Sign in

Dragon Man

@dragonman.bsky.social
453 followers 504 following 101 posts
PostsRepliesMedia
Reposted by Dragon Man
Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 06/10/2026
Fox News told viewers that most people held at Delaney Hall had final deportation orders. The data showed 84 percent did not. Thanks to @johnknefel.bsky.social and @mmfa.bsky.social for checking Fox's "worst of the worst" claim against the data. mediamatters.org/immigration/f…
mediamatters.org
18440
Reposted by Dragon Man
Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
lol, if you know my history as a teen Watergate geek, you know I never miss a chance to write about Nixon! But team Trump's obsession with rewriting the 1970s past is really about controlling the future, and killing off the concept of accountability My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
inquirer.com
Trump’s fixation on Nixon is also a warning | Will Bunch Newsletter
Plus, what Texas Senate ads during an Eagles game really mean.
1222589
Reposted by Dragon Man
shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
weight-bearing “allegedly”
16714142
Reposted by Dragon Man
Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 04/10/2026
British banker who exposed Howard Lutnick's ties to Epstein has died, allegedly from suicide.
bbc.com
How US commerce secretary's Epstein links were uncovered by British whistleblower
Simon Andriesz made the discovery about Howard Lutnick in publicly released Epstein files.
1131125554
Reposted by Dragon Man
Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
What. What?! WHAT?!?! futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com
Trump Was Reportedly Pushed Into Invading Venezuela by Conversation With Grok
Trump reportedly consulted with Grok for hours on his next course of action in Venezuela before launching a military invasion.
40510156
Reposted by Dragon Man
Edd Coates | Game UI Database @eddcoates.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Yet again, the Game UI Database is being scraped to the point that it's getting knocked offline. Even Cloudflare's "I'm under attack" mode isn't working. I just wanted to create a resource for real designers. I'm getting so fucking sick of this.
733427687
Reposted by Dragon Man
jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.
1087203987
Reposted by Dragon Man
Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.
238102003244
Reposted by Dragon Man
Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social
wired.com
ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
12529941783
Reposted by Dragon Man
Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
UCLA illegally fired me as DEI Director. Why? B/c I posted truth about this bigoted piece of garbage after he died. Please consider helping me keep my head above water, until my lawyers reach a fair resolution with UCLA. My pack and I could use your support: gofundme.com/f/waiting-for-justice-auvzc
16531551175
Reposted by Dragon Man
Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It's weird how the federal government is constantly being hacked after DOGE gutted the government's cybersecurity agencies.
692165800
Reposted by Dragon Man
Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 30/09/2026
The Pentagon is notifying millions of current and former U.S. military servicemembers and staff that hackers stole their *unencrypted* personal information during a months-long data breach. The agency that had the breach also handles ID and login/credential access to U.S. military systems and bases.
techcrunch.com
Hackers stole millions of US military personnel records during months-long data breach | TechCrunch
The Department of Defense notified millions of current and former U.S. military personnel that their personal information had been stolen in a months-long breach.
30725321399
Reposted by Dragon Man
ProPublica @propublica.org · 01/10/2026
Tennessee’s highest-security youth prisons are operated by a single private company. Former staff say they felt pressure to hide abuse and other serious incidents from the state and to handle medical emergencies without calling 911. with @wpln.bsky.social
propublica.org
He Suffered Abuse in a Private Youth Jail. The Company Never Reported It.
Tennessee’s highest-security youth prisons are operated by a single private company. Former staff say they felt pressure to hide abuse and other serious incidents from the state and to handle medical ...
9539259
Reposted by Dragon Man
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:
2638210035727
Reposted by Dragon Man
Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Texas, the voter registration deadline is coming up next week. If you live in Texas and want to vote, be sure to check that you are registered properly — even if you you think you did what you had to. A statewide database to check: goelect.txelections.civixapps.com/ivis-mvp-ui/...
