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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Terror and retribution are a core part of how the Trump administration has governed. DOGE whistleblower had threatening note taped to his door and his brakes cut after Elon Musk accused him of lying. www.wired.com/story/he-ble...
wired.com
He Blew the Whistle on DOGE. Then His Brakes Were Cut
A federal IT staffer filed a complaint about DOGE, then went public. Shortly after Elon Musk boosted a post calling his claims false, his brake lines were cut. Now he’s suing for defamation.
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 04/06/2026
has any man ever been more vindicated? x.com/stuartbuck1/...
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DOGE has a very obvious feedback mechanism for its cuts.

If DOGE makes a big, broad cut against a million programs, people get upset about a few specific, very good ones like PEPFAR, and then that program comes back because DOGE's members are, thus, informed it was good.
Crémieux
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Feb 15, 2025
I can only hope people realizing this won't damage the mechanism, because it's still useful to have professionals getting mad about some very good thing getting cut before it's brought back online as a result.

In a word, DOGE is responsive, which is unusual for the government!
Stuart Buck
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Feb 15, 2025
I agree, but it would be more efficient to spend one hour ahead of time talking to experts or just reading up on the history of a program for [disease, student testing, nuclear safety, etc.]

Plus, some programs don't have famous proponents with time to dig into the weeds.
Crémieux
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Feb 15, 2025
I'm highly sympathetic, but there really are thousands and thousands of programs and grants to cut, so I'm not sure the small team doing the cuts has the ability to go through them all one-by-one on their short timeline.

Maybe a system can be developed to assist with feedback.
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Stuart Buck
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Despite some bogus grants, a lot of government is like this cartoon. I bet this "small team" would find a line item for "screwworm sterilization" and delete it, not knowing that they just devastated American farming: https://theatlantic.com/science/archiv
e/2020/05/flesh-eating-worms-disease-containment-america-panama/611026/
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Stuart Buck
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I can see the DOGE tweet: "We canceled a contract for Panamanian screwworms, saving $165 million dollars!!!" [https://aphis.usda.gov/news/agency-an
nouncements/usda-approves-emergency-funding-protect-us…
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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
“Almost all of the most viral posts reviewed by WIRED on Saturday came from accounts with blue check marks, meaning they…could be eligible to earn money based on how much engagement their posts generate, even if the content is false.” From @davidgilbert.bsky.social
wired.com
X Is Drowning in Disinformation Following US and Israel’s Attack on Iran
WIRED has reviewed hundreds of posts on X that promote misleading claims about the locations and scale of the attack.
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
this is literally the fed mentality that preempted Ruby Ridge
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Ed BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Never forget that the reason they are so convinced you’re all getting paid is that they are all getting paid.
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Whistles are now WMDs, according to the "high IQ" crowd.
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Jay Kirell @jasonkirell.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Two women trained as first responders were abducted by three ICE agents. One of the agents starts seizing. The other two don’t know what to do. The women jump into action and save the agent’s life, only to be re-handcuffed and processed. www.startribune.com/detained-by-...
startribune.com
Detained by ICE, two women became first responders during agent’s seizure
The women say they guided agents through the emergency, later raising concerns about medical protocols, weapons safety and accountability.
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John Bradley @johnbradley.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
What is this? You're not running in an election
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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
MAGA appointee Bari Weiss has instantly made CBS News more extremist and disinfo-heavy than Newsmax:
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Solidarity with Eoin. This is a ridiculous lawsuit and an abuse of the legal system.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
It looks like it's been scrubbed from every official 60 Minutes page now. It's only a 30-second promo but here it is if you didn't get a chance to see it.
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John Bradley @johnbradley.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
So true. I’ve started to just buy blu rays again
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
News media has to do better with headlines that present false and unverified public health claims.
List of headlines from media covering FDA, most emphasizing the claim that covid killed children
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 29/11/2025
Headlines like this are extremely dangerous. Because moms of young kids are the people who make the bulk of the vaccine decisions for famillies. And for a lot of them, "reading the news" looks like scrolling past headlines on social media in the spare moments of the chaos of caring for kids.
NYT headline saying "F.D.A. Attributes 10 Children’s Deaths to Covid Vaccines:
The agency’s top vaccine regulator said that a review had found that the children were likely to have died “because of” the shots. But public health experts want to examine the data."

