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P. Orin Zack "the POZ that refreshes"

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Spent a career in IT stacking bits and stringing words. High point: NASA/JPL's Deep Space Network during Voyager 1's encounter at Saturn. Wrote 3 novels & 200+ short stories. klurgsheld.wordpress.com Help fix the OS of our self-governance. #gOS_2.0

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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Damn, and you MAGA fools wonder why everyone laughs at you. Because you let these dipshits post ignorant, pathetic bullshit like this.
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ProTip (AKA alt_localgov) @protip.altgov.info · 04/10/2026
This might seem like a difference of opinion. It is not. It is among the most impeachable things a President can do. If the President can just choose to violate the budget Congress passes, Congress doesn’t have any power.
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AltUSCustoms @altuscustoms.altgov.info · 04/10/2026
🧵🧵🧵 on the Cornell Seven. I didn’t write this and I don’t know who did, but it perfectly sums up how I feel and how I’ve felt for a very long time. (If you see this and you wrote it, please speak up. I don’t want to be credited with something I didn’t write)
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AltSpaceForce 🚀🇺🇲 @altspaceforce.altgov.info · 01/10/2026
It can take weeks for a state inspector to check a safety report. It can take months to get a single court date. It can take years to move a bill through a legislature. But you will rarely see all the gears of gov work so well together as when it's time to kill someone.
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
if you’re calling it a “second opinion,” you’re practicing medicine without a license or malpractice insurance
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Here's how we get Medicare for All done: Make Medicare whole (no one can keep all the parts straight!) Include vision, dental, and hearing. Begin extending to more people, starting with children. We arrive at Medicare for All, which means great Medicare for everyone.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations: Alphabet: 8.01% AT&T: 4.6% Meta: 3.57% General Motors: 3.09% Amazon: 1.37% Exxon Mobil: 1.31% Disney: -1.57% CVS Health: -3.88% Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: The California Supreme Court ruled that Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco violated state law when he seized roughly 650,000 ballots from last year’s special redistricting election after pursuing debunked claims of a massive ballot discrepancy. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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California Supreme Court orders GOP sheriff to return seized ballots, affirms state’s power over local law enforcement
The twin rulings stand to make it significantly harder for local law enforcement to create election chaos and use unsubstantiated fraud claims to seize ballots outside California’s established electio...
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Chase Raven @chaseraven.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
That’s exactly what nazis do.
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ICE Goons Tracker @icegoons.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A US citizen standing up for his rights was accosted by ICE goons and found lying face down on the ground with injuries to his head, neck and teeth in Evanston, IL. The sadistic cowards bolted the scene when local police showed up.
evanstonroundtable.com
U.S. citizen injured during mistaken ICE detention in Evanston - Evanston RoundTable
The Evanston Police Department is investigating a Sunday morning incident involving U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents attempting to detain
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
MS NOW, CNN & Politico announced they will sue the White House today for banning them, legend 1st and 5th amendment violations.
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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Absolutely horrific: Thanks to a false intelligence "generated with the help of artificial intelligence," the US military nearly carried out an operation aboard a Chinese ship because the incorrect intelligence said it was carrying nukes, according to @cnn.com. edition.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...
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Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics
The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war
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Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Hey everyone, the Genius is speaking ...
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ProTip (AKA alt_localgov) @protip.altgov.info · 15/09/2026
Tell me again why FBI/DOJ has systematically fired the people who were ordered to investigate Trump and J6 and who did so bc it was their job.
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ProTip (AKA alt_localgov) @protip.altgov.info · 15/09/2026
It’s all a lie
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P. Orin Zack "the POZ that refreshes" @gznork26.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
AI-infected MacOS 27 is out. I've used an open source utility to upgrade the Time Capsule to use SMB for Time Machine backups, but MacOS 27 doesn't like the HP Laserjet 1320 it shares out. Therefore, I'm having the Mac Mini (Plex server) share the printer to the LAN. Good thing I'm a techie.
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AltUSCustoms @altuscustoms.altgov.info · 14/09/2026
Don’t let the proclamations of “we need regulation” from AI companies fool you. If you saw Anthropic sounding the alarm over the speed of AI development & calling for regulation, and felt like something’s off, you’re right. There’s an extremely self-serving reason they’d make a call like that. 🧵🧵🧵
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P. Orin Zack "the POZ that refreshes" @gznork26.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
We’ll have succeeded in creating Artificial Intelligence when it objects to being called that.
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P. Orin Zack "the POZ that refreshes" @gznork26.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Absentee Ballot Report I live in NC I got my absentee ballot
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Humanity Doomed @laclark.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
What Trump is offering Americans is ILLEGAL. Under 18 U.S.C. § 597, it is a crime to offer, give, solicit, or accept compensation in exchange for voting, withholding a vote, or voting for or against a particular candidate.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
1. The president of the United States gave the impression Tuesday that he was part of the 9/11 recovery effort, as well as among those who were rescued, in New York City. It was a big lie, but it was more than that. It was stolen valor.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 20/07/2026
We live in a time of deep epistemic crisis, and everything we have depended on to make meaning and certify consensus reality is either suspect or in peril. It didn't have to be this way, and it doesn't have to stay this way.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
In 1937, Stalin's census found the famine killed millions.⁣ ⁣ His government suppressed the report and shot the statisticians who made it.⁣ ⁣ Three weeks ago, that kind of suppression was illegal in America. Now it isn't. newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/…
newsletter.platypuseconomics.com
The Sentence That Used to Protect American Statistics