2350229
Reposted by Dragon Man
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 27/09/2026
rhowardstone.substack.com/p/conservati...
rhowardstone.substack.com
Conservative Journalist Shared Unredacted Trump Accuser FBI Notes That DOJ Hasn’t Released
He wrote about the missing files. He never mentioned the ones that he publicly posted – and shared with a random person.
515556
Reposted by Dragon Man
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 27/09/2026
Meanwhile it appears DOJ some time ago leaked the 37 pages to a Trump-friendly reporter. I wonder if they disclosed that to the judge. “So secret we can’t show you but we leaked them” is not a good look. meidasnews.com/news/trump-d...
meidasnews.com
Trump DOJ Claims It Complied With Latest Epstein Order in Katie Phang Case
Judge Emmet Sullivan ordered Attorney General Todd Blanche to submit unredacted FBI notes and support disputed victim redactions, while a temporary appellate pause now blocks foreign-language file rev...
16607233
Reposted by Dragon Man
The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Censorship is alive and well in the American tech oligarchy. 🇺🇸 www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
21432831384
Reposted by Dragon Man
Susan of Texas @susanoftexas.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
They want conversation dominated by this bullshit, not the nuts and bolts of its affect on us, the economy, and the environment.
811726
Reposted by Dragon Man
Alex Gibney @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The trailer for my new film, "Musk," has just been released.
7835861375
Reposted by Dragon Man
Dawna and RealMonkeyCat @dawna9.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The trailer for the documentary that a vacuous billionaire wants disappeared. Like the thousands of federal jobs his doge dudes removed. Like the citizens & immigrants removed from American streets. Please watch & repost. Thank you for your attention to this matter. youtu.be/eY_8SyndC10
youtu.be
Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street
YouTube video by Musk
12272204
Reposted by Dragon Man
David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This serves as advertisement for Alex Gibney’s documentary, Musk, opening October 9. Pass it on.
hollywoodreporter.com
The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
3024121511
Reposted by Dragon Man
Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites
17092943069
Reposted by Dragon Man
mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I think it would be just awful if everyone were to associate the University of Florida with genAI slop and grifters forever. It would be terrible if everyone was aware of how they partnered with the NVIDIA guy to jam-pack the school with 100 AI-focused faculty, including multiple AI art professors.
823686
Reposted by Dragon Man
Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Many thanks to @theunpopulist.net for reposting my piece on Stephen Miller’s Office of Remigration, which really needs more attention. This agency announces right in its name that white nationalism is the basis for US immigration policy: www.theunpopulist.net/p/stephen-mi...
theunpopulist.net
Stephen Miller Is Paying Monstrous Dictators to Admit Expelled Immigrants
A Democratic Congress needs to urgently investigate this abuse of taxpayer dollars that were actually meant for refugees
29592292
Reposted by Dragon Man
Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 24/09/2026
"Paid for by the US Government" just means paid for at the expense of American taxpayers. Trump is setting your tax dollars on fire for ILLEGAL political propaganda.
washingtonpost.com
Trump ad airing with government funding despite law against ‘propaganda’
A TV ad boosting President Trump and saying that it was paid for by the U.S. government is airing in two major markets despite a federal law against using tax funds for "propaganda."
491007434
Reposted by Dragon Man
Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 23/09/2026
EIon Musk’s Wealth 2009: $.6B 2026: $984B Jeff Bezos’s Wealth 2009: $6B 2026: $370B Mark Zuckerberg’s Wealth 2009: $.6B 2026: $256B Federal Minimum Wage 2009: $7.25 2023: $7.25 Billionaire tax rate: 8.2% Worker tax rate: 13% Pay workers. Tax & Abolish Billionaires. Save our economy & country.
14249462220
Reposted by Dragon Man
Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 23/09/2026
Newsom has vetoed a bill that would have prohibited future governors from handing over abortion providers, helpers, and patients to red states for criminal prosecution. The bill also barred extraditions involving transgender care.
motherjones.com
Newsom vetoes bill that would ban extraditions for abortion and gender-affirming care
California’s pro-repro rights governor rejects a key protection that 18 blue states have enshrined into law.