With a photo of a light-skinned baby receiving a shot from a healthcare provider with darker skin.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
This rhetoric is indistinguishable from the stuff you hear coming out of white nationalists. Completely identical language.
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John Bradley @johnbradley.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Blood Brothers and the Faint were both amazing live!
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John Bradley @johnbradley.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Key takeaway: An online fish is a more reliable source of news on Israel than the NYT
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Russell Borogove @borogove.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Hey I found an explicit, credible threat to commit murder, from an entity that has committed murder in exactly this way previously. bsky.app/profile/dept...
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 11/11/2025
“What ChatGPT says about politics — or anything — is ultimately what the people who created it say it should say, or allow it to say; more specifically, human beings at OpenAI are deciding what neutral answers to those 500 prompts might look like and instructing their model to follow their lead.”
nymag.com
Elon Musk’s Grokipedia Is a Warning
The centibillionaire’s Wikipedia clone is ridiculous. It’s also a glimpse of the future.
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John Bradley @johnbradley.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Wise. That’s how this entire thing happened. They took the character seriously.
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John Bradley @johnbradley.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Cool with inviting genociders from an apartheid state but not transgender people.
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Jake Lahut @jakelahut.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Nancy Mace has tweeted about the airport incident at least 105 times since I broke that story on Halloween. Idk if there’s a record for this type of thing, but we’ve gotta be getting close
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:
I'm sorry, I know this is not your problem, but I just felt like screaming into a void seeing that now Dems may cave and end the shutdown without getting anything they were supposedly fighting for. We've been put through hell for weeks, constantly having our ability to simply feed ourselves dangled in front of our faces, our survival used as a bargaining chip, told it was for a reason. Our suffering would prevent even more suffering and that it would be temporary and worth it to save healthcare for millions. And now it's all for nothing. They stood for nothing. They caused suffering for no reason. They'll cause even more suffering for no reason. 

It wasn't 40 million people starving that made them cave. They were willing to put up with that. But the threat of holiday traveling being disrupted seems to be the thing to push them to give in. They have failed everyone. I'm so angry.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
This deal to reopen the government is fucking disgraceful. Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened. This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.” aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.

Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again.

An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next.