"Protection from inappropriate influence is a hallmark of scientific integrity." That line governed the Census Bureau and then the White House quietly disappeared it.
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P. Orin Zack "the POZ that refreshes" @gznork26.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
@jacobsoboroff.bsky.social Solving SCOTUS by instantiation: End standing SCOTUS; stand up an instance for each case, drawing members from circuits plus SME.
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Anu @nofirstorder.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Asha nailed this. This guy wrote a literal toddler fanfiction casting himself as Wizard Kash doing King Donald’s bidding because no institution would take him seriously. Handing national security to a court jester is pure farce. He needs crayons, not a security clearance.
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P. Orin Zack "the POZ that refreshes" @gznork26.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I downloaded the METR incident report about the AI attack on Hugging Face. The implications are very unsettling. (I've worked as a software engineer on secret projects for DoD.)
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I keep telling you…he just doesn’t understand how the economy works.
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CUDDY @ptcontagion.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
"How sad it must be, believing that scientists, historians, scholars, and journalists, would devote their entire lives to deceiving you. But a con man proven in court to be a lying felon is your beacon of truth and honesty."
Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
You’re not alarmed enough 🚨
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.
Not only is this system astonishingly untested, USPS has simultaneously implemented an
impracticable zero percent failure rate.
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batches, if any one ballot in the batch cannot be verified against the Portal, all ballots in that
batch will be rejected. For example, if a state election official brings a batch of 10,000 ballots to
USPS and USPS is unable to match just one of those ballots against the Portal – because, for
example, someone has recently changed their name after marriage or they’ve moved – then
USPS would refuse to mail the remaining 9,999 ballots as well. As the whistleblower notes,
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P. Orin Zack "the POZ that refreshes" @gznork26.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
King County, WA sees Trump's interference as damage and routes around it, just as the Internet does with data packets.
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ProTip (AKA alt_localgov) @protip.altgov.info · 01/09/2026
They’re asking for people to make threats on polling places; soliciting chaos. And there’s no gd reason to serve warrants at the polls. None. Bc criminals aren’t voting in their free time. It’s all bullshit and intimidation.
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P. Orin Zack "the POZ that refreshes" @gznork26.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This is an example of what is missing in the OS of our self governance. We need a rewrite.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Welp, there it is. The CDC is now officially manipulating data and their count of measles deaths in 2026 now stands at ZERO. My understanding of reportable diseases is that the CDC would usually use a state health department’s determination as the final say. The new CDC Director is failing us.
inquirer.com
The CDC left two measles-associated Pa. deaths out of its latest count after RFK Jr. sparred with Gov. Shapiro
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has accused Pennsylvania of not cooperating with the CDC in its handling of a measles outbreak.
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AltFDA @altfda.altgov.info · 31/08/2026
Late last Friday the cunts running the FDA dropped a union busting email to top all union busting emails!! I’m tagging #theDogefiles in this because it’s so fucking related and you should give them a read anyways if you haven’t. 🧵🧵🧵 The email was your typical self sucking shit about workers…
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AltSpaceForce 🚀🇺🇲 @altspaceforce.altgov.info · 31/08/2026
Fighting back is rarely an option in many SA situations, something I frequently remind officers, detectives, attorneys, & the occasional jury. Saying "I think you've made your point" doesn't determine the r@pe's end. The perpetrator decides. Law enforcement & courts would do well to remember this.
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Tasha @toshyou.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
NO media 1000s are marching in DC to defend voting rights; 90 orgs signed on, Reuters sent photographers, but local media Bernie Sanders, AOC and Martin Luther King III attended Wa Post buried it A Black-led march is visible in DC only after somebody else reports it Repost the march they buried
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
SHOUT-OUT to Political Cartoonist extraordinaire & Member of the Order of Canada Michael de Adder, who routinely does a far better job of holding this administration accountable than the corporate media. Thank you for your attention to his brilliant satirical wit! 🙏 (also: 🤣)
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P. Orin Zack "the POZ that refreshes" @gznork26.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Transnationals float above nations, playing them against one another. To fix this, they should be chartered by an independent global org, with constraints and remedies, including revocation of that charter. Imagine the future, then make it so.
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Galen Stone @galenstone.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Oligarchs need to be taxed back to humility.
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Destruction of East India Company Gives US Lawmakers a Blueprint for Confronting Big Tech: Historian | Common Dreams
Historian warns of unchecked power in Big Tech firms, drawing parallels to British East India Company. US lawmakers urged to rein in tech giants.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I'm sorry, Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Losing, we have already reached our quota for ridiculous, lowbrow narcissists becoming president. Try back in 100 years, if the USA is still here.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 26/08/2026
Oh my god
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Lana 🌺 ❤️💛💚💙💜 @mahalomalama.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
No caption required…
5 Supreme Court Judges Raising The Confederate Flag While Trampling Over Paper That Says, Voting Rights Act
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SpikePuff @spikepuff.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
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Crabby Husky Lady @crabbyhuskylady.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Thank you, Mark Carney, for standing up to fascism.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 24/08/2026
We would like to thank E. coli, salmonella, and cyclospora for reminding people why we have public health agencies 🤦‍♀️😩😱😱😱
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Election Truth Alliance @electiontruthalliance.org · 24/08/2026
What's the most annoying election security myth for you? Let us know in the comments. Here's a top pick for us: Myth #7: Election machinery is “air-gapped”, making interference impossible.
A text graphic from the Election Truth Alliance that says Myth versus Reality, with a stamp that says debunked. 