1921115461
Reposted by Dragon Man
Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Please know that this is one of my few legitimate areas of actual, high-level professional expertise: Kicking the healthiest people off of a health insurance program will bankrupt it. Not 'could;' not 'might,' not 'probably," but absolutely will, with mathematical certainty.
25768222250
Reposted by Dragon Man
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/09/2026
Ossoff: "What did they spend the most political capital trying to do over the last 18 months? Cover up the Epstein files. They worked harder to cover up the Epstein files than they ever did to lower grocery prices."
289219886785
Reposted by Dragon Man
alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
THREAD. Did you know that Minneapolis police deployed 101 personnel to a 7-person vigil held one morning at Renee Good's memorial? The cops generated $1.92 million in overtime cash for themselves.
101424519
Reposted by Dragon Man
Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
CNN PANIC is setting in now that David Ellison will control the network in a matter of weeks: "People are anxious and worried... Unlike other mergers ... that we've been through, we have the preview of CBS, so it's not like people don't have a sense of what's coming." www.status.news/p/david-elli...
status.news
Ellison’s Bonta Blowout
David Ellison worked the phones over the weekend to secure a settlement for his Warners takeover—but the deal’s supposed safeguard for CNN is already drawing skepticism from inside the network as staf...
60647200
Reposted by Dragon Man
Nick Field @nickfield.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The State AGs were on pace to kill the Paramount/Warner Bros by litigation and delay until Gavin Newsom stepped in and turned the tide. Now the Trump loyalist Ellisons will control CNN and HBO. Don't ever, ever forget that Newsom stabbed us in the back www.wsj.com/business/med...
wsj.com
Exclusive | Newsom Expresses Concerns About State Antitrust Suit Against Paramount
The California governor has told people involved in the suit that blocking the $81 billion deal could harm Hollywood jobs.
24841451676
Reposted by Dragon Man
Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
What's worse? The Eagles' alleged supporting role in getting Macklemore kicked off Sheeran tour, or their failure to answer questions about it? If the Birds really want support for a new stadium, they need to make a stronger commitment to free speech My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/eagl...
inquirer.com
Eagles’ silence on their role in the Macklemore mess has become deafening | Will Bunch
What’s worse about the Macklemore-Ed Sheeran debacle in Philly? The Eagles’ role, or the team’s refusal to explain it?
25431130
Reposted by Dragon Man
Gender Liberation Movement @genderlib.com · 18/09/2026
SHAME ON NYU LANGONE! The Trump DOJ reached a settlement with NYU that will permanently end gender-affirming care for trans youth and pay $8.5 million. Join us for a picket at NYU: 📍 550 1st Ave 🗓️ Tuesday, September 22: ⏰ 4:30 PM
4278104
Reposted by Dragon Man
Micah @rincewind.run · 19/09/2026
chat is that good
Picture of a Shell gas sign

Regular is $6.15
Diesel is $8.70
1292817313
Reposted by Dragon Man
Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 19/09/2026
It’s people - not AI systems - who are choosing to murder civilians with small drones at ever escalating rates around the world, as I recently wrote about with Yale’s Nathaniel Raymond for @foreignpolicy.com:
foreignpolicy.com
Civilians Need Better Protections in the Drone Age
Hunting noncombatants from the sky is growing disturbingly common.
631992
Reposted by Dragon Man
Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Alex Karp of Palantir says the AI industry must be nationalized to protect it from lawsuits if it accidentally destroys the world. More likely, he sees the bubble about to burst and he wants to be bought out with our tax dollars before that happens.
801510387
Reposted by Dragon Man
Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 18/09/2026
Welp, now we know who their other clients are. As I've been saying, the tech fascists are buying up Democratic consultants by the bushel. They have enough money to *BUY BOTH SIDES* Time to burn out the rot and build a party that serves the people, not the billionaires.