Understand what it is to pray in Chicago.
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 10/11/2025
How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Primaries for senators
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Will Douglas Heaven @willdouglasheaven.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
you need to watch these clips
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
“He’s having a seizure and they’re trying to rip the baby out of her hands”
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video. I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children. But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.
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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Checking in on Rudy Giuliani, I see he's having an insane one
Rudy Giuliani on Facebook posting a photo of the twin towers burning on 911 superimposed with his own face and the message "New York, you forgot"
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John Bradley @johnbradley.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Sure but the groups they are evoking aren’t exactly left wing radicals
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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
A photojournalist was arrested by ICE at gunpoint — and his DACA status revoked. “Ya’akub isn’t being accused of breaking immigration law — his DACA protection doesn’t expire until May 2026. In fact Ya’akub’s lawyers say he hasn’t been accused of any crime.” thebarbedwire.com/2025/11/04/h...
thebarbedwire.com
When Storytelling Is Called ‘Terrorism’: How My Friend and Fellow Journalist Was Targeted by ICE
As a DACA recipient, Ya'akub Ira Vijandre’s arrest holds drastic implications for the state of free speech in America.
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John Bradley @johnbradley.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Unless the Democrats are too stupid to get out of their own way, he shows the path forward. We have to center the needs of the working class.
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John Bradley @johnbradley.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
That classic pairing of communism and jihad
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Archai @archai.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
This needs more attention: Zohran SPLIT the straights with Cuomo. ALL of his margin was from LGBTQ+ voters. Every Dem who ever said “we should abandon the transes” needs this shoved down their fucking throat with a ramrod.
Photo of NBC’s exit poll data (from my work laptop, lol) showing Mamdani splitting the straight vote equally with Cuomo, but taking the LGBTQ+ vote by more than 5:1. Even though the LGBTQ+ slice is only 14% of the population, they were a LANDSLIDE in his favor.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 02/11/2025
Again, this precise use case is why these systems exist-to proliferate people’s racist (transphobic, misogynistic…) imaginary at scale. This should not be seen as a “misuse” but rather the product being used exactly as intended.
futurism.com
Racist Influencers Using OpenAI's Sora to Make it Look Like Poor People Are Selling Food Stamps for Cash
Folks looking for evidence of SNAP recipients as welfare queens have no shortage of AI generated schlock to use as justification.
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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 01/11/2025
finally, our great nation gets some accurate representation on the world stage
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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
BREAKING: Yesterday Grand Theft Auto VI maker Rockstar Games fired dozens of people, all of whom were involved in union efforts. A British union calls it "blatant and ruthless" union-busting. Take-Two Interactive says it was due to misconduct. Here's the scoop: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
‘Grand Theft Auto’ Studio Accused of Union Busting After Firings
Union says 30 and 40 people were terminated. Rockstar Games’ parent company cites ‘gross misconduct’
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
“At the same time, more than half of Gen Z members say they are struggling to make ends meet, yet a majority buy themselves a small treat, such as a pastry, coffee, or sweet, at least once a week. That can lead to overspending…” archive.ph/2TI8J
Why are young people spending so much money?
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Jon King @jonkingnews.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
I’d like to report a diplomatic murder “This is not a Signal chat” 💀
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✰ @erikforrestjackson.com · 28/10/2025
The NY Times and WaPo may be lost causes but holy shite look at PEOPLE out here absolutely killing it with 100% unvarnished truths 🌟
Donald Trump appeared to describe a dementia screening he underwent at Walter Reed Medical Center as a 'very hard' IQ test while speaking with reporters inside Air Force One
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John Bradley @johnbradley.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
I always just assumed that’s how it was pronounced.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 25/10/2025
Trump gave Amazon a $16 billion tax break to accelerate its investments this year. Now, Amazon will replace 600,000 workers with robots as Jeff Bezos accelerates his plan to automate warehouses. No. Corporate tax breaks do not trickle down to workers. Never have. Never will.
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John Bradley @johnbradley.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Reagan’s legacy is a terrible one so while they may have abandoned historical facts they are at least continuing on in spirit.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
The post from the Reagan Foundation is just complete gibberish. The ad did not, in fact, misrepresent Reagan's views. But the idea that anyone needs the Reagan Foundation's goddamn permission to use the publicly broadcast official remarks of a former president and/or edit them for brevity is crazy
The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute learned that the Government of Ontario, Canada, created an ad campaign using selective audio and video of President Ronald Reagan delivering his "Radio Address to the Nation on Free and Fair Trade," dated April 25, 1987. The ad misrepresents the Presidential Radio Address, and the Government of Ontario did not seek nor receive permission to use and
edit the remarks. The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute is reviewing its legal options in this matter. We encourage you to watch President Reagan's unedited video on our
YouTube channel.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 25/10/2025
It’s cool how they run with this story and headline with just a tiny bit buried deep in the article: “All of Palisade’s scenarios were run in contrived test environments that critics say are far-removed from real-use cases.”
theguardian.com
AI models may be developing their own ‘survival drive’, researchers say
Like 2001: A Space Odyssey’s HAL 9000, some AIs seem to resist being turned off and will even sabotage shutdown
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
I obtained video of two FBI agents visiting an anti-ICE protester not charged with any crime. While the media continue to mock Trump's war on "Antifa" as legally impossible, the FBI is quietly implementing it with investigations like these: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/video-fbi-...
kenklippenstein.com
VIDEO: FBI Agents Visit Anti-ICE Protester
“Your name was brought up.”
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John Bradley @johnbradley.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Feels like the right room for demonstrating modded creep glasses tho
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