is but a deceptive compromise between two opponents who pretend to aspire to a common end, while the contrast of their natures compels them to a strife which can be ended only in the destruction of the one by the other.
And, the "partition of powers" having boon so adjusted, as to leave Monarchy possessed of the actually decisive power,the executive,-armed with the military and the treasury ;--Democracy must, of-course, always bear the losing part in that strife, unless-which rarely takes-place-the main instrument of the ruling power, the army, refuses obedience to its commander.
Despite this evident and ingrained, dangerous defectiveness of the "partition
-of-powers" system as exhibited in "constitutional monarchy," the same institution has been foisted on the Republic. An essential

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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 29/01/2026

TIL that I’m depicted in this French-language graphic novel «HYPERSURVEILLANCE: ENQUÊTE SUR LES NOUVEAUX OUTILS DE CONTRÔLE» by Julie Schiebling and Rémi Torregrossa