17416141
Reposted by Dragon Man
Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
New — I wrote about this weird thing where people within the Republican party keep being exposed as Nazis and the party then tries to claim each one is an aberration. The facts, as I lay out here, indicate otherwise:
thehandbasket.co
Republicans don’t have a Nazi problem—they are the Nazi problem
A spate of recent revelations have shown the ideologies and their adherents are one and the same.
10182512699
Reposted by Dragon Man
Count Melancholia @lillyh.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
He nailed it, as usual.
screenshot of tweet
William Gibson @GreatDismal - 1/25/17
Surprise at the sheer velocity of the onset of fascism is the result of regarding it as a political rather than a criminal entity: it's theft
140381
Reposted by Dragon Man
Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 13/09/2026
for two months, I've been flying drones over Flock cameras to situation them in space and geography; I even got my commercial drone license in order to do it. I'd like to share this project with you all: it's called Records Of Enemy Surveillance: recordsofenemysurveillance.com
image of a residential intersection with one red car driving across it and a baseball field in the backgroundblack and white dithered image of two red squares around the flock cameras in the previous image, on either side of the intersection
8633961213
Reposted by Dragon Man
🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Elon Musk's phishing attack on America from December 2024
thefarce.org
Elon Musk's phishing attack on America
Or is it a denial of service (DoS) attack? Either way, Elon isn't a political actor. He's a threat actor. One of the most complicating factors in the shock America is about to experience is that the...
05818
Reposted by Dragon Man
Stephen James @stephen5150.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
yahoo.com
Elon Musk is Running a Fake Voter Registration Site Designed to Steal and Sell Data
Musk's "VoteSafe.org" is a scam that doesn't actually register voters
14304243
Reposted by Dragon Man
Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This is truly shocking www.thedailybeast.com/horrifying-v...
thedailybeast.com
Horrifying Video Shows ICE Attack Teens on Way to Enlist
The teenagers said they repeatedly told ICE agents who were attacking them that they were U.S. citizens, but were told that the agents “don’t give a damn.”
9179106
Reposted by Dragon Man
Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 15/09/2026
A growing number of cops throughout the Chicago area and across the country have been accused of searching those databases for personal reasons. Civil liberties activists too are alarmed that law enforcement departments could use the cameras to surveil ordinary citizens.
chicagotribune.com
Police say Flock is invaluable. But as misuse mounts, many wonder how to rein in the surveillance system.
3128
Reposted by Dragon Man
Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Feels like this should be getting more attention www.warren.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...
warren.senate.gov
SoftBank Confirms $50 Million Donation to Trump Library Just Two Months Before Trump’s Announcement of a Lease for Company’s Data Center
SoftBank Confirms $50 Million Donation to Trump Library Just Two Months Before Trump’s Announcement of a Lease for Company’s Data Center - Senator Elizabeth Warren
8248121
Reposted by Dragon Man
ProPublica @propublica.org · 14/09/2026
The Supreme Court's right-wing supermajority didn't happen overnight. This is the inside story of how Leonard Leo built a machine that reshaped the American judiciary and legal system. (Published Oct. 2023)
propublica.org
We Don’t Talk About Leonard: The Man Behind the Right’s Supreme Court Supermajority
The inside story of how Leonard Leo built a machine that remade the American legal system — and what he plans to do next.
541341670
Reposted by Dragon Man
Bright D Limm 임대중 @bdlimm.myatproto.social · 13/09/2026
Closed (intra-party) primaries are one of the few systems in the US that actually helps level the playing field for organized people against big money. Without it, the Left would be unable to defeat corporate interests as often as we do—which is why the wealthy want jungle primaries instead. #NoOn3
progressivemass.com
NO on 3 (Jungle Primaries)
No on 3 (Jungle Primaries) About Question 3 Why No on 3 Who Is Behind It? Write a Letter to the Editor Read More About Question 3 Why NO o...
11914
Reposted by Dragon Man
eb99 @eb99.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I think it's more comforting for some people to think of OBL as some evil genius or tragic victim of imperialism rather than a bog standard delusional ideologically extremist billionaire failson who thought he could accellerationism his way to a theocratic utopia
323275494