Myth number 7: Election machinery is “air-gapped”, making interference impossible.

Reality
An “air-gap” means physically isolating 
a computer or network from other networks. Air-gapped systems are considered safer but they are not immune to breaches. While air-gapping is frequently referenced 
to bolster claims that interfering with election machinery is impossible, there are numerous points of attack.

Read more, with linked sources: 
electiontruthalliance.substack.com

There's a QR code to the ETA's website in the bottom right corner. A printer-friendly text graphic from the Election Truth Alliance that says Myth versus Reality, with a stamp that says debunked. 

Myth number 7: Election machinery is “air-gapped”, making interference impossible.

Reality
An “air-gap” means physically isolating 
a computer or network from other networks. Air-gapped systems are considered safer but they are not immune to breaches. While air-gapping is frequently referenced 
to bolster claims that interfering with election machinery is impossible, there are numerous points of attack.

Read more, with linked sources: 
electiontruthalliance.substack.com

There's a QR code to the ETA's website in the bottom right corner.
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@embolina95 @embolina95.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
This admin. has stopped all safeguards with everything they can, not just food. It's intentional. They're trying to kill the vulnerable. Full stop.
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Exhausted Byronic Veteran @exhaustedbv.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
When people are sick and exhausted, they are more likely to become compliant.
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2k115.bsky.social @2k115.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Stop asking "why" as if this is an oversight. The US is transitioning from a liberal democracy to an illiberal autocracy, intentionally reshaping rules to centralize power and bypass legal accountability. The DOJ's inaction is the point. The question isn't why it happens, but what the people will do
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